Biologically produced gases in the surface ocean are present in the atmosphere at very low levels, but they have a major impact on global atmospheric cycling of elements such as sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon. Some trace gases can also influence the climate system by influencing greenhouse gas lifetimes, stratospheric ozone, and cloud properties. My research group develops analytical instruments to detect trace gases, measures the abundance of trace gases on ships and islands, and uses computer simulations to understand rates and pathways by which gases cycle through the atmosphere. We also study long term changes in atmospheric composition due to changes in climate and man's activities. We reconstruct the changes in atmospheric composition over many thousands of years by analyzing the trace gases in ancient air trapped in polar ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica.
Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Isaksson, E., Schwikowski, M., and Saltzman, E. S., 2018. Aromatic acids in an Arctic ice core from Svalbard: a proxy record of biomass burning, Clim. Past, 14, 637–651, 2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-637-2018.
Sanchez, K., C.-L. Chen, L. Russell, R. Betha, J. Liu, D. Price, P. Massoli, L. Ziemba, E. Crosbie, R. Moore, M. Mueller, S. Schiller, A. Wisthaler, A. Lee, P. Quinn, T. Bates, J. Porter, T. Bell, E. Saltzman, R. Vaillancourt, and M. Behrenfeld, 2018. Substantial seasonal contribution of observed biogenic sulfate particles to cloud condensation nuclei, Sci. Repts., (2018) 8:3235, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-21590-9.
Landwehr, S., S. D. Miller, M. J. Smith, T. G. Bell, E. S. Saltzman, and B. Ward, 2018. Using eddy covariance to measure the dependence of air-sea CO2 exchange rate on friction velocity, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 4297–4315, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-4297-2018.
Santibáñez, P., O. Maselli, M. Greenwood, M. Grieman, E. S. Saltzman, J. McConnell, J. C. Priscu, 2018. Prokaryotes in the WAIS Divide ice core reflect source and transport changes between Last Glacial Maximum and the early Holocene, Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.14042.
McConnell, J. R., A. Burke, N. W. Dunbar, P. Köhler, J. L. Thomas, M. M. Arienzo, N. J. Chellman, O. J. Maselli, M. Sigl, J. F. Adkins, D. Baggenstos, J. F. Burkhart, E. J. Brook, C. Buizert, J. Cole-Dai, T. J. Fudge, G. Knorr, H.-F. Graf, M. M. Grieman, N. Iverson, K. C. McGwire, R. Mulvaney, G. Paris, R. H. Rhodes, E. S. Saltzman, J. P. Severinghaus, J. P. Steffensen, K. C. Taylor, G. Winckler, 2017, Volcanism and abrupt climate change ~18 ka, 2017. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 201705595; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1705595114.
Esters, L., S. Landwehr, G. Sutherland, T. G. Bell, K. H. Christensen, E. S. Saltzman, S. D. Miller, and B. Ward, 2017. Parameterizing air-sea gas transfer velocity with dissipation, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, 3041–3056, doi:10.1002/2016JC012088.
Bell, T. G., S. Landwehr, S. D Miller, W. J. de Bruyn, A. Callaghan, B. Scanlon, B. Ward, M. Yang and E. S. Saltzman, 2017. Estimation of bubble-mediated air/sea gas exchange from concurrent DMS and CO2 transfer velocities at intermediate-high wind speeds, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 9019–9033, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-9019-2017, 2017.
Grieman, M. M., Aydin, M., Fritzsche, D., McConnell, J. R., Opel, T., Sigl, M., and Saltzman, E. S., 2017. Aromatic acids in a Eurasian Arctic ice core: a 3000-year proxy record of biomass burning, Clim. Past, 13, 395–410, 2017 www.clim-past.net/13/395/2017/ doi:10.5194/cp-13-395-2017.
Liang, Y., J. Yu, E. Saltzman, and F. Wang, 2017: Linking the tropical northern hemisphere pattern to the Pacific warm blob and Atlantic cold blob. J. Climate, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0149.1.
Maselli, O. J., N. J. Chellman, M. Grieman, L. Layman, J.R. McConnell, D. Pasteris, R. Rhodes, Saltzman, E.S., and M. Sigl, 2017. Sea ice and pollution-modulated changes in Greenland ice core methanesulfonate and bromine, Clim. Past, 13, 39-59, doi:10.5194/cp-13-39-2017, 2017.
Nicewonger, M.R., K.R. Verhulst, M. Aydin, and E.S. Saltzman, 2015. Preindustrial atmospheric ethane levels inferred from polar ice cores: A constraint on the geologic sources of atmospheric ethane and methane, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, 214–221, doi:10.1002/2015GL066854.
Whalley, L. K., et al. (2010), The chemistry of OH and HO2 radicals in the boundary layer over the tropical Atlantic Ocean, Atmos Chem Phys, 10(4), 1555-1576.
Lee, J. D., et al. (2010), Reactive Halogens in the Marine Boundary Layer (RHaMBLe): the tropical North Atlantic experiments, Atmos Chem Phys, 10(3), 1031-1055.
Yvon-Lewis, S. A., E. S. Saltzman, and S. A. Montzka (2009), Recent trends in atmospheric methyl bromide: analysis of post-Montreal Protocol variability, Atmos Chem Phys, 9(16), 5963-5974.
Saltzman, E. S., W. J. De Bruyn, M. J. Lawler, C. A. Marandino, and C. A. McCormick (2009), A chemical ionization mass spectrometer for continuous underway shipboard analysis of dimethylsulfide in near-surface seawater, Ocean Sci, 5(4), 537-546.