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Steven E. Lohrenz is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on oceanography and water-related environmental studies.

The main topics of their work include marine and coastal ecosystems, water quality monitoring and analysis, soil and water nutrient dynamics, water quality monitoring technologies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and hydrology and watershed management studies.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Hanqin Tian, Wei-Jun Cai, Shufen Pan, Yuanzhi Yao, and Zihao Bian, reflecting ongoing collaborations within the environmental and geochemical research community.

Their research has been published in several notable venues, with multiple contributions to Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Scientific Data, Remote Sensing of Environment, Environmental Research Letters, and Remote Sensing.

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Steven E. Lohrenz include:

  • GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality (2023) in Scientific Data
  • Remotely estimating total suspended solids concentration in clear to extremely turbid waters using a novel semi-analytical method (2021) in Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Long-Term Trajectory of Nitrogen Loading and Delivery From Mississippi River Basin to the Gulf of Mexico (2020) in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Increased extreme precipitation challenges nitrogen load management to the Gulf of Mexico (2020) in Communications Earth & Environment
  • A review of carbon monitoring in wet carbon systems using remote sensing (2022) in Environmental Research Letters

Steven E. Lohrenz's work includes attention to environmental challenges such as nutrient loading in aquatic systems, water quality measurement technologies, and the impacts of atmospheric changes on marine ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • Acidification of subsurface coastal waters enhanced by eutrophication

    Wei-Jun Cai;Xinping Hu;Wei-Jen Huang;Michael C. Murrell

  • A comparison of global estimates of marine primary production from ocean color

    Mary-Elena Carr;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs;Marjorie Schmeltz;Maki Noguchi Aita

  • Transformation of Dissolved and Particulate Materials on Continental Shelves Influenced by Large Rivers: Plume Processes

    Michael J. Dagg;Ronald Benner;Steven Lohrenz;David Lawrence

  • Nutrients, irradiance, and mixing as factors regulating primary production in coastal waters impacted by the Mississippi River plume

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Gary L. Fahnenstiel;Donald G. Redalje;Gregory A. Lang

  • Comparison of algorithms for estimating ocean primary production from surface chlorophyll, temperature, and irradiance

    Janet Campbell;David Antoine;Robert Armstrong;Kevin Arrigo

  • Enhanced primary production at the plume/oceanic interface of the Mississippi River

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Michael J. Dagg;Terry E. Whitledge

  • Variations in primary production of northern Gulf of Mexico continental shelf waters linked to nutrient inputs from the Mississippi River

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Gary L. Fahnenstiel;Donald G. Redalje;Gregory A. Lang

  • Seasonal patterns of ocean biogeochemistry at the U.S. JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic time-series study site

    Anthony F. Michaels;Anthony H. Knap;Rachael L. Dow;Kjell Gundersen

  • Characterization of subsurface polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons at the Deepwater Horizon site

    Arne R. Diercks;Arne R. Diercks;Raymond C. Highsmith;Vernon L. Asper;Vernon L. Asper;Dongjoo Joung

  • Seasonal variability in primary production and particle flux in the northwestern Sargasso Sea: U.S. JGOFS Bermuda Atlantic time-series study

    Steven E Lohrenz;George A Knauer;Vernon L Asper;Merritt Tuel

  • A comparative overview of weathering intensity and HCO3− flux in the world's major rivers with emphasis on the Changjiang, Huanghe, Zhujiang (Pearl) and Mississippi Rivers

    Wei-Jun Cai;Xianghui Guo;Xianghui Guo;Chen-Tung Arthur Chen;Minhan Dai

  • Characterization of oil components from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico using fluorescence EEM and PARAFAC techniques

    Zhengzhen Zhou;Laodong Guo;Alan M. Shiller;Steven E. Lohrenz

  • Rapid coupling of sinking particle fluxes between surface and deep ocean waters

    Vernon L. Asper;W.G. Deuser;G.A. Knauer;Steven E. Lohrenz

  • Phytoplankton spectral absorption as influenced by community size structure and pigment composition

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Alan D. Weidemann;Merritt Tuel

  • Antimony and arsenic biogeochemistry in the western Atlantic Ocean

    Gregory A. Cutter;Lynda S. Cutter;Alison M. Featherstone;Steven E. Lohrenz

  • The relationship between primary production and the vertical export of particulate organic matter in a river-impacted coastal ecosystem

    Donald G. Redalje;Steven E. Lohrenz;Gary L. Fahnenstiel

  • A Retrospective Analysis of Nutrients and Phytoplankton Productivity in the Mississippi River Plume

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Donald G. Redalje;Wei-Jun Cai;James Acker

  • The United States' Next Generation of Atmospheric Composition and Coastal Ecosystem Measurements: NASA's Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO-CAPE) Mission

    J. Fishman;L. T. Iraci;J. Al-Saadi;Kelly V. Chance

  • A Review of Water Column Processes Influencing Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico

    Michael J. Dagg;James W. Ammerman;Rainer M. W. Amon;Wayne S. Gardner

  • Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century influenced by changes in climate, land use, and atmospheric CO2

    Bo Tao;Hanqin Tian;Wei Ren;Jia Yang

  • Interrelationships among primary production, chlorophyll, and environmental conditions in frontal regions of the western Mediterranean Sea

    Steven E. Lohrenz;Denis A. Wiesenburg;Irene P. DePalma;Kenneth S. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Wei-Jun Cai
Wei-Jun Cai University of Delaware
Gary L. Fahnenstiel
Gary L. Fahnenstiel Michigan Technological University
Ruoying He
Ruoying He North Carolina State University
Hanqin Tian
Hanqin Tian Auburn University
Oscar Schofield
Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Charles S. Hopkinson
Charles S. Hopkinson University of Georgia
Simone R. Alin
Simone R. Alin National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Katja Fennel
Katja Fennel Dalhousie University
Raymond G. Najjar
Raymond G. Najjar Pennsylvania State University
Jia Yang
Jia Yang Oklahoma State University

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