Nationality American Fields Marine biology | Role University Professor Name Paul Falkowski | |
Institutions University of Rhode IslandBrookhaven National LaboratoryRutgers University Alma mater City College of New YorkUniversity of British Columbia Doctoral students Miguel OliazolaAjit SubramaniamZoe FinkelFelisa Lauren Wolfe-SimonTuo Shi Books Aquatic photosynthesis, Life's Engines: How Microbes Made Earth Habitable Residence United States of America, Canada Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada | ||
Notable students Felisa Wolfe-Simon | ||
Life s engines how microbes made earth habitable professor paul falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski (born 1951) is an American biological oceanographer in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His research work focuses on phytoplankton and primary production, and his wider interests include evolution, paleoecology, photosynthesis, biogeochemical cycles and astrobiology.
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards and honours
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Dr paul falkowski who to thank for the air we breathe
Early life and education
Born in New York City in 1951, Falkowski was educated at the City College of New York, where he received his BSc. and MSc. degrees. He completed his doctoral thesis in biology and biophysics at the University of British Columbia in 1975.
Career
After postdoctoral research at the University of Rhode Island, he moved to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1976 to join its newly formed oceanography department, and in 1998 he moved to Rutgers University. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992, and was appointed as Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor at the University of British Columbia in 1996.
Falkowski's research work has included studies of phytoplankton nutrient acquisition and the relationships with light of both phytoplankton and corals. He has also studied the biophysical controls on ocean productivity and export production, and the importance of the nitrogen and iron cycles in ocean biogeochemistry. His research has also drawn in geoengineering, astrobiology, and the evolution of groups including phytoplankton and placental mammals. He is also a coauthor, with John Raven, of the influential textbook Aquatic Photosynthesis.
Awards and honours
He has been elected to a number of learned societies including the American Geophysical Union (2001), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) and the National Academy of Sciences (2007). He has also received a number of awards including the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences (1998), the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award (2000), the European Geosciences Union Vernadsky Medal (2005) and the ECI Prize (2010).