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Gary S. Dwyer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable presence in subfields such as Pollution, Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their work addresses several main topics including Heavy metals in environment, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coal and Its By-products, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Radioactive element chemistry and processing, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, as well as Mercury impact and mitigation studies.

Recent publications by Gary S. Dwyer include:

  • Evidence for the accumulation of toxic metal(loid)s in agricultural soils impacted from long-term application of phosphate fertilizer (2023, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Evaluation and Integration of Geochemical Indicators for Detecting Trace Levels of Coal Fly Ash in Soils (2021, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Legacy of Coal Combustion: Widespread Contamination of Lake Sediments and Implications for Chronic Risks to Aquatic Ecosystems (2022, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • A 1.8 million year history of Amazon vegetation (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Lead isotopes and rare earth elements geochemistry of global phosphate rocks: Insights into depositional conditions and environmental tracing (2023, Chemical Geology)

Gary S. Dwyer frequently collaborates with researchers such as Zhen Wang, Avner Vengosh, Gordon Williams, Jun Hu, and Luciano Colpo Gatiboni.

The scientist publishes regularly in venues that include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and 20th century temperature variability from Chesapeake Bay

    TM Cronin;Gary Dwyer;T Kamiya;S Schwede

  • Trends in the Rare Earth Element Content of U.S.-Based Coal Combustion Fly Ashes.

    Ross K. Taggart;James C. Hower;Gary S. Dwyer;Heileen Hsu-Kim

  • North Atlantic Deepwater Temperature Change During Late Pliocene and Late Quaternary Climatic Cycles

    Gary S. Dwyer;Thomas M. Cronin;Paul A. Baker;Maureen E. Raymo

  • Iodide, bromide, and ammonium in hydraulic fracturing and oil and gas wastewaters: environmental implications.

    Jennifer S. Harkness;Gary S. Dwyer;Nathaniel R. Warner;Nathaniel R. Warner;Kimberly M. Parker

  • Hydrologic variation during the last 170,000 years in the southern hemisphere tropics of South America

    Sherilyn C. Fritz;Paul A. Baker;Tim K. Lowenstein;Geoffrey O. Seltzer

  • Mid-Cretaceous strontium-isotope stratigraphy of deep-sea sections

    T. J. Bralower;P. D. Fullagar;C. K. Paull;G. S. Dwyer

  • Survey of the Potential Environmental and Health Impacts in the Immediate Aftermath of the Coal Ash Spill in Kingston, Tennessee

    Laura Ruhl;Avner Vengosh;Gary S. Dwyer;Heileen Hsu-Kim

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • Mid-Pliocene sea level and continental ice volume based on coupled benthic Mg/Ca palaeotemperatures and oxygen isotopes.

    Gary S Dwyer;Mark A Chandler

  • Environmental impacts of the coal ash spill in Kingston, Tennessee: an 18-month survey.

    Laura Ruhl;Avner Vengosh;Gary S. Dwyer;Heileen Hsu-Kim

  • Relationships between radium and radon occurrence and hydrochemistry in fresh groundwater from fractured crystalline rocks, North Carolina (USA)

    David S. Vinson;Avner Vengosh;Daniella Hirschfeld;Gary S. Dwyer

  • Mobilization of arsenic and other naturally occurring contaminants in groundwater of the Main Ethiopian Rift aquifers.

    Tewodros Rango;Avner Vengosh;Gary Dwyer;Gianluca Bianchini

  • Interlaboratory Comparison of Boron Isotope Analyses of Boric Acid, Seawater and Marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS

    Gavin L. Foster;Bärbel Hönisch;Guillaume Paris;Gary S. Dwyer

  • The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age in Chesapeake Bay and the North Atlantic Ocean

    Thomas M. Cronin;K. Hayo;Robert C. Thunell;Gary S. Dwyer

  • The Impact of Coal Combustion Residue Effluent on Water Resources: A North Carolina Example

    Laura Ruhl;Avner Vengosh;Gary S. Dwyer;Heileen Hsu-Kim

  • High naturally occurring radioactivity in fossil groundwater from the Middle East.

    Avner Vengosh;Daniella Hirschfeld;David Vinson;Gary Dwyer

  • Deep-sea ostracode species diversity: response to late Quaternary climate change

    Thomas M. Cronin;Dawn M. DeMartino;Gary S. Dwyer;Julio Rodriguez-Lazaro

  • Occurrence and distribution of hexavalent chromium in groundwater from North Carolina, USA.

    Rachel M. Coyte;Kristen L. McKinley;Sheng Jiang;Jonathan Karr

  • Calibration of a conodont apatite-based Ordovician 87Sr/86Sr curve to biostratigraphy and geochronology: Implications for stratigraphic resolution

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Cole T. Edwards;Stephen A. Leslie;Gary S. Dwyer

  • Deep Arctic Ocean warming during the last glacial cycle

    Thomas M. Cronin;Gary S. Dwyer;Jesse Robert Farmer;Jesse Robert Farmer;H. A. Bauch

  • The role of North Brazil Current transport in the paleoclimate of the Brazilian Nordeste margin and paleoceanography of the western tropical Atlantic during the late Quaternary

    Trevor E. Nace;Paul A. Baker;Paul A. Baker;Gary S. Dwyer;Cleverson G. Silva

  • Middle Pliocene sea surface temperature variability

    Harry J. Dowsett;Mark A. Chandler;Thomas M. Cronin;Gary S. Dwyer

Frequent Co-Authors

Avner Vengosh
Avner Vengosh Duke University
Thomas M. Cronin
Thomas M. Cronin United States Geological Survey
Paul A. Baker
Paul A. Baker Duke University
Harry J. Dowsett
Harry J. Dowsett United States Geological Survey
Heileen Hsu-Kim
Heileen Hsu-Kim Duke University
Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
Debra A. Willard
Debra A. Willard United States Geological Survey
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi
Cristiano Mazur Chiessi Universidade de São Paulo
Stephen J. Burns
Stephen J. Burns University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard T. Di Giulio
Richard T. Di Giulio Duke University

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