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| Date & Place of Birth: | March 1, 1960; Lancaster, N.H. | ||||||||||
| Family Status: | Married, 2 children born 13 Sep 95, and 9 Nov 99 | ||||||||||
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Education:
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B.A. in Chemistry with minor in Russian,
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, May 1983 Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography, M.I.T./W.H.O.I. Joint Program in Oceanography, February 1989 |
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| Present Position: | Program Director Antarctic Integrated System Science Office of Polar Programs US National Science Foundation Jan07-Jul09 |
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| Previous Positions: |
Full Professor (Jul05-present) |
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| Fields of Specialization: | Chemical Oceanography Tracer Hydrography Aqueous biogeochemistry Analytical Methods Development |
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| Honors: |
National Science Foundation Arctic Service Award, 2000 |
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| Professional Societies: | American Geophysical Union, Association
for Women in Science, Oceanography Society,
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| Languages: | French, Russian | ||||||||||
Publications:Papers:Campbell, A.C., T.S. Bowers, C.I. Measures, K.K. Falkner, M. Khadem and J.M. Edmond (1987) A time series of fluid compositions from 21N, EPR (1979,1981,1985) and the Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (1982,1985), J. Geophys. Res., 93:B5:4537-4549. Palmer, M.R., K. Kenison Falkner, K.K. Turekian and S.E. Calvert (1988) Sources of osmium in Mn nodules, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 52:5:1197-1202. Falkner, K. Kenison (1989) An Investigation of the Marine Geochemistry of Gold, Ph.D. Thesis, MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography. Falkner, K. Kension and J.M. Edmond (1990) Gold in seawater, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 98:208-221. Falkner, K. Kenison and J.M. Edmond (1990) Determination of gold at femtomolar levels in natural waters by flow injection-inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry, Anal. Chem., 62:1477-1481. Falkner, K. Kenison, D.J. O'Neill, J.F. Todd, W.S. Moore and J.M. Edmond (1991) Depletion of barium and radium-226 in Black Sea surface waters over the past thirty years, Nature 350:491-494. Falkner, K. Kenison, C.I. Measures, S.E. Herbelin, R.F. Weiss and J.M. Edmond (1991) The major and minor element geochemistry of Lake Baikal, Limnol. Oceanogr. 36:3:413-423. Falkner, K. Kenison (1991) Characterization of marine particulate material by ICPMS, p. 243-250 in Marine Particles: Analysis and Characterization, AGU Geophys. Monograph 63, D. Spencer and D. Hurd, Eds. Falkner, K. Kenison, G. P. Klinkhammer, T.S. Bowers, J.F. Todd, B. Lewis, W. Landing and J.M. Edmond (1993) The behavior of barium in anoxic marine waters, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 57:3:537-554. Carroll, J.L., K. Kenison Falkner, W.S. Moore and E.T. Brown (1993) The role of sediments in maintaining high dissolved 226Ra and Ba in the Ganges-Bramaputra mixing zone, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 57:2981-2990. Falkner, K. Kenison, R. W. MacDonald, E. C. Carmack and T. Weingartner (1994) The potential of barium as a tracer of Arctic water masses, p. 63-76 in The Polar Oceans and Their Role in Shaping the Global Environment: The Nansen Centennial Volume, O.M. Johannessen, R. D. Muench and J. E. Overland, Eds , AGU Geophys. Monograph 85, Washington DC. Falkner, K. Kenison, G.P. Klinkhammer, A. Ungerer and D. Christie (1995) Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in geochemistry, Earth Planet. Sci. Ann. Rev., 23:409-449. Falkner, K. Kenison, M. Church, C. I. Measures, G. LeBaron, D. Thouron, C. Jeandel, M. C. Stordahl, G. A. Gill, R. Mortlock, P. Froelich and L.-H. Chan (1997) Minor and trace element chemistry of Lake Baikal, its tributaries, and surrounding hot springs, Limnol. Oceanogr., 42:2:329-345. Guay, C. K. and K. Kenison Falkner (1997) Barium as a tracer of Arctic halocline and river waters, Deep-Sea Res. II, 1994 Arctic Ocean Section, 44:8:1543-1569. Guay, C. K. and K. Kenison Falkner (1998) A survey of dissolved barium in the estuaries of major Arctic rivers and adjacent seas, Continental Shelf Res.,18:8:859-882. Guay, C. K.. G. P. Klinkhammer, K. K. Falkner, R. Benner, P. G. Coble, T. E. Whitledge, B. Black, F. J. Bussell and T. A. Wagner (1999) High-resolution measurements of dissolved organic carbon in the Arctic Ocean by in situ fiber-optic spectrometry, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26:8: 1007-1110. Moore, W. S. and K. Kenison Falkner (1999) Cycling of radium and barium in the Black Sea, J. Environ. Rad,. 