Engineer Assistant

CURRICULUM VITAE JOHN CHIP BREIER

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 508-***-**** phone

Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering 508-***-**** fax

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Woods Hole, MA 02543 http://www.whoi.edu/people/jbreier

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS & EXPERIENCE

2008-presentWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Assistant Scientist

2006-2008Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, NSF RIDGE2000Postdoctoral Fellow

2006Stanford University, Postdoctoral Researcher,

2001-2006The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science, Research Assistant

2001-2003Naval Reserve,

Naval Research Laboratory Science & Technology Unit 510

2000 Licensed as a Professional Engineer

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1996DOE Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, Reactor Engineering School,

Student

1995-2000United States Navy, Officer, Naval Reactors, Nuclear Power Engineer

1993 Lockheed Martin, Summer Engineering Intern

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. (2006) The University of Texas at Austin Department of Marine Science

B.S. cum laude (1995) Texas A&M University Mechanical Engineering

HONORS AND AWARDS

2011 WHOI Deep Ocean Exploration Institute Fellowship

2006 NSF RIDGE 2000 Postdoctoral Fellowship

2004 E.J. Lund Fellowship in Marine Science, The University of Texas at Austin

2002 Environmental Science Institute Summer Research Fellowship, The University of Texas

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Earth system biogeochemical cycles and their relationship to dynamic ocean processes

hydrothermal processes along the mid-ocean ridge and related tectonic and volcanic

features, the

dynamics of riverine and coastal aquifer chemistry, mineral formation and chemical

reactivity,

mineral and microbe interactions, chemical energy available for chemosynthesis

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Geophysical Union

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography

The Geochemical Society

IEEE

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

WHOI Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Advisory Committee member.

Group Co-Moderator, Biogeochemical fluxes from mid-ocean ridges, RIDGE 2000

Integration and Synthesis Workshop, Meeting to integrate datasets and to synthesize

conceptual and empirical models of oceanic spreading center processes, 30 Oct. 2010.

Group Moderator, Export of heat and material (living and nonliving) from hydrothermal

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systems to the water column, RIDGE 2000 Integration and Synthesis Workshop, Meeting to

integrate datasets and to synthesize conceptual and empirical models of oceanic spreading

center processes, 30 Sep. 2009.

Senior Design Clinic Sponsor (2009 & 2010), Smith College Pickering Engineering Program

an outreach collaboration with Smith College to sponsor and mentor teams of four

undergraduates per year during their senior design course.

WHOI, AOP&E Department, Postdoctoral Mentoring Committee member.

JOURNAL REVIEWS

Limnology & Oceanography

Marine Chemistry

Spectroscopy Letters

COURSES TAUGHT

2001-2002 Teaching Assistant, UT MNS307, Introduction to Oceanography Laboratory

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS

2012 R/V Atlantis Mid-Cayman Rise, Caribbean (3 weeks).

2010 R/V Atlantis North Atlantic Ocean (4 weeks).

2009 R/V Thomas G. Thompson Lau Basin/Pacific Ocean (4 weeks).

2007 R/V Atlantis East Pacific Rise (3 weeks).

2004 R/V Kilo Moana Lau Basin/Pacific Ocean (6 weeks).

2002 R/V Longhorn Gulf of Mexico shelf transect (3 days).

PUBLICATIONS

carbon fluxes. Oceanography 25(1), 196 208, doi:/10.5670/OCEANOG.2012.18.

4. Breier, J.A., C.F. Breier, and H.N. Edmonds, 2010, Seasonal dynamics of dissolved Ra

isotopes in the semi-arid bays of south Texas, Marine Chemistry, 122, 39-50,

doi:/10.1016/J.MARCHEM.2010.08.008,

5. Breier, J.A., S.N. White, and C.R. German, 2010, Mineral microbe interactions in deep-

sea

hydrothermal systems: a challenge for Raman spectroscopy, Philosophical Transactions of

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the Royal Society A, 368, 3067-3086, doi:10.1098/RSTA.2010.0024.

6. Breier, J.A., C.R. German, and S.N. White, 2009, Mineral phase analysis of deep-sea

hydrothermal particulates by a Raman spectroscopy expert algorithm: Towards autonomous

in situ exploration and experimentation, Geochemistry, Geophysics, and Geosystems, 10,

Q05T05, doi:/10.1029/2008GC002314.

7. Breier, J.A., N. Nidzieko, S. Monismith, W. Moore, and A. Paytan, 2009, Tidally

regulated

chemical fluxes across the sediment water interface in Elkhorn Slough, California:

Evidence

from a coupled geochemical and hydrodynamic approach, Limnology & Oceanography,

54(6), 1964-1980, doi:/10.4319/LO.2009.54.6.1964

8. Breier, J.A., C.R. Rauch, K. McCartney, B.M. Toner, S. Fakra, S.N. White, and C.R.

German, 2009, A suspended-particle rosette multi-sampler for discrete biogeochemical

sampling in low-particle-density waters, Deep Sea Research I, 56, 1579-1589,

doi:/10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.005.

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9. Breier, J.A. and H.N. Edmonds, 2007, High Ra and Ra activities in Nueces Bay, Texas

indicate large submarine saline discharges, Marine Chemistry, 103, 131-145,

doi:/10.1016/J.MARCHEM.2006.06.015

10. Breier, J.A., C.F. Breier, and H.N. Edmonds, 2005, Detecting submarine groundwater

discharge with synoptic surveys of sediment resistivity, radium, and salinity,

Geophysical

Research Letters, 32, L23612, doi:/10.1029/2005GL024639.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Breier, J. A., C. G. Rauch, and C. R. German, 2007, A suspended particle rosette

sampler for

investigating hydrothermal plumes, OCEANS 2007 IEEE Press, Vancouver, Canada.

2. Breier J. A., 2006, The impact of groundwater flows on estuaries, In Aquifers of the

Gulf

Coast of Texas, Report 365, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas, pp. 165-172.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS

INVITED SEMINARS

1. Deep Ocean Exploration Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Board of

Trustees

Meeting 2012, Exploring the Limits of Life: Chemosynthesis in the Deep Sea.

2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering, April,

2008.

Forward Deployed Suspended Particle Sampling and In Situ Analysis.

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