Jay T. Cullen

Jay T. Cullen

Professor and Provost's Engaged Scholar investigating trace element and isotope chemistry in natural waters.

Publications

(* indicates UVic supervised graduate student or postdoctoral scholar, ** indicates a UVic supervised undergraduate student)

  1. **Meyer, A.C.S., J.T. Cullen and D. Grundle (in press). Nitrous oxide distributions in the oxygenated water column of the Sargasso Sea. Atmosphere-Ocean.
  2. Waugh, L.C. , B.I.F. Ruiz, C. Kuang, J. Guo, J.T. Cullen and M.T. Maldonado (in press). Seasonal Dissolved Copper Speciation in the Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. Frontiers Marine Science - Marine Biogeochemistry.
  3. Cooke, M.W., M. Trudel, H.J. Gurney-Smith, *J.P. Kellogg, J.T. Cullen, B.B.A. Francisco, J.F. Mercier, and J. Chen. (2022). Radioactivity concentration measurements in fish and shellfish samples from the west coast of Canada after the Fukushima nuclear accident (2011–2018). Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 251-252, 106394 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2022.106934
  4. Jensen, L.T., J.T. Cullen, *S.L. Jackson, L.J.A. Gerringa, D. Bauch, R. Middag, R.M. Sherrell, and J.N. Fitzsimmons. (2022). A refinement of the processes controlling dissolved copper and nickel biogeochemistry: insights from the pan‐Arctic. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 127:5, e2021JC018087 https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC018087
  5. Kuang, C., S.W. Stevens, R. Pawlowicz, M.T. Maldonado, J.T. Cullen, and R. Francois. (2022). Factors controlling the temporal variability and spatial distribution of dissolved cadmium in the coastal Salish Sea. Continental Shelf Research. 243, 104761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2022.104761
  6. Krisch, S., M.J. Hopwood, S. Roig, L.J.A. Gerringa, R. Middag, M.M. Rutgers van der Loeff, M.V. Petrova, P. Lodeiro, M. Colombo, J.T. Cullen, *S.L. Jackson, L. Heimbürger‐Boavida, and E.P. Achterberg. (2022). Arctic – Atlantic Exchange of the Dissolved Micronutrients Iron, Manganese, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper and Zinc With a Focus on Fram Strait. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36: 5, e2021GB007191. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021GB007191
  7. *Taves, R.C., *D.J. Janssen, M. Angelica Pena, A.R.S. Ross, K.G. Simpson, W.R. Crawford, and J.T. Cullen. (2022). Relationship between surface dissolved iron inventories and net community production during a marine heatwave in the subarctic northeast Pacific. Environmental Science: Processes Impacts. 24: 1460-1473. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EM00021K
  8. *Nixon, R.L., M. Angelica Pena, *R. Taves, *D.J. Janssen, J.T. Cullen, A.R.S. Ross. (2021). Evidence for the production of copper-complexing ligands by marine phytoplankton in the subarctic northeast Pacific. Marine Chemistry. 237: 104034 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2021.104034
  9. De Vera, J., P. Chandan, P. Pinedo-Gonzalez, S.G. John, * S.L. Jackson, J.T. Cullen, M. Colombo, K.J. Orians and B.A. Bergquist. (2021). Anthropogenic lead pervasive in Canadian Arctic seawater. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118:24 e2100023118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2100023118
  10. **Meyer, A.C.S., D. Grundle, and J.T. Cullen. (2021). Selective uptake of rare earth elements in marine systems as an indicator of and control on aerobic bacterial methanotrophy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 558: 116756 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116756
  11. Whitby, H., E. Bucciarelli, G. Sarthou, N. Cassar, C.L. Osburn, *D.J. Janssen, J.T. Cullen, A. Gonzalez, M. Tonnard and H. Planquette. (2020) A call for refining the role of humic-like substances in the oceanic iron cycle. Scientific Reports. 10: 6144 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62266-7
