EDUCATION

Graduate                       Ph.D. , Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, 1996,
                                     University of California, Davis, CA. Dissertation: Metal-Ligand Complexation Reactions in Aquatic Systems.

Undergraduate              B.A., Chemistry, 1987, cum laude, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 6/99 to present.
Teaching responsibilities include: Foundations of Chemistry (BenchChem), Modern Chemical Analysis with lab, and Environmental Chemistry (with laboratory). Research activities have included the supervision of seven student researchers since 1999.

TEACHING

A. COURSES TAUGHT AT DICKINSON COLLEGE

Fall 2001             Chemistry 141-01        Foundations of Chemistry (27 students)
                            Chemistry 351-01        Modern Chemical Analysis with Laboratory

Spring 2001        Chemistry 210              Environmental Chemistry with Laboratory (7 students)
                            Chemistry 352              Integrated Laboratory (team taught with Joyce P.                                                                  Whitehead; NEW; area of specialty; 9 students)

January 2001                                           Dickinson College Marine Program
                                                                San Salvador, Bahamas

Fall 2000             Chemistry 141-01        Foundations of Chemistry (27 students)
                            Chemistry 351-01        Modern Chemical Analysis with Laboratory
                                                                (NEW; area of specialty; 10 students)

Spring 2000        Chemistry 210              Environmental Chemistry with Laboratory (NEW; area of specialty; 2 students)
                            Chemistry 244              Equilibrium Systems with Laboratory (team - taught with Ashfaq Bengali; NEW; area of                                                                   specialty; 16 students)

B. GUEST LECTURES AT DICKINSON COLLEGE

Spring 2001 Spoke to the Dickinson College Biology Department "Pumping iron in the ocean: Strategies marine organisms use to acquire a limited resource".

Spring 2000 Spoke at Women's Center discussion, February 15, 2000, "Environmental Chemicals and Women's Health".
Spoke in Environmental Science 131, April 19, 2000: "Pb in the Environment".

Fall 1999 Spoke at Earth Issues luncheon, November 29, 1999, "Silent Spring Revisited: Chemical contamination in the new millenium".

C. STUDENTS SUPERVISED WHILE AT DICKINSON:

Name

Reena Kanabar
Lesley Riggs
Amy Michael
Denise M. Sharbaugh
Danielle M. Klinger
Theresa Urich
Denise M. Sharbaugh
Dominick Cerminaro

D. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
To the Dickinson community:

Member of the Trustees Honorary Degrees Committee, 2001-present.
Member of the Academic Program Committee, 2000-present.
Routine Affairs Subcommitee
Hazardous Materials Committee, 1999- present.
Outside committee member on Christiana Bridell's thesis defense in Environmental Studies, 2001.
Co-convener of Chemical Magic Show with Professor Joyce Whitehead during Parent's Day Weekend, Fall 2000.
Hosted Two Seminar Speakers for Campus Graduate School Recruitment, Dr. David A. Hutchins (College of Marine Studies, University of Delaware) and Dr. A. Daniel Jones (Department of Chemistry, Penn State).
Convened the session entitled "Field Studies and Laboratory Methodologies in the Natural Sciences" for the 5th Annual Centennial Conference Student Research Colloquium, Dickinson College.
Supervisor for the "Qualitative Analysis" section of the Science Olympiad, held at Dickinson College, March 24th, 2000.

To the community at large:

Supervised a Boiling Springs high school sophomore with making fluoride measurements of different brands of toothpaste for their science fair project.
Supervised two Carlisle high school seniors with making trace metal measurements for their science fair project.

E. CURRENT RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AT DICKINSON

During Spring 2001, I will have two students working in my laboratory who are declared chemistry and biochemistry majors. The projects we are currently working on involve the study of how metal limitation affects the biomolecules that are produced in aquatic systems by algae and bacteria. Specifically we are interested in determining how iron limitation affects biomolecule production. There is a great deal of interest in understanding the ocean's role in absorbing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and one parameter that affects this process is the amount of iron present. In conjunction with researchers at the College of Marine Studies (University of Delaware) and the Department of Chemistry (Penn State), we have been studying the types of biomolecules that are produced which regulate Fe availability to bacteria, as well as how the lack of Fe affects the quality and quantity of carbohydrates that are produced. The goal of these studies is to understand how the structure of these biomolecules affects metal reactivity. This work has received funding from both the Research and Development Committee of Dickinson College, and a Cottrell College Science Award from the Research Corporation. Results from this work have been presented in poster format at the American Chemical Society Meeting in Washington, DC (August 2000) and will be presented in an invited oral presentation at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography in Alburquerque, NM in February 2001.

