Rate My Professor Jay Cullen

Jay Cullen is the Director and Professor of Chemical Oceanography in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria. He earned a BSc from McGill University and a PhD from Rutgers University. Cullen joined the University of Victoria in 2003 and established a world-class marine geochemistry laboratory with nearly one million dollars in funding from NSERC, CFI, and other agencies. He leads the Cullen Lab, which investigates trace element and isotope biogeochemistry in natural waters, focusing on the chemical speciation and fate of trace elements, their bioavailability to marine microbes, and the effects of anthropogenic perturbations such as climate change, ocean acidification, sea ice melt, continental margin processes, and ocean deoxygenation on trace metal cycles. His research interests include chemical oceanography, marine biogeochemistry of trace metals, bio-inorganic chemistry, palaeoceanography and global change, stable isotope geochemistry, and development of novel techniques for trace metals. An international leader in the field, Cullen participates in research cruises across all oceans and collaborates with scientists worldwide.