Publications
Balmonte, John Paul, Helge-Ansgar Giebel, Meinhard Simon, Carol Arnosti, Matthias Wietz, (2024) Distinct bacterial succession and functional response to alginate in the South, Equatorial, and North Pacific Ocean. Env. Microb., doi:10.1111/1462-2920.16594
Brown, S., Lloyd, C.C., Giljan, G., Ghobrial, S. Amann, R., Arnosti, C. (2024) Pulsed inputs of high molecular weight organic matter shift the mechanisms of substrate utilization in marine bacterial communities. Env Microb, doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.16580
Lloyd C.C., Brown S., Balmonte J.P., Hoarfrost A., Ghobrial, S., Arnosti, C. (2023) Links between regional and depth patterns of enzyme activities and microbial communities in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Chem., 255: 104299. doi:/10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104299
Arnosti, C., Hoarfrost, A., Balmonte, J.P., Lloyd, C.C., Brown, S., Ghobrial, S. (2023) Empirical definition of the Mad Bucket Magic Number – a guide for seagoing scientists. Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin, August 2023. doi.org/10.1002/lob.10577
Giljan, G., Brown, S., Lloyd, C.C., Ghobrial, S., Amann, R., Arnosti, C. (2023) Selfish bacteria are active throughout the water column of the ocean. ISME Communications. doi:10.1038/s43705-023-00219-7
Brown, S., Balmonte, J.P., Hoarfrost, A., Ghobrial, S., Arnosti, C. (2022) Depth-related patterns in microbial community responses to complex organic matter in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences, 19: 5617-5631. doi: 10.5194/bg-19-5617-2022
Lloyd, C.C., Brown, S., Balmonte, J.P., Hoarfrost, A., Ghobrial, S., Arnosti, C. (2022) Particles act as ‘specialty centers’ with expanded enzymatic function throughout the water column in the western North Atlantic. Frontiers Microbiol. 13:882333. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.882333
Giljan G.; Arnosti C., Kirstein, I.V., Amann, R., Fuchs, B. Strong seasonal differences in polysaccharide utilization in the North Sea over an annual cycle. (2022) Env. Microbiol. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.15997.
Manna, Vincenzo, Luca Zoccarato, Elisa Banchi, Carol Arnosti, Hans-Peter Grossart, Mauro Celussi (2022) Linking lifestyle and foraging strategies of marine bacteria: selfish behaviour of particle-attached bacteria in the northern Adriatic Sea. Env. Microbiol Reports doi:10.1111/1758-2229.13059
Traving, Sachia J., Balmonte, John Paul, Seale, Dan, Arnosti, Carol, Glud, Ronnie N., Hallam, Steve, and Middelboe, Matthias. (2022) On single cell enzyme assays in marine microbial ecology and biogeochemistry. Frontiers Marine Sci. doi:10.3389/fmars.2022846656
Giebel, Helge-Ansgar, Carol Arnosti, Thomas H. Badewien, Insa Bakenhus, John Paul Balmonte, Sara Billerbeck, Leon Dlugosch, Rohan Henkel, Birgit Kuerzel, Jens Meyerjürgens, Felix Milke, Daniela Voss, Gerrit Wienhausen, Matthias Wietz, Holger Winkler, Mathias Wolterink and Meinhard Simon (2021). Microbial growth and organic matter cycling in the Pacific Ocean along a latitudinal transect between subarctic and subantarctic waters. Frontiers Marine Sci., vol 8:764383. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.764383
Balmonte JP, Meinhard Simon, Helge Ansgar-Giebel, and Carol Arnosti. (2021) A sea change in microbial enzymes: Heterogeneous latitudinal and depth-related gradients in bulk water and particle-associated enzymatic activities from 30°S to 59°N in the Pacific Ocean. Limnol. Oceanogr. doi: 10.1002/lno.11894
Leeann Klassen, Greta Reintjes, Jeffrey P. Tingley, Darryl R. Jones, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, Adam D. Smith, Timothy D. Schwinghamer, Carol Arnosti, Long Jin, Trevor W. Alexander, Dallas Thomas, Rudolf Amann, Tim A. McAllister, and D. Wade Abbott. (2021) Quantifying fluorescent glycan uptake to elucidate strain-level variability in foraging behaviors of gut bacteria. Microbiome. 9:23 doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00975-x
