CURRICULUM VITAE
Ken Owen Buesseler
Geochemist
Senior Scientist
Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
Mail Stop #25, Clark-447
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Telephone: (508) 289-2309
Fax: (508) 457-2193
Email: kbuesseler@whoi.edu (science office Clark-447)
Home Page: http://cafethorium.whoi.edu
Education
B.A.: Biochemistry and Cell Biology cum laude, University of
California at San Diego, 1981.
Ph.D.: Marine Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program, 1986.
Professional Experience
Lab Technician, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, part-time,
September 1980 to August 1981.
M.I.T. Research Assistantship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Fall 1981 to Spring 1983.
Graduate Research Assistant, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Spring 1983 to Fall 1986.
Post-Doctoral Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
September 1986 to February 1987.
Visiting Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
February 1987 to September 1988.
Assistant Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September
1988 to September 1992.
Adjunct Associate Scientist, Bermuda Biological Station for
Research, Inc., January 1992 to January 1996.
Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September
1992-March 1996.
Associate Program Director, National Science Foundation, Ocean
Sciences Division/Chemical Oceanography Program, September 1996
to
September 1998.
Associate Scientist w/Tenure, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
March 1996-September 2000.
Executive Scientist, US JGOFS Planning and Data Management Office,
Dec. 1998-present.
Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, September
2000-present.
Professional Affiliations
Member, Geochemical Society, 1982-1993.
Editorial Board, Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 1987
to 1993.
Member, American Geophysical Union, 1984 to present.
Member, The Oceanography Society, 1989 to present.
Chair, Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research Working Group
116, 2000 to present.
Research Interests
Upper-ocean biogeochemical cycles and POC export fluxes.
Studies of scavenging and particle cycling processes using man-made
and naturally occurring radionuclides.
Geochemical studies of the Black Sea using Chernobyl radiotracers.
plutonium isotopes and the behavior of fallout Pu in seawater
and groundwater.
Use of radium isotopes and other tracers of submarine groundwater
discharge.
Publications
1. Buesseler, K. O., B. Brown and E. Borchardt (1980). A Limnological
Investigation of Lake Itasca. Itasca Biological Station
publication #1384.
2. Buesseler, K. O., G. Benoit and E. R. Sholkovitz (1985).
A pore water study of plutonium in a seasonally anoxic lake.
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2, 283–292.
3. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and E. R. Sholkovitz
(1985/1986). 239,240Pu and excess 210Pb inventories along
the shelf and slope of the northeast U.S.A. Earth and
Planetary Science Letters, 76, 10–22.
4. Buesseler, K. O. (1986). plutonium Isotopes in the North
Atlantic. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography,
220 pp.
5. Kempe, S., H. Nies, V. Ittekkot, E. T. Degens, K. O. Buesseler,
H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay, S. J. Manganini, E.
Izdar and T. Konuk (1987). Comparison of Chernobyl nuclide
deposition in the Black Sea and in the North Sea. In: Particle
Flux in the Ocean (E. T. Degens, E. Izdar and S. Honjo,
eds.), Mitt. Geol.-Palaont. Inst., Univ. Hamburg, Hamburg,
Germany. SCOPE UNEP Sonderband, Vol. 62, pp. 165–178.
6. Buesseler, K. O. and J. Halverson (1987). The mass spectrometric
analysis of fallout 239Pu and 240Pu in marine samples. Journal
of Environmental Radioactivity, 5(6), 425–444.
7. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay,
S. J. Manganini, E. T. Degens, V. Ittekkot, E. Izdar and T.
Konuk (1987). Chernobyl radionuclides in a Black Sea sediment
trap. Nature, 329, 825–828.
8. Buesseler, K. O. and E. R. Sholkovitz (1987). The geochemistry
of fallout plutonium in the North Atlantic: I. A pore water
study in shelf, slope and deep-sea sediments. Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta, 51, 2605–2622.
9. Buesseler, K. O. and E. R. Sholkovitz (1987). The geochemistry
of fallout plutonium in the North Atlantic: II. 240Pu/239Pu
ratios and their significance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta, 51, 2623–2637.
10. Buesseler, K. O. (1987). Chernobyl: Oceanographic studies
in the Black Sea. Oceanus, 30(3), 23–30.
11. Anderson, R. A., R. F. Bopp, K. O. Buesseler and P. E.
Biscaye (1988). Mixing of particles and organic constituents
in sediments from the continental shelf and slope off Cape
Cod: SEEP-I Results. Continental Shelf Research,
8(5-7), 925–946.
12. Livingston, H. D., K. O. Buesseler, E. Izdar and T. Konuk
(1988). Characteristics of Chernobyl fallout in the southern
Black Sea. In: Radionuclides: A Tool for Oceanography
(J. C. Guary, P. Guegueniat and R. J. Pentreath, eds.), Elsevier,
Essex, U.K., pp. 204–216.
