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ORCID :
0000-0002-1004-5048
Job Type
Teaching/Education
Research
Activities
Dr. Claudia
Benitez-Nelson is the Senior Associate Dean and a Carolina Distinguished
Professor in the McCausland College of Arts & Sciences at the University of
South Carolina. Her research focuses on nutrient, carbon, and contaminant
biogeochemistry, sinking particle fluxes, and the use of naturally occurring radionuclides to understand coastal and open-ocean processes. Over
the past two decades, Dr. Benitez-Nelson has authored or co-authored more than
150 peer-reviewed articles, including lead-author publications in Science and Nature, and has been
continuously supported by substantial, multi-year research and education
grants. She is a fellow of the AAAS, the Association for the Sciences of
Limnology and Oceanography, and the Oceanography Society. She is the current
Chair of the Ocean Studies Board of the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and serves on the
Whitehouse Ocean Research Advisory Panel. Highly regarded as a teacher and
mentor, Dr. Benitez-Nelson received the University of South Carolina’s
Distinguished Professor of the Year Award, SEC Faculty Achievement Award, and
Outstanding Faculty Advisor of the Year as well as the American Geophysical
Union’s Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring and the
Oceanography Society’s Mentoring Award for Excellence and/or Innovation in
Mentoring the Next Generation of Ocean Scientists. Dr. Benitez-Nelson earned B.S. degrees in chemistry and oceanography from
the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program.
Sea regions of study
North Atlantic Ocean
North Pacific Ocean
Southern Ocean