Arnosti, C., Wietz, M. Brinkhoff, T., Hehemann, J.-H., Probandt, D., Zeugner, L., Amann, R. (2021) The biogeochemistry of marine polysaccharides: Sources, inventories, and bacterial drivers of the carbohydrate cycle. Annual Review of Marine Science, vol 13. doi: 10.1146/annurev-marine-o23030-012810
Wakeham, Stuart G., Cindy Lee, Carol Arnosti, Thorsten Dittmar, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, and Ann Pearson (2020) Current topics in marine organic biogeochemical research. Frontiers Mar. Sci. 7: 628071. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.628071
Kharbush, Jenan , Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy, Hilary G. Close, Carol Arnosti, Rienk H Smittenberg, Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne, Gesine Mollenhauer, Barbara Scholz-Bӧttcher, Igor Obreht, Boris P. Koch, Kevin Becker, Morten H. Iversen, Wiebke Mohr. (2020) Particulate organic carbon deconstructed: Molecular and chemical composition of particulate organic carbon in the ocean. Frontiers Marine Sci. 7: 518. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.00518
Reintjes G., Fuchs B.M., Scharfe M., Wiltshire K.H., Amann R., Arnosti C. (2020) Short-term changes in polysaccharide utilization mechanisms of marine bacterioplankton during a spring phytoplankton bloom. Environ. Microbiol. 22: 1884-1900. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.14971.
Ziervogel, K., and C. Arnosti (2020) Substantial carbohydrate hydrolase activities in the water column of the Guaymas Basin (Gulf of California). Frontiers Mar Sci. 6:815 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00815
Hoarfrost, Adrienne, Stephen Nayfach, Joshua Ladau, Shibu Yooseph, C. Arnosti, Christopher L Dupont, Katherine S. Pollard. (2020) Global ecotypes in the ubiquitous marine clade SAR86. The ISME J. 14: 178-188. doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0516-7
Arnosti, C., Hinrichs, K.-U., Coffinet, S., Wilkes, H., Pantoja, S. (2019) The enduring questions: What’s for dinner? Where’s my knife? …and can I use my fingers? (Unanswered) questions related to organic matter and microbes in marine sediments. Frontiers Marine Biogeochem. 6: 629 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00629
Ziervogel, K., S.B. Joye, S. Kleindienst, S.Y. Malkin, U. Passow, A.D. Steen and C. Arnosti. (2019) Polysaccharide hydrolysis in the presence of oil and dispersants: insights into potential degradation pathway of expolymeric substances (EPS) from oil-degrading bacteria. Elementa. 7:31 doi.org/10.1525/elementa.371
Balmonte, John Paul, Harald Hasler-Sheetal, Ronnie Glud, Thorbjørn J. Andersen, Mikael Sejr, Matthias Middelboe, Andreas Teske, Carol Arnosti. (2019) Sharp contrasts between freshwater and marine microbial enzymatic capabilities, community composition, and DOM pools in a NE Greenland fjord. Limnol. Oceanogr. doi: 10.1002/lno.11253
Hoarfrost, A., Balmonte, JP, Ghobrial, S., Ziervogel, K., Bane, J., Gawarkiewicz G., Arnosti, C. (2019) Gulf Stream ring intrusion on the Mid-Atlantic Bight shelf affects microbially-driven carbon cycling. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6: 394 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00394.
Hoarfrost Adrienne, Nick Brown, C. Titus Brown, and Carol Arnosti. (2019) Sequencing data discovery with MetaSeek. Bioinformatics, 35: 4857-4859.
Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik, Greta Reintjes, Leeann Klassen, Adam D. Smith, Didier Ndeh, Carol Arnosti, Rudolf Amann, D. Wade Abbott (2019) Single cell fluorescence imaging of glycan uptake by intestinal bacteria. The ISME J 13: 1883-1889. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0406-z
Balmonte, John Paul, Andrew Buckley, Adrienne Hoarfrost, Sherif Ghobrial, Kai Ziervogel, Andreas Teske, Carol Arnosti (2019) Community structural differences shape microbial responses to high molecular weight organic matter. Environmental Microbiology. doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.14485
Reintjes, G., C. Arnosti, B. M. Fuchs, and R. Amann. (2019) Selfish, sharing, and scavenging bacteria in the Atlantic Ocean: a biogeographic study of microbial substrate utilisation. The ISME J, The ISME J, 13: 1119-1132. doi.org/10.1038/s41396-018-0326-3.
