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Charles F. Harvey

Charles F. Harvey

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
50
Citations
12472
World Ranking
4886
National Ranking
1799

Overview

Charles F. Harvey is affiliated with MIT in the United States and focuses on environmental science, contributing to multiple subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, environmental chemistry, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and pollution. Their research spans 57 publications within environmental science, demonstrating a strong emphasis on diverse aspects of the field.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Peatlands and wetlands ecology
  • Arsenic contamination and mitigation
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Heavy metals in the environment
  • Heavy metal exposure and toxicity
  • Geology and paleoclimatology research

Harvey has frequently collaborated with several coauthors, reflecting interdisciplinary cooperation. These include Alison M. Hoyt, Ale×ander R. Cobb, Alexander van Geen, Tim R. Moore, and Virginia I. Rich.

The scientist's work has been published across various journals, with multiple contributions to Environmental Research Letters, Nature Geoscience, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, PLoS ONE, and Communications Earth & Environment.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Harvey highlight research on carbon emissions, peatland chemistry, and environmental trace elements. Notable papers include:

  • "Widespread subsidence and carbon emissions across Southeast Asian peatlands," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Drainage Canals in Southeast Asian Peatlands Increase Carbon Emissions," 2021, AGU Advances
  • "Latitude, Elevation, and Mean Annual Temperature Predict Peat Organic Matter Chemistry at a Global Scale," 2022, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "From canals to the coast: dissolved organic matter and trace metal composition in rivers draining degraded tropical peatlands in Indonesia," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "Variation in carbon and nitrogen concentrations among peatland categories at the global scale," 2022, PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • Arsenic mobility and groundwater extraction in Bangladesh.

    Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;A. B. M. Badruzzaman;Nicole Keon-Blute

  • Seasonal oscillations in water exchange between aquifers and the coastal ocean

    Holly A. Michael;Ann E. Mulligan;Charles F. Harvey

  • Validation of an Arsenic Sequential Extraction Method for Evaluating Mobility in Sediments

    N. E. Keon;C. H. Swartz;D. J. Brabander;C. Harvey

  • Permanent carbon dioxide storage in deep-sea sediments

    Kurt Zenz House;Daniel P. Schrag;Charles F. Harvey;Klaus S. Lackner

  • When good statistical models of aquifer heterogeneity go bad: A comparison of flow, dispersion, and mass transfer in connected and multivariate Gaussian hydraulic conductivity fields

    Brendan Zinn;Charles F. Harvey

  • Anthropogenic influences on groundwater arsenic concentrations in Bangladesh

    Rebecca B. Neumann;Khandaker N. Ashfaque;A. B. M. Badruzzaman;M. Ashraf Ali

  • Groundwater dynamics and arsenic contamination in Bangladesh

    Charles F. Harvey;Khandaker N. Ashfaque;Winston Yu;A.B.M. Badruzzaman

  • Mobility of arsenic in a Bangladesh aquifer: Inferences from geochemical profiles, leaching data, and mineralogical characterization

    Christopher H. Swartz;Nicole Keon Blute;Borhan Badruzzman;Ashraf Ali

  • The energy penalty of post-combustion CO2 capture & storage and its implications for retrofitting the U.S. installed base

    Kurt Zenz House;Charles F. Harvey;Michael J. Aziz;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Reactive Transport in Porous Media: A Comparison of Model Prediction with Laboratory Visualization

    Carolyn M. Gramling;Charles F. Harvey;Lucy C. Meigs

  • Arsenic in groundwater in Bangladesh: A geostatistical and epidemiological framework for evaluating health effects and potential remedies

    Winston H. Yu;Charles M. Harvey;Charles F. Harvey

  • Groundwater systems of the Indian Sub-Continent

    Abhijit Mukherjee;Dipankar Saha;Charles F. Harvey;Richard G. Taylor

  • Rate‐limited mass transfer or macrodispersion: Which dominates plume evolution at the macrodispersion experiment (MADE) site?

    Charles Harvey;Steven M. Gorelick

  • Processes conducive to the release and transport of arsenic into aquifers of Bangladesh.

    Matthew L. Polizzotto;Charles F. Harvey;Steve R. Sutton;Scott Fendorf

  • Solid-phases and desorption processes of arsenic within Bangladesh sediments

    Matthew L. Polizzotto;Charles F. Harvey;Guangchao Li;Borhan Badruzzman

  • Temporal Moment-Generating Equations: Modeling Transport and Mass Transfer in Heterogeneous Aquifers

    Charles F. Harvey;Steven M. Gorelick

  • Groundwater arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale

    Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;Christopher H. Swartz;Abu Bohran M. Badruzzaman;Nicole Keon-Blute

  • Tropical peatland carbon storage linked to global latitudinal trends in peat recalcitrance

    Suzanne B. Hodgkins;Curtis J. Richardson;René Dommain;Hongjun Wang

  • What controls the apparent timescale of solute mass transfer in aquifers and soils? A comparison of experimental results

    Roy Haggerty;Charles F. Harvey;Claudius Freiherr von Schwerin;Lucy C. Meigs

  • Transient groundwater dynamics in a coastal aquifer: The effects of tides, the lunar cycle, and the beach profile

    Elena Abarca;Hanan N. Karam;Harold F. Hemond;Charles F. Harvey

  • Groundwater dynamics and arsenic mobilization in Bangladesh assessed using noble gases and tritium.

    Stephan Klump;Rolf Kipfer;Olaf A. Cirpka;Charles F. Harvey

  • External geophysics, Climate and Environment Groundwater arsenic contamination on the Ganges Delta: biogeochemistry, hydrology, human perturbations, and human suffering on a large scale

    Charles F. Harvey;Christopher H. Swartz;Abu Bohran;M. Badruzzaman

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin C. Bostick
Benjamin C. Bostick Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Holly A. Michael
Holly A. Michael University of Delaware
Kazi Matin Ahmed
Kazi Matin Ahmed University of Dhaka
Shafiqul Islam
Shafiqul Islam Tufts University
Brian J. Mailloux
Brian J. Mailloux Barnard College
Paul H. Glaser
Paul H. Glaser University of Minnesota
Steven M. Gorelick
Steven M. Gorelick Stanford University
Hans Joosten
Hans Joosten University of Greifswald

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