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Lee W. Cooper

See Also: Arctic Research Portal at the University of Tennessee

Major Research Interest

Biogeochemistry including indisciplinary applications of stable isotope and radioisotope tracers. I have worked in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems although the major proportion of my current funded field work is in the Arctic marine environment. A key focus of my current work is on impacts of environmental change on biogeochemical processes at high latitudes. Additional information on my current research projects is available at http://arctic.bio.utk.edu

Education

  • 1987 - Ph.D., University of Alaska Fairbanks

Selected Publications - Complete list

  • Cooper, L.W. and C. P. McRoy, 1988. Anatomical adaptations to rocky substrates and surf exposure by the seagrass genus Phyllospadix. Aquatic Botany 32, 365-381.
  • Cooper, L.W. and M.J. DeNiro, 1989. Covariance of oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compositions in plant water: Species effects Ecology 70, 1619-1628.
  • Cooper, L.W., C.R. Olsen, D.K. Solomon, I.L. Larsen, R.B. Cook, and J.M. Grebmeier, 1991. Stable isotopes of oxygen, and natural and fallout radionuclides used for tracing runoff during snowmelt in an arctic watershed. Water Resources Research 27, 2171-2179.
  • Cooper, L.W. and R.J. Norby, 1994. Atmospheric CO2 enrichment can increase the 18O content of leaf water and cellulose: paleoclimatic and ecophysiological implications. Climate Research 4, 1-11.
  • Cooper, L.W., I.L. Larsen, G.L. Franklin, G.F. Houser, L.G. Emelyanova, L.N., Neretin, 1996. Anthropogenic radioactivity levels in the vicinity of the Bilibino Nuclear Power Station, Chukotka, Russia. Polar Geography 20, 3-19.
  • Cooper, L.W., T.T. Whitledge, J.M. Grebmeier, and T. Weingartner, 1997. Nutrient, salinity and stable oxygen isotope composition of Bering and Chukchi Sea in and around the Bering Strait. Journal of Geophysical Research 102, 12,563-12,574.
  • Egorov, V.G., S.E. Nalivaiko, V.S. Pavlenko, V.S., O.S. Rzshevsky, L.W. Cooper, J.M. Grebmeier, and L.R. Shugart, 1997. Submersible UV-B spectroradiometer using an acousto-optic tunable filter. Proc. SPIE Vol. 2963: 664-669, Ocean Optics XIII, Steven G. Ackelson, editor. The International Society for Optical Engineering
  • Cooper, L.W., Isotopic fractionation in snow cover, 1998. In: Isotopic Tracers in Catchment Hydrology, pp. 119-136, J.J. McDonnell and C. Kendall, eds. Elsevier, Amsterdam
  • Garten, C.T., L.W. Cooper, W.M. Post, and P.J. Hanson. 2000. Climate controls on soil carbon isotope ratios in forests along an elevation gradient in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Ecology 81, 1108-1119.
  • Cooper, L.W., J.M. Kelley, L.A. Bond, K.A. Orlandini, and J.M. Grebmeier. 2000. Sources of the transuranic elements plutonium and neptunium in arctic marine sediments. Marine Chemistry 69, 253-276.
  • Cooper, L.W., J.M. Grebmeier, I.L. Larsen, V.G.Egorov, C. Theodorakis, H.P. Kelly, J.R. Lovvorn, 2002. Seasonal variation in water column processes and sedimentation of organic materials in the St. Lawrence Island polynya region, Bering Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 226, 13-26.
  • Cooper, L.W. and C. Solis, 2003. 18O and 13C in leaf litter versus tree-ring cellulose as proxy isotopic indicators of climate change. In (P.J. Hanson and S.D. Wullschleger eds): North American Temperate Deciduous Forest Responses to Changing Precipitation Regimes, pp 140-159. Springer-Verlag, New York.
  • Lovvorn J.R., S.E. Richman, J.M. Grebmeier, L.W. Cooper, 2003. Diet and body condition of spectacled eiders in pack ice of the Bering Sea. Polar Biology 26, 259-267.
  • Clement, J.L., L.W. Cooper, and J.M. Grebmeier. 2004. Late-winter water column and sea ice conditions in the northern Bering Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research. Vol. 109, C03022, doi:10.1029/2003JC002047, 2004
  • Mulholland, P.J., H. M. Valett, J.R. Webster, S.A. Thomas, L.W. Cooper, S. Hamilton, and B.J. Peterson. 2004. Stream denitrification and total nitrate uptake rates measured using a field 15N isotope tracer approach. Limnology and Oceanography 49(3), 2004, 809–820.
  • Lovvorn, J.R., L.W. Cooper, M.L. Brooks, C. C. DeRuyck, J.K. Bump, and J.M. Grebmeier, 2005. Organic matter pathways to zooplankton and benthos under pack ice in late winter and open water in late summer in the north-central Bering Sea. In-press, Marine Ecology-Progress Series.
Lee W. Cooper

Contact Information

Lee W. Cooper
Research Professor and Project Director
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
10515 Research Dr, Suite 100
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37932

Phone: (865) 974-2990
Fax: (865) 974-7896
Email: lcooper1@utk.edu