Co-director: Restoring the Atmosphere, Protecting the Land and Oceans
Associate Professor Andrew Babbin is the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor of Chemical Oceanography and Marine Microbiology. He co-directs the Atmosphere, Land, and Oceans missions with Professor Jesse Kroll.
Department:
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
Research Laboratory:
The BabLab
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Short Bio:
Babbin is a field-going oceanographer, biogeochemist, and climate scientist. He joined the MIT faculty in 2017 in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. His research exploring how microorganisms shape global climate has taken him around the world, sampling lakes in Antarctica, coral reefs in Cuba, waters across the global oceans, and air in the Galapagos.
He has recently established a new atmospheric chemistry sampling station in the Galapagos to quantify the emissions and variability of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tropical Pacific Ocean. At MIT he teaches an introductory global carbon cycling course and an advanced lab- and field-based oceanography class where students go to sea and conduct science firsthand.