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Katherine A. Barbeau publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katherine A. Barbeau sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 80 publications — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Katherine A. Barbeau D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Katherine A. Barbeau sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Katherine A. Barbeau is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Oceanography and Ecology within these broader fields.

The scientist's work centers on marine and coastal ecosystems, exploring microbial community ecology and physiology, marine biology and ecology research, as well as geology and paleoclimatology. Additional areas of study include methane hydrates and related phenomena, microbial fuel cells and bioremediation, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

They have contributed to numerous scientific papers, including recent notable publications such as:

  • "Petrobactin, a siderophore produced by Alteromonas, mediates community iron acquisition in the global ocean" (2021, The ISME Journal)
  • "Transcriptomic Study of Substrate-Specific Transport Mechanisms for Iron and Carbon in the Marine Copiotroph Alteromonas macleodii" (2020, mSystems)
  • "Environmental drivers of phytoplankton taxonomic composition in an Antarctic fjord" (2020, Progress In Oceanography)
  • "Seasonal dispersal of fjord meltwaters as an important source of iron and manganese to coastal Antarctic phytoplankton" (2021, Biogeosciences)
  • "Organic dissolved copper speciation across the U.S. GEOTRACES equatorial Pacific zonal transect GP16" (2020, Marine Chemistry)

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Kiefer Forsch
  • Lauren E. Manck
  • Randelle M. Bundy
  • Christopher L. Dupont
  • Andrew E. Allen

Publication venues where their work appears most often include:

  • The ISME Journal
  • Marine Chemistry
  • mSystems
  • Progress In Oceanography
  • Biogeosciences

Best Publications

  • Photochemical cycling of iron in the surface ocean mediated by microbial iron(III)-binding ligands.

    K. Barbeau;E. L. Rue;K. W. Bruland;A. Butler

  • Cu speciation and cyanobacterial distribution in harbors subject to anthropogenic Cu inputs

    James W. Moffett;Larry E. Brand;Peter L. Croot;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Photochemical reactivity of siderophores produced by marine heterotrophic bacteria and cyanobacteria based on characteristic Fe(III) binding groups

    Katherine Barbeau;Eden L. Rue;Charles G. Trick;Kenneth W. Bruland

  • Petrobactin, a Photoreactive Siderophore Produced by the Oil-Degrading Marine Bacterium Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus

    Katherine Barbeau;Guangping Zhang;David H Live;Alison Butler

  • Role of protozoan grazing in relieving iron limitation of phytoplankton

    Katherine Barbeau;James W. Moffett;David A. Caron;Peter L. Croot

  • Developing standards for dissolved iron in seawater

    Kenneth S. Johnson;Edward Boyle;Kenneth Bruland;Kenneth Coale

  • Photochemistry of Organic Iron(III) Complexing Ligands in Oceanic Systems

    Katherine Barbeau

  • Mesoscale ocean fronts enhance carbon export due to gravitational sinking and subduction

    Michael R. Stukel;Lihini I. Aluwihare;Katherine A. Barbeau;Alexander M. Chekalyuk

  • Ni Uptake and Limitation in Marine Synechococcus Strains

    Christopher L. Dupont;Katherine Barbeau;Brian Palenik

  • Carbonate-sensitive phytotransferrin controls high-affinity iron uptake in diatoms

    Jeffrey B. McQuaid;Adam B. Kustka;Miroslav Oborník;Aleš Horák

  • The organic complexation of iron and copper: an intercomparison of competitive ligand exchange-adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (CLE-ACSV) techniques

    Kristen N. Buck;James Moffett;Katherine A. Barbeau;Randelle M. Bundy

  • Iron transporters in marine prokaryotic genomes and metagenomes

    Brian M. Hopkinson;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities

    Chris L Dupont;John P McCrow;Ruben Valas;Ahmed Moustafa

  • Laboratory and field studies of colloidal iron oxide dissolution as mediated by phagotrophy and photolysis

    K. Barbeau;J. W. Moffett

  • Iron limitation across chlorophyll gradients in the southern Drake Passage: Phytoplankton responses to iron addition and photosynthetic indicators of iron stress

    Brian M. Hopkinson;B. Greg Mitchell;Rick A. Reynolds;Haili Wang

  • Organic and redox speciation of iron in the eastern tropical North Pacific suboxic zone

    Brian M. Hopkinson;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Iron-binding ligand production and copper speciation in an incubation experiment of Antarctic Peninsula shelf waters from the Bransfield Strait, Southern Ocean

    Kristen N. Buck;Karen E. Selph;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Iron-binding ligands and humic substances in the San Francisco Bay estuary and estuarine-influenced shelf regions of coastal California

    Randelle M. Bundy;Hussain A.N. Abdulla;Patrick G. Hatcher;Dondra V. Biller

  • Pelagic community responses to a deep-water front in the California Current Ecosystem: overview of the A-Front Study

    Michael R. Landry;Mark D. Ohman;Ralf Goericke;Michael R. Stukel

  • Nickel Utilization in Phytoplankton Assemblages From Contrasting Oceanic Regimes

    Christopher L. Dupont;Kristen N. Buck;Brian Palenik;Katherine Barbeau

  • Acquisition of organically complexed copper by marine phytoplankton and bacteria in the northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean

    David M. Semeniuk;Randelle M. Bundy;Chris D. Payne;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Perspective on identifying and characterizing the processes controlling iron speciation and residence time at the atmosphere-ocean interface

    Nicholas Meskhidze;Christoph Völker;Hind A. Al-Abadleh;Katherine Barbeau

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Moffett
James W. Moffett University of Southern California
Christopher L. Dupont
Christopher L. Dupont J. Craig Venter Institute
Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
Christopher I. Measures
Christopher I. Measures University of Hawaii at Manoa
Michael R. Landry
Michael R. Landry University of California, San Diego
Kenneth W. Bruland
Kenneth W. Bruland University of California, Santa Cruz
Ralf Goericke
Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Brian Palenik
Brian Palenik University of California, San Diego
B. Greg Mitchell
B. Greg Mitchell University of California, San Diego
Mark D. Ohman
Mark D. Ohman University of California, San Diego

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