Publications (2013 – Present)
- Granger, J., Boshers, D.S., Böhlke, J.K., Yu, D., Chen, N., and Tobias, C.R. 2019. The influence of sample matrix on the accuracy of nitrite N and O isotope ratio analyses with the azide method. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8569.
- White, A.E. Granger, J., Selden, C., Gradoville, M.R., Potts, L., Bourbonnais, A. Fulweiler, R., Knapp, A.N., Mohr, W. Moisander, P.H., Tobias, C.R., Cafine, M., Wilson, S.T., Benavides, M., Bonnet, S. Mulholland, M.R., and Chang, B.X. 2020. A critical review of the 15N2 tracer method to measure diazotrophic production in pelagic ecosystems. Limnol. Oceangr. Methods 18: 129-147.
- Van Dam, B.R., Edson, J.B., Tobias, C. 2019. Parameterizing air-water gas exchange in the shallow microtidal New River Estuary. Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences 124. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018JG004908
- Boshers, D., Granger, J., Tobias, C., Smith, R.L., Böhlke, JK. Constraining the oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate produced by nitrification. Environmental Science and Technology. 53, 3, 1206-1216.
- Thivanka Ariyarathna, Mark Ballentine, Penny Vlahos, Richard W. Smith2 Christopher Cooper, John K. Bohlke, Stephen Fallis, Thomas J. Groshens and Craig Tobias.. 2018. Tracing the cycling and fate of the explosive, Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-trazine in a simulated sandy coastal marine habitat with a stable isotopic tracer, 15N-[RDX]. Science and the Total Environment. 647: 369–378.
- O’Donnell, J., Vaudrey, J., Tobias, C., French, R., Schenk, P., and Lin, C. 2018. Beneficial use of dredged material for salt marsh restoration and creation in Connecticut. Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation Report to Connecticut Department of Housing CDBG-DR Sandy Recovery Program. 64 pp plus Appendices.
- Duernberger, K., Tobias, C., and Mallin, M. 2018. Ecosystem scale nitrification and watershed support of tidal creek productivity revealed using whole system isotope tracer labeling. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.10927
- Van Dam, B., Tobias, C., Holbach, A., Paerl, H., Zhu, G. 2018. CO2 limited conditions favor cyanobacteria in a hypereutrophic lake: An empirical and theoretical stable isotope study. Limnology and Oceanography doi: 10.1002/lno.10798
- Warren, J., Vlahos, P., Smith, R.W., Tobias, C. 2018. Investigation of a New Passive Sampler for the Detection of Munitions Compounds in Marine and Freshwater Systems. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 2018;9999:1–8
- Tobias, C.R., and Neubauer, S. Salt marsh biogeochemistry – an overview. 2018. In:, Perillo, G., Wolansky, E., Cahoon, D..and Hopkinson, C. (eds), Coastal Wetlands: an ecosystem approach, 2nd addition. Elsevier Press.
- Messer, T.L., Burchell, M.R., Böhlke J.K., and Tobias, C.R. 2017. Tracing the Fate of Nitrate through Restored Wetlands: A Mesocosm Scale 15N Enrichment Tracer Study. Ecological Engineering, 106: 597-608.
- Phillips, R.L., Song, B., McMillan, A.M.S., Grelet, G., Weir, B., Palmada, T.and Tobias, C. 2017. Chemical formation of hybrid di-nitrogen calls fungal codenitrification into question. Nature Scientific Reports. 6:39077 | DOI: 10.1038/srep39077
- Ariyarathna, T., Vlahos, P., Smith, R., Böhlke, JK, Fallis, S., Groshens, T., and Tobias C. 2017. Biodegradation and mineralization of isotopically labeled TNT and RDX in anaerobic marine sediments. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 36: 1170-1180.
- Gosnell, K., Balcom, P.H., Tobias, C.R., Gilhooly, W.P. III, and Mason, R.P. 2017.Spatial and Temporal Trophic Transfer Dynamics of Mercury and Methylmercury into Zooplankton and Phytoplankton of Long Island Sound.. Limnology and Oceanography, 62: 1122-1138.
- Ensign, S., Currin, C., Piehler, M., andTobias, C., Methods for predicting wetland shoreline sediment regimes using spatial analysis. Geomorphology, 276: 280-288.
- Ballentine, M.L., Ariyarathna, T., Smith, R.W., Cooper, C., Vlahos, P., Fallis, S., Groshens, T.J., andTobias C. 2016. Uptake and fate of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) in coastal marine biota determined using a stable isotopic tracer, 15N [RDX]. Chemosphere, 153: 28-38.
