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Overview

Edward J. Carpenter is affiliated with San Francisco State University in the United States and works primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their research spans across several subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Mechanical Engineering, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their main topics of study focus on areas such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Polar Research and Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Some of the recent papers published by Edward J. Carpenter include:

  • A growing plastic smog, now estimated to be over 170 trillion plastic particles afloat in the world's oceans-Urgent solutions required (2023, PLoS ONE)
  • Global oceanic diazotroph database version 2 and elevated estimate of global oceanic N 2 fixation (2023, Earth system science data)
  • The distribution and relative ecological roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic diazotrophs in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology)
  • Microbial Mats of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica: Oases of Biological Activity in a Very Cold Desert (2020, Frontiers in Microbiology)
  • Planktonic habitats in the Amazon Plume region of the Western Tropical North Atlantic (2024, Frontiers in Marine Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Carpenter include:

  • Douglas G. Capone
  • Alexander E. Parker
  • Jill A. Sohm
  • Troy Gunderson
  • S. Craig Cary

Their work is often published in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Earth system science data
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

In addition to journal publications, Edward J. Carpenter has contributed to book publications, including an anthology titled An anthology of friendship published by the Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Trichodesmium, a Globally Significant Marine Cyanobacterium

    Douglas G. Capone;Jonathan P. Zehr;Hans W. Paerl;Birgitta Bergman

  • Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans

    D. Karl;A. Michaels;B. Bergman;D.G. Capone

  • Nutrient and particulate fluxes in a salt marsh ecosystem: Tidal exchanges and inputs by precipitation and groundwater 1

    Ivan Valiela;John M. Teal;Suzanne Volkmann;Deborah Shafer

  • Major role of the cyanobacterium trichodesmium in nutrient cycling in the north atlantic ocean.

    Edward J. Carpenter;Kristen Romans

  • Database of diazotrophs in global ocean: abundance, biomass and nitrogen fixation rates

    Y. W. Luo;S. C. Doney;L. A. Anderson;Mar Benavides

  • Bacterial activity in South Pole snow.

    Edward J. Carpenter;Senjie Lin;Douglas G. Capone

  • Extensive bloom of a N2-fixing diatom/cyanobacterial association in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Edward J. Carpenter;Joseph P. Montoya;James Burns;Margaret R. Mulholland

  • Biogeochemical tracers of the marine cyanobacterium Trichodesmium

    Edward J. Carpenter;H.Rodger Harvey;Brian Fry;Douglas G. Capone

  • Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean.

    A. Subramaniam;P. L. Yager;E. J. Carpenter;C. Mahaffey

  • Marine oscillatoria (Trichodesmium): explanation for aerobic nitrogen fixation without heterocysts

    Edward J. Carpenter;Charles C. Price

  • Trichodesmium – a widespread marine cyanobacterium with unusual nitrogen fixation properties

    Birgitta Bergman;Gustaf Sandh;Senjie Lin;John Larsson

  • Chapter 3 – NITROGEN FIXATION BY MARINE OSCILLATORIA (TRICHODESMIUM) IN THE WORLD's OCEANS

    Edward J. Carpenter

  • An extensive bloom of the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum in the central Arabian Sea

    Douglas G. Capone;Ajit Subramaniam;Joseph P. Montoya;Maren Voss

  • Recurrent and persistent brown tide blooms perturb coastal marine ecosystem

    Elizabeth M. Cosper;William C. Dennison;Edward J. Carpenter;V. Monica Bricelj

  • Marine pelagic cyanobacteria : Trichodesmium and other diazotrophs

    Other Marine Diazotrophs;Edward J. Carpenter;Douglas G. Capone

  • Nitrogen fixation, distribution, and production of Oscillatoria (Trichodesmium) spp. in the western Sargasso and Caribbean Seas1

    Edward J. Carpenter;Charles C. Price

  • Influence of the Amazon River plume on distributions of free-living and symbiotic cyanobacteria in the western tropical north Atlantic Ocean

    R. A. Foster;Ajit Subramaniam;C. Mahaffey;E. J. Carpenter

  • Iron requirements for dinitrogen- and ammonium-supported growth in cultures of Trichodesmium (IMS 101): Comparison with nitrogen fixation rates and iron: carbon ratios of field populations

    Adam B. Kustka;Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy;Edward J. Carpenter;Douglas Capone

  • Bio-optical properties of the marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria Trichodesmium spp. I. Absorption and photosynthetic action spectra

    Ajiit Subramaniam;Edward J. Carpenter;Deneb Karentz;Paul G. Falkowski

  • Novel Phytoplankton Blooms

    Elizabeth M. Cosper;V. M. Bricelj;E. J. Carpenter

Frequent Co-Authors

Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California
Birgitta Bergman
Birgitta Bergman Stockholm University
Senjie Lin
Senjie Lin University of Connecticut
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin
Lisa Campbell
Lisa Campbell Texas A&M University
Jonathan P. Zehr
Jonathan P. Zehr University of California, Santa Cruz
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Margaret R. Mulholland
Margaret R. Mulholland Old Dominion University
Joseph P. Montoya
Joseph P. Montoya Georgia Institute of Technology
Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee Stony Brook University

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