Edward A. Boyle

Professor
PhD, MIT
Phone: (617)253-3388

Address:
E25-619
Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 USA

Email: eaboyle@mit.edu

Current research interests:
Distribution of trace elements in the ocean and their use as paleochemical tracers; response of the ocean to anthropogenic lead emissions; relation between dust, iron in the ocean, and marine biological activity.

Group:
Researchers
Kyrstin Fornace, Rick Kayser
Staff
Mary Elliff, Alla Skorokhod
Postdocs
Yolanda Echgoyen Sanz
Graduate students
Andrea Dubin, Jessica Fitzsimmons, Jong-Mi Lee

Recent graduates:
Seth John, CalTech

Publications
Boyle E. A. (2000) Is Ocean Thermohaline Circulation Linked to Abrupt Stadial/Interstadial Transitions? Quat. Sci. Rev. 19: 255-272

Wu, J., W. Sunda, E. Boyle, and D. Karl (2000) Phosphate depletion in the Western North Atlantic Ocean Science 289:759-762

Sigman, D. and E. Boyle (2000) Glacial/Interglacial variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide Nature 407:859-869

Keigwin, L.D. and E.A. Boyle (2000) Detecting Holocene changes in thermohaline circulation Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 97:1343-1346

Boyle E. A., Bridget A. Bergquist, Richard A Kayser, Natalie Mahowald (2005) Iron, Maganese, and Lead at Hawaii Ocean Time-series Station ALOHA: Temporal Variability and an Intermediate Water Hydrothermal Plume Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta: 69:933-952

B.A. Bergquist and E.A. Boyle (2006) Dissolved iron in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic Ocean Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 20, GB1015, doi:10.1029/2005GB002505

B.A. Bergquist, J.Wu, E.A. Boyle (2007) Variability in oceanic dissolved iron is dorminated by the colloidal fraction Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71:2960-2974

S.G. John, R.W. Geis, M.A. Saito, and E.A. Boyle (2007) Zinc isotope fractionation during high-affinity and low-affinity Zn transport in T. oceanica Limnol. Oceanogr. 52:2710-2714

S.G. John, O.J. Rouxel, P.R. Craddock, Allison M. Engwall, and E.A. Boyle (in press) Zinc stable isotopes in seafloor hydrothermal vent fluids and chimneys Earth and Planetary Science Letters