Dr. Pieter T. Visscher, Professor

Contact:

Director, Center for Integrative Geosciences
354 Mansfield Road U-2045
Storrs, CT 06269-2045

Marine Sciences:
Department of Marine Sciences
1080 Shennecossett Road
Groton, CT 06340

Phone (Storrs): 860-486-4434
Phone (Avery Point): (860) 405-9159
Fax (Storrs): 860-486-1383
Fax (Avery Point): (860) 405-9153

Email: pieter.visscher@uconn.edu

Education:

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Research Interests:

• Marine Organic Biogeochemistry
• Microbial Ecology of Coastal Sediments and Water Bodies

Recent Publications:

• Visscher, P.T., C.W. Culbertson and R.S. Oremland. 1994. Degradation of trifluoracetate in oxic and anoxic sediments. Nature (London) 369 : 729-731.
• Taylor, B.F. and P.T. Visscher. 1996. Metabolic pathways involved in DMSP degradation. In: R.P. Kiene, P.T. Visscher, M.D. Keller and G.O. Kirst (eds.). Biological and Environmental Chemistry of DMSP and Related Sulfonium Compounds . Plenum Press, NY. pp. 265-276.
• P.T. Visscher. 1996. Microbial turnover of volatile sulfur compounds. In: J.C. Murrell and D.P. Kelly (eds.). Microbiology of Atmospheric Trace Gases: Sources, Sinks and Global Change Processes . Springer-Verlag, Berlin. pp. 227-242.