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  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Louis A. Derry is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and conducts research primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist focuses on several research topics, such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Silicon Effects in Agriculture, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Recent published papers by Louis A. Derry include:

  • Persistence of old soil carbon under changing climate: The role of mineral-organic matter interactions (2021, Chemical Geology)
  • Variations of Mg isotope geochemistry in soils over a Hawaiian 4 Myr chronosequence (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • A first look at Ge/Si partitioning during amorphous silica precipitation: Implications for Ge/Si as a tracer of fluid-silicate interactions (2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)
  • Carbonate weathering, CO2 redistribution, and Neogene CCD and pCO2 evolution (2022, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
  • A model for germanium-silicon equilibrium fractionation in kaolinite (2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta)

Frequent publication venues for this scientist include Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Goldschmidt Abstracts, Goldschmidt2022 abstracts, and Chemical Geology.

Collaborative work is evident through frequently co-authored publications with researchers such as Jennifer L. Druhan, Julien Bouchez, Jon Chorover, Alida Pérez-Fodich, and Jérôme Gaillardet.

Louis A. Derry has been recognized as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

  • Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development

    O. A. Chadwick;L. A. Derry;P. M. Vitousek;B. J. Huebert

  • Sedimentary cycling and environmental change in the Late Proterozoic: Evidence from stable and radiogenic isotopes

    Louis A Derry;Alan J Kaufman;Stein B Jacobsen

  • Mineral protection regulates long-term global preservation of natural organic carbon

    Jordon D. Hemingway;Daniel H. Rothman;Katherine E. Grant;Sarah Z. Rosengard

  • The chemical evolution of Precambrian seawater: Evidence from REEs in banded iron formations

    Louis A. Derry;Stein B. Jacobsen

  • Biological control of terrestrial silica cycling and export fluxes to watersheds

    Louis A. Derry;Andrew C. Kurtz;Karen Ziegler;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion

    Christian France-Lanord;Christian France-Lanord;Louis A. Derry

  • Neogene Himalayan weathering history and river87Sr86Sr: impact on the marine Sr record

    Louis A. Derry;Louis A. Derry;Christian France-Lanord

  • A burial diagenesis origin for the Ediacaran Shuram–Wonoka carbon isotope anomaly

    Louis A. Derry

  • Refractory element mobility in volcanic soils

    Andrew C. Kurtz;Louis A. Derry;Oliver A. Chadwick;Mary Jo Alfano

  • Evolution of the Himalaya since Miocene time: isotopic and sedimentological evidence from the Bengal Fan

    Christian France-Lanord;Louis Derry;Annie Michard

  • The strontium isotopic budget of Himalayan rivers in Nepal and Bangladesh

    Albert Galy;Christian France-Lanord;Christian France-Lanord;Louis A Derry

  • Sr and C isotopes in Lower Cambrian carbonates from the Siberian craton: A paleoenvironmental record during the ‘Cambrian explosion’

    L.A. Derry;M.D. Brasier;R.M. Corfield;A.Yu. Rozanov

  • Accretion of Asian dust to Hawaiian soils: isotopic, elemental, and mineral mass balances

    Andrew C Kurtz;Louis A Derry;Oliver A Chadwick

  • Sr isotopic variations in Upper Proterozoic carbonates from Svalbard and East Greenland

    Louis A Derry;Lisette S Keto;Stein B Jacobsen;Andrew H Knoll

  • Reduced Himalayan sediment production 8 Myr ago despite an intensified monsoon

    Douglas W. Burbank;Louis A. Derry;Christian France-Lanord

  • Temperature dependence of basalt weathering

    Gaojun Li;Jens Hartmann;Louis A. Derry;A. Joshua West

  • Germanium-silicon fractionation in the weathering environment

    Andrew C. Kurtz;Louis A. Derry;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Multiple δ13C excursions spanning the Cambrian explosion to the Botomian crisis in Siberia

    M. D. Brasier;R. M. Corfield;L. A. Derry;A. Yu. Rozanov

  • Changing sources of base cations during ecosystem development, Hawaiian Islands

    M. J. Kennedy;O. A. Chadwick;P. M. Vitousek;L. A. Derry

  • Erosion and the Rejuvenation of Weathering-derived Nutrient Supply in an Old Tropical Landscape

    Peter Vitousek;Oliver Chadwick;Pamela Matson;Steven Allison

  • δ13C of organic carbon in the Bengal Fan: Source evolution and transport of C3 and C4 plant carbon to marine sediments

    Christian France-Lanord;Louis A. Derry

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian France-Lanord
Christian France-Lanord University of Lorraine
Oliver A. Chadwick
Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara
Johannes Lehmann
Johannes Lehmann Cornell University
Carsten W. Mueller
Carsten W. Mueller University of Copenhagen
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner Technical University of Munich
Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University
Stein B. Jacobsen
Stein B. Jacobsen Harvard University
Suzanne P. Anderson
Suzanne P. Anderson University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen J. Romaniello
Stephen J. Romaniello Vesta Sciences (United States)

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