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Sweden
2026

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D-Index
75
Citations
19431
World Ranking
714
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2018 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Isaac R. Santos is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and conducts research primarily within Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work explores various aspects of coastal and groundwater biogeochemistry, with a focus on ecosystem dynamics and geochemical processes.

Their recent publications include:

  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change, 2020, National Science Review
  • Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization, 2020, Nature Communications
  • A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter, 2022, Nature Communications
  • The renaissance of Odum's outwelling hypothesis in 'Blue Carbon' science, 2021, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

Their collaborations span multiple frequent co-authors including:

  • Yvonne Y. Y. Yau
  • Christian J. Sanders
  • Damien T. Maher
  • Stefano Bonaglia
  • Alex Cabral

The researcher often publishes in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Nature Communications

The main fields of study covered are Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with subfields including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Geochemistry and Petrology
  • Earth-Surface Processes

Their research topics address key environmental and geochemical processes, focusing on:

  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics

Isaac R. Santos has been recognized with the James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union in 2018 and was named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Australian vegetated coastal ecosystems as global hotspots for climate change mitigation

    Oscar Serrano;Catherine E. Lovelock;Trisha B. Atwood;Trisha B. Atwood;Peter I. Macreadie

  • The driving forces of porewater and groundwater flow in permeable coastal sediments: a review

    Isaac R. Santos;Bradley D. Eyre;Markus Huettel

  • Global patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses

    Trisha B Atwood;Trisha B Atwood;Rod M Connolly;Hannan Almahasheer;Paul E Carnell

  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

    Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos;Xiaogang Chen;Alanna L. Lecher;Audrey H. Sawyer

  • Heavy metal contamination in coastal sediments and soils near the Brazilian Antarctic Station, King George Island

    Isaac R. Santos;Emmanoel V. Silva-Filho;Carlos E.G.R. Schaefer;Manoel R. Albuquerque-Filho

  • Groundwater‐derived dissolved inorganic and organic carbon exports from a mangrove tidal creek: The missing mangrove carbon sink?

    Damien T Maher;Isaac R Santos;L Golsby-Smith;Justin Gleeson

  • Global blue carbon accumulation in tidal wetlands increases with climate change.

    Faming Wang;Faming Wang;Christian J Sanders;Christian J Sanders;Isaac R Santos;Isaac R Santos;Jianwu Tang

  • Tidal pumping drives nutrient and dissolved organic matter dynamics in a Gulf of Mexico subterranean estuary

    Isaac R. Santos;William C. Burnett;Thorsten Dittmar;I G.N.A. Suryaputra

  • Influence of socio-economic characteristics of beach users on litter generation

    Isaac Rodrigues Santos;Ana Cláudia Friedrich;Mônica Wallner-Kersanach;Gilberto Fillmann

  • Large greenhouse gases emissions from China's lakes and reservoirs.

    Siyue Li;Richard T. Bush;Isaac R. Santos;Quanfa Zhang

  • Groundwater dynamics in subterranean estuaries of coastal unconfined aquifers: Controls on submarine groundwater discharge and chemical inputs to the ocean

    Clare E. Robinson;Pei Xin;Isaac R. Santos;Matthew A. Charette

  • A new conceptual framework for the transformation of groundwater dissolved organic matter

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  • Submarine groundwater discharge: updates on its measurement techniques, geophysical drivers, magnitudes, and effects

    Makoto Taniguchi;Henrietta Dulai;Kimberly M. Burnett;Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos

  • Marine debris contamination along undeveloped tropical beaches from northeast Brazil

    Isaac R. Santos;Ana Cláudia Friedrich;Juliana Assunção Ivar do Sul

  • Nutrient biogeochemistry in a Gulf of Mexico subterranean estuary and groundwater-derived fluxes to the coastal ocean

    Isaac R. Santos Santos;William C. Burnett;Jeffrey Chanton;Benjamin Mwashote

  • Mangrove mortality in a changing climate: An overview

    James Z. Sippo;Catherine E. Lovelock;Isaac R. Santos;Christian J. Sanders

  • Changes in global groundwater organic carbon driven by climate change and urbanization

    Liza K McDonough;Isaac R Santos;Isaac R Santos;Martin S Andersen;Denis M O'Carroll

  • Surface Water and Groundwater Interactions in Salt Marshes and Their Impact on Plant Ecology and Coastal Biogeochemistry

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  • Are global mangrove carbon stocks driven by rainfall

    Christian J. Sanders;Damien T. Maher;Douglas R. Tait;Darren Williams

  • Spatial and temporal variability of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes over semi-diurnal and spring–neap–spring timescales in a mangrove creek

    M. Call;D.T. Maher;I.R. Santos;S. Ruiz-Halpern

  • Are mangroves drivers or buffers of coastal acidification? Insights from alkalinity and dissolved inorganic carbon export estimates across a latitudinal transect

    James Z Sippo;Damien T Maher;Douglas R Tait;Ceylena J Holloway

  • The renaissance of Odum's outwelling hypothesis in 'Blue Carbon' science

    Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos;David J. Burdige;Tim C. Jennerjahn;Steven Bouillon

  • Radon and radium isotope assessment of submarine groundwater discharge in the Yellow River delta, China

    Richard N. Peterson;William C. Burnett;Makoto Taniguchi;Jianyao Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Damien T. Maher
Damien T. Maher Southern Cross University
Christian J. Sanders
Christian J. Sanders Southern Cross University
Bradley D. Eyre
Bradley D. Eyre Southern Cross University
William C. Burnett
William C. Burnett Florida State University
Catherine E. Lovelock
Catherine E. Lovelock University of Queensland
Oscar Serrano
Oscar Serrano Edith Cowan University
Kai G. Schulz
Kai G. Schulz Southern Cross University
Alex Enrich-Prast
Alex Enrich-Prast Linköping University
Paul S. Lavery
Paul S. Lavery Edith Cowan University
Ling Li
Ling Li University of Queensland

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