Chris Osburn
Professor and Director - Blue Economy Innovation Program
Blue Economy Innovation Program Director
Jordan Hall 4150
Bio
Chris Osburn is Professor of Marine Biogeochemistry in the Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences at North Carolina State University. Previously, he was a Research Chemist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory. His research interests span carbon and nitrogen cycling across the aquatic continuum and focus on the biogeochemistry of organic matter in surface waters and how optical and chemical properties of organic matter can be used to understand global change. Over the past 10 years he has studied the biogeochemical consequences of extreme weather events on coastal waters; impacts of organic matter sources on coastal water quality; effects of sea level rise on organic matter fluxes from tidal wetlands; and formation of recalcitrant organic matter in the ocean. Recent interests have focused on reuse of data in support of entrepreneurship related to economic development for sustainable and resilient coastal communities.
SHORT DESCRIPTION OF INTERESTS:
Interested in collaborating with people working in:
Sustainable agriculture, forestry, and rural, natural resource-based economies; Coupled human and natural systems; and Mutually beneficial engagement that emphasizes social equity.
https://meas.sciences.ncsu.edu/people/closburn/
Publications
- Carbonate-associated organic matter: A form of “dissolvable” organic matter? , (2024)
- Linear Source Apportionment Using Generalized Least Squares , TECHNOMETRICS (2024)
- Shifting Sources and Fates of Carbon With Increasing Hydrologic Presses and Pulses in Coastal Wetlands , JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-BIOGEOSCIENCES (2024)
- The unique biogeochemical role of carbonate-associated organic matter in a subtropical seagrass meadow , COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT (2024)
- Tryptophan-Like Fluorescence for Monitoring Fecal Contamination in a Marsh-Dominated Estuary , ACS ES&T WATER (2024)
- A Pan-Arctic Algorithm to Estimate Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations From Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Spectral Absorption , GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS (2023)
- Lignin phenol quantification from machine learning-assisted decomposition of liquid chromatography-absorbance spectroscopy data , LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY-METHODS (2023)
- Recent increases of rainfall and flooding from tropical cyclones (TCs) in North Carolina (USA): implications for organic matter and nutrient cycling in coastal watersheds , BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (2023)
- Routine Estimation of Dissolved Organic Matter Sources Using Fluorescence Data and Linear Least Squares , ACS ES&T WATER (2023)
- Accumulation of recalcitrant dissolved organic matter in aerobic aquatic systems , LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY LETTERS (2022)