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Craig R. Tobias is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 34 and 18 publications respectively in these main fields of study.

The scientist focuses on several subfields, including Ecology, Oceanography, Geochemistry and Petrology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Environmental Chemistry. Their main research topics encompass Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, and Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Craig R. Tobias include Bongkeun Song, Stephanie J. Wilson, Iris C. Anderson, Thivanka Ariyarathna, and Stephen Fallis.

Their publications are often featured in several scientific venues, notably the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences and The Science of The Total Environment, where they have published twice each. Other venues of publication include Limnology and Oceanography Methods, Limnology and Oceanography Letters, and Global Change Biology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Craig R. Tobias include:

  • A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography Methods
  • Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean, 2024, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • High methane concentrations in tidal salt marsh soils: Where does the methane go?, 2023, Global Change Biology
  • Pelagic N2 fixation dominated by sediment diazotrophic communities in a shallow temperate estuary, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography
  • A grazing-driven positive nutrient feedback loop and active sexual reproduction underpin widespread Noctiluca green tides, 2022, ISME Communications

Best Publications

  • Denitrification across landscapes and waterscapes: a synthesis.

    Sybil P. Seitzinger;John A. Harrison;John K. Bohlke;A. F. Bouwman

  • The Importance of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium (DNRA) in the Nitrogen Cycle of Coastal Ecosystems

    Anne E. Giblin;Craig R. Tobias;Bongkeun Song;Nathaniel Weston

  • Hyporheic zone denitrification: Controls on effective reaction depth and contribution to whole-stream mass balance

    Judson W. Harvey;John Karl Böhlke;Mary A. Voytek;Durelle Scott

  • Dynamic modeling of nitrogen losses in river networks unravels the coupled effects of hydrological and biogeochemical processes

    Richard B. Alexander;John Karl Böhlke;Elizabeth W. Boyer;Mark B. David

  • The contamination of commercial 15N2 gas stocks with 15N-labeled nitrate and ammonium and consequences for nitrogen fixation measurements.

    Richard Dabundo;Moritz F. Lehmann;Lija Treibergs;Craig R. Tobias

  • Biogeographical distribution of diverse anaerobic ammonium oxidizing (anammox) bacteria in Cape Fear River Estuary

    Olivia R. Dale;Craig R. Tobias;Bongkeun Song

  • Co-occurring anammox, denitrification, and codenitrification in agricultural soils.

    Andrew Long;Joshua Heitman;Craig Tobias;Rebecca Philips

  • Tracking the fate of a high concentration groundwater nitrate plume through a fringing marsh: A combined groundwater tracer and in situ isotope enrichment study

    Craig R. Tobias;Stephen A. Macko;Iris C. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Linking DNRA community structure and activity in a shallow lagoonal estuarine system.

    Bongkeun Song;Jessica A. Lisa;Craig R. Tobias

  • Nitrogen cycling through a fringing marsh-aquifer ecotone

    Craig R. Tobias;Iris C. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Canuel;Stephen A. Macko

  • Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments

    Katja Fennel;Damian Brady;Dominic DiToro;Robinson W. Fulweiler

  • Hydrogeomorphology of the hyporheic zone: Stream solute and fine particle interactions with a dynamic streambed

    Judson W Harvey;Jennifer D Drummond;Raleigh L Martin;Lauren E McPhillips

  • Salt Marsh Biogeochemistry—An Overview

    Craig Tobias;Scott C. Neubauer

  • Effects of Hurricane Hugo (1989) on a coral reef in St. John, USVI

    CS Rogers;LN McLain;CR Tobias

  • Role of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) in Nitrogen Removal from a Freshwater Aquifer

    Richard L. Smith;J. K. Böhlke;Bongkeun Song;Craig R. Tobias

  • The oxygen-18 isotope approach for measuring aquatic metabolism in high productivity waters

    Craig R. Tobias;John Karl Böhlke;Judson W. Harvey

  • Nitrogen reduction pathways in estuarine sediments: Influences of organic carbon and sulfide

    Patrick Plummer;Craig Tobias;David Cady

  • A critical review of the 15 N 2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems

    Angelicque E. White;Julie Granger;Corday Selden;Mary R. Gradoville

  • Development of a process-based nitrogen mass balance model for a Virginia (USA) Spartina alterniflora salt marsh:implications for net DIN flux

    Iris Cofman Anderson;Craig R. Tobias;Betty Berry Neikirk;Richard L. Wetzel

  • Quantifying groundwater discharge through fringing wetlands to estuaries: Seasonal variability, methods comparison, and implications for wetland‐estuary exchange

    Craig R. Tobias;Judson W. Harvey;Iris C. Anderson

  • Sediment DIN fluxes and preferential recycling of benthic microalgal nitrogen in a shallow macrotidal estuary

    Craig Tobias;Craig Tobias;Anne Giblin;James McClelland;Jane Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

John Karl Böhlke
John Karl Böhlke United States Geological Survey
Judson W. Harvey
Judson W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Iris C. Anderson
Iris C. Anderson Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Michael F. Piehler
Michael F. Piehler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Elizabeth A. Canuel
Elizabeth A. Canuel Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Richard L. Smith
Richard L. Smith University of California, Riverside
Bruce J. Peterson
Bruce J. Peterson Marine Biological Laboratory
Sybil P. Seitzinger
Sybil P. Seitzinger University of Victoria
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia
Mary A. Voytek
Mary A. Voytek National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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