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Overview

Brian A. Bergamaschi is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable emphasis on subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, water science and technology, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work extensively covers marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, peatlands and wetlands ecology, isotope analysis in ecology, fish ecology and management studies, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and marine biology and ecology research.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Brian A. Bergamaschi has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • B. A. Pellerin
  • Lisamarie Windham-Myers
  • Peter J. Hernes
  • Tamara E. C. Kraus
  • Bryan D. Downing

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Hydrologic Export Is a Major Component of Coastal Wetland Carbon Budgets," 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Tidal Wetland Gross Primary Production Across the Continental United States, 2000-2019," 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Optical Properties of Water for Prediction of Wastewater Contamination, Human-Associated Bacteria, and Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Surface Water at Three Watershed Scales," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Combining Eddy Covariance and Chamber Methods to Better Constrain CO2 and CH4 Fluxes Across a Heterogeneous Restored Tidal Wetland," 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Monitoring Turbidity in San Francisco Estuary and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Using Satellite Remote Sensing," 2021, JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Best Publications

  • Evaluation of specific ultraviolet absorbance as an indicator of the chemical composition and reactivity of dissolved organic carbon.

    James L Weishaar;George R Aiken;Brian A Bergamaschi;Miranda S Fram

  • Optical properties of dissolved organic matter (DOM): Effects of biological and photolytic degradation

    Angela M. Hansen;Tamara E. C. Kraus;Brian A. Pellerin;Jacob A. Fleck

  • The effect of grain size and surface area on organic matter, lignin and carbohydrate concentration, and molecular compositions in Peru Margin sediments

    Brian A. Bergamaschi;Elizabeth Tsamakis;Richard G. Keil;Timothy I. Eglinton

  • The river as a chemostat: fresh perspectives on dissolved organic matter flowing down the river continuum

    Irena F. Creed;Diane M. McKnight;Brian A. Pellerin;Mark B. Green

  • Taking the pulse of snowmelt: in situ sensors reveal seasonal, event and diurnal patterns of nitrate and dissolved organic matter variability in an upland forest stream

    Brian A. Pellerin;John Franco Saraceno;James B. Shanley;Stephen D. Sebestyen

  • Use and environmental occurrence of antibiotics in freestall dairy farms with manured forage fields.

    Naoko Watanabe;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Keith A. Loftin;Michael T. Meyer

  • Tannin diagenesis in mangrove leaves from a tropical estuary: a novel molecular approach

    Peter J Hernes;Ronald Benner;Gregory L Cowie;Miguel A Goñi

  • High-Frequency in Situ Optical Measurements During a Storm Event: Assessing Relationships Between Dissolved Organic Matter, Sediment Concentrations, and Hydrologic Processes

    John Franco Saraceno;Brian A. Pellerin;Bryan D. Downing;Emmanuel Boss

  • Diurnal variability in riverine dissolved organic matter composition determined by in situ optical measurement in the San Joaquin River (California, USA)

    Robert G. M. Spencer;Brian A. Pellerin;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Bryan D. Downing

  • Seeing the light: The effects of particles, dissolved materials, and temperature on in situ measurements of DOM fluorescence in rivers and streams

    Bryan D. Downing;Brian A. Pellerin;Brian A. Bergamaschi;John Franco Saraceno

  • Fluorescence‐based proxies for lignin in freshwater dissolved organic matter

    Peter J. Hernes;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Robert S. Eckard;Robert G. M. Spencer

  • Covariance of bacterioplankton composition and environmental variables in a temperate delta system

    Ramunas Stepanauskas;Mary Ann Moran;Brian A. Bergamaschi;James T. Hollibaugh

  • Tidally driven export of dissolved organic carbon, total mercury, and methylmercury from a mangrove-dominated estuary.

    Brian A. Bergamaschi;David P. Krabbenhoft;George R. Aiken;Eduardo Patino

  • The role of hydrologic regimes on dissolved organic carbon composition in an agricultural watershed

    Peter J. Hernes;Robert G.M. Spencer;Rachael Y. Dyda;Brian A. Pellerin

  • Quantifying fluxes and characterizing compositional changes of dissolved organic matter in aquatic systems in situ using combined acoustic and optical measurements

    Bryan D. Downing;Emmanuel Boss;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Jacob A. Fleck

  • High-Resolution Remote Sensing of Water Quality in the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary.

    Cédric G. Fichot;Bryan D. Downing;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Lisamarie Windham-Myers

  • Environmental occurrence and shallow ground water detection of the antibiotic monensin from dairy farms.

    Naoko Watanabe;Thomas H. Harter;Brian A. Bergamaschi

  • Mississippi River nitrate loads from high frequency sensor measurements and regression-based load estimation.

    Brian A. Pellerin;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Robert J. Gilliom;Charles G. Crawford

  • Assessing the sources and magnitude of diurnal nitrate variability in the San Joaquin River (California) with an in situ optical nitrate sensor and dual nitrate isotopes

    Brian A. Pellerin;Bryan D. Downing;Carol Kendall;Randy A. Dahlgren

  • Comparative analyses of DOC and DON in natural waters

    John I. Hedges;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Ronald Benner

  • Optical Techniques for the Determination of Nitrate in Environmental Waters: Guidelines for Instrument Selection, Operation, Deployment, Maintenance, Quality Assurance, and Data Reporting

    Brian A. Pellerin;Brian A. Bergamaschi;Bryan D. Downing;John Franco Saraceno

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Hernes
Peter J. Hernes University of California, Davis
Robert G. M. Spencer
Robert G. M. Spencer Florida State University
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
George R. Aiken
George R. Aiken United States Geological Survey
Sara H. Knox
Sara H. Knox McGill University
John I. Hedges
John I. Hedges University of Washington
Thomas Harter
Thomas Harter University of California, Davis
Emmanuel Boss
Emmanuel Boss University of Maine
David H. Schoellhamer
David H. Schoellhamer United States Geological Survey
Randy A. Dahlgren
Randy A. Dahlgren University of California, Davis

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