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2025

  1. Taraphdar, S., Gopalakrishnan, D., Liu, C. H., Pauluis, O. M., Xue, L. L., Ajayamohan, R. S., Leung, L. R., Hagos, S., Grabowski, W. W., Chen, S. S., Rasmussen, R. M., & Tessendorf, S. A. (2025). Subtropical Jet Regulates Arabian Winter Precipitation: A Viable Mechanism. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 82(4), 713-732. https://doi.org/10.1175/Jas-D-23-0213.1
  2. Al Kaabi, M., ElNaker, N. A., Jan, N., Ochsenkühn, M. A., Amin, S. A., Yousef, L. F., & Yousef, A. F. (2025). Extraction efficiency and bioactive evaluation of Tamarix nilotica and Arthrocnemum macrostachyum extracts for anti-cancer potential. PLOS ONE, 20(1), e0311567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311567
  3. Brunet, M., Amin, S. A., Bodachivskyi, I., Kuzhiumparambil, U., Seymour, J. R., & Raina, J. B. (2025). An atlas of metabolites driving chemotaxis in prokaryotes. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1242. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56410-y
  4. Burt, J. A., Jones, N. P., Hadj-Hammou, J., Riegl, B., & Bauman, A. (2025). Temporal effects of recurrent disturbances on coral traits in the southern Persian Gulf. Scholar Article. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hcas_etd_all/192/
  5. Cavalcante, G. H., Vieira, F., Bento, R., Bartholomew, A., & Burt, J. A. (2025). Oceanographic variability in Sir Bu Nair Island (Arabian/Persian Gulf) based on in situ observations. Journal of Coastal Research, 113(SI), 412–416. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI113-081.1
  6. Fei, C., Booker, A., Klass, S., Vidyarathna, N. K., Ahn, S. H., Mohamed, A. R., Arshad, M., Glibert, P. M., Heil, C. A., Martínez Martínez, J., & Amin, S. A. (2025). Friends and foes: Symbiotic and algicidal bacterial influence on Karenia brevis ISME Communications, 5(1), ycae164. https://doi.org/10.1093/ismeco/ycae164
  7. Nolan, G., Ripley, D., Mitchell, M. D., McParland, D., Johansen, J. L., Shiels, H., & Burt, J. A. (2025). Narrow margins: Aerobic performance and temperature tolerance of coral reef fishes facing extreme thermal variability. Global Change Biology. Scholar Article. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/narrow-margins-aerobic-performance-and-temperature-tolerance-of-c

2024

  1. Aeby, G., Ben-Hamadou, R., Burt, J.A., Padierna, M. L., Range, P., Riegl, B., Salimi, M., & Torquato, P. (2024). Coral reefs in the world’s warmest sea: The paradoxical vulnerability of the world’s most robust corals. In Coral reefs and associated marine fauna around the Arabian Peninsula (pp. 60-76). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003321392-7
  2. Abhilash Dutta Roy, Pitumpe Arachchige, P. S., Watt, M. S., Kale, A., Davies, M., Hng, J. E., Daneil, R., Galgamuwa, G. A. P., Moussa, L. G., Timsina, K., Ewane, E. B., Rogers, K., Hendy, I., Edwards-Jones, A., de-Miguel, S., Burt, J. A., Ali, T., Sidik, F., Abdullah, M., Selvam, P. P., Jaafar, W. S. W. M., Alawatte, I., Doaemo, W., Cardil, A., & Mohan, M. (2024). Remote sensing-based mangrove blue carbon assessment in the Asia-Pacific: A systematic review. Science of The Total Environment, 938, 173270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173270
  3. Al-Gergawi,, Al-Memari, M., Vaughan, G., & Burt, J. A. (2024). The growing role of women in coral reef research in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Biological Conservation, 289, 110411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110411
  4. Al-Yamani, F. Y., Burt, J. A., Goes, J. I., Jones, B., Nagappa, R., Murty, V. S. N., Polikarpov, I., Saburova, M., Alsaafani, M., Kalampokis, A., Gomes, H. d. R., de Rada, S., Kiefer, D., Al-Said, T., Al-Kandari, M., Al-Hashmi, K., & Yamamoto, T. (2024). Physical and biogeochemical characteristics of the Indian Ocean marginal seas. In C. C. Ummenhofer & R. R. Hood (Eds.), The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system (pp. 365–391). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822698-8.00008-1
  5. Al-Yamani, F. Y., Burt, J. A., Goes, J. I., Jones, B., Nagappa, R., Murty, V. S. N., Polikarpov, I., & others. (2024). Physical and biogeochemical characteristics of the Indian Ocean marginal seas. In The Indian Ocean and its role in the global climate system (pp. 365-391). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822698-8.00008-1
  6. Ben-Hasan, A., Vahabnezhad, A., Burt, J. A., Alrushaid, T., & Walters, C. J. (2024). Fishery implications of smaller asymptotic body size: Insights from fish in an extreme environment. Fisheries Research, 271, 106918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2023.106918
  7. Bento, R., Pentti, R., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Abu Dhabi coral reef composition and live coral cover for July 2024. Report to the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi, UAE, 1-5.
