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Thomas S. Bianchi is an oceanographer and biogeochemist. He is currently the Jon and Beverly Thompson Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida and Editor-in-chief of the journal Marine Chemistry.

Early life and education
Bianchi was born in 1956 in Richmond Hill, New York, and moved to Holbrook in eastern Long Island where he stayed through his early college years. As a child he was very interested in basketball, largely influenced by his uncle, Al Bianchi, who was a professional basketball player. Bianchi has played drums through much of his life, and became interested in oceanography very early on. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1987.

Research and career
Bianchi has been a professor at the University of Florida since 2013. Before joining UF he held full professor positions at Tulane University and Texas A&M University.

As an aquatic biogeochemist, Bianchi's primary strengths and expertise are in the biogeochemistry and processing of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in coastal, oceanic, estuarine, and riverine environments. His formal research training was in both ecosystem ecology and geochemistry; this has led to active and on-going research projects that are highly interdisciplinary, at and across interfaces between different aquatic systems. Much of Bianchi's current work focuses on the carbon sequestration, sources, and burial of organic carbon and its major component associated elements (N and P) along a continuum from land to coastal ocean and between the coastal and open oceans.

Awards and recognition
Bianchi was recognized as a 2019 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for his exceptional scientific contributions in his respective field of Earth and space sciences.
 * Qilu Friendship Award, People’s Government of Shandong Province, China, 2018.
 * Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2017.
 * Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2017.
 * Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013.

Personal life
Bianchi is the son Rita and Tom Bianchi and is married to Jo Ann Bianchi (artist), and has a son Christopher T. Bianchi (video artist)

Books

 * Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota (Vol. 5, Chemical Oceanography) (published in 2019 by Texas A&M University Press)

Select publications
Tom Bianchi has published over 300 articles.


 * Centers of organic carbon burial at the land-ocean interface.
 * Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering.
 * High rates of organic carbon burial in fjord sediments globally.
 * The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean
 * The role of terrestrially derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean: A changing paradigm and the priming effect.
 * The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A review.
 * Large-river delta-front estuaries as natural “recorders” of global environmental change.
 * Temporal variability in sources of dissolved organic carbon in the lower Mississippi River.
 * Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: Natural or human-induced?
 * Natural photolysis by ultraviolet irradiance of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter to simple substrates for rapid bacterial metabolism.