2026 Christo Buizert: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	46	5977	5734	2165	2005	165	10997

Overview

Christo Buizert is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States, focusing research efforts on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work extensively covers subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

The primary research topics addressed by Buizert include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Climate Change and Permafrost, Landslides and Related Hazards, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for Buizert's research include:

The Cryosphere
Climate of the Past
Geophysical Research Letters
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Buizert are:

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus
Edward J. Brook
Jon S. Edwards
Kenji Kawamura
Todd Sowers

Significant recent publications by Buizert include:

"Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions," 2020, Nature
"Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum," 2021, Science
"Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period," 2020, Climate of the Past
"Abrupt Heinrich Stadial 1 cooling missing in Greenland oxygen isotopes," 2021, Science Advances
"Surface Mass Balance Controlled by Local Surface Slope in Inland Antarctica: Implications for Ice-Sheet Mass Balance and Oldest Ice Delineation in Dome Fuji," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters

This body of work reflects a focus on paleoclimate dynamics, methane emissions, and Antarctic climate variations. The research spans interdisciplinary approaches involving isotope geochemistry, cryospheric processes, and paleoenvironmental reconstructions.

Best Publications

Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

Frank Koppens;Christo Buizert;Klaas-Jan Tielrooij;Ivo Vink

1825
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

663
Citations
Centennial-scale changes in the global carbon cycle during the last deglaciation

Shaun A. Marcott;Thomas K. Bauska;Christo Buizert;Eric J. Steig

575
Citations
Consistently dated records from the Greenland GRIP, GISP2 and NGRIP ice cores for the past 104 ka reveal regional millennial-scale δ18O gradients with possible Heinrich event imprint

Inger K. Seierstad;Peter M. Abbott;Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Thomas Blunier

445
Citations
Precise interpolar phasing of abrupt climate change during the last ice age

Christo Buizert;Betty Adrian;Jinho Ahn;Mary Albert

416
Citations
Greenland temperature response to climate forcing during the last deglaciation.

Christo Buizert;Vasileios Gkinis;Vasileios Gkinis;Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Feng He

371
Citations
The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology – Part 1: Methane synchronization (68–31 ka BP) and the gas age–ice age difference

C. Buizert;K. M. Cuffey;J. P. Severinghaus;D. Baggenstos

311
Citations
Beyond the bipolar seesaw: toward a process understanding of interhemispheric coupling

Joel B. Pedro;Markus Jochum;Christo Buizert;Feng He;Feng He

305
Citations
Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions.

Benjamin Hmiel;V. V. Petrenko;M. N. Dyonisius;C. Buizert

302
Citations
The WAIS Divide deep ice core WD2014 chronology - Part 2: Annual-layer counting (0-31 ka BP)

Michael Sigl;Michael Sigl;Tyler J. Fudge;Mai Winstrup;Jihong Cole-Dai

257
Citations
A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

236
Citations
Antarctic surface temperature and elevation during the Last Glacial Maximum

Christo Buizert;T. J. Fudge;William H. G. Roberts;Eric J. Steig

220
Citations
Consistent evidence of increasing Antarctic accumulation with warming

Katja Frieler;Peter U. Clark;Feng He;Feng He;Christo Buizert

219
Citations
Greenland-Wide Seasonal Temperatures During the Last Deglaciation

C. Buizert;B. A. Keisling;J. E. Box;F. He;F. He

195
Citations
Deglacial temperature history of West Antarctica

Kurt M. Cuffey;Gary D. Clow;Eric J. Steig;Christo Buizert

187
Citations
Abrupt ice-age shifts in southern westerly winds and Antarctic climate forced from the north

Christo Buizert;Michael Sigl;Mirko Severi;Bradley R. Markle

182
Citations
Gas transport in firn: multiple-tracer characterisation and model intercomparison for NEEM, Northern Greenland

C. Buizert;P. Martinerie;V. Petrenko;V. Petrenko;J. P. Severinghaus

180
Citations
Global atmospheric teleconnections during Dansgaard–Oeschger events

Bradley R. Markle;Eric J. Steig;Christo Buizert;Spruce W. Schoenemann

159
Citations
Minimal geological methane emissions during the Younger Dryas–Preboreal abrupt warming event

Vasilii V. Petrenko;Andrew M. Smith;Hinrich Schaefer;Katja Riedel

141
Citations
Variable relationship between accumulation and temperature in West Antarctica for the past 31,000 years

T. J. Fudge;Bradley R. Markle;Kurt M. Cuffey;Christo Buizert

135
Citations
Firn Model Intercomparison Experiment (FirnMICE)

Jessica M.D. Lundin;C. Max Stevens;Robert Arthern;Christo Buizert

128
Citations
Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey P. Severinghaus University of California, San Diego

Edward J. Brook Oregon State University

Eric J. Steig University of Washington

Anais Orsi University of British Columbia

Todd Sowers Pennsylvania State University

Michael Sigl University of Oslo

Kenji Kawamura National Institute of Polar Research

Joseph R. McConnell Desert Research Institute

Thomas Blunier University of Copenhagen

James W. C. White University of Colorado Boulder

External Links

Personal website of Christo Buizert

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