Publications
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Publications in Preparation
Louchouarn P., R. Amon, L-J. Kuo, and C.M. Pondell (2007 – In
Preparation).
Analysis of low-level lignin phenols in environmental samples by gas
chromatography/mass spectrometry-mass spectrometry. Journal of Mass
Spectrometry.
Louchouarn P., S. Houel, L-J. Kuo, and R. Sambrotto. (2007 - In
Preparation).
Elemental and isotopic analyses of soot/graphitic black carbon in environmental
mixtures: Potential strengths and limitations of the chemothermal oxidation
method. Environmental Science & Technology.
Louchouarn P., D. Peteet, R. Sambrotto, L-J. Kuo, and T. Filley. (2007 - In
preparation).
Isotope and molecular indications of changes in vegetation and carbon
preservation in a Hudson Estuary holigohaline wetland: Climatic and
anthropogenic impacts over the last 2000 years. Geochimica et Cosmochimica
Acta.
Louchouarn, P., J. Brandenberger, and E. Crecelius. (2007 – In Preparation). Historical reconstruction of
reduced oxygen levels in deep waters of Puget Sound: biogeochemical and
Physical constraints on hypoxia conditions. Limnology & Oceanography.
Louchouarn, P., S. Cohen, B. Herbert, and T. Heikkila. (2007 - In Preparation). Building practice through
authentic scientific inquiry: Formalization of multidisciplinary approaches in
graduate professional education. Science Education.
Kuo, L-J, P. Louchouarn, and B.E. Herbert. (2007 – In preparation). Solvent extractable
lignin-derived products in plant charcoals: Specific tracers of plant classes
in emissions from biomass combustion. Organic Geochemistry
Lee, L., B.E. Herbert, P. Louchouarn. (2007 – In preparation). Arsenic in Texas Groundwater. Environmental
Science & Technology.
Parker, R., C. Markley, B.E. Herbert, and P. Louchouarn (2007 – In preparation). Interactions of policy and
geology on controlling the environmental legacy of Uranium mining in South
Texas. Environmental Geology.
Peer-Reviewed
Publications
Kuo, L-J, P. Louchouarn, and B.E. Herbert. (2007 – Submitted). Fate of CuO-derived lignin
oxidation products during plant combustion: Application to the evaluation of
charcoal inputs to soil organic matter. Organic Geochemistry.
Brandenberger, J., E. Crecelius, and P. Louchouarn. (2007 – Submitted). Historical inputs and natural
recovery rates of heavy metals to the main basin of Puget Sound during the 20th
century. Environmental Science & Technology.
Kuo, L-J, B.E. Herbert, and P. Louchouarn. (2007 - Submitted). Can levoglucosan be used to
characterize and quantify char/charcoal black carbon in environmental media? Organic
Geochemistry.
Ishikawa, T., A. Barnston, K.A. Kastens, and P. Louchouarn. (2007 - Submitted). Understanding, evaluation, and
use of climate forecasts by prospective policy makers: An empirical study. Journal
of Applied Meteorology and Climatology.
Sánchez-García, L., J. Ramón de-Andrés, A. Martín-Rubí, and P.
Louchouarn.
(2007 – Submitted).
Diagenetic state and source signatures of humic and bulk terrigenous organic matter inputs to
the inner continental shelf of the Gulf of Cádiz, (SW Spain): a biomarker
study. Organic Geochemistry.
Hammes, K., M.W.I. Schmidt, L.A. Currie, W.P. Ball, T.H. Nguyen, P.
Louchouarn, and
co-authors. (2007). Comparison of
quantification methods to measure fire-derived (black/elemental) carbon in
soils and sediments using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and
the atmosphere. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi:10.1029/2006GB002914.
Louchouarn P., S.N. Chillrud, S. Houel, B. Yan, D. Chaky, C. Rumpel, C. Largeau,
G. Bardoux, D. Walsh, and R.F. Bopp. (2007). Elemental and molecular evidence of
soot- and char-derived black carbon inputs to New York City s atmosphere during
the 20th Century. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 41, 82-87.
