Bess B. Ward

Research.com Recognitions

• 2012 - Dupont Industrial Biosciences Award in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Best Publications

• Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

  R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

  1250
  Citations

• Nitrogen cycling in the ocean: New perspectives on processes and paradigms

  Jonathan P. Zehr;Bess B. Ward

  650
  Citations

• Nitrogen Uptake, Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Release, and New Production

  Deborah A. Bronk;Patricia M. Glibert;Bess B. Ward

  538
  Citations

• Linking Diversity and Stable Isotope Fractionation in Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria

  Karen L. Casciotti;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Bettie Ward

  388
  Citations

• The marine nitrogen cycle: recent discoveries, uncertainties and the potential relevance of climate change

  Maren Voss;Hermann W. Bange;Joachim W. Dippner;Jack J. Middelburg

  374
  Citations

• Black Sea methane geochemistry

  William S. Reeburgh;Bess B. Ward;Stephen C. Whalen;Kenneth A. Sandbeck

  334
  Citations

• Oligonucleotide microarray for the study of functional gene diversity in the nitrogen cycle in the environment.

  Gaspar Taroncher-Oldenburg;Erin M. Griner;Chris A. Francis;Bess B. Ward

  329
  Citations

• Organic Matter Stoichiometry, Flux, and Oxygen Control Nitrogen Loss in the Ocean

  Andrew R. Babbin;Richard G. Keil;Allan H. Devol;Bess B. Ward

  284
  Citations

• Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics

  Xinning Zhang;Bess B. Ward;Daniel M. Sigman

  282
  Citations

• Nitrification and denitrification: Probing the nitrogen cycle in aquatic environments

  Bess B. Ward

  271
  Citations

• Nitrification in Marine Systems

  Bess B. Ward

  270
  Citations

• Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in Chesapeake Bay Sediments

  Jeremy J. Rich;Olivia R. Dale;Bongkeun Song;Bess B. Ward

  270
  Citations

• Comparison of Nucleic Acid Hybridization and Fluorometry for Measurement of the Relationship between RNA/DNA Ratio and Growth Rate in a Marine Bacterium.

  L. Kerkhof;B. B. Ward

  254
  Citations

• Assimilation of upwelled nitrate by small eukaryotes in the Sargasso Sea

  Sarah E. Fawcett;Michael W. Lomas;John R. Casey;Bess B. Ward

  243
  Citations

• Detection of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria of the beta-subclass of the class Proteobacteria in aquatic samples with the PCR.

  M A Voytek;B B Ward

  238
  Citations

• Bacterial chemolithotrophy in the ocean is associated with sinking particles

  D. M. Karl;G. A. Knauer;J. H. Martin;B. B. Ward

  218
  Citations

• Dissimilatory Nitrite Reductase Genes from Autotrophic Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria

  Karen L. Casciotti;Bess B. Ward

  205
  Citations

• Sponge-mediated nitrification in tropical benthic communities

  M. C. Diaz;B. B. Ward

  204
  Citations

• Diversity of ammonia monooxygenase ( amoA ) genes across environmental gradients in Chesapeake Bay sediments

  Chris A. Francis;Gregory D. O'Mullan;Bess B. Ward

  196
  Citations

• The biogeochemical cycling of elemental mercury: Anthropogenic influences

  Robert P. Mason;W.F. Fitzgerald;François M M Morel;Haewon Park

  0
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