  8. Burt, J. A. (2024). From Phoenix to Sisyphus: Climate change impacts and intervention strategies for Arabian Gulf coral reefs. Journal of Coastal Research, 113, 837-843. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI113-165.1
  9. Burt, J. A., Torres-Florez, J. P., Rodrigue, M., Nelson, C., & Chance, M. (2024). First record of bramble sharks, Echinorhinus brucus (Echinorhiniformes, Echinorhinidae), in the United Arab Emirates. Diversity, 16(10), 614. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16100614
  10. Cavalcante, G. H., Vieira, F., Bento, R., Bartholomew, A., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Oceanographic variability in Sir Bu Nair Island (Arabian/Persian Gulf) based on in situ observations. Journal of Coastal Research, 113, 410-414. https://doi.org/10.2112/JCR-SI113-081.1
  11. Chan, E. C., Ilona, J., Khan, B., Schaap, M., Butler, T. M., Forkel, R., & Banzhaf, S. (2024). An enhanced emissions module for the PALM model system 23.10 with application on PM10 emissions from urban domestic heating. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-61
  12. Chan, E. C., Ilona, J., Khan, B., Schaap, M., Butler, T. M., Forkel, R., & Banzhaf, S. (2024, March 28). Source code and model run configurations for “An enhanced emissions module for the PALM model system 23.10 with application on PM10 emission from urban domestic heating.” Zenodo. https://zenodo.org/records/10890465
  13. Dahy, B., Al-Memari, M., Al-Gergawi, A., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Remote sensing of 50 years of coastal urbanization and environmental change in the Arabian Gulf: A systematic review. Frontiers in Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2024.1422910
  14. Dutta Roy, A., Pitumpe Arachchige, P. S., Watt, M. S., Kale, A., Davies, M., Heng, J. E., Daniel, R., Burt, J. A., & others. (2024). Remote sensing-based mangrove blue carbon assessment in the Asia-Pacific: A systematic review. Science of the Total Environment, 938, 173270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173270
  15. Friis, G., Smith, E. G., Lovelock, C. E., Ortega, A., Marshell, A., Duarte, C. M., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Rapid diversification of grey mangroves (Avicennia marina) driven by geographic isolation and extreme environmental conditions in the Arabian Peninsula. Molecular Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17116
  16. Firth, L., Bone, J., Bartholomew, A., Bishop, M., Bugnot, A., Bulleri, F., Chee, S.-Y., Claassens, L., Dafforn, K. A., Fairchild, T. P., Hall, A. E., Hanley, Burt, J.A, M. E., Komyakova, V., Lemasson, A. J., Loke, L., Mayer-Pinto, M., Morris, R., Naylor, L., Perkins, M. J., … Knights,  A. M. (2024). Coastal greening of gray infrastructure: An update on the state-of-the-art. Maritime Engineering, 0, 1–69. https://doi.org/10.1680/jmaen.2023.0
  17. Glocke, P., Holst, C. C., Khan, B., & Benz, S. A. (2024). Impact of subsurface thermal anomalies on air temperatures in idealized scenarios using PALM-4U. EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 14–19, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-3967
  18. Glocke, P., Holst, C. C., Khan, B., & Benz, S. A. (2024). Assessing soil and potential air temperature coupling using PALM-4U: Implications for idealized scenarios. EGUsphere, 2024, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1234
