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Robert C. Upstill-Goddard

Robert C. Upstill-Goddard

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Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
8676
World Ranking
4401
National Ranking
488

Overview

Robert C. Upstill-Goddard is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Oceanography and Environmental Chemistry. Their work also touches on subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Carbonate chemistry and carbon sequestration driven by inorganic carbon outwelling from mangroves and saltmarshes, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Guide to best practices to study the ocean's surface., 2021, IOC of UNESCO (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission)
  • Ideas and perspectives: A strategic assessment of methane and nitrous oxide measurements in the marine environment, 2020, Biogeosciences
  • Advances in understanding of air-sea exchange and cycling of greenhouse gases in the upper ocean, 2024, Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Photo-Reactivity of Surfactants in the Sea-Surface Microlayer and Subsurface Water of the Tyne Estuary, UK, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters

Frequent co-authors of Robert C. Upstill-Goddard include:

  • Alberto Borges
  • G Uher
  • Gloria Reithmaier
  • Alex Cabral
  • Anirban Akhand

Key publication venues where their work appears regularly are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Biogeosciences
  • Elementa Science of the Anthropocene
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

The main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

This body of work contributes to a comprehensive understanding of marine environments, greenhouse gas cycling, and ecosystem dynamics, particularly in coastal and oceanographic contexts. The research also covers chemical and biological processes impacting climate and environmental sciences.

Best Publications

  • In situ evaluation of air-sea gas exchange parameterizations using novel conservative and volatile tracers

    Philip D. Nightingale;Gill Malin;Cliff S. Law;Andrew J. Watson

  • The rare earth elements in rivers, estuaries, and coastal seas and their significance to the composition of ocean waters

    H. Elderfield;R. Upstill-Goddard;E.R. Sholkovitz

  • Sea surface microlayers: A unified physicochemical and biological perspective of the air–ocean interface

    Michael Cunliffe;Anja Engel;Sanja Frka;Blaženka Gašparović

  • Air–sea gas exchange in rough and stormy seas measured by a dual-tracer technique

    Andrew J. Watson;Robert C. Upstill-Goddard;Robert C. Upstill-Goddard;Peter S. Liss

  • The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer

    Anja Engel;Hermann W. Bange;Michael Cunliffe;Susannah M. Burrows

  • Methane in the southern North Sea: Low-salinity inputs, estuarine removal, and atmospheric flux

    Robert C. Upstill-Goddard;Jonathan Barnes;Thomas Frost;Steven Punshon

  • Gas transfer velocities in lakes measured with SF6

    R. C. Upstill-Goddard;R. C. Upstill-Goddard;A. J. Watson;P. S. Liss;M. I. Liddicoat

  • Methane and nitrous oxide fluxes in the polluted Adyar River and estuary, SE India

    A. Nirmal Rajkumar;J. Barnes;R. Ramesh;R. Purvaja

  • Microbiology of aquatic surface microlayers

    Michael Cunliffe;Robert C. Upstill-Goddard;J. Colin Murrell

  • Air–sea gas exchange in the coastal zone

    Robert C. Upstill-Goddard

  • Ocean acidification induces multi-generational decline in copepod naupliar production with possible conflict for reproductive resource allocation

    Susan C. Fitzer;Susan C. Fitzer;Gary S. Caldwell;Andrew J. Close;Anthony S. Clare

  • Bacterial diversity in the bacterioneuston (sea surface microlayer): the bacterioneuston through the looking glass

    Mark P. Franklin;Ian R. McDonald;David G. Bourne;Nicholas J. P. Owens

  • Tidal dynamics and rainfall control N2O and CH4 emissions from a pristine mangrove creek

    J. Barnes;R. Ramesh;R. Purvaja;A. Nirmal Rajkumar

  • The Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) Programme: A contextual view 1995–2005

    C Robinson;AJ Poulton;PM Holligan;AR Baker

  • Open-ocean carbon monoxide photoproduction

    Aron Stubbins;Günther Uher;Cliff S. Law;Kenneth Mopper

  • N2O seasonal distributions and air-sea exchange in UK estuaries: Implications for the tropospheric N2O source from European coastal waters

    J. Barnes;R. C. Upstill-Goddard

  • Relating Carbon Monoxide Photoproduction to Dissolved Organic Matter Functionality

    Aron Stubbins;Vesper Hubbard;Guenther Uher;Cliff S. Law

  • Impact of an artificial surfactant release on air‐sea gas fluxes during Deep Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment II

    M Salter;M Salter;RC Upstill-Goddard;PD Nightingale;SD Archer

  • Discriminatory classification of natural and anthropogenic waters in two U.K. estuaries

    Robert G.M. Spencer;Andy Baker;Jason M.E. Ahad;Gregory L. Cowie

  • Non-conservative mixing behavior of colored dissolved organic matter in a humic-rich, turbid estuary

    Günther Uher;Claire Hughes;Gordon Henry;Robert C. Upstill-Goddard

  • Nitrous oxide emissions from the Arabian Sea: A synthesis

    Hermann W. Bange;M. O. Andreae;S. Lal;C. S. Law

  • Methane and nitrous oxide in surface water along the North-West Passage, Arctic Ocean

    Vassilis Kitidis;Vassilis Kitidis;Robert C. Upstill-Goddard;Leif G. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Cliff S. Law
Cliff S. Law National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Philip D. Nightingale
Philip D. Nightingale Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Andrew J. Watson
Andrew J. Watson University of Exeter
Nicholas J. P. Owens
Nicholas J. P. Owens Scottish Association For Marine Science
Peter S. Liss
Peter S. Liss University of East Anglia
J. Colin Murrell
J. Colin Murrell University of East Anglia
Aron Stubbins
Aron Stubbins Northeastern University
Hermann W. Bange
Hermann W. Bange GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
David K. Woolf
David K. Woolf Heriot-Watt University
Ramachandran Ramesh
Ramachandran Ramesh Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change

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