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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

John Ludden is affiliated with Heriot-Watt University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields including Ocean Engineering, Geology, Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Chemistry, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their work covers several main topics: Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological Studies and Exploration, Drilling and Well Engineering, and Geological Modeling and Analysis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with John Ludden include Terry Plank, Felix M. Gradstein, Andrew C. Adamson, Peter O. Baumgartner, and Roland Beausillon.

John Ludden has published in a variety of venues, notably Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geoenergy, Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, and Geological Society London Special Publications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by John Ludden highlight diverse contributions to geoscience:

  • "Where is geoscience going?" (2020), Geological Society London Special Publications

Additional recent relevant papers from the broader co-author network and related venues include:

  • "The need for joined-up thinking in critical raw materials research" (2023), Geoenergy
  • "Geosciences are Important for Humanity! A Model for Enhancing the Geoscience Narrative across Canada" (2025), Geoscience Canada
  • "Preface: The New Progress in Deep Earth Exploration and Practice-DEEP-2021" (2021), Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition
  • "Table of Contents" (2021), Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition

John Ludden was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Composition of altered oceanic crust at ODP Sites 801 and 1149

    Katherine A. Kelley;Terry Plank;John Ludden;Hubert Staudigel

  • Archaean subduction inferred from seismic images of a mantle suture in the Superior Province

    A. J. Calvert;E. W. Sawyer;W. J. Davis;W. J. Davis;J. N. Ludden

  • An evaluation of the behavior of the rare earth elements during the weathering of sea-floor basalt

    John N. Ludden;Geoffrey Thompson

  • Uranium-lead isotopic ages of plagiogranites from the Troodos ophiolite, Cyprus, and their tectonic significance

    Samuel B. Mukasa;John N. Ludden

  • Iron isotope fractionation during oceanic crust alteration

    Olivier Rouxel;Nicolas Dobbek;John Ludden;Yves Fouquet

  • Subsurface processes at the lucky strike hydrothermal field, Mid-Atlantic ridge: evidence from sulfur, selenium, and iron isotopes

    Olivier Rouxel;Yves Fouquet;John N Ludden

  • Archean metavolcanics from the Rouyn - Noranda district, Abitibi greenstone belt, Quebec. 2. Mobility of trace elements and petrogenetic constraints.

    John Ludden;Léopold Gélinas;Pierre Trudel

  • Compositional variation in normal MORB from 22°–25°N: Mid‐Atlantic Ridge and Kane Fracture Zone

    W. B. Bryan;G. Thompson;J. N. Ludden

  • Lead geochronology of zircon by LaserProbe-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LP-ICPMS)

    Rui Feng;Nuno Machado;John Ludden

  • Copper Isotope Systematics of the Lucky Strike, Rainbow, and Logatchev Sea-Floor Hydrothermal Fields on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge

    Olivier Rouxel;Yves Fouquet;John N. Ludden

  • Hf-Nd input flux in the Izu-Mariana subduction zone and recycling of subducted material in the mantle

    Catherine Chauvel;Jean-Christophe Marini;Terry Plank;Terry Plank;John N. Ludden

  • ARCHEAN CONTINENTAL ASSEMBLY IN THE SOUTHEASTERN SUPERIOR PROVINCE OF CANADA

    A. J. Calvert;J. N. Ludden

  • Subduction cycling of U, Th, and Pb

    Katherine A. Kelley;Terry Plank;Linda Farr;John Ludden

  • Accretion of Archean oceanic plateau fragments in the Abitibi, greenstone belt, Canada

    Jean-Philippe Desrochers;Claude Hubert;John N. Ludden;Pierre Pilote

  • Geochemistry of volcanic rocks associated with Cu-Zn and Ni-Cu deposits in the Abitibi Subprovince

    C. Tucker Barrie;John N. Ludden;Tony H. Green

  • Natural variations of Se isotopic composition determined by hydride generation multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Olivier Rouxel;John Ludden;Jean Carignan;Luc Marin

  • The tectonic evolution of the Abitibi greenstone belt of Canada

    John Ludden;Claude Hubert;Clement Gariépy

  • New insights into the origin and distribution of the DUPAL isotope anomaly in the Indian Ocean mantle from MORB of the Southwest Indian Ridge

    Christine M. Meyzen;John N. Ludden;Eric Humler;Béatrice Luais

  • A model of ocean-crust accretion for the Superior province, Canada

    G. Kimura;J. N. Ludden;J. P. Desrochers;R. Hori

  • The Lithoprobe Abitibi-Grenville transect: two billion years of crust formation and recycling in the Precambrian Shield of Canada

    John Ludden;Andrew Hynes

Frequent Co-Authors

Don Francis
Don Francis McGill University
Olivier Rouxel
Olivier Rouxel French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Yves Fouquet
Yves Fouquet French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bernd Milkereit
Bernd Milkereit University of Toronto
Geoffrey Thompson
Geoffrey Thompson Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jean Carignan
Jean Carignan Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Alan G. Green
Alan G. Green ETH Zurich
Terry Plank
Terry Plank Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Jeffrey C. Alt
Jeffrey C. Alt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edward W. Sawyer
Edward W. Sawyer Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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