Macko, Stephen A.
Primary Appointment
Environmental Sciences
Contact Information
PO Box 400123
Clark Hall 396
Telephone: 434-924-6849
Email: sam8f@virginia.edu
Website: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~sam8f/
Research Disciplines
Environmental Sciences
Research Interests
Biogeochemistry, marine organic geochemistry and stable isotope geochemistry
Research Description
Special emphasis on fossil materials, fossil fuel origin and migration, early diagenesis of organic matter, abyssal ocean cycling of carbon and nitrogen, abiotic synthesis of organic materials and organic pollutants. Molecular approaches to isotope analysis. Isotope studies of food webs in modern and fossil ecosystems. Resolution of diet in early humans.