Ray F. Weiss
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, USA
Ray Weiss’s influence on the field of geochemistry over the arc of his career has extended from the ocean floor to the upper atmosphere. His development and application of rigorous and creative geochemical measurement techniques have advanced our understanding of ocean and deep lake circulation, hydrothermal vent geochemistry, gas solubilities in natural waters, and the global and regional distributions of atmospheric trace gases. His recent atmospheric work has led to numerous discoveries about atmospheric composition changes, with impacts on stratospheric ozone depletion, hydroxyl radical abundance, and global radiative forcing.