Discover how microbes in deep water create methane hydrates by degrading organic carbon, a crucial natural process with significant environmental implications.
Alberto Malinverno
Alberto Malinverno received a degree in geology from the University of Milano, Italy, in 1981 and a Ph.D. in geology from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) of Columbia University, New York, in 1989. After graduating, he spent three years at LDEO as a postdoctoral scientist and research scientist, participating in a total of twelve marine geology and geophysics expeditions. In 1992, Alberto joined the Schlumberger-Doll Research Center in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he worked on quantifying uncertainties in the inversion of borehole measurements. He returned to Lamont in 2005 as a principal research scientist at the LDEO Borehole Research Group. As a logging scientist, he participated in five scientific drilling expeditions on the U.S. drilling vessel JOIDES Resolution (North Cascadia margin, Bay of Bengal, Equatorial Pacific, and twice on the Costa Rica Pacific margin). Alberto is now a Lamont Research Professor and an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, where he teaches "Quantitative Methods of Data Analysis" (EESC G6908). See also his career profile interview published in the September 2010 issue of Oceanography.