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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
75
Citations
22874
World Ranking
1264
National Ranking
100

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Alex R. Baker is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions in subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Pollution, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics in their work include Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, Radioactive contamination and transfer, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting, Heavy metals in environment, and Air Quality and Health Impacts.

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Frontiers in Marine Science.

Recent papers by Alex R. Baker include:

  • Changing atmospheric acidity as a modulator of nutrient deposition and ocean biogeochemistry, 2021, Science Advances
  • Trace Metal Fractional Solubility in Size-Segregated Aerosols From the Tropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Other notable papers they co-authored but not as primary author include:

  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment, 2022, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • High Production of Soluble Iron Promoted by Aerosol Acidification in Fog, 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Widespread Pesticide Distribution in the European Atmosphere Questions their Degradability in Air, 2024, Environmental Science & Technology

Frequent collaborators in their research include Juan Carlos Gómez Martı́n, Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, Carlos A. Cuevas, Rafael P. Fernández, and Elise S. Droste. Each of the first four coauthors has collaborated on seven publications with Baker, while Elise S. Droste has worked on five.

Best Publications

  • Global Iron Connections Between Desert Dust, Ocean Biogeochemistry, and Climate

    T. Jickells;Z An;K.K. Andersen;A.R. Baker

  • Atmospheric global dust cycle and iron inputs to the ocean

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Alex R. Baker;Gilles Bergametti;Nick Brooks

  • Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.

    R. A. Duce;J. LaRoche;K. Altieri;K. R. Arrigo

  • A global assessment of precipitation chemistry and deposition of sulfur, nitrogen, sea salt, base cations, organic acids, acidity and pH, and phosphorus

    Robert Vet;Richard S. Artz;Silvina Carou;Mike Shaw

  • Global distribution of atmospheric phosphorus sources, concentrations and deposition rates, and anthropogenic impacts

    Natalie Mahowald;Timothy D. Jickells;Alex R. Baker;Paulo Artaxo

  • Atmospheric Chemistry of Iodine

    Alfonso Saiz-Lopez;John M. C. Plane;Alex R. Baker;Lucy J. Carpenter

  • Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment

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  • Trends in the solubility of iron, aluminium, manganese and phosphorus in aerosol collected over the Atlantic Ocean

    A.R. Baker;T.D. Jickells;M. Witt;K.L. Linge

  • Atmospheric and marine controls on aerosol iron solubility in seawater

    A. R. Baker;Peter Croot

  • Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization

    Raymond T. Pollard;Ian Salter;Richard J. Sanders;Mike I. Lucas

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Past, present and future atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    M Kanakidou;Stelios Myriokefalitakis;Nikos Daskalakis;G Fanourgakis

  • Mineral particle size as a control on aerosol iron solubility

    A. R. Baker;T. D. Jickells

  • Aerosol trace metal leaching and impacts on marine microorganisms

    Natalie M. Mahowald;Douglas S. Hamilton;Katherine R. M. Mackey;J. Keith Moore

  • Impacts on iron solubility in the mineral dust by processes in the source region and the atmosphere: A review

    Zongbo Shi;Michael D. Krom;Timothy D. Jickells;Steeve Bonneville

  • Fractional solubility of aerosol iron: Synthesis of a global-scale data set

    Edward R. Sholkovitz;Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church;Alexander R. Baker

  • Impacts of atmospheric nutrient deposition on marine productivity: Roles of nitrogen, phosphorus, and iron

    Gregory S. Okin;Alex R. Baker;Ina Tegen;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • A reevaluation of the magnitude and impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrogen inputs on the ocean

    T. D. Jickells;E. Buitenhuis;K. Altieri;A. R. Baker

  • Atmospheric fluxes of organic N and P to the global ocean

    Maria Kanakidou;Robert A. Duce;Joseph M. Prospero;Alex R. Baker

  • Atmospheric iron deposition and sea-surface dissolved iron concentrations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean

    Géraldine Sarthou;Alex R. Baker;Stéphane Blain;Eric P. Achterberg

  • Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the Atlantic Ocean

    A. R. Baker;S. D. Kelly;K. F. Biswas;M. Witt

  • Pyrogenic iron: the missing link to high iron solubility in aerosols

    Akinori Ito;Stelios Myriokefalitakis;Maria Kanakidou;Natalie M. Mahowald

  • The European Nitrogen Assessment: Sources, Effects and Policy Perspectives

    M Voss;A Baker;SE Cornell;H Bange

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Jickells
Tim Jickells University of East Anglia
Natalie M. Mahowald
Natalie M. Mahowald Cornell University
Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Maria Kanakidou
Maria Kanakidou University of Crete
Robert A. Duce
Robert A. Duce Texas A&M University
Peter Croot
Peter Croot University of Galway
Manmohan Sarin
Manmohan Sarin Physical Research Laboratory
Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Peter S. Liss
Peter S. Liss University of East Anglia
Géraldine Sarthou
Géraldine Sarthou French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea

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