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Manuscripts from 2014

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A comparison of top-down and bottom-up approaches to benthic habitat mapping to inform offshore wind energy development, Monique LaFrance, John W. King, Bryan A. Oakley, and Sheldon Pratt

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The Distribution of the Mid-to-Lower Crustal Low-Velocity Zone Beneath the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau Revealed from Ambient Noise Tomography, Hongyi Li, Yang Shen, Zhongxian Huang, Xinfu Li, Meng Gong, Danian Shi, Eric Sandoval, and Aibeng Li

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Crustal Velocity Structure of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau from Ambient Noise Surface-Wave Tomography and its Tectonic Implications, Xinfu Li, Hongyi Li, Yang Shen, Meng Gong, Danian Shi, Eric Sandvol, and Aibing Li

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Organic Pollutants and Ocean Fronts Across the Atlantic Ocean: A Review, Rainer Lohmann and Igor M. Belkin

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The Five Stable Noble Gases are Sensitive Unambiguous Tracers of Glacial Meltwater, B. Loose and W. J. Jenkins

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A Parameter Model of Gas Exchange for the Seasonal Sea Ice Zone, Brice Loose, W. R. McGillis, D. Perovich, C. J. Zappa, and P. Schlosser

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The Impact of Slab Dip Variations, Gaps and Rollback on Mantle Wedge Flow: Insights from Fluids Experiments, Julia G. MacDougall, Chris Kincaid, Sara Szwaja, and Karen M. Fischer

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Estimates of Micro-, Nano-, and Picoplankton Contributions to Particle Export in the Northeast Pacific, B. L. Mackinson, S. Bradley Moran, M. W. Lomas, G. M. Stewart, and R. P. Kelly

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Fine-scale spatial patterns in the demersal fish and invertebrate community in a northwest Atlantic ecosystem, Anna J. Malek, Jeremy S. Collie, and James Gartland

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Significance of Population Centers As Sources of Gaseous and Dissolved PAHs in the Lower Great Lakes, Carie A. McDonough, Mohammed A. Khairy, Derek C G Muir, and Rainer Lohmann

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The Western Maine Coastal Current reduces primary production rates, zooplankton abundance and benthic nutrient fluxes in Massachusetts Bay, M. Conor McManus, Candace A. Oviatt, Anne E. Giblin, Jane Tucker, and Jefferson T. Turner

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The Western Maine Coastal Current reduces primary production rates, zooplankton abundance and benthic nutrient fluxes in Massachusetts Bay, M. Conor McManus, Candace A. Oviatt, Anne E. Giblin, Jane Tucker, and Jefferson T. Turner

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Many ways to stay in the game: Individual variability maintains high biodiversity in planktonic microorganisms, Susanne Menden-Deuer and Julie Rowlett

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Observations of flow variability through the Kerama Gap between the East China Sea and the Northwestern Pacific, Hanna Na, Mark Wimbush, Jae Hun Park, Hirohiko Nakamura, and Ayako Nishina

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Pacific freshening drives Pliocene cooling and Asian monsoon intensification, Junsheng Nie, Thomas Stevens, Yongui Song, John W. King, Rui Zhang, Shunchuan Ji, Lisha Gong, and Danielle Cares

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Tsunami hazard risk of a future volcanic eruption of Kolumbo submarine volcano, NE of Santorini Caldera, Greece, P. Nomikou, S. Carey, K. L.C. Bell, D. Papanikolaou, K. Bejelou, K. Cantner, D. Sakellariou, and I. Perros

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The detection of volcanic debris avalanches (VDAs) along the Hellenic volcanic arc, through marine geophysical techniques, P. Nomikou, D. Papanikolaou, A. Tibaldi, S. Carey, I. Livanos, K. L.C. Bell, F. A. Pasquarè, and G. Rousakis

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The emergence and growth of a submarine volcano: The Kameni islands, Santorini (Greece), P. Nomikou, M. M. Parks, D. Papanikolaou, D. M. Pyle, T. A. Mather, Steven Carey, A. B. Watts, M. Paulatto, M. L. Kalnins, I. Livanos, K. Bejelou, E. Simou, and I. Perros

