Microplastic abundance and composition in western Lake Superior as determined via microscopy, Pyr-GC/MS, and FTIR

E Hendrickson, EC Minor… - Environmental science & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
While plastic pollution in marine and freshwater systems is an active area of research, there
is not yet an in-depth understanding of the distributions, chemical compositions, and fates of …

Dissolved organic carbon and chromophoric dissolved organic matter properties of rivers in the USA

RGM Spencer, KD Butler… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration and chromophoric dissolved organic matter
(CDOM) parameters were measured over a range of discharge in 30 US rivers, covering a …

Factors affecting the measurement of CDOM by remote sensing of optically complex inland waters

PL Brezonik, LG Olmanson, JC Finlay… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
A combination of new measurements and analysis of historical data from several geographic
regions was used to address four issues that affect the reliability and interpretation of …

Dissolved organic matter in large lakes: a key but understudied component of the carbon cycle

EC Minor, AR Oyler - Biogeochemistry, 2023 - Springer
The world's largest five freshwater lakes include tropical meromictic, temperate weakly
stratified, and temperate holomictic lakes ranging in age from twenty-five million to~ 10,000 …

The laurentian great lakes: A biogeochemical test bed

RW Sterner - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The Laurentian Great Lakes are vast, spatially heterogeneous, and changing. Across these
hydrologically linked basins, some conditions approach biogeochemical extremes for …

Anthropogenic climate change has altered primary productivity in Lake Superior

MD O'Beirne, JP Werne, RE Hecky, TC Johnson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change has the potential to alter many facets of Earth's freshwater
resources, especially lacustrine ecosystems. The effects of anthropogenic changes in Lake …

Characterization of dissolved organic matter in Lake Superior and its watershed using ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry

EC Minor, CJ Steinbring, K Longnecker… - Organic …, 2012 - Elsevier
With the advent of ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry (MS), recent studies have begun
to resolve molecular relationships between terrestrial and aquatic dissolved organic matter …

The potential for CO₂-induced acidification in freshwater: A Great Lakes case study

JC Phillips, GA McKinley, V Bennington, HA Bootsma… - Oceanography, 2015 - JSTOR
Ocean acidification will likely result in a drop of 0.3–0.4 pH units in the surface ocean by
2100, assuming anthropogenic CO₂ emissions continue at the current rate. Impacts of …

Spatial and temporal distribution of singlet oxygen in Lake Superior

BM Peterson, AM McNally, RM Cory… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
A multiyear field study was undertaken on Lake Superior to investigate singlet oxygen (1O2)
photoproduction. Specifically, trends within the lake were examined, along with an …

Chromophoric dissolved organic matter export from US rivers

RGM Spencer, GR Aiken… - Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) fluxes and yields from 15 major US rivers
draining an assortment of terrestrial biomes are presented. A robust relationship between …