13. Buesseler, K. O., S. A. Casso, M. C. Hartman and H. D.
Livingston (1990). Determination of fission-products and actinides
in the Black Sea following the Chernobyl accident. Journal
of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, Articles, 138(1),
33–47.
14. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, S. Honjo, B. J. Hay,
T. Konuk and S. Kempe (1990). Scavenging and particle deposition
in the southwestern Black Sea--evidence from Chernobyl radiotracers.
Deep-Sea Research, 37(3), 413–430.
15. Cochran, J. K., T. McKibbin-Vaughan, M. M. Dornblaser,
D. Hirschberg, H. D. Livingston and K. O. Buesseler (1990).
210Pb scavenging in the open ocean. Earth and Planetary
Science Letters, 97, 332–352.
16. Druffel, E. R. M., L. L. King, R. A. Belastock and K.
O. Buesseler (1990). Growth rate of a deep-sea coral using
210Pb and other isotopes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,
54(5), 1493–1500.
17. Buesseler, K. O. (1991). Do
upper-ocean sediment traps provide an accurate record of particle
flux? (PDF) Nature, 353, 420–423.
18. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and S. A. Casso (1991).
Mixing between oxic and anoxic waters of the Black Sea as
traced by Chernobyl cesium isotopes. Deep-Sea Research,
38(Suppl. 2), S725–S745.
19. Sanchez, A. L., J. Gastaud, V. Noshkin and K. Buesseler
(1991). plutonium oxidation states in the southwestern Black
Sea: Evidence regarding the origin of the cold intermediate
layer. Deep-Sea Research, 38(Suppl. 2), S845–S854.
20. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston and S. A. Casso (1991).
Ruthenium-106 in the Black Sea. In: Black Sea Oceanography
(E. Izdar and J.W. Murray, eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Netherlands, pp. 229–243.
21. Polikarpov, G. G., H. D. Livingston, L. G. Kulebakina,
K. O. Buesseler, N. A. Stokozov and S. A. Casso (1992). Inflow
of Chernobyl 90Sr to the Black Sea from the Dnepr River. Estuarine,
Coastal and Shelf Science, 34, 315–320.
22. Buesseler, K.O., J.K. Cochran, M.P. Bacon, H.D. Livingston,
S.A. Casso, D. Hirschberg, M.C. Hartman and A.P. Fleer (1992).
Determination of thorium isotopes in seawater by non-destructive
and radiochemical procedures. Deep-Sea Research,
39(7/8), 1103–1114.
23. Buesseler, K. O., M. P. Bacon, J. K. Cochran and H. D.
Livingston (1992). Carbon and nitrogen export during the JGOFS
North Atlantic bloom experiment estimated from 234Th:238U
disequilibria. Deep-Sea Research, 39(7/8), 1115–1137.
24. Moran, S. B. and K. O. Buesseler (1992). Short residence
time of colloids in the upper ocean off Bermuda. Nature,
359, 221–223.
25. Keafer, B. A., K. O. Buesseler and D. M. Anderson (1992).
Burial of living dinoflagellate cysts in estuarine and nearshore
sediments. Marine Micropaleontology, 20, 147–161.
26. Buesseler, K. O. (1993). Thermal ionization mass spectrometry.
In: Development and evaluation of alternative radioanalytical
methods, including mass spectrometry for marine materials,
Proceedings of an Advisory Group Meeting, Monaco, 6-9 June
1989, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA-TECDOC-683,
pg. 45-52.
27. Cochran, J. K., K. O. Buesseler, M. P. Bacon and H. D.
Livingston (1993). Thorium isotopes as indicators of particle
dynamics in the upper watercolumn: Results from the JGOFS
North Atlantic Bloom Experiment. Deep-Sea Research,
40(8), 1569-1595.
28. Moran, S. B., and K. O. Buesseler (1993). Size-fractionated
234Th in continental shelf waters off New England: implications
for the role of colloids in oceanic trace metal scavenging.
Journal of Marine Research, 51, 893-922.
29. Polikarpov, G. G., K. O. Buesseler, S. A. Casso, L. G.
Kulebakina, H. D. Livingston and N. A. Stokosov (1993). Discharge
of 90Sr form 1986-1990 with the waters of Dnepr River to the
Black Sea. Aquatic Resources, 20(3), 387-390 (in
Russian).
30. Buesseler, K. O. and C. R. Benitez (1994). Determination
of mass accumulation rates and sediment radionuclide inventories
in the deep Black Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I,
41(11/12):1605-1615.
31. Buesseler, K. O., H. D. Livingston, L. Ivanov, and A.
Romanov (1994). Stability of the Oxic/Anoxic Interface in
the Black Sea. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 41(2), 283-296.
32. Buesseler, K. O., A. F. Michaels, D. A. Siegel, A. H.
Knap (1994). A Three Dimensional Time-Dependent Approach to
Calibrating Sediment Trap Fluxes. Global Biogeochemical
Cycles, 8(2), 179-193.
