Professor Maria Tzortziou

Adjunct Senior Research Scientist, Biology and Paleo Environment, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO), Columbia Climate School

Deputy Program Applications Lead, PACE Satellite Mission, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,

Professor of Environmental Sciences, Center for Discovery and Innovation

1 Geoscience
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
61 Route 9W
Palisades, NY 10964
USA

BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Tzortziou's research integrates multidisciplinary datasets, satellite observations, and ecosystem models to provide mechanistic insights into the impacts of human and environmental pressures on biogeochemical cycles and ecological processes along the continuum of terrestrial, wetland, estuarine, and open ocean ecosystems. A key objective of her research is applying results to link science to practice and enhance decision support systems. Dr. Tzortziou has led numerous field campaigns across a range of environments, from the tropics to the Arctic, and has received two NASA Group Achievement Awards (2016, 2019) as Science Team member of the DISCOVER-AQ and OWLETS missions.

Dr. Tzortziou is on the Science Steering Committee for the Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Program, the Science Leadership Board of the North American Carbon Program, and member of the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS). She is on the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing and Associate Editor for Biogeosciences. Dr. Tzortziou serves as the Deputy Program Applications Lead for PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem), a strategic NASA satellite mission that will extend key ocean color, aerosol, and cloud data records for Earth system and climate studies. She is the Applied Science Lead and Science Team member for NASA's recently selected Earth Venture Instrument-5 Investigation GLIMR (Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer), a new instrument competitively selected by NASA to provide unique observations of ocean biology, chemistry, and ecology that are critically needed to improve coastal resource management, enhance decision making, and enable rapid response to natural and man-made coastal hazards.

PUBLICATIONS

*Shelton S., P. Neale, *A. Pinsonneault, M. Tzortziou (2021) Biodegradation and Photodegradation of Vegetation-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter in Tidal Marsh Ecosystems. Estuaries and Coasts https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-021-00982-7

*Lamb, B.T.; Tzortziou, M.A.; McDonald, K.C. (2021) A Fused Radar–Optical Approach for Mapping Wetlands and Deepwaters of the Mid–Atlantic and Gulf Coast Regions of the United States. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2495. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132495

*Grunert B.K, M. Tzortziou, P. Neale, A. Menendez, P. Hernes (2021) DOM degradation by light and microbes along the Yukon River-coastal ocean continuum. Nature Scientific Reports 11, 10236 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89327-9

El Serafy, G.Y.H.; Schaeffer, B.A.; Neely, M.-B.; Spinosa, A.; Odermatt, D.; Weathers, K.C.; Baracchini, T.; Bouffard, D.; Carvalho, L.; Conmy, R.N.; Keukelaere, L.D.; Hunter, P.D.; Jamet, C.; Joehnk, K.D.; Johnston, J.M.; Knudby, A.; Minaudo, C.; Pahlevan, N.; Reusen, I.; Rose, K.C.; Schalles, J.; Tzortziou, M. (2021) Integrating Inland and Coastal Water Quality Data for Actionable Knowledge. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 2899. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13152899 

*Logozzo L., M. Tzortziou, P. Neale, *B. Clark (2021). Photochemical and microbial degradation of colored dissolved organic matter exported from tidal marshes, JGR Biogeosciences DOI: 10.1029/2020JG005744 LINK

*Cao F. and M. Tzortziou (2021) Capturing dissolved organic carbon dynamics with Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 in tidally influenced wetland–estuarine systems. Science of the Total Environment, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145910

Kerry Cawse-Nicholson, Philip Townsend, … Tzortziou et al (2021), NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 257, 112349, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2021.112349.

Jordan, C. E., Stauffer, R. M., *Lamb, B. T., Hudgins, C. H., Thornhill, K. L., Schuster, G. L., Moore, R. H., Crosbie, E. C., Winstead, E. L., Anderson, B. E., Martin, R. F., Shook, M. A., Ziemba, L. D., Beyersdorf, A. J., Robinson, C. E., Corr, C. A., and Tzortziou, M. A. (2021) New in situ aerosol hyperspectral optical measurements over 300–700 nm – Part 1: Spectral Aerosol Extinction (SpEx) instrument field validation during the KORUS-OC cruise, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 695–713, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-695-2021.

