Professor

Education

• BSc 1972 - Chemistry, University of Southampton 
• MSc 1974 - Oceanography, University of Southampton 
• PhD 1978 - Oceanography, University of Southampton 

• Trace Element Chemistry 
• Biogeochemical effects of dust depostion to the ocean 
• Elemental Mass Balance

• OCN 201 - Science of the Sea 
• OCN 401 - Biogeochemical cycles 
• OCN 623 - Chemical Oceanography 
• OCN 633 - Chemical Oceanography Lab Methods 
• OCN 499, 699, 700, 800 - Directed, Thesis and Dissertation Research 

Measures C.I. and S. Vink. (2001) Dissolved Fe in the upper waters of the Southern Ocean during the 1997/98 US-JGOFS cruises. Deep-Sea Research, 48 2787-2809.

Measures, C.I., and S. Vink (2000) On the use of dissolved aluminium in surface waters to estimate dust deposition to the ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 14 317-327.

Measures C.I. and S. Vink (1999) Seasonal variations in the distribution of Fe and Al in the surface waters of the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research, 461597-1622.

Measures, C. I., T.L. Ku, S. Luo, J. R. Southon, X. Xu, M. Kusakabe (1996) Distribution of ¹⁰Be and ⁹Be in the South Atlantic. Deep-Sea Research, 43 987-1009.

Measures, C.I., J. Yuan and J. A. Resing (1995) Determination of Iron in Seawater by Flow Injection Analysis using in-line Preconcentration and Spectrophotometric Detection. Marine Chemistry, 50 3-12.

Resing, J. and C.I. Measures (1994) Fluorimetric determination of Al in seawater by FIA with in-line preconcentration. Analytical Chemistry, 66 4105-4111.

Kenison Falkner, K., C.I. Measures, S.E. Herbelin, R.F. Weiss and J.M. Edmond (1991) The major and minor element geochemistry of Lake Baikal. Limnology and Oceanography, 36 413-423.

Measures, C.I. and J.M. Edmond (1983) The geochemical cycle of beryllium⁹: a reconnaissance, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 66 101-110.

Measures, C.I. and J.D. Burton (1980) The vertical distribution and oxidation states of dissolved selenium in the northeast Atlantic ocean and their relationship to biological processes. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 46 385-396.

Edmond, J.M., C. Measures, R.E. McDuff, L.H. Chan, R. Collier, B. Grant, L.I. Gordon and J.B. Corliss (1979) Ridgecrest hydrothermal activity and the balances of the major and minor elements in the ocean: the Galapagos Data. Earth Planet. Sci. Letters, 46 1-18.

Research Funding

Current 

• National Science Foundation. Determining the fractional solubility of aerosols in the mid-Pacific,its seasonal variability and its role in delivering micro-nutrients to the surface ocean. P.I. C.I. Measures. $181,544  Funded. Period 08/01/00 - 07/31/03
• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Collaborative research: Biogeochemistry of trace elements in the western Pacific: atmospheric input and upper ocean cycling. Co-PI: C.I. Measures. $289,569  Funded. Period: 01/08/01-07/31/04
• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Global ocean survey of dissolved iron and aluminum and aerosol iron and aluminum solubility supporting the Repeat Hydrography (CO2). Co-P.I.: C.I. Measures. $942,670  Funded. Period 02/01/03-01/31/06
• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Plankton Community Structure and Iron. Distribution in the Southern Drake Passage. Co-P.I.: C.I. Measures. $245,101  Funded. Period 07/01/03-06/30/05

• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Plankton dynamics and Carbon Cycling in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean:  Control by Fe, Si and Grazing. UH component, Measures PI, $314,597. Period 12/01/03-11/30/07
• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Collaborative Research: Sampling and Analysis of Iron, an International Collaboration. Co-PI: Measures. $44,598. Period 10/01/03-9/30/05
• National Science Foundation. Proposal Title: Collaborative Research:  MOTIV: Plankton Community Responses and Biogeochemical Implications from a Tropical Instability Vortex in the HNLC Equatorial Pacific. Bidigare PI, Measures co-PI. Total UH budget $706,763. Period 12/01/03-11/30/06.

• IOC South Atlantic Cruise, 1996
• IOC Northwest Pacific Cruise, 2002
• Trace Metal Laboratory