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a. Cai, W.-J., M. Dai, and Y. Wang (2006), Air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in ocean margins: A province-based synthesis, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L12603, doi:10.1029/2006GL026219.

b. Cai, W.-J.  F. Chen, E. Powell, S. Walker, K., M. Parsons-Hubbard, G. Staff, Y. Wang, K, Ashton-Alcox, W. R. Callender, C. Brett. 2006. Preferential dissolution of carbonate shells driven by petroleum seep activity in Gulf of Mexico. Earth and Planet Sci. Lett. (in press)

c. Lohrenz, S. E., and W.-J. Cai. 2006. Satellite ocean color assessment of air-sea fluxes of CO2 in a river-dominated coastal margin, Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L01601, doi:10.1029/2005GL023942.

1. Zhai, W., Dai, M. Cai, W.-J., Wang, Y. and Hong, H.S. 2005. The partial pressure of carbon dioxide and air-sea fluxes in the northern South China Sea in spring, summer and autumn. Marine Chemistry 96:87-97.

2. Cai, W.-J. and Dai, M. 2004. A Technical Comment on “Enhanced open ocean storage of CO2 from shelf area pumping”. Science 306:1477c.

3. Zhai, Z., M. Dai, W-J. Cai, Y. Wang, Z. Wang. 2004. High partial pressure of CO2 and its maintaining mechanism in a subtropical estuary: the Pearl River estuary, China. Mar. Chem 93:21-32.

4. Cai, W-J., Dai M., Wang Y., Zhai W., Huang T., Chen S., Zhang F., Chen Z., Wang Z. 2004. The biogeochemistry of inorganic carbon and nutrients in the Pearl River estuary and the adjacent northern South China Sea. Continental Shelf Res. 24:1301-1319.

5. Pomeroy, L. R. and Cai, W-J. (in press) Oxygen, carbon dioxide, and estuarine condition, in: Kleppel, G. S., DeVoe, M. R., and Rawson, M. V., Jr. (eds) Implications of Land Use Change to Coastal Ecosystems: Challenges to Effective Resource Management. Springer-Verlag New York.

6. Xie, H., Zafiriou, O.C., Cai, W-J., Zepp, R.G., and Wang, Y. 2004. Photooxidation and its effects on the carboxyl content of dissolved organic matter in two coastal rivers in the Southeastern United States. Environmental Science & Technology 38(15): 4113 - 4119; DOI: 10.1021/es035407t.

7. Wang, Z. and W-J. Cai, 2004. Carbon dioxide degassing and inorganic carbon export from a marsh dominated estuary (the Duplin River): A marsh CO2 pump. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 49(2):341-352.

8. Cai, W-J. 2003. Riverine inorganic carbon flux and rate of biological uptake in the Mississippi River plume. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30(2), 1032, doi:10.1029/2002GL016312.

9. Cai, W-J., Z. Wang and Y. Wang. 2003. The role of marsh-dominated heterotrophic continental margins in transport of CO2 between the atmosphere, the land-sea interface and the ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(16), 1849, doi:10.1029/2003GL017633.

10. Cai, W-J., Y. Wang, J. Krest and W.S. Moore. 2003. The geochemistry of dissolved inorganic carbon in a surficial groundwater aquifer in North Inlet, South Carolina and the carbon fluxes to the coastal ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 67(4):631-637.

11. Wang, Z., Cai, W-J. Upchurch, Bruce, and Wang, Y. 2003. Spectrophotometric pCO2 measurements based on a long pathlength liquid-core waveguide in the South Atlantic Bight. Mar. Chem. 84:73-84.

12. Zhang, Z-B., Cai, W-J., Liu, L., Liu, C. & Chen, F. 2003. Direct determination of thickness of sea surface microlayer using a pH microelectrode at original location. Science in China-Series B, ISSN:1006-9291, 46(4):339-351 (English edition). & v.33(3):201-210 (Chinese edition).

13. Zhang, Z-B., Liu, L., Liu, C. and Cai, W-J. 2003. Studies on the sea surface microlayer II. The layer of sudden change of physical and chemical properties. J. Colloid and Interface Sciences 264:148-159.

14. Zhang, Z-B., Xing, L., Jiang, L., Wang, Y., Ren, C., and Cai, W-J. 2003. The electrochemical determination of nitric oxide in seawater media with microelectrodes. Sensors, 3, 304-313.

