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Jan Schwarzbauer

Jan Schwarzbauer

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
48
Citations
8178
World Ranking
5567
National Ranking
372

Overview

Jan Schwarzbauer is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany. Their research spans primarily Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on pollution, health toxicology, and geophysical processes.

The main fields of study covered by Jan Schwarzbauer include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their subfields of specialization encompass:

  • Pollution
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Geophysics

Jan Schwarzbauer's research addresses various important topics, such as:

  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

Their recent papers include an exploration of pollutant remobilization during extreme flood events published in 2021 in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, a study on the 2021 summer flood in Central Europe published in 2022 in Environmental Sciences Europe, and a baseline study on microplastics in Indian rivers from 2021 in Water. Other publications include an optimized method for microplastic analysis published in 2020 in Water Science & Technology and an investigation of microplastics as a sedimentary component in reef systems published in 2021 in Sedimentology.

Recent research papers by Jan Schwarzbauer:

  • Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health (2021), Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Assessment of the 2021 summer flood in Central Europe (2022), Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Baseline Study on Microplastics in Indian Rivers under Different Anthropogenic Influences (2021), Water
  • Optimized microplastic analysis based on size fractionation, density separation and μ-FTIR (2020), Water Science & Technology
  • Microplastics as a sedimentary component in reef systems: A case study from the Java Sea (2021), Sedimentology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jan Schwarzbauer include Branimir Jovančićević, Klaus Reicherter, Piero Bellanova, Mike Frenken, and Frank Lehmkuhl.

Jan Schwarzbauer has published books with Springer International Publishing, including titles such as Introduction to Analytical Methods in Organic Geochemistry (2020) and Isotopes in Organic Geochemistry (2024).

Preferred venues for Jan Schwarzbauer's publications are:

  • Environmental Sciences Europe
  • Water Air & Soil Pollution
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Discover Water
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences

Best Publications

  • Occurrence and alteration of organic contaminants in seepage and leakage water from a waste deposit landfill

    Jan Schwarzbauer;Sabine Heim;Sabine Brinker;Ralf Littke

  • Optical thermal maturity parameters and organic geochemical alteration at low grade diagenesis to anchimetamorphism: A review

    Christoph Hartkopf-Fröder;Peter Königshof;Ralf Littke;Jan Schwarzbauer

  • Source and turnover of organic matter in agricultural soils derived from n-alkane/n-carboxylic acid compositions and C-isotope signatures

    Guido L.B. Wiesenberg;Jan Schwarzbauer;Michael W.I. Schmidt;Lorenz Schwark

  • Identification of specific organic contaminants for estimating the contribution of the Elbe river to the pollution of the German Bight

    J. Schwarzbauer;R. Littke;V. Weigelt

  • Anthropogenic organic contaminants in sediments of the Lippe river, Germany

    Alexander Kronimus;Jan Schwarzbauer;Larissa Dsikowitzky;Sabine Heim

  • Distribution of polycyclic musks in water and particulate matter of the Lippe River (Germany)

    Larissa Dsikowitzky;Jan Schwarzbauer;Ralf Littke

  • Remobilization of pollutants during extreme flood events poses severe risks to human and environmental health

    Sarah E. Crawford;Markus Brinkmann;Jacob D. Ouellet;Frank Lehmkuhl

  • Environmental chemistry: green chemistry and pollutants in ecosystems.

    Eric Lichtfouse;Jan Schwarzbauer;Didier Robert

  • Environmental chemistry for a sustainable world

    Eric Lichtfouse;Jan Schwarzbauer;Didier Robert

  • Pollution history revealed by sedimentary records: a review

    Sabine Heim;Jan Schwarzbauer

  • Organic compounds as contaminants of the Elbe River and its tributaries

    S. Franke;S. Hildebrandt;J. Schwarzbauer;M. Link

  • Molecular markers of anthropogenic activity in sediments of the Havel and Spree Rivers (Germany).

    M. Ricking;J. Schwarzbauer;S. Franke

  • Assessment of the 2021 summer flood in Central Europe

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  • Industrial organic contaminants: identification, toxicity and fate in the environment

    Larissa Dsikowitzky;Jan Schwarzbauer

  • Aromatic hydrocarbon biomarkers in terrestrial organic matter of Devonian to Permian age

    Antje Armstroff;Heinz Wilkes;Jan Schwarzbauer;Ralf Littke

  • Variations in concentrations and compositions of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coals related to the coal rank and origin.

    S. Laumann;V. Micić;M.A. Kruge;C. Achten

  • Polycyclic aromatic musk compounds in sewage treatment plant effluents of Canada and Sweden--first results.

    M Ricking;J Schwarzbauer;J Hellou;A Svenson

  • Identification and chemical characterization of specific organic constituents of petrochemical effluents.

    Oxana Botalova;Jan Schwarzbauer;Tom Frauenrath;Larissa Dsikowitzky

  • DDT isomers and metabolites in the environment: an overview

    M. Ricking;J. Schwarzbauer

  • Anthropogenic organic contaminants in water, sediments and benthic organisms of the mangrove-fringed Segara Anakan Lagoon, Java, Indonesia

    Larissa Dsikowitzky;Inga Nordhaus;Tim C. Jennerjahn;Polina Khrycheva

  • Geochronology of anthropogenic pollutants in riparian wetland sediments of the Lippe River (Germany)

    S. Heim;J. Schwarzbauer;A. Kronimus;R. Littke

  • Organic geochemistry of the Lower Suban coal seam, South Sumatra Basin, Indonesia: Palaeoecological and thermal metamorphism implications

    Hendra Amijaya;Jan Schwarzbauer;Ralf Littke

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralf Littke
Ralf Littke RWTH Aachen University
Andreas Schäffer
Andreas Schäffer RWTH Aachen University
Klaus Reicherter
Klaus Reicherter RWTH Aachen University
Eric Lichtfouse
Eric Lichtfouse Aix-Marseille University
Didier Robert
Didier Robert University of Lorraine
Henner Hollert
Henner Hollert Goethe University Frankfurt
Frank Lehmkuhl
Frank Lehmkuhl RWTH Aachen University
Helmut Brückner
Helmut Brückner University of Cologne
Wittko Francke
Wittko Francke Universität Hamburg

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