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Nils Moosdorf

Nils Moosdorf

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
8352
World Ranking
5706
National Ranking
411

Overview

Nils Moosdorf is affiliated with Kiel University in Germany and specializes in the fields of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research covers multiple subfields, including geochemistry and petrology, ecology, oceanography, environmental chemistry, and global and planetary change.

Their work focuses primarily on topics such as groundwater and isotope geochemistry, marine and coastal ecosystems, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, hydrology and watershed management studies, coral and marine ecosystems studies, and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics.

Moosdorf has contributed to several frequently cited publications, with notable papers including:

  • Global distribution of carbonate rocks and karst water resources, 2020, Hydrogeology Journal
  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry, 2021, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink, 2023, Nature Climate Change
  • Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba, 2021, Nature Communications

Moosdorf frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field, including Isaac R. Santos, Holly A. Michael, Michael E. Böttcher, Till Oehler, and Jens Hartmann.

The scientist's research has been published in a variety of venues, with recurring appearances in:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Environmental Research Letters
  • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Nature Communications
  • Frontiers in Earth Science

Best Publications

  • The new global lithological map database GLiM: A representation of rock properties at the Earth surface

    Jens Hartmann;Nils Moosdorf

  • Global distribution of carbonate rocks and karst water resources

    Nico Goldscheider;Zhao Chen;Augusto S. Auler;Michel Bakalowicz

  • Global patterns and dynamics of climate-groundwater interactions

    M. O. Cuthbert;M. O. Cuthbert;T. Gleeson;N. Moosdorf;K. M. Befus

  • Submarine groundwater discharge impacts on coastal nutrient biogeochemistry

    Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos;Xiaogang Chen;Alanna L. Lecher;Audrey H. Sawyer

  • The World Karst Aquifer Mapping project: concept, mapping procedure and map of Europe

    Zhao Chen;Augusto S. Auler;Michel Bakalowicz;David Drew

  • Mapping permeability over the surface of the Earth

    Tom Gleeson;Leslie Smith;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann

  • Global chemical weathering and associated p-release - the role of lithology, temperature and soil properties

    Jens Hartmann;Nils Moosdorf;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Matthias Hinderer

  • A glimpse beneath earth's surface: GLobal HYdrogeology MaPS (GLHYMPS) of permeability and porosity

    Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann;L. P. H. van Beek

  • Fresh groundwater discharge insignificant for the world's oceans but important for coastal ecosystems.

    Elco Luijendijk;Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf

  • A global-scale two-layer transient groundwater model : Development and application to groundwater depletion

    Inge E.M. de Graaf;Inge E.M. de Graaf;Rens L.P.H. van Beek;Tom Gleeson;Nils Moosdorf

  • Submarine groundwater discharge: updates on its measurement techniques, geophysical drivers, magnitudes, and effects

    Makoto Taniguchi;Henrietta Dulai;Kimberly M. Burnett;Isaac R. Santos;Isaac R. Santos

  • Coastal vegetation and estuaries are collectively a greenhouse gas sink

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  • A Brief Overview of the GLObal RIver Chemistry Database, GLORICH

    Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Nils Moosdorf

  • Carbon Dioxide Efficiency of Terrestrial Enhanced Weathering

    Nils Moosdorf;Philip Renforth;Jens Hartmann

  • Glacial weathering, sulfide oxidation, and global carbon cycle feedbacks

    Mark A. Torres;Mark A. Torres;Mark A. Torres;Nils Moosdorf;Nils Moosdorf;Jens Hartmann;Jess F. Adkins

  • Radium tracing nutrient inputs through submarine groundwater discharge in the global ocean.

    Hyung-Mi Cho;Guebuem Kim;Eun Young Kwon;Nils Moosdorf

  • A New Map of Global Ecological Land Units - An Ecophysiographic Stratification Approach

    Roger Sayre;Jack Dangermond;Charlie Frye;Randy Vaughan

  • Societal use of fresh submarine groundwater discharge: An overlooked water resource

    N. Moosdorf;T. Oehler

  • Submarine groundwater discharge from tropical islands: a review

    Nils Moosdorf;Thomas Stieglitz;Hannelore Waska;Hans H. Dürr

  • Groundwater discharge impacts marine isotope budgets of Li, Mg, Ca, Sr, and Ba.

    Kimberley K. Mayfield;Anton Eisenhauer;Danielle P. Santiago Ramos;John A. Higgins

  • Chemical weathering rates of silicate-dominated lithological classes and associated liberation rates of phosphorus on the Japanese Archipelago—Implications for global scale analysis

    Jens Hartmann;Nils Moosdorf

  • A geostatistical framework for predicting variations in strontium concentrations and isotope ratios in Alaskan rivers

    Clément P. Bataille;Sean R. Brennan;Jens Hartmann;Nils Moosdorf

Frequent Co-Authors

Jens Hartmann
Jens Hartmann Universität Hamburg
Ronny Lauerwald
Ronny Lauerwald University of Paris-Saclay
Isaac R. Santos
Isaac R. Santos University of Gothenburg
Tom Gleeson
Tom Gleeson University of Victoria
Hans H. Dürr
Hans H. Dürr Ruhr University Bochum
Thomas Pichler
Thomas Pichler University of Bremen
Michael E. Böttcher
Michael E. Böttcher Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Stephan Kempe
Stephan Kempe Technical University of Darmstadt
Ying Fan
Ying Fan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Steven E. Ingebritsen
Steven E. Ingebritsen United States Geological Survey

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