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Post Eruption inflation of the East Pacific Rise at 9°50′ N, Scott L. Nooner, Spahr C. Webb, W. Roger Buck, and Marie-Helene Cormier

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Changing pH in the Surface Ocean, Michael E.Q. Pilson

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Black Carbon Concentrations and Sources in the Marine Boundary Layer of the Tropical Atlantic Ocean using Four Methodologies, K. Pohl, M. Cantwell, P. Herckes, and Rainer Lohmann

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Targeted search for actinomycetes from nearshore and deep-sea marine sediments, Alejandra Prieto-Davó, Luis J. Villarreal-Gómez, Stephanie Forschner-Dancause, Alan T. Bull, James E.M. Stach, David C. Smith, David C. Rowley, and Paul R. Jensen

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Sea State Dependence of the Wind Stress Over the Ocean Under Hurricane Winds, Brandon G. Reichl, Tetsu Hara, and Isaac Ginis

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The changing roles of iron and vertical mixing in regulating nitrogen and silicon cycling in the Southern Ocean over the last glacial cycle, Rebecca S. Robinson, Mark A. Brzezinski, Charlotte P. Beucher, Matthew G.S. Horn, and Patrick Bedsole

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Expansion of pelagic denitrification during early Pleistocene cooling, Rebecca S. Robinson, Johan Etourneau, Philippe M. Martinez, and Ralph Schneider

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On the structure and distribution of thin anticyclonic lenses in the southeast pacific ocean, T. Rossby

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On the long-term stability of Gulf Stream transport based on 20 years of direct measurements, T. Rossby, C. N. Flagg, K. Donohue, A. Sanchez-Franks, and J. Lillibridge

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First Evidence for the Presence of Iron Oxidizing Zetaproteobacteria at the Levantine Continental Margins, Maxim Rubin-Blum, Gilad Antler, Rami Tsadok, Eli Shemesh, James A. Austin Jr., Dwight F. Coleman, Beverly N. Goodman-Tchernov, Zvi Ben-Avraham, and Dan Tchernov

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Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y B.P., James M. Russell, Hendrik Vogel, Bronwen L. Konecky, Satria Bijaksana, Yongsong Huang, Martin Melles, Nigel Wattrus, Kassandra Costa, and John W. King

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A comparison of transport and position between the Gulf Stream east of Cape Hatteras and the Florida Current, A. Sanchez-Franks, C. N. Flagg, and T. Rossby

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Determination of in situ dissolved inorganic carbon concentration and alkalinity for marine sedimentary porewater, Justine Sauvage, Arthur J. Spivack, Richard W. Murray, and Steven D'Hondt

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Aqueous carbon monoxide cycling in a fjord-like estuary, Courtney E. Schmidt and Brian G. Heikes

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Fish trophic engineering: Ecological effects of the invasive ascidian Didemnum vexillum (Georges Bank, northwestern Atlantic), Brian E. Smith, Jeremy S. Collie, and Nicole L. Lengyel

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Gas hydrate distribution and carbon sequestration through coupled microbial methanogenesis and silicate weathering in the Krishna-Godavari Basin, offshore India, Evan A. Solomon, Arthur J. Spivack, Miriam Kastner, Marta E. Torres, and Gretchen Robertson

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The Air-Sea Interface and Surface Stress Under Tropical Cyclones, Alexander V. Soloviev, Roger Lukas, Mark A. Donelan, Brian K. Haus, and Isaac Ginis

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Magnetic parameter variations in the Chaona loess/paleosol sequences in the central Chinese Loess Plateau, and their significance for the middle Pleistocene climate transition, Yougui Song, Xiaomin Fang, John W. King, Jijun Li, Ishikawa Naoto, and Zhisheng An

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Basaltic Volcaniclastics from the Challenger Deep Forearc Segment, Mariana Convergent Margin: Implications for Tectonics and Magmatism of the Southernmost Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc, Robert J. Stern, Minghua Ren, Katherine A. Kelley, Yasuhiko Ohara, Fernando Martinez, and Sherman H. Bloomer

