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Overview

Mark R. Lomas is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable emphasis on Environmental Engineering and Global and Planetary Change. Their work spans subfields including Geophysics, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomaterials.

The main topics covered in Mark R. Lomas's research include:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

Their recent publications reflect this focus, including:

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands, 2020, Nature
  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Transforming US agriculture for carbon removal with enhanced weathering, 2025, Nature
  • Transforming U.S. agriculture with crushed rock for CO2 sequestration and increased production, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Mark R. Lomas frequently collaborates with several researchers including:

  • David J. Beerling
  • Steven A. Banwart
  • Euripides P. Kantzas
  • Rafael M. Eufrasio
  • Phil Renforth

Their work has been published predominantly in journals such as:

  • Nature
  • Global Change Biology
  • Nature Geoscience
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial Gross Carbon Dioxide Uptake: Global Distribution and Covariation with Climate

    Christian Beer;Markus Reichstein;Enrico Tomelleri;Philippe Ciais

  • Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models

    Wolfgang Cramer;Alberte Bondeau;F. Ian Woodward;I. Colin Prentice

  • Trends in the sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    Corinne Le Quéré;Corinne Le Quéré;Michael R. Raupach;Josep G. Canadell;Gregg Marland

  • Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate‐carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

    Stephan Sitch;C. Huntingford;N. Gedney;P. E. Levy

  • Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

    S. Sitch;P. Friedlingstein;N. Gruber;S. D. Jones

  • Evaluation of terrestrial carbon cycle models for their response to climate variability and to CO2 trends.

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Stephen Sitch;Philippe Ciais;Pierre Friedlingstein

  • The global carbon budget 1959-2011

    C. Le Quere;R.J. Andres;T.A. Boden;T. Conway

  • Carbon residence time dominates uncertainty in terrestrial vegetation responses to future climate and atmospheric CO2

    Andrew D. Friend;Wolfgang Lucht;Wolfgang Lucht;Tim T. Rademacher;Rozenn Keribin

  • Evidence for a weakening relationship between interannual temperature variability and northern vegetation activity

    Shilong Piao;Shilong Piao;Huijuan Nan;Chris Huntingford;Philippe Ciais

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

    David J. Beerling;Euripides P. Kantzas;Mark R. Lomas;Peter Wade

  • Global climate and the distribution of plant biomes.

    F. I. Woodward;M. R. Lomas;C. K. Kelly

  • Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2-induced climate change

    Chris Huntingford;Przemyslaw Zelazowski;David Galbraith;David Galbraith;Lina M. Mercado

  • Vegetation dynamics--simulating responses to climatic change

    F. I. Woodward;M. R. Lomas

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Enhanced weathering strategies for stabilizing climate and averting ocean acidification

    Lyla L. Taylor;Joe Quirk;Rachel M S Thorley;Pushker A. Kharecha;Pushker A. Kharecha

  • FLUXNET and modelling the global carbon cycle

    Andrew D. Friend;Almut Arneth;Nancy Y. Kiang;Mark Lomas

  • The European Space Agency BIOMASS mission: Measuring forest above-ground biomass from space

    Shaun Quegan;Thuy Le Toan;Jerome Chave;Jorgen Dall

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

    Mike E. Kelland;Peter W. Wade;Amy L. Lewis;Lyla L. Taylor

  • On the nature of methane gas-hydrate dissociation during the Toarcian and Aptian Oceanic anoxic events

    David J. Beerling;M. R. Lomas;Darren R. Gröcke

  • Multisectoral climate impact hotspots in a warming world

    Franziska Piontek;Christoph Müller;Thomas A.M. Pugh;Douglas B. Clark

  • Enhanced Weathering Strategies for Stabilizing Climate and Averting Ocean Acidification - Supplementary Information

    Lyla L. Taylor;Joe Quirk;Rachel M. S. Thorley;Pushker A. Kharecha

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Quegan
Shaun Quegan University of Sheffield
Stephen Sitch
Stephen Sitch University of Exeter
Andrew D. Friend
Andrew D. Friend University of Cambridge
Chris Huntingford
Chris Huntingford Natural Environment Research Council
F. I. Woodward
F. I. Woodward University of Sheffield
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
F. Ian Woodward
F. Ian Woodward University of Sheffield
Nicolas Viovy
Nicolas Viovy French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Peter E. Levy
Peter E. Levy University of Edinburgh
Douglas B. Clark
Douglas B. Clark UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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