Thomas S. Bianchi

Thomas S. Bianchi
Alma mater	University of Maryland (Ph.D.) State University of New York at Stony Brook (M.A.) Dowling College (B.A.)
Known for	Biogeochemistry, marine chemistry, organic geochemistry, chemical oceanography
Awards	Fellow, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, American Geophysical Union Fellow, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry Qilu Friendship Award
Scientific career
Institutions	University of Florida

Thomas S. Bianchi is an oceanographer and biogeochemist. He is currently the Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida and Editor-in-chief of the journal Marine Chemistry.

Early life and education[]

Bianchi was born in 1956 in Richmond Hill, New York, and moved to Holbrook in eastern Long Island where he stayed through his early college years. As a child he was very interested in basketball, largely influenced by his uncle, Al Bianchi, who was a professional basketball player. Bianchi has played drums through much of his life, and became interested in oceanography very early on. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1987.

Research and career[]

Bianchi has been a professor at the University of Florida since 2013.^[1] Before joining UF he held full professor positions at Tulane University and Texas A&M University.

Awards and recognition[]

• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for his exceptional contributions in his respective field of Earth and space sciences, 2019.^[2][3]
• Qilu Friendship Award, People's Government of Shandong Province, China, 2018.^[4]
• Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2017.^[5]
• Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2017.^[6]
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013.^[7]

Personal life[]

Bianchi is the son Rita and Tom Bianchi and is married to Jo Ann Bianchi (artist), and has a son Christopher T. Bianchi (video artist)

Books[]

Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota

• Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota (Vol. 5, Chemical Oceanography) (published in 2019 by Texas A&M University Press)
• Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship Now Threatened by Global Change. Oxford University Press. 2016. ISBN 978-0-19-976417-4.^[8]
• Biogeochemical Dynamics at Major River-Coastal Interfaces: Linkages with Global Change. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-02257-7.^[9]
• Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems. Princeton University Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1-4008-3910-0.^[10]
• Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Springer. 2010. ISBN 978-1-60615-037-5.
• Biogeochemistry of Estuaries. Oxford University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-19-534771-5.^[11][12]
• Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries. John Wiley & Sons. 1998. ISBN 978-0-471-16174-5.^[13][14][15]

Selected publications[]

Tom Bianchi has published over 300 articles.

• Centers of organic carbon burial at the land-ocean interface.
• Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering.
• High rates of organic carbon burial in fjord sediments globally.
• The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean
• The role of terrestrially derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean: A changing paradigm and the priming effect.
• The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A review.
• Large-river delta-front estuaries as natural “recorders” of global environmental change.
• Temporal variability in sources of dissolved organic carbon in the lower Mississippi River.
• Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: Natural or human-induced?
• Natural photolysis by ultraviolet irradiance of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter to simple substrates for rapid bacterial metabolism.

References[]

External links[]

• Thomas S. Bianchi publications indexed by Google Scholar