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  • 2020 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Mark A. Altabet is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a notable focus on Oceanography and Ecology as key subfields.

Their scholarly work encompasses multiple topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Marine and fisheries research, and Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of academic venues, with frequent publications appearing in Frontiers in Marine Science, Marine Chemistry, Communications Earth & Environment, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, and Limnology and Oceanography.

Recent notable papers include:

  • Marine N2O cycling from high spatial resolution concentration, stable isotopic and isotopomer measurements along a meridional transect in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Varying influence of phytoplankton biodiversity and stoichiometric plasticity on bulk particulate stoichiometry across ocean basins, 2021, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Investigating the cycling of chromium in the oxygen deficient waters of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean and the Santa Barbara Basin using stable isotopes, 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • Effects of concentrated poultry operations and cropland manure application on antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli and nutrient pollution in Chesapeake Bay watersheds, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Source Versus Recycling Influences on the Isotopic Composition of Nitrate and Nitrite in the East China Sea, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

Mark A. Altabet has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Annie Bourbonnais, Laura Sánchez-Velasco, Sylvia P. A. Jiménez-Rosenberg, Lin Zhang, and Jesus Baca.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, notably "Recent Developments in Oxygen Minimum Zones Biogeochemistry" published by Frontiers Media in 2023.

Recognition includes receiving the Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) award in 2020.

Best Publications

  • METHODS FOR MEASURING DENITRIFICATION: DIVERSE APPROACHES TO A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

    Peter M. Groffman;Mark A. Altabet;John K. Bohlke;Klaus Butterbach-Bahl

  • Sedimentary nitrogen isotopic ratio as a recorder for surface ocean nitrate utilization

    Mark A. Altabet;Roger Francois

  • Chemical conversion of nitrate and nitrite to nitrous oxide for nitrogen and oxygen isotopic analysis in freshwater and seawater.

    Matthew R. Mcilvin;Mark A. Altabet

  • Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiment: Carbon Cycling in High- and Low-Si Waters

    Kenneth H. Coale;Kenneth S. Johnson;Francisco P. Chavez;Ken O. Buesseler

  • Contribution of Southern Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period

    Roger Franois;Mark A. Altabet;Ein-Fen Yu;Daniel M. Sigman

  • Natural abundance-level measurement of the nitrogen isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method

    D.M. Sigman;M.A. Altabet;R. Michener;D.C. McCorkle

  • The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the Eastern North Pacific

    Mark A. Altabet;Cynthia Pilskaln;Robert Thunell;Carol Pride

  • Climate-related variations in denitrification in the Arabian Sea from sediment 15N/14N ratios

    Mark A. Altabet;Roger Francois;David W. Murray;Warren L. Prell

  • Variations in nitrogen isotopic composition between sinking and suspended particles : Implications for nitrogen cycling and particle transformation in the open ocean

    M. A. Altabet

  • The effect of millennial-scale changes in Arabian Sea denitrification on atmospheric CO2.

    Mark A. Altabet;Matthew J. Higginson;David W. Murray

  • Spatial and temporal distributions of prochlorophyte picoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean

    Robert J. Olson;Sallie W. Chisholm;Erik R. Zettler;Mark A. Altabet

  • The δ15N of nitrate in the southern ocean: Consumption of nitrate in surface waters

    D. M. Sigman;M. A. Altabet;D. C. McCorkle;R. Francois

  • A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments

    Rebecca S. Robinson;Markus Kienast;Ana Luiza Albuquerque;Mark Altabet

  • The δ15N of nitrate in the Southern Ocean: Nitrogen cycling and circulation in the ocean interior

    Daniel Mikhail Sigman;M. A. Altabet;D. C. McCorkle;R. Francois

  • Seasonal and depth-related changes in the source of sinking particles in the North Atlantic

    Mark A. Altabet;Werner G. Deuser;Susumu Honjo;Christian Stienen

  • Changes in the δ13C of surface water particulate organic matter across the subtropical convergence in the SW Indian Ocean

    Roger Francois;Mark A. Altabet;Ralf Goericke;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • The isotopic composition of diatom-bound nitrogen in Southern Ocean sediments

    Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Mark A. Altabet;Roger Francois;Daniel C. McCorkle

  • Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N 2 O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea

    S. W. A. Naqvi;T. Yoshinari;D. A. Jayakumar;M. A. Altabet

  • Steady-State Nitrogen Isotope Effects of N2 and N2O Production in Paracoccus denitrificans

    Carol C. Barford;Joseph P. Montoya;Mark A. Altabet;Ralph Mitchell

  • Phytodetritus at the abyssal seafloor across 10 of latitude in the central equatorial Pacific

    Craig R. Smith;Daniel J. Hoover;Shawn E. Doan;Robin H. Pope

  • Glacial/interglacial changes in sediment rain rate in the SW Indian Sector of subantarctic Waters as recorded by 230Th, 231Pa, U, and δ15N

    Roger Francois;Michael P. Bacon;Mark A. Altabet;Laurent D. Labeyrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger Francois
Roger Francois University of British Columbia
Timothy D. Herbert
Timothy D. Herbert Brown University
Catherine A. Pfister
Catherine A. Pfister University of Chicago
Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Douglas W.R. Wallace
Douglas W.R. Wallace Dalhousie University
Nanako O. Ogawa
Nanako O. Ogawa Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Laurent Labeyrie
Laurent Labeyrie University of Southern Brittany
Peter K. Swart
Peter K. Swart University of Miami
Michael P. Bacon
Michael P. Bacon Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Naohiko Ohkouchi
Naohiko Ohkouchi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

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