  12. Bundy, R.M., A. Tagliabue, N.J. Hawco, P.L. Morton, B.S. Twining, M. Hatta, A. Noble, M.R. Cape, S.G. John, J.T. Cullen and M.A. Saito. (2020). Elevated sources of cobalt in the Arctic Ocean. Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-84
  13. Colombo, M., *S.L. Jackson, J.T. Cullen and K.O. Orians. (2020). Dissolved iron and manganese in the Canadian Arctic Ocean: On the biogeochemical processes controlling their distributions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 277: 150-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2020.03.012
  14. Sedwick, P., A. Bowie, T. Church, J.T. Cullen, R. Johnson, M.C. Lohan, C. Marsay, D. McGillicuddy, B. Sohst, A. Tagliabue and S. Ussher. (2020). Dissolved iron in the Bermuda region of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal dynamics, mesoscale variability, and physicochemical speciation. Marine Chemistry. 219 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2019.103748
  15. *Rosario Lorenzo, M., M. Segovia, J.T. Cullen, M.T. Maldonado. (2020). Particulate trace metal dynamics in response to increased CO2 and iron availability in a coastal mesocosm experiment. Biogeosciences, 17, 757–770 https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-757-2020
  16. Vance, D., G. de Souza, Y. Zhao, J.T. Cullen and M.C. Lohan. (2019). The relationship between zinc, its isotopes, and the major nutrients in the North-East Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 525, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115748
  17. Nixon, R.L., *S.L. Jackson SL, J.T. Cullen and A.R.S. Ross. (2019). Distribution of copper-complexing ligands in the Canadian Arctic waters as determined by immobilized copper(II)-ion affinity chromatography. Marine Chemistry. 215, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2019.103673
  18. Chen, J., M.W. Cooke, J-F. Mercier, M. Trudel, *J. Kellogg and J.T. Cullen. (2019). 210-Po in Pacific Salmon from the West Coast of Canada and its Contribution to the Dose by Ingestion. Health Physics Journal. 17(3): 248-253. https://doi.org/10.1097/hp.0000000000001029
  19. *Janssen, D.J., W. Abouchami, S. Galer, **K.B. Purdon and J.T. Cullen. (2019). Particulate cadmium stable isotopes in the subarctic northeast Pacific reveal dynamic Cd cycling and a new isotopically light Cd sink. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 515: 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.03.006
  20. Schlitzer, R., et al. (2018) The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017. Chemical Geology, 493: 210-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.05.040
  21. *Jackson, S.L., J. Spence, *D.J. Janssen, A.R.S. Ross and J.T. Cullen. (2018) Determination of Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd and Pb in seawater using offline extraction and triple quadrupole ICP-MS/MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, 33:304-313 https://doi.org/10.1039/C7JA00237H
  22. Smith, J., V. Rossi, K.O. Buesseler, J.T. Cullen, J. Cornett, R. Nelson, A. Macdonald, M. Robert, and *J. Kellogg. (2017) Time series measurements of the transport of the Fukushima radioactivity plume through the northeast Pacific Ocean. Environmental Science and Technology, 51(18): 10,494-10,502 https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.7b02712
  23. Cullen, J.T. and L.A. Coogan. (2017) Changes in the Fe oxidation rate in hydrothermal plumes as a potential driver of enhanced hydrothermal input to near-ridge sediments during glacial terminations. Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 11,951-11,958 https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL074609
  24. Cullen, J.T. and J. McAlister. (2017) Biogeochemistry of Lead its Release to the Environment and Chemical Speciation. Metal Ions in Life Sciences Vol. 17, Lead: Its Effects on Environmental Health.