33. Hartman, M. C. and K. O. Buesseler (1994). Adsorbers for
In-Situ Collection and At-Sea Gamma Analysis of Dissolved
Thorium-234 in Seawater. WHOI Technical Report, WHOI-94-15.
34. Michaels, A. F., N. R. Bates, K. O. Buesseler, C. A. Carlson,
and A. H. Knap (1994). Carbon System Imbalances in the Sargasso
Sea. Nature, 372, 537-540.
35. Waser, N. A., A. P Fleer, T. R. Hammar, K. O. Buesseler
and M. P. Bacon (1994). Determination of Natural 32P and 33P
in Rainwater, Marine Particles and Plankton by Low-Level Beta
Counting. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research,
A, 338, 560-567.
36. Buesseler, K. O., J. A. Andrews, M. C. Hartman, R. Belastock,
and F. Chai (1995). Regional Estimates of the Export Flux
of Particulate Organic Carbon Derived from Thorium-234 During
the JGOFS EQPAC Program. Deep-Sea Research Part II,
42(2-3), 777-804.
37. Cochran, J. K., D. J. Hirschberg, H. D. Livingston, K.
O. Buesseler, and R. M. Key (1995). Natural and Anthropogenic
Radionuclide Distributions in the Nansen Basin, Arctic Ocean:
Scavenging Rates and Circulation Timescales. Deep-Sea
Research Part II, 42(6), 1495-1517.
38. Moran, S. B., J. A. Hoff, K. O. Buesseler, and R. L. Edwards
(1995). High Precision 230Th and 232Th in the Norwegian Sea
by Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry. Geophysical Research
Letters, 22(19), 2589-2592.
39. Murnane, R. J., J. K. Cochran, K. O. Buesseler, and M.
P. Bacon (1996). Least-squares Estimates of Thorium, Particle,
and Nutrient Cycling Rate Constants from the JGOFS North Atlantic
Bloom Experiment. Deep-Sea Research Part I, 43(2),
239-258.
40. Buesseler, K.O. and H.D. Livingston (1996). Natural and
Man-Made Radionuclides in the Black Sea. In: Radionuclides
in the Oceans, Inputs and Inventories, P. Guéguéniat,
P. Germain and H. Métivier, eds. Institut de Protection
et de Surete Nucleaire, Cherbourg, France, 199-217.
41. Buesseler, K., J. Bauer, R. Chen, T Eglinton, Ö.
Gustafsson, W. Landing, K. Mopper, S. B. Moran, P. Santschi,
R. Vernon Clark, M. Wells (1996). An Intercomparison of Cross-Flow
filtration Techniques Used for Sampling Marine Colloids: Overview
and Organic Carbon Results. Marine Chemistry, 55(1/2),
1-31.
42. Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, and P. M. Gschwend
(1996). On the Integrity of Cross-Flow Filtration for Marine
Organic Colloids. Marine Chemistry, 55(1/2), 93-112
43. Buesseler, K.O. and H.D. Livingston (1997). Time-series
profiles of 134Cs, 137Cs and 90Sr in the Black Sea. NATO ARW
on “Sensitivity of North Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea
to Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes” (E. Ozsoy and
A. Mikaelyan, eds.) Kluwer Academic Publishers, The
Netherlands, 239-251.
44. Gustafsson, Ö., P.M. Gschwend and K.O. Buesseler
(1997). Using 234Th disequilibria to estimate the vertical
removal rates of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from the
surface ocean. Marine Chemistry, 57, 11-23.
45. Buesseler, K. O. (1997). The Isotopic Signature of Fallout
plutonium in the North Pacific. Journal of Environmental
Radioactivity, 36 (1), 69-83.
46. Gustafsson, Ö., P.M. Gschwend and K.O. Buesseler
(1997). Settling Removal Rates of PCBs into the Northwestern
Atlantic Derived from 238U-234Th Disequilibria. Env. Sci.
and Tech., 31, 3544-3550.
47. Buesseler, K.O. (1998). The de-coupling of production
and particulate export in the surface ocean. Global Biogoechemical
Cycles, 12 (2), 297-310.
48. Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. O. Buesseler (1998). New techniques
for the measurement of 32P and 33P activities in rain and
seawater. Analytical Chemistry, 70 (1), 64-72.
49. Dai, M., K. O. Buesseler, P. Ripple, J. Andrews, R. Belastock,
O. Gustafsson and S. B. Moran (1998). Evaluation of two cross-flow
ultrafiltration membranes for their ability to isolate marine
organic colloids. Marine Chemistry, 62, 117-136.
50. Gustafsson, Ö., K. O. Buesseler, W. Rockwell Geyer,
S. Bradley Moran and P. M. Gschwend (1998). On the Relative
Significance of Horizontal and Vertical Transport of Chemicals
in the Coastal Ocean: Application of a Two-Dimensional Th-234
Cycling Model. Cont. Shelf Res. 18, 805-829.
