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Overview

Ira Leifer is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science with a focus on multiple subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Oceanography.

Their work covers a range of topics related to atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, methane hydrates and related phenomena, oil spill detection and mitigation, air quality and health impacts, toxic organic pollutants impact, marine and coastal ecosystems, and hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Recent publications by Ira Leifer include:

  • Bubble-mediated transport of benthic microorganisms into the water column: Identification of methanotrophs and implication of seepage intensity on transport efficiency, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Oil at sea-how much is too much?, 2022, Science
  • Wildfire Smoke Exposure: Covid19 Comorbidity?, 2021, Journal of Respiration
  • Measuring Floating Thick Seep Oil from the Coal Oil Point Marine Hydrocarbon Seep Field by Quantitative Thermal Oil Slick Remote Sensing, 2022, Remote Sensing
  • Air quality trends for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spanning the covid19 crisis: Part 1. Oxidant pollutants, 2023, Atmospheric Environment

Key frequently co-authored collaborators include Christopher Melton, David M. Tratt, D. R. Blake, Michael T. Kleinman, and Charlotte Marston.

The most common venues for their publications are Atmospheric Environment, Scientific Reports, Science, Journal of Respiration, and Remote Sensing.

Best Publications

  • State of the art satellite and airborne marine oil spill remote sensing: Application to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Ira Leifer;William J. Lehr;Debra Simecek-Beatty;Eliza Bradley

  • Ebullition and storm-induced methane release from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

    Natalia Shakhova;Natalia Shakhova;Igor Semiletov;Igor Semiletov;Ira Leifer;Valentin Sergienko

  • The bubble mechanism for methane transport from the shallow sea bed to the surface: A review and sensitivity study

    Ira Leifer;Ranjan Kumar Patro

  • Transfer of hydrocarbons from natural seeps to the water column and atmosphere

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  • Magnitude and oxidation potential of hydrocarbon gases released from the BP oil well blowout

    Samantha B. Joye;Ian R. MacDonald;Ira Leifer;Vernon L. Asper

  • Natural and Unnatural Oil Slicks in the Gulf of Mexico

    I. R. MacDonald;O. Garcia‐Pineda;A. Beet;S. Daneshgar Asl

  • Geochemical and geophysical evidence of methane release over the East Siberian Arctic Shelf

    N. Shakhova;N. Shakhova;I. Semiletov;I. Semiletov;I. Leifer;A. Salyuk

  • Considerable methane fluxes to the atmosphere from hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico

    Evan A. Solomon;Miriam Kastner;Ian R. MacDonald;Ira Leifer

  • Dynamics of the gas flux from shallow gas hydrate deposits: interaction between oily hydrate bubbles and the oceanic environment

    Ira Leifer;Ian MacDonald

  • Real-time remote detection and measurement for airborne imaging spectroscopy: a case study with methane

    D. R. Thompson;I. Leifer;H. Bovensmann;M. Eastwood

  • Temporal variation in natural methane seep rate due to tides, Coal Oil Point area, California

    J. R. Boles;J. F. Clark;I. Leifer;L. Washburn

  • Effects of climate change on methane emissions from seafloor sediments in the Arctic Ocean: A review

    Rachael H. James;Philippe Bousquet;Ingeborg Bussmann;Matthias Haeckel

  • Controls on methane bubble dissolution inside and outside the hydrate stability field from open ocean field experiments and numerical modeling

    Gregor Rehder;Ira Leifer;Peter G. Brewer;Gernot Friederich

  • Natural marine seepage blowout: Contribution to atmospheric methane

    Ira Leifer;Bruce P. Luyendyk;Jim Boles;Jordan F. Clark

  • A Study on the Temperature Variation of Rise Velocity for Large Clean Bubbles

    Ira Leifer;Ranjan K. Patro;Peter Bowyer

  • A method for quantitative mapping of thick oil spills using imaging spectroscopy

    Roger N. Clark;Gregg A. Swayze;Ira Leifer;K. Eric Livo

  • Measurement of marine hydrocarbon seep flow through fractured rock and unconsolidated sediment

    Ira Leifer;Jim Boles

  • Optical Measurement of Bubbles: System Design and Application

    I. R. A. Leifer;Gerrit De Leeuw;Leo H. Cohen

  • High resolution mapping of methane emissions from marine and terrestrial sources using a Cluster-Tuned Matched Filter technique and imaging spectrometry

    Andrew K. Thorpe;Dar A. Roberts;Eliza S. Bradley;Christopher C. Funk

  • Modelling of bubble-mediated gas transfer: Fundamental principles and a laboratory test

    D.K. Woolf;I.S. Leifer;P.D. Nightingale;T.S. Rhee

  • Airborne visualization and quantification of discrete methane sources in the environment

    David M. Tratt;Kerry N. Buckland;Jeffrey L. Hall;Patrick D. Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce P. Luyendyk
Bruce P. Luyendyk University of California, Santa Barbara
Ian R. MacDonald
Ian R. MacDonald Florida State University
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
David K. Woolf
David K. Woolf Heriot-Watt University
Gerrit de Leeuw
Gerrit de Leeuw Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Heinrich Bovensmann
Heinrich Bovensmann University of Bremen
John P. Burrows
John P. Burrows University of Bremen
Natalia Shakhova
Natalia Shakhova University of Alaska Fairbanks
Lieven Clarisse
Lieven Clarisse Université Libre de Bruxelles

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