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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Yager, P.L., R.M. Sherrell, S.E. Stammerjohn, A.-C. Alderkamp, O. Schofield, E.P. Abrahamsen, K.R. Arrigo, S. Bertilsson, D.L. Garay, R. Guerrero, K.E. Lowry, P.-O. Moksnes, K. Ndungu, A.F. Post, E. Randall-Goodwin, L. Riemann, S. Severmann, S. Thatje, G.L. van Dijken, and S. Wilson. 2012. ASPIRE: The Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition. Oceanography 25(3):40–53, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.73.
Yeung, L. Y., W. M. Berelson, E. D. Young, M. G. Prokopenko, N. Rollins, V. J. Coles, J. P. Montoya, E. J. Carpenter, D. K. Steinberg, R. A. Foster, D. G. Capone, and P. L. Yager Impact of diatom-diazotroph associations on carbon export in the Amazon River plume. Geophys. Res. Lett., doi:10.1029/2012GL053356, in press (accepted 10 August 2012). PDF
Fransson, A., M. Chierici, P. L. Yager, and W. O. Smith Jr.
Antarctic sea ice carbon dioxide system and controls J. Geophys. Res.,doi:10.1029/2010JC006844, in press. PDF (accepted 16 October 2011)
Jiang, L.-Q., W.-J. Cai, Y. Wang, J. Diaz, P.L. Yager, and X. Hu
(2010). Pelagic community respiration on the continental shelf off
Georgia, USA. Biogeochemistry 98: 101-113. PDF
Subramaniam, A., P.L. Yager, E.J. Carpenter, C. Mahaffey, K. Bjorkman, S. Cooley, A.B. Kustka, J. P. Montoya, S. A. Sanudo-Wilhelmy, R. Shipe, and D.G. Capone (2008). Amazon River enhances diazotrophy and carbon sequestration in the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. PDF Supplemental Info
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. PDF
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.
Book Chapters
Ducklow, H. and P.L. Yager (2007). Pelagic bacteria in polynyas. pp. 323-361 in: Polynyas: Windows into Polar Oceans (W. O. Smith, Jr., and D. Barber, editors), Elsevier Oceanography Series, 74 (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. PDF
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.
Bronk, D. and P. Yager (2000). "Research at the Extremes." University
of Georgia Research Reporter (local popular press, not refereed) 29:
37-38. PDF
Yager, P. L. (1996). The microbial fate of carbon in high-latitude seas: impact of the microbial loop on oceanic uptake of CO2.
Dissertation. University of Washington. 174 pp. PDF