Collaborators from other institutions:

Dr. A. Daniel Jones, Director of Mass Spectrometry at Penn State
Dr. David A. Hutchins, Assistant Professor of Biological Oceanography, College of Marine Studies, Lewes, DE.
Dr. Scott A. Mabury, Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto

F. PROPOSALS SUBMITTED WHILE AT DICKINSON:

FUNDED

2001 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Program ($9,000)
Research and Development Award, Dickinson College, Fall 1999. ($1,000)
Cottrell College Science Grant, Research Corporation, Fall 1999. ($35,755)
Whitaker Grant for Student-Faculty Summer Research, Summer 2000 ($4,598.50)
Dana Internship for Student-Faculty Summer Research, Summer 2000 ($3.600)

PENDING

National Science Foundation collaborative research grant to Biological Oceanography
Summer 2001 ($145, 727)

DECLINED

The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc, Fall 2000
Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Faculty Start-Up grant, Fall 1999.

PUBLICATIONS
(SUBMITTED)

Witter, A.E., *Klinger, D., Fan, X., Lam, M., Mathers, D. and Mabury, S.A. Quantitative determination of nicotine and cotinine in urine and sputum using a combined SPME-GC/MS method. Submitted to Journal of Chemical Education.

Witter, A.E., and Luther G.W. Abundance and seasonal distribution of seawater carbohydrates in the U.S. Middle Atlantic Bight and the Delaware Estuary. In review at Marine Chemistry.

(PUBLISHED SINCE ARRIVAL AT DICKINSON)

Luther, G.W., Rozan, T.F., Witter, A., and Lewis, B. (2001). Metal organic complexation in the marine environment. Submitted to Geochemical Transactions.

Cai, W., Zhao, P., Wang, Y., Theberge, S., Witter, A., and Luther, G.W. (2001). Porewater redox species, pH, and pCO2 in aquatic sediments.

(PUBLISHED PRIOR TO ARRIVAL AT DICKINSON)

Witter, A.E., Hutchins, D.A., Butler, A., and Luther, G.W. (2000). Determination of conditional stability constants and kinetic constants for strong model Fe - binding ligands in seawater. Marine Chemistry, 69: 1-17.

Witter, A. E. , Lewis, B.L., and Luther, G.W. (2000). Iron speciation in the Arabian Sea.Deep Sea Research II, 47: 1517-1539.

Hutchins, D.A., Witter, A.E., Butler, A., and Luther, G.W. (1999). Competition among marine phytoplankton for different chelated iron species. Nature, 400: 858-861.

Witter, A.E., and Jones, A.D. (1999). Chemical characterization of organic constituents from sulfide- rich produced water using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 18: 1920-1926.

Witter, A.E. and Luther, G.W. (1998). Variation in Fe-organic complexation with depth in the Northwestern Atlantic Ocean as determined using a kinetic approach. Marine Chemistry, 62: 241-258.

Witter, A.E. and Jones, A.D. (1998). A comparison of methods for speciation of sulfur in a petroleum production effluent. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 17: 2176-2184.

Witter, A.E., Mabury, S.M. and Jones, A.D. (1998). Copper complexation in Northern California rice fields: an investigation using differential pulse anodic and cathodic stripping voltammetry. Science of the Total Environment, 212: 21-37.

Druffel, E. R. D.,Griffin, S. M.,Witter, A. E., Nelson, E., Southon, J.,Kashgarian, M., and Vogel, J. (1995). Gerardia: Bristlecone Pine of the Deep-Sea? Geochim. et Cosmochim Acta , 59: 5031- 5036.

Druffel, E.R.M., Griffin, S.M., and A.E. Witter, 1988. Decade-to-century timescale variability in radiocarbon records from banded corals. Chemical Geology 70: (1-2) 108.