Maria Herrmann

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Titles and Affiliations
Associate Research Professor, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science

Maria Herrmann specializes in marine biogeochemistry, an interdisciplinary study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes that determine the chemistry of the ocean. She is a native of Riga, Latvia, growing up on the Baltic Sea. After moving to the U.S. in 1995, she attended Lock Haven University and then Penn State, earning a Ph.D. in Meteorology in 2010. She has been working with large water quality data sets and numerical models to understand how carbon, oxygen, and other elements cycle in coastal waters since 2014.

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Recent Publications

Fitting metabolic models to dissolved oxygen data: The estuarine Bayesian single-station estimation method

Beck, M. W., Arriola, J. M., Herrmann, M. & Najjar, R. G., Aug 2024, In: Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 22, 8, p. 590-607 18 p.

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Divergent responses of nitrogen-species loadings to future climate change in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

Bian, Z., Pan, S., Najjar, Jr., R. G., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Hofmann, E. E., Herrmann, M., Hinson, K. E., St-Laurent, P. & Tian, H., Dec 2024, In: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies. 56, 102060.

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Response of hypoxia to future climate change is sensitive to methodological assumptions

Hinson, K. E., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Najjar, R. G., Bian, Z., Herrmann, M., St-Laurent, P. & Tian, H., Dec 2024, In: Scientific reports. 14, 1, 17544.

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A Modeling Framework of Atmospheric CO2 in the Mediterranean Marseille Coastal City Area, France

Nathan, B., Xueref-Remy, I., Lauvaux, T. C. Y., Yohia, C., Piga, D., Piazzola, J., Oda, T., Milne, M., Herrmann, M., Wimart-Rousseau, C. & Armengaud, A., Oct 2024, In: Atmosphere. 15, 10, 1193.

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Impacts and uncertainties of climate-induced changes in watershed inputs on estuarine hypoxia

Hinson, K. E., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Najjar, R. G., Herrmann, M., Bian, Z., Bhatt, G., St-Laurent, P., Tian, H. & Shenk, G., May 26 2023, In: Biogeosciences. 20, 10, p. 1937-1961 25 p.

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Decoupling of Estuarine Hypoxia and Acidification as Revealed by Historical Water Quality Data

Shen, C., Testa, J. M., Herrmann, M. & Najjar, R. G., Jan 10 2023, In: Environmental Science and Technology. 57, 1, p. 780-789 10 p.

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Radiation Monitoring as a Measure to Improve the Safety of Coal Mining

Aluker, N. L., Artamonov, A. S. & Herrmann, M., Aug 2022, In: Instruments and Experimental Techniques. 65, 4, p. 628-635 8 p.

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Estimating estuarine primary production using satellite data and machine learning

Xu, M., Hu, C., Najjar, R. G., Herrmann, M., Briceno, H., Barnes, B. B., Roger Johansson, J. O. & English, D., Jun 2022, In: International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation. 110, 102821.

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Spectrophotometric Analysis of Iodine Forms in Solutions of Iodine Compounds

Aluker, N. L. & Herrmann, M., Jun 2021, In: Optics and Spectroscopy (English translation of Optika i Spektroskopiya). 129, 6, p. 599-604 6 p.

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Thermoluminescent Detectors of High-Density Ionizing Radiation

Aluker, N. L., Artamonov, A. S. & Herrmann, M., May 2021, In: Instruments and Experimental Techniques. 64, 3, p. 437-443 7 p.

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Thermoluminescent method of dating applied to fossilized animal remains

Aluker, N. L., Herrmann, M. & Suzdaltseva, J. M., Aug 12 2020, In: IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. 539, 1, 012032.

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Water Spectrophotometry in the UV and Visible Range as an Element of Water-Resource Ecoanalytics

Aluker, N. L., Herrmann, M. & Suzdaltseva, J. M., Dec 1 2020, In: Instruments and Experimental Techniques. 63, 6, p. 853-859 7 p.

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Challenges in Quantifying Air-Water Carbon Dioxide Flux Using Estuarine Water Quality Data: Case Study for Chesapeake Bay

Herrmann, M., Najjar, R. G., Da, F., Friedman, J. R., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Goldberger, S., Menendez, A., Shadwick, E. H., Stets, E. G. & St-Laurent, P., Jul 1 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 7, e2019JC015610.

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Carbon Deposition and Burial in Estuarine Sediments of the Contiguous United States

Hutchings, J. A., Bianchi, T. S., Najjar, R. G., Herrmann, M., Kemp, W. M., Hinson, A. L. & Feagin, R. A., Feb 1 2020, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 34, 2, e2019GB006376.

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Alkalinity in Tidal Tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay

Najjar, R. G., Herrmann, M., Cintrón Del Valle, S. M., Friedman, J. R., Friedrichs, M. A. M., Harris, L. A., Shadwick, E. H., Stets, E. G. & Woodland, R. J., Jan 1 2020, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 125, 1, e2019JC015597.

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