:Thomas S. Bianchi

Bianchi was born in 1956 in Richmond Hill, New York, and moved to Holbrook in eastern Long Island where he stayed through his early college years. As a child, he was very interested in basketball, largely influenced by his uncle, Al Bianchi, who was a professional basketball player. Bianchi has played drums through much of his life, and became interested in oceanography very early on. He earned his Ph.D. from University of Maryland in 1987.

Bianchi has been a professor at the University of Florida since 2013.{{cite web |title=Dr Thomas Bianchi - Soil and Water Sciences Department - University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences |url=https://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/research/research-forum/2017-sws-research-forum/dr-thomas-bianchi/ |website=University of Florida}} Before joining UF, he held full professor positions at Tulane University and Texas A&M University.

The main focus of his work has been the movement of organic matter, particularly as it interacts with changes in rivers, estuaries, and the ocean.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Thomas S. Bianchi |url=https://geology.ufl.edu/directory/dr-thomas-s-bianchi/ |access-date=2025-04-06 |website=Geological Sciences |language=en-US}} His research team uses chemical biomarkers and other molecular tools from microbial ecology, organic geochemistry, and isotope geochemistry to explore carbon cycling in aquatic environments.

== Awards and recognition ==

• Edward P. Bass Distinguished Visiting Environmental Scholar, Yale Institute of Biospheric Studies, Yale University,2023,{{Cite web|title=Bass Distinguished Scholars|url=https://yibs.yale.edu/scholar-programs/edward-p-bass-distinguished-visiting-environmental-scholars-program/|website=

Gaylord Donnelley Postdoctoral Environmental Fellowship G. Evelyn Hutchinson Environmental Postdoctoral Fellowship Osborn Memorial Laboratories, 2023}}

• Fellow of the American Geophysical Union for his exceptional contributions in his respective field of Earth and space sciences, 2019.{{Cite web|title=2019 Class of AGU Fellows Announced|url=https://news.agu.org/press-release/2019-class-of-agu-fellows-announced/|website=AGU Newsroom|language=en-US}}{{cite web|title=Geology Professor Honored at AGU Meeting|url=https://news.clas.ufl.edu/geology-professor-honored-at-agu-meeting/|website=UF News|date=15 January 2020 }}
• Qilu Friendship Award, People's Government of Shandong Province, China, 2018.{{Cite web|url=http://eweb.ouc.edu.cn/74/81/c900a226433/page.psp|title=OUC Foreign Expert Prof. Thomas Bianchi Wins 2018 Qilu Friendship Award|website=College of Food Science and Engineering}}
• Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geochemsoc.org/honors/awards/geochemistryfellows|title=Geochemistry Fellows {{!}}|website= Geochemical Society}}
• Fellow of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, 2017.{{Cite web|url=https://www.aslo.org/aslo-fellows/|title=ASLO Fellows|website=ASLO|language=en-US}}
• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013.{{cite web |title=UF Faculty in the AAAS - Academic Affairs - University of Florida |url=http://aa.ufl.edu/awards/highly-prestigious-external-awards/aaas/uf-faculty-in-the-aaas/ |website=Ufl.edu}}

Bianchi is the son of Rita and Tom Bianchi and is married to Jo Ann Bianchi (artist). They have a son, Christopher T. Bianchi (video artist).

