Bianchi, T.S., M.E. Freer and R.G. Wetzel. 1996.  Temporal and spatial variability, and the role of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in methane fluxes from the Sabine River floodplain (southeast Texas, U.S.A).  Archiv. fur Hydrobiol., 136: 261-287.

Bianchi, T.S.,M. Baskaran, M. Ravichandran, and J. DeLord. 1997.  Carbon cycling in
a shallow turbid estuary of Southeast Texas: The use of plant pigment biomarkers and water quality parameters. Estuaries, 20: 404-415.

Baskaran, M., M. Ravichandran, and T.S. Bianchi. 1997.  Cycling of 7Be and 210Pb in a
high DOC, shallow, turbid estuary of southeast Texas. Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 45: 165-176.

Argyrou, M., T.S. Bianchi, and C. Lambert. 1997.  Transport and fate of particulate and dissolved organic carbon in the Lake Pontchartrain estuary, Louisiana, U.S.A. Biogeochemistry, 38: 207-226.

Bianchi, T.S. and M. Argyrou. 1997.  Temporal and spatial dynamics of particulate organic
carbon in the Lake Pontchartrain estuary, southeast Louisiana U.S.A.  Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 45: 557-569.

Bianchi, T.S., C. Lambert, L. Guo, and P.H. Santschi. 1997.  Sources and transport of land
-derived particulate and dissolved organic matter in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas Shelf/Slope): the use of lignin-phenols and loliolides as biomarkers. Org. Geochem., 27: 65-78.

Lambert, C., T.S. Bianchi, and P.R. Santschi. 1998. Cross-shelf changes in phytoplankton community composition in the Gulf of Mexico (Texas Shelf/Slope). Cont. Shelf Res. 19: 1-21.

Bianchi, T.S., M. Baskaran, and M. Ravichandran. 1999.  Is the Sabine-Neches estuary net heterotrophic or autotrophic? A reply to the comment by Finn et al. Estuaries 21: 839-841.

Cifuentes, L.A., R.B. Coffin, J. Morin, T.S. Bianchi, and P.M. Eldridge. 1999. Particulate
organic matter in Gulf of Mexico estuaries - Implications for net heterotrophy, In: Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries (eds. T. Bianchi, J. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley). John Wiley & Sons, pp. 239-267.

Bianchi, T.S., J. Pennock, and R. Twilley (eds.) 1999.  Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries.  John Wiley & Sons, 428 pp.

Guo, L., P.H. Santschi, and T.S. Bianchi. 1999.  Dissolved organic matter in estuaries of the
Gulf of Mexico. In: Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries (eds. T. Bianchi, J. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley). John Wiley & Sons, pp. 269-299.

Bianchi, T.S., J.R. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley. 1999.  Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico
Estuaries: Implications for management. In: Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries (eds. T. Bianchi, J. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley). John Wiley & Sons,pp. 407-421.

Bennett, A., T.S. Bianchi, J.C. Means, and K. Carman. 1999.  Effects of PAH contamination and grazing on the abundance and composition of microphytobenthos in salt marsh sediments (Pass Fourchon, LA): I. A microcosm experiment. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 242: 1-20.

Carman, K.R., T.S. Bianchi, F. Kloep. 2000. The influence of grazing and nitrogen on      benthic algal  blooms in diesel-contaminated saltmarsh sediments.  Env. Sci. and Tech. 34: 107-111.

Bennett, A., T.S. Bianchi, and J.C. Means. 2000. Effects of PAH contamination and grazing on the abundance and composition of microphytobenthos in salt marsh sediments (Pass Fourchon, LA): II. A field experiment. Estuar. Coast. Shelf. Sci. 50: 425-439.

Wang, W., M.Tarr, T.S. Bianchi, and E. Engelhaupt. 2000. Ammonium Photoproduction from aquatic humic and colloidal matter.  Aquatic Geochem. 6: 275-292.

