Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is a Senior Scientist at the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry.
Reddy's research spans from the source, fate and transport of combustion-derived materials,
PCBs, and
DDT to the environmental chemistry of
oil spills,
biofuels
Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...
,
plastics
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,
nanoparticles
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, as well as developing environmentally friendly products.
Reddy attended public schools in
Rhode Island, earning a BS in chemistry from
Rhode Island College
Rhode Island College (RIC) is a public college in Providence, Rhode Island. The college was established in 1854 as the Rhode Island State Normal School, making it the second oldest institution of higher education in Rhode Island after Brown Uni ...
and PhD in chemical oceanography from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the
University of Rhode Island. Reddy also has an executive education certificate in management and leadership from MIT's
Sloan School of Business and leadership training from Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government.
Reddy has published ove
200 peer-reviewed manuscriptsand book chapters and holds eleven U.S. patents.
Reddy has testified before the
US Congress five times, written more than 20 opinion pieces, and given hundreds of interviews for print, radio, and television.
Reddy gave a TEDx talk using clips from the original
Star Trek
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television series on what science can provide during a crisis. In 2014, he was honored with th
C.C. Patterson Awardfor his work on the impacts of petroleum in the ocean, and in 2018, the
American Geophysical Union recognized Reddy’s achievements as
science communicatorwith th
Ambassador Award
Reddy authored
Science Communication in a Crisis: An Insider's Guide', which draws on his years of responding to environmental crises and communicating actionable information to peers, journalists, regulators, and the public.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1969 births
Living people