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Typification and taxonomy of Gyrosigma tenuissimum (W. Sm.) J.W. Griffith & Henfr., comparison with Gyrosigma coelophilum N. Okamoto & Nagumo and description of two new taxa: Gyrosigma tenuissimum var. gundulae var. nov. and Gyrosigma baculum sp. nov. (Pleurosigmataceae, Bacillariophyta), Frithjof A.S. Sterrenburg, Myriam D. De Haan, Wulf E. Herwig, and Paul E. Hargraves

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Impact of Dominant Breaking Waves on Air–Sea Momentum Exchange and Boundary Layer Turbulence at High Winds, Nobuhiro Suzuki, Tetsu Hara, and Peter P. Sullivan

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Mercury bioaccumulation in cartilaginous fishes from Southern New England coastal waters: Contamination from a trophic ecology and human health perspective, David L. Taylor, Nicholas J. Kutil, Anna J. Malek, and Jeremy S. Collie

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An Anomalous Near-Bottom Cross-Shelf Intrusion of Slope Water on the Southern New England Continental Shelf, D. S. Ullman, D. L. Codiga, A. Pfeiffer-Herbert, and Christopher R. Kincaid

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The Mw 6.5 offshore Northern California earthquake of 10 January 2010: Ordinary stress drop on a high‐strength fault, Meng Wei and Jeffrey J. McGuire

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Mesoscale Convective System Surface Pressure Anomalies Responsible for Meteotsunamis Along the U.S. East Coast on June 13th, 2013, Christina A. Wertman, Richard M. Yablonsky, Yang Shen, John Merrill, Christopher R. Kincaid, and Robert A. Pockalny

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Below the Disappearing Marshes of an Urban Estuary: Historic Nitrogen Trends and Soil Structure, Cathleen Wigand, Charles T. Roman, Earl Davey, Mark Stolt, Roxanne Johnson, Alana Hanson, Elizabeth B. Watson, S. Bradley Moran, Donald R. Cahoon, James C. Lynch, and Patricia Rafferty

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A comparison of vessel-mounted acoustic doppler current profiler and satellite altimeter estimates of sea surface height and transports between New Jersey and Bermuda along the CMV Oleander route, Jessica S. Worst, Kathleen A. Donohue, and T. Rossby

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The great 2012 Arctic Ocean summer cyclone enhanced biological productivity on the shelves, Jinlun Zhang, Robert Campbell, Victoria Hill, Yvette H. Spitz, and Michael Steele

Manuscripts from 2013

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The Great Whirl: Observations of its seasonal development and interannual variability, L. M. Beal and K. A. Donohue

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Submarine evidence of a debris avalanche deposit on the eastern slope of Santorini volcano, Greece, Katherine Lynn Croff Bell, Steven N. Carey, Paraskevi Nomikou, Haraldur Sigurdsson, and Dimitris Sakellariou

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Divergent Eddy Heat Fluxes in the Kuroshio Extension at 144°–148°E. Part I: Mean Structure, Stuart P. Bishop, D. Randolph Watts, and Kathleen A. Donohue

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Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from Polar to Tropical Waters – Outcome of a Scientific Community-Wide Study, Philip W. Boyd, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Evelyn A. Armstrong, Feixue Fu, Kendra Hayashi, Zhangxi Hu, David A. Hutchins, Raphael M. Kudela, Elena Litchman, Margaret R. Mulholland, Uta Passow, Robert F. Strzepek, Kerry A. Whittaker, Elizabeth Yu, and Mridul K. Thomas

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The contribution of eddies to striations in absolute dynamic topography, C. E. Buckingham and Peter C. Cornillon

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Predation on Prerecruits Can Delay Rebuilding of Depleted Cod Stocks, Jeremy Collie, Cóilín Minto, Boris Worm, and Richard Bell

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Rebuilding fish communities: the ghost of fisheries past and the virtue of patience, Jeremy Collie, Marie-Joëlle Rochet, and Richard Bell

