Andrew Wozniak

Andrew Wozniak (Col ’00) just returned from leading a research expedition to the East Pacific Rise (EPR) deep ocean spreading center. Wozniak and two other passengers in the HOV Alvin—a deep-ocean submersible—had the tremendous fortune to be the first to ever witness a clearly active undersea volcanic eruption at a mid-ocean ridge.

Wozniak is an associate professor of chemical oceanography at the University of Delaware and lives in Lewes, Delaware with his wife and daughter. He and his team were at the EPR to study how the organic geochemistry of hydrothermal vent ecosystems influences ocean chemistry.