Arnosti, C., G. Reintjes, and R. Amann. (2018) A mechanistic microbial underpinning for the size-reactivity continuum of DOC degradation. Marine Chemistry: 206: 93-99. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2018.09.008
Balmonte, JP, A. Teske, and C. Arnosti. (2018) Structure and function of high Arctic pelagic, particle-associated, and benthic bacterial communities. Environmental Microbiology 20: 2941-2954.
Dittmar, T., and C. Arnosti. (2018) An inseparable liaison: marine microbes and nonliving organic matter. Chapt. 6, Microbial Ecology of the Ocean (D. Kirchman and J. Gasol, eds.) pp. 189-230.
Bullock, A., K. Ziervogel, S. Ghobrial, S. Smith, B. McKee, and C. Arnosti. (2017) A multi-season investigation of microbial community activities in two temperate coastal North Carolina rivers: evidence of spatial but not seasonal patterns. Frontiers in Microbiol., 8: 2589. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.02589
Prairie, J.C., Ziervogel, K., Camassa R., McLaughlin R.M., White B.L., Johnson Z., Arnosti, C. (2017) Ephemeral aggregate layers in the water column leave lasting footprints in the carbon cycle. L&O Letters. doi: 10.1002/lol2.10053
Hoarfrost, A., and C. Arnosti. (2017) Heterotrophic extracellular enzymatic activities in the Atlantic Ocean follow patterns across spatial and depth regimes. Frontiers in Marine Sci. 4:200. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00200
Reintjes, G., C. Arnosti, B. M. Fuchs, and R. Amann (2017) An alternative polysaccharide uptake mechanism of marine bacteria. The ISME J. (manuscript and S.I.). 11: 1640-1650. doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.26
Hoarfrost, A., R. Snider, and C. Arnosti (2017) Improved measurement of extracellular enzymatic activities in subsurface sediments using a competitive desorption treatment. Frontiers in Earth Sci, 5:13 doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00013
Balmonte, J.P., C. Arnosti, S. Underwood, B. McKee, and A. Teske (2016) Riverine bacterial communities reveal environmental disturbance signatures within the Betaproteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia. Frontiers Microbiol.: 7:1441 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.01441
John, V., C. Arnosti, J. Field, E. Kujawinski, and A. McCormick (2016) The Role of Dispersants in Oil Spill Remediation – Faundamental Concepts, Rationale for Use, Fate and Transport Issues. Oceanography 29:108-117 doi: 10.5670/oceanog.2016.75
Ziervogel, K., Dike, C., Asper, V., Montoya, J., Battles, J., D’souza, N., Passow, U., Diercks, A., Esch, M., Joye, S., Dewald, C., and Arnosti, C. (2016) Enhanced particle fluxes and heterotrophic bacterial activities in Gulf of Mexico bottom waters following storm-induced sediment resuspension. Deep Sea Res II 129: 77-88.
Arnosti, C., K. Ziervogel, T. Yang, and A. Teske. (2016) Oil-derived marine aggregates – hot spots of polysaccharide degradation by specialized bacterial communities. Deep Sea Res II 129: 179-186.
Ziervogel, K., S.B. Joye, and C. Arnosti (2016) Microbial enzymatic activity and secondary production in sediments affected by the sedimentation event of oily-particulate matter from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Deep Sea Res II 129: 241-248.
Ziervogel, K., and C. Arnosti (2016) Enhanced protein and carbohydrate hydrolysis in plume-associated deep waters during the early stages of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Deep Sea Res II 129: 368-373.
Ziervogel K., Osburn C., Brym A., Battles J., Joye S.M., D’souza N., Montoya J., Passow U., and Arnosti C. (2016) Linking heterotrophic microbial activities with particle characteristics in the waters of the Mississippi River Delta in the aftermath of Hurricane Issac. Frontiers in Marine Science 3: 8. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00008.
