Profile

Fred Sayles

Scientist Emeritus

Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

Office Phone: +1 508 289 2561

Fax: +1 508 457 2193

fsayles@whoi.edu

Education

B.A. Amherst College, 1962, Geology
M.A. University of California, Berkeley, 1966, Geology
Ph.D. University of Manchester, U.K., 1968, Geochemistry

Research Interests

Chemical reactivity of fluvial sediments with seawater; diagenesis of marine sediments; benthic metabolism and stoichiometry; modeling and characterization of the sources, behavior, and fate of radioactive materials in the marine environment; advective processes in marine sediments; influence of chemical exchange across the water-sediment interface upon biogeochemical cycles.