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PeltzerDr. Edward T. Peltzer is an ocean chemist. He is currently employed as a Senior Research Specialist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. His researchinterests include the geochemistry of carbon dioxide in the ocean and the development of new analytical techniques for the measurement of the major components and selected trace gases in natural and synthetic clathrate gas hydrates. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Bucknell University in 1972 and a Ph. D. in Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego in 1979. While a graduate student with Drs. Jeffrey Bada and Stanley Miller, he was the first to identify the presence of extra-terrestrial hydroxy and dicarboxylic acids in meteorites. Following graduate school, Dr. Peltzer worked as a Research Specialist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for almost 20 years. He developed new techniques for measuring plant waxes and lipids in aerosols and studied the long-range transport of terrestrial organic matter in the atmosphere. Subsequently, he investigated the role of dissolved organic matter in the global ocean carbon cycle and collaborated in the development of a new technique for the measurement of dissolved organic carbon in seawater. Dr. Peltzer is an author/co-author of more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications and has participated in numerous scientific research cruises in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans from the Artic circle to the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

CURRICULUM VITAE EDWARD T. PELTZER, III Senior Research Specialist Monterey Bay Aquarium research Institute 7700 Sandholdt Road Moss Landing, CA 95039 Tel: (831) 775-1851 Fax: (831) 775-1620 Email: etp3@mbari.org Nationality: U.S.A EDUCATION: B.S.: Chemistry, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 1972. Ph.D.: Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 1979.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Research Associate, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, December 1977 to May 1985. Research Specialist, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, June 1985 to June 1997. Senior Research Technician, Research and Development Division, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, July 1997 to June 1999. Adjunct Oceanographer, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, August 1998 to July 2001. Senior Research Specialist, Research and Development Division, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, July 1999 to present. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Associate Editor, Marine Chemistry, January 1996 to present. Member of: Americal Chemical Society American Geophysical Union American Scientific Affiliation The Oceanography Society RESEARCH INTERESTS: 1. Gas hydrates in marine sediments: a) development of new analytical techniques for the measurement of the major components and selected trace gases in gas hydrates. b) analysis of samples collected with ROV and laboratory synthetics. 2. Deep ocean disposal of fossil fuel carbon dioxide and processes controlling its long-term sequestration as a gas hydrate. 3. The role of dissolved organic matter in the global ocean carbon cycle: a) development of new techniques for the measurement of DOC and DON;

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b) estimation of the sources and sinks of dissolved organic matter by modelling the observed distributions of DOC and DON. 4. The geochemistry of naturally occurring organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols and seawater as a indicator of sources and transport mechanisms. 5. The geochemistry of alpha-hydroxy and di-carboxylic acids in carbonaceous chondrites, deep-sea sediments and seawater. PUBLICATIONS: Heine, H. W., J. D. Myers and E. T. Peltzer (1970). Stereospecific deaminations of some N-alkylaziridines by m-chloroperbenzoic acid. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition in English 9: 374. Peltzer, E. T. and J. L. Bada (1978). alpha-Hydroxycarboxylic acids in the Murchison Meteorite. Nature 272: 443-444. Hoopes, E. A., E. T. Peltzer and J. L. Bada (1978). Determination of amino acid enantiomeric ratios by gas liquid chromatography of the N- trifluoro-acetyl-L-prolyl-peptide methyl esters. Journal of Chromato- graphic Science 16: 556-560. Zafiriou, O. C., J. Alford, M. Herrera, E. T. Peltzer, R. B. Gagosian, and S. C. Liu (1980). Formaldehyde in remote marine air and rain: flux measurements and estimates. Geophysical Research Letters 7: 341-344. Gagosian, R. B., E. T. Peltzer and O. C. Zafiriou (1981). Atmospheric transport of continentally derived lipids to the tropical north Pacific. Nature 291: 312-314. Peltzer, E. T. and J. L. Bada (1981). Low molecular weight alpha-hydroxy carboxylic and dicarboxylic acids in reducing marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 45: 1847-1854. Gagosian, R. B., O. C. Zafiriou, E. T. Peltzer and J. B. Alford (1982). Lipids in aerosols from the tropical North Pacific: temporal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research 87: 11,133-11,144.

