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Patrice de Caritat

Patrice de Caritat

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
7977
World Ranking
4910
National Ranking
247

Overview

Patrice de Caritat is affiliated with Geoscience Australia and contributes extensively to research in environmental science and computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and ecology. Their work integrates various disciplines including global and planetary change, geophysics, and geochemistry and petrology.

The primary topics of their research encompass:

  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Among the notable recent publications by Patrice de Caritat are:

  • The National Geochemical Survey of Australia: review and impact, 2022, published in Geochemistry Exploration Environment Analysis
  • A strontium isoscape of inland southeastern Australia, 2022, published in Earth system science data

Additional significant recent papers to note in related collaborations include:

  • Stochastic Modelling of Mineral Exploration Targets, 2022, Mathematical Geosciences
  • Drivers and human impacts on topsoil bacterial and fungal community biogeography across Australia, 2024, Global Change Biology
  • The utility of dust for forensic intelligence: Exploring collection methods and detection limits for environmental DNA, elemental and mineralogical analyses of dust samples, 2023, Forensic Science International

Patrice de Caritat frequently publishes in venues such as:

  • Earth system science data
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Exploration Environment Analysis
  • Global Change Biology
  • Forensic Science International

Collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with:

  • Jurian Hoogewerff
  • Anthony Dosseto
  • Budiman Minasny
  • Alex B. McBratney
  • Michael G. Aberle

Best Publications

  • Distinguishing between natural and anthropogenic sources for elements in the environment: regional geochemical surveys versus enrichment factors

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice de Caritat

  • Intrinsic flaws of element enrichment factors (EFs) in environmental geochemistry

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice De Caritat

  • Chemical elements in the environment

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice de Caritat

  • Chlorite geothermometry; a review

    Patrice de Caritat;Ian Hutcheon;John L. Walshe

  • Safe storage and effective monitoring of CO2 in depleted gas fields

    Charles R. Jenkins;Peter J. Cook;Jonathan Ennis-King;James Undershultz

  • GEMAS: Establishing geochemical background and threshold for 53 chemical elements in European agricultural soil

    Clemens Reimann;Karl Fabian;Manfred Birke;Peter Filzmoser

  • Establishing geochemical background variation and threshold values for 59 elements in Australian surface soil

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice de Caritat;Patrice de Caritat

  • Silica activity and the smectite-illite reaction

    Hugh J. Abercrombie;Ian E. Hutcheon;John D. Bloch;Patrice de Caritat

  • Mapping iron oxides and the color of Australian soil using visible–near‐infrared reflectance spectra

    R. A. Viscarra Rossel;E. N. Bui;P. de Caritat;N. J. McKenzie

  • State-of-the-art analysis of geochemical data for mineral exploration

    E. C. Grunsky;E. C. Grunsky;P. de Caritat;P. de Caritat

  • Rainwater composition in eight arctic catchments in northern Europe (Finland, Norway and Russia)

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice De Caritat;Jo H. Halleraker;Tore Volden

  • New soil composition data for Europe and Australia: Demonstrating comparability, identifying continental-scale processes and learning lessons for global geochemical mapping

    Clemens Reimann;Patrice de Caritat

  • Multi-element, multi-medium regional geochemistry in the European Arctic: element concentration, variation and correlation

    Clemens Reimann;Galina Kashulina;Patrice de Caritat;Heikki Niskavaara

  • The pH of Australian soils: field results from a national survey

    Patrice de Caritat;Michelle Cooper;John Wilford

  • Groundwater in the Broken Hill region, Australia: recognising interaction with bedrock and mineralisation using S, Sr and Pb isotopes

    Patrice de Caritat;Dirk Kirste;Graham Carr;Malcolm McCulloch

  • Reliability of moss (Hylocomium splendens and Pleurozium schreberi) as a bioindicator of atmospheric chemistry in the Barents region: Interspecies and field duplicate variability

    J.H Halleraker;C Reimann;P de Caritat;T.E Finne

  • On the soil information content of visible–near infrared reflectance spectra

    R. A. Viscarra Rossel;A. Chappell;P. De Caritat;N. J. McKenzie

  • Chemical composition of arctic snow: concentration levels and regional distribution of major elements

    Patrice de Caritat;Gwendy Hall;Sigurdur Gı̀slason;William Belsey

  • Defining element associations and inferring geological processes from total element concentrations in Australian catchment outlet sediments: Multivariate analysis of continental-scale geochemical data

    Patrice de Caritat;Eric C. Grunsky

  • Regional distribution of Al, B, Ba, Ca, K, La, Mg, Mn, Na, P, Rb, Si, Sr, Th, U and Y in terrestrial moss within a 188,000 km2 area of the central Barents region : influence of geology, seaspray and human activity

    Patrice de Caritat;Clemens Reimann;Igor Bogatyrev;Viktor Chekushin

  • Topsoil (0-5 cm) composition in eight arctic catchments in northern Europe (Finland, Norway and Russia).

    Clemens Reimann;Rognvald Boyd;Patrice de Caritat;Jo H. Halleraker

Frequent Co-Authors

Clemens Reimann
Clemens Reimann Norwegian Geological Survey
Ian Hutcheon
Ian Hutcheon University of Calgary
Karl Fabian
Karl Fabian Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jean Braun
Jean Braun University of Potsdam
Manfred Birke
Manfred Birke Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
David Etheridge
David Etheridge Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jörg Matschullat
Jörg Matschullat TU Bergakademie Freiberg
Jason K. Kirby
Jason K. Kirby Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gwendy E.M. Hall
Gwendy E.M. Hall Geological Survey of Canada

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