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Yrene Astor is affiliated with the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, and Environmental Engineering.

The main topics in Yrene Astor's work concentrate on Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation, and Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses.

Their recent publications include a variety of studies and reports in diverse venues:

  • "Anomalous δ13C in Particulate Organic Carbon at the Chemoautotrophy Maximum in the Cariaco Basin" (2020), published in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • "Handbook of Methods for the Analysis of Oceanographic Parameters at the CARIACO Time-series Station: Cariaco Time Series Study." (2021), published by IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)
  • "Transport-limited reactions in microbial systems" (2022), published in Environmental Microbiology
  • "Regulation of CO2 by the sea in areas around Latin America in a context of climate change" (2023), published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Yrene Astor has collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their research career. Notable frequent collaborators include Frank Müller-Karger, with whom they have co-authored three papers; Gordon T. Taylor, with two joint publications; and also Mary I. Scranton, Robert C. Thunell, and Peter K. Swart, all of whom have appeared as co-authors in their work.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, among which the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, and the IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) have each hosted their research outputs.

Best Publications

  • A Time-Series View of Changing Ocean Chemistry Due to Ocean Uptake of Anthropogenic CO2 and Ocean Acidification

    Nicholas R. Bates;Yrene M. Astor;Matthew J Church;Kim Currie

  • Nitrogen Isotope Dynamics of the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

    Robert C. Thunell;Daniel M. Sigman;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Yrene Astor

  • Annual cycle of primary production in the Cariaco Basin: Response to upwelling and implications for vertical export

    Frank E. Muller-Karger;Ramon Varela;Robert Thunell;Mary Scranton

  • Comparison of Vertical Distributions of Prokaryotic Assemblages in the Anoxic Cariaco Basin and Black Sea by Use of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization

    Xueju Lin;Stuart G. Wakeham;Isabell F. Putnam;Yrene M. Astor

  • Seasonal and Interannual Variation in the Hydrography of the Cariaco Basin: Implications for Basin Ventilation

    Yrene Astor;Frank Muller-Karger;Mary I Scranton

  • Ecosystem responses in the southern Caribbean Sea to global climate change

    Gordon T. Taylor;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Robert C. Thunell;Mary I. Scranton

  • Particulate Organic Carbon Fluxes Along Upwelling-Dominated Continental Margins: Rates and Mechanisms

    Robert C. Thunell;Claudia Benitez-Nelson;Ramon Varela;Yrene Astor

  • Si Cycle in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela: Seasonal Variability in Silicate Availability and the Si : C : N Composition of Sinking Particles

    Robert C. Thunell;Claudia Benitez-Nelson;Frank E. Muller-Karger;Laura Lorenzoni

  • Processes of coastal upwelling and carbon flux in the Cariaco Basin

    Frank Muller-Karger;Ramon Varela;Robert Thunell;Yrene Astor

  • Biogenic fluxes in the Cariaco Basin: a combined study of sinking particulates and underlying sediments

    Miguel A. Goñi;Heather L. Aceves;Robert C. Thunell;Eric Tappa

  • Controls on temporal variability of the geochemistry of the deep Cariaco Basin

    Mary I Scranton;Yrene Astor;Richard Bohrer;Tung-Yuan Ho

  • Biomarkers, chemistry and microbiology show chemoautotrophy in a multilayer chemocline in the Cariaco Basin

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Courtney Turich;Florence Schubotz;Agnieszka Podlaska

  • The oxygen isotope composition of planktonic foraminifera from the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela: Seasonal and interannual variations

    Kathy Tedesco;Robert Thunell;Yrene Astor;Frank Muller-Karger

  • Increased marine sediment suspension and fluxes following an earthquake

    Robert Thunell;Eric Tappa;Ramon Varela;Martin Llano

  • Planktonic foraminiferal area density as a proxy for carbonate ion concentration: A calibration study using the Cariaco Basin ocean time series

    Brittney J. Marshall;Robert C. Thunell;Michael J. Henehan;Yrene Astor

  • Modern climate forcing of terrigenous deposition in the tropics (Cariaco Basin, Venezuela)

    Nahysa C. Martinez;R.W. Murray;Robert C. Thunell;Larry C. Peterson

  • Vertical and temporal variability of redox zonation in the water column of the Cariaco Basin: implications for organic carbon oxidation pathways

    Tung-Yuan Ho;Gordon T. Taylor;Yrene Astor;Ramon Varela

  • Inorganic and organic sinking particulate phosphorus fluxes across the oxic/anoxic water column of Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

    Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson;Lauren P. O'Neill Madden;Renée M. Styles;Robert C. Thunell

  • Interannual Variability in Sea Surface Temperature and Fco2 Changes in the Cariaco Basin

    Y. M Astor;Laura Lorenzoni;R. Thunell;R. Varela

  • Controls on iron, manganese and intermediate oxidation state sulfur compounds in the Cariaco Basin

    Dane Percy;Xiaona Li;Gordon T. Taylor;Yrene Astor

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
Gordon T. Taylor
Gordon T. Taylor Stony Brook University
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson
Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson University of South Carolina
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Miguel A. Goñi
Miguel A. Goñi Oregon State University
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Larry C. Peterson
Larry C. Peterson University of Miami
David J. Hollander
David J. Hollander University of South Florida
Chuanmin Hu
Chuanmin Hu University of South Florida St. Petersburg

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