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Peltzer, E. T., J. L. Bada, G. Schlesinger, and S. L. Miller (1984). The chemical conditions on the parent body of the Murchison meteorite: some conclusions based on amino, hydroxy and dicarboxylic acids. Advances in Space Research 4: 69-74. Zafiriou, O. C., R. B. Gagosian, E. T. Peltzer, J. B. Alford and T. Loder (1985). Air-to-sea fluxes of lipids at Enewetak Atoll. Journal of Geophysical Research 90: 2409-2423. Gagosian, R. B. and E. T. Peltzer (1986). The importance of atmospheric input of terrestrial organic material to deep-sea sediments. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1985 Organic Geochemistry 10: 661-669. Peltzer, E. T. and R. B. Gagosian (1987). Sampling and analysis of lipids in aerosols from the remote marine atmosphere. Analytica Chimica Acta 198: 125-144. Gagosian, R. B., E. T. Peltzer and J. T. Merrill (1987). Long range transport of terrestrially-derived lipids in aerosols from the south Pacific. Nature 325: 800-803. Peltzer, E. T. and R. B. Gagosian (1989). Organic Geochemistry of aerosols over the Pacific Ocean. In: Chemical Oceanography, 10, R. A. Duce, guest editor; J. P. Riley and R. Chester, editors. pp. 281-338. Academic Press, London. Sicre, M.-A., R. B. Gagosian and E. T. Peltzer (1990). Evaluation of the atmospheric transport of marine-derived particles using long-chain unsaturated ketones. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: 1789-1795. Sharp, J. H. and E. T. Peltzer (1993). Procedures subgroup report. Marine Chemistry 41: 37-49. Peltzer, E. T. and P. G. Brewer (1993). Some practical aspects of measuring DOC-sampling artifacts and analytical problems with marine samples. Marine Chemistry 41: 243-252.

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Goyet, C. and E. T. Peltzer (1994). Comparison of the August-September 1991 and 1979 surface partial pressure of CO2 distribution in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean near 150degW. Marine Chemistry 45: 257-266. Sharp, J. H., R. Benner, L. Bennett, C. A. Carlson, S. E. Fitzwater, E. T. Peltzer, and L. M. Tupas (1995). Analyses of dissolved organic carbon in seawater: the JGOFS EQPAC methods comparison. Marine Chemistry 48: 91-108. Vodacek, A., F. E. Hoge, R. N. Swift, J. K. Yungel, E. T. Peltzer, and N. V. Blough (1995). The use of in situ and airborne fluorescence measurements to determine UV absorption coefficients and DOC concentrations in surface waters. Limnology and Oceanography 40: 411-415. Goyet, C., D. Davis, E. T. Peltzer, and P. G. Brewer (1995). Development of improved space sampling strategies for ocean chemical properties: total carbon dioxide and dissolved nitrate. Geophysical Research Letters 22: 945-948. Chen, R. F., B. Fry, C. S. Hopkinson, D. J. Repeta and E. T. Peltzer (1996). Dissolved organic carbon on Georges Bank. Continental Shelf Research 16: 409-420. Peltzer, E. T., B. Fry, P. H. Doering, J. H. McKenna, B. Norrman and U. L. Zweifel (1996). A comparison of methods for the measurement of dissolved organic carbon in natural waters. Marine Chemistry 54: 85-96. Peltzer, E. T. and N. A. Hayward (1996). Spatial and temporal variability of total organic carbon along 140degW in the equatorial Pacific ocean in 1992. Deep-Sea Research II (Equatorial Pacific 2) 43: 1155-1180. Fry, B., E. T. Peltzer, C. H. Hopkinson, A. Nolin and L. Redmond (1996). Analysis of Marine DOC using a Dry Combustion Method. Marine Chemistry 54: 191-201. Vodacek, A., N. V. Blough, M. D. DeGrandpre, E. T. Peltzer and R. K. Nelson (1997). Seasonal variations of CDOM and DOC in the Middle Atlantic Bight:

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Terrestrial inputs and photooxidation. Limnology and Oceanography 42: 674-686. Archer, D., E. T. Peltzer and D. L. Kirchman (1997). A timescale for dissolved organic carbon production in equatorial Pacific surface waters. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11: 435-452. Goyet, C. and E. T. Peltzer (1997). Variation of CO2 partial pressure in surface seawater in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 44: 1611-1625. Archer, D., J. Aiken, W. Balch, R. Barber, J. Dunne, P. Flament, W. Gardner, C. Garside, C. Goyet, E. Johnson, D. Kirchman, M. McPhaden, J. Newton, E. Peltzer, L. Welling, J. White and J. Yoder (1997). A meeting place of great ocean currents: shipboard observations of a convergent front at 2degN in the Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II 44: 1827-1849. Hansell, D. A. and E. T. Peltzer (1998). Spatial and temporal variations of total organic carbon in the Arabian Sea. Deep-Sea Research II 45: 2171-2193. Walsh, J. J., D. A. Dieterle, F. E. Muller-Karger, R. Bohrer, W. P. Bissett, R. J. Varela, R. Aparicio, R. Diaz, R. Thunell, G. T. Taylor, M. I. Scranton, K. A. Fanning, E. T. Peltzer (1999). Simulation of carbon- nitrogen cycling during spring upwelling in the Cariaco Basin. J. Geophys. Res. 104: 7807-7825. Brewer, P. G., G. Friederich, E. T. Peltzer and F. M. Orr, Jr. (1999). Direct experiments on the ocean disposal of fossil fuel CO2. Science 284: 943-945. Peltzer, E. T., P. G. Brewer, G. Friederich, and G. Rehder (2000). Direct observation of the fate of oceanic carbon dioxide release at 800m. In: Preprints of Symposia, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 45 (4), 794-798. Carlson, C.A., D. A. Hansell, E. T. Peltzer, and W. O. Smith, Jr. (2000).

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Stocks and dynamics of dissolved and particulate organic matter in the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica. Deep-Sea Research II 47: 3201-3225. Peltzer, E.T. and P. G. Brewer (2000). Practical physical chemistry and empirical predictions of methane hydrate stability. In: M.D. Max (ed.), Natural Gas Hydrate in Oceanic and Permafrost Environments. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. pp. 17-28. Brewer, P.G., E. T. Peltzer, G. Friederich, I. Aya, and K. Yamane (2000). Experiments on the ocean sequestration of fossil fuel CO2: pH measurements and hydrate formation. Marine Chemistry 72: 83-93. Tamburri, M., E. T. Peltzer, G. Friederich, I. Aya, K. Yamane, and P. G. Brewer (2000). A field study of the effects of CO2 disposal on mobile deep-sea animals. Marine Chemistry 72: 95-101. Xu, W., Lowell, R. P. and Peltzer, E. T. (2001). Effect of seafloor temperature and pressure variations on methane flux from a gas hydrate layer: Comparison between current and late Paleocene climate conditions. J. Geophys. Res. 106: 26,413-26,423. Brewer, P.G., J. Pasteris, G. Malby, E.T. Peltzer, S. White, J. Freeman, B. Wopenka, M. Brown, and D. Cline (2002). Laser Raman spectroscopy at 3600m ocean depth. Eos, Trans. AGU 83(42): 469-470. Peltzer, E.T., P.G. Brewer, R.M. Dunk, J. Erickson, G. Rehder, and P. Walz (2002). Recent advances in deep-sea CO2 sequestration experiments. In: Preprints of Symposia, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 47(1): 23-24. Sharp, J.H., C.A. Carlson, E.T. Peltzer, D.M. Castle-Ward, K.B. Savidge and K.R. Rinker (2002). Final dissolved organic carbon broad community intercalibration and preliminary use of DOC reference materials. Marine Chemistry 77: 239-253. Rehder, G., P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer and G. Friederich (2002). Enhanced

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lifetime of methane bubble streams within the deep ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29(15) doi:10.1029/2001GL013966. Paull, C.K., P.G. Brewer, W. Ussler III, E.T. Peltzer, G. Rehder, and D. Clague (2002). An experiment demonstrating that marine slumping is a mechanism to transfer methane from seafloor gas-hydrate deposits into the upper ocean and atmosphere. Geo-Marine Lett. doi:10.1007/s00367-002-0113-y. Brewer, P.G., C. Paull, E.T. Peltzer, W. Ussler, G. Rehder and G. Friederich (2002). Measurement of the fate of gas hydrates during transit through the ocean water column. Geophys. Res. Lett. 29(22) doi:10.1029/2002GL014727. Brewer, P.G., E.T. Peltzer, G. Friederich and G. Rehder (2002). Experimental determination of the fate of rising CO2 droplets in sea water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36: 5441-5446. Kleinberg, R.L., P.G. Brewer, G. Malby, E.T. Peltzer III, G. Friederich, J. Yesinowski, C. Flaum (2003). Seafloor magnetic resonance assay of methane hydrate in sediment and rock. J. Geophys. Res. 108(B3): 2137. doi:10.1029/2001JB000919 Kleinberg, R.L., C. Flaum, D.D. Griffin, P.G. Brewer, G.E. Malby, E.T. Peltzer, J.P. Yesinowski (2003). Deep sea NMR: Methane hydrate growth habit in porous media and its relationship to hydraulic permeability, deposit accumulation, and submarine slope stability. J. Geophys. Res. 108(B10): 2508. doi:10.1029/2003JB002389. Rehder, G., S.H. Kirby, W.B. Durham, L.A. Stern, E.T. Peltzer, J. Pinkston, P.G. Brewer (2004). Dissolution rates of pure methane hydrate and carbon- dioxide hydrate in undersaturated seawater at 1000-m depth. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68: 285-292. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.001. Aya, I., R. Kojima, K. Yamane, K. Shiozaki, P.G. Brewer, E.T. Peltzer III (2004). In situ experiments of cold CO2 release in mid-depth. Energy 29: 1499-1509. doi:10.1016/j.energy.2004.03.055.