51. Buesseler, K. O., L. Ball, J. Andrews, C. Benitez-Nelson,
R. Belastock, F. Chai and Y. Chao (1998). Upper Ocean Export
of Particulate Organic Carbon in the Arabian Sea derived from
Thorium-234. Deep-Sea Research Part II, Arabian Sea
Volume, 45 (10-11), 2461-2487.
52. Lee, C., D. W. Murray, R. T. Barber, K. O. Buesseler,
J. Dymond, J. I. Hedges, S. Honjo, S. J. Manganini, J. Marra,
C. Moser, M. L. Peterson, W. L. Prell and S. G. Wakeham (1998).
Particulate organic carbon fluxes: Results from the U.S. JGOFS
Arabian Sea Process Study. Deep-Sea Research Part II,
Arabian Sea Volume, 45 (10-11), 2489-2501.
53. Stokozov, N.A. and K.O. Buesseler (1999). Mixing Model
for the NW Black Sea Using Sr-90 and Salinity as Tracers.
J. Environ. Radioactivity, 43 (2), 173-186.
54. Stanev, E., K. O. Buesseler, J. V. Staneva, and H. D.
Livingston (1999). The fate of Chernobyl 90Sr in the Black
Sea: validation of numerical simulations against observed
data. J. Environ. Radioactivity, 43 (2), 187-204.
55. Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. Buesseler. (1999). Temporal
variability of inorganic and organic phosphorus in the coastal
ocean. Nature, 398, 502-505.
56. Benitez-Nelson, C. and K. Buesseler. (1999). 32P, 33P,
7Be and 210Pb as Tracers of Aerosol Residence Times and
Statosphere/Troposphere Exchange. J. Geophys. Res.,
104 (D9), 11,745-11,754.
57. Staneva, J., K.O. Buesseler, E. Stanev, and H.D. Livingston
(1999). Application of radiotracers to study Black Sea circulation:
Validation of numerical simultions against observed weapon
testing and Chernobyl 137Cs tracers. J. Geophys. Res.
104 (C5), 11,099-11,114.
58. Bidigare, R.R., Hanson, K.L., Buesseler, K.O., Wakeham,
S.G., Freeman, K.H., Pancost, R.D., Millero, F.J., Steinberg,
P., Popp, B.N., Latasa, M., Landry, M.R. and E.A. Laws (1999).
Iron-stimulated changes in 13C fractionation and export by
equatorial Pacific phytoplankton. Paleoceanography,
vol. 14, No. 5, 589-595.
59. Buesseler, K.O., Steinberg, D.K., Michaels, A.F., Johnson,
R.J., Andrews, J.E., Valdes, J.R., and J.F. Price (2000).
A comparison of the
quantity and quality of material caught in a neutrally buoyant
versus surface-tethered sediment trap. (PDF) Deep-Sea
Research Part I, 47, 277-294.
60. Benitez-Nelson, C., Buesseler, K., and G. Crossin. (2000).
Upper ocean
carbon export, horizontal transport, and vertical eddy diffusivity
in the southwestern Gulf of Maine. (PDF) Cont. Shelf.
Res., 20, 707-736.
61. Buesseler, K.O. and M. Charette (2000). Commentary
on: How accurate are the 234Th based particulate residence
times in the ocean? (PDF) by G. Kim, N. Hussain, and T.
Church. Geophys. Res. Letts., 27 (13), 1939-1940.
62. Boyd, P. W., A. Watson, C. S. Law, E. Abraham, T. Trull,
R. Murdoch, D. C. E. Bakker, A. R. Bowie, K. Buesseler, H.
Chang, M. Charette, P. Croot, K. Downing, R. Frew, M. Gall,
M. Hadfield, J. Hall, M. Harvey, G. Jameson, J. Laroche, M.
Liddicoat, R. Ling, M.T. Maldonado, R.M. Mckay, S. Nodder,
S. Pickmere, R. Pridmore, S. Rintoul, K. Safi, P. Sutton,
R. Strzepek, K. Tanneberger, S. Turner, A. Waite & J.
Zeldis (2000). A
mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean
stimulated by iron fertilisation. (PDF) Nature,
407, 695-702.
63. Charette, M. A. and K. O. Buesseler (2000).
Does iron fertilization lead to rapid carbon export in the
Southern Ocean? (PDF) Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems,
1, Paper 2000GC000069.
64. Cochran, J. K, K. O. Buesseler, M. P. Bacon, H. W. Wang,
D. J. Hirschberg, L. Ball, J. Andrews, G. Crossin and A. Fleer
(2000). Short-lived
thorium isotopes (234Th, 228Th) as indicators of POC export
and particle cycling in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean. (PDF)
Deep-Sea Research Part II, 47 (15-16), 3451-3490.