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Marine spatial planning in practice, Jeremy S. Collie, W. L. Vic Adamowicz, Michael W. Beck, Bethany Craig, Timothy E. Essington, David Fluharty, Jake Rice, and James N. Sanchirico

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Nature and extent of the deep biosphere, Frederick S. Colwell and Steven D'Hondt

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Redox heterogeneity in MORB as a function of mantle source, Elizabeth Cottrell and Katherine A. Kelley

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Evaluating the performance of a multispecies statistical catch-at-age model, Kiersten L. Curti, Jeremy S. Collie, Christopher M. Legault, and Jason S. Link

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Sulfur degassing at Erta Ale (Ethiopia) and Masaya (Nicaragua) volcanoes: Implications for degassing processes and oxygen fugacities of basaltic systems, J. M. de Moor, T. P. Fischer, Z. D. Sharp, P. L. King, M. Wilke, R. E. Botcharnikov, E. Cottrell, M. Zelenski, B. Marty, K. Klimm, C. Rivard, D. Ayalew, C. Ramirez, and Katherine A. Kelley

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Geochemistry: Subsurface sustenance, Steven D'Hondt

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IODP Expedition 329: Life and Habitability Beneath the Seafloor of the South Pacific Gyre, Steven D'Hondt, Fumio Inagaki, and Carlos Alvarez Zarikian

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Directions of seismic anisotropy in laboratory models of mantle plumes, K. A. Druken, C. Kincaid, and R. W. Griffiths

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Envisioning a marine biodiversity observation network, J. Emmett Duffy, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Daphne G. Fautin, Gustav Paulay, Tatiana A. Rynearson, Heidi M. Sosik, and John J. Stachowicz

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Assessment and Use of NGR Instrumentation on the JOIDES Resolution to Quantify U, Th, and K Concentrations in Marine Sediment, Ann G. Dunlea, Richard W. Murray, Robert N. Harris, Maxim A. Vasiliev, Helen Evans, Arthur J. Spivack, and Steven D'Hondt

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Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome, Bryndan P. Durham, Jana Grote, Kerry A. Whittaker, Sara J. Bender, Haiwei Luo, Sharon L. Grim, Julia M. Brown, John R. Casey, Anthony Dron, Lennin Florez-Leiva, Andreas Krupke, Catherine M. Luria, Aric H. Mine, Olivia D. Nigro, Santhiska Pather, Agathe Talarmin, Emma K. Wear, Thomas S. Weber, Jesse M. Wilson, Matthew J. Church, Edward F. DeLong, David M. Karl, Grieg F. Steward, John M. Eppley, Nikos C. Krypides, Stephan Schuster, and Michael S. Rappé

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Equatorial Pacific peak in biological production regulated by nutrient and upwelling during the late Pliocene/early Pleistocene cooling, J. Etourneau, Rebecca S. Robinson, P. Martinez, and R. Schneider

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Intrusive dike complexes, cumulate cores, and the extrusive growth of Hawaiian volcanoes, Ashton F. Flinders, Garrett Ito, Michael O. Garcia, John M. Sinton, Jim Kauahikaua, and Brian Taylor

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Comparing sediment equilibrium partitioning and passive sampling techniques to estimate benthic biota PCDD/F concentrations in Newark Bay, New Jersey (U.S.A.), Carey L. Friedman and Rainer Lohmann

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The acceleration of oceanic denitrification during deglacial warming, Eric D. Galbraith, Markus Kienast, Ana Luiza Luiza Albuquerque, Mark A. Altabet, Fabian Batista, Daniele Bianchi, Stephen E. Calvert, Sergio Contreras, Xavier Crosta, Ricardo De Pol-Holz, Nathalie Dubois, Johan Etourneau, Roger Francois, Ting Chang Hsu, Tara Ivanochko, Samuel J. Jaccard, Shuh Ji Kao, Thorsten Kiefer, Stephanie Kienast, Moritz F. Lehmann, Philippe Martinez, Matthew McCarthy, Anna Nele Meckler, Alan Mix, Jürgen Möbius, Tom F. Pedersen, Laetitia Pichevin, Tracy M. Quan, Rebecca S. Robinson, Evgeniya Ryabenko, Andreas Schmittner, Ralph Schneider, Aya Schneider-Mor, Masahito Shigemitsu, Dan Sinclair, and Christopher Somes

