Richard Wilke

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Environmental and Climate Sciences Department
Bldg. 815, Room 1-10
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3932
wilke@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Publications

Expertise

• Perflourocarbon tracers
• Anthropogenic tracers
• Estuarine geochemistry

Research Activities

• Over 400 days at sea involved in various oceanographic research programs. Responsible for all aspects of field oceanographic studies - sampling scheme, sampling, sample analysis, post-analysis data processing, instrument design and operation, computer maintenance and operation
• Experience with gas chromatography, coulometry, HPLC, spectrophotometry
• Building manager, Work control coordinator, 90-day site manager for over 5 years

Education

• State University of New York at Stony Brook, M.S., Marine Environmental Sciences
• Florida Institute of Technology, B.S., Chemical Oceanography

Selected Publications

• Watson TB, Wilke R, Dietz RN, Heiser J, Kalb P (2007) The Atmospheric Background of Perfluorocarbon Compounds Used as Tracers. Environmental Science & Technology 41:6909–6913. doi: 10.1021/es070940k
• Newman GC, Hospod FE, Patlak CS, Trowbridge SD, Wilke RJ, Fuhrmann M, Jones KW (2002) Calcium Compartments in Brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 22:479–489. doi: 10.1097/00004647-200204000-00012