Bullock, A., K. Ziervogel, S. Ghobrial, A. Jalowska, and C. Arnosti. (2015) Organic matter degradation by microbial communities at three contrasting sites in the coastal North Atlantic: Variations in DOC turnover times and potential for export off the shelf. Marine Chemistry 177: 388-397.
Neumann, Anna Maria, John Paul Balmonte, Martine Berger, Helge-Ansgar Giebel, Carol Arnosti, Thorsten Brinkhoff, Meinhard Simon, and Matthias Wietz (2015) Different utilization of alginate and other algal polysaccharides by marine Alteromonas macleodii ecotypes. Environ. Microbiol. 17: 3857-3868. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12862
Prairie J.C., K. Ziervogel, R. Camassa, R.M. McLaughlin, B.L. White, C. Dewald, and C. Arnosti (2015) Delayed settling of marine snow: effects of density gradient and particle properties and implications for carbon cycling. Marine Chem. 175: 28-38.
Arnosti, C. (2015) Contrasting strategies in microbial degradation of organic matter in the water column and sediments: An example from Arctic fjords of Svalbard. Marine Chem. 168: 151-156. doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2014.09.019
Steen, A.D and C. Arnosti (2014) Picky, hungry eaters in the cold: persistent substrate selectivity among polar pelagic microbial communities. Frontiers Microbiol. 5: 527 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00527
D’Ambrosio, L., K. Ziervogel, B. MacGregor, A. Teske, and C. Arnosti (2014) Composition and enzymatic function of particle-associated and free-living bacteria: a coastal/offshore comparison. The ISME J, 8: 2167-2179. doi:10.1038/ismej.2014.67
Arnosti, C. (2014) Patterns of microbially-driven carbon cycling in the ocean: Links between extracellular enzymes and microbial communities. Invited “outlook” article. Advances in Oceanography Article ID 706082, 12 pgs. doi.org/10.1155/2014/706082
Cardman, Z., C. Arnosti, A. Durbin, K. Ziervogel, C. Cox, A.D. Steen, and A. Teske (2014) Verrucomicrobia: candidates for polysaccharide-degrading bacterioplankton in an Arctic fjord of Svalbard. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80: 3749-3756.
Arnosti, C., C. Bell, D.L. Moorhead, R.L. Sinsabaugh, A.D. Steen, M. Stromberger, M. Wallenstein, M. Weintraub. (2014) Extracellular enzymes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments: perspectives on system variability and common research needs. Biogeochemistry, 117:5-21. DOI 10.1007/s10533-013-9906-5
Ziervogel, K., D. Leech, and C. Arnosti (2014) Differences in the substrate spectrum of extracellular enzymes in shallow lakes of differing trophic status. Biogeochemistry 117: 143-151. DOI 10.1007/s10533-013-9874-9
Arnosti, C. and A.D. Steen. (2013) Patterns of extracellular enzyme activities and microbial metabolism in an Arctic fjord of Svalbard and in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Contrasts in carbon processing by pelagic microbial communities Frontiers in Microbiol. 4: 318. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00318
Prairie, Jennifer C., Kai Ziervogel, Carol Arnosti, Roberto Camassa, Claudia Falcon, Shilpa Khatri, Richard M. McLaughlin, Brian L. White, Sungduk Yu. (2013) Delayed settling of marine snow at sharp density transitions driven by fluid entrainment and diffusion-limited retention. Mar. Ecol Prog. Ser. 487: 185-200.
Regnier, Pierre, Pierre Friedlingstein, Philippe Ciais, Fred T. Mackenzie, Nicolas Gruber, Ivan Janssens, Goulven G. Laruelle, Ronny Lauerwald, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Andreas J. Andersson, Sandra Arndt, Carol Arnosti, Alberto V. Borges, Andrew W. Dale, Angela Gallego-Sala, Yves Goddéris, Jens Hartmann, Christoph Heinze, Tatiana Ilyina, Fortunat Joos, Douglas E. LaRowe, Jens Leifeld, Filip J. R. Meysman, Guy Munhoven, Peter A. Raymond, Renato Spahni, Parvadha Suntharalingam, Martin Thullner. (2013) The anthropogenic CO2 budget considering the lateral transport from land to ocean. Nature Geoscience DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1830
Steen, A.D., and Arnosti, C. (2013) Extracellular peptidase and carbohydrate hydrolase activities in an Arctic Fjord (Smeerenburgfjord, Svalbard) Aq. Microb. Ecol. 69:93-99.