Jordan, C. E., Stauffer, R. M., *Lamb, B. T., Novak, M., Mannino, A., Crosbie, E. C., Schuster, G. L., Moore, R. H., Hudgins, C. H., Thornhill, K. L., Winstead, E. L., Anderson, B. E., Martin, R. F., Shook, M. A., Ziemba, L. D., Beyersdorf, A. J., Robinson, C. E., Corr, C. A., and Tzortziou, M. A. (2021) New in situ aerosol hyperspectral optical measurements over 300–700 nm – Part 2: Extinction, total absorption, water- and methanol-soluble absorption observed during the KORUS-OC cruise, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 715–736, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-715-2021.

*Pinsonneault, A.J., Neale, P.J., Tzortziou, M., Canuel, E.A., Pondell, *C.R., Morrissette, H., Lefcheck, J.S. and Megonigal, J.P. (2020), Dissolved organic carbon sorption dynamics in tidal marsh soils. Limnol Oceanogr. doi:10.1002/lno.11598 LINK

Ward, N.D., Megonigal, J.P., Bond-Lamberty, B. … Tzortziou M, et al. Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models (2020). Nature Communications 11, 2458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16236-2 LINK

Robinson J., A. Kotsakis, F. Santos, R. Swap, K. E. Knowland, G. Labow, V. Connors, M. Tzortziou, N. Abuhassan, M. Tiefengraber, and A. Cede (2020). "Using networked Pandora observations to capture spatiotemporal changes in total column ozone associated with stratosphere-to-troposphere transport". https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104872 LINK

*Lamb B., Tzortziou M., McDonald K., (2019). Evaluation of Approaches for Mapping Tidal Wetlands of the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Remote Sensing 11(20):2366; Special Issue on "Satellite-Based Wetland Observation"; DOI: 10.3390/rs11202366 LINK

Loughner C.P., M. B. Follette-Cook, B. N. Duncan, J. Hains, K.  E. Pickering, J. Moy, M. Tzortziou (2019). "The benefits of lower ozone due to air pollution emissions reductions (2002-2011) in the Eastern U.S. during extreme heat", Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2019.1694089 LINK

Schollaert Uz S., G. Kim, A. Mannino, J. Werdell, M. Tzortziou (2019). "Developing a community of practice for applied uses of future PACE data to address food security challenges” Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science, 7, 283p. doi: 10.3389/feart.2019.00283 LINK

Thompson A.M., R. M. Stauffer, T. P. Boyle, D. E. Kollonige, K. Miyazaki, M. Tzortziou, J. R. Herman, C. N. Jordan, *B. T. Lamb, B. N. Duncan (2019). Comparison of Near-surface NO2 Pollution with Pandora Total Column NO2 during the Korea-United States Ocean Color (KORUS OC) Campaign. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. http://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD030765 LINK

Duncan B.N., (in alphabetical order) J. B. Abshire, L. Brucker, J. Carton, J. C. Comiso, E. P. Dinnat, B. C. Forbes, A. Gonsamo, W. W. Gregg, D. K. Hall, I. Ialongo, R. Jandt, M. F. Jasinski, R. A. Kahn, A. Karpechko, S. R. Kawa, T. Kumpula, E. Kyrölä, T. V. Loboda, K. C. McDonald, P. M. Montesano, R. Nassar, C. S. R. Neigh, L. E. Ott , C. L. Parkinson, B. Poulter, J.Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, B. M. Rogers, C. S. Rousseaux, A. J. Soja, N. Steiner, J. Tamminen, M. A. Tzortziou, J. S. Wang, J. D. Watts, D. M. Winker, D. L. Wu (2019). "Space-Based Observations for Understanding Changes in the Arctic-Boreal System: The Foundation for Coordinated Scientific Research and Informed Decision-Making", Reviews of Geophysics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000652 LINK

Herman J., A. Cede, N. Abuhassan, J. Kim, M. Dubey, M. Raponi, M. Tzortziou (2019). Underestimation of Column NO2 Amounts from the OMI Satellite Compared to Diurnally Varying Ground-Based Retrievals from Multiple Pandora Spectrometer Instruments. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2019-123 LINK

