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80
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827
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark A. Brzezinski is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial number of publications also in Environmental Science. Within these fields, they have specialized subfields of study including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Biomaterials, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers a range of topics with notable emphasis on Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Diatoms and Algae Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

The scientist's recent scholarly output includes papers such as:

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • Coccolithophores and diatoms resilient to ocean alkalinity enhancement: A glimpse of hope? (2023, Science Advances)
  • An operational overview of the EXport Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing (EXPORTS) Northeast Pacific field deployment (2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene)
  • Impaired viral infection and reduced mortality of diatoms in iron-limited oceanic regions (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • New Constraints on the Physical and Biological Controls on the Silicon Isotopic Composition of the Arctic Ocean (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)

Frequent coauthors of Mark A. Brzezinski include Janice L. Jones, Adrian Marchetti, Heather McNair, Ivia Closset, and Kristen N. Buck, illustrating collaboration across multiple projects and publications.

Mark A. Brzezinski's work is regularly published in venues such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Frontiers in Marine Science, Limnology and Oceanography, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Elementa Science of the Anthropocene. These outlets reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research, spanning biogeochemical cycles, marine science, and ecological studies.

Best Publications

  • The Genome of the Diatom Thalassiosira Pseudonana: Ecology, Evolution, and Metabolism

    E. Virginia Armbrust;John A. Berges;Chris Bowler;Beverley R. Green

  • Production and dissolution of biogenic silica in the ocean: revised global estimates, comparison with regional data and relationship to biogenic sedimentation

    D. M. Nelson;P. Treguer;M. A. Brzezinski;A. Leynaert

  • THE Si:C:N RATIO OF MARINE DIATOMS: INTERSPECIFIC VARIABILITY AND THE EFFECT OF SOME ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES1

    Mark A. Brzezinski

  • High-latitude controls of thermocline nutrients and low latitude biological productivity

    Jorge Louis Sarmiento;N. Gruber;M. A. Brzezinski;J. P. Dunne

  • SILICON METABOLISM IN DIATOMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR GROWTH

    Véronique Martin‐Jézéquel;Mark Hildebrand;Mark A. Brzezinski

  • Synthesis of iron fertilization experiments: From the iron age in the age of enlightenment

    Hein J.W. de Baar;Philip W. Boyd;Kenneth H. Coale;Michael R. Landry

  • A review of the Si cycle in the modern ocean: recent progress and missing gaps in the application of biogenic opal as a paleoproductivity proxy

    O Ragueneau;P Tréguer;A Leynaert;R.F Anderson

  • 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

  • Fractionation of silicon isotopes by marine diatoms during biogenic silica formation

    Christina L. de la Rocha;Mark A. Brzezinski;Michael J. DeNiro

  • A switch from Si(OH)4 to NO-3 depletion in the glacial Southern Ocean

    Mark A. Brzezinski;Carol J. Pride;Carol J. Pride;Valerie M. Franck;Daniel M. Sigman

  • Silicon-isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change

    C. L. De La Rocha;C. L. De La Rocha;M. A. Brzezinski;M. J. DeNiro;A. Shemesh

  • The origin of transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) and their role in the sedimentation of particulate matter

    U Passow;R.F Shipe;A Murray;D.K Pak

  • A first look at the distribution of the stable isotopes of silicon in natural waters

    Christina L. De La Rocha;Mark A. Brzezinski;Michael J. DeNiro

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Natural variations of δ30Si ratios during progressive basalt weathering, Hawaiian Islands

    Karen Ziegler;Oliver A. Chadwick;Mark A. Brzezinski;Eugene F. Kelly

  • Iron and silicic acid concentrations regulate Si uptake north and south of the Polar Frontal Zone in the Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean

    Valerie M. Franck;Mark A Brzezinski;Kenneth H Coale;David M Nelson

  • Silicic acid leakage from the Southern Ocean: A possible explanation for glacial atmospheric pCO2

    Katsumi Matsumoto;Jorge Louis Sarmiento;Mark A. Brzezinski

  • Silicon availability and cell-cycle progression in marine diatoms

    MA Brzezinski;RJ Olson;SW Chisholm

  • An inter-laboratory comparison of Si isotope reference materials

    Ben C. Reynolds;Jugdeep Aggarwal;Luc André;Douglas Baxter

  • Prediction of the Export and Fate of Global Ocean Net Primary Production: The EXPORTS Science Plan

    David A. Siegel;Ken O. Buesseler;Michael J. Behrenfeld;Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson

Frequent Co-Authors

David M. Nelson
David M. Nelson Oregon State University
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Craig A. Carlson
Craig A. Carlson University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel C. Reed
Daniel C. Reed University of California, Santa Barbara
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland University of California, Santa Cruz
Michael J. Deniro
Michael J. Deniro University of California, Santa Barbara
Libe Washburn
Libe Washburn University of California, Santa Barbara
David A. Siegel
David A. Siegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Paul Tréguer
Paul Tréguer French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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