Allan H. Devol, Ph.D. (Univ. of Washington), Professor. devol@u.washington.edu. Marine and freshwater biogeochemistry; sediment diagenesis; oceanography of anoxic systems; carbon fluxes; sources, sinks, and fluxes of organic material in lakes, oceans and rivers; biochemical analysis of biological rate processes; and interdependence of chemical, biological and physical processes in the control of observed distributions in oceans, lakes and rivers. Member of the Carbon in the Amazon River Experiment (CAMREX) and the UW Global and Environmental Chemistry Program (GEC).
Devol, A.H. and H.E. Hartnett (submitted) The effect of the oxygen minimum zone on sedimentary vertical carbon flux. Nature.
Kristensen, E.B., A.H. Devol and H.E. Hartnett (submitted) Carbon and nitrogen diagenesis in sediments on the continental shelf and slope of the eastern tropical and temperate North Pacific. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Keil, R.G., E. Tsamakis and A.H. Devol (submitted) Amino acid compositions and OC:SA ratios indicate enhanced preservation of organic matter in Pacific Mexican Margin sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Devol, A.H. and J.I. Hedges (in press) The biogeochemistry of the Amazon River. In McClain, M.E., R.L. Victoria and J.E. Richey (eds.) The Biogeochemistry of the Amazon Basin and its Role in a Changing World. Oxford University Press, New York.
Hedges, J.I., F.S. Hu, A.H. Devol, H.E. Hartnett and R.G. Keil (in press) Sedimentary organic matter preservation: A test for selective oxic degradation. American Journal of Science.
Brandes, J.A., A.H. Devol, et al. (1998) Isotopic composition of nitrate in the central Arabian Sea and eastern tropical North Pacific: A tracer for mixing and nitrogen cycles. Limnology and Oceanography 43: 1680-1689.
Hartnett, H.E., R.G. Keil, J.I. Hedges and A.H. Devol (1998) Influence of oxygen exposure time on organic carbon preservation in continental margin sediments. Nature 391: 572-574.
Naqvi, S.W.A., T. Yoshinari, D.A. Jayakumar, M.A. Altabet, P.V. Narvekar, A.H. Devol, et al. (1998) Budgetary and biogeochemical implications of N2O isotope signatures in the Arabian Sea. Nature 394: 462-464.
Devol, A.H., et al. (1997) Summer and winter denitrification rates in western Arctic shelf sediments. Continental Shelf Research 17: 1029-1050.
Brandes, J.A. and A.H. Devol (1997) Isotopic fractionation of oxygen and nitrogen in coastal marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61: 1793-1801.
Yoshinari, T., M.A. Altabet, S.W.A. Naqvi, L.A. Codispoti, D.A. Jayakumar, M. Kuhland and A.H. Devol (1997) Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of N2O from suboxic waters of the eastern tropical North Pacific and the Arabian Sea: Measurement by continuous-flow isotope-ratio monitoring. Marine Chemistry 56: 253-264.