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Maria Tzortziou

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
5556
World Ranking
8639
National Ranking
3086

Maria Tzortziou publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Maria Tzortziou D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maria Tzortziou sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Maria Tzortziou is a researcher affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a research focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their research extensively covers topics including marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, atmospheric ozone and climate, and oceanographic and atmospheric processes.

Maria Tzortziou has contributed to various publication venues, notably:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Their notable recent papers include:

  • "Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Capturing dissolved organic carbon dynamics with Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 in tidally influenced wetland-estuarine systems," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "DOM degradation by light and microbes along the Yukon River-coastal ocean continuum," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Investigating Changes in Ozone Formation Chemistry during Summertime Pollution Events over the Northeastern United States," 2022, Environmental Science & Technology

Maria Tzortziou frequently collaborates with fellow researchers including:

  • Patrick J. Neale
  • Antonio Mannino
  • Alana Menendez
  • Kyle J. Turner
  • J. Blake Clark

Best Publications

  • An overview of approaches and challenges for retrieving marine inherent optical properties from ocean color remote sensing.

    P. Jeremy Werdell;Lachlan I.W. McKinna;Emmanuel Boss;Steven G. Ackleson

  • NO2 column amounts from ground‐based Pandora and MFDOAS spectrometers using the direct‐sun DOAS technique: Intercomparisons and application to OMI validation

    Jay Herman;Alexander Cede;Elena Spinei;George Mount

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

    Kerry Cawse-Nicholson;Philip A. Townsend;David Schimel;Ali M. Assiri

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

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

  • Tidal marshes as a source of optically and chemically distinctive colored dissolved organic matter in the Chesapeake Bay

    Maria Tzortziou;Patrick J. Neale;Christopher L. Osburn;J. Patrick Megonigal

  • Remote sensing retrievals of colored dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic carbon dynamics in North American estuaries and their margins

    Fang Cao;Maria Tzortziou;Chuanmin Hu;Antonio Mannino

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • Remote sensing reflectance and inherent optical properties in the mid Chesapeake Bay

    Maria Tzortziou;Maria Tzortziou;Ajit Subramaniam;Jay R. Herman;Charles L. Gallegos

  • 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

  • Bio-optics of the Chesapeake Bay from measurements and radiative transfer closure

    Maria Tzortziou;Jay R. Herman;Charles L. Gallegos;Patrick J. Neale

  • STAAARTE-MED 1998 summer airborne measurements over the Aegean Sea: 2. Aerosol scattering and absorption, and radiative calculations

    Paola Formenti;Olivier Boucher;Thomas Reiner;Detlev Sprung

  • Spatial gradients in dissolved carbon due to tidal marsh outwelling into a Chesapeake Bay estuary

    Maria Tzortziou;Patrick J. Neale;J. Patrick Megonigal;Crystal Lee Pow

  • Photobleaching of dissolved organic material from a tidal marsh-estuarine system of the Chesapeake Bay.

    Maria Tzortziou;Christopher L. Osburn;Patrick J. Neale

  • Capturing dissolved organic carbon dynamics with Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 in tidally influenced wetland–estuarine systems

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  • On the origin of SO2 above northern Greece

    C. Zerefos;K. Ganev;K. Kourtidis;M. Tzortziou

  • Impact of Bay-Breeze Circulations on Surface Air Quality and Boundary Layer Export

    Christopher P. Loughner;Christopher P. Loughner;Maria Tzortziou;Maria Tzortziou;Melanie Follette-Cook;Melanie Follette-Cook;Kenneth E. Pickering

  • High precision, absolute total column ozone measurements from the Pandora spectrometer system: Comparisons with data from a Brewer double monochromator and Aura OMI

    Maria A. Tzortziou;Maria A. Tzortziou;Jay R. Herman;Jay R. Herman;Alexander Cede;Nader Abuhassan;Nader Abuhassan

  • Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal Zone

    Bryan N. Duncan;Lesley E. Ott;James B. Abshire;Ludovic Brucker;Ludovic Brucker

  • Bay breeze influence on surface ozone at Edgewood, MD during July 2011.

    Ryan M. Stauffer;Anne M. Thompson;Douglas K. Martins;Richard D. Clark

  • STAAARTE-MED 1998 summer airborne measurements over the Aegean Sea: 1. Aerosol particles and trace gases

    Paola Formenti;Thomas Reiner;Detlev Sprung;Meinrat O. Andreae

  • Underestimation of column NO 2 amounts from the OMI satellite compared to diurnally varying ground-based retrievals from multiple PANDORA spectrometer instruments

    Jay Herman;Nader Abuhassan;Jhoon Kim;Jae Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay R. Herman
Jay R. Herman University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Patrick J. Neale
Patrick J. Neale Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Charles L. Gallegos
Charles L. Gallegos Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Lawrence W. Harding
Lawrence W. Harding University of California, Los Angeles
Anne M. Thompson
Anne M. Thompson Goddard Space Flight Center
Russell R. Dickerson
Russell R. Dickerson University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth E. Pickering
Kenneth E. Pickering University of Maryland, College Park
J. Patrick Megonigal
J. Patrick Megonigal Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Molly E. Brown
Molly E. Brown University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew J. Weinheimer
Andrew J. Weinheimer National Center for Atmospheric Research

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