My scholarship activities unfold in two complementary directions. On the one hand, I try to assess the impacts that environmental perturbations have on biogeochemical cycling at ecosystem interfaces (coastal margins, lakes and flooded terrestrial zones, wetlands, urban atmospheres). On the other, I seek to address issues of scientific literacy in both a general social context as well as a specific one in the development of environmental curricula

MARS 450: Marine Instrumental Analysis

MARM: Multidisciplinary Ocean Studies

OCNG 251: Introduction to Oceanography

• Kuo, L-J, B.E. Herbert, and P. Louchouarn. (2008 – In Press). Can levoglucosan be used to characterize and quantify char/charcoal black carbon in environmental media? Organic Geochemistry.

• Kuo, L-J, P. Louchouarn, and B.E. Herbert. (2008 – In Press). Fate of CuO-derived lignin oxidation products during plant combustion: Application to the evaluation of charcoal inputs to soil organic matter. Organic Geochemistry.

• Sánchez-García, L., J. Ramón de-Andrés, A. Martín-Rubí, and P. Louchouarn. (2008 – In Review). 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.

• Louchouarn P., S. Chillrud, S. Houel, B. Yan, D. Chaky, C. Rumpel, C. Largeau, G. Bardoux, D. Walsh, and R.F. Bopp (2007). Elemental and isotopic 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.

• Hammes, K., M.W.I. Schmidt, L.A. Currie, W.P. Ball, T.H. Nguyen, P. Louchouarn, and co-authors. (2007). Comparison of black carbon quantification methods using reference materials from soil, water, sediment and the atmosphere, and implications for the global carbon cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. doi:10.1029/2006GB002914.

• Louchouarn, P., T. Naehr, J. Silliman, and S. Houel. (2006). Elemental, stable isotopic (δ13C), and molecular signatures of organic matter in late Pleistocene to Holocene sediments from the Peruvian margin (ODP Site 1229). In Jørgensen, B.B., D'Hondt, S.L., and Miller, D.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 201: 1-21.

• 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), 1497–1513.

• Benner, R., P. Louchouarn, and R. Amon. (2005). Terrigenous DOM in the Arctic Ocean and its transport to shallow and deep waters of the North Atlantic. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. Vol. 19.

• Ishikawa, T., A. Barnston, K.A. Kastens, P. Louchouarn, and C. Ropelewski. (2005). Testing the efficacy of climate forecast maps as a means of communicating with policy makers. Cartography & Geographic Information Science. Vol. 32(1), 3-16.

• Brandenberger J., P. Louchouarn, B.E. Herbert, and P. Tissot. (2004). Geochemical and hydrodynamic controls on arsenic and other trace metal cycling in a seasonally stratified US sub-tropical reservoir. Applied Geochemistry. Vol. 19, 1601-1623.