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Zafiriou, Oliver Emeritus, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry

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Scientist Emeritus, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry , Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2006 -

Photochemistry and free radical chemistry and their effects on ocean redox chemistry (especially of oxygen monoxide, organic compounds, and carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide); modeling short-lived species in the mixed layer; the oceanic nitrogen cycle, especially nitrification and denitrification processes; chemistry of the marine atmosphere; remote sensing.

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- Evidence for significant photochemical production of carbon monoxide by particles in coastal and oligotrophic marine waters. Geophysical Research Letters. 36. 2009
- Measuring the photochemical production of carbon dioxide from marine dissolved organic matter by pool isotope exchange.. Environmental Science and Technology. 43:8604-8609. 2009
- Diel carbon monoxide cycling in the upper Sargasso Sea near Bermuda at the onset of spring and in midsummer. Limnology and Oceanography. 53:835-850. 2008
- Production of hydrated electrons from photoionization of dissolved organic matter in natural waters.. Environmental Science and Technology. 41:1601-1607. 2007
- Biological consumption of carbon monoxide in Delaware Bay, NW Atlantic and Beaufort Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series Marine Ecology Progress Series. 290:1-14. 2005
- Photooxidation and its effects on the carboxyl content of dissolved organic matter in two coastal rivers in the southeastern United States.. Environmental Science and Technology. 38:4113-4119. 2004
- Carbon dioxide as a product of CDOM photolysis: How to measure a major new carbon cycle budget term. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 225:U808-U808. 2003
- Concordant estimates of oceanic carbon monoxide source and sink processes in the Pacific yield a balanced global “blue-water” CO budget. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 17. 2003
- High-density estuarine transect and time-series of dissolved carbon monoxide in Delaware Bay. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY. 225:U832-U832. 2003
- A simple automated continuous-flow-equilibration method for measuring carbon monoxide in seawater.. Environmental Science and Technology. 35:1475-1480. 2001
- Chemistry of Superoxide Radical in Seawater: Reactions with Organic Cu Complexes. Environmental Science and Technology. 34:1036-1042. 2000
- Photochemical oxygen consumption in marine waters: A major sink for colored dissolved organic matter?. Limnology and Oceanography. 45:267-277. 2000
- Chemistry of the Superoxide Radical (O2-) in Seawater: Reactions with Inorganic Copper Complexes. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A. 102:5693-5700. 1998
- Photochemical production of methyl iodide in seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 99:16415-16415. 1994
- Optical absorption spectra of waters from the Orinoco River outflow: Terrestrial input of colored organic matter to the Caribbean. Journal of Geophysical Research. 98:2271-2278. 1993
- Photochemical oxygen activation: Superoxide radical detection and production rates in the eastern Caribbean. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS. 98:2299-2306. 1993
- The photochemical decomposition of hydrogen peroxide in surface waters of the eastern Caribbean and Orinoco River. Journal of Geophysical Research. 98:2307-2313. 1993
- An investigation ofhydrogen peroxide chemistry in surface waters of Vineyard Sound with H218O2 and 18O2. Limnology and Oceanography. 35:1221-1229. 1990
- Chemistry of superoxide ion-radical (O2?) in seawater. I. (HOO) and uncatalyzed dismutation kinetics studied by pulse radiolysis. Marine Chemistry. 30:31-43. 1990
- Molecular probe systems for reactive transients in natural waters. Marine Chemistry. 30:45-70. 1990
- Hydrogen peroxide production by a marine phytoplankter1. Limnology and Oceanography. 32:1365-1369. 1987
- WAVELENGTH-DEPENDENT QUANTUM YIELD OF OH RADICAL FORMATION FROM PHOTOLYSIS OF NITRITE ION IN WATER. Photochemistry & Photobiology. 45:723-727. 1987
- Reaction of superoxide with nitric oxide to form peroxonitrite in alkaline aqueous solution. Inorganic Chemistry. 24:3502-3504. 1985
- Air-to-sea fluxes of lipids at Enewetak Atoll. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 90:2409-2409. 1985
- Photochemistry of natural waters. Environmental Science and Technology. 18:358A-371A. 1984
- Air-sea fluxes of transient atmospheric species. JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS AND ATMOSPHERES. 88:6696-6696. 1983
- Lipids in aerosols from the tropical North Pacific: Temporal variability. Journal of Geophysical Research. 87:11133-11133. 1982
- Atmospheric transport of continentally derived lipids to the tropical North Pacific. Nature Nature. 291:312-314. 1981
- A sequencing sediment trap for time-series studies of fragile particles1,2. Limnology and Oceanography. 25:939-943. 1980
- CONSEQUENCES OF OH RADICAL REACTION IN SEA-WATER - FORMATION AND DECAY OF BR2-ION RADICAL. ACS Symposium Series.