John Robbins

All GLERL Publications for Robbins:

• Reavie, E. D., J. A. ROBBINS, E. F. Stoermer, M. S. V. Douglas, G. E. Emmert, N. R. MOREHEAD, and A. Mudroch. Paleolimnology of a fluvial lake downstream of Lake Superior and the industrialized region of Sault Saint Marie. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:2586-2608 (2005). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2005/20050025.pdf
• EADIE, B. J., and J. A. ROBBINS. Composition and accumulation of recent sediments in Lake Michigan. In State of Lake Michigan (SOLM) - Ecology, Health, and Management. T. Edsall and M. Munawar (eds.). Ecovision World Monograph Series, Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management Society, 89-111 (2005).
• Kerfoot, W. C., S. L. Harting, J. Jeong, J. A. ROBBINS, and R. Rossmann. Local, regional, and global implications of elemental mercury in metal (copper, silver, gold, and zinc) ores: insights from Lake Superior sediments. Journal of Great Lakes Research 30(Supplement 1):162-184 (2004). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2004/20040039.pdf
• McGeehin, J., G. S. Burr, G. Hodgins, S. J. Bennett, J. A. ROBBINS, N. R. MOREHEAD, and H. Markewich. Stepped-combustion 14C dating of bomb carbon in lake sediment. Radiocarbon 46(2):893-900 (2004).
• Cook, P. M., J. A. ROBBINS, D. D. Endicott, K. Lodge, P. D. Guiney, M. K. Walker, E. W. Zabel and R. E. Peterson. Effects of Aryl Hydrocarbon receptor-mediated early life stage toxicity on Lake Trout populations in Lake Ontario during the 20th Century. Environmental Science and Technology 37(17):3864-3877 (2003).
• Kerfoot, W. C., S. L. Harting, R. Rossmann and J. A. ROBBINS. Elemental mercury in copper, silver, and gold ores: an unexpected contribution to Lake Superior sediments with global implications. Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 2:185-202 (2003).
• EADIE, B. J., D. J. SCHWAB, T. H. JOHENGEN, P. J. LAVRENTYEV, G. S. MILLER, R. E. Holland, G. A. LESHKEVICH, M. B. LANSING, N. R. MOREHEAD, J. A. ROBBINS, N. HAWLEY, D. N. Edgington, and P. L. VAN HOOF. Particle transport, nutrient cycling, and algal community structure associated with a major winter-spring sediment resuspension event in southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 28(3):324-337 (2002). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2002/20020017.pdf
• Hancock, G., D. N. Edgington, J. A. ROBBINS, J. N. Smith, G. Brunskill, and J. Pfitzner. Workshop on radiological techniques in sedimentation studies: methods and applications. In Environmental Changes and Radioactive Tracers. Proceedings of the South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association (SPERA) 2002, J.M. Fernandez and R. Fichez (Eds.), IRD Editions, Paris, France, pp. 232-251 (2002).
  http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2002/20020014.pdf
• Mulsow, S., P. F. LANDRUM, and J. A. ROBBINS. Biological mixing responses to sublethal concentrations of DDT in sediments by Heteromastus filiformis (capitellidae) using a 137Cs marker layer technique. Marine Ecology Progress Series 239:181-191 (2002).
  http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2002/20020010.pdf
• Holmes, C. W., J. A. ROBBINS, R. Halley, M. Bothner, M. Ten Brink, and M. Marot. Sediment dynamics of Florida Bay mud banks on a decadal time scale. Bulletins of American Paleontology 361:31-40 (2001).
• Soster, F. A., G. Matisoff, P. L. McCall, and J. A. ROBBINS. In situ effects of organisms on porewater geochemistry in Great Lakes sediments. In Organism-Sediment Interactions, J.Y. Aller, S. A. Woodin and R. C. Aller, Eds., University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, pp. 279-294 (2001).