*Clark J.B., P. Neale, M. Tzortziou, *F. Cao , R. R. Hood (2019). A mechanistic model of photochemical transformation and degradation of colored dissolved organic matter. Marine Chemistry Journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2019.103666. LINK

*Pitta E., Z. Christina, M. Tzortziou, Rijkenberg M.J.A, (2019). Transformations of dissolved organic matter in the Marmara Sea traced by its optical signature. Journal of Marine Systems, Volume 189, Pages 1-11, ISSN 0924-7963, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.09.001. LINK

Tzortziou M., *O. Parker, *B. Lamb, J. R. Herman, L. Lamsal, R. Stauffer and N. Abuhassan, (2018) Atmospheric Trace Gas (NO2 and O3) Variability in South Korean Coastal Waters, and Implications for Remote Sensing of Coastal Ocean Color Dynamics. Remote Sens. 2018, 10(10), 1587;  https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101587. LINK

Sullivan J.T, T. Berkoff, G. Gronoff, T. Knepp, M. Pippin, D. Allen, L. Twigg, R. Swap, M. Tzortziou, A. Thompson, R. Stauffer, G. Wolfe, J. Flynn, S. Pusede, L. Judd, W. Moore, J. Al-saadi, T. McGee (2018).  Accepted. The Ozone Water-Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS): An Innovative Strategy for Understanding Chesapeake Bay Pollution Events. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. BAMS-D-18-0025. LINK

Omar A., M. Tzortziou, O. Coddington, and L. Remer (2018). Plankton Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission Atmosphere Measurements for Air Quality Applications. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. Paper Number: JARS 180460SS. LINK

*Rose, K. C., Neale, P. J., Tzortziou, M. , Gallegos, C. L. and Jordan, T. E. (2018), Patterns of spectral, spatial, and long‐term variability in light attenuation in an optically complex sub‐estuary. Limnol Oceanogr. . doi:10.1002/lno.11005. LINK

Werdell P.J., L. I.W. McKinna, E. Boss, S. G. Ackleson, S. E. Craig, W. W. Gregg, Z. Lee, S. Maritorena, C. S. Roesler, C. S. Rousseaux, D. Stramski, J. M. Sullivan, M. S. Twardowski, M. Tzortziou, X. Zhang (2018). An overview of approaches and challenges for retrieving marine inherent optical properties from ocean color remote sensing, Progress in Oceanography, Volume 160, Pages 186-212, ISSN 0079-6611, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2018.01.001. LINK

Najjar R., M. Herrmann, R. Alexander, E. W. Boyer, D. Burdige, D. Butman, W.-J. Cai, E. A. Canuel, R. F. Chen, M. A. M. Friedrichs, R. A. Feagin, P. Griffith, A. L. Hinson, J. R. Holmquist, X. Hu, W. M. Kemp, K. D. Kroeger, A. Mannino, S. L. McCallister, W. R. McGillis, M. R. Mulholland, C. Pilskaln, J. Salisbury, S. Signorini, P. St-Laurent, H. Tian, M. Tzortziou, P. Vlahos, Z. A. Wang, and R. C. Zimmerman (2018). Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of eastern North America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 32, 389–416. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GB005790. LINK

Muller‐Karger, F. E., Hestir, E. , Ade, C. , Turpie, K. , Roberts, D. A., Siegel, D. , Miller, R. J., Humm, D. , Izenberg, N. , Keller, M. , Morgan, F. , Frouin, R. , Dekker, A. G., Gardner, R. , Goodman, J. , Schaeffer, B. , Franz, B. A., Pahlevan, N. , Mannino, A. G., Concha, J. A., Ackleson, S. G., Cavanaugh, K. C., Romanou, A. , Tzortziou, M. , Boss, E. S., Pavlick, R. , Freeman, A. , Rousseaux, C. S., Dunne, J. , Long, M. C., Klein, E. , McKinley, G. A., Goes, J. , Letelier, R. , Kavanaugh, M. , Roffer, M. , Bracher, A. , Arrigo, K. R., Dierssen, H. , Zhang, X. , Davis, F. W., Best, B. , Guralnick, R. , Moisan, J. , Sosik, H. M., Kudela, R. , Mouw, C. B., Barnard, A. H., Palacios, S. , Roesler, C. , Drakou, E. G., Appeltans, W. and Jetz, W. (2018), Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems. Ecol Appl. . doi:10.1002/eap.1682. LINK

