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Daniel J. Repeta is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a strong focus on oceanography and ecology.

Repeta's work frequently addresses topics such as microbial community ecology and physiology, marine and coastal ecosystems, methane hydrates and related phenomena, marine biology and ecology research, Vibrio bacteria research studies, isotope analysis in ecology, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

They have published extensively in venues including Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Limnology and Oceanography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Recent papers by Repeta include:

  • Phosphonate production by marine microbes: Exploring new sources and potential function (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Phosphonate cycling supports methane and ethylene supersaturation in the phosphate-depleted western North Atlantic Ocean (2020, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Iron Depletion in the Deep Chlorophyll Maximum: Mesoscale Eddies as Natural Iron Fertilization Experiments (2021, Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  • Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Signal Arrests Phytoplankton Cell Division and Impacts Virus-Induced Mortality (2021, mSphere)
  • Contrasting degradation rates of natural dissolved organic carbon by deep-sea prokaryotes under stratified water masses and deep-water convection conditions in the NW Mediterranean Sea (2021, Marine Chemistry)

The scientist collaborates frequently with colleagues including Lydia Babcock-Adams, Rene Boiteau, Benjamin N. Granzow, Marianne Acker, and David M. Karl.

Best Publications

  • Improved HPLC method for the analysis of chlorophylls and carotenoids from marine phytoplankton

    S. W. Wright

  • Dissolved organic matter in the ocean. A controversy stimulates new insights

    Dennis A. Hansell;Craig A. Carlson;Daniel J. Repeta;Reiner Schlitzer

  • Seasonal and Annual Fluxes of Nutrients and Organic Matter from Large Rivers to the Arctic Ocean and Surrounding Seas

    Robert Max Holmes;James W. McClelland;Bruce J. Peterson;Suzanne E. Tank

  • A major biopolymeric component to dissolved organic carbon in surface sea water

    Lihini I. Aluwihare;Daniel J. Repeta;Robert F. Chen

  • Microbial community transcriptomes reveal microbes and metabolic pathways associated with dissolved organic matter turnover in the sea

    Jay McCarren;Jamie William Becker;Daniel J. Repeta;Yanmei Shi

  • The relationship between δ13C of organic matter and [CO2(aq)] in ocean surface water: Data from a JGOFS site in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and a model

    G.H Rau;T Takahashi;D.J Des Marais;D.J Repeta

  • The pigments of Prochlorococcus marinus: The presence of divinylchlorophyll a and b in a marine procaryote

    Goericke Ralf;Daniel J. Repeta

  • Marine methane paradox explained by bacterial degradation of dissolved organic matter

    Daniel J. Repeta;Sara Ferrón;Oscar A. Sosa;Carl G. Johnson

  • Deciphering ocean carbon in a changing world

    Mary Ann Moran;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Aron Stubbins;Rob Fatland

  • A comparison of the chemical characteristics of oceanic DOM and extracellular DOM produced by marine algae

    L. I. Aluwihare;D. J. Repeta

  • Oligotrophy and nitrogen fixation during eastern mediterranean sapropel events

    Julian P. Sachs;Daniel J. Repeta

  • Evidence for anoxygenic photosynthesis from the distribution of bacteriochlorophylls in the Black Sea.

    D. J. Repeta;D. J. Simpson;B. B. Jorgensen;H. W. Jannasch

  • Chemical characterization of high molecular weight dissolved organic matter in fresh and marine waters

    Daniel J. Repeta;Tracy M. Quan;Lihini I. Aluwihare;AmyMarie Accardi

  • Chlorophylls a and b and divinyl chlorophylls a and b in the open subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

    R. Goericke;DJ Repeta

  • Siderophore-based microbial adaptations to iron scarcity across the eastern Pacific Ocean.

    Rene M. Boiteau;Daniel R. Mende;Nicholas J. Hawco;Nicholas J. Hawco;Matthew R. McIlvin

  • Two Chemically Distinct Pools of Organic Nitrogen Accumulate in the Ocean

    Lihini I. Aluwihare;Daniel J. Repeta;Silvio Pantoja;Carl G. Johnson

  • Hidden cycle of dissolved organic carbon in the deep ocean

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  • Chemical Characterization and Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter

    Daniel J. Repeta

  • Stable isotope constraints on the nitrogen cycle of the Mediterranean Sea water column

    Silvio Pantoja;Daniel J Repeta;Julian P Sachs;Daniel M Sigman

  • Biosynthetic origins and assignments of carbon 13 NMR peaks of brevetoxin B.

    Min S. Lee;Daniel J. Repeta;Koji. Nakanishi;Michael G. Zagorski

  • Chemical composition and cycling of dissolved organic matter in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

    Lihini I. Aluwihare;Daniel J. Repeta;Robert F. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii at Manoa
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Ralf Goericke
Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons Texas A&M University
Robert F. Chen
Robert F. Chen University of Massachusetts Boston
John W. Farrington
John W. Farrington Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Richard Sempéré
Richard Sempéré Aix-Marseille University
Julian P. Sachs
Julian P. Sachs University of Washington

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