Research in the Tzortziou Bio-Optics laboratory focuses on assessing impacts of anthropogenic pressures and environmental hazards on inland, coastal, and open ocean biogeochemical cycles, ecological processes, and ecosystem services across temporal and spatial scales. Specific environmental stressors addressed in ongoing projects include urban development, human population shifts, atmospheric pollution, eutrophication, global warming, sea level rise, permafrost thawing, and changing hydrological regimes. Research in the Tzortziou laboratory applies an interdisciplinary framework that integrates enhanced ground-based and satellite remote sensing bio-optical tools with new coupled atmospheric-hydrodynamic-photo-biogeochemical models. Partnering with relevant stakeholders, a key objective of our research is applying results to link science to practice and enhance decision support systems.     MORE

Published Journal Articles

Recent Publications

In Nature Communications: Terrestrial-Aquatic Interfaces Connecting coastal processes with global systems

Limnology and Oceanography: Dissolved organic carbon sorption dynamics in tidal marsh soils

Remote Sensing: Evaluation of Approaches for Mapping Tidal Wetlands of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays

Remote Sensing of Environment: Retrievals of dissolved organic carbon dynamics in North American estuaries and their margins

In Review of Geophysics: Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal System

In Marine Chemistry: A mechanistic model of photochemical transformation and degradation of colored dissolved organic matter

Team and Alumni

Tzortziou Bio-Optics Lab
CENTER FOR DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION
NEW YORK, NY, 10031