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97
Citations
35267
World Ranking
159
National Ranking
79

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
  • 2017 - America/New Zealand Soil Science Travel Award, American Society of Agronomy
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Overview

Oliver A. Chadwick is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions across several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Soil Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with notable focus areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, and Clay minerals and soil interactions.

Oliver A. Chadwick's recent papers include:

  • "Quantifying Uncertainties in Sequential Chemical Extraction of Soil Phosphorus Using XANES Spectroscopy," 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • "Lithium isotope behavior in Hawaiian regoliths: Soil-atmosphere-biosphere exchanges," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Understanding soil selenium accumulation and bioavailability through size resolved and elemental characterization of soil extracts," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Rock weathering controls the potential for soil carbon storage at a continental scale," 2021, Biogeochemistry
  • "Cellular and extracellular C contributions to respiration after wetting dry soil," 2020, Biogeochemistry

Frequently cited publication venues include:

  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Geoderma
  • Environmental Science & Technology

Oliver A. Chadwick has collaborated repeatedly with several coauthors, most notably Yongfeng Hu, Mengqiang Zhu, Wenshuai Li, Xiaoming Liu, and Eric Slessarev.

The scientist has received multiple recognitions in their career, including:

  • America/New Zealand Soil Science Travel Award, American Society of Agronomy, 2017
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2011
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2008
  • Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), 2006

Best Publications

  • Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

    Peter M. Vitousek;Stephen Porder;Benjamin Z. Houlton;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover

    Margaret S. Torn;Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Peter M. Vitousek

  • Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development

    O. A. Chadwick;L. A. Derry;P. M. Vitousek;B. J. Huebert

  • Strontium isotopes as tracers of ecosystem processes: theory and methods

    Rosemary C. Capo;Brian W. Stewart;Oliver A. Chadwick;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • Rapid exchange between soil carbon and atmospheric carbon dioxide driven by temperature change

    Susan E. Trumbore;Oliver A. Chadwick;Ronald Amundson

  • Linking litter calcium, earthworms and soil properties: a common garden test with 14 tree species

    Peter B. Reich;Jacek Oleksyn;Jacek Oleksyn;Jerzy Modrzynski;Pawel Mrozinski

  • Predictive soil mapping: A review

    P. Scull;J. Franklin;O. A. Chadwick;D. McArthur

  • Modeling Soil–Landscape and Ecosystem Properties Using Terrain Attributes

    P. E. Gessler;O. A. Chadwick;F. Chamran;L. Althouse

  • Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

    E. W. Slessarev;Y. Lin;N. L. Bingham;J. E. Johnson;J. E. Johnson

  • Impact of desert dust on the biogeochemistry of phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

    Gregory S. Okin;Natalie Mahowald;Oliver A. Chadwick;Paulo Artaxo

  • From a black to a gray box ― a mass balance interpretation of pedogenesis

    Oliver A. Chadwick;George H. Brimhall;David M. Hendricks

  • Biological control of terrestrial silica cycling and export fluxes to watersheds

    Louis A. Derry;Andrew C. Kurtz;Karen Ziegler;Oliver A. Chadwick

  • The chemistry of pedogenic thresholds

    Oliver A. Chadwick;Jon Chorover

  • The impact of climate on the biogeochemical functioning of volcanic soils

    Oliver A Chadwick;Robert T Gavenda;Eugene F Kelly;Karen Ziegler

  • Iron-oxide crystallinity increases during soil redox oscillations

    Aaron Thompson;Oliver A. Chadwick;Denis G. Rancourt;Jon Chorover

  • Understanding ecosystem retrogression

    Duane A. Peltzer;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle;Victoria J. Allison;W. Troy Baisden

  • Refractory element mobility in volcanic soils

    Andrew C. Kurtz;Louis A. Derry;Oliver A. Chadwick;Mary Jo Alfano

  • Deformational Mass Transport and Invasive Processes in Soil Evolution

    George H Brimhall;Oliver A. Chadwick;Chris J. Lewis;William Compston

  • Error in a USGS 30-meter digital elevation model and its impact on terrain modeling

    K.W Holmes;O.A Chadwick;P.C Kyriakidis

  • The effect of plants on mineral weathering

    Eugene F. Kelly;Oliver A. Chadwick;Thomas E. Hilinski

  • A direct link between forest vegetation type and soil organic matter composition

    S.A Quideau;O.A Chadwick;A Benesi;R.C Graham

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Vitousek
Peter M. Vitousek Stanford University
Jon Chorover
Jon Chorover University of Arizona
Ronald Amundson
Ronald Amundson University of California, Berkeley
Louis A. Derry
Louis A. Derry Cornell University
Dar A. Roberts
Dar A. Roberts University of California, Santa Barbara
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Gregory P. Asner
Gregory P. Asner Arizona State University
Eugene F. Kelly
Eugene F. Kelly Colorado State University
Susan E. Trumbore
Susan E. Trumbore Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Jacek Oleksyn
Jacek Oleksyn Polish Academy of Sciences

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