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John E. Lupton is affiliated with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

Their work covers a range of topics, emphasizing methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, and geological studies and exploration.

Recent publications by John E. Lupton include:

  • "Dissolved Gas and Metal Composition of Hydrothermal Plumes From a 2008 Submarine Eruption on the Northeast Lau Spreading Center," 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Hydrothermal Exploration of the Southern Chile Rise: Sediment-Hosted Venting at the Chile Triple Junction," 2022, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Volatile-Rich Hydrothermal Plumes Over the Southern Central Indian Ridge, 24°49'S: Evidence for a New Hydrothermal Field Hosted by Ultramafic Rocks," 2022, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Mantle degassing of primordial helium through submarine ridge flank basaltic basement," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Dissolved Gas and Metal Composition of Hydrothermal Plumes From a 2008 Submarine Eruption on the Northeast Lau Spreading Center," 2020, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

John E. Lupton frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their frequent co-authors include Tamara Baumberger, Marvin D. Lilley, Joseph A. Resing, Edward T. Baker, and Nathaniel J. Buck.

Their work is published predominantly in venues such as Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Frontiers in Marine Science, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich).

Best Publications

  • Abiogenic hydrocarbon production at lost city hydrothermal field.

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

  • Primordial neon, helium, and hydrogen in oceanic basalts

    H. Craig;J.E. Lupton

  • A Major Helium-3 Source at 15°S on the East Pacific Rise

    John E. Lupton;Harmon Craig

  • TERRESTRIAL INERT GASES: Isotope Tracer Studies and Clues to Primordial Components in the Mantle

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  • Anomalous CH 4 and NH 4 + concentrations at an unsedimented mid-ocean-ridge hydrothermal system

    M. D. Lilley;D. A. Butterfield;E. J. Olson;J. E. Lupton

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from Axial Seamount hydrothermal emissions study vent field, Juan de Fuca Ridge: Subseafloor boiling and subsequent fluid‐rock interaction

    David A. Butterfield;Gary J. Massoth;Russell E. McDuff;John E. Lupton

  • Excess 3He in oceanic basalts: Evidence for terrestrial primordial helium

    J.E. Lupton;H. Craig

  • Evolution of a Submarine Magmatic-Hydrothermal System: Brothers Volcano, Southern Kermadec Arc, New Zealand

    C. E. J. de Ronde;M. D. Hannington;Peter Stoffers;I. C. Wright

  • Gradients in the composition of hydrothermal fluids from the Endeavour segment vent field: Phase separation and brine loss

    David A. Butterfield;Russell E. McDuff;Michael J. Mottl;Marvin D. Lilley

  • Magmatic events can produce rapid changes in hydrothermal vent chemistry

    Marvin D. Lilley;David A. Butterfield;David A. Butterfield;John E. Lupton;Eric J. Olson

  • Entrainment and vertical transport of deep-ocean water by buoyant hydrothermal plumes

    J. E. Lupton;J. R. Delaney;H. P. Johnson;M. K. Tivey

  • Submarine hydrothermal activity and gold-rich mineralization at Brothers Volcano, Kermadec Arc, New Zealand

    Cornel E. J. de Ronde;Gary J. Massoth;David A. Butterfield;Bruce W. Christenson

  • Helium isotope ratios in Yellowstone and Lassen Park volcanic gases

    H. Craig;J. E. Lupton;J. A. Welhan;R. Poreda

  • Episodic venting of hydrothermal fluids from the Juan de Fuca Ridge

    E. T. Baker;J. W. Lavelle;R. A. Feely;G. J. Massoth

  • Intra-oceanic subduction – related hydrothermal venting, Kermadec volcanic arc, New Zealand

    Cornel E.J. de Ronde;Edward T. Baker;Gary J. Massoth;John E. Lupton

  • Hydrothermal plumes in the Galapagos Rift

    R. F. Weiss;P. Lonsdale;J. E. Lupton;A. E. Bainbridge

  • Submarine venting of phase-separated hydrothermal fluids at axial volcano, Juan de Fuca ridge

    G. J. Massoth;D. A. Butterfield;J. E. Lupton;R. E. McDuff

  • Active submarine eruption of boninite in the northeastern Lau Basin

    Joseph A. Resing;Kenneth H. Rubin;Robert W. Embley;John E. Lupton

  • Hydrothermal helium plumes in the Pacific Ocean

    John Lupton

  • Helium isotope composition of the early Iceland mantle plume inferred from the Tertiary picrites of West Greenland

    D.W. Graham;L.M. Larsen;B.B. Hanan;M. Storey

  • Helium-3 and manganese at the 21°N East Pacific Rise hydrothermal site

    J.E. Lupton;G.P. Klinkhammer;W.R. Normark;R. Haymon

  • Submarine venting of liquid carbon dioxide on a Mariana Arc volcano

    John Lupton;David Butterfield;Marvin Lilley;Leigh Evans

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward T. Baker
Edward T. Baker Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean
Joseph A. Resing
Joseph A. Resing University of Washington
Gary J. Massoth
Gary J. Massoth Mass-Ex3 Consulting LLC
David A. Butterfield
David A. Butterfield University of Washington
Marvin D. Lilley
Marvin D. Lilley University of Washington
Robert W. Embley
Robert W. Embley Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
William W. Chadwick
William W. Chadwick Oregon State University
David W. Graham
David W. Graham Oregon State University
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi
Jun-ichiro Ishibashi Kobe University
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington

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