Sandor Mulsow

Former Head, Office of Environmental Management and Mineral Resources at International Seabed Authority

Valparaiso Region, Chile

About

Marine biogeochemistry in sediments and water column(geochronology, nutrients fluxes, heavy metals, radio-tracers). Environmental monitoring of sediment water interface from shallow to deep sea. Water contamination studies in open seas (Mururoa-Fangataufa, Arabian Sea, North-East Atlantic, South Pacific and Arctic and Antarctic Oceans). Carbon export in marine and estuarine ecosystems. Land Ocean Interactions - coastal areas and estuaries- (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt. Mexico and Chile) through the use of radioisotopes (natural and man-made), biosensors and micro-electrodes (micro profiles in sediments), SPI, UV, underwater surveys. Anthropogenic environmental signature in coastal areas, aquaculture environmental impact. Deep-sea geochemistry (nodules, crust and massive sulphides) and instrument technology development. Founder and supporting of the bilingual Elementary and High School in Valdivia-Chile: Hampton College Valdivia. Dr. Mulsow is fluent in Spanish, French and English.

Experience

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Full-time · 26 yrs 7 mos)
    • UN Scientist
      Dec 1999 - Present · 26 yrs 7 mos

    • Professional Civil Officer
      Dec 1999 - Dec 2004 · 5 yrs 1 mo

      Radionuclides in the marine environment applications: Atoms for peace. Work on capacity building, new techniques in radiochemistry, cruises and monitoring of sites: Mururoa, Enewatek, Baltic Sea, North East Atlantic Dumping site. Geochronology in marine sediments.

  • Full Professor at Universidad Austral de Chile
    May 2004 - May 2022 · 18 yrs 1 mo

    Marine Geology - Deep sea Mining

  • Head, Office of Resources and Environmental Monitoring at International Seabed Authority
    Sep 2013 - Dec 2019 · 6 yrs 4 mos

    The protection of the Deep Sea living and non-living natural resources that are a common heritage of mankind. The working area is all the bottom of the Oceans that are at High Seas. It excluded EEZ and Extended Continental Shelf Limits. Nearly 35% of the Planet's Oceans. OREM, deals with the implementation of Article 145 of the UNCLOS, to ensure for future generations that the High Seas are, will still be a natural and ecologically sustainable environment to mankind.

  • Visiting Lecturer at Boston University
    Aug 1994 - Oct 1996 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Marine Geology, Marine resources, Animal-sediment Processes