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Barbara Sherwood Lollar

Barbara Sherwood Lollar

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
14427
World Ranking
1165
National Ranking
53

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 2019 - C.C. Patterson Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2015 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Best Publications

  • ABIOTIC METHANE ON EARTH

    Giuseppe Etiope;Giuseppe Etiope;Barbara Sherwood Lollar

  • Abiogenic formation of alkanes in the Earth's crust as a minor source for global hydrocarbon reservoirs

    B. Sherwood Lollar;T. D. Westgate;J. A. Ward;G. F. Slater

  • 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

  • Unravelling abiogenic and biogenic sources of methane in the Earth's deep subsurface

    B. Sherwood Lollar;G. Lacrampe-Couloume;G. F. Slater;J. Ward

  • Stable carbon isotope evidence for intrinsic bioremediation of tetrachloroethene and trichloroethene at area 6, Dover Air Force Base

    B Sherwood Lollar;G F Slater;B Sleep;M Witt

  • Abiogenic methanogenesis in crystalline rocks

    B. Sherwood Lollar;S.K. Frape;S.M. Weise;P. Fritz

  • 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

  • Contrasting carbon isotope fractionation during biodegradation of trichloroethylene and toluene: Implications for intrinsic bioremediation

    B. Sherwood Lollar;G.F. Slater;J. Ahad;B. Sleep

  • Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era

    Greg Holland;Greg Holland;B. Sherwood Lollar;L. Li;L. Li;Georges Lacrampe-Couloume

  • 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

  • Isotopic signatures of CH4 and higher hydrocarbon gases from Precambrian Shield sites: A model for abiogenic polymerization of hydrocarbons

    B. Sherwood Lollar;G. Lacrampe-Couloume;K. Voglesonger;T.C. Onstott

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris J. Ballentine
Chris J. Ballentine University of Oxford
Martin Elsner
Martin Elsner Technical University of Munich
Thomas L. Kieft
Thomas L. Kieft New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Ricardo I.F. Trindade
Ricardo I.F. Trindade Universidade de São Paulo
Grant Ferguson
Grant Ferguson University of Saskatchewan
Tullis C. Onstott
Tullis C. Onstott Princeton University
Myrna J. Simpson
Myrna J. Simpson University of Toronto

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