Louchouarn, P., T. Naehr, J. Silliman, and S. Houel. (2006). Elemental, stable
isotopic (d13C), and molecular signatures of organic matter in late Pleistocene
to Holocene sediments from the Peruvian margin (ODP Site 1229). In Jorgensen,
B.B., D'Hondt, S.L., and Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean
Drilling Program, Scientific Results, Vol. 201. p. 1-21. http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/201_SR/113/113.htm
Houel S., P. Louchouarn, M. Lucotte, R. Canuel and B. Ghaleb. (2006). Translocation of soil organic matter following
reservoir impoundment in boreal systems: Implications for in-situ productivity. Limnology & Oceanography. Vol. 51(3). p: 1497-1513.
Benner, R., Louchouarn P., and Amon. R, (2005- Accepted with minor revisions). Terrigenous
dissolved organic matter in the Arctic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
Ishikawa, T., Barnston A., Kastens K.A., Louchouarn P., and Ropelewski C. (2005 - In
Press). Testing the efficacy of climate forecast maps as a
means of communicating with policy makers. Cartography and Geographic
Information Science.
Brandenberger J., Louchouarn P., Herbert B.E., and Tissot P. (2004). Geochemical and hydrodynamic controls on arsenic
and other trace metal cycling in a seasonally stratified US sub-tropical
reservoir.
Applied Geochemistry. Vol. 19. p. 1601-1623.
Farella, N., Lucotte M., Louchouarn P., and Roulet M. (2001). Deforestation at the origin of modified
terrigenous organic matter inputs to the Rio Tapajos, Brazilian Amazon. Organic Geochemistry. Vol. 32, p. 1443-1458.
Louchouarn, P., Opsahl S. and Benner R. (2000). Isolation
and quantification of dissolved lignin from natural waters using solid-phase
extraction (SPE) and GC/MS Selected Ion Monitoring (SIM). Analytical Chemistry. Vol. 13, p. 2780-2787.
Louchouarn, P., Bonner J., Page C., Tissot P. and McDonald T. (2000). Quantitative
determination of oil films/slicks from water surfaces using a modified
solid-phase extraction (SPE) sampling method. Proceedings of the 23rd AMOP Meeting, Vancouver,
Canada. Vol. 1. p. 59-68.
Tissot P., Fuller C., Louchouarn P., Bonner J., Dellamea S., and
Bujnoch D. (2000). Quantitative Method for Surface Oil Measurement and Recovery
Based on a New Type of Low Impact Skimmer. 23rd AMOP Meeting,
Vancouver, Canada. Vol. 1. p. 353-366.
Page C., Bonner J., Louchouarn P., Tissot P., Fuller C., and McDonald T. (2000). Materials Balance on an Oil Washed
from a Sandy Substrate using Shoreline Cleaners. 23rd AMOP Meeting,
Vancouver, Canada. Vol. 2. p. 697-708.
Fuller C., Bonner J., Dellamea S., Ussery S., Page C., Tissot, P., Louchouarn
P., and McDonald
T. (2000). Comparative Ecological Effects of Sandy Shoreline Cleaners. 23rd
AMOP Meeting, June 2000, Vancouver, Canada. Vol. 2. p. 795-804.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M. and Farella N. (1999). Historical
and geographical variations of sources and transport of terrigenous organic
matter within a large-scale coastal environment. Organic Geochemistry. Vol. 30, p: 675-699.
Klap, V.A., Louchouarn P., Boon J.J., Hemminga M.A. and van Soelen J. (1999). Lignin decomposition dynamics for six salt marsh
halophytes as determined by cupric oxide oxidation and pyrolysis mass
spectrometry.
Limnology and Oceanography. Vol. 44(6), p: 1458-1476.
