Publications

Abdelrazig, S., McCabe, Á., Yasin, A., Chaudhary, R., Ochsenkühn, M.A., Scicchitano, D.& Amin, S. (2025). LC-MS Orbitrap-based metabolomics using a novel hybrid zwitterionic hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography and rigorous metabolite identification reveals doxorubicin-induced metabolic perturbations in breast cancer cells. RSC Advances.  https://doi.org/10.1039/D5RA01044F

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

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/

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

Chan, E. C., Jäkel, I. J., Khan, B., Schaap, M., Butler, T. M., Forkel, R., & Banzhaf, S. (2025).  An enhanced emissions module for the PALM model system 23.10 with application on PM10 emissions from urban domestic heating. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions,  2024, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-1119-2025

D’Agostino D., Al-Memari M., Burt J. A. (2025) Evolution of desalination research and water production in the Middle East: a five-decade perspective. Frontiers in Water. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2025.1672360

Dahy B., Sousa R., Sultan M., Burt J. A. (2025) Two decades of coastal development across the Arabian Gulf: Insights from remote sensing and machine learning. ISPRS International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-G-2025:331-338. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVIII-G-2025-331-2025

De Fazio, N., Placidi, L., Tomassi, A.,  Fraddosio, A.,  Castellano, A. & Paparella, F. (2025) Different mechanical models for the study of ultrasonic wave dispersion for mechanical characterization of construction materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 315, 2025, 113352, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2025.113352.

Dogar, M.M., Watanabe, S., Fujiwara, M., Abid, M.A., Khan, B. Tropical volcanic impacts on MENA climate via ENSO and NAO dynamics in a high-top model. npj Clim Atmos Sci 8, 330 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01201-x

Dube, K., Al Ali, H., Khan, B., & Daneshkhah, A. (2025). Heatwaves and Public Health: A Bibliometric Exploration of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategies. Climate, 13(12), 249.https://doi.org/10.3390/cli13120249

Dutta Roy A., Mohan M., Hendy I., AlMealla R., Watt M. S., Burt J. A., Torres-Florez J. P., Almansoori A., Alzahlawi N., Abdullah M., Ali T, Nithyanandan M., Aboobacker V. M., de-Miguel S (2025) Optimizing mangrove afforestation site selection in Gulf Cooperation Council nations using remote sensing and machine learning. Science of The Total Environment 988:179805https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179805

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

Fiesinger A., Alderdice R., Colin L., Manns H., Perna G., Stankiewicz K. H., Valenzuela J. J., Bay L. K., Barshis D. J., Baliga N. S., Baums I. B., Burt J. A., Voolstra C. R. (2025) Symbiodiniaceae shifts over the last decade on the hottest coral reefs on Earth. Coral Reefs  https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02767-x

Gastoldi L., Al Gergawi A., Burt J. A. (2025). From effluent to algal bloom: linking wastewater infrastructure, nutrient enrichment, and ecosystem stress in the Arabian Gulf. Frontiers in Water 7: 1702212 https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2025.1702212

Glocke, P., Holst, C. C., Khan, B., & Benz, S. A. (2025). Assessing coupling between soil temperature and potential air temperature using PALM-4U: implications for idealized scenarios. Earth System Dynamics, 16(1), 55-74, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-16-55-2025

Gower H., Hadj-Hammou J., Burt J. A. (2025) The evolution of coral reef monitoring in eastern Arabia: trends, gaps, and opportunities for the ROPME Sea Area. Frontiers in Marine Science 12 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2025.1578377

Hadj-Hammou, J., Bartholomew, A., Bento, R. C., Mohamed, F. A., Cavalcante, G. H., & Burt, J. A. (2025). Bleaching Impacts on the Last Remaining Acropora-dominated Reefs in the United Arab Emirates. Diversity, 17(9), 610. https://doi.org/10.3390/d17090610

