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Christopher L. Osburn is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States and specializes in research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their research primarily focuses on marine and coastal environments, encompassing topics such as Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, and Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research.

Several recent publications illustrate the scope and focus of their contributions to scientific literature:

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Particulate and Dissolved Organic Matter in Stormwater Runoff Influences Oxygen Demand in Urbanized Headwater Catchments, 2021, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Calcification-driven CO 2 emissions exceed "Blue Carbon" sequestration in a carbonate seagrass meadow, 2021, Science Advances
  • Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal watersheds, 2020, Biogeochemistry
  • A call for refining the role of humic-like substances in the oceanic iron cycle, 2020, Scientific Reports

Christopher L. Osburn has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Hans W. Paerl
  • Nathan S. Hall
  • Alexandria G. Hounshell
  • Jacob C. Rudolph
  • Marie Cindy Lebrasse

Their work has been published repeatedly in specific venues such as Biogeochemistry, Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Estuaries and Coasts, The Science of The Total Environment, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences.

Best Publications

  • Fluorescence tracking of dissolved and particulate organic matter quality in a river-dominated estuary.

    Christopher L. Osburn;Lauren T. Handsel;Molly P. Mikan;Hans W. Paerl

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Dissolved organic matter composition and photoreactivity in prairie lakes of the U.S.Great Plains

    Christopher L. Osburn;Courtney R. Wigdahl;Sherilyn C. Fritz;Jasmine E. Saros

  • The record of global change in mid-Cretaceous (Barremian-Albian) sections from the Sierra Madre, Northeastern Mexico

    Timothy J. Bralower;Emily CoBabe;Bradford Clement;William V. Sliter

  • Optical Proxies for Terrestrial Dissolved Organic Matter in Estuaries and Coastal Waters

    Christopher L. Osburn;Thomas J. Boyd;Michael T. Montgomery;Thomas S. Bianchi

  • Photoreactivity of chromophoric dissolved organic matter transported by the Mackenzie River to the Beaufort Sea

    Christopher L. Osburn;Leira Retamal;Warwick F. Vincent

  • Chemical and optical changes in freshwater dissolved organic matter exposed to solar radiation

    Christopher L. Osburn;Donald P. Morris;Kevin A. Thorn;Robert E. Moeller

  • Linking the chemical and optical properties of dissolved organic matter in the Baltic-North Sea transition zone to differentiate three allochthonous inputs

    Christopher L. Osburn;Colin A. Stedmon

  • Characterization of oil components from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using fluorescence EEM and PARAFAC techniques

    Zhengzhen Zhou;Laodong Guo;Alan M. Shiller;Steven E. Lohrenz

  • New insight into the applicability of spectroscopic indices for dissolved organic matter (DOM) source discrimination in aquatic systems affected by biogeochemical processes.

    Mi-Hee Lee;Christopher L. Osburn;Kyung-Hoon Shin;Jin Hur

  • Tidal marshes as a source of optically and chemically distinctive colored dissolved organic matter in the Chesapeake Bay

    Maria Tzortziou;Patrick J. Neale;Christopher L. Osburn;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Changes in CDOM fluorescence from allochthonous and autochthonous sources during tidal mixing and bacterial degradation in two coastal estuaries

    Thomas J Boyd;Christopher L Osburn

  • Runoff-mediated seasonal oscillation in the dynamics of dissolved organic matter in different branches of a large bifurcated estuary—The Changjiang Estuary

    Weidong Guo;Liyang Yang;Weidong Zhai;Wenzhao Chen

  • Predicting Sources of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen to an Estuary from an Agro-Urban Coastal Watershed

    Christopher L. Osburn;Lauren T. Handsel;Benjamin L. Peierls;Hans W. Paerl

  • Two decades of tropical cyclone impacts on North Carolina’s estuarine carbon, nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics: implications for biogeochemical cycling and water quality in a stormier world

    Hans W. Paerl;Joseph R. Crosswell;Bryce Van Dam;Nathan S. Hall

  • Microbial Activities and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in Oil-Contaminated Surface Seawater from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site

    Kai Ziervogel;Luke McKay;Benjamin Rhodes;Christopher L. Osburn

  • Enhanced transfer of terrestrially derived carbon to the atmosphere in a flooding event

    Thomas S. Bianchi;Fenix Garcia-Tigreros;Shari A. Yvon-Lewis;Michael Shields

  • Methane hydrate-bearing seeps as a source of aged dissolved organic carbon to the oceans

    John W. Pohlman;James E. Bauer;William F. Waite;Christopher L. Osburn

  • Recent increase in catastrophic tropical cyclone flooding in coastal North Carolina, USA: Long-term observations suggest a regime shift.

    Hans W. Paerl;Nathan S. Hall;Alexandria G. Hounshell;Richard A. Luettich

  • Using in situ ultraviolet‐visual spectroscopy to measure nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, and suspended solids concentrations at a high frequency in a brackish tidal marsh

    J. Randall Etheridge;François Birgand;Jason A. Osborne;Christopher L. Osburn

  • Photochemical production of hydrogen peroxide and methylhydroperoxide in coastal waters

    Daniel W. O'Sullivan;Patrick J. Neale;Richard B. Coffin;Thomas J. Boyd

  • The use of wet chemical oxidation with high-amplification isotope ratio mass spectrometry (WCO-IRMS) to measure stable isotope values of dissolved organic carbon in seawater

    Christopher L. Osburn;Gilles St-Jean

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
Michael T. Montgomery
Michael T. Montgomery Naval Postgraduate School
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard B. Coffin
Richard B. Coffin Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Colin A. Stedmon
Colin A. Stedmon Technical University of Denmark
Sherilyn C. Fritz
Sherilyn C. Fritz University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jasmine E. Saros
Jasmine E. Saros University of Maine
Steven F. Oberbauer
Steven F. Oberbauer Florida International University
Patrick J. Neale
Patrick J. Neale Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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