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2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
100
Citations
41091
World Ranking
131
National Ranking
67

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Daniel M. Sigman is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Paleontology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, highlighting areas such as Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Among recent publications authored by or involving Daniel M. Sigman are:

  • The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Global Nitrogen Cycle: Critical Enzymes, Organisms, and Processes for Nitrogen Budgets and Dynamics, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO 2 change, 2020, Science
  • Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods, 2022, Nature
  • Nitrogen isotopic constraints on nutrient transport to the upper ocean, 2021, Nature Geoscience

The scientist frequently collaborates with a number of researchers, including Alfredo Martínez-García, Gerald H. Haug, Alexandra Auderset, Alan Foreman, and Sergey Oleynik.

Daniel M. Sigman's publications are commonly found in the following venues:

  • Science
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Throughout their career, Daniel M. Sigman has received recognition including being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2004, and a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene

    Gerald H. Haug;Konrad A. Hughen;Daniel M. Sigman;Larry C. Peterson

  • A Bacterial Method for the Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater

    D.M. Sigman;K.L. Casciotti;M. Andreani;C. Barford

  • Measurement of the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater Using the Denitrifier Method

    K L Casciotti;D M Sigman;M Galanter Hastings;J K Böhlke

  • Glacial/interglacial variations in atmospheric carbon dioxide

    Daniel M. Sigman;Edward A. Boyle

  • Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization

    Gerald H. Haug;Detlef Günther;Larry C. Peterson;Daniel Mikhail Sigman

  • Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon

    Gergana Yancheva;Norbert R. Nowaczyk;Jens Mingram;Peter Dulski

  • The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO 2 concentration

    Daniel M. Sigman;Mathis P. Hain;Mathis P. Hain;Gerald H. Haug;Gerald H. Haug

  • Dinitrogen fixation in the world's oceans

    D. Karl;A. Michaels;B. Bergman;D.G. Capone

  • Spatial coupling of nitrogen inputs and losses in the ocean

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

  • Contribution of Southern Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period

    Roger Franois;Mark A. Altabet;Ein-Fen Yu;Daniel M. Sigman

  • Natural abundance-level measurement of the nitrogen isotopic composition of oceanic nitrate: an adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method

    D.M. Sigman;M.A. Altabet;R. Michener;D.C. McCorkle

  • The nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry of sinking particles from the margin of the Eastern North Pacific

    Mark A. Altabet;Cynthia Pilskaln;Robert Thunell;Carol Pride

  • Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

    Alfredo Martínez-García;Daniel M. Sigman;Haojia Ren;Robert F. Anderson

  • Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period

    Gaudenz Deplazes;Andreas Lückge;Larry C. Peterson;Axel Timmermann

  • North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago

    Gerald H. Haug;Andrey Ganopolski;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Antoni Rosell-Mele

  • Nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation during dissimilatory nitrate reduction by denitrifying bacteria

    Julie Granger;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Moritz F. Lehmann;Philippe D. Tortell

  • Coupled nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation of nitrate during assimilation by cultures of marine phytoplankton

    Julie Granger;Daniel M. Sigman;Joseph A. Needoba;Paul J. Harrison

  • The bioinorganic chemistry of the ancient ocean: the co-evolution of cyanobacterial metal requirements and biogeochemical cycles at the Archean–Proterozoic boundary?

    Mak A Saito;Daniel M Sigman;François M.M Morel

  • Measuring 15N-NH4/+ in marine, estuarine and fresh waters: An adaptation of the ammonia diffusion method for samples with low ammonium concentrations

    R. M. Holmes;James W McClelland;D. M. Sigman;B. Fry

  • Southern Ocean dust-climate coupling over the past four million years

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Samuel L. Jaccard;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert

  • Climate and the collapse of Maya civilization

    Larry C. Peterson;Gerald H. Haug

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald H. Haug
Gerald H. Haug Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Samuel L. Jaccard
Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne
Alfredo Martínez-García
Alfredo Martínez-García Max Planck Society
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Roger Francois
Roger Francois University of British Columbia
Konrad A Hughen
Konrad A Hughen Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Laura F. Robinson
Laura F. Robinson University of Bristol
Eric D. Galbraith
Eric D. Galbraith McGill University
Peter Dulski
Peter Dulski University of Potsdam

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