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Per Andersson is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing primarily on the study of methane hydrates, climate change, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Their work is predominantly situated within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Subfields of study include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry and Petrology, Geology, and Mechanics of Materials.

Key research topics covered by Per Andersson encompass:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis

They have published in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions appearing in:

  • Chemical Geology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Per Andersson include:

  • "The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean" (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • "On the discovery of ferromanganese nodules in the World Ocean" (2021), Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers
  • "Mineral and isotopic (Nd, Sr) signature of fine-grained deglacial and Holocene sediments from the Mackenzie Trough, Arctic Canada" (2022), Arctic Antarctic and Alpine Research
  • "Assessing the utility of barium isotopes to trace Eurasian riverine freshwater inputs to the Arctic Ocean" (2021), Marine Chemistry
  • "Iron isotopes reveal seasonal variations in the mechanisms for iron-bearing particle and colloid formation in the Lena River catchment, NE Siberia" (2023), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Per Andersson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Don Porcelli
  • Catherine Hirst
  • Carl-Magnus Mörth
  • Melissa J. Murphy
  • Liselott Kutscher

Best Publications

  • Continentally-derived solutes in shallow Archean seawater: Rare earth element and Nd isotope evidence in iron formation from the 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa

    Brian W. Alexander;Michael Bau;Per Andersson;Peter Dulski

  • Temporal variations in the fractionation of the rare earth elements in a boreal river; the role of colloidal particles.

    Johan Ingri;Anders Widerlund;Magnus Land;Örjan Gustafsson

  • GEOTRACES – An international study of the global marine biogeochemical cycles of trace elements and their isotopes

    G.M. Henderson;R.F. Anderson;J. Adkins;P. Andersson

  • Characterization of Siberian Arctic coastal sediments: Implications for terrestrial organic carbon export

    Laodong Guo;Igor Semiletov;Igor Semiletov;Örjan Gustafsson;Johan Ingri

  • Sampling and Sample-handling Protocols for GEOTRACES Cruises

    G. Cutter;P. Andersson;Lou Codispoti;P. Croot

  • The sources and transport of Sr and Nd isotopes in the Baltic Sea

    Per S. Andersson;G.J. Wasserburg;Johan Ingri

  • The importance of colloids and mires for the transport of uranium isotopes through the Kalix River watershed and Baltic Sea

    D. Porcelli;P. S. Andersson;G. J. Wasserburg;Johan Ingri

  • Colloidal rare earth elements in a boreal river : changing sources and distributions during the spring flood

    Karen Andersson;Ralf Dahlqvist;Ralf Dahlqvist;David Turner;Björn Stolpe

  • Aeolian dust in East Antarctica (EPICA‐Dome C and Vostok): Provenance during glacial ages over the last 800 kyr

    Barbara Delmonte;Per Andersson;Margareta Hansson;Hans Schöberg

  • Ba/Sr, Ca/Sr and 87Sr/86Sr ratios in soil water and groundwater: implications for relative contributions to stream water discharge

    Magnus Land;Johan Ingri;Per S Andersson;Björn Öhlander

  • Nonconservative behavior of dissolved organic carbon across the Laptev and East Siberian seas

    Vanja Alling;Laura Sanchez-Garcia;Don Porcelli;Sveta Pugach

  • Thallium isotope composition of the upper continental crust and rivers—An investigation of the continental sources of dissolved marine thallium

    Sune G. Nielsen;Mark Rehkämper;Don Porcelli;Per Andersson

  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;Lauren E. Kipp;Lauren E. Kipp;Laramie T. Jensen;Jessica S. Dabrowski

  • Iron isotope fractionation in river colloidal matter

    Johan Ingri;Dmitry Malinovsky;Ilia Rodushkin;Douglas C. Baxter

  • 238U234U and232Th230Th in the Baltic Sea and in river water

    Per S. Andersson;Per S. Andersson;G.J. Wasserburg;J.H. Chen;D.A. Papanastassiou

  • Geographic provenance of aeolian dust in East Antarctica during Pleistocene glaciations: preliminary results from Talos Dome and comparison with East Antarctic and new Andean ice core data

    B. Delmonte;P. S. Andersson;H. Schöberg;M. Hansson

  • Direct compound-specific stable chlorine isotope analysis of organic compounds with quadrupole GC/MS using standard isotope bracketing.

    Christoph Aeppli;Henry Holmstrand;Per Andersson;Örjan Gustafsson

  • Colloid dynamics and transport of major elements through a boreal river — brackish bay mixing zone

    Örjan Gustafsson;Örjan Gustafsson;Anders Widerlund;Per S Andersson;Johan Ingri;Johan Ingri

  • Particle Transport of 234U-238U in the Kalix River and in the Baltic Sea

    P. S. Andersson;D. Porcelli;G. J. Wasserburg;Johan Ingri

  • Quantification of sedimentary black carbon using the chemothermal oxidation method: an evaluation of ex situ pretreatments and standard additions approaches

    Marie Elmquist;Örjan Gustafsson;Per Andersson

  • GEOTRACES intercalibration of neodymium isotopes and rare earth element concentrations in seawater and suspended particles. Part 1: reproducibility of results for the international intercomparison

    Tina van de Flierdt;Katharina Pahnke;Katharina Pahnke;Hiroshi Amakawa;Hiroshi Amakawa;Per Andersson

Frequent Co-Authors

Johan Ingri
Johan Ingri Luleå University of Technology
Örjan Gustafsson
Örjan Gustafsson Stockholm University
Don Porcelli
Don Porcelli University of Oxford
Carl-Magnus Mörth
Carl-Magnus Mörth Stockholm University
Barbara Delmonte
Barbara Delmonte University of Milano-Bicocca
G. J. Wasserburg
G. J. Wasserburg California Institute of Technology
Igor Semiletov
Igor Semiletov Russian Academy of Sciences
Christoph Humborg
Christoph Humborg Stockholm University
Trofim C. Maximov
Trofim C. Maximov Russian Academy of Sciences
Jordi Garcia-Orellana
Jordi Garcia-Orellana Autonomous University of Barcelona

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