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Jan Kaiser is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Oceanography and related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Jan Kaiser's publication record includes contributions to a range of journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Infectious Diseases Now
  • Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Seasonal variability of sediment controls of nitrogen cycling in an agricultural stream (2020) published in Biogeochemistry
  • Predictors of mortality, ICU hospitalization, and extrapulmonary complications in COVID-19 patients (2021) published in Infectious Diseases Now
  • Towards a Multi-Platform Assimilative System for North Sea Biogeochemistry (2021) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Investigating the Uptake and Fate of Poly- and Perfluoroalkylated Substances (PFAS) in Sea Ice Using an Experimental Sea Ice Chamber (2021) published in Environmental Science & Technology
  • Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: An overview of multiple pressures and implications for ecosystem services (2021) published in AMBIO

Jan Kaiser has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Tom Hull
  • Matthew R. Palmer
  • Charlotte Williams
  • Max Thomas
  • Dorothée C. E. Bakker

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric composition change – global and regional air quality

    P.S. Monks;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;Claire Granier;S. Fuzzi;A. Stohl

  • Triple Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Nitrate Using the Denitrifier Method and Thermal Decomposition of N2O

    Jan Kaiser;Meredith G. Hastings;Benjamin Z. Houlton;Thomas Röckmann

  • Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of atmospheric nitrate in coastal Antarctica

    J. Savarino;J. Kaiser;J. Kaiser;S. Morin;D. M. Sigman

  • Isotope effects in the chemistry of atmospheric trace compounds.

    Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer;Christof Janssen;Jan Kaiser;Thomas Röckmann

  • OceanGliders: A component of the integrated GOOS

    Pierre Testor;Brad DeYoung;Daniel L. Rudnick;Scott Glenn

  • Estimates of net community production and export using high-resolution, Lagrangian measurements of O2, NO3−, and POC through the evolution of a spring diatom bloom in the North Atlantic

    Matthew B. Alkire;Eric D’Asaro;Craig Lee;Mary Jane Perry

  • Marine productivity estimates from continuous O2/Ar ratio measurements by membrane inlet mass spectrometry

    Jan Kaiser;Matthew K. Reuer;Bruce Barnett;Michael L. Bender

  • The isotopic fingerprint of the pre-industrial and the anthropogenic N2O source

    Thomas Röckmann;Jan Kaiser;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer

  • Gas chromatography/isotope-ratio mass spectrometry method for high-precision position-dependent 15N and 18O measurements of atmospheric nitrous oxide.

    Thomas Röckmann;Jan Kaiser;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer;Willi A. Brand

  • Complete and accurate mass spectrometric isotope analysis of tropospheric nitrous oxide

    Jan Kaiser;Jan Kaiser;Thomas Röckmann;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer

  • Isotopic enrichment of nitrous oxide (15N14NO, 14N15NO, 14N14N18O) in the stratosphere and in the laboratory

    Thomas Röckmann;Jan Kaiser;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer;John N. Crowley

  • The origin of the anomalous or “mass‐independent” oxygen isotope fractionation in tropospheric N2O

    Thomas Röckmann;Jan Kaiser;John N. Crowley;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer

  • Subsurface tropical Pacific nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate: Biogeochemical signals and their transport

    Patrick A. Rafter;Patrick A. Rafter;Daniel M. Sigman;Christopher D. Charles;Jan Kaiser

  • Submesoscale Instabilities in Mesoscale Eddies

    Liam Brannigan;David P. Marshall;Alberto C. Naveira Garabato;A. J. George Nurser

  • Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: The Role of the Amundsen Sea Continental Shelf in Exchanges Between Ocean and Ice Shelves

    Karen Heywood;Louise Biddle;Lars Boehme;Pierre Dutrieux;Pierre Dutrieux

  • Ocean processes at the Antarctic continental slope

    Karen J. Heywood;Sunke Schmidtko;Céline Heuzé;Jan Kaiser

  • Contribution of mass-dependent fractionation to the oxygen isotope anomaly of atmospheric nitrous oxide

    Jan Kaiser;Thomas Röckmann;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer

  • Probing stratospheric transport and chemistry with new balloon and aircraft observations of the meridional and vertical N 2 O isotope distribution

    Jan Kaiser;Jan Kaiser;Andreas Engel;Reinhard Borchers;Thomas Röckmann;Thomas Röckmann

  • Reformulated 17O correction of mass spectrometric stable isotope measurements in carbon dioxide and a critical appraisal of historic ‘absolute’ carbon and oxygen isotope ratios

    Jan Kaiser

  • A Harmonized Nitrous Oxide (N2O) Ocean Observation Network for the 21st Century

    Hermann W. Bange;Damian L. Arévalo-Martínez;Mercedes De La Paz;Laura Farías

  • Constraints on N 2 O budget changes since pre-industrial time from new firn air and ice core isotope measurements

    S. Bernard;T. Röckmann;T. Röckmann;J. Kaiser;J. Kaiser;J. M. Barnola

  • Wavelength dependence of isotope fractionation in N 2 O photolysis

    Jan Kaiser;Thomas Röckmann;Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer;Paul J. Crutzen

  • Technical note: Consistent calculation of aquatic gross production from oxygen triple isotope measurements

    J. Kaiser

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Röckmann
Thomas Röckmann Utrecht University
Karen J. Heywood
Karen J. Heywood University of East Anglia
Joel Savarino
Joel Savarino Grenoble Alpes University
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Anton Eisenhauer
Anton Eisenhauer GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer
Carl A. M. Brenninkmeijer Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Gavin Simpson
Gavin Simpson University of Regina
Andrew F. Thompson
Andrew F. Thompson California Institute of Technology
William T. Sturges
William T. Sturges University of East Anglia
Adrian Jenkins
Adrian Jenkins Durham University

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