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Joe Salisbury is affiliated with the University of New Hampshire in the United States, focusing on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work is primarily concentrated in the subfields of Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Pollution, and Environmental Chemistry.

The research topics covered by Salisbury include marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

They have published extensively in several scientific venues, including Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, SSRN Electronic Journal, Remote Sensing of Environment, and PLoS ONE.

  • Toward a better understanding of fish-based contribution to ocean carbon flux (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Controls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Projecting ocean acidification impacts for the Gulf of Maine to 2050 (2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene)
  • Synergies Between NASA's Hyperspectral Aquatic Missions PACE, GLIMR, and SBG: Opportunities for New Science and Applications (2023, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)
  • Long-Term Changes of Carbonate Chemistry Variables Along the North American East Coast (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans)

Throughout their career, Salisbury has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Christopher W Hunt, Bror Jönsson, Rik Wanninkhof, Changsheng Chen, and Antonio Mannino.

Best Publications

  • Global Water Resources: Vulnerability from Climate Change and Population Growth

    Charles J. Vorosmarty;Pamela Green;Joseph E. Salisbury;Richard B. Lammers

  • Global Carbon Budget 2016

    Corinne Le Quere;Robbie M. Andrew;Josep G. Canadell;Stephen Sitch

  • Global carbon budget 2014

    C. Le Quéré;R. Moriarty;R. M. Andrew;G. P. Peters

  • A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO2 data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;Camilla S. Landa;Camilla S. Landa;Nicolas Metzl

  • Ocean Acidification in the Coastal Zone from an Organism's Perspective: Multiple System Parameters, Frequency Domains, and Habitats

    George G. Waldbusser;Joseph E. Salisbury

  • Coastal Acidification by Rivers: A Threat to Shellfish?

    Joseph Salisbury;Mark Green;Chris Hunt;Janet Campbell

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

    R. G. Najjar;M. Herrmann;R. Alexander;E. W. Boyer

  • An update to the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT version 2)

    Dorothee C. E. Bakker;Benjamin Pfeil;Benjamin Pfeil;K. Smith;K. Smith;S. Hankin

  • And on Top of All That… Coping with Ocean Acidification in the Midst of Many Stressors

    Denise L. Breitburg;Joseph E. Salisbury;Joan M. Bernhard;Wei-Jun Cai

  • Contribution of non-carbonate anions to total alkalinity and overestimation of p CO 2 in New England and New Brunswick rivers

    C. W. Hunt;J. E. Salisbury;D. Vandemark

  • Toward a better understanding of fish-based contribution to ocean carbon flux

    Grace K. Saba;Adrian B. Burd;John P. Dunne;Santiago Hernández-León

  • Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT) gridded data products

    C.L. Sabine;S. Hankin;H. Koyuk;H. Koyuk;D.C.E. Bakker

  • Rapid Climate-Driven Circulation Changes Threaten Conservation of Endangered North Atlantic Right Whales

    Nicholas Record;Jeffrey Runge;Daniel Pendleton

  • The United States' Next Generation of Atmospheric Composition and Coastal Ecosystem Measurements: NASA's Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission

    J. Fishman;L. T. Iraci;J. Al-Saadi;Kelly V. Chance

  • Effects of freshwater stratification on nutrients, dissolved oxygen, and phytoplankton in the Bay of Bengal

    V. V. S. S. Sarma;G. S. Rao;R. Viswanadham;C. K. Sherin

  • Ocean and coastal acidification off New England and Nova Scotia

    Dwight K. Gledhill;Meredith M. White;Joseph E. Salisbury;Helmuth Thomas

  • Dynamics of the Coastal Zone

    James P.M. Syvitski;Nick Harvey;Eric Wolanski;William C. Burnett

  • Controls on surface water carbonate chemistry along North American ocean margins

    Wei Jun Cai;Yuan Yuan Xu;Richard A. Feely;Rik Wanninkhof

  • Surface Ocean pCO2 Seasonality and Sea-Air CO2 Flux Estimates for the North American East Coast

    Sergio R. Signorini;Antonio Mannino;Raymond G. Najjar;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs

  • Spatial and temporal coherence between Amazon River discharge, salinity, and light absorption by colored organic carbon in western tropical Atlantic surface waters

    J. Salisbury;D. Vandemark;J. Campbell;C. Hunt

  • Autonomous seawater p CO 2 and pH time series from 40 surface buoys and the emergence of anthropogenic trends

    Adrienne J. Sutton;Richard A. Feely;Stacy Maenner-Jones;Sylvia Musielwicz;Sylvia Musielwicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Wade R. McGillis
Wade R. McGillis Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Douglas Vandemark
Douglas Vandemark University of New Hampshire
Adrienne Sutton
Adrienne Sutton Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Truls Johannessen
Truls Johannessen University of Bergen
Simone R. Alin
Simone R. Alin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Rik Wanninkhof
Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen

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