Curriculum Vitae
Patrick A. Rafter
Princeton University Geosciences
Guyot Hall 112
Princeton, NJ 08544
e: prafter (at sign) princeton.edu
EDUCATION:
2009
Ph.D. Oceanography: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, USA
Dissertation title: Tropical Pacific nutrient dynamics of the modern and Pleistocene ocean: insights from the nitrogen isotope system
2000
B.S. Environmental Science: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
2000
B.S. Marine Environmental Studies: Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2008
Teaching Assistant for Chris Charles, ESYS 10: Introduction to Environmental Systems, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2007
Teaching Assistant for Lihini Aluwihare, SIO101: California Coastal Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2007
Teaching Assistant for Chris Charles, ESYS 10: Introduction to Environmental Systems, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2007
Teaching Assistant for Lynne Talley, ESYS 10: Introduction to Environmental Systems, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2005
Teaching Assistant for Gabi Laske, ERTH/SIO 10: Natural Disasters, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2004
Teaching Assistant for Gabi Laske, ERTH/SIO 10: The Earth, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
2003
Teaching Assistant for Sam Iacobellis, EARTH/SIO 20: The Atmosphere, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
HONORS AND AWARDS:
2006-2007
Ocean Drilling Program—Joint Oceanographic Institutions Schlanger Fellowship
2005/2003
SIO Whole Earth Society—Graduate Student Research Grant
2004
California Space Institute – Graduate Student Fellowship
2000
EPA – National Network of Environmental Management Studies Fellow
2000
Florida Institute of Technology – Outstanding Senior in Environmental Science
UNIVERSITY SERVICE:
2005-Present
SIO Faculty Committee on Planning and Budget (Student Representative)
2007
SIO Climate/Geological Research Division Faculty Search Committee (Lead Student Representative)
2003-2005
Co-organizer: New Topics in Paleoclimatology Seminar
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2010
CICESE (Center of Science and Higher Education, Ensenada, Mexico): Invited Speaker–A 1.2Ma record of eastern equatorial Pacific thermocline depth from sediment nitrogen isotopes (April 2010)
2010
Ocean Sciences Conference (Talk): A Survey of the Tropical Pacific Nitrogen Isotopic Composition of Nitrate–New Measurements Show Surprising Isotopic Highs and Lows
2009
UCLA: Invited Speaker—New insight to tropical Pacific circulation using isotopic tracers (January 2009)
2008
AGU Fall Conference—Tropical Pacific nutrient dynamics from the Late Quaternary to the modern ocean
2008
USC: Invited Speaker—Tropical Pacific nutrient dynamics of the past 1 Ma
2008
Science Party: Multi-coring, box-coring, seawater sampling in the Santa Barbara Basin. 5 days on the RV Sproul.
2007
Science Party: Gravity-coring, dredge recovery, seawater sampling in the Arabian Sea. 21 days on the RV Roger Revelle.
2007
Science Party: Lacustrine freeze-coring on Swamp Lake, Yosemite National Park. 4 days remote field work.
2006
Ocean Sciences Conference (Talk)—Tropical pacific nutrient dynamics of the past 140kyr.
2005
Science Party: CTD technician, seawater sampling in the eastern tropical Pacific. 40 days on the RV Ka’imimoana.
2002
Science Party: Sediment pore-water and seawater preparation. 8 days on the RV Atlantis.
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:
Rafter, P.A., C.D. Charles, and D.M. Sigman, Subsurface tropical Pacific nitrogen isotope measurements of nitrate: a tracer for denitrification, N2 fixation, and subsurface circulation, in prep. Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2010).
Rafter, P.A. and C.D. Charles, Tropical Pacific nutrient dynamics of the mid- to late-Pleistocene: insights from the nitrogen isotope system, in prep. Paleoceanography (2010).