Department
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Organization
Columbia University
Email
bsmeth@ldeo.columbia.edu
Phone
845-365-8566
Address
61 Route 9W
Palisades , New York 10964United States

Interests

Sea Ice

Science Specialties

chemical oceanography, ocean circulation, radioactive pollution

Current Research

Formation, circulation, and mixing of subsurface water masses in the Arctic Ocean and the exchange of deep water masses between the Arctic Ocean basins and the Norwegian and Greenland seas to the south through measurement of chlorofluorocarbons and other tracers. Measurement of krypton-85 in the Arctic Ocean to determine if leakage is occurring from Russian nuclear waste disposal sites and to determine transport pathways to these wastes.