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Karen L. Casciotti

Karen L. Casciotti

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
57
Citations
15333
World Ranking
3388
National Ranking
1304

Overview

Karen L. Casciotti is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on oceanographic and ecological processes.

The scientist has contributed significantly to studies in various subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Their work addresses key topics such as Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production in the Offshore Waters of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • Microbial N2O consumption in and above marine N2O production hotspots, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Quantifying Nitrous Oxide Cycling Regimes in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean With Isotopomer Analysis, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles
  • An intermediate-depth source of hydrothermal 3He and dissolved iron in the North Pacific, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Kinetics of nitrous oxide production from ammonia oxidation in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific, 2022, Limnology and Oceanography

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Karen L. Casciotti include:

  • Colette L. Kelly
  • Bess B. Ward
  • Nicole M. Travis
  • Xue-Ji Gu
  • Yu Xin

Publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Biogeosciences, The ISME Journal, and Limnology and Oceanography.

Best Publications

  • A Bacterial Method for the Nitrogen Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater

    D.M. Sigman;K.L. Casciotti;M. Andreani;C. Barford

  • Measurement of the Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Nitrate in Seawater and Freshwater Using the Denitrifier Method

    K L Casciotti;D M Sigman;M Galanter Hastings;J K Böhlke

  • Revisiting Carbon Flux Through the Ocean's Twilight Zone

    Ken O. Buesseler;Carl H. Lamborg;Philip W. Boyd;Phoebe J. Lam

  • Isotopic Signature of N2O Produced by Marine Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea

    Alyson E. Santoro;Carolyn Buchwald;Matthew R. McIlvin;Karen L. Casciotti

  • Activity, abundance and diversity of nitrifying archaea and bacteria in the central California Current

    Alyson E. Santoro;Alyson E. Santoro;Karen L. Casciotti;Christopher A. Francis

  • Ocean process tracers: nitrogen isotopes in the ocean

    DM Sigman;KL Karsh;KL Casciotti

  • Linking Diversity and Stable Isotope Fractionation in Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria

    Karen L. Casciotti;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Bettie Ward

  • Nitrogen Isotopes in the Ocean

    Daniel Mikhail Sigman;K. L. Karsh;K. L. Casciotti

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Inverse kinetic isotope fractionation during bacterial nitrite oxidation.

    Karen L. Casciotti

  • Technical updates to the bacterial method for nitrate isotopic analyses.

    Matthew R. McIlvin;Karen L. Casciotti

  • Biogeochemical controls and isotopic signatures of nitrous oxide production by a marine ammonia-oxidizing bacterium

    C. H. Frame;K. L. Casciotti

  • Oxygen isotopes in nitrite: analysis, calibration, and equilibration.

    Karen L. Casciotti;John Karl Böhlke;Matthew R. McIlvin;and Stanley J. Mroczkowski

  • Oxygen isotopic fractionation and exchange during bacterial nitrite oxidation

    Carolyn Buchwald;Karen L. Casciotti

  • Enrichment and characterization of ammonia-oxidizing archaea from the open ocean: phylogeny, physiology and stable isotope fractionation

    Alyson E Santoro;Karen L Casciotti;Karen L Casciotti

  • Dissimilatory Nitrite Reductase Genes from Autotrophic Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria

    Karen L. Casciotti;Bess B. Ward

  • Oxygen isotopic exchange and fractionation during bacterial ammonia oxidation

    Karen L. Casciotti;Matthew McIlvin;Carolyn Buchwald

  • Abiotic nitrous oxide emission from the hypersaline Don Juan Pond in Antarctica

    Vladimir A. Samarkin;Michael T. Madigan;Marshall W. Bowles;Karen L. Casciotti

  • Isotopic analyses of nitrate and nitrite from reference mixtures and application to Eastern Tropical North Pacific waters

    K.L. Casciotti;M.R. McIlvin

  • Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopic Studies of the Marine Nitrogen Cycle

    Karen L Casciotti

  • Sampling and Sample-handling Protocols for GEOTRACES Cruises. Version 3, August 2017.

    Gregory Cutter;Karen Casciotti;Peter Croot;Walter Geibert

Frequent Co-Authors

Bess B. Ward
Bess B. Ward Princeton University
Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Phoebe J. Lam
Phoebe J. Lam University of California, Santa Cruz
Christopher A. Francis
Christopher A. Francis Stanford University
Calvin W. Mordy
Calvin W. Mordy Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Ken O. Buesseler
Ken O. Buesseler Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Gregory A. Cutter
Gregory A. Cutter Old Dominion University
Carl H. Lamborg
Carl H. Lamborg University of California, Santa Cruz
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons Texas A&M University
Tyler B. Coplen
Tyler B. Coplen United States Geological Survey

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