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Claudia I. Mora is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of engineering and chemistry, with specific emphasis on mechanics of materials, analytical chemistry, and biomedical engineering. This interdisciplinary approach supports their investigations into topics such as hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, and biofuel production and bioconversion.

One of Mora's recent publications is titled Tracking renewable carbon in bio-oil/crude co-processing with VGO through 13C/12C ratio analysis, published in 2020 in the journal Fuel. This work contributes to the understanding of renewable carbon contributions in co-processing bio-oil with vacuum gas oil (VGO), an area relevant to both petroleum processing and biofuel research.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mora include:

  • Zhenghua Li
  • Kimberly A. Magrini-Bair
  • Huamin Wang
  • Oleg V. Maltsev
  • Thomas J. Geeza

Their publications have appeared mainly in the journal Fuel, representing their engagement with a venue focused on fuel science and technology.

Main fields of study covered by Mora's work include:

  • Engineering
  • Chemistry

Subfields within these broader areas are:

  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Biomedical Engineering

The main topics addressed in their research consist of:

  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Petroleum Processing and Analysis
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion

Best Publications

  • Middle to Late Paleozoic Atmospheric CO2 Levels from Soil Carbonate and Organic Matter

    Claudia I. Mora;Steven G. Driese;Lee Ann Colarusso

  • Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

    Dana L. Miller;Claudia I. Mora;Henri D. Grissino-Mayer;Cary J. Mock

  • Correlations between components of the water balance and burned area reveal new insights for predicting forest fire area in the southwest United States

    A. Park Williams;Richard Seager;Alison K. Macalady;Max Berkelhammer

  • Halogen-rich scapolite and biotite; implications for metamorphic fluid-rock interaction

    Claudia I. Mora;John W. Valley

  • Mass-balance reconstruction of a modern Vertisol : implications for interpreting the geochemistry and burial alteration of paleo-Vertisols

    Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora;Cynthia A. Stiles;R.M. Joeckel

  • Physico‐chemical environment of pedogenic carbonate formation in Devonian vertic palaeosols, central Appalachians, USA

    Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora

  • Carbon dioxide in the Paleozoic atmosphere: Evidence from carbon-isotope compositions of pedogenic carbonate

    Claudia I. Mora;Steven G. Driese;Paula G. Seager

  • Preservation of a paleo-Vertisol and an estimate of late Mississippian paleoprecipitation

    Michael R. Caudill;Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora

  • Distinguishing Climate in the Soil Record Using Chemical Trends in a Vertisol Climosequence from the Texas Coast Prairie, and Application to Interpreting Paleozoic Paleosols in the Appalachian Basin, U.S.A.

    Steven G. Driese;Lee C. Nordt;Warren C. Lynn;Cynthia A. Stiles

  • Pedogenic processes and domain boundaries in a Vertisol climosequence: evidence from titanium and zirconium distribution and morphology

    Cynthia A. Stiles;Claudia I. Mora;Steven G. Driese

  • Pedogenic iron-manganese nodules in Vertisols: A new proxy for paleoprecipitation?

    Cynthia A. Stiles;Claudia I. Mora;Steven G. Driese

  • Very large plant and root traces from the Early to Middle Devonian: Implications for early terrestrial ecosystems and atmospheric p(CO2)

    Jennifer M. Elick;Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora

  • Morphology and taphonomy of root and stump casts of the earliest trees (Middle to Late Devonian), Pennsylvania and New York, U.S.A.

    Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora;Jennifer M. Elick

  • Paleopedology and Stable Isotope Chemistry of Late Silurian Vertic Paleosols, Bloomsburg Formation, Central Pennsylvania

    Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora;Edward Cotter;J. Lincoln Foreman

  • Stable carbon isotope ratios in lake and swamp sediments as a proxy for prehistoric forest clearance and crop cultivation in the Neotropics

    Chad S. Lane;Sally P. Horn;Claudia I. Mora

  • Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental change at mid-elevation on the Caribbean slope of the Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic: a multi-site, multi-proxy analysis

    Chad S. Lane;Sally P. Horn;Claudia I. Mora;Kenneth H. Orvis

  • An Oxygen Isotope Study of Illite and Calcite in Three Appalachian Paleozoic Vertic Paleosols

    Claudia I. Mora;Brian T. Sheldon;W. Crawford Elliott;Steven G. Driese

  • 13. Diversification of Siluro-Devonian Plant Traces in Paleosols and Influence on Estimates of Paleoatmospheric CO2 Levels

    Steven G. Driese;Claudia I. Mora

  • Cathodoluminescence of coexisting plagioclases, Boehls Butte anorthosite: CL activators and fluid flow paths

    Claudia I. Mora;Karl Ramseyer

  • Holocene Lake-Effect Precipitation in Northern Michigan

    Paul A. Delcourt;Peter L. Nester;Hazel R. Delcourt;Claudia I. Mora

  • Ternary feldspar thermometry in granulites from the Oaxacan Complex, Mexico

    C. I. Mora;J. W. Valley

  • Stable isotope compositions of pedogenic carbonates and soil organic matter in a temperate climate Vertisol with gilgai, southern Russia

    Irina Kovda;Claudia I. Mora;Larry P. Wilding

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven G. Driese
Steven G. Driese Baylor University
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer
Henri D. Grissino-Mayer University of Tennessee at Knoxville
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Nate G. McDowell
Nate G. McDowell Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Lee R. Riciputi
Lee R. Riciputi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sally P. Horn
Sally P. Horn University of Tennessee at Knoxville
David R. Cole
David R. Cole The Ohio State University
Howard J. Spero
Howard J. Spero University of California, Davis
Joseph T Kelley
Joseph T Kelley University of Maine
Richard Seager
Richard Seager Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

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