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Peggy H. Ostrom is a researcher affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science, with particular attention to the interactions of soil, water, and atmospheric processes.

Their research encompasses several specialized subfields, including:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Pharmaceutical Science
  • Ecology

Key topics in Ostrom's research include the dynamics of nutrients and gases in natural and managed ecosystems, notably:

  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Chemical Reactions and Isotopes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal

Ostrom has published research in several journals, with recent papers including:

  • "The influence of tillage and fertilizer on the flux and source of nitrous oxide with reference to atmospheric variation using laser spectroscopy," published in 2021 in Biogeochemistry
  • "Isotopic Fractionation and Kinetic Isotope Effects of a Purified Bacterial Nitric Oxide Reductase (NOR)," published in 2025 in Biochemistry

Their frequent co-authors reflect interdisciplinary collaboration and include:

  • Hasand Gandhi
  • Joshua A. Haslun
  • Nathaniel E. Ostrom
  • Samuel DeCamp
  • Elise D. Rivett

Best Publications

  • Distinguishing Nitrous Oxide Production from Nitrification and Denitrification on the Basis of Isotopomer Abundances

    R. L. Sutka;N. E. Ostrom;P. H. Ostrom;J. A. Breznak

  • Diet of northern bottlenose whales inferred from fatty-acid and stable-isotope analyses of biopsy samples

    Sascha K. Hooker;Sara J. Iverson;Peggy Ostrom;Sean C. Smith

  • Nitrogen isotopomer site preference of N2O produced by Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus Bath.

    R. L. Sutka;N. E. Ostrom;P. H. Ostrom;H. Gandhi

  • Isotopologue effects during N2O reduction in soils and in pure cultures of denitrifiers

    Nathaniel E. Ostrom;Adam Pitt;Robin Sutka;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Isotopologue fractionation during N2O production by fungal denitrification

    Robin L. Sutka;Gerard C. Adams;Nathaniel E. Ostrom;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Establishing pathways of energy flow for insect predators using stable isotope ratios: field and laboratory evidence.

    Peggy H. Ostrom;Manuel Colunga-Garcia;Stuart H. Gage

  • Marine carbon and nitrogen in southeastern Alaska stream food webs: Evidence from artificial and natural streams

    Dominic T. Chaloner;Kristine M. Martin;Mark S. Wipfli;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Nitrogen and oxygen isotopomeric constraints on the origins and sea-to-air flux of N2O in the oligotrophic subtropical North Pacific gyre

    Brian N. Popp;Marian B. Westley;Sakae Toyoda;Tatsuya Miwa;Tatsuya Miwa

  • Erratum: Nitrogen isotopomer site preference of N2O produced by Nitrosomonas europaea and Methylococcus capsulatus Bath (Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (2003) 17(738-745))

    R. L. Sutka;N. E. Ostrom;P. H. Ostrom;H. Gandhi

  • Organochlorine dynamics in the pelagic food web of lake baikal

    John R. Kucklick;H. Rodger Harvey;Joel E. Baker;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Insights into the origin of perylene from isotopic analyses of sediments from Saanich Inlet, British Columbia

    J.E Silliman;P.A Meyers;P.H Ostrom;N.E Ostrom

  • Isotopologue data reveal bacterial denitrification as the primary source of N2O during a high flux event following cultivation of a native temperate grassland.

    Nathaniel E. Ostrom;Robin Sutka;Peggy H. Ostrom;A. Stuart Grandy

  • Stable isotopes differentiate bottlenose dolphins off west-central Florida

    Nélio B. Barros;P. H. Ostrom;Craig A. Stricker;R.S. Wells

  • Comment on "Protein sequences from mastodon and Tyrannosaurus rex revealed by mass spectrometry"

    Mike Buckley;Angela Walker;Simon Y. W. Ho;Yue Yang

  • Variation in responses to spawning Pacific salmon among three south-eastern Alaska streams

    D. T. Chaloner;G. A. Lamberti;R. W. Merritt;N. L. Mitchell

  • Isotopologue fractionation during microbial reduction of N2O within soil mesocosms as a function of water-filled pore space

    Malee Jinuntuya-Nortman;Robin L. Sutka;Peggy H. Ostrom;Hasand Gandhi

  • Untangling the complex issue of dissolved organic carbon uptake: a stable isotope approach

    Louis A. Kaplan;Tracy N. Wiegner;J. D. Newbold;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Evidence for the predominance of denitrification as a source of N2O in temperate agricultural soils based on isotopologue measurements

    Matthew R. Opdyke;Matthew R. Opdyke;Nathaniel E. Ostrom;Peggy H. Ostrom

  • Use of biopsy samples of humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) skin for stable isotope (δ13C) determination

    Sean Todd;Peggy Ostrom;Jon Lien;Jun Abrajano

  • Stable nitrogen isotope dynamics of dissolved nitrate in a transect from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre to the Eastern Tropical North Pacific

    R.L. Sutka;N.E. Ostrom;P.H. Ostrom;M.S. Phanikumar

  • Contribution of dissolved organic C to stream metabolism: a mesocosm study using 13C-enriched tree-tissue leachate

    Tracy N. Wiegner;Louis A. Kaplan;J. Denis Newbold;Peggy H. Ostrom

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathaniel E. Ostrom
Nathaniel E. Ostrom Michigan State University
Yoshito Chikaraishi
Yoshito Chikaraishi Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Robert C. Fleischer
Robert C. Fleischer Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Elise F. Zipkin
Elise F. Zipkin Michigan State University
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Louis A. Kaplan
Louis A. Kaplan Drexel University
Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro University of California, Santa Cruz
Randall S. Wells
Randall S. Wells Chicago Zoological Society
Thomas W. Stafford
Thomas W. Stafford Aarhus University
Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley University of Manchester

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