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I earned my MS (2003) and my Ph.D. (2007) in Oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. I conducted my postdoctoral research at Louisiana State University and started my own lab at Boston University in 2008. I was awarded tenure in the Department of Earth and Environment and the Department of Biology in 2014, and promoted to Professor in the spring of 2021. I was the Director of the BU Marine Program from 2016-2019. I was awarded a Sloan Fellowship in 2012, the Cronin award from the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation in 2013, and the Metcalf Cup and Prize in 2019 - BU's highest teaching and mentoring award.
I am ecosystems ecologist and biogeochemist, whose research is focused on answering fundamental questions about energy flow and biogeochemical cycling of nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus, and silica), carbon, and oxygen in a variety of environments. I am especially interested in how anthropogenic changes affect the ecology and elemental cycling of ecosystems on a variety of scales (i.e., local nutrient loading; regional/global climate change). Current research is centered on the transformations of elements across the land-ocean continuum, the ultimate fate of nitrogen in the marine environment, the impact of climate change on benthic-pelagic coupling, and the role of coastal systems in greenhouse gas budgets. |
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Robinson W. ("Wally") Fulweiler
Professor
Department of Earth and Environment
Department of Biology
Professor
Department of Earth and Environment
Department of Biology