  19. Griffiths, M. H., Wade, C. M., D’Agostino, D., Berumen, M. L., Burt, J. A., DiBattista, J. D., & Feary, D. A. (2024). Phylogeography of a commercially important reef fish, Lutjanus Ehrenbergii, from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blad170
  20. Johansen, J. L., Mitchell, M. D., Vaughan, G. O., Ripley, D. M., Shiels, H. A., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Impacts of ocean warming on fish size reductions on the world’s hottest coral reefs. Nature Communications, 15(1), 5457. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-49459-8
  21. Lachkar, Z., Mehari, M., Paparella, F., & Burt, J. A. (2024). Acceleration of warming, deoxygenation and acidification in the Arabian Gulf driven by weakening of summer winds. Authorea Preprints. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171405630.01001102/v1
  22. Lachkar, Z., Cornejo-D’Ottone, M., Singh, A., Arístegui, J., Dewitte, B., Fawcett, S., Garçon, V., Lovecchio, E., Molina, V., & Vinayachandran, P. N. M. (2024). Biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases in coastal upwelling systems: Processes and sensitivity to global change. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 12(1), 00088. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2023.00088
  23. Laudan, J., Banzhaf, S., Khan, B., & Nagel, K. (2024). Coupling MATSim and the PALM Model System—Large scale microscopic traffic and emission modelling with high-resolution computational fluid dynamics dispersion modelling. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4584789
  24. Laudan, J., Banzhaf, S., Khan, B., & Nagel, K. (2024). Traffic management using high-resolution air pollution modelling and large-scale traffic. MDPI Atmosphere, 15, 1183. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15101183
  25. Laudan, J., Banzhaf, S., Khan, B., & Nagel, K. (2024). Optimierung in Verkehr und Transport: Modellgestützte Verkehrssteuerung auf Basis großräumiger Verkehrs- und hochauflösender Luftschadstoffsimulation. In HEUREKA 2024 (Conference paper).
  26. Lin, D., Zhang, J., Khan, B., Katurji, M., & Revell, L. E. (2024). GEO4PALM v1.1: An open-source geospatial data processing toolkit for the PALM model system. Geoscientific Model Development, 17, 815–845. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-815-2024
  27. Mohamed, A. R., Ochsenkühn, M. A., Kazlak, A. M., Moustafa, A., Amin, S. A. (2023). The coral microbiome: towards an understanding of the molecular mechanisms of coral–microbiota interactions. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 47(2), fuad005. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsre/fuad005
  28. Mohan, M., Dutta Roy, A., Montenegro, J. F., Watt, M. S., Burt, J. A., Shapiro, A., Ouerfelli, D., Daniel, R., de-Miguel, S., Ali, T., Ortega Pardo, M., Al Sayah, M., Aboobacker, V. M., El Beyrouthy, N., Reef, R., Adrah, E., AlMealla, R., Pitumpe Arachchige, P. S., Selvam, P., Wan Mohd Jaafar, W. S., Sujud, L., Bahzad, J., Alawatte, I., Hussein, S., López-Martínez, C., Sidik, F., Nithyanandan, M., Abdullah, M., Al-Khalid, M., Abulibdeh, A., & Cardil, A. (2024). Mangrove forest regeneration age map and drivers of restoration success in Gulf Cooperation Council countries from satellite imagery. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment, 36, 101345. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2024.101345
  29. Moussa, L. G., Mohan, M., Burmeister, N., King, S. A. L., Burt, J. A., Rog, S. M., Watt, M. S., Udagedara, S., Sujud, L., Montenegro, J. F., & others. (2024). Mangrove ecotourism along the coasts of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries: A systematic review. Land, 13(9), 1351. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091351
