2026 Markus Huettel: 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	66	1325	1176	595	514	128	15043

Overview

Markus Huettel is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields including Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Pollution, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics covered by their work involve Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Microbial Bioremediation and Biosurfactants, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Huettel has coauthored multiple publications with several frequent collaborators, including Peter Berg, Joel E. Kostka, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Smruthi Karthikeyan, and Janet K. Hatt.

Their recent published papers include:

"Aquatic Eddy Covariance: The Method and Its Contributions to Defining Oxygen and Carbon Fluxes in Marine Environments", 2021, Annual Review of Marine Science
"Oil pollution of beaches", 2022, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering
"Genome repository of oil systems: An interactive and searchable database that expands the catalogued diversity of crude oil-associated microbes", 2020, Environmental Microbiology
"Ten years of modeling the Deepwater Horizon oil spill", 2021, Environmental Modelling & Software
"A case for addressing the unresolved role of permeable shelf sediments in ocean denitrification", 2021, Limnology and Oceanography Letters

Their work is frequently published in venues such as Limnology and Oceanography Letters, Biogeosciences, Annual Review of Marine Science, Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering, and Environmental Microbiology.

Best Publications

Groundwater and pore water inputs to the coastal zone

William C. Burnett;Henry Bokuniewicz;Markus Huettel;Willard S. Moore

1228
Citations
Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacteria and the Bacterial Community Response in Gulf of Mexico Beach Sands Impacted by the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Joel E. Kostka;Om Prakash;Will A. Overholt;Stefan J. Green;Stefan J. Green

1009
Citations
Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem

Christian Wild;Markus Huettel;Anke Klueter;Stephan G. Kremb

742
Citations
The driving forces of porewater and groundwater flow in permeable coastal sediments: a review

Isaac R. Santos;Bradley D. Eyre;Markus Huettel

675
Citations
Flow-induced uptake of particulate matter in permeable sediments

Markus Huettel;Wiebke Ziebis;Stefan Forster

588
Citations
Advective Transport Affecting Metal and Nutrient Distributions and Interfacial Fluxes in Permeable Sediments

Markus Huettel;Wiebke Ziebis;S. Forster;G.W. Luther

479
Citations
Transport and degradation of phytoplankton in permeable sediment

Markus Huettel;Antje Rusch

418
Citations
Benthic Exchange and Biogeochemical Cycling in Permeable Sediments

Markus Huettel;Peter Berg;Joel E. Kostka

406
Citations
Complex burrows of the mud shrimp Callianassa truncata and their geochemical impact in the sea bed

Wiebke Ziebis;S Forster;Markus Huettel;Bo Barker Jørgensen

383
Citations
Impact of bioroughness on interfacia solute exchange in permeable sediments

Markus Huettel;G. Gust

359
Citations
Oxygen uptake by aquatic sediments measured with a novel non-invasive eddy-correlation technique

Peter Berg;Hans Røy;Felix Janssen;Volker Meyer

353
Citations
Oxygen dynamics in permeable sediments with wave-driven pore water exchange

Elimar Precht;Ulrich Franke;Lubos Polerecky;Markus Huettel

291
Citations
Hydrodynamical impact on biogeochemical processes in aquatic sediments

Markus Huettel;Hans Røy;Elimar Precht;Sandra Ehrenhauss

268
Citations
Advective pore‐water exchange driven by surface gravity waves and its ecological implications

Elimar Precht;Markus Huettel

261
Citations
Permeable marine sediments: Overturning an old paradigm

Bernard P. Boudreau;Markus Huettel;Stefan Forster;Richard A. Jahnke

245
Citations
Transport and mineralization rates in North Sea sandy intertidal sediments, Sylt-Rømø Basin, Wadden Sea

Dirk de Beer;Frank Wenzhöfer;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Susan E. Boehme

245
Citations
Impact of biogenic sediment topography on oxygen fluxes in permeable seabeds

Wiebke Ziebis;Markus Huettel;Stefan Forster

209
Citations
Pore-water advection and solute fluxes in permeable marine sediments (II): Benthic respiration at three sandy sites with different permeabilities (German Bight, North Sea)

F. Janssen;M. Huettel;Ursula Felicitas Marianne Witte

206
Citations
Degradation and mineralization of coral mucus in reef environments

Christian Wild;Mohammed Rasheed;Ursula Werner;Ulrich Franke

205
Citations
Porewater flow in permeable sediment

Markus Huettel;I. T. Webster

202
Citations
Rapid wave-driven advective pore water exchange in a permeable coastal sediment

Elimar Precht;Markus Huettel

179
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel E. Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology

Perran L. M. Cook Monash University

Christian Wild University of Bremen

Ronnie N. Glud University of Southern Denmark

Hans Røy Aarhus University

Jack J. Middelburg Utrecht University

Frank Wenzhöfer Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology

Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University

Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis Georgia Institute of Technology

Clare E. Reimers Oregon State University

External Links

Personal website of Markus Huettel

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