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  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Liane G. Benning is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a specialization in various subfields such as ecology, atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, biomaterials, and renewable energy, sustainability and the environment.

The scientist has contributed to a diverse range of topics including:

  • Polar Research and Ecology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Mine drainage and remediation techniques
  • Iron oxide chemistry and applications

Frequent publication venues where Liane G. Benning has appeared include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • Geochemical Perspectives Letters

Notable recent papers by the scientist consist of:

  • Glacier algae accelerate melt rates on the south-western Greenland Ice Sheet, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Mineral phosphorus drives glacier algal blooms on the Greenland Ice Sheet, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Molecular identification of fungi microfossils in a Neoproterozoic shale rock, 2020, Science Advances
  • Newly identified climatically and environmentally significant high-latitude dust sources, 2022, Atmospheric chemistry and physics
  • Biological albedo reduction on ice sheets, glaciers, and snowfields, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews

Among frequent collaborators, Liane G. Benning has worked with Alexandre M. Anesio, Martyn Tranter, Jeffrey Paulo H. Perez, Joseph M. Cook, and Rey Mourot. These partnerships reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the scientist's research areas.

In 2017, Liane G. Benning was recognized as a Member of the Academia Europaea, highlighting their standing in the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • The kinetics and mechanisms of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) crystallization to calcite, via vaterite.

    Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco;Samuel Shaw;Liane G. Benning

  • Reaction pathways in the Fe-S system below 100°C

    Liane G Benning;Rick T Wilkin;H.L Barnes

  • Mechanistic Insights into the Crystallization of Amorphous Calcium Carbonate (ACC)

    Pieter Bots;Liane G. Benning;Juan Diego Rodriguez-Blanco;Teresa Roncal-Herrero

  • Hydrosulphide complexing of Au (I) in hydrothermal solutions from 150–400°C and 500–1500 bar

    Liane G. Benning;Terry M. Seward

  • Characterization of metal-cyanobacteria sorption reactions: a combined macroscopic and infrared spectroscopic investigation

    Nathan Yee;Liane G. Benning;Vernon R. Phoenix;F. Grant Ferris

  • The role and implications of bassanite as a stable precursor phase to gypsum precipitation.

    A. E. S. Van Driessche;L. G. Benning;J. D. Rodriguez-Blanco;M. Ossorio;M. Ossorio

  • Bioavailable iron in the Southern Ocean: the significance of the iceberg conveyor belt

    Rob Raiswell;Liane G Benning;Martyn Tranter;Slawek Tulaczyk

  • Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

    Jon R. Hawkings;Jemma L. Wadham;Martyn Tranter;Rob Raiswell

  • Impacts on iron solubility in the mineral dust by processes in the source region and the atmosphere: A review

    Zongbo Shi;Michael D. Krom;Timothy D. Jickells;Steeve Bonneville

  • The microbiome of glaciers and ice sheets.

    Alexandre M. Anesio;Stefanie Lutz;Nathan A. M. Chrismas;Liane G. Benning

  • Contributions from glacially derived sediment to the global iron (oxyhydr)oxide cycle : Implications for iron delivery to the oceans

    Rob Raiswell;Martyn Tranter;Liane G. Benning;Martin Siegert

  • Greigite: a true intermediate on the polysulfide pathway to pyrite

    Stefan Hunger;Liane G Benning

  • The biogeography of red snow microbiomes and their role in melting arctic glaciers

    Stefanie Lutz;Alexandre M. Anesio;Rob Raiswell;Arwyn Edwards

  • The role of pH and Mg on the stability and crystallization of amorphous calcium carbonate

    J.D. Rodriguez-Blanco;S. Shaw;P. Bots;T. Roncal-Herrero

  • The rate of ferrihydrite transformation to goethite via the Fe(II) pathway

    Nathan Yee;Samuel Shaw;Liane G. Benning;T. Hien Nguyen

  • Crystallization of CaCO3 in Water–Alcohol Mixtures: Spherulitic Growth, Polymorph Stabilization, and Morphology Change

    K. K. Sand;J. D. Rodriguez-Blanco;E. Makovicky;L. G. Benning

  • Molecular characterization of cyanobacterial silicification using synchrotron infrared micro-spectroscopy

    Liane G. Benning;V. R. Phoenix;N. Yee;M. J. Tobin

  • Green rust formation controls nutrient availability in a ferruginous water column

    Asfaw Zegeye;Steeve Bonneville;Liane G. Benning;Arne Sturm

  • Plant-driven fungal weathering: Early stages of mineral alteration at the nanometer scale

    Steeve Bonneville;Mark M. Smits;Andrew Brown;John Harrington

  • The effect of cyanobacteria on silica precipitation at neutral pH: implications for bacterial silicification in geothermal hot springs

    Nathan Yee;Vernon R. Phoenix;Kurt O. Konhauser;Liane G. Benning

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele Carnegie Institution for Science
Martyn Tranter
Martyn Tranter Aarhus University
Eric H. Oelkers
Eric H. Oelkers University of Iceland
Monica M. Grady
Monica M. Grady The Open University
Jack D. Farmer
Jack D. Farmer Arizona State University
Harry Y. McSween
Harry Y. McSween University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Nicholas J. Tosca
Nicholas J. Tosca University of Oxford
Scott M. McLennan
Scott M. McLennan Stony Brook University
Alexandre M. Anesio
Alexandre M. Anesio Aarhus University

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