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• Gulf of Mexico: Origin, Waters, and Biota (Vol. 5, Chemical Oceanography) (published in 2019 by Texas A&M University Press) {{ISBN|978-1-62349-774-3}}
• Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship Now Threatened by Global Change. Oxford University Press. 2016. {{ISBN|978-0-19-976417-4}}.{{cite journal |last1=Finkl |first1=Charles W. |title=Deltas and Humans: A Long Relationship Now Threatened by Global Change |journal=Journal of Coastal Research |date=November 2017 |volume=336 |pages=1501 |doi=10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-17A-00008.1 |s2cid=135116124 |doi-access=free }}
• Biogeochemical Dynamics at Major River-Coastal Interfaces: Linkages with Global Change. Cambridge University Press. 2014. {{ISBN|978-1-107-02257-7}}.{{cite web |title=Biogeochemical Dynamics at Major River-coastal Interfaces: Linkages with Global Change's page on Publons |url=https://publons.com/journal/201145/biogeochemical-dynamics-at-major-river-coastal-int |website=Publons.com |language=en}}
• Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems. Princeton University Press. 2011. {{ISBN|978-1-4008-3910-0}}.{{cite journal |last1=Parrish |first1=Christopher C. |title=Reviewed Work: Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems by Bianchi, Thomas S.; Canuel, Elizabeth A. |journal=Oceanography |volume=25 |issue=1 |pages=304–305 |date=March 2012 |doi=10.5670/oceanog.2012.34 |jstor=24861171|doi-access=free }}
• Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Springer. 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-60615-037-5}}.
• Biogeochemistry of Estuaries. Oxford University Press. 2006. {{ISBN|978-0-19-534771-5}}.{{cite journal |last1=Valiela |first1=Ivan |date=June 2007 |title=Biogeochemistry of Estuaries by Thomas S Bianchi |type=Review |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=166–167 |doi=10.1086/519627}}{{cite journal |last1=Burdige |first1=David J. |title=Biogeochemistry of Estuaries |journal=Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union |page=581 |language=en |doi=10.1029/2007EO520011 |date=2007|volume=88 |issue=52 |bibcode=2007EOSTr..88..581B |doi-access=free }}
• Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries. John Wiley & Sons. 1998. {{ISBN|978-0-471-16174-5}}.{{cite journal |last1=McManus |first1=George B. |title=Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico estuaries |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |page=524 |language=en |doi=10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0524 |date=2000|volume=45 |issue=2 |bibcode=2000LimOc..45..524M |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Boynton |first1=W.R. |title=Review: Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries by T.S. Bianchi, J.R. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley |journal=Gulf of Mexico Science |date=1999 |volume=17 |issue=1 |doi=10.18785/goms.1701.07 |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Hitchcock |first1=Gary A. |title=Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries |journal=Bulletin of Marine Science |date=March 2000 |volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=290–304 |doi=10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0524 |bibcode=2000LimOc..45..524M |doi-access=free }}

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Tom Bianchi has published over 300 articles.

