Ellen R.M. Druffel

Ellen R.M. Druffel is a professor and holds the Fred Kavli Endowed Chair in Earth System Science at U.C. Irvine, where she was one of the department's founding faculty members. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Loyola Marymount University in 1975 and a PhD in Chemistry in 1980 from the Department of Chemistry at U.C. San Diego,[1] where her Ph.D. advisor was Hans Suess.

In 1990, Druffel received the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union and in 2001 she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004 she was awarded the Ruth Patrick Award from the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography. The Ruth Patrick Award is given "to honor outstanding research by a scientist in the application of basic aquatic science principles to the identification, analysis and/or solution of important environmental problems.".[2] Druffel's Ruth Patrick award acknowledged "her sustained critical contributions on the composition and age of dissolved, particulate, and sedimentary carbon and for furthering the understanding of the processes governing the fate and distribution of oceanic carbon and the important role that the oceans play in global carbon flux."[2] In 2016 she was awarded the Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union.[3]

Druffel's research uses radiocarbon to track marine processes, focusing in two areas: coral paleoclimate records and marine organic matter carbon cycling. She is the author of more than 180 publications in the scientific literature.[4]

• Coppola, A. I.; Ziolkowski, L. A.; Masiello, C. A.; Druffel, E. R. M. (2014). "Aged black carbon in marine sediments and sinking particles". Geophysical Research Letters. 41 (7): 2427–2433. Bibcode:2014GeoRL..41.2427C. doi:10.1002/2013GL059068. hdl:1911/94795.
• Mccarthy, M. D.; Beaupré, S. R.; Walker, B. D.; Voparil, I.; Guilderson, T. P.; Druffel, E. R. M. (2010). "Chemosynthetic origin of 14C-depleted dissolved organic matter in a ridge-flank hydrothermal system". Nature Geoscience. 4 (1): 32–36. Bibcode:2011NatGe...4...32M. doi:10.1038/ngeo1015.
• Ziolkowski, L. A.; Druffel, E. R. M. (August 2010). "Aged black carbon identified in marine dissolved organic carbon" (PDF). Geophysical Research Letters. 37 (16): n/a. Bibcode:2010GeoRL..3716601Z. doi:10.1029/2010GL043963.
• Loh, A. N.; Bauer, J. E.; Druffel, E. (2004). "Variable ageing and storage of dissolved organic components in the open ocean". Nature. 430 (7002): 877–881. Bibcode:2004Natur.430..877L. doi:10.1038/nature02780. PMID 15318218. S2CID 4423121.
• Bauer, J.; Druffel, E. (1998). "Ocean margins as a significant source of organic matter to the deep open ocean". Nature. 392 (6675): 482–485. Bibcode:1998Natur.392..482B. doi:10.1038/33122. S2CID 4411999.
• Masiello, C.; Druffel, E. (1998). "Black carbon in deep-sea sediments". Science. 280 (5371): 1911–1913. Bibcode:1998Sci...280.1911M. doi:10.1126/science.280.5371.1911. PMID 9632383.
• Adkins, J. F. (1998). "Deep-Sea Coral Evidence for Rapid Change in Ventilation of the Deep North Atlantic 15,400 Years Ago". Science. 280 (5364): 725–728. Bibcode:1998Sci...280..725A. doi:10.1126/science.280.5364.725. PMID 9563946.
• Druffel, E. (5 August 1997). Geochemistry of corals: Proxies of past ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, and climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94. pp. 8354–8361. Bibcode:1997PNAS...94.8354D. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.16.8354. PMC 33753.
• Eglinton, T. I.; Aluwihare, L. I.; Bauer, J. E. (1996). "Gas chromatographic isolation of individual compounds from complex matrices for radiocarbon dating". Analytical Chemistry. 68 (5): 904–912. doi:10.1021/ac9508513. PMID 21619188.
• Druffel, E. R. (1994). Looking at gender distribution among AGU Fellows. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union. 75. p. 429.
• Edwards, R. L.; Beck, J. W.; Burr, G. S.; Donahue, D. J.; Chappell, J. M. A.; Bloom, A. L.; Druffel, E. R. M.; Taylor, F. W. (14 May 1993). "A Large Drop in Atmospheric 14C/12C and Reduced Melting in the Younger Dryas, Documented with 230Th Ages of Corals". Science. 260 (5110): 962–968. Bibcode:1993Sci...260..962E. doi:10.1126/science.260.5110.962. PMID 17818386. S2CID 30531828.
• Druffel, E.; Williams, P.; Bauer, J.; Ertel, J (1992). "Cycling of Dissolved and Particulate Organic Matter in the Open Ocean". Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 97 (C10): 15639–15659. Bibcode:1992JGR....9715639D. doi:10.1029/92jc01511.
• Williams, P.; Druffel, E. (1987). "Radiocarbon in Dissolved Organic-Matter in the Central North Pacific Ocean". Nature. 330 (6145): 246–248. Bibcode:1987Natur.330..246W. doi:10.1038/330246a0. S2CID 4329024.
• Druffel, E. M.; Linick, T. W. (1978). "Radiocarbon in annual coral rings of Florida". Geophysical Research Letters. 5 (11): 913–916. Bibcode:1978GeoRL...5..913D. doi:10.1029/GL005i011p00913. S2CID 55170056.