Kollonige, D. E., Thompson, A. M., Josipovic, M., Tzortziou, M., Beukes, J. P., Burger, R., D. K. Martins, P. G. van Zyl, V. Vakkari, and L. Laakso. (2018). OMI satellite and ground‐based Pandora observations and their application to surface NO2 estimations at terrestrial and marine sites. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 123, 1441–1459. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026518. LINK

*Cao F., Tzortziou M, Hu C., Mannino A., Fichot C., R. Del Vecchio, Najjar R., Novak M. (2018). Remote Sensing retrievals of colored dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic carbon in North American eutrophic estuaries and their margins: implications on studies of carbon dynamics. Remote Sensing of the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.014, LIN​K

Tzortziou M, Litvak M, Srestha G, "Coordinating and Communicating Carbon Cycle research" Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO080201. Published on 07 September 2017.

*Clark B., W. Long, M. Tzortziou, P. J. Neale, R. R. Hood, 2017. Wind Driven Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in a Chesapeake Bay Tidal Marsh-Estuary System. 2018. Estuaries and Coasts. 41: 708. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-017-0295-1. LINK

Nelson N. G., R. Muñoz-Carpena, P. J. Neale, M. Tzortziou, J. P. Megonigal, 2017. Temporal variability in the importance of hydrologic, biotic, and climatic descriptors of dissolved oxygen dynamics in a shallow tidal-marsh creek, Water Resources Research. LINK

*Loughner C. P., M. Tzortziou, *S. Shroder, and K. E. Pickering, 2016. Enhanced dry deposition of nitrogen pollution near coastlines: A case study covering the Chesapeake Bay estuary and Atlantic Ocean coastline. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 14,221–14,238, doi:10.1002/2016JD025571. LINK

Salisbury J., (co-authors in alphabetical order) C. Davis, C. Hu, C. Gatebe, C. Jordan, Z. Lee, A. Mannino, C. Mouw, C. Schaaf, B. A. Schaeffer, M. Tzortziou. 2016. In Print. Coastal observations from a New Vantage Point: The NASA GEO-CAPE ocean mission. EOS Transactions Journal. LINK

Martins D., R. Najjar, M.Tzortziou, N. Abuhassan, Anne Thompson. 2016. Spatial and Temporal variability of Ground and Satellite Column Measurements of NO2 and O3 Over the Atlantic Ocean During the Deposition of Atmospheric Nitrogen to Coastal Ecosystems Experiment. Journal of Geophysical Research- Atmospheres. LINK

*Pitta E., Z. Christina, M. Tzortziou, G. Mousdis, M. Scoullos. 2016. Seasonal variations in dissolved organic matter composition using absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopy in the Dardanelles Straits - North Aegean Sea mixing zone. Continental Self Research, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2016.07.013. LINK

Wei J., Z. Lee, M. Ondrusek, A. Mannino, and M. Tzortziou. 2016. Spectral slopes of the absorption coefficient of colored dissolved and detrital material inverted from UV-visible remote sensing reflectance. Journal of Geophysical Research- Oceans. LINK

Tzortziou M., Zeri C., E. Dimitriou, Y. Ding, R. Jaffé, E. Anagnostou, *E. Pitta, A. Mentzafou, 2015. Colored dissolved organic matter dynamics and anthropogenic influences in a major transboundary river and its coastal wetland. Limnology and Oceanography. doi/10.1002/lno.10092. PDF

Tzortziou M., J. R Herman, Z. Ahmad, *C.P. Loughner, N. Abuhassan, A. Cede, 2014, Atmospheric NO2 Dynamics and Impact on Ocean Color Retrievals in Urban Nearshore Regions, Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans. DOI: 10.1002/2014JC009803. PDF

