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Elizabeth A. Canuel publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elizabeth A. Canuel sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 116 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Elizabeth A. Canuel D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elizabeth A. Canuel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Elizabeth A. Canuel is affiliated with the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, contributing to a total of 27 and 16 publications in these fields respectively.

Their work extensively covers subfields such as ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, earth-surface processes, and health, toxicology, and mutagenesis. The main topics addressed in their research include marine and coastal ecosystems, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, coastal and marine dynamics, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, isotope analysis in ecology, toxic organic pollutants impact, and land use and ecosystem services.

Elizabeth A. Canuel has published research in several scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science
  • Estuaries and Coasts
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Canuel include:

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models, 2020, Nature Communications
  • On the human appropriation of wetland primary production, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Spatially calibrating polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) as proxies of area burned by vegetation fires: Insights from comparisons of historical data and sedimentary PAH fluxes, 2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Dissolved organic carbon sorption dynamics in tidal marsh soils, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • Carbon Pools Differ in Source and Temporal Patterns in a Tidal Marsh Creek System of the York River, VA Estuary, 2021, Estuaries and Coasts

Collaborations have been an important aspect of Canuel's work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Christina R. Pondell
  • Maria Tzortziou
  • J. Patrick Megonigal
  • Patrick J. Neale
  • Hannah Morrissette

Elizabeth A. Canuel received the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope composition of aquatic and terrestrial plants of the San Francisco Bay estuarine system

    James E. Cloern;Elizabeth A. Canuel;David Harris

  • AUTOMOTIVE SOURCES OF CARCINOGENIC POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION

    R M Dickhut;E A Canuel;K E Gustafson;K Liu

  • Grazer diversity effects on ecosystem functioning in seagrass beds

    J. Emmett Duffy;J. Paul Richardson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Reactivity of recently deposited organic matter: Degradation of lipid compounds near the sediment-water interface

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Christopher S. Martens

  • Chemical Biomarkers in Aquatic Ecosystems

    Thomas S. Bianchi;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • A geochemical record of eutrophication and anoxia in Chesapeake Bay sediments: anthropogenic influence on organic matter composition

    Andrew R Zimmerman;Elizabeth A Canuel

  • Global-change controls on soil-carbon accumulation and loss in coastal vegetated ecosystems

    Amanda C. Spivak;Jonathan Sanderman;Jennifer L. Bowen;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Representing the function and sensitivity of coastal interfaces in Earth system models

    Nicholas D. Ward;Nicholas D. Ward;J. Patrick Megonigal;Ben Bond-Lamberty;Vanessa L. Bailey

  • Molecular and isotopic tracers used to examine sources of organic matter and its incorporation into the food webs of San Francisco Bay

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;James E. Cloern;David B. Ringelberg;James B. Guckert

  • Seasonal variations in the sources and alteration of organic matter associated with recently-deposited sediments

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Christopher S. Martens

  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) distributions and associations with organic matter in surface waters of the York River, VA Estuary

    Rebecca E. Countway;Rebecca M. Dickhut;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Sources, Ages, and Alteration of Organic Matter in Estuaries.

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Amber K. Hardison

  • Organic geochemistry of particulate matter in the eastern tropical North Pacific Ocean: Implications for particle dynamics

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Carbon budget of tidal wetlands, estuaries, and shelf waters of Eastern North America

    R. G. Najjar;M. Herrmann;R. Alexander;E. W. Boyer

  • Isotopic compositions of lipid biomarker compounds in estuarine plants and surface sediments

    Elizabeth A. Canuel;Katherine H. Freeman;Stuart G. Wakeham

  • Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization?

    Arash Sharifi;Ali Pourmand;Elizabeth A. Canuel;Erin Ferer-Tyler

  • Photochemical and microbial alteration of dissolved organic matter in temperate headwater streams associated with different land use

    Yuehan Lu;James E. Bauer;Elizabeth A. Canuel;Youhei Yamashita

  • Sources of sedimentary organic matter in the Mississippi River and adjacent Gulf of Mexico as revealed by lipid biomarker and δ13CTOC analyses

    Elizabeth J. Waterson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Bulk Organic Matter and Lipid Biomarker Composition of Chesapeake Bay Surficial Sediments as Indicators of Environmental Processes

    A.R Zimmerman;E.A Canuel

  • Sediment geochemical records of eutrophication in the mesohaline Chesapeake Bay

    Andrew R. Zimmerman;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Sources of estuarine dissolved and particulate organic matter: A multi-tracer approach

    S. Leigh McCallister;James E. Bauer;Hugh W. Ducklow;Elizabeth A. Canuel

  • Tracking the fate of a high concentration groundwater nitrate plume through a fringing marsh: A combined groundwater tracer and in situ isotope enrichment study

    Craig R. Tobias;Stephen A. Macko;Iris C. Anderson;Elizabeth A. Canuel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire
James E. Bauer
James E. Bauer The Ohio State University
Rebecca M. Dickhut
Rebecca M. Dickhut Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Andrew R. Zimmerman
Andrew R. Zimmerman University of Florida
Iris C. Anderson
Iris C. Anderson Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Franco Marcantonio
Franco Marcantonio Texas A&M University
James E. Cloern
James E. Cloern United States Geological Survey
Craig R. Tobias
Craig R. Tobias University of Connecticut
J. Emmett Duffy
J. Emmett Duffy Smithsonian Institution

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