@article {white_refractory_2023,
	title = {Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter has Similar Chemical Characteristics but Different Radiocarbon Signatures With Depth in the Marine Water Column},
	journal = {Global Biogeochemical Cycles},
	volume = {37},
	number = {4},
	year = {2023},
	note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2022GB007603},
	month = {04/2023},
	pages = {e2022GB007603},
	abstract = {The >5,000-year radiocarbon age (14C-age) of much of the 630 {\textpm} 30 Pg C oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) reservoir remains an enigma in the marine carbon cycle. The fact that DOC is significantly older than dissolved inorganic carbon at every depth in the ocean forms the basis of our current framing of the marine DOC cycle, where some component persists over multiple cycles of ocean mixing. As a result, 14C-depleted, aged DOC is hypothesized to be present as a uniform reservoir with a constant 14C signature and concentration throughout the water column. However, key requirements of this model, including direct observations of DOC with similar 14C signatures in the surface and deep ocean, have never been met. Despite decades of research, the distribution of Δ14C values in marine DOC remains a mystery. Here, we applied a thermal fractionation method to compare operationally defined refractory DOC (RDOC) from different depths in the North Pacific Ocean. We found that RDOC shares chemical characteristics (as recorded by OC bond strength) throughout the water column but does not share the same 14C signature. Our results support one part of the current paradigm{\textemdash}that RDOC is comprised of structurally related components throughout the ocean that form a {\textquotedblleft}background{\textquotedblright} reservoir. However, in contrast to the current paradigm, our results are consistent with a vertical concentration gradient and a vertical and inter-ocean Δ14C gradient for RDOC. The observed Δ14C gradient is compatible with the potential addition of pre-aged DOC to the upper ocean.},
	keywords = {marine dissolved organic matter, radiocarbon, ramped pyrolysis oxidation},
	issn = {1944-9224},
	doi = {10.1029/2022GB007603},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2022GB007603},
	author = {White, Margot E. and Nguyen, Tran B. and Koester, Irina and Lardie Gaylord, Mary C. and Beman, J. Michael and Smith, Kenneth L. and McNichol, Ann P. and Beaupr{\'e}, Steven R. and Aluwihare, Lihini I.}
}
@article {164,
	title = {A two-dimensional, heart-cutting preparative gas chromatograph facilitates highly resolved single-compound isolations with utility towards compound-specific natural abundance radiocarbon (14C) analyses},
	journal = {Journal of Chromatography A},
	volume = {1220},
	year = {2012},
	note = {id: 2152},
	pages = {122-131},
	abstract = {Motivated by the need to develop clean, high purity preparative enrichments of individual compounds for micro-scale compound-specific natural abundance isotope and radiocarbon (14C) analyses, we describe a new, two-dimensional, heart-cutting, low-bleed, three-oven, single GC preparative system, demonstrate its resolving capabilities as applied to a typically complex environmental sample matrix, and investigate the robustness with which it preserves the authigenic 13C/12C and 14C/12C ratios of individual compounds it targets for preparative enrichment. The system is comprised of a programmable temperature vaporizing (PTV) inlet, a single GC oven, two modular, door-mounted, resistively heated low thermal mass (LTM) columns, a preparative fraction collector (PFC), and a Deans pneumatic switching device which facilitates heart-cutting between the system{\textquoteright}s 1{\textdegree} and 2{\textdegree} chromatographic dimensions. Further, the system{\textquoteright}s inlet and trapping parameters are optimized for the efficient preparative enrichment of the methyl ether and ester derivatives of the lignin phenol compound class. The lignin phenols include such compounds as the vanillyl and syringyl aldehydes, ethanones, and acids and are unrivaled biomarkers of terrestrial organic matter, some of which are also important components of fragrances and flavors. Using this suite of compounds, the suitability of this augmented preparative capillary GC (PCGC) system was investigated for micro-scale compound-specific (CS) stable isotope and natural abundance radiocarbon analyses (RA). Analysis of a >300 injection enrichment scheme reveals the instrument to fractionate 13C in predictable ways and to preserve the authigenic Δ14C of compounds it targets for preparative enrichment to within 6.7 {\textpm} 5.0{\textperthousand}, demonstrating the promising new utility of such systems towards micro-scale CSRA investigations for which clean and high resolution separation techniques are prerequisite.},
	issn = {0021-9673},
	doi = {10.1016/j.chroma.2011.11.021},
	url = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021967311017031},
	author = {Ball, Gregory Ian and Xu, Li and McNichol, Ann P. and Aluwihare, Lihini I.}
}
@mastersthesis {1095,
	title = {High Molecular Weight Dissolved Organic Matter in Seawater: Chemical Structure, Sources, and Cycling, Thesis},
	volume = {PhD},
	year = {1999},
	note = {id: 150; Chemical Oceanography},
	pages = {224},
	school = {MIT/WHOI Joint Program},
	address = {Cambridge, MA/Woods Hole, MA},
	author = {Aluwihare, Lihini I.}
}
