Edward A. Boyle

Edward A. Boyle is an American professor of marine geochemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Center for Global Change Studies. Boyle’s research is primarily focused on the relationship between climate change and oceanic chemistry. Boyle was made a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

Education Edward A. Boyle attended the University of California, San Diego, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with highest honors in 1971. Boyle then attended the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution(WHOI) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through a joint program, earning a Ph.D. in oceanography in 1976. Boyle is currently a professor at MIT’s Center for Global Change Studies where he researches anthropogenic emissions and oceanic chemistry. Patterson Medal from the Geochemical Society, and the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences from the Bedford Institute of Oceanography