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Andrey Bekker is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a total of 203 publications in this field. Within this broad domain, Bekker's work spans several subfields, including Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, and Artificial Intelligence.

The scientist's research addresses a range of topics related to the geological and geochemical analysis of Earth's history and processes. Key topics include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, earthquake and tectonic studies, and Radioactive element chemistry and processing.

Bekker has contributed extensively to various scientific journals, with frequent publications in venues such as Precambrian Research, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Goldschmidt Abstracts, Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, and Earth-Science Reviews.

Selected recent papers exemplify the scientist's focus on Earth's atmospheric and geochemical evolution:

  • A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation, 2021, Nature
  • Large Igneous Province Record Through Time and Implications for Secular Environmental Changes and Geological Time-Scale Boundaries, 2021, Geophysical Monograph
  • A persistently low level of atmospheric oxygen in Earth's middle age, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Earth's Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Long-term evolution of terrestrial weathering and its link to Earth's oxygenation, 2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Bekker has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • Iron Formations as Palaeoenvironmental Archives, 2021

Frequent collaboration is a notable aspect of Bekker's research, with regular co-authorship alongside several scientists. Frequent collaborators include Simon W. Poulton, Richard E. Ernst, Andy W. Heard, Frantz Ossa Ossa, and Axel Hofmann.

Best Publications

  • Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen

    A. Bekker;H. D. Holland;P.-L. Wang;D. Rumble

  • Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

    C. Scott;T. W. Lyons;A. Bekker;A. Bekker;Y. Shen

  • Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

    A. Bekker;B. Krapež;J. F. Slack;N. Planavsky

  • Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

    Noah J. Planavsky;Dan Asael;Axel Hofmann;Christopher T. Reinhard

  • Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state.

    Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Andrey Bekker;Katrina J. Edwards;Katrina J. Edwards

  • Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Leslie J. Robbins;Camille A. Partin

  • Rare Earth Element and yttrium compositions of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe formations revisited: New perspectives on the significance and mechanisms of deposition

    Noah Planavsky;Noah Planavsky;Andrey Bekker;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Balz S. Kamber

  • The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

    Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Stefan V. Lalonde

  • Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

    Noah J. Planavsky;Peter McGoldrick;Clinton T. Scott;Chao Li;Chao Li

  • Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

    Ashley P. Gumsley;Kevin R. Chamberlain;Kevin R. Chamberlain;Wouter Bleeker;Ulf Söderlund;Ulf Söderlund

  • Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Dalton S. Hardisty;Leslie J. Robbins

  • Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

    C.A. Partin;A. Bekker;N.J. Planavsky;C.T. Scott

  • Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

    A. Bekker;H.D. Holland

  • Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Ernesto Pecoits

  • Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago.

    Abderrazak El Albani;Stefan Bengtson;Donald E. Canfield;Andrey Bekker

  • Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

    Emmanuelle J. Javaux;Craig P. Marshall;Andrey Bekker

  • Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition

    Qingjun Guo;Qingjun Guo;Harald Strauss;Alan J. Kaufman;Alan J. Kaufman;Stefan Schröder

  • Primitive Os and 2316 Ma age for marine shale: implications for Paleoproterozoic glacial events and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

    Judith L. Hannah;Andrey Bekker;Holly J. Stein;Richard J. Markey

  • Suboxic deep seawater in the late Paleoproterozoic: Evidence from hematitic chert and iron formation related to seafloor-hydrothermal sulfide deposits, central Arizona, USA

    J. F. Slack;Tor Grenne;A. Bekker;O.J. Rouxel

  • Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

    M. Barley;A. Bekker;Bryan Krapez

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Rouxel
Olivier Rouxel French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Kurt O. Konhauser
Kurt O. Konhauser University of Alberta
Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
Axel Hofmann
Axel Hofmann University of Johannesburg
Boswell A. Wing
Boswell A. Wing University of Colorado Boulder
Stefan V. Lalonde
Stefan V. Lalonde European Institute
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Alain Meunier
Alain Meunier University of Poitiers

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