Sasha Wagner

About

Our research focuses on the biogeochemistry of dissolved organic matter – a complex mixture of organic molecules deriving from fresh biomass, detritus, charred residues, and anthropogenic sources. Since dissolved organic matter is mobilized by water and is comprised of 50% carbon by mass, it plays an integral role in connecting terrestrial and oceanic carbon reservoirs and in regulating ecosystem structure and function. We specialize in the study of black carbon, the thermogenic fraction of organic matter that has a condensed aromatic molecular structure, is biologically inert, and persists in the environment for millennia. Our research program combines different geochemical techniques to constrain the role of dissolved organic matter and black carbon in a modern Earth system that is altered by anthropogenic activity and continued climate change.

If you are interested in joining our lab or learning more about the research we do, please visit our lab website or contact me at the email listed below.

Education & Training

PhD in Environmental Chemistry, Florida International University, 2015

BS in Biochemistry, University of Delaware, 2009

Other affililations: Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Research

Other Focus Areas
  • organic geochemistry
  • biogeochemistry
  • aquatic carbon cycling
  • dissolved organic matter
  • black carbon

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Sasha Wagner has 27 indexed publications in the subjects of Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Alysha I. Coppola, Sasha Wagner, Sinikka T. Lennartz, Michael Seidel, Nicholas D. Ward, Thorsten Dittmar, Cristina Santín, Matthew W. Jones
Nature Reviews Earth and Environment
, 3
, 2022
, pp.516-532
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Amy D. Holt, Anne M. Kellerman, Wenbo Li, Aron Stubbins, Sasha Wagner, Amy McKenna, Jason Fellman, Eran Hood, Robert G.M. Spencer
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
, 126
, 2021
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Marijn Bauters, Travis W. Drake, Sasha Wagner, Simon Baumgartner, Isaac A. Makelele, Samuel Bodé, Kris Verheyen, Hans Verbeeck, Corneille Ewango, Landry Cizungu, Kristof Van Oost, Pascal Boeckx
Nature Communications
, 12
, 2021
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Sasha Wagner, Alysha I. Coppola, Aron Stubbins, Thorsten Dittmar, Jutta Niggemann, Travis W. Drake, Michael Seidel, Robert G.M. Spencer, Hongyan Bao
Nature Communications
, 12
, 2021
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Aleksandar I. Goranov, Morgan F. Schaller, Jonathan A. Long, David C. Podgorski, Sasha Wagner
Energy and Fuels
, 35
, 2021
, pp.18135-18145
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Sasha Wagner, Elizabeth Harvey, Nicholas Baetge, Heather McNair, Eleanor Arrington, Aron Stubbins
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
, 126
, 2021
.
David C. Podgorski, Phoebe Zito, Anne M. Kellerman, Barbara A. Bekins, Isabelle M. Cozzarelli, Donald F. Smith, Xiaoyan Cao, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Sasha Wagner, Aron Stubbins, Robert G.M. Spencer
Journal of Hazardous Materials
, 402
, 2021
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Travis W. Drake, Sasha Wagner, Aron Stubbins, José N. Wabakanghanzi, Jean Bienvenu Dinga, Johan Six, Robert G.M. Spencer
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
, 34
, 2020
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Sasha Wagner, Florence Schubotz, Karl Kaiser, Christian Hallmann, Hannelore Waska, Pamela E. Rossel, Roberta Hansman, Marcus Elvert, Jack J. Middelburg, Anja Engel, Thomas M. Blattmann, Teresa S. Catalá, Sinikka T. Lennartz, Gonzalo V. Gomez-Saez, Silvio Pantoja-Gutiérrez, Rui Bao, Valier Galy
Frontiers in Marine Science
, 7
, 2020
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