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Jan Scholten

Jan Scholten

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Earth Science

D-Index
33
Citations
4587
World Ranking
8297
National Ranking
602

Overview

Jan Scholten is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields including Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Ecology.

The research topics covered by Scholten include Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Scholten's work include Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and Water, with multiple publications in these journals. Other venues where their research has appeared are Earth-Science Reviews, Frontiers in Earth Science, and Limnology and Oceanography Letters.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Scholten demonstrate a focus on geochemical and environmental processes related to groundwater and marine systems:

  • Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • A State-Of-The-Art Perspective on the Characterization of Subterranean Estuaries at the Regional Scale, 2021, Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Carbon and alkalinity outwelling across the groundwater-creek-shelf continuum off Amazonian mangroves, 2021, Limnology and Oceanography Letters
  • Complex Eyed Pockmarks and Submarine Groundwater Discharge Revealed by Acoustic Data and Sediment Cores in Eckernförde Bay, SW Baltic Sea, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Unprecedented Fe delivery from the Congo River margin to the South Atlantic Gyre, 2020, Nature Communications

Scholten collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Michael E. Böttcher, Volker Liebetrau, Michael Schubert, Nils Moosdorf, and Cátia Milene Ehlert von Ahn. These collaborations suggest active engagement in interdisciplinary research teams.

Best Publications

  • Quantifying Submarine Groundwater Discharge in the Coastal Zone via Multiple Methods

    W.C. Burnett;P.K. Aggarwal;A. Aureli;H. Bokuniewicz

  • Basin‐wide particulate carbon flux in the Atlantic Ocean: Regional export patterns and potential for atmospheric CO2 sequestration

    Avan N Antia;Wolfgang Koeve;Gerhard Fischer;Thomas Blanz

  • Indication for Supernova Produced 60 Fe Activity on Earth

    K. Knie;K. Knie;G. Korschinek;T. Faestermann;C. Wallner

  • Trapping efficiencies of sediment traps from the deep Eastern North Atlantic:: the 230Th calibration

    Jan Scholten;Jan Fietzke;S. Vogler;M. Rutgers van der Loeff

  • Radium isotopes as submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) tracers: Review and recommendations

    J. Garcia-Orellana;V. Rodellas;J. Tamborski;M. Diego-Feliu

  • Hydrographic structure of brine-filled deeps in the Red Sea—new results from the Shaban, Kebrit, Atlantis II, and Discovery Deep

    M. Hartmann;J.C. Scholten;P. Stoffers;F. Wehner

  • First observations of high-temperature submarine hydrothermal vents and massive anhydrite deposits off the north coast of Iceland

    M. D. Hannington;Peter Herzig;Peter Stoffers;J. Scholten

  • Sediment accumulation rates in subpolar fjords - Impact of post-Little Ice Age glaciers retreat, Billefjorden, Svalbard

    Witold Szczuciński;Marek Zajączkowski;Jan Scholten

  • 230Th in the eastern North Atlantic: the importance of water mass ventilation in the balance of230Th

    S. Vogler;J. Scholten;M. Rutgers van der Loeff;A. Mangini

  • Distribution of 230Th and 231Pa in the water column in relation to the ventilation of the deep Arctic basins

    J.C. Scholten;M.M. Rutgers van der Loeff;A. Michel

  • 228Ra as a tracer for shelf water in the arctic ocean

    Michiel M. Rutgers Van Der Loeff;Robert M. Key;Jan Scholten;Dorothea Bauch

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermal manganese deposits from the Pitcairn Island hotspot, southeastern Pacific

    R. A. Hodkinson;P. Stoffers;J. Scholten;D. S. Cronan

  • Recycling of manganese from anoxic sediments in stagnant basins by seawater inflow: a study of surface sediments from the Gotland Basin, Baltic Sea

    Uwe Heiser;Thomas Neumann;Jan Scholten;Doris Stüben

  • Advection and scavenging: Effects on 230Th and 231Pa distribution off Southwest Africa

    Jan C. Scholten;Jan C. Scholten;J. Fietzke;A. Mangini;C.-D. Garbe-Schönberg

  • Radionuclide fluxes in the Arabian Sea: the role of particle composition

    J.C. Scholten;J. Fietzke;A. Mangini;P. Stoffers

  • Growth history of a hydrothermal silica chimney from the Mariana backarc spreading center (southwest Pacific, 18°13′N)

    Doris Stüben;Nasr.Eddine Taibi;Gary M. McMurtry;Jan Scholten

  • Submarine Groundwater Discharge at a Single Spot Location: Evaluation of Different Detection Approaches

    Michael Schubert;Jan Scholten;Axel Schmidt;Jean Francois Comanducci

  • Late Holocene intermediate water variability in the northeastern Atlantic as recorded by deep-sea corals

    K. Copard;K. Copard;Christophe Colin;G.S. Henderson;J. Scholten

  • 231Pa and 230Th in surface sediments of the Arctic Ocean: Implications for 231Pa/230Th fractionation, boundary scavenging, and advective export

    S.B. Moran;C.-C. Shen;R.L. Edwards;H.N. Edmonds

  • Benthic fluxes of trace metals in the Chukchi Sea and their transport into the Arctic Ocean

    Lucia Helena Vieira;Eric P. Achterberg;Jan Scholten;Aaron J. Beck

  • Assessing land-ocean connectivity via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) in the Ria Formosa Lagoon (Portugal) : combining radon measurements and stable isotope hydrology.

    Carlos Rocha;Cristina Veiga-Pires;Cristina Veiga-Pires;Jan Scholten;Kay Knoeller

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Stoffers
Peter Stoffers Kiel University
Mark Schmidt
Mark Schmidt GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University
Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha
Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha Rio de Janeiro State University
Jan Fietzke
Jan Fietzke GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Matthew A. Charette
Matthew A. Charette Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Willard S. Moore
Willard S. Moore University of South Carolina
Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Pavel P. Povinec
Pavel P. Povinec Comenius University

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