Professor Peter Croot FRSC is a marine biogeochemist specializing in the role of biogeochemical processes impacting the concentration and distribution of trace elements and chemical species in the ocean. His work integrates different strands of ocean observations with laboratory studies to investigate the mechanisms underpinning the transformation of chemical species in the ocean. With a PhD from the University of Otago, he undertook postdoctoral studies at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Gothenburg University and was a researcher at NIOZ, IFM-GEOMAR and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
Since 2012, he has been the Established Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Galway. As an expert in the oxygen minimum zones of the Tropical Atlantic and Pacific and the iron-limited Southern Ocean, he is actively involved in GEOTRACES, IMBER and SOLAS. In 2014 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The page was updated in March 2025.
Photo by: UCD Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences staff Profile Shots, Iain White/Fennell Photography, Fennell Photography 2015
