CURRICULUM VITAE

LIHINI INDIRA ALUWIHARE 302 Vaughan Hall

Geosciences Research Division Phone: 858-822-4886

Scripps Institution of Oceanography FAX: 858-822-3310

University of California, San Diego email: laluwihare@ucsd.edu

La Jolla, California, 92093-0244 http://aluwiharelab.ucsd.edu/

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Chemical Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA. May 1999.

Advisor: Dan J. Repeta

B. A., Chemistry and Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. May 1993.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2001-present. Assistant Professor, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

2000-2001. Postgraduate Research Microbiologist, Marine Biology Research Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Advisor: Farooq Azam

1999-2000. Post-Doctoral Investigator in Marine Chemistry, Division of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

- Chemical composition of dissolved organic matter

- Isotope geochemistry of dissolved organic matter to study residence time and cycling

- Marine microbial ecology in relation to organic C and N cycling

- Organic and analytical chemistry

- Marine biogeochemistry

- Global carbon and nitrogen cycle

AWARDS

- Geisel Faculty Career Development Award – UCSD/SIO, April 2005

SCHOLARLY SERVICES

Scientific Organizations

- Co-Chair (invited), EGU Special Session on Radiocarbon, General Assembly Meeting in Vienna, Austria. April 2000.

- Co-Chair, AGU/ASLO Ocean Sciences Meeting Special Session “The Power of Radiocarbon,” Honolulu, HI. February 2006.

- Participant, Coalition of National Science Funding Fall Visit to Capitol Hill, Fall 2005.

- Invited Participant, Symposium on Reference Materials for Ocean Science, Islamorada, FLA. September, 2001.

- Office of Polar Programs Workshop for New Investigators. March, 2001.

Academic and Research Committees:

- 2006-present. Co-Chair, United Laboratory Facilities (Analytic Facility), SIO.

- 2006-present. Member, Center for Earth Observations Advisory Committee

- 2005, 2006. Member, Hiring Priorities Committee, Geosciences Research Division, SIO

- 2004-present. Member, Education Policy Committee, SIO/UCSD.

- 2004-present. Curricular Group Advisor, Marine Chemistry Curricular Group, SIO/UCSD

- 2003-present. Member, United Laboratory Facilities (Analytic Facility), SIO.

- 2003-present. Member, Marine Operations Committee, SIO.

- 2003-present. CA Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE), Advisory Board. SIO.

- 2001-present. Chair, Marine Chemist Curricular Group Admissions, SIO/UCSD

Reviewer Duties

Journal and Book Reviews (last 5 years).

Limnology and Oceanography, Limnology and Oceanography – Methods, Marine Chemistry, Deep Sea-Research, Marine Ecology, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. Estuaries, Biogeochemistry, Radiocarbon. Book – Biogeochemistry of Dissolved Organic Matter. Special Issue – Chemical Reviews, Special Issue of Marine Chemistry.

Proposal Reviews

NSF, Chemical Oceanography and CAREER.

ACS, Petroleum Research Fund

PUBLICATIONS IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS AND BOOKS

Aluwihare, L. I and Meador, T. B. Chemical Composition of Marine Dissolved Organic Nitrogen. In: Nitrogen in the Marine Environment. Eds. Capone, D. G., Bronk, D. A., Mulholland, M., and Carpenter, E. Kluwer Press. Accepted

Ingalls, A. E; Shah, S. R; Hansman, R. L; Aluwihare, L. I. etc “Quantifying archaeal community autotrophy in the mesopelagic ocean using natural radiocarbon.” PNAS 103(17) 2006, pp.6442-6447.

Repeta, D. J. and Aluwihare, L. I. High molecular weight dissolved organic carbon cycling as determined by natural abundance radiocarbon measurements of neutral sugars.

Limnology and Oceanography 51(2), 2006, pp.10451053.

Aluwihare, L. I; Pantoja; S.P; Johnson, C. G; Repeta, D. J. “Two chemically distinct pools of organic nitrogen accumulate in the ocean.” Science 308, 2005, pp. 1007-1010.

Aluwihare, L. I; Repeta, D. J., Chen, R. F. “Chemical Composition and Cycling of HMW DOM in the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Deep Sea Research II 49(2), 2002, pp. 4421-4438.

Repeta, D. J.; Quan, T.; Aluwihare, L. I. and Chen, R. F., “Chemical characterization of high molecular weight dissolved organic matter in fresh and marine waters,” Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 66(6), 2002, 955-962.

Aluwihare, L. I and Repeta, D. J., “A comparison of the Chemical Characteristics of

Oceanic DOM and Extracellular DOM Produced by Marine Algae,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 186, 1999, pp. 105-117.

