Publications
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Notation for publications below:
Italics indicate a person I mentored or supervised (e.g., as primary or associate advisor).
# indicates graduate student, ^ indicates postdoc, * indicates other researchers
Preprints
Methane and nitrous oxide concentrations and sea-air fluxes in western Long Island Sound, a seasonally hypoxic urban estuary: Hourly to seasonal variability
CCM Manning, A Payyambally#, JL Mottram*, and K Ward# (2025)
Preprint on EarthArXiv: https://doi.org/10.31223/X54T8Z
Figure description: Saturation anomalies of methane (top row), nitrous oxide (second row) and oxygen (third row), and potential density anomaly (bottom row) along an 18-km transect in western Long Island Sound. Measurements were collected in three months spanning the annual variability in dissolved oxygen.
Published
2025
Lateral and air-water inorganic carbon and methane fluxes in a small Arctic river: Seasonal variations and the connections with local hydrology
SF Jones, PJ Duke, CCM Manning, A Alexander, SF Gonski, and BGT Else (2025)
Science of the Total Environment, 1002
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.180556
Figure description: annual fluxes of dissolved inorganic carbon and methane in a small Arctic river.
2024
Dissolved Nitrogen Cycling in The Eastern Canadian Arctic Archipelago and Baffin Bay from Stable Isotopic Data
Holly C. Westbrook, Annie Bourbonnais, Cara C. M. Manning, Jean-Eric Tremblay, Mohamed Ahmed, Brent G. T. Else, and Julie Granger
Global Biogeochemical Cycles (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007926
HI Palevsky, S Clayton, H Benway, M Maheigan, D Atamanchuk, RBattisti, J Batryn, A Bourbonnais, EM Briggs, F Carvalho, AP Chase, R Eveleth, R Fatland, KE Fogaren, JP Fram, SE Hartman, I Le Bras, CCM Manning, JA Needoba, MB Neely, H Oliver, AC Reed, JE Rheuban, C Schallenberg, I Walsh, C Wingard, K Bauer, B Chen, J Cuevas, S Flecha, M Horwith, M Melendez, TMenz, S Rivero-Calle, NP Roden, T Steinhoff, PN Trucco-Pignata, MF Vardaro, and M Yoder
Frontiers in Marine Science (2024)
https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1358591 (open access)
2023
Hilary I. Palevsky, Sophie Clayton, Dariia Atamanchuk, Roman Battisti, Jennifer Batryn, Annie Bourbonnais, Ellen M. Briggs, Filipa Carvalho, Alison P. Chase, Rachel Eveleth, Rob Fatland, Kristen E. Fogaren, Jonathan Peter Fram, Susan E. Hartman, Isabela Le Bras, Cara C. M. Manning, Joseph A. Needoba, Merrie Beth Neely, Hilde Oliver, Andrew C. Reed, Jennie E. Rheuban, Christina Schallenberg, Michael F. Vardaro, Ian Walsh, Christopher Wingard (2023)
https://doi.org/10.25607/OBP-1865.2
Pyisotopomer: A Python package for obtaining intramolecular isotope ratio differences from mass spectrometric analysis of nitrous oxide isotopocules
Colette L. Kelly, Cara Manning, Claudia Frey, Jan Kaiser, Noah Gluschankoff, and Karen L. Casciotti (2023)
Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.9513
Software: https://pypi.org/project/pyisotopomer/
2022
Interannual variability in methane and nitrous oxide concentrations and sea-air fluxes across the North American Arctic Ocean (2015–2019)
CCM Manning, Z Zheng, L Fenwick, RD McCulloch, E Damm, RW Izett, WJ Williams, S Zimmermann, S Vagle, and PD Tortell (2022)
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, e2021GB007185
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GB007185
Open access version (author’s accepted manuscript on EarthArXiv)
2021
Technical note: Effects of iron(II) on fluorescence properties of dissolved organic matter at circumneutral pH
K Jia, CCM Manning, A Jollymore, and RD Beckie (2021)
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25, 4983–4993
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-4983-2021 (open access)
ΔO2/N2′ as a new tracer of marine net community production: Application and evaluation in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific and Canadian Arctic Ocean
RW Izett, RC Hamme, C McNeil, CCM Manning, A Bourbonnais, and PD Tortell
Frontiers in Marine Sciences, 8:718625
https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.718625 (open access)
Rapid advances in mobile mass spectrometry advance tracer hydrology and water resource management
AL Popp*, CCM Manning, and JLA Knapp (2021)
