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Kurt O. Konhauser

Kurt O. Konhauser

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
81
Citations
24501
World Ranking
490
National Ranking
17

Kurt O. Konhauser publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kurt O. Konhauser sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 603+

This scientist: 426 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

Kurt O. Konhauser D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kurt O. Konhauser sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2017 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2017 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Kurt O. Konhauser is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada. Their research primarily lies within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on various subfields such as Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

Their work extensively covers topics including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Radioactive Element Chemistry and Processing, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Konhauser has contributed regularly to a range of scientific journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Nature Communications

Recent publications by Konhauser include:

  • Cadmium adsorption to clay-microbe aggregates: Implications for marine heavy metals cycling, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An abiotic source of Archean hydrogen peroxide and oxygen that pre-dates oxygenic photosynthesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Evolution of the structure and impact of Earth's biosphere, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Taxonomic and carbon metabolic diversification of Bathyarchaeia during its coevolution history with early Earth surface environment, 2023, Science Advances

Co-authorship has been a significant aspect of their academic output, with frequent collaborations involving:

  • Daniel S. Alessi
  • Leslie J. Robbins
  • Weiduo Hao
  • Murray K. Gingras
  • Noah J. Planavsky

Konhauser has also contributed to academic books, including a publication with Cambridge University Press titled Iron Formations as Palaeoenvironmental Archives (2021).

Recognition for Konhauser's contributions is marked by several awards and honors, including:

  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2017
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2017

Best Publications

  • Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

    A. Bekker;B. Krapež;J. F. Slack;N. Planavsky

  • Introduction to geomicrobiology

    Kurt Konhauser

  • Could bacteria have formed the Precambrian banded iron formations

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Tristan Hamade;Rob Raiswell;Richard C. Morris

  • Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

    Noah J. Planavsky;Dan Asael;Axel Hofmann;Christopher T. Reinhard

  • Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Benjamin C. Gill;Kazumi Ozaki;Kazumi Ozaki

  • Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Ernesto Pecoits;Stefan V. Lalonde;Dominic Papineau

  • Deposition of banded iron formations by anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria

    Andreas Kappler;Claudia Pasquero;Kurt O. Konhauser;Dianne K. Newman

  • Diversity of bacterial iron mineralization

    Kurt O Konhauser

  • Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

    Christopher T. Reinhard;Noah J. Planavsky;Leslie J. Robbins;Camille A. Partin

  • The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

    Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Olivier J. Rouxel;Olivier J. Rouxel;Andrey Bekker;Stefan V. Lalonde

  • Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Dalton S. Hardisty;Leslie J. Robbins

  • Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

    C.A. Partin;A. Bekker;N.J. Planavsky;C.T. Scott

  • Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Ernesto Pecoits

  • Microbially catalyzed dolomite formation: From near-surface to burial

    Daniel A. Petrash;Or M. Bialik;Tomaso R.R. Bontognali;Crisógono Vasconcelos

  • Decoupling photochemical Fe(II) oxidation from shallow-water BIF deposition

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Larry Amskold;Stefan V. Lalonde;Nicole R. Posth

  • DIVERSITY OF IRON AND SILICA PRECIPITATION BY MICROBIAL MATS IN HYDROTHERMAL WATERS, ICELAND : IMPLICATIONS FOR PRECAMBRIAN IRON FORMATIONS

    K. O. Konhauser;F. G. Ferris

  • Microbial-silica interactions in Icelandic hot spring sinter: possible analogues for some Precambrian siliceous stromatolites

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Vernon R. Phoenix;Simon H. Bottrell;David G. Adams

  • The potential significance of microbial Fe(III) reduction during deposition of Precambrian banded iron formations

    K. O. Konhauser;D. K. Newman;A. Kappler

  • Was There Really an Archean Phosphate Crisis

    Kurt O. Konhauser;Stefan V. Lalonde;Larry Amskold;Heinrich D. Holland

  • Influence of pyrolysis temperature on production of digested sludge biochar and its application for ammonium removal from municipal wastewater

    Yao Tang;Samrat Alam;Kurt O. Konhauser;Daniel S. Alessi

  • Bacterial clay authigenesis: a common biogeochemical process

    Kurt O Konhauser;Matilde M Urrutia

Frequent Co-Authors

Stefan V. Lalonde
Stefan V. Lalonde European Institute
Murray K. Gingras
Murray K. Gingras University of Alberta
Daniel S. Alessi
Daniel S. Alessi University of Alberta
Andreas Kappler
Andreas Kappler University of Tübingen
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University
Andrey Bekker
Andrey Bekker University of California, Riverside
Stephen J. Mojzsis
Stephen J. Mojzsis University of Bayreuth
Christopher T. Reinhard
Christopher T. Reinhard Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Vernon R. Phoenix
Vernon R. Phoenix University of Strathclyde

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