  25. Crusius, J., A.W. Schroth, J.A. Resing, J.T. Cullen and R.W. Campbell. (2017) Seasonal and spatial variabilities in northern Gulf of Alaska surface water iron concentrations driven by shelf sediment resuspension, glacial meltwater, a Yakutat eddy, and dust. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31 https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GB005493
  26. Posacka A.M., D.M. Semeniuk, H. Whitby, C.M.G. van den Berg, J.T. Cullen, K. Orians and M.T. Maldonado. (2017) Dissolved copper (dCu) biogeochemical cycling in the subarctic Northeast Pacific and a call for improving methodologies. Marine Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2017.05.007
  27. *Janssen, D.J., W. Abouchami, S.J.G. Galer and J.T. Cullen. (2017) Fine-scale spatial and interannual cadmium isotope variability in the subarctic northeast Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 472: 241-252 doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.048
  28. *Schallenberg, C., A. Ross, **A. Davidson, G. Stewart and J.T. Cullen. (2017) Temporal variability of dissolved iron species in the mesopelagic zone at Ocean Station PAPA. Journal of Marine Systems, 172: 128-136 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2017.03.006
  29. Semeniuk, D.M., R. Taylor. R. Bundy, W.K. Johnson, J.T. Cullen, M. Robert, K. Barbeau and M.T. Maldonado. (2015) Iron-copper interactions in iron-limited phytoplankton in the northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 61(1): 279-297 doi:10.1002/lno.10210
  30. *Janssen, D.J. and J.T. Cullen. (2015) Decoupling of zinc and silicic acid in the subarctic northeast Pacific interior. Marine Chemistry
  31. *Schallenberg, C., **A.B. Davidson, K.G. Simpson, L.A. Miller and J.T. Cullen. (2015) Iron(II) variability in the northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry
  32. Quay, P., J.T. Cullen, P. Morton and W. Landing. (2015). Processes controlling the distributions of Cd and PO4 in the ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  33. Vance, D., S.H. Little, G.F. de Souza, Y. Zhao, J.T. Cullen and M.C. Lohan. (in review) The oceanic biogeochemical cycle of zinc and its isotopes: the dominance of Southern Ocean export. Nature
  34. *Schallenberg, C., P.van der Merwe, F. Chever, J.T. Cullen, D. Lannuzel and A.R. Bowie. (2015) Dissolved iron and iron(II) distributions beneath the pack ice in the East Antarctic (120 °E) during the winter/spring transition. Deep-Sea Research II
  35. Lauro, F.M, S.J. Senstius, J.T. Cullen, R. Neches, R.M. Jensen, M.V. Brown, A.E. Darling, M. Givskov, D. McDougald, R. Hoeke, M. Ostrowski, G.K. Philip, I.T. Paulsen and J.J. Grzymski. (2014) The common oceanographer: Crowdsourcing the collection of oceanographic data. PLOS Biology, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001947
  36. *Janssen, D.J., T.M. Conway, S.G. John, J. Christian, D.I. Kramer, T.F. Pedersen and J.T. Cullen. (2014) Undocumented water column sink for cadmium in open ocean oxygen deficient zones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(19): 6888-6893 DOIi: 10.1073/pnas.1402388111
  37. Stuart, E.J.E, K. Tischulik, D. Lowinsohn, J.T. Cullen and R.G. Compton. (2014) Gold electrodes from recordable CDs for the sensitive, semi-quantitative detection of commercial silver nanoparticles in seawater media. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2014.01.040
  38. Mélançon, J., M. Levasseur, M. Lizotte, P. Delmelle, J.T. Cullen, R. C. Hamme, A. Peña, K. Simpson, M. Scarratt, Jean-Éric Tremblay *J. Zhou, K. Johnson, N. Sutherland, N. Nemcek, M. Arychuk and M. Robert. (2014) Early response of the northeast subarctic Pacific plankton assemblage to volcanic ash fertilization. Limnology and Oceanography, 59(1), 55–67 doi:10.4319/lo.2014.59.1.0055
  39. *Giesbrecht, T., N. Sim, K.J. Orians and J.T. Cullen. (2013) The distribution of dissolved and total dissolvable aluminium in the Beaufort Sea and Canada Basin region of the Arctic Ocean. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, VOL. 118, 1–14, doi:10.1002/2013JC009202
  40. Cheng, W., E.J.E. Stuart, K. Tischulik, J.T. Cullen and R.G. Compton. (2013) A disposable sticky electrode for the detection of commercial silver NPs in seawater. Nanotechnology, 24, doi:10.1088/0957-4484/24/50/505501
  41. Stuart, E.J.E., K. Tischulik, D. Omanovic, J.T. Cullen, K. Jurkschat, A. Crossley and R.G. Compton. (2013) Electrochemical detection of commercial nanoparticles: Identification, sizing and detection in environmental media. Nanotechnology, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/24/44/444002
  42. Taylor, R.L., D.M. Semeniuk, C. Payne, *J. Zhou, J-E Tremblay, J.T. Cullen and M.T. Maldonado. (2013) Co-limitation by light, nitrate and iron in the Beaufort Sea in late summer. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, VOL. 118, 1–17, doi:10.1002/jgrc.20244
  43. Cullen, J.T. and M.T. Maldonado. (2013) Biogeochemistry of Cadmium and its Release to the Environment. Metal Ions in Life Sciences Vol. 11, Cadmium: From Toxicity to Essentiality.
