Ellen E. Martin

Ellen Eckels Martin is an American paleoceanographer who is an expert on geochemical proxies. She is a professor of geology and chair of geological sciences at the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2023. She earned a B.A. in earth science from Wesleyan University in 1981. Martin received a M.S. in geology from Duke University. She completed a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and University of California, San Diego in 1993. Her dissertation was titled, Seawater Radiogenic Isotopes as a Record of Continental Weathering Patterns. J. Douglas MacDougall was her doctoral advisor.