Louchouarn, P. and Lucotte M. (1998). A historical
reconstruction of organic and inorganic contamination events in the
Saguenay/St-Lawrence system from preintrustrial times to the present. The Science of the Total
Environment.
Vol. 213, p: 139-150.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M., Canuel R., Richard L-P., and Gagne J-P. (1997). Sources and early diagenesis of lignin and bulk
organic matter in recent sediments from the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary and the
Saguenay Fjord, Canada. Marine Chemistry. Vol. 58, p: 3-26.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M., Duchemin E., and de Vernal A. (1997). Early diagenetic processes in recent sediments of
the Gulf of St. Lawrence: Phosphorus, Carbon, and Iron burial rates. Special Issue on phosphorus
cycling and sedimentation. Marine Geology. Vol. 139, p: 181-200.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M., and Silverberg N. (1996). Source variations and
reactivity of terrigenous organic biomarkers in settling particulate matter and
sediments from the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. Proceedings from the
"4th International symposium on the geochemistry of the earth's
surface", July 22-28, 1996. Ilkley, England. p: 307-312.
Farella, N, Lucotte M., Louchouarn P., Roulet M., Canuel R., and Tran
S. (1996). Use of lignin-derived phenols as tracers of soil erosion in
Amazonian Rivers. Proceedings from the "4th International symposium on the
geochemistry of the earth's surface", July 22-28, 1996. Ilkley, England.
p: 406-408.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M., Mucci A., and Pichet P. (1993). Geochemistry of
mercury in two hydroelectric reservoirs of Quebec, Canada. Canadian Journal
of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Vol. 50 (2), p: 269-281.
Lucotte M., Hillaire-Marcel C., and Louchouarn P. (1989). First order organic carbon budget in the St
Lawrence Lower Estuary From 13C data. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf
Science. Vol.
32, p: 297-312.
Non Peer-Reviewed
Louchouarn, P. (2001). Of Excellence and
Trends in the Ivory Tower. Fronteras, Version 01.310a. Texas A&M University
System, College Station and Corpus Christi, Texas. (11 October 2001).
Louchouarn, P. (1997). La lignine et le Saguenay: Sommes nous sortis du bois. Profils
Saguenay (INRS Publication). Vol. 2(2). p: 5-6.
Kuo, L.-J., B.E. Herbert, and P.
Louchouarn. (2006).
Molecular marker approach on characterizing and quatifying charcoal in
environmental media. AGU. December 04, 2006.
Alexis, M.A., C. Rumpel, P.
Louchouarn, N.
Pechot, D. Rasse and A. Mariotti, (2006). Production of two biomass burning
tracers during a prescribed fire: Black carbon vs levoglucosan. Soil Sciences
Society of America Annual Meeting. November 12-16, 2006.
Kuo, L.-J., B.E. Herbert, and P.
Louchouarn.
(2006). Validating levoglucosan as an indicator for charcoal presence in
environmental media: A laboratory study. Rice University Black Carbon Meeting.
August 23, 2006.
Louchouarn P. (2005). Double standards in
public policy? Acknowledging the burden on science in decision-making. Invited
conference at Sciences Po - Chair in Sustainable Development. April 22, 2005.
Louchouarn P., and S. Houel. (2005).
Soot/black carbon vs. chars in environmental media: Potential discrimination
between these combustion by-products through elemental, molecular, and bulk
isotopic analyses. EGU/AGU Joint Meeting, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, 2005.
Benner, R., Louchouarn P., and Amon. R. (2005). An Arctic
source for terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in North Atlantic deep water.
ASLO Summer Meeting, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. June 19-24, 2005.
Louchouarn P., Houel S., Peteet D., and
Sambrotto R. (2005). Paleofire history and bulk isotopic markers: Potential
biases in source reconstruction of carbon sources to wetland sediments. ASLO
Aquatic Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Feb. 20-24, 2005.