  44. Stuart, E.J.E., N.V. Rees, J.T. Cullen and R.G. Compton. (2012) Direct electrochemical detection and sizing of silver nanoparticles in seawater. Nanoscale DOI: 10.1039/c2nr33146b
  45. Murray, J.I, M.L. Tonkin, A. Whiting, F. Peng, B. Farnell, J.T. Cullen, F. Hof and M.J. Boulanger. (2012) Structural characterization of S100A15 reveals a novel zinc coordination site among S100 proteins and altered surface chemistry with functional implications for receptor binding. BMC Structural Biology, 12:16 doi:10.1186/1472-6807-12-16
  46. *Shinki, M., M.T. Ivanov, J.S. Post, S. Vagle, J.T. Cullen and D.K. Hore. (2012) An auto-calibrating Stokes polarimeter for materials characterization. Applied Optics Vol. 51(18), pp. 4113–4119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/AO.51.004113
  47. *Shinki, M., M. Wendeberg, S. Vagle, J.T. Cullen, D.K. Hore. (2012) Characterization of microlayer absorption on an oceanic glass plate sampler. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 10:728-735 DOI: 10.4319/lom.2012.10.728
  48. **Brown, K.A., E. McGreer, B. Taekema and J.T. Cullen. (2011) Determination of total free sulphides in sediment porewater and artifacts related to the mobility of mineral sulphides. Aquatic Geochemistry. doi: 10.1007/s10498-011-9137-0
  49. Kramer, D.I., J.T. Cullen, J.R. Christian, W. Keith Johnson and T.F. Pedersen. (2010) Silver in the subarctic northeast Pacific: Explaining the basin scale distribution of silver. Marine Chemistry, 123(1-4): 133-142. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2010.11.002
  50. Hinther, A., S. Vawda, R.C. Skirrow, N. Veldhoen, *P. Collins, J.T. Cullen, G. van Aggelen and C.C Helbing. (2010) Nanometals induce stress and alter thyroid hormone action in amphibia at or below North American water quality guidelines. Environmental Science and Technology, 44(21): 8314-8321. doi: 10.1021/es101902n
  51. Coogan, L.A. and J.T. Cullen (2009). Did natural fission reactors form as a consequence of the emergence of oxygenic photosynthesis during the Archean? GSA Today, 19(10), doi: 10.1130/GSATG41A.1.
  52. Cullen, J.T., *M. Chong and D. Ianson (2009). The British Columbian continental shelf as a source of dissolved iron to the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 23, GB4012, doi:10.1029/2008GB003326.
