Large Lakes Observatory

Elizabeth C. Minor

Associate Professor

Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota
2205 E. 5th St.,
Research Laboratory Building 211
Duluth, MN 55812

Tel. (218) 726-7097

Fax: (218) 726-6979

email: eminor at d.umn.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Relationships between the packaging of aquatic organic matter (in various size classes and particle morphologies), the molecular level characteristics of this organic matter, and the reactivity of this material in the water column. Various techniques employed include direct-temperature resolved mass spectrometry, electrospray mass spectrometry, FTIR, flow cytometry, size-exclusion chromatography, and ultrafiltration.

EDUCATION

MIT/WHOI Joint Program, Ph.D., Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry
The College of William and Mary, BS Chemistry

COURSES TAUGHT

• LIMN 5102 Chemical Limnology
• CHEM 2521Organic Chemistry
• CHEM 1151 General Chemistry

PUBLICATIONS

Simjouw, J-P., E.C. Minor, and K. Mopper. (2005) Isolation And Characterization Of Estuarine Dissolved Organic Matter: Comparison Of C18 Solid Phase Extraction And Ultrafiltration Techniques. Marine Chemistry 96(3-4), 219-235.

Minor, E.C. and P.S. Nallathamby. (2004) "Cellular" vs "detrital" POM: a preliminary study using fluorescent stains, flow cytometry, and mass spectrometry. Marine Chemistry 92(1-4), 9-21.. doi:10/1016/j.marchem.2004.06.015.

Simjouw, J.-P., M. R. Mulholland, and E. C. Minor. (2004) Changes in dissolved organic matter characteristics in Chincoteague Bay during the 2002 bloom of the pelagophyte, Aureococcus anophagefferens. Estuaries 27(6), 986-998.

Mulholland, M. R., G. Boneillo, P. Bernhardt, E. Cornfeld, A. M. Watson and E. Minor (2004). A comparison of photosynthetic and heterotrophic carbon acquisition by Aureococcus anophagefferens. In: Steidinger, K. A., J. H. Lansberg, C. R. Tomas and G. A. Vargo (eds.), Harmful Algae 2002. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Institute of Oceanography, and Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, St. Petersberg, Florida, USA. p. 59-61.

Mulholland, M. R., G. Boneillo, and E. C. Minor. (2004) A comparison of N and C uptake during brown tide (Aureococcus anophagefferens) blooms from two coastal bays on the east coast of the USA. Harmful Algae 3(4), 361-376. doi:10:1016/j.hal.2004.06.007.

Minor,E.C., C. Foust, and R.F. Dias (2003) The effect of common nucleic acid stains on the composition of particulate organic matter as determined by direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry and pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Marine Chemistry, 83, 75-87.

Minor, Elizabeth C., Stuart G. Wakeham, and Cindy Lee (2003). Changes in the molecular-level characteristics of sinking marine particles with water column depth. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67(22), 4277-4288. doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00263-1.

Minor, E.C., J-P. Simjouw, J. J. Boon, A. E. Kerkhoff, and J. van der Horst, (2002). Estuarine/marine UDOM as characterized by size-exclusion chromatography and organic mass spectrometry, Marine Chemistry, 78, 75-102.

Minor, E.C., J.J. Boon, H.R. Harvey, and A. Mannino (2001). Estuarine organic matter composition as probed by direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry and traditional geochemical techniques. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 65(17), 2819-2834.

Minor, E.C., T.I. Eglinton, and J.J. Boon (2000). Direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry as a technique for the semi-quantitative analysis of marine particulate organic matter. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, 53, 19-34.

Minor, E.C., T.I. Eglinton, J.J. Boon, and R. Olson (1999). A protocol for the characterization of oceanic particles via flow cytometric sorting and direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry, Analytical Chemistry 71(10): 2003-2013.

Minor, E.C. and T.I. Eglinton (1999). Molecular-level variations in particulate organic matter subclasses along the Mid-Atlantic Bight. Marine Chemistry 67, 103-122.

Minor, E.C., T.I. Eglinton, R. Olson, J.J. Boon (1998). The compositional heterogeneity of particulate organic matter from the surface ocean: An investigation using flow cytometry and DT-MS. Organic Geochemistry 29(5-7): 1561-1582.

Eglinton, T.I., J.J. Boon, E.C. Minor, R.J. Olson (1996). Microscale characterization of algal and related particulate organic matter by direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry. Marine Chemistry 52: 27-54.