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The mean composition of ocean ridge basalts, Allison Gale, Colleen A. Dalton, Charles H. Langmuir, Yongjun Su, and Jean-Guy Schilling

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Atmospheric transport, cycling and dynamics of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from source regions to remote oceanic areas, Rosalinda Gioia, Jordi Dachs, Luca Nizzetto, Rainer Lohmann, and Kevin C. Jones

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Vibrio cholerae Exploits Sub-Lethal Concentrations of a Competitor-Produced Antibiotic to Avoid Toxic Interactions, Jason R. Graff, Stephanie Forschner-Dancause, Susanne Menden-Deuer, Richard A. Long, and David C. Rowley

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Swim Speed, Behavior, and Movement of North Atlantic Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis) in Coastal Waters of Northeastern Florida, USA, James H.W. Hain, Joy D. Hampp, Shelia A. McKenney, Julie A. Albert, and Robert D. Kenney

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Avoidance and attraction: Chemical cues influence predator-prey interactions of planktonic protists, Elizabeth L. Harvey, Hae Jin Jeong, and Susanne Menden-Deuer

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A low‐relief shield volcano origin for the South Kaua‘i Swell, Garrett Ito, Michael O. Garcia, John R. Smith, Brian Taylor, Ashton Flinders, Brian Jicha, Seiko Yamasaki, Dominique Weis, Lisa Swinnard, and Chuck Blay

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The 1815 Tambora ash fall: Implications for transport and deposition of distal ash on land and in the deep sea, Jessica Kandlbauer, Steven N. Carey, and R. Stephen J. Sparks

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Composition of plume-influenced mid-ocean ridge lavas and glasses from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, East Pacific Rise, Galápagos spreading center, and Gulf of Aden, Katherine A. Kelley, Richard Kingsley, and Jean Guy Schilling

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Feasibility of using low density polyethylene sheets to detect atmospheric organochlorine pesticides in Alexandria, Egypt, Mohammed A. Khairy and Rainer Lohmann

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Field Calibration of Low Density Polyethylene Passive Samplers for Gaseous POPs, Mohammed A. Khairy and Rainer Lohmann

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Source Apportionment and Risk Assessment of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Atmospheric Environment of Alexandria, Egypt, Mohammed A. Khairy and Rainer Lohmann

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New insights into hydrothermal vent processes in the unique shallow-submarine arc-volcano, Kolumbo (Santorini), Greece, Stephanos P. Kilias, Paraskevi Nomikou, Dimitrios Pappanikolaou, Paraskevi N. Polymenakou, Athanasios Godelitsas, Ariadne Argyraki, Steven Carey, Platon Gamaletsos, Theo J. Mertzimekis, Elenie Stathopoulou, Joerg Goettlicher, Ralph Steininger, Konstantina Betzelou, Isidoros Livanos, Christos Christakis, Katherine Croff Bell, and Michael Scoullos

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Reliability of rapid, semi-automated assessment of plankton abundance, biomass, and growth rate estimates: Coulter Counter versus light microscope measurements, Hyewon Kim and Susanne Menden-Deuer

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PH alters the swimming behaviors of the raphidophyte Heterosigma akashiwo: Implications for bloom formation in an acidified ocean, Hyewon Kim, Arthur J. Spivack, and Susanne Menden-Deuer

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Bifurcation of the Yellowstone plume driven by subduction-induced mantle flow, C. Kincaid, K. A. Druken, R. W. Griffiths, and D. R. Stegman

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Steady late quaternary slip rate on the Cinarcik section of the North Anatolian fault near Istanbul, Turkey, Hulya Kurt, C. C. Sorlien, L. Seeber, M. S. Steckler, D. J. Shillington, G. Cifci, Marie-Helene Cormier, J.-X. Dessa, O. Atgin, D. Dondurur, E. Demirbag, S. Okay, C. Imren, S. Gurcay, and H. Carton

