Ryan Woosley

Research Interests

The Marine Carbon & Physical Chemistry Laboratory studies how carbon dioxide is taken up and stored by the oceans and the resulting impacts on the underlying chemistry. We collect samples from Antarctica to the North Pole and perform high accuracy high precision analysis to map the distributions and variability of carbon dioxide, pH, and total alkalinity of the oceans. We work to improve measurement and observation quality to further our understanding of the underlying physical chemical process that regulate the distribution and cycling of carbon in the ocean.

Topics I investigate:

• Ocean Biogeochemistry
• Carbon cycling
• Ocean Acidification
• Marine physical chemistry

Biographic Sketch

Ryan Woosley joined MIT in 2018 as a principal research scientist. He earned a bachelor’s of science in chemical oceanography from Florida Institute of Technology in 2007, and then went on to complete his Ph.D in Marine and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) is 2012. He remained at RSMAS as a post-doc before being promoted to Assistant Scientist in 2015 where he remained until moving EAPS in 2018.