*Pitta E., Zeri C., M. Tzortziou, E. Dimitriou, V. Paraskevopoulou, E. Dassenakis, M. Scoullos, E. Anagnostou, 2014. Dissolved organic matter cycling in E. Mediterranean rivers experiencing multiple pressures. The case of the transboundary Evros River, Mediterranean Marine Science, 15(2), DOI: 10.12681/mms.565. PDF

*Loughner, C., M. Tzortziou, M. Follette-Cook, K. Pickering, D. Goldberg, C. Satam, A. Weinheimer, J. Crawford, D. Knapp, D. Montzka, G. Diskin, and R.R. Dickerson. 2014. Impact of bay breeze circulations on surface air quality and boundary layer export, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 53, 1697-1713, doi:10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0323.1. LINK

*Goldberg DL,* CP Loughner, M Tzortziou, JW. Stehr, KE Pickering, L Tambaoga Marufu, and R Dickerson, 2014, Higher surface ozone concentrations over the Chesapeake Bay than over the adjacent land: Observations and models from the DISCOVER-AQ and CBODAQ campaigns, Atmospheric Environment 84, 9-19. LINK

*He H., *CP Loughner, JW Stehr, HL Arkinson, L Brent, M Follette-Cook, M Tzortziou, KE Pickering, A Thompson, DK Martins, GS Diskin, BE Anderson, JH Crawford, AJ Weinheimer, P Lee, JC Hains, and R Dickerson, 2014, An elevated reservoir of air pollutants observed over the Mid-Atlantic States during the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ campaign: a case study from airborne measurements and numerical simulations, Atmospheric Environment 85, 18-30. LINK

Zeri C., Besiktepe S., Giannakourou A., Krasakopoulou E., Tzortziou M., *Tsoliakos D., Pavlidou A., Mousdis G., *Pitta, E., Scoullos M., Papathanassiou E., 2013, "Chemical properties and fluorescence of DOM in relation to biodegradation in the interconnected Marmara-North Aegean Seas", Journal of Marine Systems. Available Online at ScienceDirect: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2013.11.019

Tzortziou M., J. R Herman, *C. P Loughner, A.Cede, N. Abuhassan, *S. Naik, 2013, "Spatial and temporal variability of ozone and nitrogen dioxide over a major urban estuarine ecosystem", Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ, DOI: 10.1007/s10874-013-9255-8. Available Online at SpringerLink: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10874-013-9255-8

*Reed A., A. M. Thompson, D. E. Kollonige, D. K. Martins, M. Tzortziou, J. R. Herman, T. A. Berkoff, N. K. Abuhassan, A. Cede, 2013, "Effects of Local Meteorology and Aerosols on Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide Retrievals from OMI and Pandora Spectrometers in Maryland, USA during DISCOVER-AQ 2011", Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, Special Issue PINESAP, DISCOVER-AQ, DOI: 10.1007/s10874-013-9254-9. Available online at SpringerLink: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10874-013-9254-9

Tzortziou M., Herman J.R., Cede A., Abuhassan N., 2012, “High precision, absolute total column ozone measurements from the Pandora spectrometer system: Comparisons with data from a Brewer double monochromator and Aura OMI”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 117, D16303, DOI:10.1029/2012JD017814

Fishman J, LT Iraci, (co-authors in alphabetical order), J Al-Saadi, P Bontempi, K Chance, F Chavez, M Chin, P Coble, C Davis, P DiGiacomo, D Edwards, A Eldering, J Goes, J Herman, C Hu, D Jacob, C Jordan, S R Kawa, R Key, X Liu, S Lohrenz, A Mannino, V Natraj, D Neil, J Neu, M Newchurch, K Pickering, J Salisbury, H Sosik, A Subramaniam, M Tzortziou, J Wang, M Wang, 2012,  “The United States' Next Generation of Atmospheric Composition and Coastal Ecosystem Measurements: NASA's Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events (GEO APE) Mission”, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00201.1 (Article appeared on the Journal's front cover page).

*Stauffer R, Thompson A, Martins D.K., Clark R.D., *Loughner C.P., Delgado R., Berkoff T.A., Gluth E.C., Dickerson R.R., Stehr J.W., Tzortziou M., Weinheimer A.J., 2012, "Bay Breeze Influence on Surface Ozone at Edgewood, MD, during July 2011", Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10874-012-9241-6

Dimitriou E., *Mentzafou A., *Markogianni V, Tzortziou M., and Zeri C., 2012, "Geospatial Investigation into Groundwater Pollution and Water Quality Supported by Satellite Data: A Case Study from the Evros River (Eastern Mediterranean)", Pure Applied Geophysics, DOI: 10.1007/s00024-012-0621-2.

