{"id":949,"date":"2025-01-23T21:04:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T02:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/?page_id=949"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T18:09:00","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/home\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Theoretical Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Group<\/h1>\n\t<h2><strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2025\/01\/Motta-Lab__Badge_Color.png\" alt=\"Motta Lab__Badge_Color\" height=\"3000\" width=\"3000\" title=\"Motta Lab__Badge_Color\" \/>\n\t<p>Inspired by environmental processes that challenge our current chemical knowledge, the Theoretical Chemistry and Isotope Biogeochemistry Group at WHOI is interested in advancing the frontiers of Chemistry through studying non-traditional stable isotopes. Isotope effects are Nature&#8217;s guide to chemistry. <em>The question is: how should we interpret them when there is no chemical framework?<\/em><\/p>\n\t<h5>Learn More About Our Research<\/h5>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2024\/03\/Motta-Lab__Theory.png\" alt=\"Theory\" height=\"1362\" width=\"1288\" title=\"Motta-Lab__Theory\" \/>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/projects\/#current-projects\">Relativistic theoretical chemistry<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2024\/03\/Motta-Lab__Experimental.png\" alt=\"Experimental\" height=\"1362\" width=\"1294\" title=\"Motta-Lab__Experimental\" \/>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/projects\/#current-projects\">Synthesis and Photochemistry<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2024\/03\/Motta-Lab__Fieldwork.png\" alt=\"Field work\" height=\"1362\" width=\"1706\" title=\"Motta-Lab__Fieldwork\" \/>\n\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/projects\/#current-projects\">Analytical Chemistry<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<h1><strong>News and More<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theoretical Chemistry and Biogeochemistry Group Welcome! Inspired by environmental processes that challenge our current chemical knowledge, the Theoretical Chemistry and Isotope Biogeochemistry Group at WHOI is interested in advancing the frontiers of Chemistry through studying non-traditional stable isotopes. Isotope effects are Nature&#8217;s guide to chemistry. The question is: how should we interpret them when there&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":724,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/949\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/mottalab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}