Hilmi, N., Calas, A., Fanelli, E., Da Ros, Z., Flandrin, U., Maire, E., Al-Gergawi, A., Al-Memari, M., Sebastian, P., & Ponti, M. (2025). Coral reef conservation gaps under a socioeconomic perspective. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-025-02640-x 

Howells E. J., Abrego D., Schmidt-Roach S., Puill-Stephan E., Denis H., Harii S., Bay L. K., Burt J. A., Monro K., Aranda M. (2025) Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral. Nature Climate Change  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02381-3

Lachkar, Z., Pauluis, O., Paparella, F., Khan, B., and Burt, J. A.: Local and remote climatic drivers of extreme summer sea surface temperatures in the Arabian Gulf, Ocean Sci., (2025) 21, 3241–3263, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-21-3241-2025

Mohan, M., Selvam, P. P., Ewane, E. B., Moussa, L. G., Asbridge, E. F., Trevathan-Tackett, S. M., Macreadie, P. I., Watt, M. S., Gillis, L. G., Cabada-Blanco, F., Hendy, I., Broadbent, E. N., Olsson, S. K. B., Marin-Diaz, B., & Burt, J. A. (2025). Eco-friendly structures for sustainable mangrove restoration. Science of the Total Environment, 978, 179393. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179393

Laudan, J., Banzhaf, S., Khan, B., & Nagel, K. (2025). Air Quality-Driven Traffic Management  Using High-Resolution Urban Climate Modeling Coupled with a Large Traffic Simulation.  Atmosphere, 16(2), 128. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos16020128

Mohamed, A. R., Amin, S. A., Voolstra, C. R., Cárdenas, A. (2025). Complexity of the Coral  Microbiome Assembly. In: Peixoto, R.S., Voolstra, C.R. (eds) Coral Reef Microbiome. Coral  Reefs of the World, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-76692-3_8

Moreno, C. M., Bibire, I., Mustafina, A., Abdelrazig, S., Kottuparambil, S., Bogosavljevic, M., & Amin, S. A. (2025). Microbial community dynamics and first quantification of the toxin domoic acid in a eutrophic bay in the United Arab Emirates. Harmful algae, 149, 102921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2025.102921

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://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70100

Mystikou, A., Nelson, D. R., El Assal, C. D., Jaiswal, A. K., Sultana, M., Rad-Menendez, C., Al-Mansoori, N., Elias, S. T., Abdul-Hamid, M., Nayfeh, L., Drou, N., Burt, J. A.,  Green, D. H., & Salehi-Ashtiani, K. (2025). Earth-Observation and Environmental Vision Transformers Reveal Genome–Environment Associations in Macroalgae. bioRxiv.12.30.69698 https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.30.696986

Riegl B. M., Stratigaki V., Geldhof R., van Acker J., Birmingham D., Riegl B., Jr., Burt J. A. (2025) Ocean heat determines benthic trajectories on artificial as well as natural submarine substrata. Scientific Reports  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-31135-6

Roberts, W. R., Parks, M., Ashner, M., Ashworth, M. P., Denne, N., Ruck, E. C., Spiliotopoulos, E., Wang, A., Amin, S. A., Schaack, S., Wickett, N. J., & Alverson, A. J. (2025). Reference genome for the benthic marine diatom Psammoneis japonica: Bacterial associations and repeat-driven genome size evolution in diatoms. Journal of Phycology, 61(6), 1556–1565. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.70101

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

Vaughan, G. O., Ripley, D. M., Mitchell, M. D., McParland, D., Johansen, J. L., Shiels, H. A., & Burt, J. A. (2025). Narrow Margins: Aerobic Performance and Temperature Tolerance of Coral Reef Fishes Facing Extreme Thermal Variability. Global Change Biology, 31(3), e70100. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70100

Vieira, F., Lima, A. S., & Cavalcante, G. H. (2025). Characterization of wave climate and trends for Alagoas State, NE Brazil. Continental Shelf Research, 285, 105397.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2024.105397

Batista, S. F. A., G. Tilg and M. Menendez (202X) Exploring the potential of MFD-based modeling for the estimation of network-wide emissions using the COPERT IV model, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (under second review).