• {{cite journal |last1=Crotty |first1=Sinéad M. |last2=Ortals |first2=Collin |last3=Pettengill |first3=Thomas M. |last4=Shi |first4=Luming |last5=Olabarrieta |first5=Maitane |last6=Joyce |first6=Matthew A. |last7=Altieri |first7=Andrew H. |last8=Morrison |first8=Elise |last9=Bianchi |first9=Thomas S. |last10=Craft |first10=Christopher |last11=Bertness |first11=Mark D. |last12=Angelini |first12=Christine |title=Sea-level rise and the emergence of a keystone grazer alter the geomorphic evolution and ecology of southeast US salt marshes |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=28 July 2020 |volume=117 |issue=30 |pages=17891–17902 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1917869117 |pmid=32661151 |pmc=7395507 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11717891C |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=Thomas S. |last2=Cui |first2=Xingqian |last3=Blair |first3=Neal E. |last4=Burdige |first4=David J. |last5=Eglinton |first5=Timothy I. |last6=Galy |first6=Valier |title=Centers of organic carbon burial and oxidation at the land-ocean interface |journal=Organic Geochemistry |date=2018 |volume=115 |pages=138–155 |doi=10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.09.008 |bibcode=2018OrGeo.115..138B }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Shields |first1=Michael R. |last2=Bianchi |first2=Thomas S. |last3=Mohrig |first3=David |last4=Hutchings |first4=Jack A. |last5=Kenney |first5=William F. |last6=Kolker |first6=Alexander S. |last7=Curtis |first7=Jason H. |title=Carbon storage in the Mississippi River delta enhanced by environmental engineering |journal=Nature Geoscience |date=November 2017 |volume=10 |issue=11 |pages=846–851 |doi=10.1038/ngeo3044 |bibcode=2017NatGe..10..846S }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Richard W. |last2=Bianchi |first2=Thomas S. |last3=Allison |first3=Mead |last4=Savage |first4=Candida |last5=Galy |first5=Valier |title=High rates of organic carbon burial in fjord sediments globally |journal=Nature Geoscience |date=June 2015 |volume=8 |issue=6 |pages=450–453 |doi=10.1038/ngeo2421 |bibcode=2015NatGe...8..450S }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bauer |first1=James E. |last2=Cai |first2=Wei-Jun |last3=Raymond |first3=Peter A. |last4=Bianchi |first4=Thomas S. |last5=Hopkinson |first5=Charles S. |last6=Regnier |first6=Pierre A. G. |title=The changing carbon cycle of the coastal ocean |journal=Nature |date=5 December 2013 |volume=504 |issue=7478 |pages=61–70 |doi=10.1038/nature12857 |pmid=24305149 |bibcode=2013Natur.504...61B |s2cid=4399374 |url=https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/22208 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601061619/https://www.openaccessrepository.it/record/22208 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 1, 2020 }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=Thomas S. |title=The role of terrestrially derived organic carbon in the coastal ocean: A changing paradigm and the priming effect |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=6 December 2011 |volume=108 |issue=49 |pages=19473–19481 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1017982108 |pmid=22106254 |pmc=3241778 |bibcode=2011PNAS..10819473B |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=T. S. |last2=DiMarco |first2=S. F. |last3=Cowan |first3=J. H. |last4=Hetland |first4=R. D. |last5=Chapman |first5=P. |last6=Day |first6=J. W. |last7=Allison |first7=M. A. |title=The science of hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A review |journal=Science of the Total Environment |date=March 2010 |volume=408 |issue=7 |pages=1471–1484 |doi=10.1016/j.scitotenv.2009.11.047 |pmid=20092873 |bibcode=2010ScTEn.408.1471B }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=Thomas S. |last2=Allison |first2=Mead A. |title=Large-river delta-front estuaries as natural 'recorders' of global environmental change |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |date=19 May 2009 |volume=106 |issue=20 |pages=8085–8092 |doi=10.1073/pnas.0812878106 |pmid=19435849 |doi-access=free |pmc=2688901 |bibcode=2009PNAS..106.8085B }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=Thomas S. |last2=Filley |first2=Timothy |last3=Dria |first3=Karl |last4=Hatcher |first4=Patrick G. |title=Temporal variability in sources of dissolved organic carbon in the lower Mississippi river |journal=Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta |date=March 2004 |volume=68 |issue=5 |pages=959–967 |doi=10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.011 |bibcode=2004GeCoA..68..959B }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Bianchi |first1=Thomas S. |last2=Engelhaupt |first2=Erika |last3=Westman |first3=Per |last4=Andrén |first4=Thomas |last5=Rolff |first5=Carl |last6=Elmgren |first6=Ragnar |title=Cyanobacterial blooms in the Baltic Sea: Natural or human-induced? |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |date=May 2000 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=716–726 |doi=10.4319/lo.2000.45.3.0716 |bibcode=2000LimOc..45..716B |s2cid=84428521 |doi-access=free }}
• {{cite journal |last1=Wetzel |first1=Robert G. |last2=Hatcher |first2=Patrick G. |last3=Bianchi |first3=Thomas S. |title=Natural photolysis by ultraviolet irradiance of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter to simple substrates for rapidbacterial metabolism |journal=Limnology and Oceanography |date=December 1995 |volume=40 |issue=8 |pages=1369–1380 |doi=10.4319/lo.1995.40.8.1369 |bibcode=1995LimOc..40.1369W |doi-access=free }}

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