Louchouarn P., Houel S., and Lucotte M. (2004). The role of pulse dynamics and
watershed-scale anthropogenic impacts on estuarine cycling of terrigenous
organic matter. 2004 AGU-CGU Joint Assembly, Montreal, Qc. May 17-21, 2004.
Louchouarn P., Peteet D., Pederson D., Houel S., and Filley T. (2004). The impact
of long-term hydrological fluctuations on changes in vegetation and carbon
fluxes in Hudson Estuary wetlands. 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA,
March 28-April 1, 2004.
Houel, S., Louchouarn P., Peteet D., and Lucotte, M. (2004). Fire and elemental
black carbon analyses: A new addition to vascular plant biomarkers for
reconstructions of allochthonous OM fluxes in aquatic systems. 227th ACS
National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 28-April 1, 2004.
Ishikawa, T., Barnston A., Kastens K.A., Louchouarn P., and Ropelewski C. (2003).
Testing the Efficacy of Climate Forecast Maps as a Means of Communicating with
Policy Makers. 115th Annual GSA Meeting. Seattle, WA, Nov. 2-5, 2003.
Louchouarn, P., Brandenberger J., Herbert B.E., and Patterson A. (2003).
Organoarsenic, the missing link? What happens when the Fe hydroxide model does
not work. 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, 2003.
Herbert, B.E., L.M. Lee, Louchouarn, P., Moore G.E., Markley C.T.,
Roberts M.D. (2003) Bioavailability and sources of arsenic in reactive-iron
limited sediments of the coastal plain of South Texas. 226th ACS National
Meeting, New York, NY, September 7-11, 2003.
Louchouarn, P., Brandenberger J., Herbert B.E., and Houel S. (2003). Organic and
inorganic markers of short time-scale shifts in environmental conditions in a
South Texas reservoir subsequent to its impoundment. 225th ACS National
Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 23-27.
Heikkila, T., Louchouarn P., and Williams B. (2003). Bringing better science into
resource management decisions: The implications of water quality data on water
quantity management in the Southwestern U.S. Twenty-Fifth Annual APPAM Research
Conference, Science and Technology Policy. Washington, DC, November 6-8.
Dolan, B. and Louchouarn P., (2003). Control of Nonindigenous Species Invasions of
Coastal Waters: Application of Dissolved Lignin to the Testing of Ballast Water
Exchange Efficiency. 4th NOAA Expanding Opportunity in Oceanic and Atmospheric
Science. Tallahassee, FL. March 30-April 1
Lake, G.E., Herbert B.E. and Louchouarn P. (2002). Quantification of
Potential Arsenic Bioavailability Using Chelating Resins in Spatially Varying
Geologic Environments at the Watershed Scale. America Geophysical Union Fall
Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 6-10. Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47).
C. Smith, P.E. Tissot P.E., Louchouarn P., Beaman M., Parker R.L.,
Williams M., Brandenberger J., Herbert B.E., and Michaud P.R. (2002). Have
Radionuclides Released from the South Texas Uranium Mines Affected Lake Corpus
Christi? invited presentation to the 2002 National Sigma Xi Student Research
Conference, Galveston, Texas, November 16, 2002, p. 31.
C. M. Smith, Tissot P.E., Beaman M., Parker R.L., Brandenberger J.,
Williams M., Louchouarn P., Herbert B.E., and Michaud P.R. (2002). Historical
Environmental Impact of Uranium Mining Through the Gamma Ray Analysis of
Livestock Pond Sediments. 2002 Annual Geological Society of America Meeting,
October 27-30, 2002, Denver, CO, p.416.
Clark, J., Berkebile A., and Louchouarn P. (2002). Occurrence and Extent
of Arsenic and Associated Metals in the Groundwaters Near Lake Corpus Christi,
Texas. 105th Annual Meeting of the Texas Academy of Science, Laredo, TX. Feb
28-Mar. 2, 2002.
Roberts, M.D., Herbert B.E. and Louchouarn P. (2001). Organoarsenicals: The
missing arsenic link. GSA Abstracts, Vol. 33, No. 6, October 2001.
