2026 Lee Slater: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	60	1892	1706	826	727	424	13215

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lee Slater is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work is concentrated on geophysical and geoelectrical methods, with a detailed focus on groundwater flow and contamination studies as well as geophysical methods and applications.

The research spans multiple subfields including Geophysics, Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology. These areas outline a broad engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of environmental and earth sciences.

Lee Slater has contributed extensively to the scientific literature with notable papers such as:

Advancing hydrological process understanding from long-term resistivity monitoring systems (2021), published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water
Post-remediation geophysical assessment: Investigating long-term electrical geophysical signatures resulting from bioremediation at a chlorinated solvent contaminated site (2021), Journal of Environmental Management
Electrical monitoring of saline tracers to reveal subsurface flow pathways in a flat ditch-drained field (2020), Journal of Hydrology
Methanogens and Their Syntrophic Partners Dominate Zones of Enhanced Magnetic Susceptibility at a Petroleum Contaminated Site (2021), Frontiers in Earth Science
The Influence of Magnetic Minerals on Induced Polarization Measurements in Sedimentary Rocks (2022), Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent coauthors include Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Xavier Comas, A. S. Reeve, Andrew Binley, and Klaudio Peshtani.

Publication venues with recurrent contributions from Lee Slater include:

Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
Geophysical Journal International
Journal of Hydrology
Geophysics
Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Their scholarly output also encompasses authored books published by notable presses. These include Resistivity and Induced Polarization (2020) from Cambridge University Press and Electrical Imaging for Hydrogeology (2023) from The Groundwater Project eBooks.

Lee Slater has been recognized with the title of Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) awarded in 2018, which marks a formal recognition within the scientific community.

Best Publications

The emergence of hydrogeophysics for improved understanding of subsurface processes over multiple scales.

Andrew Binley;Susan S. Hubbard;Johan A. Huisman;André Revil

780
Citations
Cross-hole electrical imaging of a controlled saline tracer injection

Lee Slater;Andrew Binley;W. Daily;R. Johnson

485
Citations
Advancing process‐based watershed hydrological research using near‐surface geophysics: A vision for, and review of, electrical and magnetic geophysical methods

D. A. Robinson;A. Binley;N. Crook;F. D. Day-Lewis

481
Citations
IP interpretation in environmental investigations

Lee D. Slater;David Lesmes

433
Citations
Near Surface Electrical Characterization of Hydraulic Conductivity: From Petrophysical Properties to Aquifer Geometries—A Review

Lee Slater

400
Citations
Relationship between spectral induced polarization and hydraulic properties of saturated and unsaturated sandstone

Andrew Binley;Lee D. Slater;Melanie Fukes;Giorgio Cassiani

385
Citations
An overview of the spectral induced polarization method for near-surface applications

Andreas Kemna;Andrew Binley;Giorgio Cassiani;Ernst Niederleithinger

371
Citations
Electrical-hydraulic relationships observed for unconsolidated sediments

Lee Slater;Lee Slater;David P. Lesmes

323
Citations
Crosshole IP imaging for engineering and environmental applications

Andreas Kemna;Andrew M. Binley;Lee Slater

292
Citations
Multiscale geophysical imaging of the critical zone

A. D. Parsekian;K. Singha;B. J. Minsley;W. S. Holbrook

286
Citations
Biogeophysics: A new frontier in Earth science research

Estella A. Atekwana;Lee D. Slater

250
Citations
A 3D ERT study of solute transport in a large experimental tank

L Slater;A Binley;R Versteeg;Giorgio Cassiani

235
Citations
On the relationship between induced polarization and surface conductivity: Implications for petrophysical interpretation of electrical measurements

Andreas Weller;Lee Slater;Sven Nordsiek

232
Citations
Induced polarization measurements on unsaturated, unconsolidated sands

Craig Ulrich;Lee D. Slater

197
Citations
Effects of microbial processes on electrolytic and interfacial electrical properties of unconsolidated sediments

Gamal Z. Abdel Aal;Estella A. Atekwana;Lee D. Slater;Eliot A. Atekwana

186
Citations
Geophysical imaging of stimulated microbial biomineralization.

Kenneth H. Williams;Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Lee D. Slater;Alice Dohnalkova

181
Citations
Resistivity and Induced Polarization

Andrew Binley;Lee Slater

178
Citations
On the estimation of specific surface per unit pore volume from induced polarization: A robust empirical relation fits multiple data sets

Andreas Weller;Lee Slater;Sven Nordsiek;Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis

177
Citations
Advances in interpretation of subsurface processes with time-lapse electrical imaging

Kamini Singha;Frederick D. Day-Lewis;Timothy C. Johnson;Lee D. Slater

176
Citations
Controls on induced polarization in sandy unconsolidated sediments and application to aquifer characterization

L. D. Slater;D. R. Glaser

173
Citations
Use of electrical imaging and distributed temperature sensing methods to characterize surface water-groundwater exchange regulating uranium transport at the Hanford 300 Area, Washington

Lee D. Slater;Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis;Frederick D. Day-Lewis;Kisa Edson Mwakanyamale

168
Citations
Investigating peatland stratigraphy and hydrogeology using integrated electrical geophysics

Lee D. Slater;Andrew S. Reeve

159
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Binley Lancaster University

André Revil Université Savoie Mont Blanc

Frederick D. Day-Lewis United States Geological Survey

Kenneth H. Williams Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Susan S. Hubbard Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Beth L. Parker University of Guelph

Barbara A. Bekins United States Geological Survey

Guido Grosse Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Kamini Singha Colorado School of Mines

Rosemary Knight Stanford University

External Links

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