Dimitriou E., *Mentzafou A., Zogaris S., Tzortziou M., Gritzalis K., Karaouzas I. and Nikolaidis Ch., 2012, “Assessing the environmental status and identifying the dominant pressures of a trans-boundary river catchment, to facilitate efficient management and mitigation practices”, Environmental Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1409-x

Tzortziou M., P. J. Neale, J. P. Megonigal, *C. Lee Pow, and *M. Butterworth, 2011, “Spatial gradients in dissolved carbon due to tidal marsh outwelling into a Chesapeake Bay estuary”, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 426, 41-56, DOI: 10.3354/meps09017.

Brown M.E., H. Ouyang, S. Habib, B. Shrestha, M. Shrestha, P. Panday, M. Tzortziou, F. Pollicelli, G. Artan, A. Giriraj, S. Bajracharya, A. Racovinteanu, 2010, “HIMALA: Climate Impacts on Glaciers, Snow and Hydrology in the Himalayan Region”, Mountain Research and Development-MountainNotes. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-10-00071.1

Herman J., A. Cede, *E. Spinei, G. Mount, M. Tzortziou, N. Abuhassan, 2009, “NO2 Column Amounts from Ground-based Pandora and MFDOAS Spectrometers using the Direct-Sun DOAS Technique: Inter-comparisons and Application to OMI Validation”, Journal of Geophysical Research, 114, DOI:10.1029/2009JD011848, 2009.

Tzortziou M., N.A. Krotkov, A.Cede, J. R. Herman, A. Vassilkov. 2008, “A new technique for retrieval of tropospheric and stratospheric ozone profiles using sky radiance measurements at multiple view angles - Application to a Brewer spectrometer.” Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 113, D06304, DOI:10.1029/2007JD009093.

Tzortziou M., P. Neale , C. Osburn, P. Megonigal, N. Maie, R. Jaffé, 2008. “Tidal marshes as a source of optically and chemically distinctive CDOM in the Chesapeake Bay”. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(1): 148-159. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.1.0148

Economou G., E.D. Christou, A. Giannakourou, E. Gerasopoulos, D. Georgopoulos, V. Kotoulas, D. Lyra, N. Tsakalis, M. Tzortziou, P. Vahamidis, E. Papathanassiou, A. Karamanos. 2008, “Eclipse effects on field crops and marine zooplankton: the 29 March 2006 Total Solar Eclipse” Atmospheric Chemistry Physics, 8(16): 4665-4676. DOI:10.5194/acp-8-4665-2008

Tzortziou M., C. Osburn, and P.Neale, 2007. “Photobleaching of dissolved organic material from a tidal marsh-estuarine system of the Chesapeake Bay”, Photochemistry and Photobiology, 83: 782-792. DOI: 10.1111 ⁄ j.1751-1097.2007.00142.x (Article appeared on the Journal's front cover page).

Tzortziou M., A. Subramaniam, J. Herman, C. Gallegos, P.Neale, L. Harding, 2007. “Remote sensing reflectance and inherent optical properties in the Mid Chesapeake Bay”. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 72(1): 16-32. DOI:10.1016/j.ecss.2006.09.018

Ahmad Z, C.R. McClain, J.R. Herman, B. Franz, E. Kwiatkowska, W. Robinson, E.J. Bucsela, M. Tzortziou, 2007. “Atmospheric correction for NO2 absorption in retrieving water-leaving reflectances from the SeaWiFS and MODIS measurements”. Applied Optics, 46(26): DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.006504 (Article appeared on the Journal's front cover page).

