Publications

Peer-reviewed

• 2026

  • Elevated Environmental Lead Concentrations Following a Major Urban Fire

    Silva, S.J., John, S.G., West, A.J., Bradshaw, M., Hu, Y., John, C.M., Kong, K., Odendahl, C., Pineda, N., Ross, A., Schlaff, B., Sigdel, N., & Thomas, K.

    ACS ES&T Air

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  • Copper and light shape a coastal picophytoplankton community via their combined effects on growth limitation and toxicity

    Mackey, K.R.M., John, S.G., Tavares, J., Yang, S.C., & Kong, K.

    ISME Communications

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  • Surface water iron deposition histories and the initiation of phytoplankton blooms in the North Pacific Gyre

    Kong, K., Yang, S.C., Barone, B., Hamilton, D.S., & John, S.G.

    Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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• 2025

  • Full Steam Ahead: Ironing Up Science at a Title 1 Elementary School in Southern California

    Kast, D.J., Stellmann, J., Floback, A., Gaffney, J., Kong, K., & Moffett, J.

    Current: The Journal of Marine Education

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  • Nitrogen and phosphorus differentially control marine biomass production and stoichiometry

    Seelen, E.A., Gleich, S.J., Kumler, W., Anderson, H.A., Bian, X., Björkman, K.M., Caron, D.A., Dyhrman, S.T., Ferrón, S., Finkel, Z.V., Haley, S.T., Hu, Y.Y., Ingalls, A.E., Irwin, A.J., Karl, D.M., Kong, K., Lowenstein, D.P., Salazar Estrada, A.E., Townsend, E., Tracey, J.C., Turk-Kubo, K., Van Mooy, B.A.S., & John, S.G.

    Nature Communications

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• 2024

  • A rapid procedure for isotopic purification of copper and nickel from seawater using an automated chromatography system

    Bian, X., Yang, S.C., Raad, R.J., Hawco, N.J., Sakowski, J., Huang, K.F., Kong, K., Conway, T.M., & John, S.G.

    Analytica Chimica Acta

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• 2019

  • Mineralogical and geochemical constraints on chromium oxidation induced by birnessite

    Kong, K., Heaney, P.J., Fischer, T.B., Post, J.E., Stubbs, J.E., & Eng, P.J.

    Applied Geochemistry

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