- Capacity: Member
- Country: Brazil
Resumé
Vanessa Hatje’s research focuses on the biogeochemical cycling of trace metals and carbon and how both natural and anthropogenic processes influence these elements. Her research group develops new analytical techniques to detect trace metals, including rare earth elements and organic contaminants in marine matrices. She and her students apply these novel and pre-existing methods to understand better the factors affecting trace contaminants cycling, transfers at continent-ocean interfaces, and interactions with biotic and abiotic components in coastal ecosystems. Her most recently funded projects include studying technology-critical elements (REE) in tropical marine environments, REE and Nd isotopes in Antarctica, and Blue C dynamics in mangrove and seagrasses.
Between 2014 and 2020, she was a member of the scientific committee of the International GEOTRACES Program. Since 2019 she is also a member of the IAEA Standing Advisory Group on Nuclear Applications (SAGNA). She is currently Chair of GESAMP working group WG 45 on Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Related Impacts on Contaminants in the Ocean. She serves as an associate editor for the journal Limnology & Oceanography.
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