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Matthew A. Charette is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their work primarily intersects the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The scientist's research encompasses a range of topics including Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Climate change and permafrost, and Marine and coastal ecosystems.

Charette has an extensive publication record featuring numerous papers in key academic venues. Frequent journals where their work appears include the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Marine Chemistry, Geophysical Research Letters, and Goldschmidt2021 abstracts.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean, 2021, Biogeosciences
  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Does submarine groundwater discharge contribute to summer hypoxia in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Estuary?, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Throughout their career, Matthew A. Charette has collaborated frequently with researchers including Willard S. Moore, Lauren Kipp, Paul B. Henderson, Phoebe J. Lam, and Emilie Le Roy.

Common publication venues where the scientist has contributed multiple articles are:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Their research has concentrated on understanding biogeochemical cycles, isotopic tracing of groundwater discharge, and elemental analysis within marine and coastal environments, particularly in Arctic contexts. This work contributes to larger discussions surrounding climate change effects on permafrost and related cryospheric dynamics, as well as the interactions between groundwater and marine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization

    Philip W. Boyd;Andrew J. Watson;Cliff S. Law;Edward R. Abraham

  • Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Coastal Zone via Multiple Methods

    W.C. Burnett;P.K. Aggarwal;A. Aureli;H. Bokuniewicz

  • Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

    Raymond T. Pollard;Ian Salter;Richard J. Sanders;Mike I. Lucas

  • Oxidative precipitation of groundwater-derived ferrous iron in the subterranean estuary of a coastal bay

    Matthew A. Charette;Edward R. Sholkovitz

  • Utility of radium isotopes for evaluating the input and transport of groundwater-derived nitrogen to a Cape Cod estuary

    Matthew A. Charette;Ken O. Buesseler;John E. Andrews

  • Trace element cycling in a subterranean estuary: Part 2. Geochemistry of the pore water

    Matthew A. Charette;Edward R. Sholkovitz

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

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

  • Global estimate of submarine groundwater discharge based on an observationally constrained radium isotope model

    Eun Young Kwon;Guebuem Kim;Francois Primeau;Willard S. Moore

  • Greenland meltwater as a significant and potentially bioavailable source of iron to the ocean

    Maya P. Bhatia;Maya P. Bhatia;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski;Sarah B. Das;Crystaline F. Breier

  • An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy

    K.O. Buesseler;C.R. Benitez-Nelson;S.B. Moran;A. Burd

  • The effects of iron fertilization on carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean

    Ken O. Buesseler;John E. Andrews;Steven M. Pike;Matthew A. Charette

  • Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean

    Clare E. Robinson;Pei Xin;Isaac R. Santos;Matthew A. Charette

  • Reviews and syntheses: The biogeochemical cycle of silicon in the modern ocean

    Paul J. Tréguer;Jill N. Sutton;Mark Brzezinski;Matthew A. Charette

  • Nitrogen biogeochemistry of submarine groundwater discharge

    K. D. Kroeger;M. A. Charette

  • Intercomparison of submarine groundwater discharge estimates from a sandy unconfined aquifer

    Ann E. Mulligan;Matthew A. Charette

  • Trace element cycling in a subterranean estuary: Part 1. Geochemistry of the permeable sediments

    Matthew A. Charette;Edward R. Sholkovitz;Colleen M. Hansel

  • Molecular characterization of dissolved organic matter associated with the Greenland ice sheet

    Maya P. Bhatia;Sarah B. Das;Krista Longnecker;Matthew A. Charette

  • 234Th sorption and export models in the water column: A review

    Nicolas Savoye;Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson;Adrian B. Burd;J. Kirk Cochran

  • New perspectives on radium behavior within a subterranean estuary

    Meagan Eagle Gonneea;Paul J. Morris;Henrieta Dulaiova;Matthew A. Charette

  • Dissolved iron in the vicinity of the Crozet Islands, Southern Ocean

    Helene Planquette;Peter J. Statham;Gary R. Fones;Matthew A. Charette

  • Submarine groundwater discharge of nutrients and copper to an urban subestuary of Chesapeake Bay (Elizabeth River)

    Matthew A. Charette;Ken O. Buesseler

Frequent Co-Authors

Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Phoebe J. Lam
Phoebe J. Lam University of California, Santa Cruz
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Edward R. Sholkovitz
Edward R. Sholkovitz Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Douglas E. Hammond
Douglas E. Hammond University of Southern California
Christopher I. Measures
Christopher I. Measures University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff
Michiel M Rutgers van der Loeff Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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