Chen, N., T.S. Bianchi, and B. A. McKee. 2001. Historical Trends of Hypoxia on the Louisiana Shelf: the Application of Pigments as Biomarkers.  Org. Geochem. 32 (4): 451-621.

Engelhaupt, E.D and  T.S. Bianchi. 2001. Temporal variability in the sources and composition of high-molecular-weight dissolved organic carbon in a tidal stream in southern Louisiana (Bayou Trepagnier). Limnol. Oceanog. 46: 917-926.

Tarr, M., W. Wang, T.S. Bianchi, and E. Engelhaupt.  2001.  Mechanisms of ammonia and amino acid photoproduction from aquatic humic and colloidal matter.  Water Res. 35: 3688-3696.

Bianchi, T.S., S. Mitra, and B. McKee.  2002. Sources of terrestrially-derived carbon in the Lower Mississippi River and Louisiana shelf: Implications for differential sedimentation and transport at the coastal margin. Mar. Chem. 77: 211-223.

Mitra, S., T.S. Bianchi, B. McKee, and M. Sutula.  2002. Black carbon from the Mississippi River:  quantities, sources, and potential implications for the global carbon cycle.  Env. Sci. Tech. 36: 2296-2302

Engelhaupt, E.D., T.S. Bianchi, R.G. Wetzel, and M. Tarr.  2003. The effects of UV radiation on the composition and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter in Bayou Trepagnier (southern Louisiana). Biogeochemistry 62: 39-58.

Chen, N., T. S. Bianchi, and J. M. Bland. 2003. Novel decomposition products of chlorophyll-a in continental shelf (Louisiana shelf) sediments: Formation and transformation of carotenol  chlorin esters. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67: 2027-2042.

Chen, N., T. S. Bianchi, and J. M. Bland, 2003. Implications for the role of pre-versus post-depositional transformation of chlorophyll-a in the Lower Mississippi River and Louisiana shelf. Mar. Chem. 81: 37-55.

Mitra, S. and T.S. Bianchi.  2003. A preliminary assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon distributions in the lower Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Chem. 82: 273-288.

Galler, J.J., T.S. Bianchi, M.A. Allison, R. Campanella, and L.Wysocki.  2003. Biogeochemical implications of levee confinement on the lowermost Mississippi River.  EOS 84: 469-484.

Bianchi, T.S., T. Filley, K. Dria, and P. Hatcher.  2004.  Temporal variability in sources of dissolved organic carbon in the lower Mississippi River. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 68: 959-967.

McKee, B.A., R.C., Aller, M.A. Allison, T.S. Bianchi, and G.C. Kineke. 2004. Transport and Transformation of Dissolved and Particulate Materials on Continental Margins Influenced by Major Rivers: Benthic Boundary Layer and Seabed Processes. Cont. Shelf Res. 24: 899-926.

Sutula, M., T.S. Bianchi, and B.A. McKee.  2004.  Effect of seasonal sediment storage in the lower Mississippi River on the flux of reactive particulate phosphorus to the Gulf of Mexico. Limnol. Oceanog. 49, 2223-2235.

Chen, N., T.S. Bianchi, T.S., B. A. McKee and J. M. Bland. 2005. Early diagenesis of chlorophyll-a in the lower Mississippi River and Louisiana shelf: Implications for carbon cycling in a river-dominated margin. Mar. Chem. 93: 159-177.

Dagg, M.J., T.S. Bianchi., G. Breed., H. Liu., B.A. McKee, W. Cai, R. Powell., and S. Duan. 2005. Biogeochemical characteristics of the lower Mississippi River (USA) during June 2003.  Estuaries 28: 664-674.

Shiller, A.M., S. Duan, P. van Erp, and T.S. Bianchi. 2006. Photo-oxidation of dissolved organic matter in river water and its effect on trace element speciation. Limnol. Oceanogr. 51: 1716-1728.

