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Overview

Douglas E. Hammond is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research expertise lies primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a notable focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work spans a range of main topics, which include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Clay Minerals and Soil Interactions
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Douglas E. Hammond has contributed research published in various academic venues with multiple publications appearing in:

  • Marine Chemistry
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Some recent scientific papers involving or related to Douglas E. Hammond's research include:

  • "Tracing source and transformation of carbon in an epikarst spring-pond system by dual carbon isotopes (13C14C): Evidence of dissolved CO2 uptake as a carbon sink" (2020), Journal of Hydrology
  • "Ge and Si Isotope Behavior During Intense Tropical Weathering and Ecosystem Cycling" (2020), Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • "Actinium and radium fluxes from the seabed in the northeast Pacific Basin" (2022), Marine Chemistry
  • "Disentangling the History of Deep Ocean Disposal for DDT and Other Industrial Waste Off Southern California" (2024), Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Evidence of changes in sedimentation rate and sediment fabric in a low-oxygen setting: Santa Monica Basin, CA" (2020), Biogeosciences

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including but not limited to:

  • Nathaniel Kemnitz
  • Matthew A. Charette
  • Willard S. Moore
  • William M. Berelson
  • Paul B. Henderson

Best Publications

  • Early oxidation of organic matter in pelagic sediments of the eastern equatorial Atlantic: suboxic diagenesis

    P.N. Froelich;G.P. Klinkhammer;M.L. Bender;N.A. Luedtke

  • Geochemistry of barium in marine sediments: implications for its use as a paleoproxy

    James McManus;William M Berelson;Gary P Klinkhammer;Kenneth S Johnson

  • Authigenic uranium: Relationship to oxygen penetration depth and organic carbon rain

    James McManus;William M. Berelson;Gary P. Klinkhammer;Douglas E. Hammond

  • Molybdenum and uranium geochemistry in continental margin sediments: Paleoproxy potential

    James McManus;William M. Berelson;Silke Severmann;Rebecca L. Poulson

  • Fluid and chemical fluxes in and out of sediments hosting methane hydrate deposits on Hydrate Ridge, OR, I: Hydrological provinces

    M.E. Torres;J. McManus;D.E. Hammond;M.A. de Angelis

  • Nutrient exchange across the sediment-water interface in the Potomac River estuary

    Edward Callender;Douglas E. Hammond

  • The continental shelf benthic iron flux and its isotope composition

    Silke Severmann;James McManus;William M. Berelson;Douglas E. Hammond

  • Effect of elevated CO2 on the community metabolism of an experimental coral reef

    Chris Langdon;Wallace S. Broecker;Douglas E. Hammond;Edward Glenn

  • System for measurement of 222Rn at low levels in natural waters.

    Mathieu Gg;Biscaye Pe;Lupton Ra;Hammond De

  • Benthic fluxes in San Francisco Bay

    Douglas E. Hammond;Christopher Fuller;Dana Harmon;Blayne Hartman

  • Latitudinal variations in benthic processes in the abyssal equatorial Pacific: control by biogenic particle flux

    Craig R. Smith;Will Berelson;David J. Demaster;Fred C. Dobbs

  • Benthic chamber and profiling landers in oceanography-A review of design, technical solutions and functioning.

    A. Tengberg;F. De Bovee;P. Hall;W. Berelson

  • Benthic fluxes and the cycling of biogenic silica and carbon in two southern California borderland basins

    W.M Berelson;W.M Berelson;D.E Hammond;D.E Hammond;K.S Johnson;K.S Johnson

  • Oceanic molybdenum isotope fractionation: Diagenesis and hydrothermal ridge-flank alteration

    James McManus;James McManus;Thomas F. Nägler;Christopher Siebert;C. Geoffrey Wheat

  • Early diagenesis of organic material in equatorial Pacific sediments: stpichiometry and kinetics

    D.E. Hammond;J. McManus;W.M. Berelson;T.E. Kilgore

  • Early diagenesis of biogenic opal: Dissolution rates, kinetics, and paleoceanographic implications

    James McManus;Douglas E. Hammond;William M. Berelson;Tammy E. Kilgore

  • Nitrogen cycling in the sediments of Santa Barbara basin and Eastern Subtropical North Pacific: Nitrogen isotopes, diagenesis and possible chemosymbiosis between two lithotrophs (Thioploca and Anammox)—“riding on a glider”

    M.G. Prokopenko;M.G. Prokopenko;D.E. Hammond;W.M. Berelson;J.M. Bernhard

  • Rock magnetic evidence for the dissolution and authigenic growth of magnetic minerals within anoxic marine sediments of the California continental borderland

    Bret W. Leslie;Steve P. Lund;Douglas E. Hammond

  • Diagenesis in anoxic sediments from the California continental borderland and its influence on iron, sulfur, and magnetite behavior

    Bret W. Leslie;Douglas E. Hammond;William M. Berelson;Steve P. Lund

  • Connectivity of earthquake-triggered landslides with the fluvial network: Implications for landslide sediment transport after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    Gen Li;A. Joshua West;Alexander L. Densmore;Douglas E. Hammond

  • Biogenic budgets of particle rain, benthic remineralization and sediment accumulation in the equatorial Pacific

    W.M. Berelson;R.F. Anderson;J. Dymond;D. Demaster

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Berelson
William M. Berelson University of Southern California
James McManus
James McManus Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Lowell D. Stott
Lowell D. Stott University of Southern California
Steve P. Lund
Steve P. Lund University of Southern California
Gary P. Klinkhammer
Gary P. Klinkhammer Oregon State University
Frank A. Corsetti
Frank A. Corsetti University of Southern California
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Matthew A. Charette
Matthew A. Charette Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Olivier Rouxel
Olivier Rouxel French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Douglas G. Capone
Douglas G. Capone University of Southern California

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