Tzortziou M., J.Herman, C.Gallegos, P.Neale, A.Subramaniam, L.Harding, Z.Ahmad, 2006.“Bio-optics of the Chesapeake Bay from measurements and radiative transfer closure”. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 68(2): 348-362. DOI:10.1016/j.ecss.2006.02.016

Zerefos C, Syrakov D, Ganev K, Vasaras A, Kourtidis K, Tzortziou M, Prodanova M, Dimitrova R, Georgieva E, Yordanov D, and Miloshev N, 2004. “Study of the pollution exchange between Bulgaria and northern Greece”. International Journal of Environment and pollution, 22 (1-2): 163-185. DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2004.005507

Ahmad Z., Herman J.R., Vasilkov A., Tzortziou M., Mitchell G., Kahru M., “Seasonal variation of UV radiation in the ocean under clear and cloudy conditions”, SPIE Vol. 5156, p. 63-73, Ultraviolet Ground- and Space-based Measurements, Models, and Effects III; James R. Slusser, Jay R. Herman, Wei Gao; Eds., 2003 DOI: 10.1117/12.505298

Formenti P., O.Boucher, T. Reiner, D. Sprung, M. Andreae, M. Wendisch, H. Wex, D. Kindred, M.Tzortziou, A. Vasaras, C. Zerefos, 2002. “The STAAARTE-MED 1998 airborne measurements over the Aegean Sea:II. Aerosol scattering and absorption, and radiative calculations”, ” Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 107, No D21. DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001337.

Formenti, P., T. Reiner, D. Sprung, M. O. Andreae, M. Wendisch, H. Wex, D. Kindred, K. Dewey, J. Kent, M. Tzortziou, A. Vasaras, C. Zerefos, 2002. “The STAAARTE-MED 1998 summer airborne measurements over the Aegean Sea: I. Aerosol particles and trace gases”. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 107, No D21. DOI: 10.1029/2001JD001337.

Zerefos C., K. Ganev, K. Kourtidis, M. Tzortziou, A. Vasaras, E. Syrakov, 2000. “On the origin of SO2 above Northern Greece”, Geophysical Research Letters, 27(3): 365-368.  DOI: 10.1029/1999GL010799

Zerefos C., D. Balis, M. Tzortziou, A. Bais, K. Tourpali C. Meleti, G. Bernhard and J. Herman, 2001. "A note on the interannual variations of UV-B erythemal doses and solar irradiance from ground-based and satellite observations", Annales Geophysicae, 19: 115-120. DOI:10.5194/angeo-19-115-2001

Published Book Chapters and Other Publications

Tzortziou M., C. L. Gallegos, P. J. Neale, A. Subramaniam,.J. R. Herman and L. W. Harding, 2009, “Bio-Optical Characteristics and Remote Sensing in the Mid Chesapeake Bay Through Integration of Observations and Radiative Transfer Closure”, Chapter 7 (p. 139-168) in Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies for Coastal Ecosystem Assessment and Management, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (ed. X. Yang), DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-88183-4 7, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

Najjar, R.G., Friedrichs, M.A.M., Cai, W.-J. (Editors) (Contributors and co-Authors to the Report included M. Tzortziou), 2012. "Report of The U.S. East Coast Carbon Cycle Synthesis Workshop", January 19-20, 2012, Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Program and North American Carbon Program, 34 pp. http://coastalcarbon.pbworks.com/w/page/15143273/FrontPage.

Jasinski D., Hood, R., Tzortziou M., 2012, "Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2012 - Interfacing Between Modeling, Management, and the Public: TMDLs, Politics, Litigation, and Conflicting Stakeholder Interests", in The Earth Observer Volume 24, Issue 5, published by the NASA EOS Project Science Office.

PACE Mission Science Definition Team, 2012 (Co-authors included M. Tzortziou who contributed section on PACE Mission Applications), "A Report of the Pre-Aerosol, Clouds, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE) Mission", 271 pp. http://dsm.gsfc.nasa.gov/pace_documentation/PACE_SDT_Report_V8_9-04-2012-2.pdf

Zerefos C., D. Syrakov, K. Ganev, A.Vasaras, K.Kourtidis, M. Tzortziou, M. Prodanova, R. Dimitrova, D. Yordanov, N. Miloshev, 2003. “Study of the pollution exchange between Bulgaria and Northern Greece”, in Large Scale Scientific Computing Lecture Notes, Computer Science, 2907:328-336, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-24588-9_37.