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Limnology - Photochemistry

Dr. Sarah A. Green, Associate Professor and Chair
Chemistry Department
Michigan Technological University

Education

B.A., Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
Ph.D., MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

 Sarah A. Green

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Green’s research focuses on the composition, optical properties, and cycling of organic carbon in aquatic and terrestrial environments with a particular focus on the Great Lakes, including remote sensing applications. Additional interests include binding of metals by natural organic compounds and response of organisms to metal-contaminated sites. She has served as Principal or co-investigator on grants from the National Science Foundation, Michigan Sea Grant, Michigan Space Grant, and the Environmental Protection Agency. She has published over 25 peer-reviewed articles and has served on review panels for the National Science Foundation and NASA. She has served as primary advisor for 6 M.S. and 3 Ph.D. students. Dr. Green teaches courses in analytical and environmental chemistry.

Related Activities

Coordinator: Keweenaw Interdisciplinary Transport Experiment in Superior (KITES), 1997-2000.
Director: MTU Remote Sensing Institute, 2001-2003.
Coordinator: MTU Women in Science and Engineering, 1999-2003.
Guest editor, KITES/EEGLE Special section in Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans (Oct, 2004)

Selected Publications

Cory, R. M., S. A. Green, and K. S. Pregitzer. Dissolved Organic Matter Concentration and Composition in the Forests and Streams of Olympic National Park, WA. Biogeochemistry 67:269-288, 2004.

Li, H., J. W. Budd, and S. A. Green. Evaluation and Regional Optimization of Satellite-based Chlorophyll-a Algorithms for Lake Superior. Journal of Great Lakes Research, in press, 2004.

Ma, X., and S. A. Green. Photochemical Transformation of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Lake Superior –An In-Situ Experiment. Journal of Great Lakes Research, in press, 2004.

Qiu, R., S. A. Green, R. E. Honrath, M. C. Peterson, Y. Lu, and M. Dziobak. Measurements of JNO3- in Snow by Nitrate-Based Actinometry. Atmospheric Environment 36:2563-2571, 2002.

Urban, N. R., S. A. Green, M. T. Auer, X. Lu, D. S. Apul, K. Elenbas, and L. Bub. Carbon cycling in Lake Superior. Journal of Geophysical Research, in press.