2026 Naomi E. Levin: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	37	8793	8435	3144	2922	113	7269

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America
2011 - Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award, The Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America
Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

Naomi E. Levin is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to related subfields including Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, Paleontology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, as well as Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies.

Among recent publications are:

Triple oxygen isotopes in the water cycle (2020), Chemical Geology
Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution (2020), Science Advances
Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia (2020), Science Advances
Triple Oxygen Isotopes in Meteoric Waters, Carbonates, and Biological Apatites: Implications for Continental Paleoclimate Reconstruction (2021), Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
A framework for triple oxygen isotopes in speleothem paleoclimatology (2021), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated repeatedly include Benjamin H. Passey, Emily J. Beverly, Phoebe Aron, Tyler E. Huth, and Jay Quade.

Their publications are commonly found in venues such as Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Chemical Geology, Science Advances, and Earth and Planetary Science Letters.

Naomi E. Levin has been recognized with a number of awards including the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2013, the Doris M. Curtis Outstanding Woman in Science Award from The Geological Society of America in 2011, and is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.

Best Publications

Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years

Thure E. Cerling;Jonathan G. Wynn;Samuel A. Andanje;Michael I. Bird

594
Citations
High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

Benjamin H. Passey;Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Thure E. Cerling;Francis H. Brown

494
Citations
A stable isotope aridity index for terrestrial environments.

Naomi E. Levin;Thure E. Cerling;Benjamin H. Passey;John M. Harris

487
Citations
Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya

David R. Braun;John W. K. Harris;Naomi E. Levin;Jack T. McCoy

373
Citations
A Female Homo erectus Pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia

Scott W. Simpson;Jay Quade;Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Robert Butler

339
Citations
A new hominin foot from Ethiopia shows multiple Pliocene bipedal adaptations

Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Beverly Z. Saylor;Alan Deino;Naomi E. Levin

245
Citations
Raw material selectivity of the earliest stone toolmakers at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

Dietrich Stout;Jay Quade;Sileshi Semaw;Michael J. Rogers

243
Citations
Dietary changes of large herbivores in the Turkana Basin, Kenya from 4 to 1 Ma

Thure E. Cerling;Samuel A. Andanje;Scott A. Blumenthal;Francis H. Brown

237
Citations
Isotopic evidence for Plio-Pleistocene environmental change at Gona, Ethiopia

Naomi E. Levin;Jay Quade;Scott W. Simpson;Sileshi Semaw

232
Citations
Isotopic composition of waters from Ethiopia and Kenya: Insights into moisture sources for eastern Africa

Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Edward J. Zipser;Thure E. Cerling

218
Citations
Paleosol carbonates from the omo group: Isotopic records of local and regional environmental change in east africa

Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Francis H. Brown;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;René Bobe

208
Citations
Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

Sarah J. Feakins;Naomi E. Levin;Hannah M. Liddy;Alexa Sieracki

196
Citations
Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;J. Tyler Faith;Christian A. Tryon

187
Citations
Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia

Sileshi Semaw;Scott W. Simpson;Scott W. Simpson;Jay Quade;Paul R. Renne;Paul R. Renne

187
Citations
Environment and Climate of Early Human Evolution

Naomi E. Levin

179
Citations
Paleoenvironments of the earliest stone toolmakers, Gona, Ethiopia

Jay Quade;Naomi Levin;Sileshi Semaw;Dietrich Stout

178
Citations
New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity

Yohannes Haile-Selassie;Luis Gibert;Stephanie M. Melillo;Timothy M. Ryan

170
Citations
Aridity and hominin environments

Scott A. Blumenthal;Naomi E. Levin;Francis H. Brown;Jean-Philip Brugal

170
Citations
Stable isotope ecology of the common hippopotamus

T. E. Cerling;J. M. Harris;J. A. Hart;P. Kaleme

159
Citations
Measurement of δ18O, δ17O, and 17O-excess in Water by Off-Axis Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy and Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry

Elena S. F. Berman;Naomi E. Levin;Amaelle Landais;Shuning Li

152
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Quade University of Arizona

Benjamin H. Passey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Thure E. Cerling University of Utah

David R. Braun George Washington University

William C. McIntosh New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center

Francis H. Brown University of Utah

Nelia W. Dunbar New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide

Mathieu Duval National Research Center on Human Evolution

External Links

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