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Iris C. Anderson is affiliated with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in the United States. Their research primarily covers areas within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientist's work addresses topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Coastal and Marine Dynamics, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Anderson has contributed to several notable publications across various journals. These include:

  • "Global subterranean estuaries modify groundwater nutrient loading to the ocean" (2024) published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • "Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance in a North Carolina, USA, Salt Marsh" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Blooms of the harmful algae Margalefidinium polykrikoides and Alexandrium monilatum alter the York River Estuary microbiome" (2022) published in Harmful Algae
  • "Microbially mediated nitrogen removal and retention in the York River Estuary" (2021) published in FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • "Temporal and Spatial Variations in Subterranean Estuary Geochemical Gradients and Nutrient Cycling Rates: Impacts on Groundwater Nutrient Export to Estuaries" (2023) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences

Their frequent collaborators include Bongkeun Song, Stephanie J. Wilson, Craig Tobias, Mark J. Brush, and Kenneth M. Czapla.

Anderson's research has often appeared in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (five publications)
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Harmful Algae
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Environmental Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Eutrophication in shallow coastal bays and lagoons: the role of plants in the coastal filter

    Karen J. McGlathery;Kristina Sundbäck;Iris C. Anderson

  • Relative Rates of Nitric Oxide and Nitrous Oxide Production by Nitrifiers, Denitrifiers, and Nitrate Respirers

    Iris Cofman Anderson;Joel S. Levine

  • A comparison of NO and N2O production by the autotrophic nitrifier Nitrosomonas europaea and the heterotrophic nitrifier Alcaligenes faecalis.

    Iris C. Anderson;Mark Poth;Julie Homstead;David J. Burdige

  • Benthic algae control sediment—water column fluxes of organic and inorganic nitrogen compounds in a temperate lagoon

    Anna Christina Tyler;Karen J. McGlathery;Iris C. Anderson

  • Simultaneous field measurements of biogenic emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide

    Iris Cofman Anderson;Joel S. Levine

  • Spatial and temporal characteristics of nutrient and phytoplankton dynamics in the York River Estuary, Virginia: Analyses of long-term data

    Yongsik Sin;Richard L. Wetzel;Iris C. Anderson

  • Petrogenesis of the Red Mountain pluton, Laramie anorthosite complex, Wyoming: implications for the origin of A-type granite

    I.Carl Anderson;Carol D. Frost;B.Ronald Frost

  • Macroalgae Mediation of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Fluxes in a Temperate Coastal Lagoon

    A.C Tyler;K.J McGlathery;I.C Anderson

  • Magnitude and variability of benthic and pelagic metabolism in a temperate coastal lagoon

    Karen J. McGlathery;Iris Cofman Anderson;Anna Christina Tyler

  • Sublethal stress in Escherichia coli: a function of salinity.

    I C Anderson;M Rhodes;H Kator

  • Enhanced biogenic emissions of nitric oxide and nitrous oxide following surface biomass burning

    Iris C. Anderson;Joel S. Levine;Mark A. Poth;Philip J. Riggan

  • 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

  • Sediment deposition and accretion in a Mid-Atlantic (U.S.A.) tidal freshwater marsh

    S. C. Neubauer;I. C. Anderson;José Antonio Constantine;S. A. Kuehl

  • Nitrogen cycling through a fringing marsh-aquifer ecotone

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

  • The magnitude and persistence of soil NO, N2O, CH4, and CO2 fluxes from burned tropical savanna in Brazil

    Mark Poth;Iris Cofman Anderson;Heloisa Sinatora Miranda;Antonio Carlos Miranda

  • Seasonal variation in survival of Escherichia coli exposed in situ in membrane diffusion chambers containing filtered and nonfiltered estuarine water.

    I C Anderson;M W Rhodes;H I Kator

  • Transport of dissolved inorganic carbon from a tidal freshwater marsh to the York River estuary

    Scott C. Neubauer;Iris C. Anderson

  • Nitrogen isotope composition of soils, C3 and C4 plants along land use gradients in southern Africa

    J.N. Aranibar;I.C. Anderson;H.E. Epstein;C.J.W. Feral

  • Seasonal variations of size-fractionated phytoplankton along the salinity gradient in the York River estuary, Virginia (USA)

    Yongsik Sin;Richard L. Wetzel;Iris C. Anderson

  • Carbon cycling in a tidal freshwater marsh ecosystem: a carbon gas flux study

    SC Neubauer;WD Miller;I. Cofman Anderson

  • Microbial mediation of 'reactive' nitrogen transformations in a temperate lagoon

    Iris Cofman Anderson;Karen J. McGlathery;Anna Christina Tyler

  • Title: Importance of nitrogen fixation in soil crusts of southern African arid ecosystems: acetylene reduction and stable isotope studies

    J.N Aranibar;I.C Anderson;S Ringrose;S.A Macko

Frequent Co-Authors

Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
Karen J. McGlathery
Karen J. McGlathery University of Virginia
Elizabeth A. Canuel
Elizabeth A. Canuel Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia
Joel S. Levine
Joel S. Levine Langley Research Center
Hans W. Paerl
Hans W. Paerl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Judson W. Harvey
Judson W. Harvey United States Geological Survey
Michael F. Piehler
Michael F. Piehler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark W. Luckenbach
Mark W. Luckenbach Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Howard E. Epstein
Howard E. Epstein University of Virginia

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