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Gerald R. Dickens

Gerald R. Dickens

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Earth Science
Ireland
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
23919
World Ranking
1105
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Gerald R. Dickens is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research spans multiple fields centered on Earth and planetary sciences, with a notable focus on engineering disciplines.

The main fields of study for this researcher include:

  • Engineering
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these, their work is concentrated on subfields such as:

  • Ocean Engineering
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Mechanical Engineering

Gerald R. Dickens' research covers specific topics including:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques

Their publication record includes papers in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Geology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth

Recent selected papers authored or co-authored by Gerald R. Dickens are:

  • Continental-scale geographic change across Zealandia during Paleogene subduction initiation, 2020, Geology
  • Evidence for enhanced fluvial channel mobility and fine sediment export due to precipitation seasonality during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, 2021, Geology
  • Microbial Alkalinity Production and Silicate Alteration in Methane Charged Marine Sediments: Implications for Porewater Chemistry and Diagenetic Carbonate Formation, 2022, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Demise of the Planktic Foraminifer Genus Morozovella during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum: New Records from ODP Site 1258 (Demerara Rise, Western Equatorial Atlantic) and Site 1263 (Walvis Ridge, South Atlantic), 2020, Geosciences
  • Neogene Mass Accumulation Rate of Carbonate Sediment Across Northern Zealandia, Tasman Sea, Southwest Pacific, 2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Gerald R. Dickens frequently collaborates with other researchers. Some of their most common co-authors include:

  • George E. Claypool
  • Walter S Borowski
  • Timothy S. Collett
  • Mahito Watanabe
  • Gerhard Bohrmann

Throughout their career, Gerald R. Dickens has received recognitions including:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2017
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • An early Cenozoic perspective on greenhouse warming and carbon-cycle dynamics

    James C. Zachos;Gerald R. Dickens;Richard E. Zeebe

  • Dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate as a cause of the carbon isotope excursion at the end of the Paleocene

    Gerald R. Dickens;James R. O'Neil;David K. Rea;Robert M. Owen

  • A blast of gas in the latest Paleocene: Simulating first-order effects of massive dissociation of oceanic methane hydrate

    Gerald R. Dickens;Maria M. Castillo;James C. G. Walker

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

  • Rethinking the global carbon cycle with a large, dynamic and microbially mediated gas hydrate capacitor

    Gerald R. Dickens

  • Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

  • Direct measurement of in situ methane quantities in a large gas-hydrate reservoir

    Gerald R. Dickens;Gerald R. Dickens;Charles K. Paull;Paul Wallace

  • The Source and Fate of Massive Carbon Input During the Latest Paleocene Thermal Maximum

    Miriam E. Katz;Dorothy K. Pak;Gerald R. Dickens;Kenneth G. Miller

  • Carbon dioxide forcing alone insufficient to explain Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum warming

    Richard E. Zeebe;James C. Zachos;Gerald R. Dickens

  • Methane hydrate stability in seawater

    Gerald R. Dickens;Mary S. Quinby-Hunt

  • Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

    Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Margaret E Collinson;Appy Sluijs

  • Environmental precursors to rapid light carbon injection at the Palaeocene/Eocene boundary

    Appy Sluijs;Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Steven M. Bohaty

  • Three-dimensional distribution of gas hydrate beneath southern Hydrate Ridge: Constraints from ODP Leg 204

    Anne M Tréhu;Philip E Long;Marta E Torres;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • Sulfate profiles and barium fronts in sediment on the Blake Ridge: present and past methane fluxes through a large gas hydrate reservoir

    Gerald R. Dickens;Gerald R. Dickens

  • Multiple early Eocene hyperthermals: Their sedimentary expression on the New Zealand continental margin and in the deep sea

    Micah J. Nicolo;Gerald R. Dickens;Christopher J. Hollis;James C. Zachos

  • Co-existence of gas hydrate, free gas, and brine within the regional gas hydrate stability zone at Hydrate Ridge (Oregon margin): evidence from prolonged degassing of a pressurized core

    Alexei V. Milkov;Gerald R. Dickens;George E. Claypool;Young-Joo Lee

  • Eustatic variations during the Paleocene-Eocene greenhouse world

    Appy Sluijs;Henk Brinkhuis;Erica M. Crouch;Cédric M. John;Cédric M. John

  • THERMODYNAMIC AND PORE WATER HALOGEN CONSTRAINTS ON GAS HYDRATE DISTRIBUTION AT ODP SITE 997 (BLAKE RIDGE)

    Per K. Egeberg;Gerald R. Dickens

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher J. Hollis
Christopher J. Hollis Victoria University of Wellington
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Robert M. Owen
Robert M. Owen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Larry C. Peterson
Larry C. Peterson University of Miami
Brandon Dugan
Brandon Dugan Colorado School of Mines
Walter G. Chapman
Walter G. Chapman Rice University
Jan Backman
Jan Backman Stockholm University
Bradley N. Opdyke
Bradley N. Opdyke Australian National University
George J. Hirasaki
George J. Hirasaki Rice University
André W. Droxler
André W. Droxler Rice University

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