65. Dai, M.H., K.O. Buesseler, J.M. Kelley, J. E. Andrews,
S. Pike and J.F. Wacker (2001). Size
Fractionated plutonium Isotopes in a Coastal Environment.
(PDF) J. Environ. Radioactivity, 53 (1), 9-25.
66. Nodder, S. D., Charette, M. A., Waite, A. M., Trull, T.
W., Boyd, P. W., Zeldis, J., and K. O. Buesseler (2001) Particle
transformations and export flux during an in situ iron-stimulated
algal bloom in the Southern Ocean (PDF). Geophysical Research
Letters, 28 (12), 2409-2412.
67. Buesseler, K. O., C. Benitez-Nelson, Rutgers van der Loeff,
M., Andrews, J., Ball, L., Crossin, G., and M. Charette (2001).
An intercomparison
of small- and large-volume techniques for thorium-234 in seawater.
(PDF) Marine Chemistry, 74, 15-28.
68. Charette, M. A., K. O. Buesseler and J. E. Andrews (2001).
Utility of radium isotopes for evaluating the input and transport
of groundwater-derived nitrogen to a Cape Cod estuary. Limnology
and Oceanography, 46(2), 465-470.
69. Buesseler, K.O., L. Ball, J. Andrews, J. K. Cochran, D.
J. Hirschberg, M. P. Bacon, A. Fleer and M. Brzezinski (2001).
Upper
ocean export of particulate organic carbon and biogenic silica
in the Southern Ocean along 170°W. (PDF) Deep-Sea
Research Part II, 48, 4275-4297.
70. Benitez-Nelson, C., K. O. Buesseler, Rutgers van der Loeff,
M., Andrews, J., Ball, L., Crossin, G., and M. Charette (2001).
Testing a new small-volume technique for determining thorium-234
in seawater. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry,
248 (3), 795-799.
71. Benitez-Nelson, C., K. O. Buesseler, D. Karl and J. Andrews
(2001). A
time-series study of particular matter export in the North
Pacific Subtropical Gyre based upon 234Th:238U disequilibrium.
(PDF) Deep-Sea Research Part I, 48, 2595-2611.
72. Nelson, D.M., R.F. Anderson, R.T. Barber, M.A. Brzezinski,
K.O. Buesseler, Z. Chase, R.W. Collier, M.-L. Dickson, R.François,
M. Hiscock, S. Honjo, J. Marra, W.R. Martin, R.N. Sambrotto,
F.L. Sayles and D.E. Sigmon (2002). Vertical
budgets for organic carbon and biogenic silica in the Pacific
sector of the Southern Ocean, 1996-1998. (PDF) Deep-Sea
Research Part II, 49 (9-10), 1,645-1,673.
73. Dai, M. H., J. M. Kelley and K. O. Buesseler (2002). Sources
and migration of plutonium in groundwater at the Savannah
River Site. (PDF) Environmental Science and Technology.
36, 3690-3699.
74. Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M, K.O. Buesseler, U. Bathmann,
I. Hense and J. Andrews (2002). Comparison
of carbon and opal export rates between summer and spring
bloom periods in the region of the Antarctic Polar Front,
SE Atlantic. (PDF) Deep-Sea Research Part II,
49 (18), 3849-3870.
75. Buesseler, K. O., Dai, M. and M. Hassellöv (2003).
Commentary on: “Trace Metal Levels in Uncontaminated
Groundwater of a Coastal Watershed: Importance of Colloidal
Forms” by Sañudo-Wilhelmy et al.” (PDF)
Environmental Science and Technology. 37(30), 657-658.
76. Buesseler, K.O., Barber, R.T., Dickson, M-L, Hiscock,
M.R., Moore, J.K., and R. Sambrotto (2003). The
effect of marginal ice-edge dynamics on production and export
in the Southern Ocean along 170ºW. (PDF) Deep-Sea
Research Part II. 50(3-4), 579 - 603.
77. Buesseler, K.O., Boyd, P.W. (2003). Will
Ocean Fertilization Work? Science, 300, 67-68.
78. Sweeney, E. N., McGillicuddy, D.J., and K.O. Buesseler
(2003). Biogeochemical
Impacts due to Mesoscale Eddy Activity in the Sargasso Sea
as Measured at the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series (BATS) Site.
(PDF) Deep-Sea Research Part I, 50, 3017-3039.
79. Charette, M.A. and K.O. Buesseler (2004). Submarine
groundwater discharge of nutrients and copper in an urban
subestuary of Chesapeake Bay (Elizabeth River) (PDF).
Limnology and Oceanography, 49(2), 376-385.
80. Buesseler, K.O., J.E. Andrews, S.M. Pike and M.A. Charette
(2004). The
effects of iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the
Southern Ocean. Science, 304: 414-417.
