Publications

2010

Beck, A.J., J.K. Cochran, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. The distribution and speciation of dissolved trace metals in a shallow subterranean estuary. Marine Chemistry, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2010.04.003.

Beck, A.J., F. Janssen, and D. de Beer. The influence of phototrophic benthic biofilms on Cd, Cu, Ni, and Pb transport in permeable sediments. Biogeochemistry, doi: 10.1007/s10533-010-9429-2.

Jogler, C., M. Niebler, W. Lin, M. Kube, G. Wanner, S. Kolinko, P. Stief , A.J. Beck, D. de Beer, N. Petersen, Y. Pan, R. Amann, R. Reinhard, D. Schüler. Cultivation-independent characterization of “Candidatus Magnetobacterium bavaricum” via ultrastructural, geochemical, ecological and metagenomic methods. Environmental Microbiology, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02220.x.

Beck, A.J., H. Dulaiova, and J.K. Cochran. 2010. Editorial - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity special issue: Radium and Radon Isotopes as Environmental Tracers. J. Env. Rad., 101: 519–520.

Garcia-Orellana, J., J.K. Cochran, H. Bokuniwicz, S. Yang, and A.J. Beck. 2010. Time-series sampling of 223Ra and 224Ra at the inlet to Great South Bay (New York): A strategy for characterizing the dominant terms in the Ra budget of the bay. J. Env. Rad., 101: 582-588.

Cochran, J.K., K. Kallenberg, N.H. Landman, P.J. Harries, D. Weinreb, K.K. Turekian, A.J. Beck, and W.A. Cobban. 2010. Effect of diagenesis on the Sr, O, and C isotopic composition of Late Cretaceous mollusks from the Western Interior Seaway of North America. American Journal of Science 310: 69–88.

Rapaglia, J., E. Di Sipio, H. Bokuniewicz, G.M. Zuppi, L. Zaggia, A. Galgaro, A. Beck. 2010. Groundwater connections under a barrier beach: A case study in the Venice Lagoon. Continental Shelf Research 30: 119–126.

2009

Beck, A.J., F. Janssen, L. Polerecky, O. Herlory, D. de Beer. 2009 Phototrophic Biofilm Activity and Dynamics of Diurnal Cd Cycling in a Freshwater Stream. Environ. Sci. and Technol., 43: 7245–7251.

Leblanc, K., C.E. Hare, Y. Feng, G.M. Berg, G.R. DiTullio, A. Neeley, I. Benner, C. Sprengel, A.Beck, S.A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, U. Passow, K. Klinck, J.M. Rowe, S.W. Wilhelm, C.W. Brown, D.A. Hutchins. 2009. Distribution of calcifying and silicifying phytoplanktonic organisms along the 45°N-67°N transect in the North East Atlantic during summer 2005. Biogeosciences, 6: 2155-2179.

Panzeca, C.,  A.J. Beck, A. Tovar-Sanchez, J. Segovia-Zavala, G.T Taylor, C.J. Gobler, S. Sanudo-Wilhelmy. 2009. Distributions of dissolved vitamin B12 and Co in coastal and open-ocean environments. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 85(2): 223-230.

Lee, C., Peterson, M.L, Wakeham, S.G., Armstrong, R.A., Cochran, J.K., Miquel, J.C., Fowler, S., Hirschberg, D., Beck, A., Xue, J. 2009. Particulate organic matter and ballast fluxes measured using time-series andsettling velocity sediment traps in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 56: 1420–1436.

Beck, A.J., J.K. Cochran, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. 2009. Temporal trends of dissolved trace metals in Jamaica Bay, NY: Importance of wastewater input and submarine groundwater discharge. Estuaries and Coasts, 32: 535–550.

2008

Fu, F.-X., M.R. Mulholland, N. Garcia, A. Beck, P.W. Bernhardt, M.E. Warner, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, D.A. Hutchins. 2008. Interactions between changing pCO₂, N₂ fixation, and Fe limitation of the marine unicellular cyanobacterium Crocosphaera. Limnol. Oceanogr. 53(6): 2472-2484.

Lares, M.L., S.G. Marinone, I. Rivera-Duarte, A. Beck, S. Sanudo-Wilhelmy. 2008. Spatial variability of trace metals and inorganic nutrients in surface waters of Todos Santos Bay, Mexico, in the summer of 2005 during a red tide algal bloom. Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. doi: 10.1007/s00244-008-9210-x.

Panzeca, C., A.J. Beck, K. Leblanc, G.T. Taylor, D.A. Hutchins, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. 2008. Potential cobalt limitation of vitamin B12 synthesis in the North Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22(2), GB2029.

Garcia-Solsona, E., P. Masqué, J. Garcia-Orellana, J.P. Rapaglia, A.J. Beck, J. K. Cochran, H. Bokuniewicz, L. Zaggia, and F. Collavini. 2008. Estimating submarine groundwater discharge around Isola La Cura, northern Venice Lagoon (Italy), by using the radium quartet. Marine Chemistry, 109: 292-306.

Beck, A.J., J.P. Rapaglia, J.K. Cochran, H.J. Bokuniewicz, and S. Yang. 2008. Submarine groundwater discharge to Great South Bay, NY, estimated using Ra isotopes. Marine Chemistry, 109: 279-291.

Chen, Y., A. Paytan, Z. Chase, C.I. Measures, A.J. Beck, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy, and A.F. Post. 2008. Sources and fluxes of atmospheric trace elements to the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere, Vol. 113, D05306, doi:10.1029/2007JD009110.

2007

Beck, A.J., S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. 2007. Impact of water temperature and dissolved oxygen on copper cycling in an urban estuary. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41, 6103-6108.

Beck, A.J., J.P. Rapaglia, J.K. Cochran, H.J. Bokuniewicz. 2007. Radium mass-balance in Jamaica Bay, NY: Evidence for a substantial flux of submarine groundwater. Mar. Chem. 106, 419-441.

Beck, A.J., Y. Tsukamoto, A. Tovar-Sanchez, M. Huerta-Diaz, H.J. Bokuniewicz, S.A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy. 2007. Importance of geochemical transformations in determining submarine groundwater discharge-derived trace metal and nutrient fluxes. Appl. Geochem. 22: 477-490.

2006

Bokuniewicz, H., J. Rapaglia, and A. Beck.  2006. Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) from a volcanic island: A case study in Mauritius Island. Internat. J. Oceans Oceanogr. 1(3).

Cochran, J.K., H. Feng, D. Amiel, A. Beck. 2006. Natural radionuclides as tracers of coastal biogeochemical processes. J. Geochem. Exploration 88, 376-379.

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