TEXAS A&M AT GALVESTON

Rainer Amon

 

Research Interests

  • Biogeochemical fluxes of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic Ocean 

  • Land - ocean transport of carbon and nitrogen in light of environmental change in the Arctic

  • Identification of the chemical composition of DOM and its use as a tracer for water masses 

  • The role of environmental factors for the activity and community composition of aquatic bacteria

  • The role of bacteria for the carbon cycle in the ocean, estuaries, and rivers 

  • Relationships among DOM composition, UV-radiation, trace elements, and microbes

 

Academic Background

  • B.S., University of Vienna, Austria, 1986.

  • M.S., University of Vienna, Austria, 1990.

  • Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1995.

 

Teaching

  • Biological Oceanography

 

Selected Publications

  • Amon, R.M.W. and Meon, B., 2004. The biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter and nutrients in two large Arctic estuaries and potential implications for our understanding of the Arctic Ocean system. Mar. Chem., accepted.

  • Meon, B. and Amon, R.M.W., 2004. Heterotrophic bacterial activity and fluxes of dissolved free amino acids (DFAA) and glucose in the Arctic Rivers Ob, Yenisei and the adjacent Kara Sea. Aquat. Microb. Ecol., accepted.       

  • Benner, R., Benitez-Nelson, B., Kaiser, K. and Amon, R.M.W., 2004. Export of young terrigenous dissolved organic carbon from rivers to the Arctic Ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2003GL019251

 

 

 

 

 

Rainer Amon

Department of Oceanography

Texas A&M University at Galveston

amonr@tamug.edu

Phone: (409) 740-4719

Fax: (409) 740-4786

http://loer.tamug.tamu.edu/

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