Susan Henrichs

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Susan Henrichs is a scientist and university administrator from Alaska. Born in Anchorage, she earned a B.A. in chemistry and chemical oceanography from the University of Washington in 1975 and a Ph.D. in chemical oceanography from the MIT-Woods Hole joint program in 1980. She did a postdoctoral fellowship at Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1981 to 1982 and joined the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1982 as an assistant professor in marine science. She became a full professor in 1994 and directed the graduate program in marine sciences and limnology from 1994 to 2003. Her research focuses on marine organic chemistry, including how organic matter is produced, moves, and is preserved in sediments. Projects have looked at detritus in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska, hydrocarbon contaminants in Kachemak Bay sediments, adsorption of organic substances by sediment particles, and patterns of organic matter deposition. She served as the Radiation Safety Officer at UAF from 1993 to 2007. Henrichs was dean of the Graduate School and vice provost from 2003 to 2007, and she became provost of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in July 2007.