Aluwihare, L. I., Repeta, D. J. and Chen, R. F., “A Major Biopolymeric Component to Surface Seawater DOC,” Nature, 387 1997, pp. 166-168.

Eglinton, T. I.; Aluwihare, L. I.; Bauer, J. E.; Druffel, E. R. M. and McNichol, A. P., “Gas Chromatographic Isolation of Individual Compounds from Complex Matrices for Radiocarbon Dating,” Analytical Chemistry, 68, 1996, pp. 904-912.

MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED AND IN PREPARATION

Meador, T. B., Aluwihare, L. I., Mahaffey, C. “Isotopic heterogeneity and cycling of organic nitrogen in the oligotrophic ocean.” Submitted to Limnology and Oceanography. In review.

McNichol, A and Aluwihare, L. I. “Use of C-14 to Study Ocean Biogeochemistry" In preparation for: Chemical Reviews’ thematic issue on "Chemical Oceanography.” Luther III, G. W. and Boyle, E. A. Eds. Estimated publication date Feb. 2007.

Furutani, H, S. Oldenburg, L. Aluwihare and K. Prather. Gold nanoparticle matrix for the enhancement of low molecular weight negative ions of saccharides by single particle laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry. Sumbitted to Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Furutani, H; Prather, K; Aluwihare, L. I. “Single Particle Mass Spectrometry of The Organic and Inorganic Association within Individual Particles (0.2-3 mm) Formed Through Aggregation of Diatom Derived Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM)”

In preparation for Marine Chemistry.

THESES

Aluwihare, L. I. “High molecular weight dissolved organic matter in seawater: Chemical structure, sources and cycling. Ph.D. Thesis. 1999. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA.

Aluwihare, L. I. “The use of allyl vinyl trimethylsilanes in the synthesis of trimethylsilyl-substituted furans.” Undergraduate Thesis. 1993. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2006-2007. Chancellor's Collaboratories Proposal "Understanding the impact of the ocean on marine aerosol chemistry.” $45,000(student support), 1 year. Co-PI

2006. American Chemical Society-Petroleum Research Fund Type AC. “Organic Matter Preservation In Marine Environments: Insights From a Study of Marine Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) Composition, Age and Source,” $80,000, 2 years. P. I.

2006. NSF-CAREER: “Organic Matter Cycling in the Upper Ocean: Insights From Time-Series Measurements of D¹⁴C and d¹⁵N In The California Current System” $846,719, 5 years. P.I.

2005. Geisel Faculty Career Development Award. $100,000. 5 years.

2004. NSF-LTER: “ Nonlinear Transitions in the California Current Coastal Pelagic Ecosystem. $5,000 0000, 5 years. Co-PI. PI: Mark Ohman (SIO).

2003-2006. NSF-Chemical Oceanography: “Collaborative Research: The Role of Meso- and Bathypelagic Prokaryotic Organisms in the Marine Water Column: Insights from Compound-specific Radiocarbon Analysis.” $160,793 Co-PI (of 2)

2003-2005. Lawrence Livermore National Lab-CAMS Mini Grant. “The Search For the ‘Oldest’ DOC: Low Molecular Weight Organic Compounds Isolated From Seawater. $70,674. PI.

2003-2005. ONR-Chemical and Biological Oceanography. “Characterizing the Role of Metal Binding Moieties in the Photochemistry of Chromophoric DOM in Marine Systems.” $229,743. Co-PI (2)

2003-2004. NIH-Shared Instrumentation Grant. “NMR Instrumentation for Marine Natural Product Chemistry.” $453, 541. Associate Investigator. PI: William Fenical (SIO)

2002-2003. NSF-EAR. Instrumentation and Facilities. “Acquisition of an Isotopic Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Water and Organic Applications.” $235,699. Co-PI. PI: Chris Charles (SIO)

COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate Courses (SIO)

Winter 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. Introduction to Marine Chemistry. Required Class, co-developed and co-taught (4 credits).

Fall 2006. Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Biogeochemistry of C and N (4 credits)

Spring 2003. Special Topics in Marine Chemistry: Marine Organic Biogeochemistry (4 credits)

Undergraduate Courses (UCSD)

Spring 2007. Scheduled. Oceanography of the California Current. Developed and co-taught. Upper level, included field and lab components. (4 credits)

Winter 2005. Geochemistry. Upper level, co-taught (4 credits)

Fall 2005 and Spring 2004. The Biosphere. Co-developed and co-taught. For non science majors (4 credits)

Classes

Spring 2005, Advanced Isotope Geochemistry; Spring 2003, Biogeochemistry; Winter 2003, Biological Oceanography; Winter 2001, Intro. Marine Chemistry.