*All authors contributed equally
Water Resources Research, 57(6), e2021WR029890
https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029890 (open access)
First estimation of the diffusive methane flux and concentrations from Lake Winnipeg, a large, shallow and eutrophic lake
R Mandryk, DW Capelle, CCM Manning, P Tortell, RD McCulloch, and T Papakyriakou (2021)
Journal of Great Lakes Research, 47(3), 741-750
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jglr.2021.03.011
Open access version
Characterization of marine microbial communities around an Arctic seabed hydrocarbon seep at Scott Inlet, Baffin Bay
MA Cramm, B de Moura Neves, CCM Manning, TBP Oldenburg, P Archambault, A Chakraborty, A Cyr-Parent, EN Edinger, A Jaggi, A Mort, PD Tortell, and CRJ Hubert (2021)
Science of the Total Environment, 762, 143961
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143961 (open access)
2020
Ideas and perspectives: A strategic assessment of methane and nitrous oxide measurements in the marine environment
ST Wilson, AN Al-Haj, A Bourbonnais, C Frey, RW Fulweiler, JD Kessler, HK Marchant, J Milucka, NE Ray, P Suntharalingham, BF Thornton, RC Upstill-Goddard, TS Weber, DL Arévalo-Martínez, HW Bange, HM Benway, D Bianchi, AV Borges, BX Chang, PM Crill, DA del Valle, L Farías, SB Joye, A Kock, J Labidi, CC Manning, JW Pohlman, G Rehder, KJ Sparrow, PD Tortell, T Treude, David L. Valentine, BB Ward, S Yang, and LN Yurganov (2020)
Biogeosciences, 17, 5809-5828
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5809-2020 (open access)
Dissolved oxygen and triple oxygen isotope measurements provide different insights into gross oxygen production in a shallow salt marsh pond
EM Howard, AC Spivak, JS Karolewski, KM Gosselin, ZO Sandwith, CC Manning, RHR Stanley (2020)
Estuaries and Coasts, 43, 1908-1922
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00757-6
Open access version
River inflow dominates methane emissions in an Arctic coastal system
CC Manning, VL Preston, SF Jones, APM Michel, DP Nicholson, PJ Duke, M Ahmed, K Manganini, BGT Else, and PD Tortell (2020)
Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087669
https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087669
Open access version
US OCB Science highlight: https://www.us-ocb.org/arctic-rivers-as-carbon-highways/
Dataset: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.907159
A new in situ method for tracing denitrification in riparian groundwater
AL Popp, CC Manning, MS Brennwald, R Kipfer (2020)
Environmental Science & Technology 54(3), 1562-1572
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.9b05393
Open access version
2019
Changes in gross oxygen production, net oxygen production, and air-water gas exchange during seasonal ice melt in Whyococmagh Bay, a Canadian estuary in the Bras d’Or Lake system
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, DP Nicholson, B Loose, A Lovely, P Schlosser, and BG Hatcher (2019)
Biogeosciences, 17, 3351-3376
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-3351-2019 (open access)
Advancing knowledge of gas migration and fugitive gas from energy wells in northeast British Columbia, Canada
AG Cahill, R Beckie, B Ladd, E Sandl, M Goetz, J Chao, J Soares, C Manning, C Chopra, N Finke, I Hawthorne, A Black, K U Mayer, S Crowe, T Cary, R Lauer, B Mayer, A Allen, D Kirste, L Welch (2019)
Greenhouse Gases: Science and Technology, 9, 134-151
https://doi.org/10.1002/ghg.1856 (open access)
2018
An intercomparison of oceanic methane and nitrous oxide measurements
ST Wilson, HW Bange, DL Arevalo-Martinez, J Barnes, AV Borges, I Brown, JL Bullister, M Burgos, DW Capelle, M Casso, M de la Paz, L Farias, L Fenwick, S Ferron, G Garcia, M Glockzin, DM Karl, A Kock, S Laperriere, CS Law, CC Manning, A Marriner, J-P Myllykangas, JW Pohlman, AP Rees, AE Santoro, M Torres, PD Tortell, RC Upwstill-Goddard, DP Wisegarver, GL Zhang, G Rehder (2018)
Biogeosciences, 15, 5891-5907
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5891-2018 (open access)
Refined estimates of net community production in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific derived from ΔO2/Ar measurements with N2O-based corrections for vertical mixing
RW Izett, CC Manning, RC Hamme, and PD Tortell (2018)
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 326–350
