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H. Rodger Harvey

H. Rodger Harvey


Professor & Interim Chair
Ocean & Earth Sciences

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  • Expertise

    Chemical Oceanography
    marine organic geochemistry, organic contaminants, climate change
  • Research Interests

    Organic Geochemistry and Biogeochemistry. The sources, transformation and fate of natural and anthropogenic organic compounds in aquatic environments and their linkages with climate. Natural product and organic contaminant chemistry.
  • 2017: Arctic Chair, Fulbright Distinguished Scholar program
  • 2009: Regent’s Faculty Award for Research, Scholarship and Creativity Activity, University System of Maryland
  • Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Harvey, R. H. "REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Program for Climate Change Science in Metropolitan Coastal Communities at Old Dominion University. " $356,321. Federal. March 1, 2017 - February 28, 2020
    Harvey, R. H. "Collaborative Research: Proteins As Functional Biomarkers: Integrating Organic Characterization With Proteomics To Track Routes For Carbon And Nitrogen Recycling And Preservation" $392,051. Federal. October 1, 2016 - September 30, 2019
    Harvey, R. H.; Filippino, K. C. "REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Program at ODU for Study of MET" $117,967. Federal. April 1, 2017 - April 1, 2018
    Harvey, R. H. "TO 4- Biophysical And Chemical Observations" $68,090. Foreign. May 1, 2015 - April 1, 2018
    Harvey, R. H. "Chukchi Sea Offshore Monitoring and Drilling area (COMIDA): The Hanna Shoal Ecosystem Study." $5,100,000. Federal. September, 2011 - September, 2017
    Harvey, R. H. "Collaborative Research: Global Ocean Repeat Hydrography, Carbon, And Tracer Measurements, 2015-2020" $3,890. Higher Education. December 15, 2016 - June 30, 2017
    Harvey, R. H. "Collaborative Research: Linking geochemistry and proteomics to reveal the impact of bacteria on protein cycling in the ocean. " $349,000. October, 2012 - September, 2016
    Harvey, R. H. "Major Research Instrumentation: Acquisition of a Hybrid Mass Spectrometry System for the Next Generation of Multidisciplinary Geosciences Research, Student Education and Training." $509,000. October, 2012 - September, 2015
    Harvey, R. H. "Development of Biochemical Measures of Age in the Alaskan Red King Crab: Validation, Refinement and Initial Assessment" $26,000. September, 2012 - August, 2015

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