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    Christopher M. Reddy

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    Christopher Michael Reddy
    Born1969
    Alma materRhode Island College, University of Rhode Island
    AwardsJames T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public (2024), Gold Winner Nonfiction Book Award (2024), Charles B. Willard Professional Achievement Award (2023), ACS Environmental Au Best Paper Award 2021–2022 (2022), AGU Ambassador Award (2018), AGU Geochemical Fellow (2018), Appointment to WHOI Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography (2016), C. C. Patterson Award (2014), GS/ EAG Geochemistry Fellow (2014), ACS R. A. Glenn Award (2013), URI Dean's Award (2011), Marine Pollution Bulletin Best Paper (2011), Kavli Fellow (2009, 2010, 2011), John B. Philips Award (2007), Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow (2006), Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2002)
    Scientific career
    Fieldsmarine pollution, marine natural products, petroleum geochemistry, and how scientists interact beyond their peer group
    InstitutionsWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
    Thesis Studies on the fates of organic contaminants in aquatic environments  (1997)
    Websitehttps://christopherreddy.com

    Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry [1] of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and faculty member of the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering.[2]

    Reddy's research spans the source, fate, and transport of combustion-derived materials, PCBs, and DDT to the environmental chemistry of oil spills, biofuels, plastics, nanoparticles, as well as development of environmentally friendly products. Considered a leading scientist on oil spills, he conducted an in-depth and long-term investigation into the flow rate, type, dispersion patterns, and fate of the oil that escaped into the ocean as a result of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. He is a prolific author and holds eleven U.S. patents.

    Reddy has testified before the US Congress five times, written more than 20 opinion pieces, and given hundreds of interviews for print, radio, and television. Using clips from the original Star Trek television series, he gave a TEDx talk on the role of science in a crisis.[3] A newly discovered microbe that can aid in the breakdown of hydrocarbons was named in his honor.

    Education

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    After attending public schools in Rhode Island, Reddy earned a BS in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Rhode Island College, graduating in 1992. While there, he was named the American Chemical Society's Outstanding Undergraduate Student in 1991. In 1997, he was awarded a PhD in chemical oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. While a graduate student, he was named the American Chemical Society's Outstanding Graduate Student in Environmental Chemistry.

    Reddy also has an executive education certificate in management and leadership from MIT's Sloan School of Business (2010) and leadership training from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government (2008).

    Career Highlights

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    After receiving his BS in 1992, Reddy worked as a chemist for ULTRA Scientific in North Kingstown, RI, and then as an environmental chemist for CEIMIC Corporation located in Narragansett, RI from 1993 through 1994. While earning his PhD at the URI, he worked as a research graduate assistant in chemical oceanography.

    Reddy began his employment with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry in 1997 after earning his PhD and has remained there since, as a post-doctoral scholar and investigator (1997–2000), assistant scientist (2000–2004), associate scientist (2004–2006), associate scientist with tenure (2006–2010), and senior scientist (2010–present). Also at WHOI, he was manager of the WHOI Small Boats Fleet from 2008–2014 and director of Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI, from 2008–2015.

    During his time with WHOI, Reddy was also a visiting scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, in 2003 and a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology's Division of Geologic and Planetary Sciences located in Pasadena, CA in 2005.

    Oil spills have been a particular interest of Reddy's. When he first came to WHOI, he and his team began an investigation into the aftereffects of an oil spill consisting of 189,000 gallons of oil that had occurred on the coast of Cape Cod in 1969. They identified chemical and biological effects of the spill that had persisted even after 30 years.[4]

