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PAulA g. cOBle is Professor in the college of Marine science at the university of south
Florida and has been involved in research on the fluorescence of natural organic matter for
twenty years. she is one of the original researchers to use excitation–emission matrix spectroscopy (eeMs) for characterization of aquatic colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM)
and has published several reviews on the topic. coble’s research interests have focused on
cycling of cDOM in marine and estuarine systems, development and deployment of in situ
fluorometers, and using fluorescence to trace organic matter cycling and water mass mixing. Most recently, coble has been advancing application of the eeMs technique to the
study of oil spills in the marine environment, including distinguishing between the effects
of physical and chemical dispersion.
JAMie leAD is Professor of environmental nanoscience and risk and Director of the
environmental nanoscience and risk smartstate center at the university of south
carolina and Adjunct Professor of environmental nanoscience and Director of the Facility
for environmental nanoscience Analysis and characterisation, university of Birmingham,
united Kingdom. His research aims to understand both natural and manufactured nanoparticles and their interactions, as well as their fate and impact in the environment, and
encompasses work from synthesis and characterization to risk and regulation.
AnDY BAKer is Director of the connected Waters initiative research centre at the
university of new south Wales and research Program leader in the national centre
for groundwater research and training, Australia. He is a researcher in the contrasting
fields of past climate change, hydrogeology, organic matter characterization, and isotope
geochemistry. common themes include an interdisciplinary scientific approach between
the subject areas of geography, earth science, environmental science, and engineering.
Baker has published more than one hundred fifty internationally refereed papers, including
papers in high-citation-rate journals such as Nature and Science, and has been awarded
and successfully managed more than sixty research grant applications. He was awarded a
Phillip leverhulme Prize in 2003 and a Durham university institute for Advanced studies
Fellowship in 2009. Baker’s role in aquatic organic matter fluorescence commenced in the
1990s with his investigation of organic matter preserved in cave stalagmites. this led to
About the editors
PAulA g. cOBle is Professor in the college of Marine science at the university of south
Florida and has been involved in research on the fluorescence of natural organic matter for
twenty years. she is one of the original researchers to use excitation–emission matrix spectroscopy (eeMs) for characterization of aquatic colored dissolved organic matter (cDOM)
and has published several reviews on the topic. coble’s research interests have focused on
cycling of cDOM in marine and estuarine systems, development and deployment of in situ
fluorometers, and using fluorescence to trace organic matter cycling and water mass mixing. Most recently, coble has been advancing application of the eeMs technique to the
study of oil spills in the marine environment, including distinguishing between the effects
of physical and chemical dispersion.
JAMie leAD is Professor of environmental nanoscience and risk and Director of the
environmental nanoscience and risk smartstate center at the university of south
carolina and Adjunct Professor of environmental nanoscience and Director of the Facility
for environmental nanoscience Analysis and characterisation, university of Birmingham,
united Kingdom. His research aims to understand both natural and manufactured nanoparticles and their interactions, as well as their fate and impact in the environment, and
encompasses work from synthesis and characterization to risk and regulation.
AnDY BAKer is Director of the connected Waters initiative research centre at the
university of new south Wales and research Program leader in the national centre
for groundwater research and training, Australia. He is a researcher in the contrasting
fields of past climate change, hydrogeology, organic matter characterization, and isotope
geochemistry. common themes include an interdisciplinary scientific approach between
the subject areas of geography, earth science, environmental science, and engineering.
Baker has published more than one hundred fifty internationally refereed papers, including
papers in high-citation-rate journals such as Nature and Science, and has been awarded
and successfully managed more than sixty research grant applications. He was awarded a
Phillip leverhulme Prize in 2003 and a Durham university institute for Advanced studies
Fellowship in 2009. Baker’s role in aquatic organic matter fluorescence commenced in the
1990s with his investigation of organic matter preserved in cave stalagmites. this led to
About the editors