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Patricia L. Yager
Patricia L. Yager
Associate Professor

Mailing Address:
Dr. Patricia L. Yager
University of Georgia
Department of Marine Sciences
255 Marine Sciences Building
Athens, Georgia 30602-3636

Office Phone: (706) 542-6824
Lab Phone: (706) 542-0082
FAX Number: (706) 542-5888
E-Mail: pyager@uga.edu

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Education:

Ph.D. 1996, University of Washington, School of Oceanography

M.S. 1988, University of Washington, School of Oceanography

B.S. 1985, Brown University, Dept of Geology

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Research Emphasis:

Biological and chemical oceanography, marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. My research focuses on the effects of marine organisms on climate and their potential feedbacks to climate change. I am interested in both modeling and fieldwork. My field research combines inorganic carbon chemistry with traditional microbial ecology and community structure, particularly in high-latitude oceans.

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Selected Publications:

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cooley, S.R., V.J. Coles, A. Subramaniam, and P.L.Yager (2007). Seasonal variations in the Amazon plume-related atmospheric carbon sink. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB3014, doi:10.1029/2006GB002831. PDF

Cooley, S.R. and P.L. Yager (2006). Physical and biological contributions to the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean carbon sink formed by the Amazon River plume. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, C08018, doi: 10.1029/2005JC002954. PDF

Connelly, T.L., C.M. Tilburg, and P.L. Yager (2006). Evidence for psychrophiles outnumbering psychrotolerant marine bacteria in the springtime coastal Arctic . Limnology and Oceanography 51: 1205-1210. PDF

Mei, Z.-P., L. Legendre, J.-E. Tremblay, L. Miller, Y. Gratton, C. Lovejoy, P.L. Yager , and M. Gosselin (2005). Carbon to nitrogen (C:N) stoichiometry of the spring-summer phytoplankton bloom in the North Water Polynya (NOW). Deep Sea Research Part I 52: 2301-2314. PDF

Hodges, L.R., N. Bano, J.T. Hollibaugh, and P.L. Yager (2005). Illustrating the importance of particulate organic matter to pelagic microbial abundance and community structure - an Arctic case study. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 40(3): 217-227 . PDF

Miller, L.A. , P.L. Yager , K. A. Erickson, J. B â cle, J.K. Cochran, M.- È . Garneau, M. Gosselin, D.J. Hirschberg, B. Klein, B. LeBlanc, and W.L. Miller (2002). Carbon distributions and fluxes in the North Water, northern Baffin Bay , 1998 & 1999. Deep-Sea Research II 49: 5151-5170. PDF

Yager, P.L. , T.L. Connelly, B. Mortazavi, K.E. Wommack, N. Bano, J.E. Bauer, S. Opsahl, and J.T. Hollibaugh (2001). Dynamic bacterial and viral response to an algal bloom at sub-zero temperatures. Limnology and Oceanography 46: 790 - 801. PDF

Yager, P.L. , and J.W. Deming (1999). Pelagic microbial activity in an Arctic polynya: testing for temperature and substrate interactions using a kinetic approach. Limnology and Oceanography 44 :1882-1893. PDF

Daly, K.L., D.W.R. Wallace, W.O. Smith, Jr., A. Skoog, R. Lara, M. Gosselin, E. Falck, P.L. Yager (1999). Anomalous carbon and nitrogen cycling in the Arctic : effects of ecosystem structure and dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research 104: 3185-3199. PDF

Smith, C.R., H.L. Maybaum, A.R. Baco, R.H. Pope, S.D. Carpenter, P.L. Yager , S.A. Macko, & J.W. Deming (1998). Sediment community structure around a whale skeleton in the deep NE Pacific: macrofaunal, microbial, and bioturbation effects. Deep-Sea Res. II. 45: 335-364. PDF

Yager, P.L. , D.W.R. Wallace, K.M. Johnson, W.O. Smith, Jr., P.J. Minnett, and J.W. Deming (1995). The Northeast Water Polynya as an atmospheric CO 2 sink: a seasonal rectification hypothesis. Journal of Geophysical Research 100: 4389-4398. PDF

Jumars, P.A., J.W. Deming, P.S. Hill, L. Karp-Boss, P.L. Yager , and W.B. Dade (1993). Physical constraints on marine osmotrophy in an optimal foraging context. Marine Microbial Food Webs 7: 121-159.

Yager, P.L. , A.R.M. Nowell, and P.A. Jumars (1993). Enhanced deposition to pits: a local food source for benthos. Journal of Marine Research 51: 209-236. PDF

Journal Articles In Revision

Fisher, J., P.A. Wheeler, & P.L. Yager (in revision). Inorganic carbon contributions to the Arctic hal-ocline: a yearlong data set from SHEBA ( Canada Basin ). Deep-Sea Research I.

Journal Articles in Review

Subramaniam, A., P.L. Yager , E.J. Carpenter, C. Mahaffey, K. Björkman, S. Cooley, J.P. Montoya, S. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, R. Shipe, and D.G. Capone (in review). Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean . Nature .

Book Chapters

Ducklow, H. and P.L. Yager (in press). Pelagic bacteria in polynyas. In: Polynyas: Windows into Polar Oceans (W. O. Smith, Jr., and D. Barber, editors), Elsevier Oceanography Series (David Halpern, series editor). PDF

Deming, J.W., and P.L. Yager (1992). Natural bacterial assemblages in deep-sea sediments: towards a global view. In: G. T. Rowe and V. Pariente (eds.), Deep-Sea Food Chains and the Global Carbon Cycle. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands , p. 11-27.

Other publications

Teare-Ketter , C.A. , and P.L. Yager (2003). A laboratory manual for the marine environment, 2 nd edition. Pearson Publishing, Boston , 217 p.

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