    Awards and honors

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    • 2024 - The American Chemical Society's James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public.[5]
    • 2024 - Gold Winner Nonfiction Book Award[6] by the Nonfiction Authors Association for Reddy's book Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide.[7]
    • 2023 - The Rhode Island College Charles B. Willard Professional Achievement Award to a graduate who has brought honor to the college by distinguished achievement in their field.[8]
    • 2023 - The naming of a newly discovered marine microbe capable of degrading branched alkanes (acyclic saturated hydrocarbons) Candidatus Reddybacter in Reddy's honor.[9]
    • 2022 - The ACS Environmental Au Best Paper Award 2021–2022[10] for a paper[11] on the environmental effects of the spill of more than 70 billion nurdles, i.e., plastic pellets, off the coast of Sri Lanka when the cargo ship M/V X-Press Pearl caught fire there in May 2021.
    • 2018 - The American Geophysical Union's Ambassador Award because Reddy "embodies the concept of a scientific ambassador through his tireless efforts to represent, promote, and translate science to a diverse range of groups outside the ivory tower."[12][13]
    • 2016 - Appointment to WHOI's Stanley W. Watson Chair for Excellence in Oceanography.[14]
    • 2014 - The Geochemical Society's prestigious Clair C. Patterson Award for Reddy's work on the effects of oil spills on the ocean. Named for geochemist Clair Cameron Patterson, this annual award recognizes the contributions of a scientist who has made "an innovative breakthrough in environmental geochemistry of fundamental significance within the last decade, particularly in service to society. To be viewed as innovative, the work must show a high degree of creativity and/or be a fundamental departure from usual practice while contributing significantly to understanding in environmental geochemistry."[15]
    • 2013 - The R. A. Glenn Award for the most innovative and interesting technical paper[16] presented in ACS Energy and Fuels Division symposia at the 2013 ACS National Meeting.[17]
    • 2011 - The University of Rhode Island Dean's Award to honor alumni who "personify URI’s tradition of excellence in achievement, leadership, and service."[18]
    • 2011 - Marine Pollution Bulletin Best Paper[19] published in the journal in 2011.[20]
    • 2007 - The John B. Philips Award[21] (International GCxGC Symposium) to the inventor of an application[22] of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) viewed to have the most potential impact on the technique's future.
    • 2003 - Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program Award[23] for research in use of comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography to enhance assessment and management of hydrocarbons in the ocean.

    Fellowships

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    • 2018 - Geochemical Fellow, American Geophysical Union (AGU).[24]
    • 2014 - Geochemistry Fellow, the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry, who confer this highly prestigious, honorary title on "outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry."[25]
    • 2009, 2010,[26] 2011[27] - Kavli Fellow, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences premiere recognition of distinguished young scientists, i.e., those 45 years of age or under.
    • 2006 - Leadership Fellow, the Aldo Leopold Foundation (now the Earth Leadership Program).[28]

    Research Areas

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    Oil Spills

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    Reddy is one of the leading oil spill scientists in the world. His work has had far-ranging and paradigm-shifting impacts on responding to spills, monitoring the recovery (or lack thereof) of impacted areas, assessing damage, and identifying the type and source of spilled oil. Reddy was one of the first chemists involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and spent the following ~10 years investigating it. Specifically, he was involved in mapping the surface plumes,[29] characterizing the oil and gas emitted from the seafloor,[30] estimating the flow rate of oil streaming from the damaged well,[31] modeling the fate of oil and gases in the ocean and atmosphere,[32] monitoring the breakdown of the oil,[33] and gauging the efficacy of dispersants.[34] To honor Reddy’s contributions to the study of oil spills, a newly discovered marine microbe capable of degrading branched alkanes was named Candidatus Reddybacter in his honor.

    Publications

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    A prolific author, Reddy currently has almost 500 publications to his name. As shown by his current h-index of 77 and i-10 index of 215 show, his publications are highly cited.[35] Reddy's ResearchGate interest score, which is currently 10,257 with over 82% consisting of citations, is higher than those of 99% of ResearchGate members.[36]

    Reddy has authored one book, Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide,[7] which draws on his years of responding to environmental crises and communicating actionable information to peers, journalists, regulators, and the public. John E. Riutta, author of The Well-Read Naturalist, describes the book as "a collection of analyses and recommendations for those ... faced with presenting important scientific information to audiences both large and small during times of profound uncertainty" and terms it "very timely" given "the many destructive environmental and medical crises" that have occurred over recent decades.[37]