Arnosti, C., B.M. Fuchs, R. Amann, and U. Passow. (2012) Contrasting extracellular enzyme activities of particle associated bacteria from distinct provinces of the North Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology, 3:425.doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2012.00425
Steen, A.D, K. Ziervogel, S. Ghobrial, and C. Arnosti. (2012) Functional variation among polysaccharide-hydrolyzing microbial communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Chem. 138: 13-20. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.03.031
Martinez-Garcia, M., David M. Brazel, Brandon K. Swan, Carol Arnosti, Patrick S.G. Chain, Krista G. Reitenga, Gary Xie, Nicole J. Poulton, Monica Lluesma Gomez, Dashiell E. D. Masland, Brian Thompson, Wendy K. Bellows, Kai Ziervogel, Chien-Chi Lo, Sanaa Ahmed, Cheryl D. Gleasner, Chris J. Detter, and Ramunas Stepanauskas. (2012) Capturing single cell genomes of active polysaccharide degraders: an unexpected contribution of Verrucomicrobia. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35314. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035314
Ziervogel, K. L. McKay, B. Rhodes, C.L. Osburn, J.Dickson-Brown, C. Arnosti, and A. Teske (2012) Microbial activities and dissolved organic matter dynamics in oil-contaminated seawater from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill site. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34816. doi: 10.1371/journal pone.0034816
Arnosti, C., A.D. Steen, K. Ziervogel, S. Ghobrial, and W. Jeffrey. (2011) Latitudinal gradients in degradation of marine dissolved organic carbon. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28900. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028900
Arnosti, C. H.-.P. Grossart, M. Mühling, I. Joint, and U. Passow. (2011) Dynamics of extracellular enzyme activities in seawater under changed atmospheric pCO2: A mesocosm investigation. Aq Microb Ecol. 64: 285-298.
Teske, A., A. Durbin, K. Ziervogel, C. Cox, and C. Arnosti. (2011) Microbial community composition and function in permanently cold seawater and sediments from an Arctic fjord of Svalbard. Appl. Environ. Microbiology 77: 208-218.
Arnosti, C. (2011) Microbial extracellular enzymes and the marine carbon cycle Ann. Review of Marine Science, 3: 401-425.
Steen, A.D. and C. Arnosti. (2011) Long lifetimes of β-glucosidase, leucine aminopeptidase, and phosphatase in Arctic seawater Marine Chem. 123: 127-132.
Steen, A.D., K. Ziervogel, and C. Arnosti. (2010) Comparison of multivariate microbial datasets with the Shannon Index: an example using enzyme activities from diverse marine environments. Organic Geochem. 41:1019-1021.
Julies E.M., B. Fuchs, C. Arnosti, and V. Brüchert (2010) Organic carbon degradation in anoxic organic-rich shelf sediments: Biogeochemical rates and microbial abundance. Geomicrob. J. 27: 303-314.
Hubert, C., C. Arnosti, V. Brüchert, V. Vandieken, A. Loy, and B. B. Jørgensen. (2010) Anaerobic thermophiles in the Arctic seafloor rapidly mineralize complex organic matter in sediments incubated at high temperature. Environ. Microbiol. 12: 1089-1104
Ziervogel, K., A.D. Steen, and C. Arnosti. (2010) Changes in the spectrum and rates of extracellular enzyme activities in seawater following aggregate formation Biogeosciences 7:1007-1017.
Robador, A., V. Brüchert, A. Steen, and C. Arnosti. (2010) Temperature induced decoupling of enzymatic hydrolysis and carbon remineralization in long-term incubations of Arctic and temperate sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74: 2316-2326.
Hubert, C., A. Loy, M. Nickel, C. Arnosti, T. Ferdelman, C. Baranyi, F.M. Christensen, K. Finster, J.R. de Rezende, V. Vandieken, V. Brüchert, and B. B. Jørgensen. (2009) A constant flux of diverse thermophilic bacteria into the cold Arctic seabed. Science 325:1541-1544.
