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Luis A. Cifuentes is affiliated with New Mexico State University in the United States. Their research primarily encompasses the field of Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Pollution, and Health. This diverse range of subfields reflects an interdisciplinary approach to environmental and health-related issues.

Their work covers a variety of main topics centered around environmental and public health impacts, including Climate Change and Health Impacts, Air Quality and Health Impacts, Global Health Care Issues, Disaster Management and Resilience, Energy and Environment Impacts, Health Disparities and Outcomes, and Disaster Response and Management.

They have contributed to multiple recent scientific papers, including the following:

  • "The influence of risk awareness and government trust on risk perception and preparedness for natural hazards," 2023, published in Risk Analysis
  • "Carbon footprint and water inventory of the production of lithium in the Atacama Salt Flat, Chile," 2024, published in Environmental Challenges
  • "La amenaza del cambio climático a la salud de la población y la necesidad urgente de actuar," 2020, published in Revista médica de Chile
  • "Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against cancer 1st edition: Environment, occupation, and cancer," 2023, published in Cancer Epidemiology
  • "Chronic exposure to fine particles (PM2.5) and mortality: Evidence from Chile," 2023, published in Environmental Epidemiology

The scientist has frequently published in venues such as ISEE Conference Abstracts, Environmental Epidemiology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Risk Analysis, and Environmental Challenges.

Collaborative work is a consistent feature of their research, with frequent co-authors including Pamela C. Cisternas, Nicolás C. Bronfman, Paula Repetto, Pablo Busch, and Nicolás Valdés Ortega. These collaborations span multiple publications and demonstrate an engaged network of research in related fields.

Best Publications

  • Health, Wealth, and Air Pollution: Advancing Theory and Methods

    Marie S O'Neill;Michael Jerrett;Aaron J Cohen;Nelson Gouveia

  • Isotope Fractionation during Primary Production

    Marilyn L. Fogel;Luis A. Cifuentes

  • Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope biogeochemistry in the Delaware estuary

    L. A. Cifuentes;J. H. Sharp;Marilyn L. Fogel

  • Vulnerability to heat-related mortality in Latin America: a case-crossover study in São Paulo, Brazil, Santiago, Chile and Mexico City, Mexico

    Michelle L Bell;Marie S O’Neill;Nalini Ranjit;Victor H Borja-Aburto

  • Isotopic and Elemental Variations of Carbon and Nitrogen in a Mangrove Estuary

    L.A. Cifuentes;R.B. Coffin;L. Solorzano;W. Cardenas

  • Effect of the fine fraction of particulate matter versus the coarse mass and other pollutants on daily mortality in Santiago, Chile.

    Luis A. Cifuentes;Jeanette Vega;Katherine Köpfer;Lester B. Lave

  • The avoidable health effects of air pollution in three Latin American cities: Santiago, São Paulo, and Mexico City

    Michelle L. Bell;Devra L. Davis;Nelson Gouveia;Víctor H. Borja-Aburto

  • Hidden Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

    Luis Cifuentes;Victor H. Borja-Aburto;Nelson Gouveia;George Thurston

  • Isotopic evidence for the contemporary origin of high-molecular weight organic matter in oceanic environments

    Peter H. Santschi;Laodong Guo;M. Baskaran;Susan Trumbore

  • Assessing the health benefits of urban air pollution reductions associated with climate change mitigation (2000-2020): Santiago, São Paulo, México City, and New York City.

    Luis Cifuentes;Victor H. Borja-Aburto;Nelson Gouveia;George Thurston

  • Biogeochemical factors that influence the stable nitrogen isotope ratio of dissolved ammonium in the Delaware Estuary

    Luis A Cifuentes;Luis A Cifuentes;Marilyn L Fogel;Jonathan R Pennock;Jonathan H Sharp

  • Human-environmental drivers and impacts of the globally extreme 2017 Chilean fires.

    David M. J. S. Bowman;Andrés Moreira-Muñoz;Crystal A. Kolden;Roberto O. Chávez

  • Cycling of high-molecular-weight dissolved organic matter in the Middle Atlantic Bight as revealed by carbon isotopic (13C and 14C) signatures

    Laodong Guo;Peter H. Santschi;Luis A. Cifuentes;Susan E. Trumbore

  • Autecology of the diatom Pseudonitzschia australis, a domoic acid producer, from Monterey Bay, California

    K. R. Buck;L. Uttalcooke;C. H. Pilskaln;D. L. Roelke

  • Relationship of carbon availability in estuanne phytoplankton to isotopic composition

    ML Fogel;LA Cifuentes;DJ Velinsky;JH Sharp

  • Ancillary human health benefits of improved air quality resulting from climate change mitigation

    Michelle L Bell;Devra L Davis;Luis A Cifuentes;Alan J Krupnick

  • Anaerobic Methane Oxidation in a Landfill-Leachate Plume

    Ethan L. Grossman;Luis A. Cifuentes;Isabelle M. Cozzarelli

  • A stable isotope study of organic cycling and the ecology of an anchialine cave ecosystem

    Pohlman Jw;Iliffe Tm;Cifuentes La

  • Effects of air pollution on infant and children respiratory mortality in four large Latin-American cities☆

    Nelson Gouveia;Washington Leite Junger

  • Stable carbon isotope analysis of nucleic acids to trace sources of dissolved substrates used by estuarine bacteria.

    R B Coffin;D J Velinsky;R Devereux;W A Price

  • The influence of river variability on the circulation, chemistry, and microbiology of the Delaware Estuary

    Jonathan H. Sharp;Luis A. Cifuentes;Richard B. Coffin;Jonathan R. Pennock

  • Determination of the isotopic composition of ammonium-nitrogen at the natural abundance level from estuarine waters

    David J. Velinsky;David J. Velinsky;Jonathan Pennock;Jonathan H. Sharp;Luis A. Cifuentes

  • THE ESTUARINE INTERACTION OF NUTRIENTS, ORGANICS, AND METALS: A CASE STUDY IN THE DELAWARE ESTUARY

    Jonathan H. Sharp;Jonathan R. Pennock;Thomas M. Church;John M. Tramontano

  • A model of phytoplankton competition for limiting and nonlimiting nutrients: Implications for development of estuarine and nearshore management schemes

    D. L. Roelke;P. M. Eldridge;L. A. Cifuentes

  • Microbial Metabolism and Nutrient Cycling in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya River Plumes

    Joseph Dean Pakulski;Ronald Benner;Terry E. Whitledge;Rainer M. W. Amon

  • Carbon and Nitrogen Sources for Shrimp Postlarvae Fed Natural Diets from a Tropical Mangrove System

    A.I. Dittel;C.E. Epifanio;L.A. Cifuentes;D.L. Kirchman

  • Qualitative and numerical analyses of the effects of river inflow variations on mixing diagrams in estuaries

    L.A. Cifuentes;L.E. Schemel;J.H. Sharp

  • A rapid and precise method for measuring stable carbon isotope ratios of dissolved inorganic carbon

    Gregory G. Salata;Lynn A. Roelke;Luis A. Cifuentes

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard B. Coffin
Richard B. Coffin Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Jonathan H. Sharp
Jonathan H. Sharp University of Delaware
Marilyn L. Fogel
Marilyn L. Fogel University of California, Riverside
Peter H. Santschi
Peter H. Santschi Texas A&M University
Daniel L. Roelke
Daniel L. Roelke Texas A&M University
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Terry L. Wade
Terry L. Wade Texas A&M University
Laodong Guo
Laodong Guo University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Ethan L. Grossman
Ethan L. Grossman Texas A&M University
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry

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