Wysocki, L.A, T.S. Bianchi., R. Powell and N. Reuss. 2006. Spatial variability in the coupling of organic carbon, nutrients, and phytoplankton pigments in surface waters and sediments of the Mississippi River plume.  Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 69: 47-63

Duan, S., and T.S. Bianchi. 2006. Seasonal changes in the abundance and composition of plant pigments in particulate organic carbon in the lower Mississippi and Pearl Rivers (USA) Estuaries: 29: 427-442.

Green, R., T.S. Bianchi., and M.J. Dagg. 2006. An organic carbon budget for the Mississippi River turbidity Plume and plume contributions to air-sea CO2 fluxes and bottom water hypoxia. Estuaries 29: 579-597.
Bianchi, T.S., T. Sampere., M. Allison, E. A. Canuel, B.A. McKee, S. Wakeham, and B. Waterson. 2006.  Rapid Export of Organic Matter to the Mississippi Canyon.  EOS 87 (50): 565, 572-573.

Allison, M. A., T. S. Bianchi, B. A. McKee, and T. P. Sampere.  2007. Carbon burial on river-dominated continental shelves: Impact of historical changes in sediment loading adjacent to the Mississippi River, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L01606, doi:10.1029/2006GL028362.

Duan, S., T.S. Bianchi, A. Shiller, K. Dria, P.H. Hatcher, and K.R. Carmen. 2007.  Variability in the bulk composition and abundance of dissolved organic matter in the lower Mississippi and Pearl Rivers (USA). J. Geophys. Res. (Biogeosciences) J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 112, No. G2, G02024 10.1029/2006JG000206

Duan, S., T.S. Bianchi, and T.P. Sampere.  2007. Temporal variability in the composition and abundance of dissolved organic matter in the lower Mississippi and Pearl Rivers (USA) Mar. Chem. 103: 172-184.

Bianchi., T.S., Galler, J.J., and M.A. Allison.  2007.  Hydrodynamic sorting and transport of terrestrially-derived organic carbon in sediments of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Rivers. Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 73: 211-222.

Bianchi, T.S., L.A. Wysocki, M. Stewart, T.R. Filley, and B.A. McKee. 2007.  Temporal variability in terrestrially-derived sources of particulate organic carbon in the lower Mississippi River. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 71: 4425-4437.

Duan, S., and T.S. Bianchi. 2007. Particulate and dissolved amino acids in the lower Mississippi and Pearl Rivers.  Mar. Chem. 107: 214-229.

Dagg, M.J., T. S. Bianchi, B.A. McKee and R. Powell.  2008.  Fates of dissolved and particulate materials from the Mississippi River immediately after discharge into the northern Gulf of Mexico, USA during a period of low wind-stress. Cont. Shelf Res. 28: 1127-1137.

Bianchi, T.S., S.F. DiMarco, M.A. Allison, P. Chapman, J.H. Cowan Jr., R.D. Hetland, J.W. Morse, and G. Rowe.  2008. Controls and Consequences of Hypoxia on the Louisiana Shelf (USA): Beyond the Nutrient-Centric View. EOS 89 (26): 236-237.

Wysocki, L.A., T.S. Bianchi, and T.R. Filley. 2008. Comparison of two methods for the analysis of lignin in marine sediments: CuO oxidation versus tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) thermochemolysis.  Org. Geochem. (In Press), doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.06.004

Sampere, T.P., T.S. Bianchi, S.G. Wakeham, and M.A. Allison. 2008. Sources or Organic Matter in Surface Sediments of the Louisiana Continental Margin: Effects of Primary depositional/transport pathways and a hurricane Event. Cont. Shelf Res. (In Press).

Bianchi, T.S., J.R. Pennock, and R.R. Twilley. 2009.  Biogeochemistry of Gulf of Mexico Estuaries: Implications for Management. In: The Gulf of Mexico: Ecosystem-Based Management (eds. Yanez-Arancibia, and Day, J.), Texas A&M University Press. (In Press)