Ziervogel, K. and C. Arnosti. (2009) Enzyme activities in the Delaware Estuary affected by elevated suspended sediment load. Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 84: 253-258.
Arnosti, C., K. Ziervogel, L. Ocampo, and S. Ghobrial. (2009) Enzyme activities in shallow permeable sediments and the water column from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 84:202-208.
Boer, S., C. Arnosti, J.E.E. van Beusekom, and A. Boetius. (2009)Temporal variations in microbial activities and carbon turnover in subtidal permeable sandy sediments. Biogeosciences 6:1149-1165.
Steen, A.D., P. Gururaj, J. Ma, N.V. Blough, and C. Arnosti (2008) Fluorescence anisotropy as a means to determine polysaccharide hydrolase activity in environmental samples. Analytical Biochem., 383: 340-342.
Arnosti, C. (2008) Functional differences between Arctic sedimentary and seawater microbial communities: Contrasts in microbial hydrolysis of complex substrates. FEMS Microb. Ecol., 66: 343-351.
Steen, A.D., L. Hamdan, and C. Arnosti (2008) Dynamics of high molecular weight dissolved organic carbon in the Chesapeake Bay: Insights from enzyme activities, carbohydrate concentrations, and microbial metabolism. Limnol. Oceanogr., 53: 936-947.
Boudreau, B., C. Arnosti, B.B. Jørgensen, and D.E. Canfield (2008) Organic matter decay. Science: 319 1616b.
Ziervogel, K. and C. Arnosti (2008) Polysaccharide hydrolysis in aggregates and free enzyme activity in aggregate-free seawater from the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Environ. Microbiol., 10: 289-299.
Grossart, H.-P., A. Engel, C. Arnosti, C. De La Rocha, A. Murray and U. Passow (2007) Microbial dynamics in autotrophic and heterotrophic seawater mesocosms: III Organic matter fluxes. Aq Microb. Ecol. 49 : 143-156.
Murray, A.E., C. Arnosti, C. De La Rocha, H.- P. Grossart, and U. Passow (2007) Microbial dynamics in autotrophic and heterotropic seawater mesocosms: II Bacterioplankton community structure and hydrolytic enzyme activities. Aq. Microb. Ecol. 49: 123-141.
Passow, U., C.L. De La Rocha, C. Arnosti, H.-P. Grossart A.E. Murray, A. Engel (2007) Microbial dynamics in autotrophic and heterotrophic seawater mesocosms: I. Effect of phytoplankton on the microbial loop. Aq. Microb. Ecol. 49: 109-121.
Ziervogel, K., E. Karlsson, and C. Arnosti (2007) Surface associations of enzymes and organic matter: Consequences for hydrolytic activity and organic matter remineralization in marine systems. Marine Chem. 104:241-252.
Arnosti, C., and B.B. Jørgensen (2006) Organic carbon degradation in Arctic marine sediments, Svalbard: A comparison of initial and terminal steps. Geomicrobiol. J., 23:551-563.
Steen, A.D., C. Arnosti, L. Ness and N.V. Blough (2006) Electron Paramagnetic Resonance spectroscopy as a novel approach to measuring macromolecule-surface interactions and activities of extracellular enzymes. Marine Chem. 101: 266-276.
Arnosti, C., Finke, N., Larsen, O., and S. Ghobrial (2005) Anoxic carbon degradation in Arctic sediments: Microbial transformations of complex substrates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 69: 2309-2320.
Arnosti, C., S. Durkin, and W.H. Jeffrey (2005) Patterns of extracellular enzyme activities among pelagic microbial communities: Implications for cycling of dissolved organic carbon. Aq. Microb. Ecol. 38: 135-145.
Lee, C., S. Wakeham, and C. Arnosti (2004) Particulate organic matter in the ocean: The composition conundrum. Ambio 33: 559-568.
Arnosti, C. (2004) Speed bumps and barricades in the carbon cycle: Substrate structural effects on carbon cycling. Marine Chem. 92: 263-273.
Arnosti, C. and M. Holmer (2003) Carbon Cycling in a Continental Margin Sediment: Contrasts between Organic Matter Characteristics and Remineralization Rates and Pathways. Estuarine, Coast and Shelf Sci. 58: 197-208.
