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Carol Arnosti 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 Carol Arnosti sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 177 publications — 55th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

Carol Arnosti 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 Carol Arnosti sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

Carol Arnosti is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research spans numerous areas within environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a particular focus on microbial community ecology and physiology as well as oceanographic processes.

They have contributed extensively to the study of marine and coastal ecosystems, with a special focus on the roles of microbial communities in biogeochemical cycles. Their work also intersects with research on methane hydrates, environmental chemistry, biotechnology, pollution, and ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their research spans several subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Biotechnology
  • Pollution

Main topics covered in their work are:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution

Carol Arnosti's recent publications include:

  • The Biogeochemistry of Marine Polysaccharides: Sources, Inventories, and Bacterial Drivers of the Carbohydrate Cycle (2020), Annual Review of Marine Science
  • Particulate Organic Carbon Deconstructed: Molecular and Chemical Composition of Particulate Organic Carbon in the Ocean (2020), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Short-term changes in polysaccharide utilization mechanisms of marine bacterioplankton during a spring phytoplankton bloom (2020), Environmental Microbiology
  • Quantifying fluorescent glycan uptake to elucidate strain-level variability in foraging behaviors of rumen bacteria (2021), Microbiome
  • Selfish bacteria are active throughout the water column of the ocean (2023), ISME Communications

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Rudolf Amann
  • John Paul Balmonte
  • Greta Reintjes
  • Sherif Ghobrial
  • Bernhard M. Fuchs

In terms of publication venues, Carol Arnosti has been published predominantly in:

  • UNC Libraries
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • ISME Communications

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic perturbation of the carbon fluxes from land to ocean

    Pierre Regnier;Pierre Friedlingstein;Philippe Ciais;Fred T. Mackenzie

  • The molecularly-uncharacterized component of nonliving organic matter in natural environments

    JI Hedges;G Eglinton;PG Hatcher;DL Kirchman

  • Microbial Extracellular Enzymes and the Marine Carbon Cycle

    Carol Arnosti

  • Capturing single cell genomes of active polysaccharide degraders: an unexpected contribution of Verrucomicrobia

    Manuel Martinez-Garcia;David M. Brazel;David M. Brazel;Brandon K. Swan;Carol Arnosti

  • Particulate Organic Matter in the Sea: The Composition Conundrum

    Cindy Lee;Stuart Wakeham;Carol Arnosti

  • A constant flux of diverse thermophilic bacteria into the cold arctic seabed

    Casey R. J. Hubert;Alexander Loy;Maren Nickel;Carol Arnosti

  • Verrucomicrobia Are Candidates for Polysaccharide-Degrading Bacterioplankton in an Arctic Fjord of Svalbard

    Z. Cardman;C. Arnosti;A. Durbin;K. Ziervogel

  • Temperature dependence of microbial degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: polysaccharide hydrolysis, oxygen consumption, and sulfate reduction

    C Arnosti;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Jens Sagemann;B. Thamdrup

  • An alternative polysaccharide uptake mechanism of marine bacteria

    Greta Reintjes;Carol Arnosti;Bernhard M Fuchs;Rudolf Amann

  • Extracellular enzymes in terrestrial, freshwater, and marine environments: perspectives on system variability and common research needs

    C. Arnosti;C. Bell;D. L. Moorhead;R. L. Sinsabaugh

  • The Biogeochemistry of Marine Polysaccharides: Sources, Inventories, and Bacterial Drivers of the Carbohydrate Cycle.

    C. Arnosti;Mathias Wietz;T. Brinkhoff;Jan Hendrik Hehemann

  • Ecological significance of bacterial enzymes in the marine environment

    Hans-Georg Hoppe;Carol Arnosti;Gerhard F. Herndl

  • Microbial Community Composition and Function in Permanently Cold Seawater and Sediments from an Arctic Fjord of Svalbard

    A. Teske;A. Durbin;K. Ziervogel;C. Cox

  • Selfish, sharing and scavenging bacteria in the Atlantic Ocean: a biogeographical study of bacterial substrate utilisation.

    Greta Reintjes;Carol Arnosti;Bernhard M. Fuchs;Rudolf I. Amann

  • 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

  • Microbial Activities and Dissolved Organic Matter Dynamics in Oil-Contaminated Surface Seawater from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Site

    Kai Ziervogel;Luke McKay;Benjamin Rhodes;Christopher L. Osburn

  • Fluorescent derivatization of polysaccharides and carbohydrate-containing biopolymers for measurement of enzyme activities in complex media.

    C Arnosti

  • Speed bumps and barricades in the carbon cycle: Substrate structural effects on carbon cycling

    C. Arnosti

  • Composition and enzymatic function of particle-associated and free-living bacteria: a coastal/offshore comparison.

    Lindsay D'Ambrosio;Kai Ziervogel;Barbara MacGregor;Andreas Teske

  • Rapid bacterial degradation of polysaccharides in anoxic marine systems

    Carol Arnosti;D. J. Repeta;N. V. Blough

  • Significance of bacterial enzymes in the marine environment.

    Hans-Georg Hoppe;C. Arnosti;G. Herndl

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Uta Passow
Uta Passow Memorial University of Newfoundland
Bernhard M. Fuchs
Bernhard M. Fuchs Max Planck Society
Hans-Peter Grossart
Hans-Peter Grossart University of Potsdam
Volker Brüchert
Volker Brüchert Stockholm University
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Andreas P Teske
Andreas P Teske University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Daniel J. Repeta
Daniel J. Repeta Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Samantha B. Joye
Samantha B. Joye University of Georgia
Katherine S. Pollard
Katherine S. Pollard University of California, San Francisco

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