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Roy Price

Roy Price is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bremen, MARUM Research Center Ocean Margins. The position began May 2008 and will last for 2-3 years. MARUM is the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences of the University of Bremen, and is one of the leading oceanography and marine science research centers in the world. Roy's research focus while at MARUM is "Metalloid abundance and speciation in vent fluid, bottom water, and sediment pore water from the shallow hydrothermal system of Santorini, Greece", and is a multidisciplinary project which will combine advanced geochemical and microbiological techniques in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, also in Bremen. Click on these links to learn more about the MARUM, Max Planck Institute, and Roy's research. Roy Price began his geology career at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, completing his B.S. in geology in the summer of 1999. Roy came to Florida in the fall of 2000, and began his M.S. in geochemistry at USF in spring 2001. The title of his M.S. is "Abundance and mineralogical associations of naturally occurring arsenic in the upper Floridan aquifer, Suwannee Limestone." During his M.S., Roy taught several laboratory classes including Essentials of Geology, the Earth's Surface (Geomorphology), and Fluid Earth, and completed his M.S. in summer 2003. Roy's Ph.D. began in Fall 2003, and focused on investigating the biogeochemical cycling of arsenic in the marine shallow-water hydrothermal system of Tutum Bay, Ambitle Island, Papua New Guinea. This research is being continued and expanded at the MARUM, with a focus on the marine shallow-water hydrothermal springs in the Aegean and Tyrannian Seas. Roy taught Introduction to Geology lecture during the last semester of his Ph.D.