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2026

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D-Index
64
Citations
10583
World Ranking
1553
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Lionel Carter is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research spans primarily the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with 19 publications contributing to this domain. The main subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Ocean Engineering.

The major research topics addressed by Carter focus on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Polar Research and Ecology, Cryospheric Studies and Observations, Geological Formations and Processes, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Recent publications by Carter include:

  • The population genetic structure of the urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii in New Zealand with links to Australia, 2021, Marine Biology
  • Frontal dynamics and water mass variability on the Campbell Plateau, 2021, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
  • Volcanic glass from the 1.8 ka Taupō eruption (New Zealand) detected in Antarctic ice at ~ 230 CE, 2023, Scientific Reports
  • Late Cretaceous to recent ocean-bottom currents in the SW Pacific Gateway, southeastern Chatham Rise, New Zealand, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Antarctic evidence for an abrupt northward shift of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies at 32 ka BP, 2023, Nature Communications

Frequent co-authors associated with Lionel Carter include Rob Carter, I Nick McCave, Carl Richter, Yoshiaki Aita, and Christophe Buret. Their collaborative efforts are reflected in multiple publications.

The preferred venues for publication include OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Marine Biology, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, and Scientific Reports.

In recognition of their contributions, Lionel Carter was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2003.

Best Publications

  • Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

    T. Naish;T. Naish;R. Powell;R. Levy;R. Levy;G. Wilson

  • Towards a climate event stratigraphy for New Zealand over the past 30 000 years (NZ‐INTIMATE project)

    Brent V. Alloway;David J. Lowe;David J.A. Barrell;Rewi M. Newnham

  • Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling.

    Robert McKay;Tim Naish;Lionel Carter;Christina Riesselman

  • Antarctic contribution to meltwater pulse 1A from reduced Southern Ocean overturning

    N. R. Golledge;N. R. Golledge;L. Menviel;L. Carter;C. J. Fogwill

  • Insights into Submarine Geohazards from Breaks in Subsea Telecommunication Cables

    Lionel Carter;Rachel Gavey;Peter Talling;James Liu

  • Cold conditions in Antarctica during the Little Ice Age — Implications for abrupt climate change mechanisms

    N.A.N. Bertler;P.A. Mayewski;L. Carter

  • The stratigraphic signature of the late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment

    Robert McKay;Greg Browne;Lionel Carter;Ellen Cowan

  • Response of surface water masses and circulation to Late Quaternary climate change east of New Zealand

    Philip P. E. Weaver;Lionel Carter;Helen L. Neil

  • Submergent shorelines in the SW Pacific: evidence for an episodic post‐glacial transgression

    R. M. Carter;L. Carter;D. P. Johnson

  • The opening of Cook Strait: Interglacial tidal scour and aligning basins at a subduction to transform plate edge

    Keith B Lewis;Lionel Carter;Fred J Davey

  • Reduced ventilation and enhanced magnitude of the deep Pacific carbon pool during the last glacial period

    Luke Cameron Skinner;Ian Nicholas McCave;L Carter;S Fallon

  • Mud sedimentation on the continental shelf at an accretionary margin—Poverty Bay, New Zealand

    Greg Foster;Lionel Carter

  • Near‐synchronous and delayed initiation of long run‐out submarine sediment flows from a record‐breaking river flood, offshore Taiwan

    L. Carter;J. D. Milliman;P. J. Talling;R. Gavey

  • Recent sedimentation beneath the Deep Western Boundary Current off northern New Zealand

    I.N. Mccave;L. Carter

  • Glacial–interglacial ocean climate variability from planktonic foraminifera during the Mid-Pleistocene transition in the temperate Southwest Pacific, ODP Site 1123

    Martin Crundwell;George Scott;Tim Naish;Tim Naish;Lionel Carter;Lionel Carter

  • Circulation and water masses of the Southern Ocean: a review

    L. Carter;I. N. McCave;M. J. M. Williams

  • Source, sea level and circulation effects on the sediment flux to the deep ocean over the past 15 ka off eastern New Zealand

    Lionel Carter;Barbara Manighetti;Mike Elliot;Noel Trustrum

  • Glacial–interglacial changes in water mass structure and flow in the SW Pacific Ocean

    I. N. McCave;Lionel Carter;Ian Robert Hall

  • Glacial to interglacial changes in non-carbonate and carbonate accumulation in the SW Pacific Ocean, New Zealand

    L Carter;H.L Neil;I.N McCave

  • Reconstructing the Quaternary evolution of the world's most active silicic volcanic system: insights from an ∼1.65 Ma deep ocean tephra record sourced from Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

    Aidan S.R. Allan;Joel A. Baker;Lionel Carter;Richard J. Wysoczanksi

  • Development of sediment drifts approaching an active plate margin under the SW Pacific Deep Western Boundary Current

    L. Carter;I. N. McCave

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Helen L Neil
Helen L Neil National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Gavin B. Dunbar
Gavin B. Dunbar Victoria University of Wellington
Helen C. Bostock
Helen C. Bostock University of Queensland
Robert M. Carter
Robert M. Carter James Cook University
Robert M. McKay
Robert M. McKay Victoria University of Wellington
I. N. McCave
I. N. McCave University of Cambridge
Bruce W. Hayward
Bruce W. Hayward University of Auckland
Joel A. Baker
Joel A. Baker University of Washington
Noel A. Trustrum
Noel A. Trustrum GNS Science

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