43:247-254. Macdonald, R. W., E. C. Carmack, F. A. McLaughlin, K. Kenison Falkner, J. H. Swift (1999) Connections among ice, runoff and atmospheric forcing n the Beaufort Gyre, Geophys. Res. Lett,. 26:15:2223-2226. Woodhouse, O. B., G. Ravizza, K .Kenison Falkner, P. J. Statham and B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink (1999) Osmium in seawater: concentration and isotopic composition vertical profiles in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Earth Planet Sci. Lett., 173:22-233. Sherrell, R. M., E. A. Boyle, K .K. Falkner and N. R. Harris (2000) Temporal variability of Cd, Pb and Pb isotope deposition in central Grennland snow, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., Vol. 1: Paper number 1999GC000007. Guay, Christopher K. H., Kelly Kenison Falkner, Robin .D. Muench, Manfred Mensch, Markus Frank, and Reinhold Bayer (2001) Wind-driven transport pathways for Eurasian Arctic river discharge, J. Geophys. Res., 106:C6:11,469-11,480. Alleau, Y., D. Colbert, P. Covert, B. Haley, X. Qiu, R. Collier, K. Falkner, B. Hales, F. Prahl and L. Gordon (2001) Th-234 applied to particle removal rates from the surface ocean: a mathematical treatment revisited, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28:14:2855-2857. Vollmer, M. K., R. F. Weiss, R. T. Williams, K. K. Falkner, X. Qiu, E. A. Ralph and V. V. Romanovsky (2002) Physical and chemical properties of the waters of saline lakes and their importance for deep-water renewal: Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66:24:4235-4246. Morison, J. H., K. Aagaard, K. K. Falkner, K. Hatakeyama, R. Moritz, J. E. Overland, D. Perovich,K. Shimada, M. Steele, T. Takizawa and R. Woodgate (2002) The North Pole Environmental Observatory, EOS, Trans. Am. Geophys. Soc., 83:33:357-361. Jones, E. P., J. H. Swift, L. G. Anderson, G. Civitarese, K. K. Falkner, G. Kattner, M. Lipizer, F. McLaughlin and J. Olafsson (2003) Tracing Pacific water in the North Atlantic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C4), 3116, doi:10.1029/2001JC001141. Taylor, J., K. K. Falkner, U. Schauer and M. Meredith (2003) Quantitative considerations of dissolved barium as a tracer in the Arctic Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 108(C12), 3374, doi:10.1029/2002JC001635. Falkner, K. Kenison, M. Steele, R. A. Woodgate, J. H. Swift, K. Aagaard and J. Morison (2005) Dissolved oxygen extrema in the Arctic Ocean halocline from the North Pole to the Lincoln Sea, Deep-Sea Res. I, 52, 1138-1154. Woodgate, R. A., K. Aagaard, J. H. Swift, K. Falkner and W. M. Smethie, Jr. (2005) Pacific ventilation of the Arctic's lower halocline by upwelling and diapycnal mixing over the continental margin, Geophys. Res. Lett., in press. Münchow, A., H. Melling and K. K. Falkner (2005) Volume and freshwater fluxes in Nares Strait from observed salinity and velocity fields, J. Phys. Oceanogr., in prep. Falkner, K. K., L. Bandstra, I .Royer, N. Ryckelynck, M. Wetz, D. Zima, R. Collier, B. Hales, F. Prahl, C. Reimers, M. Torres, S. M. Meyers adn E. Volk (2005) A chemical study of the Oregon Salmon River Estuary and tributaries, Estuary, in prep. Meeting Abstracts:Falkner, K.K., Gold in Seawater, EOS Vol.67 No.44 Abstract No. (052B), 1986 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Bakowska, E., K.K. Falkner, R. Barnes and J.M. Edmond, Analysis of gold low concentration (<1ng/l), limited volume (<1ml) samples by inductively couple plasma mass spectrometry, 1988 Winter Conference on Plasma Spectroscopy, San Diego, CA Falkner, K.K. (invited speaker) Inductively coupled plasma quadrupole mass spectrometry and its application to geochemistry, New techniques in geochemistry session, 1988 International Congress of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Paris, France Falkner, K.K. (invited speaker) The marine geochemistry of gold, 1988 Dissertations Symposium on Chemical Oceanography, Hawaii Falkner, K.K. (invited speaker) Gold in seawater revisited, 1989 Surrey Conference on Plasma Spectroscopy, University of Surrey, Surrey, England Falkner, K.K., An investigation of the