Toxic cyanobacteria: a growing threat to water and air quality

HE Plaas, HW Paerl - Environmental science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
The global expansion of harmful cyanobacterial blooms (CyanoHABs) poses an increasing
threat to public health. CyanoHABs are characterized by the production of toxic metabolites …

A review of atmospheric aging of sea spray aerosols: Potential factors affecting chloride depletion

B Su, T Wang, G Zhang, Y Liang, C Lv, Y Hu, L Li… - Atmospheric …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) is the largest natural source of aerosols in the troposphere, and
has profound potential significance for climate change, visibility, and human health. It has …

Macromolecular organic compounds from the depths of Enceladus

F Postberg, N Khawaja, B Abel, G Choblet, CR Glein… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Saturn's moon Enceladus harbours a global water ocean 1, which lies under an ice crust
and above a rocky core 2. Through warm cracks in the crust 3 a cryo-volcanic plume ejects …

Processes controlling the composition and abundance of Arctic aerosol

MD Willis, WR Leaitch, JPD Abbatt - Reviews of Geophysics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The Arctic region is a harbinger of global change and is warming at a rate higher than the
global average. While Arctic warming is driven by increases in anthropogenic greenhouse …

Sea spray aerosol chemical composition: elemental and molecular mimics for laboratory studies of heterogeneous and multiphase reactions

TH Bertram, RE Cochran, VH Grassian… - Chemical Society …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Sea spray aerosol particles (SSA), formed through wave breaking at the ocean surface,
contribute to natural aerosol particle concentrations in remote regions of Earth's atmosphere …

Harmful algal bloom toxins in aerosol generated from inland lake water

NE Olson, ME Cooke, JH Shi, JA Birbeck… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) caused by cyanobacteria in freshwater environments produce
toxins (eg, microcystin) that are harmful to human and animal health. HAB frequency and …

Cloud‐nucleating particles over the Southern Ocean in a changing climate

CH Twohy, PJ DeMott, LM Russell, DW Toohey… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Stratocumulus clouds over the Southern Ocean have fewer droplets and are more likely to
exist in the predominately supercooled phase than clouds at similar temperatures over …

[HTML][HTML] Saccharides in atmospheric particulate and sedimentary organic matter: Status overview and future perspectives

L Marynowski, BRT Simoneit - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Saccharides are omnipresent compounds in terrestrial and marine ecosystems. Since the
2000s, their role in environmental and geochemical studies has significantly increased, but …

Wintertime Arctic sea spray aerosol composition controlled by sea ice lead microbiology

RM Kirpes, D Bonanno, NW May, M Fraund… - ACS Central …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The Arctic is experiencing the greatest warming on Earth, as most evident by rapid sea ice
loss. Delayed sea ice freeze-up in the Alaskan Arctic is decreasing wintertime sea ice extent …

Molecular diversity of sea spray aerosol particles: Impact of ocean biology on particle composition and hygroscopicity

RE Cochran, O Laskina, JV Trueblood, AD Estillore… - Chem, 2017 - cell.com
The impact of sea spray aerosol (SSA) on climate depends on the size and chemical
composition of individual particles that make up the total SSA ensemble. There remains a …