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Heleen A. de Wit is a researcher affiliated with the Norwegian Institute for Water Research in Norway. Their work primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial publication record across these fields.

Their research spans several specialized subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Water Science and Technology. The main topics of interest cover Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Mercury Impact and Mitigation Studies, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Environmental Research Letters

Heleen A. de Wit has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including:

  • Jussi Vuorenmaa
  • Pavel Krám
  • Kari Austnes
  • François Clayer
  • Øyvind Kaste

Selected recent papers demonstrate the diversity and topical focus of their research:

  • "Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters" (2021) published in Environmental Research Letters
  • "Long-term rise in riverine dissolved organic carbon concentration is predicted by electrolyte solubility theory" (2023) published in Science Advances
  • "Assessing critical load exceedances and ecosystem impacts of anthropogenic nitrogen and sulphur deposition at unmanaged forested catchments in Europe" (2020) published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Changing Water Chemistry in One Thousand Norwegian Lakes During Three Decades of Cleaner Air and Climate Change" (2023) published in Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Best Publications

  • Dissolved organic carbon trends resulting from changes in atmospheric deposition chemistry.

    Donald T. Monteith;John L. Stoddard;Christopher D. Evans;Heleen A. de Wit

  • Current Browning of Surface Waters Will Be Further Promoted by Wetter Climate

    Heleen A. de Wit;Salar Valinia;Gesa A Weyhenmeyer;Martyn N. Futter

  • Trends in Surface Water Chemistry in Acidified Areas in Europe and North America from 1990 to 2008

    Øyvind Aaberg Garmo;Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle;Heleen de Wit;Luca Colombo

  • Long-Term Increase in Dissolved Organic Carbon in Streamwaters in Norway Is Response to Reduced Acid Deposition

    Heleen A. de Wit;Jan Mulder;and Atle Hindar;Lars Hole

  • From greening to browning: Catchment vegetation development and reduced S-deposition promote organic carbon load on decadal time scales in Nordic lakes.

    Anders Gravbrøt Finstad;Tom Andersen;Søren Larsen;Koji Tominaga

  • Stand age and fine root biomass, distribution and morphology in a Norway spruce chronosequence in southeast Norway.

    Isabella Børja;Heleen A De Wit;Arne Steffenrem;Hooshang Majdi

  • Recent advances in understanding and measurement of mercury in the environment: Terrestrial Hg cycling.

    Kevin Bishop;James B. Shanley;Ami Riscassi;Heleen A. de Wit

  • Generality of fractal 1/f scaling in catchment tracer time series, and its implications for catchment travel time distributions

    Sarah E. Godsey;Wenche Aas;Thomas A. Clair;Heleen A. de Wit

  • A carbon budget of forest biomass and soils in southeast Norway calculated using a widely applicable method

    Helene A. de Wit;Taru Palosuo;Gro Hylen;Jari Liski

  • Widespread diminishing anthropogenic effects on calcium in freshwaters

    Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer;Jens Hartmann;Dag O. Hessen;Jiří Kopáček

  • Climate warming feedback from mountain birch forest expansion: reduced albedo dominates carbon uptake

    Heleen de Wit;Anders Bryn;Annika Hofgaard;Jonas Karstensen

  • Oxygen dynamics in a boreal lake responds to long‐term changes in climate, ice phenology and DOC inputs

    Raoul-Marie Couture;Raoul-Marie Couture;Heleen A. de Wit;Koji Tominaga;Koji Tominaga;Petri Kiuru

  • Long-term changes (1990-2015) in the atmospheric deposition and runoff water chemistry of sulphate, inorganic nitrogen and acidity for forested catchments in Europe in relation to changes in emissions and hydrometeorological conditions.

    Jussi Vuorenmaa;Algirdas Augustaitis;Burkhard Beudert;Witold Bochenek

  • Cleaner air reveals growing influence of climate on dissolved organic carbon trends in northern headwaters

    Heleen A de Wit;John L Stoddard;Donald T Monteith;James E. Sample

  • Nitrogen deposition, catchment productivity, and climate as determinants of lake stoichiometry

    Dag O. Hessen;Tom Andersen;Søren Larsen;Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle

  • Mercury budget of a small forested boreal catchment in southeast Norway

    Thorjørn Larssen;Heleen A. de Wit;Marianne Wiker;Kine Halse

  • Environmental factors influencing mercury speciation in Subarctic and Boreal lakes

    Hans Fredrik Veiteberg Braaten;Hans Fredrik Veiteberg Braaten;Heleen de Wit;Eirik Fjeld;Sigurd Rognerud

  • Testing seasonal and long-term controls of streamwater DOC using empirical and process-based models.

    Martyn N. Futter;Heleen A. de Wit

  • Forest harvest effects on mercury in streams and biota in Norwegian boreal catchments

    Heleen A. de Wit;Aksel Granhus;Markus Lindholm;Martin J. Kainz

  • Increased Levels of Aluminium in Forest Soils: Effects on the Stores of Soil Organic Carbon

    Jan Mulder;Helene A. De Wit;Helena W. J. Boonen;Lars R. Bakken

  • Dissolved Al reduces Mg uptake in Norway spruce forest: Results from a long-term field manipulation experiment in Norway

    Heleen A. de Wit;Toril D. Eldhuset;Jan Mulder

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn N. Futter
Martyn N. Futter Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Don Monteith
Don Monteith Lancaster University
John L. Stoddard
John L. Stoddard Environmental Protection Agency
Richard F. Wright
Richard F. Wright Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Martin Forsius
Martin Forsius Finnish Environment Institute
Thorjørn Larssen
Thorjørn Larssen Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Dag O. Hessen
Dag O. Hessen University of Oslo
Raisa Mäkipää
Raisa Mäkipää Natural Resources Institute Finland
Lars Vesterdal
Lars Vesterdal University of Copenhagen

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