Arnosti, C. (2003) Fluorescent derivatization of polysaccharides and carbohydrate-containing biopolymers for measurement of enzyme activities in complex media. J. Chromatog. B 793: 181-191.
Arnosti, C., and B.B. Jørgensen (2003) High activity and low temperature optima of extracellular enzymes in Arctic sediments: Implications for carbon cycling by heterotrophic microbial communities. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 249:15-24.
Brüchert, V., and C. Arnosti. (2003) Anaerobic carbon transformation: Experimental studies with flow-through cells. Mar. Chem., 80: 171-183.
Arnosti, C. Extracellular enzymes and their role in DOM cycling. (2003) pp. 315-342 in Aquatic Ecosystems: Interactivity of Dissolved Organic Matter (S. Findley and R.S. Sinsabaugh, eds.) Academic Press.
Hoppe, H.-G., C. Arnosti, and G.J. Herndl (2002) Ecological significance of bacterial enzymes in the marine environment in Enzymes in the Environment (R.G. Burns and R.P. Dick, eds.) Marcel Dekker.
Keith, S.C. and C. Arnosti. (2001) Extracellular enzyme activity in a river-bay-shelf transect: Variations in polysaccharide hydrolysis rates with substrate and size Class. Aq. Microb. Ecol., 24: 243-253.
Hedges, J.I., G. Eglinton, P. G. Hatcher, D. L. Kirchman, C. Arnosti, S. Derenne, R. P. Evershed, I. Kögel-Knabner, J. W. de Leeuw, R. Littke, W. Michaelis and J. Rullkötter. (2000) The Molecularly-Uncharacterized Component (MUC) of nonliving organic matter in natural environments. Organic Geochem., 31: 945-958.
Arnosti, C., S.C. Keith, and N.V. Blough (2000) Application of Fluorescence Spectroscopic Techniques and Probes to the Detection of Biopolymer Degradation in Natural Environments. Marine Chem. 71: 321-330.
Arnosti, C. (2000) Substrate specificity in polysaccharide hydrolysis: Contrasts between bottom water and sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45 (5) 1112-1119.
Weiner, R.M., E. Seagren, C. Arnosti, and E. Quintero (1999) Bacterial survival in biofilms: Probes for exopolysaccharide and its hydrolysis, and measurements of interphase mass transfer. Methods in Enzymology: Biofilms. 310: 403-426.Academic Press, San Diego.
Arnosti, C. and M. Holmer (1999) Carbohydrate dynamics and contributions to the carbon budget of an organic-rich coastal sediment. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63(3/4) 393-403.
Arnosti, C., B.B. Jørgensen, J. Sagemann, and B. Thamdrup (1998) Temperature Dependence of Microbial Degradation of Organic Matter in Marine Sediments: Polysaccharide Hydrolysis, Oxygen Consumption, and Sulfate Reduction. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 165: 59-70.
Arnosti, C. (1998) Rapid potential rates of extracellular enzymatic hydrolysis in Arctic sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 43(2): 315-324.
Arnosti, C. (1996) A new method for measuring polysaccharide hydrolysis rates in marine environments. Organic Geochem. 25:105-115.
Arnosti, C. (1995) Measurement of depth- and site-related differences in polysaccharide hydrolysis rates in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59 (20) 4247-4257.
Arnosti, C., and D.J. Repeta (1995) Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy of pullulan and isomaltose: Complete assignment of chemical shifts. Starch/Stärke 47(2) 73-75.
Arnosti, C., D.J. Repeta, and N.V. Blough (1994) Rapid bacterial degradation of polysaccharides in anoxic marine systems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 58(12) 2639-2652.
Arnosti, C., and D.J. Repeta (1994) Oligosaccharide degradation by anaerobic marine bacteria: Characterization of an experimental system to study polymer degradation in sediments. Limnol. Oceanogr. 39(8) 1865-1877.
Arnosti, C., and D.J. Repeta (1994) Extracellular enzyme activity in anaerobic bacterial cultures: Evidence of pullulanase activity among mesophilic marine bacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 60(3) 840-846.
Arnosti, C., and P.J. Müller (1987) Pyrolysis-GC characterization of whole rock and kerogen-concentrate samples of immature Jurassic source rocks from NW-Germany. Org. Geochem. 11(6) 505-512.