Invited Lecturer

Summer 2006. Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies–Geobiology Summer Course

Fall 2004. Austral Summer Institute, University of Concecpicon, Chile–Special Topics in Marine Chemistry

Winter 2001. Austral Summer Institute, University of Concepcion, Chile–Organic Geochemistry.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POST DOCTORAL SCHOLARS MENTORED

Advisor, Ph. D.

2001-present. Meador, Travis B.

2002-present. Hansman, Roberta L.

2003-present. De Jesus, Roman P.

Advisor, Pre-Ph. D.

2003-2004. Vukajlovich, Dana

Advisor, Postdoc. Scholar

2003-2005. Furutani, Hiroshi (UCSD-Chemistry). Co-advised

2003-2005. Herszage, Julian (SIO). Co-advised

Committee Member

Current

-Robidart, Julie (SIO, Marine Biology)

-Hopkinson, Brian (SIO- Marine Chemistry)

-Miller, Eric (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Engel, Sebastian (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Turkson, Nicole (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Boonlarppradab, Chollorat (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Bailey, Brad (SIO-Geology and Geophysics)

-Aubrey, Andrew (SIO-Marine Chemistry)

-Moseman, Serena (SIO-Biological Oceanography)

-Rafter, Patrick (SIO-Climate)

-Malfatti, Franchesca (SIO-Marine Biology)

-Prieto-Dave, Alejandra (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Strangman, Wendy (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Goldberg, Stuart (UCSB-Marine Science)

Past

-Oh, Dong-Chan (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Sandler, Joel (SIO-Marine Natural Products)

-Hwang, Jeom-Shik (UCI-Earth Science)

Departmental Exams.

2006 – Marine Chemistry

2005 –Biological Oceanography, Marine Chemistry, Applied Ocean Sciences

2004 – Marine Chemistry

2003 – Biological Oceanography, Marine Chemistry

2002- Marine Chemistry.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED

2006-present. Ward, Nicholas B. (UCSD)

2005-2006. Chong, Lauren S.

INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED

2006 –Neil Swart, University of Capetown, South Africa (4 months)

2006 -Marcos Yoshinaga, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (4 months)

2005 -Bibiana Jara, University of Concepcion, Chile (3 months)

2003 – Angela Landolfi, Southampton Oceanography Center, UK (3 months)

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Mentoring

2006, Summer. Lopez, Laura. Hoover High School (Junior)

2006, Summer. Tang, P (April). Hoover High School (Senior attending SDSU)

2002-2006. Schorn, Michelle. Torrey Pines High School (now a sophomore at Yale)

-won 2^nd place at SD Science Fair

-winner of Marine Technology Society Internship

-participated in a research cruise (summer 2006)

2004, Summer. Tebo, Alison (now a sophomore at UCLA).

2005 – 2006. Rall, MaryAnn. Torrey Pines High School, Marine Biology teacher.

2003-2004. Connors, Natalie. Torrey Pines High School (sophomore)

2001-2003. Monguillansky, Debbie. Torrey Pines High School (now a junior at UCSD)

Participation

2006. Presentation to SIO Director’s Cabinet Members

2006. Venter Institute-UCSD Campus Research Collaboration meeting.

2005. John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth – SIO Day

2005. Presentation to California Coastal Conservancy members

2002-2005. Southern California Coastal Water Resources Project activities

2004. Invited Seminar Speaker. University of Delaware Women in Marine Sciences Ser.

2004. Organized Marine Science Day for UCSD’s TRIO program

2001. PBS Series on Oceanography- Marine Chemistry

Field Programs

Cruise Participation

2006. Eel River/Hydrate Ridge Methane Vent Communities Cruise

2006. LTER-California Current

2004. CalCOFI

2003. Biocomplexity N₂-Fixation. North Pacific Subtropical Gyre

2003. ClaCOFI

2003. Microbial Sampling. Natural Energy Lab. Hawaii.

Collaborations

2006. Delaware River and North Atlantic Cruise

2005. Methane Seep Geology. Costa Rica Dome.

2005-2006. IMECOCAL Cruises. Southern California Current

2004. Microbial Sampling Natural Energy Lab. Hawaii.

2004. Advisor and Participant in the Bight ’04 Program organized through the Southern California Water Research Project and a consortium of water resource management groups in Southern California.

2003 and 2004. Biocomplexity Cruises. Western Equatorial Atlantic and Western North Atlantic

2003. Coring cruise. Western South Atlantic