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Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 122 publications — 25th percentile

25% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences with a substantial number of publications in these areas. The primary subfields of study include Oceanography, Ecology, Molecular Biology, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers various main topics, including Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy has published frequently in the following venues:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Science
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Nature Communications

Recent publications include:

  • Particulate Organic Carbon Deconstructed: Molecular and Chemical Composition of Particulate Organic Carbon in the Ocean, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Global ocean lipidomes show a universal relationship between temperature and lipid unsaturation, 2022, Science
  • Microbial production and consumption of hydrocarbons in the global ocean, 2021, Nature Microbiology
  • Complex marine microbial communities partition metabolism of scarce resources over the diel cycle, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Prochlorococcus extracellular vesicles: molecular composition and adsorption to diverse microbes, 2021, Environmental Microbiology

Frequent collaborators in Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy's research include Helen F. Fredricks, Kevin W. Becker, Daniel P. Lowenstein, Shavonna M. Bent, and H. Holm. The coauthorship counts indicate ongoing collaborations over several projects.

Best Publications

  • Tracking Hydrocarbon Plume Transport and Biodegradation at Deepwater Horizon

    Richard Camilli;Christopher M. Reddy;Dana R. Yoerger;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy

  • Phytoplankton in the ocean use non-phosphorus lipids in response to phosphorus scarcity.

    Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Helen F. Fredricks;Byron E. Pedler;Byron E. Pedler;Sonya T. Dyhrman

  • Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Christopher M. Reddy;J. Samuel Arey;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Sean P. Sylva

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Ken O. Buesseler;Carl H. Lamborg;Philip W. Boyd;Phoebe J. Lam

  • Bacterial vs. zooplankton control of sinking particle flux in the ocean's twilight zone

    Deborah K. Steinberg;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Ken O. Buesseler;Philip W. Boyd

  • Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton

    Bryndan P. Durham;Shalabh Sharma;Haiwei Luo;Christa B. Smith

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

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

  • Impact of suboxia on sinking particulate organic carbon: Enhanced carbon flux and preferential degradation of amino acids via denitrification

    Benjamin A.S Van Mooy;Richard G Keil;Allan H Devol

  • Microbes and the marine phosphorus cycle

    Sonya T. Dyhrman;James W. Ammerman;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy

  • Viral Glycosphingolipids Induce Lytic Infection and Cell Death in Marine Phytoplankton

    Assaf Vardi;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Helen F. Fredricks;Kimberly J. Popendorf

  • Remodeling of intermediate metabolism in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum under nitrogen stress

    Orly Levitan;Jorge Dinamarca;Ehud Zelzion;Desmond S. Lun;Desmond S. Lun

  • Host-virus dynamics and subcellular controls of cell fate in a natural coccolithophore population.

    Assaf Vardi;Liti Haramaty;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Helen F. Fredricks

  • Accumulation and enhanced cycling of polyphosphate by Sargasso Sea plankton in response to low phosphorus.

    Patrick Martin;Sonya T. Dyhrman;Michael W. Lomas;Nicole J. Poulton

  • Phosphorus supply drives rapid turnover of membrane phospholipids in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana

    Patrick Martin;Benjamin A S Van Mooy;Abigail Heithoff;Sonya T Dyhrman

  • Particulate organic carbon deconstructed: Molecular and chemical composition of particulate organic carbon in the ocean

    Jenan J. Kharbush;Hilary G. Close;Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy;Carol Arnosti

  • Coccolithovirus facilitation of carbon export in the North Atlantic

    Christien P. Laber;Jonathan E. Hunter;Filipa Carvalho;Filipa Carvalho;James R. Collins

  • Analysis of unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons extracted from Late Archean sediments by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC)

    Gregory T. Ventura;Fabien Kenig;Christopher M. Reddy;Glenn S. Frysinger

  • Global ocean lipidomes show a universal relationship between temperature and lipid unsaturation

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  • Quorum sensing control of phosphorus acquisition in Trichodesmium consortia.

    Benjamin A S Van Mooy;Laura R Hmelo;Laura R Hmelo;Laura E Sofen;Shawn R Campagna

  • Rapid microbial respiration of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill in offshore surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico

    Bethanie R Edwards;Christopher M Reddy;Richard Camilli;Catherine A Carmichael

  • Decoupling Physical from Biological Processes to Assess the Impact of Viruses on a Mesoscale Algal Bloom

    Yoav Lehahn;Ilan Koren;Daniella Schatz;Miguel Frada

  • Bacterial and eukaryotic intact polar lipids in the eastern subtropical South Pacific: Water-column distribution, planktonic sources, and fatty acid composition

    Benjamin A.S. Van Mooy;Helen F. Fredricks

Frequent Co-Authors

Sonya T. Dyhrman
Sonya T. Dyhrman Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Assaf Vardi
Assaf Vardi Weizmann Institute of Science
Giacomo R. DiTullio
Giacomo R. DiTullio College of Charleston
Edward F. DeLong
Edward F. DeLong University of Hawaii at Manoa
David M. Karl
David M. Karl University of Hawaii at Manoa
Christopher M. Reddy
Christopher M. Reddy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Anitra E. Ingalls
Anitra E. Ingalls University of Washington
Michael W. Lomas
Michael W. Lomas Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Richard G. Keil
Richard G. Keil University of Washington
Marco J. L. Coolen
Marco J. L. Coolen Curtin University

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