Faculty Associates

Ann Pearson

Murray and Martha Ross Professor of Environmental Sciences; Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences; Harvard College Professor

 

Office: Hoffman G13
Assistant: Lisa McCaig
Email: pearson@eps.harvard.edu
Web: http://pearson.eps.harvard.edu/

Research Interests: 

Carbon isotope biogeochemistry; compound-specific d13C and D14C analysis; global organic carbon cycle; microbial metabolism in anoxic marine systems; sources of carbon to marine sediments.

Related Publications: 

Higgins MB, Robinson RS, Carter SJ, Husson J, Pearson A. Dominant eukaryotic export production during ocean anoxic events reflects the importance of recycled NH4+. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 109, 2269-2274. (2012)

Anoxygenic Photosynthesis Modulated Proterozoic Oxygen and Sustained Earth's Middle Age. (2009)

A Contemporary Microbially Maintained Subglacial Ferrous "Ocean." (2009)

Global Cooling During the Eocene-Oligocene Climate Transition. (2009)

Modern carbon supports suspended bacteria in the oligotrophic ocean. (2008)

Terpenoid cyclases of proteobacteria dominate the Global Ocean Sampling. (2008)

Novel hopanoid cyclases from the environment. (2007)

Faculty Department: 

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Environmental Courses: 

OEB 10. Foundations of Biological Diversity
*E-PSCI 286. Biogeochemistry of Cryptic Cycles
E-PSCI 339. Biogeochemistry

Research Areas: 

Harvard University
Center for the Environment
Address: 26 Oxford Street, 4th Floor, Cambridge
Email: huce@environment.harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 495-0368

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