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Aivo Lepland publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aivo Lepland sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

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Aivo Lepland D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Aivo Lepland sits on this spectrum.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience
  • Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Geoscience

Overview

Aivo Lepland is affiliated with Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant body of work also in Environmental Science. Within these domains, the scientist's work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The research topics covered by Aivo Lepland encompass Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include Goldschmidt Abstracts, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Chemical Geology, and Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Aivo Lepland has collaborated regularly with a number of co-authors. Frequent collaborators include Kalle Kirsimäe, Päärn Paiste, Anthony R. Prave, Wei-Li Hong, and Arunima Sen.

Recent research papers by Aivo Lepland include:

  • The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic "snowball Earth", 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The grandest of them all: the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event and Earth's oxygenation, 2021, Journal of the Geological Society
  • Palaeoproterozoic oxygenated oceans following the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event, 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • The Paleoproterozoic Francevillian succession of Gabon and the Lomagundi-Jatuli event, 2020, Geology
  • Stable and clumped isotope characterization of authigenic carbonates in methane cold seep environments, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Aivo Lepland is recognized as a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for their contributions in the field of Geoscience.

Best Publications

  • Reassessing the evidence for the earliest traces of life

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  • Phosphate oxygen isotopic evidence for a temperate and biologically active Archaean ocean

    Ruth E. Blake;Sae Jung Chang;Aivo Lepland

  • Isotopic evidence for massive oxidation of organic matter following the great oxidation event

    Lee R. Kump;Christopher Junium;Christopher Junium;Christopher Junium;Michael A. Arthur;Alex Brasier

  • Timescales of methane seepage on the Norwegian margin following collapse of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet

    Antoine Crémière;Aivo Lepland;Shyam Chand;Diana Sahy

  • Monitoring strategies for re-establishment of ecological reference conditions: possibilities and limitations.

    Elisabeth Alve;Aivo Lepland;Jan Magnusson;Kristian Backer-Owe

  • Graphite and carbonates in the 3.8 Ga old Isua Supracrustal Belt, southern West Greenland

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  • Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

    Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Marcus Kunzmann;Andrey Bekker;Justin Hayles;Justin Hayles

  • Two-billion-year-old evaporites capture Earth's great oxidation.

    Clara Blättler;Mark Claire;Anthony Robert Prave;K. Kirsimäe

  • Integrated Pb- and S-isotope investigation of sulphide minerals from the early Archaean of southwest Greenland

    Martin J. Whitehouse;Balz S. Kamber;Christopher M. Fedo;Aivo Lepland

  • Questioning the evidence for Earth's earliest life—Akilia revisited

    Aivo Lepland;Mark A. van Zuilen;Gustaf Arrhenius;Martin J. Whitehouse

  • The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

    Matthew R Warke;Tommaso Di Rocco;Tommaso Di Rocco;Aubrey L Zerkle;Aivo Lepland

  • Biogeochemistry of sulfur in a sediment core from the west-central Baltic Sea: Evidence from stable isotopes and pyrite textures

    Michael E Böttcher;Aivo Lepland

  • Emergence of an aerobic biosphere during the Archean-Proterozoic transition: Challenges of future research

    Victor A. Melezhik;Anthony E. Fallick;Eero J. Hanski;Lee R. Kump

  • Manganese authigenesis in the Landsort Deep, Baltic Sea

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  • A review of temporal constraints for the Palaeoproterozoic large, positive carbonate carbon isotope excursion (the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event)

    Adam P. Martin;Daniel J. Condon;Anthony R. Prave;Aivo Lepland

  • Iron isotope, major and trace element characterization of early Archean supracrustal rocks from SW Greenland: Protolith identification and metamorphic overprint

    Nicolas Dauphas;Mark van Zuilen;Vincent Busigny;Aivo Lepland

  • Apatite in early Archean Isua supracrustal rocks, southern West Greenland: its origin, association with graphite and potential as a biomarker

    Aivo Lepland;Gustaf Arrhenius;David Cornell

  • Archean phosphorus liberation induced by iron redox geochemistry.

    Barry Herschy;Sae Jung Chang;Ruth Blake;Aivo Lepland

  • Fluid source and methane-related diagenetic processes recorded in cold seep carbonates from the Alvheim channel, central North Sea

    Antoine Crémière;Aivo Lepland;Shyam Chand;Diana Sahy

  • A 160,000-year-old history of tectonically controlled methane seepage in the Arctic.

    Tobias Himmler;Diana Sahy;Tõnu Martma;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Potential influence of sulphur bacteria on Palaeoproterozoic phosphogenesis

    Aivo Lepland;Aivo Lepland;Lauri Joosu;Kalle Kirsimäe;Anthony R. Prave

  • Sedimentation and chronology of heavy metal pollution in Oslo harbor, Norway.

    Aivo Lepland;Thorbjørn J. Andersen;Aave Lepland;Hans Peter H. Arp

  • Dating the termination of the Palaeoproterozoic Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event in the North Transfennoscandian Greenstone Belt

    Adam P Martin;Daniel Condon;Anthony R. Prave;Victor A Melezhik

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony E. Fallick
Anthony E. Fallick University of Glasgow
Anthony R. Prave
Anthony R. Prave University of St Andrews
Lee R. Kump
Lee R. Kump Pennsylvania State University
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Eero Hanski
Eero Hanski University of Oulu
Kalle Kirsimäe
Kalle Kirsimäe University of Tartu
Daniel J. Condon
Daniel J. Condon British Geological Survey
Harald Strauss
Harald Strauss University of Münster
Michael A. Arthur
Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University
Gijs D. Breedveld
Gijs D. Breedveld Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

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