Dr. Antonio Mannino
- B.A. Environmental Science, University of Virginia, VA, USA, 1992
- M.A. Marine Science, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA, 1994
- Ph.D. Marine Science, University of Maryland, MD, USA, 2000
Dr. Mannino is an oceanographer with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research interests include studies of dissolved and particulate organic matter, ocean color remote sensing, sources and decomposition of chromophoric dissolved organic matter, phytoplankton production of dissolved organic matter, black carbon in the ocean, biomarkers of terrestrial plants, phytoplankton and bacteria.
Research in which Dr. Mannino participated in the Gulf of Mexico includes a study of fine-scale spatial variation of sediment composition and salinity in Nueces Bay, Texas, and the examination of fatty acids in sediments as indicators of historical changes in microbial communities in response to climate change and anthropogenic contamination in the Mississippi River delta system.