Valier Galy Assistant Scientist Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Office Phone: +1 508 289 2340 vgaly@whoi.edu » CV » Personal Site
WHOI Mailing Address: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 266 Woods Hole Rd. MS# 04 Woods Hole, MA 02543-1050 Education • Masters degree of Engineering, Ecole National Superieure de Geologie de Nancy, France, 2003 • Masters degree of Reaserch, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France, 2003 • Ph.D., CRPG-CNRS, Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France, 2007 Research Interests • Global C cycle. • Organic carbon cycling during continental erosion. • Fluvial transport, geochemistry of river sediments, weathering. • The Himalayan system: past and present erosion, organic carbon flux and dynamics. • Paleoclimate reconstruction using molecular proxies. • Impact of continental erosion on the long-term atmospheric chemistry and climate. • 14C dating of individual organic molecules. • Stable isotopic composition of individual organic molecules. Research Statement My research focusses on multiple geochemical aspects of the global C cycle. I am particularly interested in the fluvial transfer of organic carbon from continental reservoirs to the ocean. Along with my colleagues from WHOI and the Woods Hole Research Center I am part of a wide initiative - the Global Rivers Observatory - and study a wide range of river systems including the Amazon, Congo, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Fraser, Mackenzie, Yangtze and Connecticut Rivers to name only a few. I also study marine sedimentary records to understand past variations of the organic carbon cycle, in particular the relationships between climate change and the dynamics of organic carbon exchange. I use a range of state of the art techniques - such as compound specific radiocarbon dating - to characterize and understand the dynamics of organic carbon exchanges during continental erosion. I use and develop organic proxies - such as compound specific stable isotopic measurements - to study paleo-climate over timescales from centuries to millions of years.Finally, I am also interested in the relationships between erosion tectonics and climate over long timescales, in partiulcar the relationships between Himalayan erosion and climate over the Cenozoic. Affiliations • American Geophysical Union • Geochemical Society Awards INPL PhD award, 2007

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