Dr. Hintz's Page

 

 

 

Education

 

B.S. Chem Eng. Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology

 

M.S. Chem Eng. RHIT

 

Ph.D. Marine Sciences University of South Carolina

 

 

Research Interests

 

Carbonate Chemistry, Ocean Acidification

 

Technique and Method Development

 

Advanced/Computer Controlled Culture Techniques

 

Current Projects

 

ONR SENSR - Freshmen and Sophomore STEM

Research/Training Program

 

NSF REU (Co-PI); Techniques for Unattended Monitoring of

Carbonate Chemistry

 

Low-cost, Low-effort Marine Algal Biomass Production for

Biofuels or Feedstocks

 

 Number of Graduate Students

 

Supervised: 1

 

Graduate Student:  Michael Scaboo

 

     Program Start Date:  Fall 2013

 

Professional 

 

Organizations/Meetings Attended

 

UNOLS Fall Meeting, October, 2013

 

SEERS October, 2012

 

UNOLS Chief Scientist Workshop, June 2011

 

International Sea Turtle Symposium April 2011

 

Funding Sources

 

Office Naval Research

 

National Science Foundation

 

 

Selected Publications

 

Invention Disclosure – SSU Sponsored Programs

Hintz, CJ, AS Wilkinson*.  Low-cost, low-energy, high-volume, non-destructive microorganism water separation, concentrating, and dewatering technique.  Jan 2010. Non-Provisional Patent Application (app. no.13,300,883) filed November 2011.

 

Invention Disclosure - #716 USC Research Foundation

Hintz, CJ, KJ Hintz. “Alkalinity Determination”  Jan 2008.  Filed Feb, 2010. Issued Jan 2013. (pat. no. 8,349,614). 

 

Invention Disclosure - #712 USC Research Foundation 

Hintz, CJ.  “High-efficiency, non-toxic scrubber for removing carbon dioxide from atmospheric air.”  Jan 2008.  Filed April, 2009.  Issued May, 2012 (pat. no. 8,167,979).  

 

 Peer-reviewed Publications

 

Hintz, C. J., T. J. Shaw, G. T. Chandler, J. M. Bernhard, D. C. McCorkle, J. K. Blanks*. 

2006. Trace/Minor element:calcium ratios in cultured benthic foraminifera. Part I: Interindividual and interspecies variation.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 70, 1952-1963. 

 

Hintz, C. J., T. J. Shaw, J. M. Bernhard, G. T. Chandler, D. C. McCorkle, J. K. Blanks*.  2006. Trace/Minor element:calcitum ratios in cultured benthic foraminifera. Part II: Ontogenetic variation.  Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 70, 1964-1976. 

 

Hintz, C. J., G. T. Chandler, J. M. Bernhard, D. C. McCorkle, S. M. Havach, J. K. Blanks*, T. J. Shaw.  2004. A physicochemically-constrained seawater culturing system for production of benthic foraminifera.  Limnol. Oceanogr.: Methods. 2, 160-170.

 

Bernhard, J. M., J. K. Blanks*, C. J. Hintz, G. T. Chandler.  2004.  Use of the fluorescent calcite marker calcein to label foraminiferal tests.  J. Foram. Res. 34: 96-101.

 

McCorkle, D. C., J. M. Bernhard, C. J. Hintz, J. K. Blanks*, G. T. Chandler, T. J. Shaw.  2008. The carbon and oxygen stable isotopic composition of cultured benthic foraminifera.   Geological Society of London, Special Volume Series: Biogeochemical Controls on Palaeoceanographic Climate Proxies.