15. Cai, W-J., P. Zhao, S. M. Theberge, A.Witter, Y. Wang, G. Luther III. 2002. Porewater redox species, pH and pCO2 in aquatic sediments—Electrochemical sensor studies in Lake Champlain and Sapelo Island. In “Environmental Electrochemistry: Analyses of Trace Element Biogeochemistry” ACS Symposium Volume on Electrochemistry. M. Taillefert and T. Rozan (ed.)

16. Wang, Z., Y. Wang, W.-J. Cai. 2002. A Long Pathlength Spectrophotometric pCO2 Sensor Using A Gas-Permeable Liquid-Core Waveguide. Talanta 57: 69-80.

17. Sun, M.-Y., W-J. Cai, S. B. Joye, H. Ding, J. Dai, and J. T. Hollibaugh. 2002. Degradation of algal lipids in microcosm sediments with different mixing regimes. Organic Geochemistry, 33:445-459.

18. Cai, W-J., P. Zhao, and Y. Wang. 2000. pH and pCO2 microelectrodes measurement and diffusive behavior of carbon dioxide species in coastal marine sediments. Mar. Chem. 70:133-148.

19. Cai, W-J. and C.E. Reimers. 2000. Sensors for in situ pH and pCO2 measurements in seawater and at the sediment-water interface. In J. Buffle and G. Horvai (ed.) In-situ Monitoring of Aquatic System: Chemical Analysis and Speciation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

20. Cai, W.-J., W. J. Wiebe, Y. Wang and J. E. Sheldon. 2000. Intertidal marsh as a source of dissolved inorganic carbon and a sink of nitrate in the Satilla River-estuarine complex in the southeastern U.S. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 45:1743-1752.

21. Cai, W.-J., L. R. Pomeroy, M. A. Moran and Y. Wang. 1999. Oxygen and carbon dioxide mass balance for the estuarine–intertidal marsh complex of five rivers in the southeastern U.S. Limnol & Oceanogr. 44:639-649.

22. Zhao, P and W.-J. Cai 1999. pH polymeric membrane microelectrodes based on neutral carriers and their applications in aquatic environments. Analytica Chimica Acta 395:285-291.

23. Cai, W.-J. and Y. Wang 1998. The chemistry, fluxes and sources of carbon dioxide in the estuarine waters of the Satilla and Altamaha Rivers, Georgia. Limnol. & Oceanogr. 43:657-668.

24. Cai, W.-J., Y. Wang, and R.E. Hodson. 1998. Acid-base properties of dissolved organic matter in the estuarine waters of Georgia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 62:473-483.

25. Zhao, P. and W.-J. Cai 1997. An improved potentiometric pCO2 microelectrode. Anal. Chem. 69:5052-58.

27. Cai, W.-J. and F.L. Sayles. 1996. Oxygen penetration depths and fluxes in marine sediments. Marine Chemistry 52:123-13.

28. Cai, W.-J. and C.E. Reimers. 1995. Benthic oxygen flux, bottom water oxygen concentration and core top organic carbon content in the deep northeast Pacific Ocean. Deep-Sea Research 42:1681-1699.

29. Cai, W.-J., C.E. Reimers, and T. Shaw. 1995. Microelectrode studies of organic carbon degradation and calcite dissolution at a California continental rise site. Geochimca et Cosmochimica Acta. 59,497-511.

30. Cai W.J. 1994. Microelectrode studies of carbon recycling rates and pore-water, Geochemistry Abstr Pap Am Chem S, 207: 172-GEOC Part 1,

31. Cai, W.-J. and C.E. Reimers. 1993. The development of pH and pCO2 microelectrodes for studying the carbonate chemistry of pore waters near the sediment-water interface. Limnology and Oceanography 38:1776-1787.

32. Cai, W.-J., B.-L. Chen, B.-L. Wu and L. Li, 1988. The effect of sewage discharge on the adsorption of heavy metal ions by small particles of Yangtse river estuarine. Marine Science, Sinica, 1:20-24.

33. Cai, W.-J. and Z.-B. Zhang. 1987. The kinetics of exchange reactions between heavy metals and solid particles in seawater. I. Reaction orders, rate constants and activation energy. Acta Oceanologica, Sinica, 9:321-329.

34. Zhang, Z.-B. and W.-J. Cai. 1985. Ion exchange-precipitation isotherm for the partition of heavy metal ions between seawater and clay minerals. Acta Oceanologica, Sinica, 7:712-722.

35. Wu, Y.-D. and W.-J. Cai. 1983. Reduction of Cr(VI) by dissolved organics in estuarine water body. Acta Scientiae Circumstantiae, 3:176-182.