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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
64
Citations
12393
World Ranking
2372
National Ranking
952

Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
11957
World Ranking
8193
National Ranking
2364

Mae Sexauer Gustin publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mae Sexauer Gustin sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 239 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Mae Sexauer Gustin D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mae Sexauer Gustin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Mae Sexauer Gustin is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States and specializes in environmental science. Their research primarily focuses on mercury impact and mitigation studies, a topic covered in 60 of their publications. Other areas of interest include toxic organic pollutants impact, air quality and health impacts, atmospheric chemistry and aerosols, heavy metals in the environment, heavy metal exposure and toxicity, and tree-ring climate responses.

Their work is published in several scientific journals, with frequent contributions to The Science of The Total Environment and Environmental Science & Technology. Additional venues where they have published include Atmospheric Environment, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, and Environmental Pollution.

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Environmental Science & Technology
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Environmental Pollution

Mae Sexauer Gustin has collaborated with multiple researchers, notably with Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham, Seth N. Lyman, Lei Zhang, Nicole Choma, and Jiaoyan Huang.

  • Sarrah M. Dunham-Cheatham
  • Seth N. Lyman
  • Lei Zhang
  • Nicole Choma
  • Jiaoyan Huang

The recent papers authored by Mae Sexauer Gustin demonstrate active engagement with mercury research and its atmospheric behavior. Selected publications include:

  • "Mercury biogeochemical cycling: A synthesis of recent scientific advances," 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Development of an Understanding of Reactive Mercury in Ambient Air: A Review," 2021, Atmosphere
  • "Use of Membranes and Detailed HYSPLIT Analyses to Understand Atmospheric Particulate, Gaseous Oxidized, and Reactive Mercury Chemistry," 2021, Environmental Science & Technology

Other relevant papers coauthored by related collaborators include "Improvements to the Accuracy of Atmospheric Oxidized Mercury Measurements," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology, and "Comparison and calibration of methods for ambient reactive mercury quantification," 2022, The Science of The Total Environment.

Mae Sexauer Gustin's research contributions largely lie within the subfields of health, toxicology and mutagenesis, atmospheric science, pollution, analytical chemistry, and global and planetary change. Their most prolific subfield is health, toxicology and mutagenesis, followed by atmospheric science.

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Pollution
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Global and Planetary Change

Best Publications

  • Gas-particle partitioning of atmospheric Hg(II) and its effect on global mercury deposition

    Helen Marie Amos;Daniel J. Jacob;C. D. Holmes;Jenny Allison Fisher

  • Accumulation of atmospheric mercury in forest foliage

    J.A. Ericksen;M.S. Gustin;D.E. Schorran;D.W. Johnson

  • An update on the natural sources and sinks of atmospheric mercury

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Steven E. Lindberg;Peter J. Weisberg

  • Investigation of the light-enhanced emission of mercury from naturally enriched substrates

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Harald Biester;Christopher S Kim

  • Measuring and modeling mercury in the atmosphere: a critical review

    Mae S. Gustin;H. M. Amos;Jiaoyan Huang;Matthieu B. Miller

  • Are mercury emissions from geologic sources significant? A status report.

    Mae Sexauer Gustin

  • Nevada STORMS project: Measurement of mercury emissions from naturally enriched surfaces

    M. Sexauer Gustin;S. Lindberg;F. Marsik;A. Casimir

  • Nonstomatal versus Stomatal Uptake of Atmospheric Mercury

    Jelena Stamenkovic;Mae S. Gustin

  • Assessing the contribution of natural sources to regional atmospheric mercury budgets

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Steven E Lindberg;Kenneth Austin;Mark Coolbaugh

  • Do we understand what the mercury speciation instruments are actually measuring? Results of RAMIX.

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;Jiaoyan Huang;Matthieu B. Miller;Christianna Peterson

  • Quantifying natural source mercury emissions from the Ivanhoe Mining District, north-central Nevada, USA

    Mark A. Engle;Mae Sexauer Gustin;Hong Zhang

  • Foliar exchange of mercury as a function of soil and air mercury concentrations.

    J.A. Ericksen;M.S. Gustin

  • Foliar mercury accumulation and exchange for three tree species.

    Allison G. Millhollen;Mae S. Gustin;Daniel Obrist

  • Release of mercury halides from KCl denuders in the presence of ozone

    Seth N. Lyman;Daniel A. Jaffe;Mae S. Gustin

  • Increases in mercury emissions from desert soils in response to rainfall and irrigation

    S. E. Lindberg;H. Zhang;M. Gustin;A. Vette

  • Air–soil exchange of mercury from background soils in the United States

    J.A. Ericksen;M.S. Gustin;M. Xin;P.J. Weisberg

  • Estimation of Dry Deposition of Atmospheric Mercury in Nevada by Direct and Indirect Methods

    Seth N Lyman;Mae Sexauer Gustin;Eric M Prestbo;Frank J Marsik

  • Trends in mercury wet deposition and mercury air concentrations across the U.S. and Canada.

    Peter S. Weiss-Penzias;Mark E. Brigham;Matthew T. Parsons

  • Dynamic flux chamber measurement of gaseous mercury emission fluxes over soils. Part 1: simulation of gaseous mercury emissions from soils using a two-resistance exchange interface model

    Hong Zhang;Hong Zhang;Steve E Lindberg;Mark O Barnett;Alan F Vette

  • Effect of temperature and air movement on the flux of elemental mercury from substrate to the atmosphere

    Mae Sexauer Gustin;George E. Taylor;Rachel A. Maxey

  • Assessing the contribution of natural sources to regional atmospheric mercury budgets

    M. S. Gustin;S. E. Lindberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Steve E. Lindberg
Steve E. Lindberg Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel A. Jaffe
Daniel A. Jaffe University of Washington
Mark A. Engle
Mark A. Engle The University of Texas at El Paso
Daniel Obrist
Daniel Obrist University of Massachusetts Lowell
Dale W. Johnson
Dale W. Johnson University of Nevada Reno
Peter J. Weisberg
Peter J. Weisberg University of Nevada Reno
Che-Jen Lin
Che-Jen Lin Lamar University
David P. Krabbenhoft
David P. Krabbenhoft United States Geological Survey
Eric S. Edgerton
Eric S. Edgerton Durham University

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