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Ian Cartwright

Ian Cartwright

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Earth Science

D-Index
57
Citations
10171
World Ranking
2304
National Ranking
132

Overview

Ian Cartwright is affiliated with Monash University in Australia and has a significant body of research primarily in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including geochemistry and petrology, environmental engineering, water science and technology, global and planetary change, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's research mainly focuses on groundwater and isotope geochemistry, hydrology and watershed management studies, groundwater flow and contamination studies, groundwater and watershed analysis, soil and water nutrient dynamics, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, and flood risk assessment and management.

Ian Cartwright has contributed to numerous publications in respected academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Journal of Hydrology
  • Hydrological Processes
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Applied Geochemistry

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ian Cartwright include:

  • "Radon-222 as a groundwater discharge tracer to surface waters" (2023), Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Explaining changes in rainfall-runoff relationships during and after Australia's Millennium Drought: a community perspective" (2022), Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "Using multiple methods to investigate the effects of land-use changes on groundwater recharge in a semi-arid area" (2021), Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • "The variation and controls of mean transit times in Australian headwater catchments" (2020), Hydrological Processes
  • "Concentration vs. streamflow (C-Q) relationships of major ions in south-eastern Australian rivers: Sources and fluxes of inorganic ions and nutrients" (2020), Applied Geochemistry

Ian Cartwright frequently collaborates with several researchers including Dylan J. Irvine, Uwe Morgenstern, Edoardo Daly, Matthew Currell, and Harald Hofmann.

Best Publications

  • An extended episode of early Mesoproterozoic metamorphic fluid flow in the Reynolds Range, central Australia*

    I. S. Williams;I. S. Buick;I. Cartwright

  • Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise

    Michael L Griffiths;Russell N Drysdale;Michael Gagan;Jian-xin Zhao

  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone

    Russell Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas

  • Cl/Br ratios and environmental isotopes as indicators of recharge variability and groundwater flow: An example from the southeast Murray Basin, Australia

    Ian Cartwright;Tamie Renee Weaver;L Keith Fifield

  • Controls on elevated fluoride and arsenic concentrations in groundwater from the Yuncheng Basin, China

    Matthew Currell;Ian Cartwright;Massimo Raveggi;Dongmei Han

  • Hydrogeochemical and isotopic constraints on the origins of dryland salinity, Murray Basin, Victoria, Australia

    I. Cartwright;T.R. Weaver;S. Fulton;C. Nichol

  • A review of radioactive isotopes and other residence time tracers in understanding groundwater recharge: Possibilities, challenges, and limitations

    Ian Cartwright;Dioni Cendón;Matthew Currell;Karina Meredith

  • Stalagmite evidence for the precise timing of North Atlantic cold events during the early last glacial

    Russell N. Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John C. Hellstrom;Anthony E. Fallick

  • Arid zone groundwater recharge and salinisation processes; an example from the Lake Eyre Basin, Australia

    Sarah Tweed;Sarah Tweed;Marc Leblanc;Marc Leblanc;Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright;Guillaume Favreau

  • Sustainability of groundwater usage in northern China: dependence on palaeowaters and effects on water quality, quantity and ecosystem health

    Matthew J. Currell;Dongmei Han;Zongyu Chen;Ian Cartwright

  • Recharge history and controls on groundwater quality in the Yuncheng Basin, north China

    Matthew J. Currell;Ian Cartwright;Dean C. Bradley;Dongmei Han

  • Stable isotope geochemistry of cold CO2-bearing mineral spring waters, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia: sources of gas and water and links with waning volcanism

    Ian Cartwright;Tamie Weaver;Sarah Tweed;Douglas Ahearne

  • Remnants of Gondwanan continental lithosphere in oceanic upper mantle: Evidence from the South Atlantic Ridge

    Vadim S. Kamenetsky;Roland Maas;Nadezhda M. Sushchevskaya;Marc D. Norman

  • Hydrogeochemistry of the Goulburn Valley region of the Murray Basin, Australia: implications for flow paths and resource vulnerability

    Ian Cartwright;Tamie Renee Weaver

  • Petrology, geochronology, and tectonics of shear zones in the Zermatt–Saas and Combin zones of the Western Alps

    Ian Cartwright;Andrew C Barnicoat

  • Constraining modern and historical recharge from bore hydrographs, 3H, 14C, and chloride concentrations: Applications to dual-porosity aquifers in dryland salinity areas, Murray Basin, Australia

    Ian Cartwright;Tamie Renee Weaver;David Stone;Mark Reid

  • Groundwater discharge to wetlands driven by storm and flood events: quantification using continuous Radon-222 and electrical conductivity measurements and dynamic mass-balance modelling

    Ben Gilfedder;Ben Gilfedder;Ben Gilfedder;Sven Frei;Harald Hofmann;Harald Hofmann;Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright

  • Stable isotope evidence for the origin of the Mesoproterozoic Starra Au-Cu deposit, Cloncurry District, Northwest Queensland

    Jackie F. Rotherham;Kevin L. Blake;Ian Cartwright;Patrick J. Williams

  • Using Diurnal Temperature Signals to Infer Vertical Groundwater-Surface Water Exchange.

    Dylan J. Irvine;Dylan J. Irvine;Martin A. Briggs;Laura K. Lautz;Ryan P. Gordon

  • Stable isotope geochemistry of Alpine ophiolites: a window to ocean-floor hydrothermal alteration and constraints on fluid-rock interaction during high-pressure metamorphism

    Ian Cartwright;Andrew C Barnicoat

  • Investigating the spatio-temporal variability in groundwater and surface water interactions: a multi-technique approach

    Nicolaas Peter Hendrikus Unland;Nicolaas Peter Hendrikus Unland;Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright;Martin Sogaard Andersen;Martin Sogaard Andersen;G C Rau;G C Rau

  • Behavior of rare earth elements in groundwater during flow and mixing in fractured rock aquifers: An example from the Dandenong Ranges, southeast Australia

    Sarah Olivia Tweed;Sarah Olivia Tweed;Tamie Renee Weaver;Ian Cartwright;Bruce Franklin Schaefer

  • Constraining groundwater recharge and the rate of geochemical processes using tritium and major ion geochemistry: Ovens catchment, southeast Australia

    Ian Cartwright;Ian Cartwright;Uwe Morgenstern

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian S. Buick
Ian S. Buick Stellenbosch University
Uwe Morgenstern
Uwe Morgenstern GNS Science
Dioni I. Cendón
Dioni I. Cendón Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Matthew Currell
Matthew Currell Griffith University
Ian S. Williams
Ian S. Williams Australian National University
L. Keith Fifield
L. Keith Fifield Australian National University
Roland Maas
Roland Maas University of Melbourne
Craig T. Simmons
Craig T. Simmons University of Newcastle Australia
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Perran L. M. Cook
Perran L. M. Cook Monash University

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