marine geochemistry of gold, 1989 Gordon Conference in Chemical Oceanography, Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H. Falkner, K.K. (codirector with R. Weiss of special session on Lake Baikal), C.I. Measures, M.R. Palmer and J.M. Edmond, The geochemistry of Lake Baikal, EOS Vol.70 No.43 Abstract No. (O12C-10), 1989 Fall American geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Klinkhammer, G.P. and K.K. Falkner, Barium in the Black Sea, EOS Vol.70 No.43 Abstract No. (O32A-4), 1989 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Falkner, K. Kenison, J. M. Edmond, and J. F. Minster, The geochemistry of rivers draining into the Black Sea from Soviet Territory, EOS Vol. 72 No. 17 Abstract No. (H51B-04), 1991 Spring American Geophysical Union Meeting, Baltimore, MD Falkner, K.K. (invited speaker) Chimie du Lac Baïkal, 1991 Bilan et Perspectives du Theme 1: "Fleuves et Erosion" de Programme "Dynamique et Bilan de la Terre", Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales, Toulouse, France Falkner, K. Kenison, G. Lebaron, D. Thouron, C. Jeandel and J.-F. Minster, Cr, V and Sr in Lake Baikal, EOS Vol. 73 No. 14 Abstract (H61E-8), 1992 Spring American Geophysical Meeting, Montreal, Canada Falkner, K. Kenison, C.I. Measures, R.F. Weiss, C. Jeandel and D. Thouron, Trace element distributions in Lake Baikal, 1992 Fall American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA Falkner, K. Kenison, Barium as a water mass tracer in the Arctic-Preliminary results from the Bering Strait, Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, April 1993 Oceanography Society Meeting, Seattle, WA Falkner, K. Kenison, Barium as a water mass tracer in the Arctic-Preliminary results, June 1993 Nansen Centennial Symposium, Solstrand-Bergen, Norway Falkner, K. Kenison (invited speaker), Trace metals in the oceanographer's tool-box, Society Committee on Education Session, March 1994, American Chemical Society Meeting, San Diego Guay, C. and K. Kenison Falkner, Tracking Arctic river waters by geochemical means, EOS Vol. 75. No. 44 Abstract (O21C-04), 1994 Fall American Geophysical UnionMeeting, San Francisco, CA Guay, C. and K. Kenison Falkner (invited participant), Geochemical tracers of Arctic river waters, Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program Conference, May 1-5, 1995, Woods Hole, MA K. Kenison Falkner (invited speaker), Barium cycling and productivity: exploring their link in the Arctic Ocean, Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference, Jun 11-16, 1995 K. Kenison Falkner, What can we learn from Ba distributions in Arctic waters?, EOS Vol. 76 No. 3 (Abstract OS11G-3), 1996 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA Guay, C. and K. Kenison Falkner (invited participant), Dissolved barium as a tracer of Arctic water masses, Arctic Nuclear Waste Assessment Program Conference, May 5-9, 1996, Snowbird, UT Wagner, T., A. Ungerer, R. Hansing, K. Kenison Falkner, G. P. Klinkhammer, P. Wheeler, SCICEX 1995 Submarine intake versus hydrocast samples; Trace inorganic constituents and total nitrogen, EOS Vol. 77, No. 46 (Abstract OS11D-3), 1996 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Guay, C.K. and K. Kenison Falkner, Dissolved barium as a tracer of Arctic water masses, EOS Vol. 77, No. 46 (Abstract OS11D-5), 1996 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Guay, C. K., J. Bussell, G.K.P. Klinkhammer and K.K. Falkner, In-situ organic matter fluorescence recorded during SCICEX 1996, EOS Vol. 79, No. 1 (Abstract OS32F-6), 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA Falkner, K. Kenison, T. Wagner, S. B. Moran and C. I. Measures, Dissolved barium in the Northern North Atlantic, EOS Vol. 79, No. 1 (Abstract OS32J-06), 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA Falkner, K. Kenison (invited speaker), Insights on cross-shelf transport in the Arctic derived from barium distributions, p. 66-68 in Proceedings of International Workshop on Exchange Processes Between the Arctic Shelves and Basins, 17-19 Feb 1998, Yokohama, Japan Smethie, W. M. Jr., G. Boenisch, K. M. Ellis, K. K. Falkner, C. K. Guay, G. P. Klinkhammer, P. Schlosser and J. N. Smith (1998) Studies of ocean circulation from tracer chemistry: Highlights from the SCICEX program, talk abstract, SCICEX2000 Workshop, 6-8 Oct, Warrenton, Virginia. Falkner, K. Kenison, R. W. Collier and G. P. Klinkhammer (1998) White paper on research related to submarine hydrates in the Arctic, SCICEX2000 Workshop, 6-8 Oct, Warrenton, Virginia. Klinkhammer, G. P. and