Active* Research Projects (associated students)

• CDOM Data Synthesis Activity for the Gulf of Mexico (NASA; PhD candidate: Jennifer Dickson Brown)
  
• CDOM flux and photochemical cycling in the Neuse River Estuary (PhD candidate: Jennifer Dickson Brown)
• Autochthonous organic matter and nutrient availability in legacy sediments and particulates in the Neuse River Estuary (WRRI; MS candidate: Molly Mikan)

*funded and trying-to-be-funded, as indicated

Recent Projects & Representative Publications

• DOM flux and photochemistry in the Chesapeake Bay 
  
• Colleagues: Dr. Tom Boyd (NRL and now NSF), Dr. Dan O'Sullivan (USNA)
• Representative publication in Limnology and Oceanography (PDF)
  
  
• Mackenzie River DOM flux and photochemical degradation in the Beaufort Sea
• Colleagues: Dr. Warwick Vincent (Universite' Laval, Canada), Dr. Leira Retamal (ETE-INRS, Canada)
• Representative publication in Marine Chemistry (link)
  
  
• Quantification of CDOM sources in the North Sea-Baltic Sea mixing zone
• Colleague: Dr. Colin Stedmon (NERI, Denmark)
• Representative publication in Estuarine, Coastal, and Shelf Science
  
  
• DOM sources in prairie saline lakes
• Colleagues: Dr. Jasmine Saros (University of Maine), Dr. Sheri Fritz (University of Nebraska)
• Representative publication in Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (PDF)