2026 Deborah N. Huntzinger: 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	42	7283	7001	2593	2414	125	10462

Overview

Deborah N. Huntzinger is affiliated with Northern Arizona University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and earth system studies, focusing largely on biogeochemical cycles, ecosystem dynamics, and climate interactions.

Their work is published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to the Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, where they have nine publications. Additional publication venues include Environmental Research Letters (three publications), Remote Sensing of Environment (two publications), Scientific Reports (two publications), and AGU Advances (two publications).

Huntzinger's main fields of study are Environmental Science with 33 publications and Earth and Planetary Sciences with 17 publications. Their research covers subfields such as Global and Planetary Change (26 publications), Atmospheric Science (17 publications), Ecology (3 publications), Economics and Econometrics (2 publications), and Environmental Chemistry (2 publications).

The central topics within their body of work include:

Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
Climate variability and models
Climate change and permafrost
Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
Cryospheric studies and observations
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Forest Management and Policy

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Huntzinger include:

Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests, 2020, Science
Decoupling of greenness and gross primary productivity as aridity decreases, 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment
Earth system models must include permafrost carbon processes, 2024, Nature Climate Change
Impacts of land use change and elevated CO ₂ on the interannual variations and seasonal cycles of gross primary productivity in China, 2020, Earth System Dynamics

Frequent collaborators include Marguerite A. Xenopoulos with nine joint publications, Ankur R. Desai with eight, Christopher R. Schwalm with seven, Kevin Schaefer with six, and Joshua B. Fisher with six co-authored papers.

Best Publications

A life-cycle assessment of Portland cement manufacturing: comparing the traditional process with alternative technologies

Deborah N. Huntzinger;Thomas D. Eatmon

1591
Citations
Global patterns of drought recovery

Christopher R. Schwalm;Christopher R. Schwalm;William R. L. Anderegg;Anna M. Michalak;Joshua B. Fisher

817
Citations
Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests

William R.L. Anderegg;Anna T. Trugman;Grayson Badgley;Christa M. Anderson

733
Citations
The terrestrial biosphere as a net source of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere

Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Chaoqun Lu;Philippe Ciais;Anna M. Michalak

626
Citations
Carbon dioxide sequestration in cement kiln dust through mineral carbonation.

Deborah N. Huntzinger;John S. Gierke;S. Komar Kawatra;Timothy C. Eisele

489
Citations
Climate Science Special Report: Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume I

Donald J. Wuebbles;David W. Fahey;Kathy A. Hibbard;Jeff R. Arnold

423
Citations
A framework for benchmarking land models

Yiqi Luo;J. Randerson;G. Abramowitz;C. Bacour

336
Citations
Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions.

Hanqin Tian;Chaoqun Lu;Jia Yang;Kamaljit Banger

296
Citations
Impact of large‐scale climate extremes on biospheric carbon fluxes: An intercomparison based on MsTMIP data

Jakob Zscheischler;Jakob Zscheischler;Anna M. Michalak;Christopher Schwalm;Miguel D. Mahecha

289
Citations
Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms.

Kun Huang;Jianyang Xia;Yingping Wang;Yingping Wang;Anders Ahlström;Anders Ahlström

282
Citations
North American Carbon Program (NACP) regional interim synthesis: Terrestrial biospheric model intercomparison

D. N. Huntzinger;W. M. Post;Y. Wei;A. M. Michalak

262
Citations
The North American Carbon Program Multi-Scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 1: Overview and experimental design

D. N. Huntzinger;C. Schwalm;A. M. Michalak;K. Schaefer

255
Citations
Uncertainty in the response of terrestrial carbon sink to environmental drivers undermines carbon-climate feedback predictions.

D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak;C. Schwalm;C. Schwalm;P. Ciais

246
Citations
Mineral carbonation for carbon sequestration in cement kiln dust from waste piles

Deborah N. Huntzinger;John S. Gierke;Lawrence L. Sutter;S. Komar Kawatra

244
Citations
The North American Carbon Program Multi-scale Synthesis and Terrestrial Model Intercomparison Project – Part 2: Environmental driver data

Y. Wei;S. Liu;D. N. Huntzinger;A. M. Michalak

242
Citations
Modeling the Terrestrial Biosphere

Joshua B. Fisher;Deborah N. Huntzinger;Christopher R. Schwalm;Stephen Sitch

236
Citations
Enabling Sustainable Thinking in Undergraduate Engineering Education

Deborah N. Huntzinger;Margot J. Hutchins;John S. Gierke;John W. Sutherland

195
Citations
North American terrestrial CO2 uptake largely offset by CH4 and N2O emissions: toward a full accounting of the greenhouse gas budget.

Hanqin Tian;Guangsheng Chen;Chaoqun Lu;Xiaofeng Xu

170
Citations
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

Jiafu Mao;Wenting Fu;Xiaoying Shi;Daniel M. Ricciuto

162
Citations
Reconciling estimates of the contemporary North American carbon balance among terrestrial biosphere models, atmospheric inversions, and a new approach for estimating net ecosystem exchange from inventory-based data

Daniel J. Hayes;David P. Turner;Graham Stinson;A. David McGuire

139
Citations
Disentangling climatic and anthropogenic controls on global terrestrial evapotranspiration trends

J. Mao;W. Fu;X. Shi;D. M. Ricciuto

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher R. Schwalm Woodwell Climate Research Center

Anna M. Michalak Stanford University

Robert B. Cook Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Kevin Schaefer Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

Daniel J. Hayes University of Maine

Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center

Hanqin Tian Auburn University

Joshua B. Fisher Chapman University

Atul K. Jain University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ning Zeng University of Maryland, College Park

External Links

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