• ROBBINS, J. A., C. Holmes, R. Halley, M. Bothner, E. Shinn, J. Graney, G. Keeler, M. tenBrink, K. A. Orlandini, and D. Rudnick. Time-averaged fluxes of lead and fallout radionuclides to sediments in Florida Bay. Journal of Geophysical Research 105(C12):28805-28821 (2000). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/2000/20000012.pdf
• Kerfoot, W.C., and J.A. ROBBINS. Nearshore regions of Lake Superior: multi-element signatures of mining discharges and a test of Pb-210 deposition under conditions of variable sediment mass flux. Journal of Great Lakes Research 25(4):697-720 (1999). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1999/19990008.pdf
• Kerfoot, W. C., J. A. ROBBINS, and L. J. Weider. A new approach to historical reconstruction: Combining descriptive and experimental paleolimnology. Limnology and Oceanography 44(5):1232-1247 (1999).
• Kerfoot, W.C., S. harting, R. Rossmann, and J.A. ROBBINS. Anthropogenic copper inventories and mercury profiles from Lake Superior: evidence for mining impacts. Journal of Great Lakes Research 25(4):663-682 (1999). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1999/19990007.pdf
• ROBBINS, J. A., K. R. Reddy, C. W. Holmes, N. R. MOREHEAD, M. Marot, and R. W. ROOD. Sediment core dating with ¹³⁷Cs. Final Report to the South Florida Water Management District, Contract Number: C-5324. NOAA, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI, 97 pp. (1999).
• Tenzer, G. E., P. A. Meyers, J. A. ROBBINS, B. J. EADIE, N. R. MOREHEAD, and M. B. LANSING. Sedimentary organic matter record of recent environmental changes in the St. Marys River ecosystem, Michigan-Ontario border. Organic Geochemistry 30:133-146 (1999).
• Ostrom, P. H., N. E. Ostrom, J. Henry, B. J. EADIE, P. A. Meyers, and J. A. ROBBINS. Changes in the trophic state of Lake Erie: discordance between molecular and bulk d¹³C sedimentary records. Chemical Geology 152:163-179 (1998).
• Pirrone, N., I. Allegrini, G.J. Keeler, J.O. Nriagu, R. Rossmann, and J.A. ROBBINS. Historical atmospheric mercury emissions and depositions in North America compared to mercury accumulations in sedimentary records. Atmospheric Environment 32(5):929-940 (1998).
• EADIE, B.J., D.J. SCHWAB, G.A. LESHKEVICH, T.H. JOHENGEN, R.A. ASSEL, N. HAWLEY, R.E. Holland, M.B. LANSING, P.J. LAVRENTYEV, G.S. MILLER, N.R. MOREHEAD, J.A. ROBBINS, and P. VANHOOF. Development of recurrent coastal plume in Lake Michigan observed for first time. EOS Transactions 77(35):337-338 (1996). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/eegle/products/pub-eos96.pdf
• Edgington, D.N., J.A. ROBBINS, S.M. Colman, K.A. Orlandini, and M.-P Gustin. Uranium-series disequilibrium, sedimentation, diatom frustules, and paleoclimate change in Lake Baikal. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 142:29-42 (1996).
• Horowitz, A.J., J.A. ROBBINS, K.A. Elrick, and R.B. Cook. Bed sediment-trace element geochemistry of Terrace Reservoir, Near Summitville, Southwestern, Colorado. Open File Report 96-344. U.S. Geological Survey, Atlanta, GA, 41 pp. (1996).
• Graney, J.R., A.N. Halliday, G.J. Keeler, J.O. Nriagu, J.A. ROBBINS, and S.A. Norton. Isotopic record of lead pollution in lake sediments from the northeastern United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 59(9):1715-1728 (1995).
• Horowitz, A.J., K.A. Elrick, J.A. ROBBINS, and R.B. Cook. A summary of the effects of mining and related activities on the sediment-trace element geochemistry of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 52:135-144 (1995).
• Horowitz, A.J., K.A. Elrick, J.A. ROBBINS, and R.B. Cook. Effect of mining and related activities on the sediment trace element geochemistry of Lake Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, USA - Part II: Subsurface sediments. Hydrological Processes 9:35-54 (1995).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and A.W. Jasinski. Chernobyl fallout radionuclides in Lake Sniardwy, Poland. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 26:157-184 (1995).