81. Coale, K.H., K.S. Johnson, F.P. Chavez, K.O. Buesseler,
R.T. Barber, M.A. Brzezinski, W.P. Cochlan, F.J. Millero,
P.G. Falkowski, J.E. Bauer, R.H. Wanninkhof, R.M. Kudela,
M.A. Altabet, B.E. Hales, T. Takahashi, M.R. Landry, R.R.
Bidigare, X. Wang, Z. Chase, P.G. Strutton, G.E. Friederich,
M.Y. Gorbunov, V.P. Lance, A.K. Hilting, M.R. Hiscock, M.
Demarest, W.T. Hiscock, K.F. Sullivan, S.J. Tanner, R. M.
Gordon, C.L. Hunter, V.A. Elrod, S.E. Fitwater, J.L. Jones,
S. Tozzi, M. Koblizek, A.E. Roberts, J. Herndon, J. Brewster,
N. Ladizinsky, G. Smith, D. Cooper, D. Timothy, S.L. Brown,
K.E. Selph, C.C. Sheridan, B.S. Twining and Z.I. Johnson (2004).
Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment
(SOFeX): Carbon cycling in high- and low-Si waters. Science,
304: 408-414.
82. Savoye, N., K.O. Buesseler, D. Cardinal and F. Dehairs
(2004). 234Th deficit and excess
in the Southern Ocean during spring 2001: particle export
and mineralization. Geophysical Research Letters,
31, L12301, doi: 10.1029/2004GL019744.
83. Stanley, R.H.R., K.O. Buesseler, S.J. Manganini, D.K.
Steinberg and J.R. Valdes (2004). A
Comparison of Major and Minor Elemental Fluxes collected using
Neutrally Buoyant and Surface-Tethered Traps (PDF). Deep-Sea
Research Part I, 51, 1387-1395.
84. Buesseler, K.O., J.E. Andrews, S. Pike, M.A. Charette,
L.E. Goldson, M.A. Brzezinski and V.P. Lance (2005). Particle
export during the Southern Ocean Iron Experiment (SOFeX).
(PDF) Limnology and Oceanography, 50: 311-327.
85. Dai, M., K. O. Buesseler, S. M. Pike (2005). Plutonium
in groundwater at the 100K-Area of the U.S. DOE Hanford Site.
(PDF) Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 76: 167-189.
86. Pike, S.M., K.O. Buesseler, J. Andrews and N. Savoye
(2005). Quantification
of 234Th recovery in small volume sea water samples by inductively
coupled plasma mass spectrometry. (PDF) Journal of
Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 263(2): 355-360.
87. Povinec, P.P., A. Aarkrog, K.O. Buesseler, R. Delfanti,
K. Hirose, G.H. Hong, T. Ito, H.D. Livingston, H. Nies, B.E.
Noshkin, S. Shima and O. Togawa (2005). 90Sr,
137Cs and 239,240Pu surface water time series in the Pacific
and Indian Oceans - WOMARS results. (PDF) Journal
of Environmental Radioactivity, 81: 63-87.
88. de Baar, H., P. Boyd, K. Coale, A. Tsuda, D. Bakker, Y. Bozec, M. Brzezinski, K. Buesseler, M. Boye, P. Croot, F. Gervais, M. Gorbunov, P. Harrison, W. Hiscock, P. Laan, C. Lancelot, M. Levasseur, A. Marchetti, J. Nishioka, Y. Nojiri, T. van Oijen, U. Riebesell, S. Takeda, K. Timmermans, M. Veldhuis and others (2005). Synthesis of iron fertilization experiments: From the Iron Age in the Age of Enlightenment. Journal of Geophysical Research, 110: C09S16, doi:10.1029/2004JC002601.
89. Ball, L.A., J.E. Andrews and K.O. Buesseler (2005). Thorium fluxes and carbon export from the Ross Sea: A preliminary report. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 33: 262-260.
90. Buesseler, K.O., C.R. Benitez-Nelson, S.B. Moran, A. Burd, M. Charette, J. K. Cochran, L. Coppola, N.S. Fisher, S.W. Fowler, W.D. Gardner, L.D. Guo, O. Gustafsson, C. Lamborg, P. Masque, J.C. Miquel, U. Passow, P.H. Santschi, N. Savoye, G. Stewart and T. Trull (2006). An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy. Marine Chemistry, 100: 213-233.
91. Rutgers van der Loeff, M., M.M. Sarin, M. Baskaran, C. Benitez-Nelson, K.O. Buesseler, M. Charette, M. Dai, Ö. Gustafsson, P. Masque, P.J. Morris, K. Orlandini, A. Rodriguez y Baena, N. Savoye, S. Schmidt, R. Turnewitsch, I. Vöge and J.T. Waples (2006). A review of present techniques and methodological advances in analyzing 234Th in aquatic systems. Marine Chemistry, 100: 190-212.
