Clifton Buck promoted to full professor

Buck’s research focuses on how trace elements enter coastal and marine environments and the processes that shape their distribution. (Photo by Jackson K. Schroeder.)

The University of Georgia has promoted Clifton Buck of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) to full professor, effective Aug. 1, 2025. Buck, a faculty member in the Department of Marine Sciences in UGA’s Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, is a chemical oceanographer with broad interests in the cycling of trace elements in the ocean.

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