• EADIE, B.J., B.A. McKee, M.B. LANSING, J.A. ROBBINS, S. Metz, and J.H. Trefry. Records of nutrient -enhanced coastal ocean productivity in sediments from the Louisiana continental shelf. Estuaries 17(4):754-765 (1994).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and L.R. HERCHE. Models and uncertainty in 210Pb dating of sediments. Verhandlugen-Internationale Vereinigung Fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 25:217-222 (1993).
• Callender, E., and J.A. ROBBINS. Transport and accumulation of radionuclides and stable elements in a Missouri River reservoir. Water Resources Research 29(6):1787-1804 (1993).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and L.R. HERCHE. Models and uncertainty in 210Pb dating of sediments. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 25:217-222 (1993).
• EADIE, B.J., J.A. ROBBINS, P. Blackwelder, S. Metz, J.H. Trefry, B. McKee, and T.A. Nelson. A retrospective analysis of nutrient enhanced coastal ocean productivity in sediments from the Louisiana continental shelf. Proceedings, Nutrient Enhanced Coastal Ocean Productivity Workshop, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, New Orleans, LA, October 1-4, 1991. NOAA Coastal Program Office, 7-14 (1992).
• ROBBINS, J.A., G. Lindner, W. Pfeiffer, J. Kleiner, H.H. Stabel, and P. Frenzel. Epilimnetic scavenging of Chernobyl radionuclides in Lake Constance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. Vol. 56:2339-2361 (1992).
• Lindner, G., I. Greiner, R. Grom, K. Hain, M. Ibler, S. Kaminski, J. Kleiner, W. Pfeiffer, J.A. ROBBINS, O. Seewald, Ch Wilhelm, and M. Wunderer. Removal and accumulation processes of cesium radionuclides in prealpine lakes. Proceedings, Radiation Protection for People and the Environment, Aachen, Germany, September 30-October 3, 1991. (1991).
• EADIE, B.J., J.A. ROBBINS, W.R. FAUST, and P.F. LANDRUM. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in sediments and pore waters of the lower Great Lakes: Reconstruction of a regional benzo(a)pyrene source function. In Organic Substances and Sediment in Water: Volume 2, Processes and Analytical, R. Baker (ed.). Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, MI, Chapter 9, 171-189 (1991).
• Edgington, D.N., J. Val Klump, J.A. ROBBINS, Y.S. Kusner, V.D. Pampura, and I.V. Sandimirov. Sedimentation rates, residence times and radionuclide inventories in Lake Baikal from 137-Cs and 210-Pb in sediment cores. Nature 350:601-604 (1991).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and B.J. EADIE. Seasonal cycling of trace elements ¹³⁷Cs, ⁷Be, and ^239+240Pu in Lake Michigan. Journal of Geophysical Research 96(C9):17081-17104 (1991).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and N.R. MOREHEAD. Rates of accumulation of recent sediments in Lake Ontario as determined by Cs-137 and Pb-210. A Final Report to the U.S. EPA, Interagency Agreement DW13933058-01-0, U.S. EPA, Washington, DC, 66 pp. (1991).
• EADIE, B.J., H.A. VANDERPLOEG, J.A. ROBBINS, and G.L. BELL. Significance of sediment resuspension and particle settling. In Large Lakes: Ecological Structure and Function, M.M. Tilzer and C. Serruya (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York, 196-209 (1990).
• Edgington, D.N., and J.A. ROBBINS. Time scales of sediment focusing in large lakes as revealed by measurement of fallout Cs-137. In Large Lakes: Ecological Structure and Function, M.M. Tilzer and C. Serruya (eds.). Springer-Verlag, New York, 210-223 (1990).
• LANDRUM, P.F., and J.A. ROBBINS. Bioavailability of sediment-associated contaminants to benthic invertebrates. In Sediments: Chemistry and Toxicity of In-Place Pollutants, R. Baudo, J. P. Giesy, and H. Muhtau (eds.). Lewis Publishers, Inc., Chelsea, MI, 237-263 (1990).
