Professor, Chemical Oceanography
School of Oceanography
University of Washington
1503 NE Boat Street
Rm 104 Ocean Teaching Building (OTB)
Seattle, WA 98195-7940
Office: (206) 616-1947
Email: rickkeil@u.washington.edu
Website: http://depts.washington.edu/aog
Research Interests
- Oxygen exposure time, quantified as the length of time organic matter is exposed to oxygen prior to permanent burial, and can be calculated as a function of sedimentation rate and oxygen penetration depth into the sediment
- Protein geochemistry, evaluating degraded protein in water and sediments
- Sediment trapping, evaluating the impact of suboxia and anoxia on sinking particles
- Terrestrial tracers, evaluating different tracers for terrigenous organic matter in marine systems
- Ph.D., University of Delaware at Lewes
