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Dr.
Burdige was born in New York City sometime in the last century, the
same year that Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line" reached number 1 in the
Billboard charts. After an uneventful high school experience mostly
playing bassoon and going to peace demonstrations, he went off to
college and has remained institutionalized (academically speaking) ever
since, at Swarthmore
College, University
of California at San Diego, University of North
Carolina
and finally Old Dominion University. He is currently a professor in the
Department of Ocean, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at ODU (with a
joint appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry). In
1996 he was a visiting scientist at the Southampton Oceanography Centre
(UK). He serves as an associate editor for the journals Marine
Chemistry
and Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta,
and recently finished a book on marine sediment geochemistry for
Princeton University Press. Because he has a short attention span, his
research interests have wandered over the years from manganese and iron
geochemistry to studies of dissolved organic matter in marine sediments
to studies of seagrass-sediment interactions in tropical carbonate
sediments (with a few other stops along the way). In his free time, he
likes to garden, play with his children and listen to Internet radio
stations (KPIG and WFUV being his current favorites - see links to the
left).
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