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Overview

David J. Hollander was affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research focused primarily on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing notably to the understanding of pollution, oceanography, ecology, health toxicology and mutagenesis, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's work spanned multiple key topics including:

  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Marine and Environmental Studies

Several frequent co-authors collaborated with Hollander, reflecting interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches within their research. These included Patrick Schwing, Rebekka A. Larson, Gregg R. Brooks, María Luisa Machain-Castillo, and Ana Carolina Ruiz-Fernández.

The scientist published research in prominent venues such as:

  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Ecological Indicators
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Key recent papers contributed by Hollander include:

  • "Integrating marine oil snow and MOSSFA into oil spill response and damage assessment," 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Development of a benthic foraminifera based marine biotic index (Foram-AMBI) for the Gulf of Mexico: A decision support tool," 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • "How quickly will the offshore ecosystem recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill? Lessons learned from the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil well blowout," 2020, Ecological Indicators
  • "The southern Gulf of Mexico: A baseline radiocarbon isoscape of surface sediments and isotopic excursions at depth," 2020, PLoS ONE
  • "Mapping spatial and temporal variation of seafloor organic matter Δ14C and δ13C in the Northern Gulf of Mexico following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill," 2021, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Best Publications

  • A tale of shales: the relative roles of production, decomposition, and dilution in the accumulation of organic-rich strata, Middle–Upper Devonian, Appalachian basin

    Bradley B Sageman;Adam E Murphy;Josef P Werne;Charles A Ver Straeten

  • Consistent fractionation of 13C in nature and in the laboratory: growth-rate effects in some haptophyte algae.

    Robert R. Bidigare;Arnim Fluegge;Arnim Fluegge;Katherine H. Freeman;Kristi L. Hanson

  • Contrasting sulfur geochemistry and Fe/Al and Mo/Al ratios across the last oxic-to-anoxic transition in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

    Timothy W Lyons;Josef P Werne;David J Hollander;R.W Murray

  • CO2 control on carbon-isotope fractionation during aqueous photosynthesis: A paleo-pCO2 barometer

    David J. Hollander;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Black shale deposition and faunal overturn in the Devonian Appalachian Basin: Clastic starvation, seasonal water-column mixing, and efficient biolimiting nutrient recycling

    Adam E. Murphy;Bradley B. Sageman;David J. Hollander;Timothy W. Lyons

  • An integrated assessment of a “type euxinic” deposit: Evidence for multiple controls on black shale deposition in the middle Devonian Oatka Creek formation

    Josef P. Werne;Bradley B. Sageman;Timothy W. Lyons;David J. Hollander

  • Assessing the Impacts of Oil-associated Marine Snow Formation and Sedimentation during and after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Kendra L. Daly;Uta Passow;Jeffrey Chanton;David Hollander

  • Metagenomic and stable isotopic analyses of modern freshwater microbialites in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico

    Mya Breitbart;Ana Maria Hoare;Anthony G. Nitti;Janet Siefert

  • Evidence for dissolved organic nitrogen and phosphorus uptake during a cyanobacterial bloom in Florida Bay

    P. M. Glibert;Cynthia A. Heil;David J. Hollander;M. Revilla

  • Microbially mediated carbon cycling as a control on the δ 13 C of sedimentary carbon in eutrophic Lake Mendota (USA): new models for interpreting isotopic excursions in the sedimentary record

    David J. Hollander;Michael A. Smith

  • Eutrophication by decoupling of the marine biogeochemical cycles of C, N, and P: A mechanism for the Late Devonian mass extinction

    Adam E. Murphy;Bradley B. Sageman;David J. Hollander

  • Reduced sulfur in euxinic sediments of the Cariaco Basin: sulfur isotope constraints on organic sulfur formation

    Josef P. Werne;Timothy W. Lyons;David J. Hollander;Michael J. Formolo

  • Using Natural Abundance Radiocarbon To Trace the Flux of Petrocarbon to the Seafloor Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    Jeffrey Chanton;Tingting Zhao;Brad E. Rosenheim;Samantha Joye

  • Differential contribution of bacteria to sedimentary organic matter in oxic and anoxic environments, Santa Monica Basin, California

    Changrui Gong;David J. Hollander

  • Early diagenesis of bacteriohopanepolyol derivatives: Formation of fossil homohopanoids

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Adri C.T. Van Duin;David Hollander;David Hollander;Math E.L. Kohnen

  • Sedimentation Pulse in the NE Gulf of Mexico following the 2010 DWH Blowout.

    Gregg R. Brooks;Rebekka A. Larson;Patrick T. Schwing;Isabel Romero

  • Hydrocarbons in Deep-Sea Sediments following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Blowout in the Northeast Gulf of Mexico.

    Isabel C. Romero;Patrick T. Schwing;Gregg R. Brooks;Rebekka A. Larson

  • Organic sulfur biogeochemistry: Recent advances and future research directions

    Josef P. Werne;David J. Hollander;Timothy W. Lyons;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Large-scale deposition of weathered oil in the Gulf of Mexico following a deep-water oil spill.

    Isabel C. Romero;Gerardo Toro-Farmer;Arne-R. Diercks;Patrick Schwing

  • Timing of early diagenetic sulfurization of organic matter: a precursor-product relationship in Holocene sediments of the anoxic Cariaco Basin, Venezuela☆

    Josef P. Werne;David J. Hollander;Anke Behrens;Philippe Schaeffer

  • Climate‐induced variations in productivity and planktonic ecosystem structure from the Younger Dryas to Holocene in the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela

    Josef P. Werne;David J. Hollander;Timothy W. Lyons;Larry C. Peterson

  • Evidence for differential degradation of alkenones under contrasting bottom water oxygen conditions: implication for paleotemperature reconstruction

    Changrui Gong;David J Hollander

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey P. Chanton
Jeffrey P. Chanton Florida State University
Josef P. Werne
Josef P. Werne University of Pittsburgh
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza
Joan-Albert Sanchez-Cabeza National Autonomous University of Mexico
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Joel E. Kostka
Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology
Samantha B. Joye
Samantha B. Joye University of Georgia
Terrence M. Quinn
Terrence M. Quinn The University of Texas at Austin
Bradley B. Sageman
Bradley B. Sageman Northwestern University
Kendra L. Daly
Kendra L. Daly University of South Florida

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