2026 Curtis Deutsch: 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	57	3364	3214	1294	1197	165	18844

Overview

Curtis Deutsch is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work mainly focuses on oceanography, ecology, and related subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and paleontology.

The primary areas of Curtis Deutsch's research cover marine and coastal ecosystems, ocean acidification effects and responses, marine biology and ecology research, oceanographic and atmospheric processes, physiological and biochemical adaptations, microbial community ecology and physiology, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

Frequently publishing in numerous scientific journals and venues, Curtis Deutsch has been featured repeatedly in:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Biogeosciences

Some of the recent notable papers include:

Metabolic trait diversity shapes marine biogeography, 2020, Nature
Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming, 2022, Science
Climate-driven aerobic habitat loss in the California Current System, 2020, Science Advances
Coastal eutrophication drives acidification, oxygen loss, and ecosystem change in a major oceanic upwelling system, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Oxygen supply capacity in animals evolves to meet maximum demand at the current oxygen partial pressure regardless of size or temperature, 2020, Journal of Experimental Biology

Curtis Deutsch frequently collaborates with other researchers including Keisuke Inomura, Hartmut Frenzel, Justin L. Penn, Fayçal Kessouri, and Lionel Renault. These collaborations have produced a significant number of joint publications, reflecting active engagement within their research community.

Best Publications

Impacts of climate warming on terrestrial ectotherms across latitude.

Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Kimberly S. Sheldon

4140
Citations
Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate

Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Michelle Tigchelaar;David S. Battisti

1398
Citations
Putting the Heat on Tropical Animals

Joshua J. Tewksbury;Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch

1110
Citations
Why tropical forest lizards are vulnerable to climate warming

Raymond B. Huey;Curtis A. Deutsch;Joshua J. Tewksbury;Laurie J. Vitt

1092
Citations
Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean

Curtis Deutsch;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Daniel M. Sigman;Nicolas Gruber;Nicolas Gruber

810
Citations
Climate change tightens a metabolic constraint on marine habitats

Curtis Deutsch;Aaron Ferrel;Brad Seibel;Hans Otto Pörtner

789
Citations
Denitrification and N2 fixation in the Pacific Ocean

Curtis Deutsch;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

405
Citations
Climate-forced variability of ocean hypoxia.

Curtis Deutsch;Holger Brix;Taka Ito;Hartmut Frenzel

399
Citations
Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction.

Justin L. Penn;Curtis Deutsch;Jonathan L. Payne;Erik A. Sperling

368
Citations
New developments in the marine nitrogen cycle.

Jay A. Brandes;and Allan H. Devol;Curtis Deutsch

345
Citations
Ocean nutrient ratios governed by plankton biogeography

Thomas S. Weber;Curtis Deutsch

339
Citations
Global niche of marine anaerobic metabolisms expanded by particle microenvironments

Daniele Bianchi;Thomas S. Weber;Rainer Kiko;Curtis Deutsch

315
Citations
The dual isotopes of deep nitrate as a constraint on the cycle and budget of oceanic fixed nitrogen

Daniel M. Sigman;Peter J. DiFiore;Mathis P. Hain;Curtis Deutsch

258
Citations
Upper ocean O2 trends: 1958–2015

Takamitsu Ito;Shoshiro Minobe;Matthew C. Long;Curtis Deutsch

257
Citations
Avoiding ocean mass extinction from climate warming

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247
Citations
Isotopic constraints on glacial/interglacial changes in the oceanic nitrogen budget

Curtis Deutsch;Curtis Deutsch;Daniel M. Sigman;Robert C. Thunell;Anna Nele Meckler

246
Citations
Metabolic trait diversity shapes marine biogeography.

Curtis Deutsch;Justin L. Penn;Brad Seibel

238
Citations
Finding forced trends in oceanic oxygen

Matthew C. Long;Curtis Deutsch;Taka Ito

216
Citations
The sequestration efficiency of the biological pump

Tim DeVries;Francois Primeau;Curtis Deutsch

208
Citations
Centennial changes in North Pacific anoxia linked to tropical trade winds

Curtis Deutsch;William Berelson;Robert Thunell;Thomas Weber

201
Citations
Nutrient Ratios as a Tracer and Driver of Ocean Biogeochemistry

Curtis Deutsch;Thomas Weber

176
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lionel Renault University of California, Los Angeles

James C. McWilliams University of California, Los Angeles

Joshua J. Tewksbury University of Colorado Boulder

Raymond B. Huey University of Washington

Ondřej Prášil Institute of Microbiology

Michael J. Follows MIT

Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University

Matthew C. Long National Center for Atmospheric Research

Brad A. Seibel University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Richard A. Feely University of Washington

External Links

Personal website of Curtis Deutsch

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