• ROBBINS, J.A., A. Mudroch, and B.G. Oliver. Transport and storage of ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb in sediments of Lake St. Clair. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 47(3):572-587 (1990).
• Eisenreich, S.J., P.D. Capel, J.A. ROBBINS, and R. Bourbonniere. Accumulation and diagenesis of chlorinated hydrocarbons in lacustrine sediments. Environmental Science and Technology 23(9):1116-1126 (1989).
• Lindner, G., W. Pfeiffer, J.A. ROBBINS, and E. Recknagel. Long-lived Chernobyl radionuclides in Lake Constance: Speciation, sedimentation, and biological transfer. Proceedings, XV Conference of the International Radiation Protection Association. The Radio Ecology of Natural and Artificial Radionuclides Progress in Radiation Protection Series, FS-89048T, W. Feld (ed.), Visby, Sweden, September, 1989. Verlag, TUV Rheinland GMBH, Koln, 295-300 (1989).
• Lindner, G., W. Pfeiffer, U. Wahl, J. Kleiner, H.H. Stabel, P. Frenzel, J.A. ROBBINS, F. Giovanoli, A. Lenhard, and E. Recknagel. Sedimentation of long-lived radionuclides in Lake Constance. Proceedings, Heavy Metals in the Environment, Vol. 1, J-P. Vernet (ed.), Geneva, Switzerland, September 14, 1989. CEP Consultants Ltd, Edinburgh, UK, 449-452 (1989).
• ROBBINS, J.A. The role of radiotracers in studies of aquatic contamination. Proceedings, Heavy Metals in the Environment, Vol. 1, J-P. Vernet (ed.), Geneva, Switzerland, September 14, 1989. CEP Consultants Ltd, Edinburgh, UK, 449-452 (1989).
• ROBBINS, J.A., T.J. KEILTY, D.S. White, and D.N. Edgington. Relationships between tubificid abundances, sediment composition, and accumulation rates in Lake Erie. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46(2):223-231 (1989).
• Schelske, C.L., J.A. ROBBINS, W.S. GARDNER, D.J. Conley, and R.A. Bourbonniere. Sediment record of biogeochemical responses to anthropogenic perturbations of nutrient cycles in Lake Ontario. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45:1291-1301 (1988).
• EADIE, B.J., and J.A. ROBBINS. The role of particulate matter in the movement of contaminants in the Great Lakes. In Advances in Chemistry Series No. 216, Sources and Fates of Aquatic Pollutants, R.A. Hites, and S. J. Eisenreich (eds.). American Chemical Society, 319-364 (1987).
• Matisoff, G., and J.A. ROBBINS. A model for biological mixing of sediments. Journal of Geological Education 35(3):144-149 (1987).
• White, D.S., P.C. Klahr, and J.A. ROBBINS. Effects of temperature and density on sediment reworking by Stylodrilus heringianus (Oligochaeta: Lumbriculidae). Journal of Great Lakes Research 13(2):147-156 (1987). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1987/19870004.pdf
• HAWLEY, N., J.A. ROBBINS, and B.J. EADIE. The partitioning of 7beryllium in fresh water. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta 50:1127-1131 (1986).
• QUIGLEY, M.A., and J.A. ROBBINS. Phosphorus release processes in nearshore southern Lake Michigan. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 43:1201-1207 (1986).
• ROBBINS, J.A. A model for particle-selective transport of tracers in sediments with conveyor belt deposit feeders. Journal of Geophysical Research 91(C7):8542-8558 (1986).
• Krezoski, J.R., and J.A. ROBBINS. Vertical distribution of feeding and particle-selective transport of 137Cs in lake sediments by Lumbriculid Oligochaetes. Journal of Geophysical Research 90(C6):11,999-12,006 (1985).
• ROBBINS, J.A. The coupled lakes model for estimating the long-term response of the Great Lakes to time-dependent loadings of particle-associated contaminants. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL GLERL-57, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI (PB85-237154) 41 pp. (1985).