92. Savoye, N., C. Benitez-Nelson, A.B. Burd, J.K. Cochran,
M. Charette, K.O. Buesseler, G.A. Jackson, M. Roy-Barman, S.
Schmidt and M. Elskens (2006). 234Th sorption and export models in the water column: a review. Marine Chemistry, 100: 234-249.
93. Glover, D.M., C.L. Chandler, S.C. Doney, K.O. Buesseler, G. Heimerdinger, J.K.B. Bishop and G.R. Flierl
(2006). The U.S. JGOFS data management experience. Deep-Sea Research II, 53(5-7): 793-802.
94. Boyd, P.W., T. Jickells, C.S. Law, S. Blain, E.A. Boyle, K.O. Buesseler, K.H. Coale, J.J. Cullen, H.J.W. de Baar, M. Follows, M. Harvey, C. Lancelot, M. Levasseur, N.P.J. Owens, R. Pollard, R.B. Rivkin, J. Sarmiento, V. Schoemann, V. Smetacek, S. Takeda, A. Tsuda, S. Turner and A.J. Watson (2007). A synthesis of mesoscale iron-enrichment experiments 1993-2005: key findings and implications for ocean biogeochemistry. Science, 315: 612-617.
95. Hassellöv, M., K.O. Buesseler, S.M. Pike and M. Dai (2007). Application of cross-flow filtration for the determination of colloidal abundances in suboxic ferrous-rich ground waters. Science of the Total Environment, 372(2-3): 636-644 .
96. Buesseler, K.O., C.H. Lamborg, P.W. Boyd, P.J. Lam, T.W. Trull, R.R. Bidigare, J.K.B. Bishop, K.L. Casciotti, F. Dehairs, M. Elskens, M. Honda, D.M. Karl, D. Siegel, M.W. Silver, D.K. Steinberg, J. Valdes, B. Van Mooy and S. Wilson (2007). Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone. Science, 316: 567-570, DOI: 10.1126/science.1137959.
97. McGillicuddy, Jr., D.J., L.A. Anderson, N.R. Bates, T. Bibby, K.O. Buesseler, C. Carlson, C.S. Davis, C. Ewart, P.G. Falkowski, S.A. Goldthwait, D.A. Hansell, W.J. Jenkins, R. Johnson, V.K. Kosnyrev, J.R. Ledwell, Q.P. Li, D.A. Siegel, and D.K. Steinberg (2007). Eddy-Wind Interactions Stimulate Extraordinary Mid-Ocean Plankton Blooms. Science, 316: 1021-1026, DOI: 10.1126/science.1136256.
98. Buesseler, K.O., A.N. Antia, M. Chen, S.W. Fowler, W.D.
Gardner, Ö. Gustaffson, K. Harada, A.F. Michaels, M. Rutgers van der Loeff, M. Sarin, D.K. Steinberg and T. Trull (2007). An assessment of the use of sediment traps for estimating upper ocean particle fluxes. Journal of Marine Research, 65(3): 345-416.
99. Siegel, D.A., E. Fields and K.O. Buesseler (2008). A bottom-up view of the biological pump: Modeling statistical funnels above ocean sediment traps. Deep-Sea Research I, 55(1): 108-127.
100. Andrews, J.E., C. Hartin, and K.O. Buesseler (2008). Beryllium-7 analyses in seawater by low background gamma spectroscopy. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 277(1): 253-259.
101. Steinberg, D.K., B.A.S. Van Mooy, K.O. Buesseler, P.W. Boyd, T. Kobari and D.M. Karl (2008). Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53(4): 1327-1338.
102. Buesseler, K.O., C. Lamborg, P. Cai, R. Escoube, R. Johnson, S. Pike, P. Masque, D. McGillicuddy and E. Verdeny (2008). Particle fluxes associated with mesoscale eddies in the Sargasso Sea. Deep-Sea Research II, 55: 1426-1444.
103. Buesseler, K.O. and and R.S. Lampitt (2008). Introduction to Understanding the Ocean's Biological Pump: results from VERTIGO. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1519-1521.
104. Buesseler, K.O., T.W. Trull, D.K. Steinberg, M.W. Silver, D.A. Siegel, S.-I. Saitoh, C.H. Lamborg, P.J. Lam, D.M. Karl, N.Z. Jiao, M.C. Honda, M.Elskens, F. Dehairs, S.L. Brown, P.W. Boyd, J.K.B. Bishop and R.R. Bidigare (2008b). VERTIGO (VERtical Transport In the Global Ocean): a study of particle sources and flux attenuation in the North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1522-1539.
105. Lamborg, C. et al. (2008). The flux of bio- and lithogenic material associated with sinking particles in the mesopelagic “Twilight Zone” of the northwest and north central Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1540-1563.
106. Lamborg, C.H., K.O. Buesseler, and P.J. Lam (2008). Sinking fluxes of minor and trace elements in the North Pacific Ocean measured during the VERTIGO program. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1564-1577.