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SCIMPI: A New Borehole Observatory, T. Lado-Insua, K. Moran, I. Kulin, S. Farrington, and J. B. Newman

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Shear wave structure in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau from Rayleigh wave tomography, Lun Li, Aibing Li, Yang Shen, Eric A. Sandvol, Danian Shi, Hongyi Li, and Xinfu Li

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Vertical Eddy Diffusion as a Key Mechanism for Removing Perfluorooctanic Acid (PFOA) from the Global Surface Oceans, Rainer Lohmann, Elena Jurado, Henk A. Dijkstra, and Jordi Dachs

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Concentrations, Fluxes and Residence Time of PBDEs Across the Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Rainer Lohmann, Jana Klanova, Petr Kukucka, Shifra Yonis, and Kevyn Bollinger

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PAHs on a west-to-east transect across the tropical Atlantic Ocean, Rainer Lohmann, Jana Klanova, Petra Pribylova, Hana Liskova, Shifra Yonis, and Kevyn Bollinger

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(Viewpoint): Science Should Guide TSCA Reform, Rainer Lohmann, Heather M. Stapleton, and Ronald A. Hites

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Fluid Interactions That Enable Stealth Predation by the Upstream-Foraging Hydromedusa Craspedacusta sowerbyi, K. Lucas, S. P. Colin, J. H. Costello, K. Katja, and E. Klos

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Climatic Variability of the Circulation in the Rhode Island Sound: A Modeling Study, Yiyong Luo, Lew Rothstein, Qianqian Liu, and Shuwen Zhang

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Chlorine dioxide as a treatment for ballast water to control invasive species: Shipboard testing, Lucie Maranda, Annie M. Cox, Robert G. Campbell, and David C. Smith

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Cleaning methods for the isotopic determination of diatombound nitrogen in non-fossil diatom frustules, Laura V. Morales, Daniel M. Sigman, Matthew G. Horn, and Rebecca S. Robinson

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Water as a New Matrix for Global Assessment of Hydrophilic POPs, Derek Muir and Rainer Lohmann

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Intermediate and deep water formation in the Okinawa trough, Hirohiko Nakamura, Ayako Nishina, Zhaojun Liu, Fumiyo Tanaka, Mark Wimbush, and Jae Hun Park

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Characterizing the superparamagnetic grain distribution of Chinese red-clay sequences by thermal fluctuation tomography, Junsheng Nie, Mike Jackson, John King, and Xiaomin Fang

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Six million years of magnetic grain-size records reveal that temperature and precipitation were decoupled on the Chinese Loess Plateau during ~4.5-2.6Ma, Junsheng Nie, Yougui Song, John W. King, Rui Zhang, and Xiaomin Fang

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Morphological analysis and related volcanic features of the Kolumbo submarine volcanic chain (NE of Santorini Island, Aegean Volcanic Arc), Paraskevi Nomikou, Steven Carey, Katherine L.Croff Bell, Dimitros Papanikolaou, Konstantina Bejelou, Matina Alexandri, Kat Cantner, and Julie Fero Martin

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The state of Lake Simcoe (Ontario, Canada): The effects of multiple stressors on phosphorus and oxygen dynamics, R. L. North, D. Barton, A. S. Crowe, P. J. Dillon, R. M.L. Dolson, D. O. Evans, B. K. Ginn, L. Håkanson, J. Hawryshyn, H. Jarjanazi, J. W. King, J. K.L. La Rose, L. León, C. F.M. Lewis, G. E. Liddle, Z. H. Lin, F. J. Longstaffe, R. A. Macdonald, L. Molot, T. Ozersky, M. E. Palmer, R. Quinlan, M. D. Rennie, M. M. Robillard, D. Rodé, K. M. Rühland, A. Schwalb, J. P. Smol, E. Stainsby, J. J. Trumpickas, J. G. Winter, and J. D. Young