• Krezoski, J.R., and J.A. ROBBINS. Vertical distribution of feeding and particle-selective transport of 137Cs in lake sediments by Lumbriculid Oligochaetes. Journal of Geophysical Research 90(C6):11,999-12,006 (1985).
• ROBBINS, J.A. Great Lakes regional fallout source functions. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL GLERL-56, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI (PB85-237162/XAB) 22 pp. (1985).
• ROBBINS, J.A. The coupled lakes model for estimating the long-term response of the Great Lakes to time-dependent loadings of particle-associated contaminants. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL GLERL-57, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI (PB85-237154) 41 pp. (1985).
• ROBBINS, J.A., K. Husby-Coupland, and D.S. White. Precise radiotracer measurement of the rate of sediment reworking by Stylodrilus heringianus and the effects of variable dissolved oxygen concentrations. Journal of Great Lakes Research 10:335-347 (1984). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1984/19840007.pdf
• Kadlec, R.H., and J.A. ROBBINS. Sedimentation and sediment accretion in Michigan coastal wetlands (U.S.A.). Chemical Geology 44:119-150 (1984).
• Krezoski, J.R., J.A. ROBBINS, and D.S. White. Dual radiotracer measurement of zoobenthos-mediated solute and particle transport in freshwater sediments. Journal of Geophysical Research 89(B9):7937-7947 (1984).
• McCall, P.L., J.A. ROBBINS, and G. Matisoff. 137Cs and 210Pb transport and geochronologies in urbanized reservoirs with rapidly increasing sedimentation rates. Chemical Geology 44:33-65 (1984).
• QUIGLEY, M.A., and J.A. ROBBINS. Silica regeneration processes in nearshore southern Lake Michigan. Journal of Great Lakes Research 10:383-392 (1984). http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/fulltext/1984/19840005.pdf
• EADIE, B.J., J.A. ROBBINS, P.F. LANDRUM, C.P. Rice, M.S. Simmons, M.J. McCORMICK, S.J. Eisenreich, G.L. BELL, R.L. PICKETT, K. Johansen, K. Rossman, N. HAWLEY, and T. Voice. The cycling of toxic organics in the Great Lakes: A 3-year status report. NOAA Technical Memorandum ERL GLERL-45, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI (PB83-256792) 176 pp. (1983).
• Edgington, D.N., and J.A. ROBBINS. Patterns of deposition of natural and fallout radionuclides in the sediments of Lake Michigan and their relation to limnological processes. In Environmental Biochemistry, J.O. Nriagu (ed.). Ann Arbor Science, Ann Arbor, MI, 705-729 (1983).
• ROBBINS, J.A., and B.J. EADIE. Models of contaminants in Great Lakes. Research in Ocean Engineering: University Sources and Resources 4:3 (1982).
• EADIE, B.J., S. NIHART, and J.A. ROBBINS. Study of early diagenesis of compounds in Great Lakes sediments is underway. Coastal Oceanography Climatology News 4:43 (1982).
• ROBBINS, J.A. Sediments of Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron: Elemental composition and accumulation rates. Final report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Grant No. R8040686, Environmental Research Laboratory-Duluth, Office of Research and Development, U.S. EPA, Duluth, MN, 103 pp. (1982).
• ROBBINS, J.A. Stratigraphic and dynamic effects of sediment reworking by Great Lakes zoobenthos. Hydrobiologia 92:611-622 (1982).
• Krezoski, J.R., and J.A. ROBBINS. Radiotracer studies of interactions between sediments and freshwater macrobenthos. Verhandlungen-Internationale Vereinigung Fur Theoretische und Angewandte Limnologie 21:382 (1981).
• Tisue, G.T., D.J. Fingleton, J.A. ROBBINS, R. Allison, and S. Barr. Air quality changes over Lake Michigan: 1973-74 compared with 1978-79. Argonne National Laboratory Report ANL-80-225, Pt. III, Argonne, IL, 39-45 pp. (1981).
• ROBBINS, J.A. Chapter 9. Geochemical and geophysical applications of radioactive lead. In The Biogeochemistry of Lead in the Environment , J. O. Nriagu (ed.). Elsevier, Amsterdam, 285-393 (1978).