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  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in United States Leader Award
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  • 2017 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2014 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Peter H. Santschi is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as Oceanography, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, and Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing

Their research output is published frequently in several venues, including:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Chemistry
  • Gels
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Some recent papers by Peter H. Santschi include:

  • Nano- and microplastics trigger secretion of protein-rich extracellular polymeric substances from phytoplankton, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Protein to carbohydrate (P/C) ratio changes in microbial extracellular polymeric substances induced by oil and Corexit, 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and putative PAH-degrading bacteria in Galveston Bay, TX (USA), following Hurricane Harvey (2017), 2020, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • From Nano-Gels to Marine Snow: A Synthesis of Gel Formation Processes and Modeling Efforts Involved with Particle Flux in the Ocean, 2021, Gels
  • Stickiness of extracellular polymeric substances on different surfaces via magnetic tweezers, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent collaborators with multiple joint publications include:

  • Chen Xu
  • Antonietta Quigg
  • Manoj Kamalanathan
  • Peng Lin
  • Wei-Chun Chin

Peter H. Santschi has been recognized by professional societies, having received the Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2017. They were also named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Environmental behavior and ecotoxicity of engineered nanoparticles to algae, plants, and fungi

    Enrique Navarro;Enrique Navarro;Anders Baun;Renata Behra;Nanna B. Hartmann

  • The oceanic gel phase: a bridge in the DOM-POM continuum

    Pedro Verdugo;Alice L. Alldredge;Farooq Azam;David L. Kirchman

  • Chemical processes at the sediment-water interface.

    Peter Santschi;Patrick Höhener;Gaboury Benoit;Marilyn Buchholtz-ten Brink

  • Metals in aquatic systems.

    Bruce D. Honeyman;Peter H. Santschi

  • A Brownian-pumping model for oceanic trace metal scavenging : Evidence from Th isotopes

    B. D. Honeyman;P. H. Santschi

  • The algal toxicity of silver engineered nanoparticles and detoxification by exopolymeric substances

    Ai-Jun Miao;Kathy A. Schwehr;Chen Xu;Sai-Jin Zhang

  • A kinetic approach to describe trace-element distribution between particles and solution in natural aquatic systems

    Urs P Nyffeler;Yuan-Hui Li;Peter H Santschi

  • Partitioning of Cu, Pb, Ag, Zn, Fe, Al, and Mn between filter-retained particles, colloids, and solution in six Texas estuaries

    Benoit G;Oktaymarshall Sd;Cantu A;Hood Em

  • Estuarine trace metal distributions in Galveston Bay: importance of colloidal forms in the speciation of the dissolved phase

    Liang-Saw Wen;Peter Santschi;Gary Gill;Christopher Paternostro

  • Historical contamination of PAHs, PCBs, DDTs, and heavy metals in Mississippi River Delta, Galveston Bay and Tampa Bay sediment cores

    P.H Santschi;B.J Presley;T.L Wade;B Garcia-Romero

  • An assessment of particulate organic carbon to thorium-234 ratios in the ocean and their impact on the application of 234Th as a POC flux proxy

    K.O. Buesseler;C.R. Benitez-Nelson;S.B. Moran;A. Burd

  • Atmospheric depositional fluxes of 7Be and 210Pb at Galveston and College Station, Texas

    M. Baskaran;Charles H. Coleman;Peter H. Santschi

  • Dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in oceanic environments

    Laodong Guo;Peter H. Santschi;Kent W. Warnken

  • The distribution of colloidal and dissolved organic carbon in the Gulf of Mexico

    Laodong Guo;Charlie H Coleman;Peter H Santschi

  • Zinc oxide-engineered nanoparticles: dissolution and toxicity to marine phytoplankton.

    Ai-Jun Miao;Ai-Jun Miao;Xue-Yin Zhang;Zhiping Luo;Chi-Shuo Chen

  • A critical evaluation of the cross-flow ultrafiltration technique for sampling colloidal organic carbon in seawater

    Laodong Guo;Peter H. Santschi

  • The role of particles and colloids in the transport of radionuclides in coastal environments of Texas

    M. Baskaran;P.H. Santschi

  • Heterogeneous processes affecting trace contaminant distribution in estuaries: The role of natural organic matter

    Peter H. Santschi;John J. Lenhart;Bruce D. Honeyman

  • Importance of acid polysaccharides for 234Th complexation to marine organic matter

    Matthew S. Quigley;Peter H. Santschi;Chin-Chang Hung;Laodong Guo

  • History of trace metal pollution in sabine-neches estuary, beaumont, Texas.

    Mahalingam. Ravichandran;Mahalingam. Baskaran;Peter H. Santschi;Thomas S. Bianchi

  • Partition of radiotracers between suspended particles and seawater

    Yuan-Hui Li;Linda Burkhardt;Marilyn Buchholtz;Patricia O'Hara

Frequent Co-Authors

Antonietta Quigg
Antonietta Quigg Texas A&M University at Galveston
Laodong Guo
Laodong Guo University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Chin-Chang Hung
Chin-Chang Hung National Sun Yat-sen University
Daniel I. Kaplan
Daniel I. Kaplan Savannah River National Laboratory
Patrick G. Hatcher
Patrick G. Hatcher Old Dominion University
Yuan-Hui Li
Yuan-Hui Li University of Hawaii at Manoa
Terry L. Wade
Terry L. Wade Texas A&M University
Mark Baskaran
Mark Baskaran Wayne State University
Gary A. Gill
Gary A. Gill Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Thomas S. Bianchi
Thomas S. Bianchi University of New Hampshire

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