Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
10 Ocean Science Circle
Savannah, Georgia 31411

B. S. Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1974
M. S. Oceanography, University of Washington, 1977
Ph.D. Oceanography, University of Washington, 1981

CoOP

Chair, Coastal Ocean Processes Program (CoOP) Scientific Steering Committee 2000-2009 Interim Program Director, OOI Program Office, 2005

Jahnke, RA, MR Roman, and KH Brink (2008) Coastal Ocean Processes Program: Advancing interdisciplinary research and technology development. Oceanography 21:18-21.

Jahnke, RA (2008) Maybe it's not just about air-water gas exchange (2008) Oceanography 21:42-43.

Jahnke, DB and RA Jahnke (2008) Dynamics of seafloor processes: Advances from benthic observing technologies. Oceanography 21:162-163.

Savidge, WB, A Gargett, RA Jahnke, JR Nelson, DK Savidge, RT Short and G Voulgaris (2008) Forcing and dynamics of seafloor-water column exchange on a broad continental shelf. Oceanography 21:179-184.

Jahnke, RA, JR Nelson, ME Richards, CY Robertson, AMF Rao, and DB Jahnke (2008) Benthic primary productivity on the Georgia midcontinental shelf: Benthic flux measurements and high-resolution, continuous in situ PAR records. Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, C08022, doi:10.1029/2008JC004745.

Jahnke, RA (in press) A Global Synthesis, in Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis , KK Liu, L Atkinson, R Quinones and L Talaue-McManus, eds. Global Change: The IGBP Series, Springer-Verlag.

Rao, AMF , MJ McCarthy, WS Gardner and RA Jahnke (2007) Respiration and denitrification in permeable continental shelf deposits on the South Atlantic Bight: Rates of carbon and nitrogen cycling from sediment column experiments. Continental Shelf Research 27 :1801-1819.

Jahnke, R , M Richards, J Nelson, C Robertson, A Rao and D Jahnke (2005) Organic matter remineralization and porewater exchange rates in permeable South Atlantic Bight continental shelf sediments. Continental Shelf Research 25 :1433-1452.

Jahnke, RA (2005) Transport processes and organic matter cycling in coastal sediments, In: The Sea, volume 13; The Global Coastal Ocean Multiscale Interdisciplinary Processes . AR Robinson and KH Brink (eds.) Harvard University Press, pp.163-191.

Jahnke, RA and DB Jahnke (2004) Calcium carbonate dissolution in deep sea sediments: Reconciling microelectrode, pore water and benthic flux chamber results. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68 :47-59.

Jahnke, RA, CR Alexander and JE Kostka (2003) Advective pore water input of nutrients to the Satilla River Estuary, Georgia, USA. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 56 :641-653.

Niencheski, LF and RA Jahnke (2002) Benthic respiration and inorganic nutrients in the estuarine region of Patos Lagoon (Brazil). Aquatic Geochemistry 8 :135-152.

Rubin, SI, SL King, RA Jahnke and PN Froelich (2002) Benthic barium and alkalinity fluxes: Is Ba an oceanic paleo-alkalinity proxy for glacial atmospheric CO 2 ? Geophysical Research Letters 30 :doi:10.1029/2003GL017339.

Jahnke, RA and DB Jahnke (2000) Rates of C, N, P and Si recycling and denitrification at the U. S. mid-Atlantic continental slope depocenter. Deep-Sea Res. 47 :1405-1428.

Jahnke, RA, JR Nelson, RL Marinelli and JE Eckman (2000) Benthic flux of biogenic elements on the southeastern U. S. continental shelf: Influence of pore water advective transport and benthic microalgae. Cont. Shelf Res. 20 :109-127.

Jahnke, RA (1998) Geochemical impacts of waste disposal on the abyssal seafloor. J. Mar. Sys. 14 :355-375.

Jahnke, RA, DB Craven, DC McCorkle and CE Reimers (1997) CaCO 3 dissolution in California continental margin sediments: the influence of organic matter remineralization. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61 :3587-3604.

Jahnke, RA (1996) The global ocean flux of particulate organic carbon: areal distribution and magnitude. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 10 : 71-88.

Jahnke, RA and DB Craven (1995) Quantifying the role of heterotrophic bacteria in the carbon cycle: a need for respiration rate measurements. Limnol. Oceanogr. 40 :436-441.