  30. Peixoto, R. S., Bourne, D., Cardenas, A., Pogoreutz, C., Luo, H., Amin, S. A., Dorr, M., Mohamed, A. R., & Silveira, C. (2024). Coral bacterial microbiome in sickness, in health, and in a changing world. Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-024-01015-3
  31. Pentti, R., Rivoira, B., Amin, S., Burt, J. A., & Paparella, F. (2024). Probing the depths: NYU Abu Dhabi collaborates with OceanX for marine research on the UAE’s coasts. Divers for the Environment, 20(1), 72-77. https://issuu.com/allylandes/docs/eda_march_issue_2024_issuu/72
  32. Reimer, J. D., Peixoto, R. S., Davies, S. W., Traylor-Knowles, N., Short, M. L., Cabral-Tena, R. A., Burt, J. A., & others. (2024). The fourth global coral bleaching event: Where do we go from here?. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02504-w
  33. Riegl, B., Bauman, A., Hadj-Hamou, J., & Burt, J. A. (2024). A decade of benthic changes on coral reefs in the Southern Persian/Arabian Gulf (2010–2020). Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02562-0
  34. Riegl, B., Bauman, A., Hadj-Hamou, J., Voolstra, R., Peixoto, D., Bourne, J. B., Raina, A., Cardenas, C., Pogoreutz, H., Luo, S. A., Amin, M., Dorr, A. R., Mohamed, C., & Silveira, C. (2024). Coral bacterial microbiome in sickness, in health, and in a changing world. Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-024-01015-3
  35. Resplandy, L., Hogikyan, A., Müller, J. D., Najjar, R. G., Bange, H. W., Bianchi, D., Weber, T., Cai, W.-J., Doney, S. C., Fennel, K., Gehlen, M., Hauck, J., Lacroix, F., Landschützer, P., Le Quéré, C., Roobaert, A., Schwinger, J., Berthet, S., Bopp, L., Lachkar, Z., … Regnier, P. (2024). A synthesis of global coastal ocean greenhouse gas fluxes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 38, e2023GB007803. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GB007803
  36. Shibl, A. A., Ochsenkühn, M. A., Mohamed, A. R., Isaac, A., Coe, L. S. Y., Yun, Y., Skrzypek, G., Raina, J. B., Seymour, J. R., Afzal, A. J., & Amin, S. A. (2024). Molecular mechanisms of microbiome modulation by the eukaryotic secondary metabolite azelaic acid. eLife, 12, RP88525. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.88525.3
  37. Shinoda, T., Jensen, T. G., Lachkar, Z., Masumoto, Y., & Seo, H. (2024). Modeling the Indian Ocean. In The Indian Ocean and its Role in the Global Climate System (pp. 421–443). Elsevier.
  38. Sun, S., Batista, S. F. A., Menendez, M., Wang, Y., & Zhang, S. (2024). Powering up urban mobility: A comparative study of energy efficiency in electric and diesel buses across various lane configurations. Sustainable Cities and Society, 101, 105086
  39. Voolstra, C., Peixoto, R., Bourne, D., Raina, J. B., Cardenas, A., Pogoreutz, C., Luo, H., Amin, S. A., Dorr, M., Mohamed, A. R., & Silveira, C. (2024). Coral bacterial microbiome in sickness, in health, and in a changing world. Nature Reviews Microbiology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-024-01015-3
  40. Zhang, H., Huang, W., Shen, X., Ramisetty, R., Song, J., Kiseleva, O., Holst, C. C., Khan, B., Leisner, T., & Saathoff, H. (2024). Aerosol composition, air quality, and boundary layer dynamics in the urban background of Stuttgart in winter. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 24, 10617–10637. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-24-10617-2024

 

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