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2025

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Earth Science

D-Index
68
Citations
16160
World Ranking
1147
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Peter Croot is affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Galway in Ireland. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Artificial Intelligence, Pollution, Environmental Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics including Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Heavy metals in environment, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, Soil Geostatistics and Mapping, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Groundwater flow and contamination studies.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Peter Croot include:

  • Haofan Xu
  • Chaosheng Zhang
  • Anne E. Carey
  • Tiernan Henry
  • Hailong Wang

Peter Croot's research has been published in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Environmental Pollution
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Science Advances
  • Environment International
  • Journal of Food Science

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Croot include:

  • Changing atmospheric acidity as a modulator of nutrient deposition and ocean biogeochemistry, 2021, Science Advances
  • Discovering hidden spatial patterns and their associations with controlling factors for potentially toxic elements in topsoil using hot spot analysis and K-means clustering analysis, 2021, Environment International
  • Research is needed to inform environmental management of hydrothermally inactive and extinct polymetallic sulfide (PMS) deposits, 2020, Marine Policy
  • A survey of arsenic, mercury, cadmium, and lead residues in seafood (fish, crustaceans, and cephalopods) from the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, 2021, Journal of Food Science
  • A First Global Oceanic Compilation of Observational Dissolved Aluminum Data With Regional Statistical Data Treatment, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • A mesoscale phytoplankton bloom in the polar Southern Ocean stimulated by iron fertilization

    Philip W. Boyd;Andrew J. Watson;Cliff S. Law;Edward R. Abraham

  • Synthesis of iron fertilization experiments: From the iron age in the age of enlightenment

    Hein J.W. de Baar;Philip W. Boyd;Kenneth H. Coale;Michael R. Landry

  • Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom

    Victor Smetacek;Victor Smetacek;Christine Klaas;Volker H. Strass;Philipp Assmy;Philipp Assmy

  • Atmospheric and marine controls on aerosol iron solubility in seawater

    A. R. Baker;Peter Croot

  • Maritime Aerosol Network as a component of Aerosol Robotic Network

    A. Smirnov;B. N. Holben;I. Slutsker;D. M. Giles

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Determination of Iron Speciation by Cathodic Stripping Voltammetry in Seawater Using the Competing Ligand 2-(2-Thiazolylazo)-p-cresol (TAC)

    P. L. Croot;M. Johansson

  • FeCycle: Attempting an iron biogeochemical budget from a mesoscale SF6 tracer experiment in unperturbed low iron waters

    P W Boyd;Cliff S Law;D A Hutchins;E R Abraham

  • Subduction zone volcanic ash can fertilize the surface ocean and stimulate phytoplankton growth: Evidence from biogeochemical experiments and satellite data

    Svend Duggen;Svend Duggen;Peter Croot;Ulrike Schacht;Linn Hoffmann

  • Cu speciation and cyanobacterial distribution in harbors subject to anthropogenic Cu inputs

    James W. Moffett;Larry E. Brand;Peter L. Croot;Katherine A. Barbeau

  • Organic complexation of iron in the Southern Ocean

    Marie Boye;Constant M.G. van den Berg;Jeroen T.M. de Jong;Harry Leach

  • The role of airborne volcanic ash for the surface ocean biogeochemical iron-cycle: a review

    Svend Duggen;Nazli Olgun;Peter Croot;Linn J. Hoffmann;Linn J. Hoffmann

  • Role of protozoan grazing in relieving iron limitation of phytoplankton

    Katherine Barbeau;James W. Moffett;David A. Caron;Peter L. Croot

  • Production of extracellular Cu complexing ligands by eucaryotic phytoplankton in response to Cu stress

    Peter L. Croot;James W. Moffett;Larry E. Brand

  • Atmospheric iron deposition and sea-surface dissolved iron concentrations in the eastern Atlantic Ocean

    Géraldine Sarthou;Alex R. Baker;Stéphane Blain;Eric P. Achterberg

  • Sampling and Sample-handling Protocols for GEOTRACES Cruises

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

  • Perception of environmental signals by a marine diatom.

    Angela Falciatore;Maurizio Ribera d'Alcalà;Peter Croot;Chris Bowler

  • Frequency of Microplastics in Mesopelagic Fishes from the Northwest Atlantic

    Alina M. Wieczorek;Liam Morrison;Peter L. Croot;A. Louise Allcock

  • The fate of added iron during a mesoscale fertilisation experiment in the Southern Ocean

    Andrew R Bowie;Andrew R Bowie;Maria T Maldonado;Russell D Frew;Peter L Croot

  • Natural iron fertilization of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean by continental shelf sources of the Antarctic Peninsula

    Jeroen De Jong;Véronique Schoemann;Delphine Lannuzel;Delphine Lannuzel;Delphine Lannuzel;Peter Croot;Peter Croot

  • The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: Present Knowledge and Future Challenges

    M. Vernet;Walter Geibert;Mario Hoppema;P.J. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew R. Bowie
Andrew R. Bowie University of Tasmania
Hein J W de Baar
Hein J W de Baar University of Groningen
Philip W. Boyd
Philip W. Boyd University of Tasmania
Eric P. Achterberg
Eric P. Achterberg GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Russell D. Frew
Russell D. Frew University of Otago
Julie LaRoche
Julie LaRoche Dalhousie University
Alex R. Baker
Alex R. Baker University of East Anglia
Klaas R. Timmermans
Klaas R. Timmermans Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Ilka Peeken
Ilka Peeken Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research

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