Art Spivack Explained

Arthur J. Spivack (born July 9, 1956 in Queens, New York), also known as "Art" or "Arturo", is an American geochemist. He is currently a professor at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.^[1]

Spivack's research interest is the geochemistry of the oceans, atmosphere, and crust. He developed the use of boron isotopes for determining the pH of ancient oceans.^[2] This approach provides a principal basis for estimating atmospheric concentrations of the last several tens of million years.^[3] He led the investigation of the 2015 Salty Brine Beach explosion.^[4] He has also contributed to scientific understanding of geochemical fluxes in mid-ocean-ridge hydrothermal systems and subduction zones^[5] and understanding of subseafloor life.^[6]

Spivack received his bachelor's degree (1980) in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and his Ph.D. in oceanography from MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1986).

References

1. Web site: spivack | URI Graduate School of Oceanography . https://web.archive.org/web/20080517081243/http://www.gso.uri.edu/users/spivack . dead . 2008-05-17 . Gso.uri.edu . 2012-05-22 .
2. Spivack A.J., C.F. You, H.J. Smith."Foraminiferal boron isotope ratios as a proxy for surface ocean pH over the past 21-Myr." Nature 363(6425): 149-151.
3. Pearson, P.N., and M.R. Palmer. "Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 60 million years." Nature 406(6797): 695-699.
4. Web site: Department of Environmental Management . 2016-06-22 . 2016-08-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160804090456/http://www.dem.ri.gov/pubs/salty2015rep.pdf . dead .
5. Spivack, A.J., and J.M. Edmond. "Boron isotope exchange between seawater and the oceanic crust." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 51(5), 1033-1043.
6. D'Hondt S, S. Rutherford, A.J. Spivack. "Metabolic activity of subsurface life in deep-sea sediments." Science 295(5562): 2067-2070.