Distinguished Professor
Jon and Beverley Thompson Endowed Chair (2013-2025)
Contact Information: Email / Website
Office: NEW ADDRESS
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (EOS),
Ocean Process Analysis Lab (OPAL),
University of New Hampshire
Morse Hall, Room 151 (office)
Durham, NH 03824 USA
Phone: (603) 862-3960
Education: Ph.D. Marine Sciences/Biogeochemistry, University of Maryland, 1987
Areas of Interest/Research:
- Carbon Cycling
- Chemical Biomarkers
- Biogeochemistry
Dr. Bianchi’s research is aimed at understanding organic matter cycling in rivers, estuaries, and the global ocean. Over the past few decades, his research team has utilized chemical biomarker techniques, along with multiple other lines of molecular evidence, based in microbial ecology, organic geochemistry and isotope geochemistry, to investigate challenging questions pertaining to carbon cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In particular, his group has explored how the age, composition, and sources of OM, delivered to the coastal ocean, is changing with global warming, and how that is impacting organic carbon burial and sequestration.
