Michael J. Pullin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry in 1999 from Kent State University. Prior to his work with the Institute of Mining and Technology Dr. Pullin was a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the area of aqueous environmental chemistry, with emphases in organic matter and its impact on the cycling and transport of nutrients, and the thermodynamics of metal-ligand interactions.