Aquatic Organic Geochemistry

Rick had the pleasure of meeting up with Dr. Dan Donato, class of 1997 and former AOG member, for dinner and beers.  Dan is transitioning from his PhD at Oregon State University to a new postdoctoral appointment with the US Forest Service.  You may remember Dan from such amazing AOG events as the FirstFriday debacle of November 1994 or the infamous trip to the sugarcane fields of Brasil in 1995, but he is perhaps best known as the lead author of the Biscuit Fire Paper of 2006 where he (gasp!) used science to refute a Bush administration policy.  There is even a wiki page about the Biscuit Fire Publication Controversy.   We stand beside Dan and wish him the best of luck has he travels the rim of fire quantifying carbon storage in tropical mangrove systems.  Rick asked if his former helper needed a helper, but it looks as if Rick is staying put in cold and soggy Seattle for a while longer…