| Sunlight controls water column processing of carbon in arctic fresh waters RM Cory, CP Ward, BC Crump, GW Kling Science 345 (6199), 925-928, 2014 | 575 | 2014 |
| Sunlight converts polystyrene to carbon dioxide and dissolved organic carbon CP Ward, CJ Armstrong, AN Walsh, JH Jackson, CM Reddy Environmental science & technology letters 6 (11), 669-674, 2019 | 240 | 2019 |
| Complete and partial photo-oxidation of dissolved organic matter draining permafrost soils CP Ward, RM Cory Environmental science & technology 50 (7), 3545-3553, 2016 | 207 | 2016 |
| Photochemical alteration of organic carbon draining permafrost soils shifts microbial metabolic pathways and stimulates respiration CP Ward, SG Nalven, BC Crump, GW Kling, RM Cory Nature communications 8 (1), 772, 2017 | 175 | 2017 |
| Partial Photochemical Oxidation Was a Dominant Fate of Deepwater Horizon Surface Oil CP Ward, CM Sharpless, DL Valentine, DP French-McCay, C Aeppli, ... Environmental science & technology 52 (4), 1797-1805, 2018 | 129 | 2018 |
| Insights into the complete and partial photooxidation of black carbon in surface waters CP Ward, RL Sleighter, PG Hatcher, RM Cory Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 16 (4), 721-731, 2014 | 127 | 2014 |
| Chemical composition of dissolved organic matter draining permafrost soils CP Ward, RM Cory Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 167, 63-79, 2015 | 124 | 2015 |
| We need better data about the environmental persistence of plastic goods CP Ward, CM Reddy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (26), 14618-14621, 2020 | 103 | 2020 |
| How the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill reshaped our understanding of crude oil photochemical weathering at sea: a past, present, and future perspective CP Ward, EB Overton Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 22 (5), 1125-1138, 2020 | 82 | 2020 |
| How Persistent and Bioavailable Are Oxygenated Deepwater Horizon Oil Transformation Products? C Aeppli, RF Swarthout, GW O’Neil, SD Katz, D Nabi, CP Ward, ... Environmental science & technology 52 (13), 7250-7258, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| The M/V X-Press Pearl Nurdle Spill: Contamination of Burnt Plastic and Unburnt Nurdles along Sri Lanka’s Beaches A De Vos, L Aluwihare, S Youngs, MH DiBenedetto, CP Ward, ... ACS Environmental Au 2 (2), 128-135, 2021 | 61 | 2021 |
| Arctic amplification of global warming strengthened by sunlight oxidation of permafrost carbon to CO2 JC Bowen, CP Ward, GW Kling, RM Cory Geophysical Research Letters, e2020GL087085, 2020 | 61 | 2020 |
| Plastic formulation is an emerging control of its photochemical fate in the ocean AN Walsh, CM Reddy, SF Niles, AM McKenna, CM Hansel, CP Ward Environmental Science & Technology 55 (18), 12383-12392, 2021 | 60 | 2021 |
| Assessing the prevalence, products, and pathways of dissolved organic matter partial photo-oxidation in arctic surface waters CP Ward, RM Cory Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts 22 (5), 1214-1223, 2020 | 58 | 2020 |
| Photochemical Oxidation of Oil Reduced the Effectiveness of Aerial Dispersants Applied in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Spill CP Ward, CJ Armstrong, RN Conmy, DP French-McCay, CM Reddy Environmental science & technology letters 5 (5), 226-231, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
| Product formulation controls the impact of biofouling on consumer plastic photochemical fate in the ocean TF Nelson, CM Reddy, CP Ward Environmental Science & Technology 55 (13), 8898-8907, 2021 | 48 | 2021 |
| Assessment of the geochemical reactivity of Fe-DOM complexes in wetland sediment pore waters using a nitroaromatic probe compound JA Hakala, RL Fimmen, YP Chin, SG Agrawal, CP Ward Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (5), 1382-1393, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| Sunlight-driven dissolution is a major fate of oil at sea DH Freeman, CP Ward Science advances 8 (7), eabl7605, 2022 | 33 | 2022 |
| Experimental metatranscriptomics reveals the costs and benefits of dissolved organic matter photo‐alteration for freshwater microbes SG Nalven, CP Ward, JP Payet, RM Cory, GW Kling, TJ Sharpton, ... Environmental microbiology 22 (8), 3505-3521, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| Rapid degradation of cellulose diacetate by marine microbes MG Mazzotta, CM Reddy, CP Ward Environmental Science & Technology Letters 9 (1), 37-41, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |