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Patricia L. Yager is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their research focuses on topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Cryospheric studies and observations, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, and Marine and fisheries research.

Recent publications by Patricia L. Yager include the following:

  • "Meltwater-Enhanced Nutrient Export From Greenland's Glacial Fjords: A Sensitivity Analysis" (2020) published in Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "Growing industrialization and poor conservation planning challenge natural resources' management in the Amazon Shelf off Brazil" (2021) published in Marine Policy
  • "Temporal Variability of Air-Sea CO2 flux in the Western Tropical North Atlantic Influenced by the Amazon River Plume" (2021) published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Distribution and spatial-temporal variation of organic matter along the Yangtze River-ocean continuum" (2022) published in Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • "Influence of the Amazon River on the composition of particulate organic carbon in the western tropical Atlantic Ocean" (2024) published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Patricia L. Yager has frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Marine Policy
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Renato M. Castelao
  • Rodrigo L. Moura
  • Hilde Oliver
  • Chuning Wang
  • Lais Silva Araujo

Best Publications

  • An extensive reef system at the Amazon River mouth

    Rodrigo L. Moura;Gilberto M. Amado-Filho;Fernando C. Moraes;Poliana S. Brasileiro

  • Degradation of terrestrially derived macromolecules in the Amazon River

    Nicholas D. Ward;Richard G. Keil;Patricia M. Medeiros;Daimio C. Brito

  • Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean.

    A. Subramaniam;P. L. Yager;E. J. Carpenter;C. Mahaffey

  • Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities

    Jean-François Ghiglione;Pierre E. Galand;Thomas Pommier;Carlos Pedrós-Alió

  • Sizing up metatranscriptomics

    Mary Ann Moran;Brandon Satinsky;Scott Michael Gifford;Scott Michael Gifford;Haiwei Luo

  • Role for urea in nitrification by polar marine Archaea.

    Laura Alonso-Saéz;Allison S Waller;Daniel R Mende;Kevin Bakker

  • Molecular-level changes of dissolved organic matter along the Amazon River-to-ocean continuum

    Michael Seidel;Patricia L. Yager;Nicholas D. Ward;Edward J. Carpenter

  • Fate of the Amazon River dissolved organic matter in the tropical Atlantic Ocean

    Patrícia Matheus Medeiros;Michael Seidel;Michael Seidel;Nicholas D Ward;Nicholas D Ward;Edward J Carpenter

  • How Much, How Fast?: A Science Review and Outlook for Research on the Instability of Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier in the 21st Century

    Ted A. Scambos;Robin E. Bell;Richard B. Alley;S. Anandakrishnan

  • The pathways and properties of the Amazon River Plume in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean

    Victoria J. Coles;Maureen T. Brooks;Julia Hopkins;Michael R. Stukel

  • The Northeast Water Polynya as an atmospheric CO2 sink: A seasonal rectification hypothesis

    Patricia L. Yager;Douglas W. R. Wallace;Kenneth M. Johnson;Walker O. Smith

  • Dynamic bacterial and viral response to an algal bloom at subzero temperatures

    Patricia L. Yager;Tara L. Connelly;Behzad Mortazavi;K. Eric Wommack

  • Enhanced deposition to pits: a local food source for benthos

    Patricia L. Yager;Arthur R. M. Nowell;Peter A. Jumars

  • Ocean biogeochemistry modeled with emergent trait-based genomics

    V. J. Coles;M. R. Stukel;M. T. Brooks;A. Burd

  • Microspatial gene expression patterns in the Amazon River Plume.

    Brandon M. Satinsky;Byron C. Crump;Christa B. Smith;Shalabh Sharma

  • Oceanic transport of surface meltwater from the southern Greenland ice sheet

    Hao Luo;Renato M. Castelao;Asa K. Rennermalm;Marco Tedesco;Marco Tedesco

  • Melting glaciers stimulate large summer phytoplankton blooms in southwest Greenland waters

    Kevin R. Arrigo;Gert L. van Dijken;Renato M. Castelao;Hao Luo

  • Influence of the Amazon River discharge on the biogeography of phytoplankton communities in the western tropical north Atlantic

    Joaquim I. Goes;Helga do Rosario Gomes;Alexander M. Chekalyuk;Edward J. Carpenter

  • Seasonal variations in the Amazon plume-related atmospheric carbon sink

    S. R. Cooley;V. J. Coles;Ajit Subramaniam;P. L. Yager

  • ASPIRE: The Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition

    Patricia L. Yager;Robert M. Sherrell;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Sharon Stammerjohn
Sharon Stammerjohn Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Mary Ann Moran
Mary Ann Moran University of Georgia
Jeffrey E. Richey
Jeffrey E. Richey University of Washington
Patricia M. Medeiros
Patricia M. Medeiros University of Georgia
Robert M. Sherrell
Robert M. Sherrell Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Alex V. Krusche
Alex V. Krusche Universidade de São Paulo
Byron C. Crump
Byron C. Crump Oregon State University
Stefan Bertilsson
Stefan Bertilsson Swedish Research Council
Marco Tedesco
Marco Tedesco Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Thorsten Dittmar
Thorsten Dittmar Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

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