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Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is an American scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI; Woods Hole, MA). He is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and has been the Director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI since 2008. Reddy has held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was an adjunct professor of biology at Boston University. His interests include marine pollution, marine natural products, and petroleum geochemistry as well how science is communicated and received by non-scientists. According to a 2010 survey by Thomson Reuters, Dr. Reddy is one of the top cited and published scientists studying oil spill effects, remediation methods, and petroleum microbiology.

Professional Background
Reddy's entire formal education is the product of Rhode Island public schools. He received his BS in chemistry with a minor in mathematics from Rhode Island College (1992) and then worked in the chemical industry for almost two years including his first year of graduate school at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. He finished his PhD at the latter in 1997.

Reddy also earned an executive certificate in Management and Leadership from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010) and completed the course "Leadership in the 21st century" at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (2008).

He arrived at WHOI as a post-doctoral scholar in 1997, joined the WHOI scientific staff in 2000, and was promoted to his current position of senior scientist in 2010.

He has served on the editorial boards of Environmental Forensics and Marine Environmental Research and has or currently on numerous boards of non-profit organizations and educational groups. Reddy is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Geophysical Union, and American Chemical Society.

Research Activities
Reddy has published over 100 manuscripts, two book chapters, and holds one patent. His research has spanned from the source, fate and transport of combustion-derived materials, PCBs, and DDT as well as the environmental chemistry of biofuels, plastics, and nanoparticles.

The bulk of his activities are oils spills from those that have occurred decades ago, to the more recent, and the Deepwater Horizon. He also studies natural seeps off the coast of Santa Barbara. He often employs advanced analytical techniques for his work such natural radiocarbon analysis, stable isotope analysis (carbon and hydrogen) and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography.

Since the Deepwater Horizon, Reddy has authored or co-authored published eight peer-reviewed manuscripts on this disaster. They manuscripts include work on the confirmation of surface plumes, describing the chemical processes driving subsurface plumes, measuring the flow rate, using pieces of the Deepwater Horizon as tracers of surface oil movement, calculating a mass balance of the released oil and gas, damages to corals, bio-degradation of surface slicks, and rapid oxidation of field samples.

He has extensive experience in fieldwork from backpacking 1000s of pounds of gear into an island in Lake Superior, to the most PCB contaminated regions in New Bedford Harbor and Hudson River, to the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon, to the Pacific Ocean to study natural oil seeps. His most frequent research vessel is a car, which allows him to drive to oiled beaches. However, Reddy has used remotely operated vehicles, the autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry, and the human submersible, Alvin.

Current Profssional Activities
Reddy frequently advises members of the executive branch and members of the federal and state governments on marine pollution, in particular the Deepwater Horizon. He has provided expert testimonies on oil spills for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1x), the United States Coast Guard (1x), and the United States House of Representatives (3x).

Honors
Reddy is the recipient of the Office of Navel Research Young Investigator Award (2002), an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow (2006), and was named a Kavli Fellow in 2009, 2010, and 2011, which is the National Academy of Science's premiere recognition for distinguished young scientists under 45 years of age.[

Outreach
In 2006, Reddy received the Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowship, which teaches scientists to communicate environmental science to the lay public, media, and policymakers. He presents scientific talks to lay audiences throughout the country and has published more than 20 op-ed articles or editorials on science-based issues in, for example, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Science magazine.

He teaches a course at WHOI and gives workshops for graduate and postdoctoral students on communicating science to a non-scientist audience. Reddy gave TEDx talk in Woods Hole on how the original Star Trek series can help scientists react during a crisis. It was highlighted as an editors pick of the week.

He has given hundreds of interviews to the print, radio, and television on both the local, national, and international level.

(i) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PCBs, and DDT

 * Reddy, C.M., Pearson, A., Xu, L., McNichol, A.P., Benner, B.A., Wise, S.A., Klouda, G., Currie, L.A., and Eglinton, T.I. (2002) Radiocarbon as a tool to apportion sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and black carbon in environmental samples. Env. Sci. and Technol. 36, 1774-1782.