Batista, S. F. A., M. Ameli and M. Menendez (202X) On the characterization of eco-friendly paths for regional networks, IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (under first review).

Roose, Shinto, R. S. Ajayamohan, Pallav Ray, P. Reshmi Mohan, and K. Mohanakumar. "ENSO influence on Bay of Bengal cyclogenesis confined to low latitudes." npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5, no. 1 (2022): 31.

De Verneil, Alain, Zouhair Lachkar, Shafer Smith, and Marina Lévy. "Evaluating the Arabian Sea as a regional source of atmospheric CO 2: seasonal variability and drivers." Biogeosciences 19, no. 3 (2022): 907-929.

Bartholomew, Aaron, John A. Burt, and Louise B. Firth. "Artificial reefs in the Arabian Gulf: Benefits, challenges, and recommendations for policy-makers." Regional Studies in Marine Science (2022): 102723.

Bouwmeester, Jessica, Radhouane Ben-Hamadou, Pedro Range, Fahad Al Jamali, and John A. Burt. "Spatial patterns of reef fishes and corals in the thermally extreme waters of Qatar." Frontiers in Marine Science 9 (2022): 989841.

De Verneil, Alain, Zouhair Lachkar, Shafer Smith, and Marina Lévy. "Evaluating the Arabian Sea as a regional source of atmospheric CO 2: seasonal variability and drivers." Biogeosciences 19, no. 3 (2022): 907-929.

Lachkar, Zouhair, Michael Mehari, Marina Lévy, Francesco Paparella, and John A. Burt. "Recent expansion and intensification of hypoxia in the Arabian Gulf and its drivers." Frontiers in Marine Science (2022): 1616.

Moran, Mary Ann, Elizabeth B. Kujawinski, William F. Schroer, Shady A. Amin, Nicholas R. Bates, Erin M. Bertrand, Rogier Braakman et al. "Microbial metabolites in the marine carbon cycle." Nature Microbiology 7, no. 4 (2022): 508-523.

Burt, John A., Aaron Bartholomew, and Louise B. Firth. "Policy and management considerations for artificial reefs in the Arabian Gulf: Policy Paper No 51."1.  Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, UAE 1-31 (2021).

Burt, John A., Mary Killilea, and Anne Rademacher. "Unexpected Nature? Proliferating Mangroves on the Coast of Abu Dhabi." In: Durr E, Keller R (eds) Urban Environments as Spaces of Living in Transformation: Position Papers Collection. Urban Environments Initiative, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany, pp44-47 (2021).

De Verneil, Alain, John A. Burt, Matthew Mitchell, and Francesco Paparella. "Summer oxygen dynamics on a southern Arabian gulf coral reef." Frontiers in Marine Science 8 (2021): 781428.

Lachkar, Zouhair, Michael Mehari, Muchamad Al Azhar, Marina Lévy, and Shafer Smith. "Fast local warming of sea-surface is the main factor of recent deoxygenation in the Arabian Sea." Biogeosciences, 18, 5831–5849 (2020).

Lévy, Marina, Laure Resplandy, Jaime B. Palter, Damien Couespel, and Zouhair Lachkar. "The crucial contribution of mixing to present and future ocean oxygen distribution." Chapter in Ocean mixing - Drivers, Mechanisms and Impacts, 329-344, Elsevier, 2022.

Burt, J., P. Range, M. Claereboudt, R. Al-Mealla, P. Salimi, M. Salimi, R. Ben-Hamadou et al. "Chapter 4. status and trends of coral reefs of the ROPME Sea area." In: Souter D, Planes S, Wicquart J, Logan M, Obura D, Staub F (eds) Status of Coral Reefs of the World: 2020. Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network & United Nations Environment Programme, Lausanne, Switzerland, pp1-13 (2021)