Ana Maria Aguilar-Islas Post-Doctoral Fellow phone: 907-474-1524 email: aaguilariarc.uaf.edu office: Akasofu 207 F International Arctic Research Center 930 Koyukuk Drive P.O. Box 757340 Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7340

Programs

BEST (Bering Ecosystem Study) (http://www.fish.washington.edu/research/best/)

Education

2007 Doctor of Philosophy, Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (Professor Kenneth Bruland, Advisor)

2002 Bachelor of Science (summa cum laude), Chemistry, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA (Professor Kenneth Bruland, Advisor)

1988 Bachelor of Fine Arts (cum laude), Communication Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Research Interests

• Ocean biogeochemistry of trace metals
• Solubility of aerosol iron in seawater
• Distribution, sources and the role of iron in the Bering Sea
• Development of analytical techniques for the determination of ultra low level trace metals in seawater

IARC Publications

published or accepted, refereed publications and books

• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., J. Wu (2009), The dissolution of aerosol iron in seawater is dominated by the colloidal Fe fraction, Marine Chemistry, accepted.
• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., J. Wu, R. Rember (2009), Dissolution of aerosol-derived iron in seawater: leach solution chemistry, aerosol type and colloidal iron fractions, Marine Chemistry, accepted.
• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., R. Rember, C. Mordy, J. Wu (2008), Sea ice-derived dissolved iron and its potential influence on the spring algal bloom in the Bering Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 35, L24601, doi:10.1029/2008GL035736.
• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., M.P. Hurst, K.N. Buck, G.J. Smith, B. Sohst, M.C. Lohan, K.W. Bruland (2007), Micro- and macronutrients in the southeastern Bering Sea: Insight into iron- replete and iron-depleted regimes, Progress In Oceanography, 73, 99-126.
• Johnson, K.S., E.A. Boyle, K.W. Bruland, K. Coale, C. Measures, J. Moffett, A.M. Aguilar-Islas, et. al (2007), Developing Standards for dissolved iron in seawater, EOS, 88(11), 131-132.
• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., K.W. Bruland (2006), Dissolved manganese and silicic acid in the Columbia River plume: A major source to the California Current and coastal waters off Washington and Oregon, Marine Chemistry, 101, 233-247.
• Aguilar-Islas, A.M., J.A. Resing, K.W. Bruland (2006), Catalytically enhanced spectrophotometric detection of dissolved manganese in seawater by flow injection analysis with a commercially available resin for on-line pre-concentration, Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 4, 105-113.
• Lohan, M.C., A.M. Aguilar-Islas, K.W. Bruland (2006), Direct determination of iron in acidified (pH 1.7) seawater samples by flow injection catalytic spectrophotometric detection: Application and intercomparison, Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 4, 164-171.
• Lohan, M.C., A.M. Aguilar-Islas, R.P. Franks, K.W. Bruland (2005), Determination of iron and copper in seawater at pH 1.7 with a new commercially available chelating resin, NTA Superflow, Analytica Chimica Acta, 530, 121-129.