Adina Paytan

Adina Paytan is a research professor at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[1] known for research into biogeochemical cycling in the present and the past. She has over 270 scientific publications in journals such as Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Geophysical Research Letters.[2]

Career

Paytan is both an interdisciplinary scientist and an advocate for STEM education and public outreach. As a scientist, Paytan uses isotopic and chemical signatures to examine global biogeochemical cycling. This includes studies of groundwater discharge into coastal systems, nutrient cycling, ocean acidification, and paleoceanography.[3] This research includes high resolution measurements of carbon and sulfur isotopes[4] to characterize changes in the marine and atmospheric carbon cycle,[5] using strontium isotopes within barite[6] to infer changes in the global carbon cycle over geologic time,[7][8] and modern investigations of groundwater discharge as a source of nutrients to the coastal ocean[9] and coral reefs.[10]

Paytan also deliberately works on STEM education and public outreach, and obtained an M.S. in Science Education from the Weizmann Institute in 1987.[11] Paytan served as a mentor for the Centers for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence (COSEE) where she advocated for the role of universities in conducting public outreach.[12] Paytan started the GeoKids program at Stanford in order to educate elementary school children about science.[13] Paytan also mentors masters and Ph.D. students in her lab.[14]

Early life and education

Paytan was born and raised in Israel. As an undergraduate, Paytan encountered geochemistry which she likens to a big complex puzzle.[11] Paytan obtained undergraduate degrees in geology and biology (1985) and an M.S. in Earth Sciences Oceanography (1989) from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[15] Paytan's Ph.D. is from Scripps Institution of Oceanography (1996) where she worked with Miriam Kastner[16] on using barite as a recorder of ocean chemistry. After postdoctoral work at University of California, San Diego she moved to the Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences at Stanford, and then onto a position at University of California, Santa Cruz.[11]

Awards

References
  1. "Brine discharge from desalination plants - Impacts on coastal ecology and communities". desalinationucsc.weebly.com/team. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  2. "Ocean scientist Adina Paytan to receive inaugural Dansgaard Award". UC Santa Cruz. Retrieved 2015-10-09.
  3. "Three UCSC scientists elected fellows of the American Geophysical Union". UC Santa Cruz. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  4. Paytan, Adina; Arrigo, Kevin R. (2000-06-01). "The Sulfur-Isotopic Composition of Cenozoic Seawater Sulfate: Implications for Pyrite Burial and Atmospheric Oxygen". International Geology Review. 42 (6): 491–498. Bibcode:2000IGRv...42..491P. doi:10.1080/00206810009465094. ISSN 0020-6814. S2CID 140648067.
  5. Kurtz, A. C.; Kump, L. R.; Arthur, M. A.; Zachos, J. C.; Paytan, A. (2003). "Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles". Paleoceanography. 18 (4): n/a. Bibcode:2003PalOc..18.1090K. doi:10.1029/2003PA000908. ISSN 1944-9186.
  6. Paytan, A.; Kastner, M.; Martin, E. E.; Macdougall, J. D.; Herbert, T. (December 1993). "Marine barite as a monitor of seawater strontium isotope composition". Nature. 366 (6454): 445–449. Bibcode:1993Natur.366..445P. doi:10.1038/366445a0. ISSN 0028-0836. S2CID 4238837.
  7. Paytan, Adina; Griffith, Elizabeth M.; Eisenhauer, Anton; Hain, Mathis P.; Wallmann, Klaus; Ridgwell, Andrew (2021-03-26). "A 35-million-year record of seawater stable Sr isotopes reveals a fluctuating global carbon cycle". Science. 371 (6536): 1346–1350. Bibcode:2021Sci...371.1346P. doi:10.1126/science.aaz9266. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 33766882. S2CID 232357666.
  8. Paytan, Adina; Griffith, Elizabeth M. (2007-03-01). "Marine barite: Recorder of variations in ocean export productivity". Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54 (5–7): 687–705. Bibcode:2007DSRII..54..687P. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.01.007. ISSN 0967-0645.
  9. Knee, Karen L.; Street, Joseph H.; Grossman>, Eric E.; Boehm, Alexandria B.; Paytan, Adina (2010). "Nutrient inputs to the coastal ocean from submarine groundwater discharge in a groundwater-dominated system: Relation to land use (Kona coast, Hawaii, U.S.A.)". Limnology and Oceanography. 55 (3): 1105–1122. Bibcode:2010LimOc..55.1105K. doi:10.4319/lo.2010.55.3.1105. ISSN 1939-5590.
  10. Paytan, Adina; Shellenbarger, Gregory G.; Street, Joseph H.; Gonneea, Meagan E.; Davis, Kristen; Young, Megan B.; Moore, Willard S. (2006). "Submarine groundwater discharge: An important source of new inorganic nitrogen to coral reef ecosystems". Limnology and Oceanography. 51 (1): 343–348. Bibcode:2006LimOc..51..343P. doi:10.4319/lo.2006.51.1.0343. ISSN 1939-5590.
  11. "Six questions to Adina Paytan". EAG Blog. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  12. "COSEE Scientists Making an Impact". www.cosee.net. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  13. Trei, Lisa (2007-01-17). "School of Earth Sciences outreach program puts children in geologists' shoes". Stanford University. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  14. "Lab Alumni | Paytan Biogeochemistry Lab". paytanlab.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  15. "Adina Paytan | Paytan Biogeochemistry Lab". paytanlab.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  16. "Oceanography Tree - Miriam Kastner". academictree.org. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  17. "Adina Paytan". Fulbright Portugal. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  18. "Laureates". www.huntsmanaward.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  19. "Union Fellows | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  20. "ASLO Fellows". ASLO. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  21. "Awards - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology". connect.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  22. "Geochemistry Fellows | Geochemical Society". www.geochemsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-01.
  23. "Rachel Carson Lecture | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  24. "Petersen Award for Prof. Dr. Adina Paytan". www.geomar.de (in English and German). Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  25. "Ocean Sciences Early Career Award | AGU". www.agu.org. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
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