    References

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    3. ^ "Communicating Science Through Star Trek". youtube.com. 18 November 2011.
    4. ^ Reddy, Christopher M.; Eglinton, Timothy I.; Hounshell, Aubrey; White, Helen K.; Xu, Li; Gaines, Richard B.; Frysinger, Glenn S. (27 September 2002). "The West Falmouth Oil Spill after Thirty Years:  The Persistence of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Marsh Sediments". Environmental Science & Technology. 36 (22): 4754–60. doi:10.1021/es020656n.
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    9. ^ Arrington, Eleanor C.; Tarn, Jonathan; Kittner, Hailie E.; Kivenson, Veronika; Liu, Rachel M. (December 2023). "Methylated cycloalkanes fuel a novel genus in the Porticoccaceae family (Ca. Reddybacter gen. nov)". Environmental Microbiology. 25 (12): 2958–2971. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.16474. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
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    11. ^ de Vos, Asha; Aluwihare, Lihini; Youngs, Sarah; DiBenedetto, Michelle H.; Ward, Collin P.; Michel, Anna P. M.; Colson, Beckett C.; Mazzotta, Michael G.; Walsh, Anna N.; Nelson, Robert K.; Reddy, Christopher M.; James, Bryan D. (November 29, 2021). "The M/V X-Press Pearl Nurdle Spill: Contamination of Burnt Plastic and Unburnt Nurdles along Sri Lanka's Beaches". ACS Environmental Au. 2 (2): 128–135. doi:10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00031.
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    13. ^ "Jobbágy, Lopes, and Reddy Receive 2018 Ambassador Awards". eog.org. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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    16. ^ Timko, Michael; Schmois, Ezequial; Patwardhan, Pushkaraj; Kida, Yulko; Class, Caleb; Green, William; Nelson, Robert; Reddy, Christopher (April 10–11, 2013). Sulfur Group Type Response to an Oxidative Desulfurization Treatment. 245th National Meeting. New Orleans, LA. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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    19. ^ Morét-Ferguson, Skye; Law, Kara Lavender; Proskurowski, Giora; Murphy, Ellen K.; Peacock, Emily E.; Reddy, Christopher M. (October 2010). "The size, mass, and composition of plastic debris in the western North Atlantic Ocean". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 60 (10): 1873–1878. Bibcode:2010MarPB..60.1873M. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.07.020. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
    20. ^ Richardson, Bruce J. (April 2012). "Marine Pollution Bulletin 3rd annual "best paper" award, 2011". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 64 (4): 669–670. Bibcode:2012MarPB..64..669R. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.02.020. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
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    22. ^ Arey, J. Samuel; Nelson, Robert K.; Xu, Li; Reddy, Christopher M. (2005). "Using Comprehensive Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Retention Indices To Estimate Environmental Partitioning Properties for a Complete Set of Diesel Fuel Hydrocarbons". Analytical Chemistry. 77 (22): 7172–7182. doi:10.1021/ac051051n.
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    29. ^ Camilli, Richard; Reddy, Christopher M.; Yoerger, Dana R.; Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S.; Jakuba, Michael V.; Kinsey, James C.; McIntyre, Cameron P.; Sylva, Sean P.; Maloney, James V. (19 August 2010). "Tracking hydrocarbon plume transport and biodegradation of Deepwater Horizon". Science. 330 (6001): 201–204. doi:10.1126/science.1195223.
    30. ^ Reddy, Christopher M.; Arey, J. Samuel; Seewald, Jeffrey S.; Silva, Sean P.; Lemkau, Karin L.; Nelson, Robert K.; Carmichael, Catherine A.; McIntyre, Cameron P.; Fenwick, Judith; Ventura, G. Todd; Van Mooy, Benjamin A. S.; Camilli, Richard (11 December 2012). "Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (50): 20229–20234. doi:10.1073/pnas.1101242108. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
    31. ^ Camilli, Richard; Di Iorio, Daniela; Bowen, A.; Reddy, Christopher M.; Techet, Alexandra; Yoerger, Dana; Whitcomb, Louis L.; Seewald, Jeffrey S.; Silva, Sean; Fenwick, Judith (11 December 2012). "Acoustic measurement of the Deepwater Horizon Macond well flow rate". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (50): 20235–20239. doi:10.1073/pnas.1100385108. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
    32. ^ Ryerson, Thomas B.; Camilli, Richard; Kessler, John D.; Kujawinski, Elizabeth B.; Reddy, Christopher M.; Valentine, David L.; Atlas, Elliot; Blake, Donald R.; de Gouw, Joost; Meinardi, Simone; Parrish, David D.; Peischl, Jeff; Seewald, Jeffrey S.; Warneke, Carsten (11 December 2012). "Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (50): 20246–20253. doi:10.1073/pnas.1110564109. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
    33. ^ Ward, Collin P.; Sharpless, Charles M.; Valentine, David L.; French-McCay, Deborah P.; Aeppli, Christoph; White, Helen K.; Rodgers, Ryan P.; Gosselin, Kelsey M.; Nelson, Robert K.; Reddy, Christopher M. (24 January 2018). "Partial photochemical oxidation was a dominant fate of Deepwater Horizon surface oil. Environmental Science and Technology". Environmental Science and Technology. 52 (4): 1797–1805. doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b05948. PMID 29363968. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
    34. ^ Gros, Jonas; Socolofsky, Scott A.; Dissanayake, Anusha L.; Jun, Inok; Zhao, Lin; Boufadel, Michel C.; Reddy, Christopher M.; Arey, J. Samuel (19 September 2017). "Petroleum dynamics in the sea and influence of subsea dispersant injection during Deepwater Horizon". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (38): 10065–10070. doi:10.1073/pnas.1612518114. PMID 28847967. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
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