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005792 (open access)
2017
Revising estimates of aquatic gross oxygen production by the triple oxygen isotope method to incorporate the local isotopic composition of water
CC Manning, EM Howard, DP Nicholson, B Ji, ZO Sandwith, and RHR Stanley (2017)
Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 10,511–10,519
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074375 (open access)
Software: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.376786
Impact of recently upwelled water on productivity investigated using in situ and incubation-based methods
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, DP Nicholson, JM Smith, JT Pennington, MR Fewings, ME Squibb, and FP Chavez (2017)
Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122
https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012306 (open access)
2016
Quantifying air-sea gas exchange using noble gases in a coastal upwelling zone
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, DP Nicholson, and ME Squibb (2016)
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 35, 012017, 13 pages
Paper: http://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074375 (open access)
Software: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.594531
Continuous measurements of dissolved Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe with a field-deployable gas equilibration mass spectrometer
CC Manning, RHR Stanley, and DE Lott (2016)
Analytical Chemistry. 88, 3040–3048
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.5b03102
Open access version
2013
Nitrate elimination and regeneration as evidenced by dissolved inorganic nitrogen isotopes in Saanich Inlet, a seasonally anoxic fjord
A Bourbonnais, MF Lehmann, RC Hamme, CC Manning, and SK Juniper (2013)
Marine Chemistry 157, 194-207
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2013.09.006
Open access version
2011
Powerful insight into catalytic mechanisms through simultaneous monitoring of reactant, products and intermediates
KL Vikse, Z Ahmadi, CC Manning, DA Harrington, and JS McIndoe (2011)
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50(36), 8304-8306
http://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201102630
Open access version
2010
Impact of deep-water renewal events on fixed nitrogen loss from seasonally-anoxic Saanich Inlet
CC Manning, RC Hamme, and A Bourbonnais (2010)
Marine Chemistry 122(1-4), 1-10
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2010.08.002
Open access version
Peer-reviewed technical reports
Assessment of fugitive natural gas on near-surface groundwater quality
B Ladd, CJC Van De Ven, J Chao, J Soares, T Cary, N Finke, C Manning, AL Popp, C Chopra, AG Cahill, KU Mayer, A Black, R Lauer, C van Geloven, L Welch, S Crowe, B Mayer, RD Beckie (2021)
Geoscience BC Project 2016-043 Final Report, Geoscience BC Report 2021-10, p. 1-20
Open access report
Controlled natural gas release experiment in a confined aquifer, northeastern British Columbia (NTS 094A/04): Activity report 2019-2020
CJC Van De Ven, AG Cahill, B Ladd, J Chao, J Soares, T Cary, N Finke, C Manning, AL Popp, C Chopra, KU Mayer, A Black, R Lauer, C van Geloven, L Welch, S Crowe, B Mayer, RD Beckie (2021)
Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2020: Energy and Water, Geoscience BC, Report 2021-02, p. 135-144
Open access report
Controlled natural gas release experiment in a confined aquifer, northeastern British Columbia: activity report 2018-2019
AG Cahill, B Ladd, J Chao, J Soares, T Cary, N Finke, C Manning, AL Popp, C Chopra, KU Mayer, A Black, R Lauer, C van Geloven, L Welch, S Crowe, B Mayer and RD Beckie (2020)
Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2019: Energy and Water, Geoscience BC, Report 2020-02, p. 145-160
Open access report
Implementation and operation of a multidisciplinary field investigation involving a subsurface controlled natural gas release, northeastern British Columbia
AG Cahill, B Ladd, J Chao, J Soares, T Cary, N Finke, C Manning, C Chopra I Hawthorne, ON Forde, KU Mayer, A Black, S Crowe, B Mayer, R Lauer, C van Geloven, C., L Welch, and RD Beckie (2019)
Geoscience BC Summary of Activities 2018: Energy and Water, Geoscience BC, Report 2019-2, p. 95–104
Open access report