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Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
63
Citations
12115
World Ranking
2518
National Ranking
105

Overview

Barbara Sherwood Lollar is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and engineering, with significant contributions in environmental chemistry, mechanics of materials, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, and ecology.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including methane hydrates and related phenomena, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, groundwater flow and contamination studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, and CO2 sequestration and geologic interactions.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Barbara Sherwood Lollar include:

  • Oliver Warr
  • C. J. Ballentine
  • Thomas Giunta
  • Jon Gluyas
  • Anran Cheng

The scientist's recent papers illustrate a range of research interests and publication venues:

  • "Hydrothermal 15N15N abundances constrain the origins of mantle nitrogen," 2020, Nature
  • "Sulfidated nano zerovalent iron (S-nZVI) for in situ treatment of chlorinated solvents: A field study," 2020, Water Research
  • "A window into the abiotic carbon cycle - Acetate and formate in fracture waters in 2.7 billion year-old host rocks of the Canadian Shield," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Crustal Groundwater Volumes Greater Than Previously Thought," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "High-resolution, long-term isotopic and isotopologue variation identifies the sources and sinks of methane in a deep subsurface carbon cycle," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Barbara Sherwood Lollar frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Communications
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Best Publications

  • ABIOTIC METHANE ON EARTH

    Giuseppe Etiope;Giuseppe Etiope;Barbara Sherwood Lollar

  • Solubility trapping in formation water as dominant CO2 sink in natural gas fields

    Stuart M V Gilfillan;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Greg Holland;David Blagburn

  • Long-term sustainability of a high-energy, low-diversity crustal biome.

    Li-Hung Lin;Li-Hung Lin;Pei-Ling Wang;Douglas Rumble;Johanna Lippmann-Pipke

  • A new analysis of Mars "Special Regions": findings of the second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2)

    John D. Rummel;David W. Beaty;Melissa A. Jones;Corien Bakermans

  • The contribution of the Precambrian continental lithosphere to global H2 production.

    Barbara Sherwood Lollar;T. C. Onstott;G. Lacrampe-Couloume;C. J. Ballentine

  • The noble gas geochemistry of natural CO2 gas reservoirs from the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountain provinces, USA

    Stuart M V Gilfillan;Chris J. Ballentine;Greg Holland;David Blagburn

  • The yield and isotopic composition of radiolytic H2, a potential energy source for the deep subsurface biosphere

    Li-Hung Lin;Greg F. Slater;Greg F. Slater;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume

  • Radiolytic H2 in continental crust: Nuclear power for deep subsurface microbial communities

    Li-Hung Lin;Li-Hung Lin;James Hall;James Hall;Johanna Lippmann-Pipke;Julie A. Ward

  • Nonequilibrium clumped isotope signals in microbial methane

    David T. Wang;David T. Wang;Danielle S. Gruen;Danielle S. Gruen;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Variability in carbon isotopic fractionation during biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes: implications for field applications.

    Gregory F. Slater;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Brent E. Sleep;Elizabeth A. Edwards

  • Regional groundwater focusing of nitrogen and noble gases into the Hugoton-Panhandle giant gas field, USA

    Chris J. Ballentine;Barbara Sherwood Lollar

  • An oligotrophic deep-subsurface community dependent on syntrophy is dominated by sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrifiers

    Maggie C. Y. Lau;Thomas L. Kieft;Olukayode Kuloyo;Borja Linage-Alvarez

  • Desulfotomaculum and Methanobacterium spp. Dominate a 4- to 5-Kilometer-Deep Fault

    Duane P. Moser;Thomas M. Gihring;Fred J. Brockman;James K. Fredrickson

  • Ammonium stability and nitrogen isotope fractionations for NH4+–NH3(aq)–NH3(gas) systems at 20–70 °C and pH of 2–13: Applications to habitability and nitrogen cycling in low-temperature hydrothermal systems

    Long Li;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Hong Li;Ulrich G. Wortmann

  • Headspace analysis: A new application for isotopic characterization of dissolved organic contaminants

    Gregory F. Slater;Helen S. Dempster;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Jason Ahad

  • Carbon and hydrogen isotopic fractionation during anaerobic biodegradation of benzene.

    Silvia A. Mancini;Ania C. Ulrich;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume;Brent Sleep

  • Tracing Organic Contaminants in Groundwater: A New Methodology Using Compound-Specific Isotopic Analysis

    Helen S. Dempster;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Stanley Feenstra

  • Abiotic formation of hydrocarbons under hydrothermal conditions: Constraints from chemical and isotope data

    Qi Fu;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Juske Horita;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume

  • Neon isotopes constrain convection and volatile origin in the Earth's mantle

    Chris J. Ballentine;Bernard Marty;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Martin Cassidy

  • The influence of carbon source on abiotic organic synthesis and carbon isotope fractionation under hydrothermal conditions

    Thomas M. McCollom;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume;Jeffrey S. Seewald

Frequent Co-Authors

Georges Lacrampe-Couloume
Georges Lacrampe-Couloume University of Toronto
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Elizabeth A. Edwards
Elizabeth A. Edwards University of Toronto
Thomas L. Kieft
Thomas L. Kieft New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Chris J. Ballentine
Chris J. Ballentine University of Oxford
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Brent E. Sleep
Brent E. Sleep University of Toronto
Lisa M. Pratt
Lisa M. Pratt Indiana University
Jon Telling
Jon Telling Newcastle University
Elizabeth J. Phillips
Elizabeth J. Phillips Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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