K. Kenison Falkner (1998) White paper on studying climate change on the Arctic using fiber optic spectrometers: Detailed mapping of dissolved organic carbon using nuclear submarine patrols, SCICEX2000 Workshop, 6-8 Oct, Warrenton, Virginia. Edmonds, H. N., S. Bradley Moran and K. K. Falkner (1999) radium isotopes in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Meeting, Oct, Virginia Beach, Virginia. Edmonds, H. N., S. Bradley Moran and K. K. Falkenr (2000) Radium isotopes in the Canadian Archipelago, EOS Abstract OS11T-09, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting, 23-28 Jan., San Antonio, Texas. Jones, E. P., L. G. Anderson, J. H. Swift, J. Olafsson, K. K. Falkner and F. McLaughlin (2000) Tracing Pacific water entering the North Atlantic via the Arctic Ocean, European Gelological Society Meeting, Nice, Italy. Falkner, K. K. (2000) Experience with a moored, automated water sampling device in Bering Strait, Shelf-Basin Interactions Pan Arctic Meeting, Calloway Gardens, Georgia. Falkner, K. Kenison, R. W. Macdonald, C. Meredith and M. C. O'Brien (2001) A pilot multi-element study of archived sediment trap material from the Beaufort Shelf, ARCSS Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. Falkner, K. Kenison (2001) Invited speaker, An assessment of ARCSS outreach efforts; Where do we go from here?, ARCSS Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Interactions Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT. Morison, J., K. Aagaard, K. Falkner, A. Heiberg, M. McPhee, D. Moritz, J. Overland, D. Perovich, J. Richter Menge, K. Shimada, M. Steele, T. Takizawa and R. Woodgate (2001) North Pole Environmental Observatory, 2001 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Falkner, K. Kenison (2001) Chemical Clues of a Changing Upper Arctic Ocean Circulation: A tribute to John M. Edmond, 2001 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Falkner, K. Kenison (2002) Invited panelist, The future of Arctic system science, ARCSS All-Hands Meeting, Seattle, WA Taylor, J. and K. K. Falkner (2002) Quantitative considerations of dissolved barium as a tracer in the Arctic Ocean, 2002 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Woodgate, R., K. Aagaard, J. Swift, B. Smethie, K. Falkner, E. Hawker and T. Weingartner (2003) Exits and entrances - Large -scale Arctic Ocean circulation as a neighbor in the Beaufort Sea, Beafort Sea Physical Oceanography Workshop, Fairbanks, AK Taylor, J., K. Kenison Falkner, U. Schauer and M. Meredith (2003) Quantitative considerations of dissolved barium as a tracer in the Arctic Ocean, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France Falkner, K. K, R. Macdonald, H. Melling and A. Muenchow (2003) Highlights from the HLY031 Expedition Hydrographic Program, SEARCH All-Hands Meeting, Seattle, WA Falkner, K. K. (2003) Hydrochemical Findings from the North Pole Environmental Observatory Program, SEARCH All-Hands Meeting, Seattle, WA Falkner, K. K., M. Steele, R. Woodgate, J. Swift, K .Aagaard and J. Morison (2004) Dissolved oxygen extrema in the Arctic Ocean halocline from the North Pole to the Lincoln Sea, 2004 Fall American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA Field Work: Participant in 28 oceanographic, limnologic and riverine sampling expeditions: 1981-2005; chief scientist 7 times Teaching:
Advisor for: COAS graduate students:
Southampton Oceanography Center student:
OSU graduate exchange student:
Thesis Committee of:
REU summer students:
Other undergrad students:
Graduate council representative on thesis committees of John Lewis, College of Forestry , 1993-95 and Chris O. Oriakhi, Dept of Chemistry, 1994-96; Ning Li, Dept of Horticulture, 1994-1997; Ki- Seog Chang, Dept of Chemistry, 1996-98; Edward Arnett, College of Forestry, 1999- ; Christopher Kline, Dept of Chemistry, 2001; Than Surnchammi, Chemical Engineering, 2000; Jeffry Ninneman, Geosciences, 2005; Jefferson Hungerford, Geosciences, 2005- College Service:Peer Review of Teaching, 2004-2005 University Service:Search Committee, Director for Water and Watersheds Institute, 2005 Science Community Service:NSERC Site Review Panel for acquisition of ICPMS at UVic, Victoria, BC,
January 1994 Workshops:Coordinated workshop on Lake Baikal and Crater Lake, Sidney, BC, May
1994; product-eight manuscripts published in L&O Recent Seminars:Stanford, Jun 04 Review Panels:NSERC Earth and Environmental Sciences Grant Selection Committee, 1996-1997
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