Lake, G.E., Herbert B.E. and Louchouarn P. (2001). Quantification of
arsenic bioavailability in spatially varying geologic environments at the
watershed scale using chelating resins. GSA Abstracts, Vol. 33, No. 6, October
2001.
Brandenberger, J.M., Louchouarn P., Herbert B.E., Tissot P.,
Michaud P., Parker R., Williams M., Bonner J., and Beaman M. (2001). Behavior of
Trace Metal Concentrations in Water Profiles from Lake Corpus Christi
Subsequent to an Overturn Event. NOAA - Expanding Opportunities in Oceanic and
Atmospheric Sciences. April 1-3, 2001, Jackson, MS.
Parker, R., Herbert B.E., Brandenberger J. and Louchouarn P. (2001). Ground water discharge
from Mid-Tertiary Rhyolitic ash-rich sediments as the source of elevated
arsenic in South Texas surface waters. GSA Abstracts, Vol. 33, No. 6, October
2001.
Louchouarn, P., Benner R., Opsahl S. and Amon R. (2000). Abundance, distribution,
and cycling of dissolved terrigenous organic matter (DOM) in the Arctic Ocean.
ASLO Ocean Meeting, January 2000, San Antonio, USA.
Louchouarn, P., Bonner J., Page C., Tissot P. and McDonald T. (2000). Quantitative
determination of oil spills from water surfaces using a modified solid-phase
extraction (SPE) sampling method. 23rd AMOP Meeting, June 2000, Vancouver,
Canada.
Page C., Bonner J., Louchouarn P., Tissot P., Fuller C., and McDonald T. (2000). Materials Balance on an Oil Washed
from a Sandy Substrate using Shoreline Cleaners. 23rd AMOP Meeting, June 2000,
Vancouver, Canada.
Tissot P., Fuller C., Louchouarn P., Bonner J., Dellamea S., and
Bujnoch D. (2000). Quantitative Method for Surface Oil Measurement and Recovery
Based on a New Type of Low Impact Skimmer. 23rd AMOP Meeting, June 2000,
Vancouver, Canada.
Fuller C., Bonner J., Dellamea S., Ussery S., Page C., Tissot, P., Louchouarn
P., and McDonald
T. (2000). Comparative Ecological Effects of Sandy Shoreline Cleaners. 23rd
AMOP Meeting, June 2000, Canada.
Louchouarn, P., Gagne J-P., Lucotte M., and Silverberg N. (1996). Variation
annuelle des biomarqueurs moleculaires de la matiere organique terrigene dans
l'estuaire maritime du St. Laurent. Oral communication presented at the 64th
Annual ACFAS Conference, May 13-17, 1996, Montreal, Canada.
Farella, N., Lucotte M., and Louchouarn P. (1996). La degradation de la
lignine dans les sols inondes des reservoirs hydroelectriques du moyen-nord
quebecois. Oral communication presented at the 64th Annual ACFAS Conference,
May 13-17, 1996, Montreal, Canada.
Klap, V., Hemminga M., Boon J., and Louchouarn P. (1996). Lignin in POM and DOM
of a european salt marsh creek. (Is lignin such a suitable terrestrial marker
in a marine environment?). Oral communication at the 212th ACS National
Meeting, August 25-30, Orlando, USA.
Louchouarn, P., Lucotte M., Canuel R., Farella N., and Gagne J-P. (1995). Organic
diagenesis in anoxic fjord and suboxic estuarine sediments of the St. Lawrence
System: Canada. Oral communication at the 4th International Symposium on Model
Estuaries, March 21-24, 1995, Nantes, France.
Louchouarn, P. and Lucotte M. (1992). Biogeochimie du mercure dans des reservoirs
hydro-electriques du moyen-nord quebecois. Oral communication at the Reunion
annuelle de l'AQQUA, February 27-28, 1992, Ottawa, Canada.