107. Elskens, M., N. Brion, K.O. Buesseler, B.A.S. Van Mooy, P. Boyd, F. Dehairs. N. Savoyes and W. Baeyens (2008). Primary, new and export production in the NW Pacific Subarctic Gyre during the VERTIGO K2 experiments. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1594-1604.
108. Wilson, S.E., D.K. Steinberg, and K.O. Buesseler (2008). Changes in fecal pellet characteristics with depth as indicators of zooplankton repackaging of particles in the mesopelagic zone. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1636-1647.
109. Dehairs, F., S. Jacquet, N. Savoye, B.A.S. Van Mooy, K.O. Buesseler, J.K.B. Bishop, C.H. Lamborg, M. Elskens, W. Baeyens, P.W. Boyd, K.L. Casciotti and C. Monnin (2008). Barium in twilight zone suspended matter as a potential proxy for particulate organic carbon mineralization: Results for the North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1673-1683.
110. Trull, T.W., S. Bray, K.O. Buesseler, C. Lamborg, S. Manganini, C. Moy, and J. Valdes (2008). In-situ measurement of mesopelagic particle sinking rates and the control of carbon transfer to the ocean interior during the Vertical Flux in the Global Ocean (VERTIGO) voyages in the North Pacific. Deep-Sea Research II, 55(14-15): 1684-1695.
Manuscripts Submitted, Accepted or In Press:
111. Filella, M., E. Balnois, K.O. Buesseler, M. Dai, M. Hassellöv, F. von der Kammer, J.-L. Loizeau, D. Perret, T. Schäfer, C. Walther (2008). Particle size distributions in water samples: A practical guide to pre-fractionation and fractionation techniques. Submitted to Water Research.
112.
Baeyens W., M. Elskens, M. Leermakers, F. Dehairs, J. Bishop, C. Lamborg, and K. Buesseler (2008). A trace element diet for phytoplankton growth. Submitted to Science.
Non-Peer Reviewed:
Buesseler, K.O., Measuring the "F" in JGOFS? A New Way to Catch the Rain (PDF). U.S. JGOFS News, 10,2 (1999).
Buesseler, K.O. (2001). Ocean Biogeochemistry and the Global Carbon Cycle: An Introduction to the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study. Oceanography, 14(4): 5.
Ducklow, H.W., D.K. Steinberg, and K.O. Buesseler (2001). Upper Ocean Carbon Export and the Biological Pump. Oceanography, 14(4): 50-58.
Fasham, M.J.R., B.M. Balino, M.C. Bowles, R. Anderson, D. Archer, U. Bathmann, P. Boyd, K. Buesseler, P. Burkill, A. Bychkov, C. Carlson, C.T.A. Chen, S. Doney, H. Ducklow, S. Emerson, R. Feely, G. Feldman, V. Garcon, D. Hansell, R. Hanson, P. Harrison, S. Honjo, C. Jeandel, D. Karl, R. Le Borgne, K.K. Liu, K. Lochte, F. Louanchi, R. Lowry, A. Michaels, P. Monfray, J. Murray, A. Oschlies, T. Platt, J. Priddle, R. Quinones, D. Ruiz-Pino, T. Saino, E. Sakshaug, G. Shimmield, S. Smith, W. Smith, T. Takahashi, P. Treguer, D. Wallace, R. Wanninkhof, A. Watson, J. Willebrand, C.S. Wong (2001). A new vision of ocean biogeochemistry after a decade of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), AMBIO, Sp. Iss. , 10, 4-31
Steinberg, D., H. Ducklow, K.O. Buesseler and M. Bowles (2003). International symposium celebrates completion of JGOFS and previews future studies in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry. EOS, 84(40), 7 October 2003, 413.
Benitez-Nelson, Claudia and The 234Th Group (2004). Future applications of thorium-234 in aquatic ecosystems. EOS, 85(45), 9 November 2004: 471-472.
Buesseler, Ken O., Scott C. Doney, David M. Karl, Philip W. Boyd, Ken Caldeira, Fei Chai, Kenneth H. Coale, Hein J. W. de Baar, Paul G. Falkowski, Kenneth S. Johnson, Richard S. Lampitt, Anthony F. Michaels, S. W. A. Naqvi, Victor Smetacek, Shigenobu Takeda, Andrew J. Watson (2008). Ocean Iron Fertilization--Moving Forward in a Sea of Uncertainty. Science, 319 (5860): 162 DOI: 10.1126/science.1154305.
Dehairs, F., A. de Brauwere, M. Elskens, U. Bathmann, S. Becquevort, S. Blain, P. Boyd, K. Buesseler, E. Buitenhaus, M. Gehlen, G. Herndl, C. Klass, R. Lampitt, D. Lefevre, U. Passow, H. Plous, F. Primeau, L. Stemmann and T. Trull (2008). Controls on Organic Carbon Export and Twilight Zone Remineralization: An Overview of the EUROCEANS Workshop. Oceanography, 21(3): 92-95.
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