 * Reddy C.M., Heraty L.J., Holt B.D., Sturchio N.C., Eglinton T.I., Drenzek, N.D., Xu, L., Lake J.L. and Maruya K.A. (2000) Stable chlorine isotopic compositions of Aroclors and Aroclor-contaminated sediments. Env. Sci. and Technol. 34, 2866-2870.


 * Reddy C.M., Drenzek N.J., Eglinton T.I., Heraty L.J., Sturchio N.C. and Shiner V.J. (2002) Stable chlorine intramolecular kinetic isotope effects from the abiotic dehydrochlorination of DDT. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 9, 183-186.

(ii) plastics, nanomaterials, and biofuels

 * Law Lavender, K., Moret-Férguson, S., Maximenko, N.A., Proskurowski, G., Peacock, E.E., Hafner, J.H., Reddy, C.M. (2010) Well-defined plastic accumulation in North Atlantic gyre shows no increase in 22 years. Science 329, 1185-1188.


 * Plata, D.L., Gschwend, P.M., and Reddy, C.M. (2008) Industrially synthesized single-walled carbon nanotubes: Compositional data for users, environmental risk assessments, and source apportionment. Nanotechnology 19, 185706.


 * Reddy, C.M., DeMello, J.A., Carmichael, C.A., Peacock, E.E., Xu, L., and Arey, J.S. (2008) Determination of biodiesel blending percentages using natural abundance radiocarbon analysis: Testing the accuracy of retail biodiesel blends. Env. Sci. and Technol. 42, 2476-2482.

(iii) Oil spills from the Florida (1969) and Bouchard 65 (1974)

 * Reddy, C.M., Eglinton, T.I., Hounshell, A., White, H.K., Xu, L., Gaines, R.B., and Frysinger, G.S. (2002) The West Falmouth oil spill after thirty years: The persistence of petroleum hydrocarbons in marsh sediments. Env. Sci. and Technol. 36, 4754-4760.


 * Peacock, E.E., Hampson, G.R., Nelson, R.K., Xu, L., Frysinger, G.S., Gaines, R.B., Farrington, J.W., Tripp, B.W., and Reddy, C.M. (2007) The 1974 spill of the Bouchard 65 oil barge: Petroleum hydrocarbons persist in Winsor Cove salt marsh sediments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54, 214-225.

(iv) Oil spills from the North Cape (1996), Bouchard 65 (1974), Bouchard 120 (2003), and Cosco Busan (2007)

 * Reddy, C.M. and J.G. Quinn. (2001) The North Cape oil spill - The fate of hydrocarbons in Point Judith Pond and Rhode Island coastal waters. Marine Env. Res. 52, 445-461.


 * Peacock, E.E., Hampson, G.R., Nelson, R.K., Xu, L., Frysinger, G.S., Gaines, R.B., Farrington, J.W., Tripp, B.W., and Reddy, C.M. (2007) The 1974 spill of the Bouchard 65 oil barge: Petroleum hydrocarbons persist in Winsor Cove salt marsh sediments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 54, 214-225.


 * Arey, J.S., Nelson, R.K., and Reddy, C.M. (2007) Disentangling oil weathering using GC×GC. Part 1. Chromatogram analysis. Env. Sci. and Technol. 41, 5738 - 5746.


 * Lemkau, K.L., Peacock, E.E., Nelson, R.K., Ventura, G.T., Kovecses, J.L., Reddy, C.M. (2010) The M/V Cosco Busan spill: Source identification and short-term fate. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 60, 2123-2129.

(v) Work from the Deepwater Horizon

 * Reddy, C.M., Arey, J.S., Seewald, J.S., Sylva, S.P., Lemkau, K.L., Nelson, R.K., Carmichael, C.A., McIntyre, C., Fenwick, J., Ventura, G.T., Van Mooy, B.A.S., Camilli, R. (2012) Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences :doi/10.1073/pnas.1101242108.

(vi) Scientists communicating outside their peer group

 * Reddy, C.M. (2009) Scientist citizens. (Editorial), Science 323, 1405.