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Richard D. Pancost is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a primary focus on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work is further specialized in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Mechanics of Materials.

The scientist's research topics encompass various areas of geology, paleoclimatology, and microbial ecology. Key topics covered include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics

Richard D. Pancost has published extensively in several scientific venues. Their frequent publication outlets include:

  • 30th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG 2021)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Climate of the Past
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Collaborations form an important aspect of their research, with frequent coauthors including:

  • B. David A. Naafs
  • Jerome Blewett
  • Shucheng Xie
  • Angela Gallego-Sala
  • Claudia Sosa-Montes de

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Richard D. Pancost illustrate their focus on paleoclimate and microbial impacts within sedimentary environments. Notable publications include:

  • Global mean surface temperature and climate sensitivity of the early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), and latest Paleocene, 2020, Climate of the Past
  • Proxy evidence for state-dependence of climate sensitivity in the Eocene greenhouse, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The production of diverse brGDGTs by an Acidobacterium providing a physiological basis for paleoclimate proxies, 2022, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Variations in dissolved O2 in a Chinese lake drive changes in microbial communities and impact sedimentary GDGT distributions, 2021, Chemical Geology
  • Eocene to Oligocene terrestrial Southern Hemisphere cooling caused by declining pCO2, 2021, Nature Geoscience

Best Publications

  • Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

    Sandra Arndt;Sandra Arndt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;Douglas E. LaRowe;Jack Middelburg

  • Alkenone and boron based Pliocene pCO2 records

    Osamu Seki;Osamu Seki;Gavin L. Foster;Daniela N. Schmidt;Andreas Mackensen

  • Membrane lipids of mesophilic anaerobic bacteria thriving in peats have typical archaeal traits

    Johan W. H. Weijers;Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Jan A. J. Geenevasen

  • Analysis of intact tetraether lipids in archaeal cell material and sediments by high performance liquid chromatography/atmospheric pressure chemical ionization mass spectrometry.

    Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Richard D. Pancost;Marcel T.J. van der Meer

  • Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes

    Charlotte L. O'Brien;Stuart A. Robinson;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Consistent fractionation of 13C in nature and in the laboratory: growth-rate effects in some haptophyte algae.

    Robert R. Bidigare;Arnim Fluegge;Arnim Fluegge;Katherine H. Freeman;Kristi L. Hanson

  • Widespread occurrence of structurally diverse tetraether membrane lipids: Evidence for the ubiquitous presence of low-temperature relatives of hyperthermophiles

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate

    Eleni Anagnostou;Eleanor H. John;Kirsty M. Edgar;Gavin L. Foster

  • Stable warm tropical climate through the Eocene Epoch

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Bart E. van Dongen;Christopher J. Nicholas;Richard D. Pancost

  • Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

    Miguel A. Martínez-Botí;Gavin L Foster;Tom B. Chalk;Eelco J Rohling

  • Two episodes of microbial change coupled with Permo/Triassic faunal mass extinction

    Shucheng Xie;Richard D. Pancost;Hongfu Yin;Hongmei Wang

  • Newly discovered non-isoprenoid glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in sediments

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Ellen C. Hopmans;Richard D. Pancost;Stefan Schouten

  • Biomarker evidence for widespread anaerobic methane oxidation in Mediterranean sediments by a consortium of methanogenic archaea and bacteria

    Richard D. Pancost;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Saskia de Lint;Marc J. E. C. van der Maarel

  • The palaeoclimatic utility of terrestrial biomarkers in marine sediments

    Richard D. Pancost;Christopher S. Boot

  • CH 4 -consuming microorganisms and the formation of carbonate crusts at cold seeps

    Giovanni Aloisi;Ioanna Bouloubassi;Sander K. Heijs;Richard D. Pancost

  • Biomarkers as proxies for plant inputs to peats: an example from a sub-boreal ombrotrophic bog

    Richard D Pancost;Marianne Baas;Bas van Geel;Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté

  • Enhanced productivity led to increased organic carbon burial in the euxinic North Atlantic basin during the late Cenomanian oceanic anoxic event

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Richard D. Pancost;Ivar A. Nijenhuis;Ivar A. Nijenhuis;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Past East Asian monsoon evolution controlled by paleogeography, not CO2

    Alex Farnsworth;Daniel J. Lunt;Stuart A. Robinson;Paul J. Valdes

  • Archaeal lipids in Mediterranean Cold Seeps : Molecular proxies for anaerobic methane oxidation

    R.D Pancost;E.C Hopmans;J.S Sinninghe Damsté

  • Changes in the global carbon cycle occurred as two episodes during the Permian–Triassic crisis

    Shucheng Xie;Richard D. Pancost;Junhua Huang;Paul B. Wignall

  • Massive expansion of marine archaea during a mid-cretaceous oceanic anoxic event

    Marcel M. M. Kuypers;Peter Blokker;Jochen Erbacher;Hanno Kinkel

  • A comparative study of lipids in Sphagnum species

    Marianne Baas;Rich D Pancost;Bas van Geel;Jaap S Sinninghe Damsté

  • Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

    Thomas B. Chalk;Thomas B. Chalk;Mathis P. Hain;Gavin L. Foster;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling

Frequent Co-Authors

Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
B. David A. Naafs
B. David A. Naafs University of Bristol
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Erin L. McClymont
Erin L. McClymont Durham University
Daniel J. Lunt
Daniel J. Lunt University of Bristol
Shucheng Xie
Shucheng Xie China University of Geosciences
Margaret E. Collinson
Margaret E. Collinson Royal Holloway University of London
Christopher J. Hollis
Christopher J. Hollis Victoria University of Wellington

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