List of Publications

2007
Brandes, J. A., Devol, A. H., and Deutsch, C., 2007. New Developments in the Marine Nitrogen Cycle. Chemical Reviews 107 , 577-589.

Brandes, J. A., Ingall, E., and Paterson, D., 2007b. Characterization of minerals and organic phosphorus species in marine sediments using soft X-ray fluorescence spectromicroscopy. Marine Chemistry 103 (3-4), 250-265.

Townsend-Small, A., J. L. Noguera, M. E. McClain, and J. A. Brandes (2007), Radiocarbon and stable isotope geochemistry of organic matter in the Amazon headwaters, Peruvian Andes, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 21 , GB2029, doi:10.1029/2006GB002835.

Townsend-Small, A. , M. J. McCarthy, J. A. Brandes, L. Yang, L. Zhang, and W.S. Gardner (2007) Seasonal stable isotopic composition of nitrate in Taihu Lake and major inflow rivers Hydrobiologia 581 : 135-140.

2006
Devol, A. H., Uhlenhopp, A. G., Naqvi, S. W. A., Brandes, J. A., Jayakumar, D. A., Naik, H., Gaurin, S., Codispoti, L. A., and Yoshinari, T., 2006. Denitrification rates and excess nitrogen gas concentrations in the Arabian Sea oxygen deficient zone. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 53 , 1533-1547.

Haberstroh, PA, J. A Brandes, Y. Gélinas, A. F. Dickens, S. Wirick, and G. D Cody (2006) Chemical composition of the graphitic black carbon fraction in riverine and marine sediments at sub-micron scales using Carbon X-ray Spectromicroscopy  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70 , 1483-1494.

2005
Townsend-Small, A., J. A. Brandes and M. E. McClain. 2005 Chemical and stable isotopic tracers of carbon and nitrogen sources and transport in the Peruvian Andean Amazon  Limnology and Oceanography 50 (3) 672-685 .

2004
Cody, G. D., N. Z. Boctor, J. A. Brandes, T. R. Filley, R. M. Hazen and  H. S. Yoder Jr. 2004. Assaying the Catalytic Potential of Transition Metal Sulfides for Prebiotic Carbon Fixation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 68 (10): 2185–2196.

Brandes , J. A., S. Wirick, C. Lee, S. Wakeham, M. Peterson & G. D. Cody. 2004. Examining marine particulate organic matter at sub-micron scales using scanning transmission x-ray microscopy (STXM) and carbon X-ray adsorption near edge structure (C-XANES) Marine Chemistry 92 (1-4) 107-121.

2003
Haberer, J.L. and J. A. Brandes 2003 A high sensitivity, low volume HPLC based method to determine soluble reactive phosphate (SRP) in freshwater and saltwater. Mar. Chem. 82 (3):185-196.

Sigman, D.M., R. Robinson, A. N. Knapp, A. van Geen, D. C. McCorkle, J. A. Brandes and R. C. Thunell, R.C. (2003) Distinguishing between water column and sedimentary denitrification in the Santa Barbara Basin using the nitrogen isotopes of nitrate. Geochem. Geophys. Geosys. 4(5) 1040, doi:10.1029/2002GC000384

2002
Brandes JA & Devol AH. 2002. A marine fixed nitrogen isotopic budget: Implications for Holocene nitrogen cycling. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 16 (4) 10.1029/2001GB00185.
Hazen, R.M., N. Boctor, J.A. Brandes, G.D. Cody, R.J. Hemley, A. Sharma, and H.S. Yoder.  2002.  High pressure and the origin of life.  J. Phys. Cond. Matter . 14(44):11489-94

2001
Cody, G.D., R.M. Hazen, J.A. Brandes, H. Morowitz, and H.S. Yoder, Jr.  2001. The Geochemical Roots of Archeic autrotrophic carbon fixation: hydrothermal experiments in the system Citric-H2O  +/-FeS +/-NiS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65(20):3557-3576.

Codispoti, L.A., J.A. Brandes, J.P. Christensen, A.H. Devol, S.W.A. Naqvi, H.W. Paerl, and T. Yoshinari, 2001 The oceanic fixed nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets: Moving targets as we enter the anthropocene?, Scientia Marina , 65 , 85-105.

2000
Brandes, JA, Boctor, NZ,, Hazen RM, HS Yoder, Jr, and G. D. Cody. 2000. Prebiotic Amino Acid Synthesis Pathways via a-keto Acids: An Alternative to the Strecker Synthesis.  Perspectives in Amino Acid and Protein Geochemistry (G. A. Goodfriend, M.J. Collins, M. L. Fogel, S. A. Macko, and J. F. Wehmiller, eds.). Oxford University Press, NY.

1998
Brandes, JA, Cody, GD, Cooper, BA, Hazen, RM, and HS Yoder, Jr. 1998. Abiotic nitrogen reduction in the early Earth.  Nature , 395 365-367.

Naqvi, S.W.A., T. Yoshinari, D.A. Jayakumar, M.A. Altabet, P.V. Narvekar, A.H. Devol, J.A. Brandes,  and  L.A. Codispoti. 1998. Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N2O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea. Nature 394:462-464.

Naqvi, S.W.A., T. Yoshinari, J.A. Brandes,  A.H. Devol, D.A. Jayakumar, P.V. Narvekar, M.A. Altabet, and L.A. Codispoti. 1998. Nitrogen isotopic studies in the suboxic Arabian Sea. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 107:367-378.

Brandes, J. A., Devol, A. H., Yoshinari, T., Jayakumar, D. A., and Naqvi, S. W. A., 1998. Isotopic composition of nitrate in the central Arabian Sea and eastern tropical North Pacific: A tracer for mixing and nitrogen cycles. Limnol. Oceanogr. 43 , 1680-1689.

1997
Brandes JA & Devol AH. 1997. Isotopic fractionation of nitrogen and oxygen in coastal marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta , 61 (9) 1793-1801.

McClain ME, Richey JE, Brandes JA & TP Pimentel. 1997. Dissolved organic matter and terrestrial-lotic linkages in the Central Amazonian Basin, Brazil. Global Biogeochemical Cycles , 11 (3) 295-312.

1996
Brandes J.A., McClain M.E. & T.P. Pimentel. 1996. 15N evidence for the origin and cycling of inorganic nitrogen in a small Amazonian catchment. Biogeochemistry 34 (1) 45-56.