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Overview

Jeffrey S. Seewald is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States, where their research primarily focuses on environmental and earth sciences.

Their work covers extensive topics within these fields, including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Their main fields of study are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Subfields of their research include:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Oceanography
  • Molecular Biology

Jeffrey S. Seewald has contributed to a range of scientific publications. Their recent papers include:

  • "Microbial succession during the transition from active to inactive stages of deep-sea hydrothermal vent sulfide chimneys" (2020, Microbiome)
  • "Chemical and isotopic analyses of hydrocarbon-bearing fluid inclusions in olivine-rich rocks" (2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences)
  • "Methane thermometry in deep-sea hydrothermal systems: Evidence for re-ordering of doubly-substituted isotopologues during fluid cooling" (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • "Protistan grazing impacts microbial communities and carbon cycling at deep-sea hydrothermal vents" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Abiotic redox reactions in hydrothermal mixing zones: Decreased energy availability for the subsurface biosphere" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

The frequent coauthors who have commonly collaborated with Jeffrey S. Seewald are:

  • Sean P. Sylva
  • Christopher R. German
  • Julie A. Huber
  • Stefan M. Sievert
  • Sarah K. Hu

Their publications are often found in these venues:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal

Best Publications

  • Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field.

    Giora Proskurowski;Giora Proskurowski;Marvin D. Lilley;Jeffery S. Seewald;Gretchen L. Früh-Green

  • Composition and fate of gas and oil released to the water column during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

    Christopher M. Reddy;J. Samuel Arey;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Sean P. Sylva

  • Organic–inorganic interactions in petroleum-producing sedimentary basins

    Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • Abiotic Synthesis of Organic Compounds in Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Environments

    Thomas M McCollom;Jeffrey S Seewald

  • A reassessment of the potential for reduction of dissolved CO 2 to hydrocarbons during serpentinization of olivine

    Thomas M McCollom;Jeffrey S Seewald

  • Carbon isotope composition of organic compounds produced by abiotic synthesis under hydrothermal conditions

    Thomas M. McCollom;Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • Pathways for abiotic organic synthesis at submarine hydrothermal fields

    Jill M. McDermott;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Christopher R. German;Sean P. Sylva

  • Chemical data quantify Deepwater Horizon hydrocarbon flow rate and environmental distribution

    Thomas B. Ryerson;Richard Camilli;John D. Kessler;Elizabeth B. Kujawinski

  • The effect of temperature on metal mobility in subseafloor hydrothermal systems: constraints from basalt alteration experiments

    Jeffrey S. Seewald;William E. Seyfried

  • Aqueous geochemistry of low molecular weight hydrocarbons at elevated temperatures and pressures: constraints from mineral buffered laboratory experiments

    Jeffrey S Seewald

  • Experimental investigation of single carbon compounds under hydrothermal conditions

    Jeffrey S. Seewald;Mikhail Yu. Zolotov;Thomas M. McCollom

  • Evidence for metastable equilibrium between hydrocarbons under hydrothermal conditions

    Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • Nonequilibrium clumped isotope signals in microbial methane

    David T. Wang;David T. Wang;Danielle S. Gruen;Danielle S. Gruen;Barbara Sherwood Lollar;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs

  • Experimental constraints on the hydrothermal reactivity of organic acids and acid anions: I. Formic acid and formate

    Thomas M. McCollom;Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • Microbial community structure of hydrothermal deposits from geochemically different vent fields along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Gilberto E. Flores;James H. Campbell;Julie D. Kirshtein;Jennifer Meneghin

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the PACMANUS, Northeast Pual and Vienna Woods hydrothermal fields, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea

    Eoghan P Reeves;Jeffrey S Seewald;Peter J Saccocia;Wolfgang Bach

  • Serpentinites, Hydrogen, and Life

    Thomas M. McCollom;Jeffrey S. Seewald

  • Chemistry of hydrothermal vent fluids from the Main Endeavour Field, northern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Geochemical controls in the aftermath of June 1999 seismic events: VENT FLUIDS FROM MEF-JUAN DE FUCA RIDGE

    W. E. Seyfried;J. S. Seewald;M. E. Berndt;Kang Ding

  • A new gas-tight isobaric sampler for hydrothermal fluids

    Jeffrey S. Seewald;Kenneth W. Doherty;Terence R. Hammar;Stephen P. Liberatore

  • Rare earth element abundances in hydrothermal fluids from the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: Indicators of sub-seafloor hydrothermal processes in back-arc basins

    Paul R. Craddock;Wolfgang Bach;Jeffrey S. Seewald;Olivier J. Rouxel

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean P. Sylva
Sean P. Sylva Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Thomas M. McCollom
Thomas M. McCollom University of Colorado Boulder
Christopher R. German
Christopher R. German Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Julie A. Huber
Julie A. Huber Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wolfgang Bach
Wolfgang Bach University of Bremen
Frieder Klein
Frieder Klein Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Wayne C. Shanks
Wayne C. Shanks United States Geological Survey
Margaret K. Tivey
Margaret K. Tivey Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William E. Seyfried
William E. Seyfried University of Minnesota
Max Coleman
Max Coleman Jet Propulsion Lab

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