  53. Semeniuk, D.M., J. T. Cullen, K. Gagnon, T. Ruth, M. T. Maldonado (2009). Plankton copper requirements and uptake in the subarctic NE Pacific Ocean. Deep Sea Research I, 56:1130-1142. doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.03.003
  54. Lane, E.S., D.M. Semeniuk, R.F. Strzepek, J.T. Cullen and M.T. Maldonado (2009). Effects of Fe limitation on intracellular Cd of cultured phytoplankton: implications for surface dissolved Cd:PO43- ratios. Marine Chemistry, doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2009.07.008
  55. Lane, E.S., K. Jang, J.T. Cullen and M.T. Maldonado (2008). The interaction between inorganic Fe and Cd uptake in the marine diatom Thalassiosira oceanica. Limnology and Oceanography, 53(5): 1784-1789. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2008.53.5.1784
  56. Wiramanaden, C.I.E., J.T. Cullen, A.R.S. Ross and K.J. Orians (2008). Cyanobacterial copper-binding ligands isolated from artificial seawater cultures. Marine Chemistry, 110:28-41. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2008.02.003
  57. Cullen, J.T. (2006). On the non-linear relationship between dissolved cadmium and phosphate in the modern global ocean: Could chronic iron limitation of phytoplankton growth cause the kink? Limnology and Oceanography. 51(3): 1369-1380. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1369
  58. Cullen, J.T., B.A. Bergquist, and J.W. Moffett (2006). Thermodynamic characterization of the partitioning of iron between soluble and colloidal species in the Atlantic Ocean. Marine Chemistry, 98:295-303. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2005.10.007
  59. Cullen, J.T., and R.M. Sherrell (2005). Effects of dissolved carbon dioxide, zinc and manganese on the cadmium to phosphorus ratio in natural phytoplankton assemblages. Limnology and Oceanography, 50(4):1193-1204. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2005.50.4.1193
  60. Glenn, Scott; R. Arnone, T. Bergmann, P.W. Bissett, M. Crowley, J.T. Cullen, J. Gryzmski, D. Haidvogel, J. Kohut, M. Moline, M. Oliver, C. Orrico, R. Sherrell, T. Song, A. Weidemann, R. Chant, O.M. Schofield (2004). Biogeochemical impact of summertime coastal upwelling on the New Jersey Shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, Vol. 109, No. C12, C12S02 DOI: 10.1029/2003JC002265.
  61. Murphy, K., J. Boehme, P. Coble, J.T. Cullen, M.P. Field, W. Moore, E. Perry, R.M. Sherrell and G. Ruiz (2004). Verification of mid-ocean ballast water exchange using naturally occurring coastal tracers. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 48(7-8):711-730. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2003.10.015
  62. Cullen, J.T., Z. Chase, K.H. Coale, S.E. Fitzwater and R.M. Sherrell (2003). Effect of iron limitation on the cadmium to phosphorus ratio of natural phytoplankton assemblages from the Southern Ocean. Limnology and Oceanography, 48: 1079-1087. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1079
  63. Cullen, J.T., Y. Rosenthal and P.G. Falkowski (2001). The effect of anthropogenic CO2 on the stable isotope composition of marine phytoplankton. Limnology and Oceanography, 46(4): 996-998.
  64. Cullen, J.T., M.P. Field and R.M. Sherrell (2001). The determination of trace elements in filtered suspended marine particulate material by sector field HR-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, 16: 1307-1312.
  65. Berman-Frank, I, J.T. Cullen, Y. Shaked, R.M. Sherrell, P.G. Falkowski (2001). Iron availability, cellular iron-quotas, and nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium. Limnology and Oceanography, 46(6):1249-1260. DOI: 10.4319/lo.2001.46.6.1249
  66. Cullen, J.T.,T.W. Lane, F.M.M. Morel and R.M. Sherrell (1999). Modulation of cadmium uptake in phytoplankton by seawater pCO2. Nature, 402:165-167. doi:10.1038/46007
  67. Cullen, J.T., and R.M. Sherrell (1999). Techniques for determination of trace metals in small samples of size-fractionated particulate matter: phytoplankton metals off central California. Marine Chemistry, 67:233-247.
  68. Field, M.P., J.T. Cullen, and R.M. Sherrell (1999). Direct determination of 10 trace metals in 50 µL samples of coastal seawater using desolvating micronebulization sector field ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectroscopy, 14:1425-1431. DOI: 10.1039/A901693G
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