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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
84
Citations
26561
World Ranking
790
National Ranking
339

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen in the Marine Environment

    Allan H. Devol

  • Compositions and fluxes of particulate organic material in the Amazon River1

    John I. Hedges;Wayne A. Clark;Paul D. Quay;Jeffrey E. Richey

  • Influence of oxygen exposure time on organic carbon preservation in continental margin sediments

    Hilairy E. Hartnett;Richard G. Keil;John I. Hedges;Allan H. Devol

  • The oceanic fixed nitrogen and nitrous oxide budgets: Moving targets as we enter the anthropocene?*

    L. A. Codispoti;Jay A. Brandes;J. P. Christensen;A. H. Devol

  • The combined effects of ocean acidification, mixing, and respiration on pH and carbonate saturation in an urbanized estuary

    Richard A. Feely;Simone R. Alin;Jan Newton;Christopher L. Sabine

  • Nitrite reductase genes (nirK and nirS) as functional markers to investigate diversity of denitrifying bacteria in pacific northwest marine sediment communities.

    Gesche Braker;Jizhong Zhou;Liyou Wu;Allan H. Devol

  • Dissolved humic substances of the Amazon River system1

    John R. Ertel;John I. Hedges;Allan H. Devol;Jeffrey E. Richey

  • Effects of fungal degradation on the CuO oxidation products of lignin: A controlled laboratory study

    John I. Hedges;Robert A. Blanchette;Karen Weliky;Allan H. Devol

  • Denitrification as the dominant nitrogen loss process in the Arabian Sea

    Bettie Ward;A. H. Devol;J. J. Rich;B. X. Chang

  • A global marine‐fixed nitrogen isotopic budget: Implications for Holocene nitrogen cycling

    Jay A. Brandes;Allan H. Devol

  • Biogeochemistry of carbon in the Amazon River

    Jeffrey E. Richey;John I. Hedges;Allan H. Devol;Paul D. Quay

  • Aerobic and anaerobic decomposition of organic matter in marine sediment: Which is fastest?

    Erik Kristensen;Saiyed I. Ahmed;Allan H. Devol

  • Isotopic composition of nitrate in the central Arabian Sea and eastern tropical North Pacific: A tracer for mixing and nitrogen cycles

    Jay A. Brandes;Allan H. Devol;T. Yoshinari;D. A. Jayakumar

  • Sulfolipids dramatically decrease phosphorus demand by picocyanobacteria in oligotrophic marine environments.

    Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Gabrielle Rocap;Helen F. Fredricks;Colleen T. Evans

  • Community structure of denitrifiers, bacteria, and archaea along redox gradients in Pacific Northwest marine sediments by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of amplified nitrite reductase (nirS) and 16S rRNA genes.

    Gesche Braker;Héctor L. Ayala-del-Rı́o;Allan H. Devol;Andreas Fesefeldt

  • Isotopic fractionation of oxygen and nitrogen in coastal marine sediments

    Jay A. Brandes;Allan H. Devol

  • Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaeal isolates display obligate mixotrophy and wide ecotypic variation

    Wei Qin;Shady A. Amin;Willm Martens-Habbena;Christopher B. Walker

  • Molecular evidence for the broad distribution of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in freshwater and marine sediments.

    C. Ryan Penton;Allan H. Devol;James M. Tiedje

  • New developments in the marine nitrogen cycle.

    Jay A. Brandes;and Allan H. Devol;Curtis Deutsch

  • Water Discharge and Suspended Sediment Concentrations in the Amazon River: 1982–1984

    Jeffrey E. Richey;Robert H. Meade;Eneas Salati;Allan H. Devol

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey E. Richey
Jeffrey E. Richey University of Washington
Anitra E. Ingalls
Anitra E. Ingalls University of Washington
David A. Stahl
David A. Stahl University of Washington
Jan Newton
Jan Newton University of Washington
James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
Luiz Antonio Martinelli
Luiz Antonio Martinelli Universidade de São Paulo
Bruce R. Forsberg
Bruce R. Forsberg National Institute of Amazonian Research
E. Virginia Armbrust
E. Virginia Armbrust University of Washington
Richard G. Keil
Richard G. Keil University of Washington
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria
Reynaldo Luiz Victoria Universidade de São Paulo

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