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David L. Kirchman is affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these broad fields, their work centers on subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Molecular Biology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has authored multiple papers covering a variety of marine and atmospheric topics. Major topics of their research include Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Marine and Fisheries Research.

Recent publications by David L. Kirchman include:

  • The Changing CO2 Sink in the Western Arctic Ocean From 1994 to 2019, 2021, published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Climate and Human-Driven Variability of Summer Hypoxia on a Large River-Dominated Shelf as Revealed by a Hypoxia Index, 2021, published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Seasonal Water Mass Evolution and Non-Redfield Dynamics Enhance CO2 Uptake in the Chukchi Sea, 2022, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Carbonate Parameter Estimation and Its Application in Revealing Temporal and Spatial Variation in the South and Mid-Atlantic Bight, USA, 2022, published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Controls of SAR11 subclade abundance, diversity, and growth in two Mid-Atlantic estuaries, 2022, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent co-authors with whom David L. Kirchman has collaborated include Wei-Jun Cai, Zhangxian Ouyang, Yun Li, Di Qi, and Akihiko Murata.

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Frontiers in Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin.

Best Publications

  • Microbial production of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter: long-term carbon storage in the global ocean.

    Nianzhi Jiao;Gerhard J. Herndl;Dennis A. Hansell;Ronald Benner

  • The ecology of Cytophaga–Flavobacteria in aquatic environments

    David L. Kirchman

  • Natural Assemblages of Marine Proteobacteria and Members of the Cytophaga-Flavobacter Cluster Consuming Low- and High-Molecular-Weight Dissolved Organic Matter

    Matthew T. Cottrell;David L. Kirchman

  • Leucine incorporation and its potential as a measure of protein synthesis by bacteria in natural aquatic systems.

    D Kirchman;E K'nees;R Hodson

  • Microbial Ecology of the Oceans

    David L. Kirchman

  • The molecularly-uncharacterized component of nonliving organic matter in natural environments

    JI Hedges;G Eglinton;PG Hatcher;DL Kirchman

  • The oceanic gel phase: a bridge in the DOM-POM continuum

    Pedro Verdugo;Alice L. Alldredge;Farooq Azam;David L. Kirchman

  • Ecology of the rare microbial biosphere of the Arctic Ocean

    Pierre E. Galand;Emilio O. Casamayor;David L. Kirchman;Connie Lovejoy

  • Activity of abundant and rare bacteria in a coastal ocean.

    Barbara J. Campbell;Liying Yu;John F. Heidelberg;David L. Kirchman

  • The Uptake of Inorganic Nutrients by Heterotrophic Bacteria

    David L. Kirchman

  • Community Composition of Marine Bacterioplankton Determined by 16S rRNA Gene Clone Libraries and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

    Matthew T. Cottrell;David L. Kirchman

  • Utilization of inorganic and organic nitrogen by bacteria in marine systems1

    Patricia A. Wheeler;David L. Kirchman

  • High turnover rates of dissolved organic carbon during a spring phytoplankton bloom

    David L. Kirchman;Yoshimi Suzuki;Christopher Garside;Hugh W. Ducklow

  • Leucine Incorporation as a Measure of Biomass Production by Heterotrophic Bacteria

    David L. Kirchman

  • Bacterial diversity, community structure and potential growth rates along an estuarine salinity gradient.

    Barbara J Campbell;David L Kirchman

  • Microbial growth in the polar oceans — role of temperature and potential impact of climate change

    David L. Kirchman;Xosé Anxelu G. Morán;Hugh Ducklow

  • Attachment Stimulates Exopolysaccharide Synthesis by a Bacterium

    Philippe Vandevivere;David L. Kirchman

  • Measuring bacterial biomass production and growth rates from leucine incorporation in natural aquatic environments

    David Kirchman

  • Chitinases from uncultured marine microorganisms.

    Matthew T. Cottrell;Jessica A. Moore;David L. Kirchman

  • Laboratory evidence for microbially mediated silicate mineral dissolution in nature

    William J. Ullman;David L. Kirchman;Susan A. Welch;Philippe Vandevivere

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew T. Cottrell
Matthew T. Cottrell University of Delaware
Toshi Nagata
Toshi Nagata University of Tokyo
Richard G. Keil
Richard G. Keil University of Washington
Rolf Gradinger
Rolf Gradinger University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Farooq Azam
Farooq Azam University of California, San Diego
Nianzhi Jiao
Nianzhi Jiao Xiamen University
Connie Lovejoy
Connie Lovejoy Université Laval
Michael T. Montgomery
Michael T. Montgomery Naval Postgraduate School
Patricia A. Wheeler
Patricia A. Wheeler Oregon State University
Philippe Lebaron
Philippe Lebaron Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes

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