Caroline P. Slomp

Research Slomp is known for her work on how elements cycle through marine environments, especially how both modern and ancient environments respond to environmental changes. The majority of her research is on marine environments with low oxygen concentrations. Slomp's early research examined phosphorus in marine sediments. Her subsequent research considered how submarine groundwater discharge bring nutrients to the coastal ocean and the accumulation of phosphorus in marine sapropels. In coastal sediments she has examined the oxidation of methane and how bacterial cells control the interactions between iron and phosphorus. Her work with bacteria in marine sediments has led to work on how to use bacteria to generate power from wastewater.

Awards and honors In 2015 the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund elected Slomp a lifetime fellow. In 2018 she was named the Paul Gast lecturer by the Geochemical Society and European Association for Geochemistry, and in 2020 they elected Slomp as fellow. Slomp was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024.

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