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Page 9 Brewer, P.G., G. Malby, J.D. Pasteris, S.N. White, E.T. Peltzer, B. Wopenka, J. Freeman, M.O. Brown (2004). Development of a laser Raman spectrometer for deep-ocean science. Deep-Sea Res. 51: 739-753. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2003.11.005. Sicre, M-A., E.T. Peltzer (2004). Lipid geochemistry of remote aerosols from the southwestern Pacific Ocean sector. Atmos. Environ. 38: 1615- 1624. doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2003.12.012. Peltzer, E.T., P.G. Brewer, N. Nakayama, P. Walz, I. Aya, R. Kojima, K. Yamane, Y. Nakajima, P. Haugan, J. Hove, T. Johannessen (2004). Initial results from a 4 km ocean CO2 release experiment. In: Preprints of Symposia, Division of Fuel Chemistry, American Chemical Society, 49(1): 429-430. Tsouris, C., P.G. Brewer, E. Peltzer, P. Walz., D. Riestenberg, L. Liang, O. West (2004). Hydrate composite particle for ocean carbon sequestration: Field verification. Environ. Sci. Tech. 38: 2470-2475. doi:10.1012/es034990a. Pasteris, J.D., B. Wopenka, J.J. Freeman, P.G. Brewer, S.N. White, E.T. Peltzer, G.E. Malby (2004). Raman Spectroscopy in the deep ocean: Successes and challenges. Appl. Spectro. 58(7): 195A-208A. Brewer, P.G., E. Peltzer, I. Aya, P. Haugan, R. Bellerby, K. Yamane, R. Kojima, P. Walz, Y. Nakajima (2004). Small scale field study of an ocean CO2 plume. J. Oceanogr. 60: 751-758. Barry, J.P., K.R. Buck, C.F. Lovera, L. Kuhnz, P.J. Whaling, E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, P.G. Brewer (2004). Effects of direct ocean CO2 injection on deep-sea meiofauna. J. Oceanogr. 60: 759-766. TECHNICAL REPORTS: Peltzer, E. T., J. B. Alford and R. B. Gagosian (1984). Sampling, separation and quantitative identification of lipids in remote marine aerosols. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-84-9.

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Tracy, Maren E., E. T. Peltzer, and C. Goyet (1994). Measuring xCO2 using the CAT/NDIR method: system set-up, calibration, maintenance and shutdown. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Technical Report, WHOI-94-01. Lantry, T., M. F. Lamb, J. C. Hendee, R. Wanninkhof, R. A. Feely, F. J. Millero, R. Byrne, E. T. Peltzer, D. Wilson and G. Berberian (1995). Chemical and Hydrographic Measurements from the Equatorial Pacific during Boreal Spring 1992. NOAA Data Report ERL AOML-27. Lamb, M. F., Lantry, T., J. Hendee, K. E. McTaggart, P. P. Murphy, R. A. Feely, R. Wanninkhof, F. J. Millero, R. Byrne, E. T. Peltzer, D. Frazel (1995). Chemical and Hydrographic Measurements from the Equatorial Pacific during Boreal Autumn 1992. NOAA Data Report ERL PMEL-56. Dickson, A., R. Bidigare, J. Hedges, K. Johnson, D. Leblanc, C. Lee, F. Millero, J. Moffet, W. Moore, E. Peltzer and S. van den Berg (2002). Chemical Reference Materials: Setting the Standards for Ocean Science. Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council Report. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. 130p. White, S.N., W.J. Kirkwood, A. Sherman, M. Brown, R. Henthorn, K.A. Salamy, E.T. Peltzer, P. Walz, and P.G. Brewer (2004). Laser Raman spectroscopic instrumentation for in situ geochemical analyses in the deep ocean. In: Proceedings of the Marine Technology Society / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Oceans Conference, Kobe, Japan, 95-100.