Dr. Ann Pearson

PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences
Murray and Martha Ross Professor of Environmental Sciences
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Geo Museum 36220 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 384-8392

Ann Pearson's research focuses on applications of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen isotope geochemistry and molecular biology to biogeochemistry, oceanography, and Earth history.  Through study of the “how, when, and why” of microbial processes, her work yields insight about environmental conditions on Earth today, in the past, and about potential human impacts on our future.  Recent projects have focused on the carbon and nitrogen cycles, on pathways of lipid biosynthesis, and on the marine Archaea.  She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Oceanography from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography.

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Her email address is pearson at eps dot harvard dot edu.