2026 Lloyd D Keigwin: 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	84	398	339	209	170	357	24929

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2001 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Lloyd D Keigwin is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the fields of engineering and earth and planetary sciences, focusing notably on ocean engineering and atmospheric science, among others. The work also intersects mechanical engineering, earth-surface processes, and molecular biology.

The scientist's main topics of research include drilling and well engineering, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, as well as reservoir engineering and simulation methods. Additional areas of focus cover geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, geological formations and processes, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

Keigwin has published extensively in various academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University and Zenodo at CERN, each hosting seven of their publications. Other repeated venues include Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors, with four publications, alongside Scientific Data and Nature.

Selected recent papers illustrate a range of research topics and publication years:

The FORCIS database: A global census of planktonic Foraminifera from ocean waters, 2023, Scientific Data
Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
On the relationship between excursions and paleomagnetic secular variation - Records from MIS 5, North Atlantic Ocean, 2020, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
On the relationship between paleomagnetic secular variation and excursions - Records from MIS 9 and 10 - ODP Leg 172, 2022, Physics of The Earth and Planetary Interiors
Deeper and stronger North Atlantic Gyre during the Last Glacial Maximum, 2024, Nature

Throughout their career, Keigwin has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Makoto Okada, Gary D Acton, Bradford M Clement, Ivan A Basov, and David K. Rea.

The scientist's contributions have been recognized by their peers. They have been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011 and a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 2001.

Best Publications

Collapse and rapid resumption of Atlantic meridional circulation linked to deglacial climate changes

J. F. McManus;R. Francois;J.-M. Gherardi;L. D. Keigwin

2518
Citations
North Atlantic thermohaline circulation during the past 20,000 years linked to high-latitude surface temperature

Edward A. Boyle;Lloyd Keigwin

1116
Citations
Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

Aaron O’Dea;Harilaos A. Lessios;Anthony G. Coates;Ron I. Eytan

936
Citations
Comparison of Atlantic and Pacific paleochemical records for the last 215,000 years : changes in deep ocean circulation and chemical inventories

E.A. Boyle;L.D. Keigwin

870
Citations
Sudden changes in North Atlantic circulation during the last deglaciation

Scott J. Lehman;Lloyd D. Keigwin

735
Citations
The Little Ice Age and Medieval warm period in the Sargasso Sea

Lloyd D. Keigwin

706
Citations
Isotopic Paleoceanography of the Caribbean and East Pacific: Role of Panama Uplift in Late Neogene Time

Lloyd Keigwin

610
Citations
Deep Circulation of the North Atlantic over the Last 200,000 Years: Geochemical Evidence

Edward A. Boyle;Lloyd D. Keigwin

525
Citations
The influence of microhabitats on the carbon isotopic composition of deep-sea benthic foraminifera

Daniel C. McCorkle;Lloyd D. Keigwin;Bruce H. Corliss;Steven R. Emerson

469
Citations
Last Interglacial Climates

George J. Kukla;Michael L. Bender;Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu;Gerard Bond

437
Citations
North Atlantic ocean circulation and abrupt climate change during the last glaciation.

L. G. Henry;J. F. McManus;W. B. Curry;W. B. Curry;N. L. Roberts

436
Citations
Pliocene closing of the Isthmus of Panama, based on biostratigraphic evidence from nearby Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea cores

Lloyd D. Keigwin

426
Citations
Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years

David J. R. Thornalley;David J. R. Thornalley;Delia W. Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I. Robson

423
Citations
Glacial‐age hydrography of the far northwest Pacific Ocean

Lloyd D. Keigwin

388
Citations
Carbon and oxygen isotopic disequilibria of recent deep-sea benthic foraminifera☆

David W. Graham;Bruce H. Corliss;Michael L. Bender;Lloyd D. Keigwin

373
Citations
The last interglacial ocean

William F. Ruddiman;Rose Marie L. Cline;James D. Hays

369
Citations
Deglacial meltwater discharge, North Atlantic Deep Circulation, and abrupt climate change

L. D. Keigwin;G. A. Jones;S. J. Lehman;E. A. Boyle

350
Citations
Radiocarbon Variability in the Western North Atlantic During the Last Deglaciation

Laura F. Robinson;Jess F. Adkins;Lloyd D. Keigwin;John Southon

326
Citations
Mechanisms of global climate change at millennial time scales

Peter U. Clark;Robert S. Webb;Lloyd D. Keigwin

319
Citations
Synchronous deglacial overturning and water mass source changes.

Natalie L. Roberts;Alexander M. Piotrowski;Jerry F. McManus;Lloyd D. Keigwin

296
Citations
Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years, supplement to: Thornalley, David JR; Oppo, Delia W; Ortega, Pablo; Robson, Jon I; Brierley, Chris M; Davis, Renee; Hall, Ian R; Moffa-Sanchez, Paola; Rose, Neil L; Spooner, Peter T; Yashayaev, Igor M; Keigwin, Lloyd D (2018): Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years. Nature, 556(7700), 227-230

David Jr Thornalley;Delia W Oppo;Pablo Ortega;Jon I Robson

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Domenico Rio University of Padua

Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Bruce H. Corliss University of Rhode Island

Gary D. Acton Texas A&M University

Elisabeth L. Sikes Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Edward A. Boyle MIT

Alexander M Piotrowski University of Cambridge

Daniel Birgel Universität Hamburg

William B. Curry Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Elsa Cortijo Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

External Links

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