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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. 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. 
Robinson W. ("Wally") Fulweiler
Associate Professor 
Department of Earth and Environment
Department of Biology
CV November 2020
"Beyond all things is the ocean." -Seneca
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