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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I t is a great pleasure to acknowlege the guidance and support of
Drs. Oliver Zafiriou and Robert Gagosian throughout this work. I am
deeply indebted to them for their enthusiam patience, and friendship.
Drs. Robert Gagosian. Oliver Zafiriou. Werner Deuser. Ron Hites and
John Farrington have read and offered constructive criticisms on all or
part. of this thesis. These advisors, along with Drs. Max Blumer, George
Harvey. Dan Stuermer, Nelson Frew, René Schwarzenbach, and Richard Bromund
have provided helpful discussions during various phases of my work, for
which I am grateful.
I would like to thank all the people who have contributed information
and supplies for my work. Drs. Nelson Frew and René Schwarzenbach trained
me in the arts of glass capillary gas chromatography and combined gas
chromatography-mass spectrometry. Bruce Tripp, Mary True, Gale Nigrelli
and Richard Sawdo have provided most of the supplies used in this work
from the labs which they administer. Mary True and Jane Alford collected
the seawater samples from the upwelling region off Peru. Dr. John Hobbie
and Breck Bowden carried these samples from Lima, Peru to Woods Hole as
personal baggage. Dr. Zophia Mlodzinska performed my nutrient analyses.
Dr. Robert Guillard grew phytoplankton cultures for my use.
Neil Swanberg assisted in chlorophyll ~ determinations. Dr. Mac
Hulb urt identified and counted phytoplankton samples. Dr . Dietrich MUller
provided authentic algal gamone compounds. Dick Edwards, Robert Anderson,
and Tom Duncan supplied fuel and exhaust samples for aromatic hydrocarbon