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S Bradley Moran

Professor of Oceanography

Assistant VP for Research Administration

Horn 211

moran@gso.uri.edu

(401) 874-6530

Educational Background

Ph.D., Chemical Oceanography B.Sc., Chemistry

Dalhousie University Concordia University

1991 1985

Areas of Specialization

Research

Brad Moran has over 17 years of experience in ocean-climate research, including Arctic oceanography, carbon dynamics, coastal groundwater transport, and environmental radioactivity. He has over 70 peer-reviewed publications and participated in 50 research cruises.

Teaching

Moran initiated the development of the new "Blue MBA" Masters of Business Administration-Masters of Oceanography (MBA-MO) dual degree, which has the goal of educating future leaders in the strategic management of global change opportunities; OCG 640 Marine Particles; OCG 694F Radionuclides in the Ocean; OCG 451 Oceanographic Science.

Outreach

Moran is regularly invited to science panels (NSF, NOAA) and workshops (AOS94, OASIS, SBI, FATE, ARCSS, GEOTRACES, BEST, BSIERP), has sponsored a number of high-school teachers at sea, has lectured as an IAEA Expert in marine radiochemistry, and has advised state, federal and international environmental organizations. He was recently charged with evaluating GHG emissions and energy costs at URI for the President’s Council on Sustainability. He curently serves as co-chair of the Environmental and Alternatve Energy Hot Team for the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce.

Students

Matt Baumann Scott Stachelhaus Haley Brew Kate Lepore Andrea Hougham Elly Speicher Sarah Weinstein Ozge Kocabayoglu Roger Kelly Matthew Charette

M.S. Ph.D. M.S. Ph.D. M.S. M.S. Ph.D M.O. M.S. Ph.D.

candidate candidate 2008 2006 2006 2005 2003 2002 2001 1998

Publications:

Lepore, K. and S.B. Moran (2007) 234Th and 228Th as tracers of particle aggregation and disaggregation in the Chukchi Sea. Deep-Sea Research I 54, 919-938.

Lalande, C., K. Lepore, J.M. Grebmeier, L.W. Cooper, S.B. Moran (2007) Export fluxes of particulate organic carbon in the Chukchi Sea: A comparative study using 234Th/238U disequilibria and drifting sediment traps. Marine Chemistry 103, 185-196.

Hougham, A.L. and S.B. Moran (2007) Water mass ages of coastal ponds estimated using 223Ra and 224Ra as tracers. Marine Chemistry 105, 194-207.

Bates, N.R., S.B. Moran, D.A. Hansell, J. Mathis (2006) An increasing CO2 sink in the Arctic Ocean due to sea-ice loss. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L23609, doi:10.1029/2006GL027028.

Hall, I.R., S.B. Moran, R. Zahn, P.R. Knutz, C.-C. Shen and R.L. Edwards (2006) Accelerated draw-down of meridional overturning in the late-glacial Atlantic triggered by transient pre-H event freshwater perturbation. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L16616, doi:10.1029/2006GL026239.

Presentations:

Moran, S.B., D.M. Farmer, D.C. Smith, M.M Higgins, D.E. Rosen (2008) Educating future business leaders in global change opportunities. ASLO Meeting, Orlando, FL, March 2-7, 2008.

Lepore, K., S.B. Moran and J.N. Smith (2007) 210Pb as a tracer of shelf-basin transport and sediment focusing in the Chukchi Sea. European Geophysical Union Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 15-20, 2007.

Moran, S.B., K. Hagstrom, J.M. Grebmeier, L.W. Cooper, W. Maslowski, V. Hill, N.R. Bates and D.A. Hansell (2006) Seasonal and interannual changes in POC export and deposition in the Chukchi Sea. ASLO/TOS Meeting, Honolulu, HI, February 20-24, 2006.

Hall, I.R., S.B. Moran, R. Zahn, P.R. Knutz, C.-C. Shen and R.L. Edwards (2006) Accelerated draw-down of meridional overturning in the late-glacial Atlantic triggered by transient pre-H event freshwater perturbation. RAPID Climate Change International Conference, Birmingham, UK, October 24-27, 2006.

Moran, S.B. (2005) Radionuclide tracers of coastal groundwater transport (invited tutorial lecture). ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, June 19-24, 2005.