High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christopher Michael Reddy (born 1969) is an American scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI; Woods Hole, MA). He is a senior scientist in the Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry and has been the Director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at WHOI since 2008. Reddy has held visiting positions at the California Institute of Technology and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He was an adjunct professor of biology at Boston University. His interests include marine pollution, marine natural products, and petroleum geochemistry as well how science is communicated and received by non-scientists. According to a 2010 survey by Thomson Reuters, Dr. Reddy is one of the top cited and published scientists studying oil spill effects, remediation methods, and petroleum microbiology.