- Phillips, R., Grelet, G., McMillan, A., Song, B., Weir, B., Palmadal, T., and Tobias. 2016. Fungal denitrification: Bipolaris sorokiniana exclusively denitrifies inorganic nitrogen in the presence and absence of oxygen. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 363: 2016, fnw007
- Lancaster, N.A., Bushey, J.T.,Tobias, C.R., Song, B., and Vadas, T.M. 2016. Impact of chloride on denitrification potential in roadside wetlands. Environmental Pollution, 212: 216-223
- Ariyarathna, T., Vlahos, P.,Tobias, C., and Smith R. 2015. Sorption kinetics of TNT and RDX in anaerobic freshwater and marine sediments: batch studies. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 35: 47–55, 2016
- Smith, R.L., Böhlke, J.K., Song, B.K., andTobias, C.R. , 2015. Role of Ammonium oxidation (Anammox) in nitrogen removal from a freshwater aquifer. Environmental Science and Technology. 49, 12169-12177
- Smith, R.W.,Vlahos, P., Böhlke, J.K., Ariyarathna, T., Ballentine M., Cooper, C., Fallis, S., Groshens, T.J., and Tobias, C. Tracing the Cycling and Fate of the Explosive 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene inCoastal Marine Systems with a Stable Isotopic Tracer, 15N‑[TNT]. Environmental Science and Technology, 49: 12223-12231.
- Plummer, P.,Tobias, C. and Cady D. Nitrogen Reduction Pathways in Estuarine Sediments: Influences of Organic Carbon and Sulfide. 2015. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JG003057
- Lisa, J.A., Song, B.K.,Tobias, C.R., Hines, D.E. 2015. Genetic and biogeochemical investigation of sedimentary nitrogen cycling communities responding to tidal and seasonal dynamics in Cape Fear River Estuary. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 167: A313-A323.
- Hines, D.E., Lisa, J.A., Song, B.,Tobias, C.R., and Borrett, S.R. 2015. Estimating the effects of seawater intrusion on an estuarine nitrogen cycle by comparative network analysis, Marine Ecology Progress Series. 524: 137-154.
- Sparks, E.L., Cebrian, J.,Tobias, C.R., and May, C.A. 2015. Groundwater nitrogen processing in Northern Gulf of Mexico restored marshes. Journal of Environmental Management. 150:206-215.
- Smith, R.,Tobias, C., Valhos, P., Cooper, C., Ballentine, M., and Ariyarathna, T. 2015. Mineralization of RDX-Derived Nitrogen to N2 via Denitrification in Coastal Marine Sediments. Environmental Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1021/es505074v
- Ballentine, M.Tobias, C., Vlahos, P., Smith, R, and, Cooper, C. 2014 Bioconcentration of TNT and RDX in coastal marine biota. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. DOI: 10.1007/s00244-014-0104-9
- Song, B., Lisa, J.A., andTobias C.R. 2014 Linking DNRA community structure and activity in a shallow lagoonal estuarine system. 2014. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5: 1-10.
- Dabundo, R., Lehmann, M.F., Treibergs, Lija,Tobias, C.R. Altabet, M.A., Moisander, P.H., and Granger, J. 2014. The contamination of commercial 15N2 gas stocks with 15N-labeled nitrate and ammonium and consequences for nitrogen fixation measurements. PLOS One 9, 10, e110335.
- Lisa, J.A. Song, B.,Tobias, C.R., and Duernberger, K.A. 2014. Impacts of freshwater flushing on anammox community structure and activities in the New River Estuary, USA. Aquatic Microbial Ecology. 72: 17-31.
- Harvey, J.W., Bohlke, J.K., Voytek, M., Scott, D., andTobias, C. 2013 Hyporheic zone denitrification: Controls on effective reaction depth and contribution to whole-stream mass balance. Water Resources Research. 49: 1-19
- Dupraz, C., Fowler, A. J.,Tobias, C. R., Visscher, P. Stromatolitic knobs in Storrs Lake (San Salvador, Bahamas): A model system for formation and alteration of laminae. Geobiology, 11: 527-548.
- Giblin, A.E,Tobias, C., Song, B., Weston, N., Banta, G.T., and Rivera-Monroy, V. 2013 The importance of dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) in the nitrogen cycle of coastal ecosystems. Oceanography 26: 124-131
- Smith, R.W., Vlahos, P.,Tobias, C., Ballentine, M., Ariyarathna, T., and Cooper, C. 2013. Removal rates of dissolved munitions compounds in seawater. Chemosphere, 92: 898-904.
- Hardison A. K., Canuel E. A., Anderson I. C.,Tobias C. R., Veuger B., and Waters, M. Microphytobenthos and benthic macroalgae determine sediment organic matter composition in shallow photic sediments. Biogeosciences 10: 5571-5588
- Borin, S. Mapelli, F., Rolli, E.,Tobias, C., Schmid, M.C., DeLange, G.J., Reichart, G.J., Schouten, S., Jetten, M., and Daffonchio, D. 2013. Anammox bacterial populations in deep marine hypersaline gradient systems. Extremophiles 17: 289-299.
- Long, A., Heitman, J.,Tobias, C., Philips, R., and Song , B. 2013. Co-occurring anammox, denitrification and codenitrification in agricultural soils. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79: 168-176.
- Higgins, C.B.,Tobias, C., Piehler, M.F., Smyth, A.R., Dame, R.F., Stephenson, K., and Brown, B.L. 2013. Effect of aquacultured oyster biodeposition on sediment N2 production in Chesapeake Bay. Marine Ecology Progress Series 473: 7-27.