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Isotope Core Laboratory Directory

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Hussain Abdulla, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Office: CS 211
Phone: (361) 825-6050
Email: hussain.abdulla@tamucc.edu
Website: https://www.habdullagroup.com



Abdulla's Organic Biogeochemistry research laboratory specializes in aquatic environmental metabolomics, studying the fluxes, fate, and transformation of natural dissolved organic matter (DOM). The research group focuses on understanding the fate and transformation of natural DOM and organic pollutants and investigating how different aquatic species tolerate environmental stresses using environmental metabolomics approaches. Additionally, the lab is dedicated to developing advanced analytical methods for the sensitive and robust quantification of metabolites.
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Richard Coffin, Ph.D.

PENS Chair & Professor

Office: NRC 3500
Phone: (361) 825-2814
Email: richard.coffin@tamucc.edu
Website: http://icl.tamucc.edu



Currently a primary science interest addresses geochemical evaluation of methane contribution to coastal ocean sediment and water column carbon cycling. Studies combine a broad range of geochemical, geologic and geophysical data to understand the distribution of deep sediment methane hydrate deposits, their contribution to shallow sediment carbon cycling and the potential for contribution to climate change and availability as a new source of energy. Studies in the Gulf of Mexico and off the mid Chilean Margin have focused on evaluation of deep sediment methane hydrate deposits as a future energy, in the Beaufort Sea research focuses on current climate change; on the Chatham Rise off the coast of New Zealand paleogeochemistry addresses past climate change; and at the Hikurangi Margin, a northern region off New Zealand, research addresses the contribution of methane from forced fluid advection creative by plate convergence to shallow sediment carbon cycling.
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Joseph David Felix, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry and CMSS Program Coordinator

Office: NRC 3508
Phone: (361) 825-4180
Email: joseph.felix@tamucc.edu
Website: http://felixlab.tamucc.edu



Stable isotope biogeochemistry; Transport, fate, and air-sea-land exchange processes of volatile organic compounds and reactive nitrogen; Bulk and compound-specific stable isotope analysis method development
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Paul Montagna, Ph.D.

HRI Chair and Professor

Office: HRI 122E
Phone: (361) 825-2040
Email: paul.montagna@tamucc.edu



Ecosystem studies with a focus on benthic components, freshwater resources, water quality, ecosystem modeling, and environmental statistics; and integrating natural science with human dimensions research.
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Dorina Murgulet, Ph.D.

CMSS Program Coordinator and Professor of Hydrogeology

Office: NRC 3103
Phone: (361) 825-2309
Email: dorina.murgulet@tamucc.edu
Website: https://artesian.tamucc.edu/index.html



My research group is currently working on understanding: a) groundwater contributions to water quality and habitat degradation in coastal embayments; b) groundwater discharge zones and surface water salinity variations in response to seasonal fluctuation of hydraulic gradients; c) the role of groundwater nutrients in system-wide nutrient budgets; and d) evaluate hypoxia and phytoplankton (red & brown tide) trends in relation to groundwater flow and nutrient discharge.
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Lin Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Marine Chemistry

Office: NRC 1109
Phone: (361) 825-2095
Email: lin.zhang@tamucc.edu
Website: http://zhanglab.tamucc.edu



Compound/Position Specific Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis in Amino Acids and Application in Oceanography and Ecology. Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of Greenhouse Gases in Alaskan Peatlands.
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