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  • 1978 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Robert C. Aller is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research spans several key areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with particular focus on Oceanography, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Environmental Chemistry, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Frequent publication venues for Robert C. Aller's work include:

  • Journal of Marine Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
  • Marine Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this scientist include:

  • Qingzhi Zhu
  • Laura M. Wehrmann
  • Nils Volkenborn
  • Josephine Y. Aller
  • Emma Michaud

Notable recent papers published by Robert C. Aller are:

  • What global biogeochemical consequences will marine animal-sediment interactions have during climate change? (2021, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene)
  • Nitrogen transformations in constructed wetlands: A closer look at plant-soil interactions using chemical imaging (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Benthic iron flux influenced by climate-sensitive interplay between organic carbon availability and sedimentation rate in Arctic fjords (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • Sediment reworking by the burrowing polychaete Hediste diversicolor modulated by environmental and biological factors across the temperate North Atlantic. A tribute to Gaston Desrosiers (2021, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology)
  • The dynamics of cable bacteria colonization in surface sediments: a 2D view (2021, Scientific Reports)

Robert C. Aller was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1978.

Best Publications

  • The Effects of Macrobenthos on Chemical Properties of Marine Sediment and Overlying Water

    Robert C. Aller

  • Diffusion coefficients in nearshore marine sediments1

    William J. Ullman;Robert C. Aller

  • Bioturbation and remineralization of sedimentary organic matter: effects of redox oscillation☆

    Robert C. Aller

  • The fate of terrestrial organic carbon in the marine environment.

    Neal E. Blair;Robert C. Aller

  • Coastal ocean acidification: The other eutrophication problem

    Ryan B. Wallace;Hannes Baumann;Jason S. Grear;Robert C. Aller

  • Rapid, small-volume, flow injection analysis for SCO2, and NH4+ in marine and freshwaters

    Per . J. Hall;Robert C. Aller

  • The effect of biogenic irrigation intensity and solute exchange on diagenetic reaction rates in marine sediments

    Robert C. Aller;Josephine Y. Aller

  • Complete oxidation of solid phase sulfides by manganese and bacteria in anoxic marine sediments

    Robert C. Aller;Peter D. Rude

  • Transport and transformation of dissolved and particulate materials on continental margins influenced by major rivers: benthic boundary layer and seabed processes

    Brent A Mckee;R. C. Aller;M. A. Allison;T. S. Bianchi

  • Rapid Clay Mineral Formation in Amazon Delta Sediments: Reverse Weathering and Oceanic Elemental Cycles

    Panagiotis Michalopoulos;Robert C. Aller

  • Sulfate reduction, diffusion, and bioturbation in Long Island Sound sediments; report of the FOAM Group

    M. B. Goldhaber;R. C. Aller;J. K. Cochran;J. K. Rosenfeld

  • Quantifying solute distributions in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments by defining an average microenvironment

    Robert C. Aller

  • Mobile deltaic and continental shelf muds as suboxic, fluidized bed reactors

    Robert C Aller

  • Diagenesis of Fe and S in Amazon inner shelf muds: apparent dominance of Fe reduction and implications for the genesis of ironstones

    R.C. Aller;J.E. Mackin;R.T. Cox

  • Diagenetic Processes Near the Sediment-Water Interface of Long Island Sound.I. Decomposition and Nutrient Element Geochemistry (S, N, P)

    Robert C. Aller

  • 234Th/238U disequilibrium in near-shore sediment: Particle reworking and diagenetic time scales

    Robert C. Aller;J. Kirk Cochran

  • BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF TUBE-DWELLINGS: A STUDY OF THE SEDENTARY POLYCHAETE AMPHITRITE ORNATA (LEIDY).

    Rc Aller;Aller Rc;Yingst Jy

  • Animal-Sediment Relations in a Tropical Lagoon: Discovery Bay, Jamaica

    Robert C. Aller;Richard E. Dodge

  • Early diagenesis of biogenic silica in the Amazon delta: alteration, authigenic clay formation, and storage

    Panagiotis Michalopoulos;Robert C Aller

  • Ammonium adsorption in marine sediments1

    James E. Mackin;Robert C. Aller

  • Effects of biological sediment mixing on the210Pb chronology and trace metal distribution in a Long Island Sound sediment core

    L.K. Benninger;R.C. Aller;J.K. Cochran;K.K. Turekian

Frequent Co-Authors

Cindy Lee
Cindy Lee Stony Brook University
Neal E. Blair
Neal E. Blair Northwestern University
J. Kirk Cochran
J. Kirk Cochran Stony Brook University
William J. Ullman
William J. Ullman University of Delaware
Franck Gilbert
Franck Gilbert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Stuart G. Wakeham
Stuart G. Wakeham Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
William G. Ambrose
William G. Ambrose Coastal Carolina University
Karl K. Turekian
Karl K. Turekian Yale University
Erik Kristensen
Erik Kristensen University of Southern Denmark
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy
Sergio A. Sañudo-Wilhelmy University of Southern California

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