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Robert Gilbert

Robert Gilbert

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Earth Science

D-Index
41
Citations
5122
World Ranking
5646
National Ranking
279

Overview

Robert Gilbert was affiliated with Queen's University in Canada and contributed extensively to research primarily in the fields of Nursing and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spanned a variety of subfields including Nutrition and Dietetics, Plant Science, Food Science, Molecular Biology, and Surgery.

The scientist's research topics focused predominantly on areas related to food and health sciences. Key topics covered in their publications included Food composition and properties, Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology, Polysaccharides Composition and Applications, Pancreatic function and diabetes, Glycogen Storage Diseases and Myoclonus, GABA and Rice Research, and Phytase and its Applications.

Robert Gilbert published multiple papers in notable journals, with recent works including:

  • High-amylose wheat starch: Structural basis for water absorption and pasting properties, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Fecal microbiota responses to rice RS3 are specific to amylose molecular structure, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Investigating cooked rice textural properties by instrumental measurements, 2020, Food Science and Human Wellness
  • Probiotic fermentation modifies the structures of pectic polysaccharides from carrot pulp, 2020, Carbohydrate Polymers
  • A molecular explanation of wheat starch physicochemical properties related to noodle eating quality, 2020, Food Hydrocolloids

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert Gilbert included Enpeng Li, Mitchell A. Sullivan, Cheng Li, Changfeng Li, and Ziyi Wang.

The scientist's publications were predominantly published in journals such as Carbohydrate Polymers, Food Hydrocolloids, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Foods, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

Best Publications

  • Stability of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene epoch

    Eugene Domack;Diana Duran;Amy Leventer;Scott Ishman

  • Proglacial Fluvial and Lacustrine Environments

    Michael Church;Robert Gilbert

  • Sedimentary processes of Canadian arctic fjords

    Robert Gilbert

  • Sedimentation in Lillooet Lake, British Columbia

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  • Holocene history of the Larsen-A Ice Shelf constrained by geomagnetic paleointensity dating

    Stefanie Brachfeld;Eugene Domack;Catherine Kissel;Carlo Laj

  • Rafting in glacimarine environments

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  • Evidence for large-scale subglacial meltwater flood events in southern Ontario and northern New York State

    John Shaw;Robert Gilbert

  • Subglacial morphology and glacial evolution of the Palmer deep outlet system, Antarctic Peninsula

    Eugene Domack;David Amblàs;Robert Gilbert;Stefanie Brachfeld

  • Sediment source and hydroclimatic inferences from glacial lake sediments: the postglacial sedimentary record of Lillooet Lake, British Columbia

    Joseph R. Desloges;Robert Gilbert

  • Reconstructing morphometric change in a proglacial landscape using historical aerial photography and automated DEM generation

    Erik Schiefer;Robert Gilbert

  • Sedimentation in proglacial Sunwapta Lake, Alberta

    Robert Gilbert;John Shaw

  • Holocene sedimentation in glacial Tasikutaaq Lake, Baffin Island

    Donald S. Lemmen;Robert Gilbert;John P. Smol;Roland I. Hall

  • Glacimarine sedimentation in Kangerdluk (Disko Fjord), West Greenland, in response to a surging glacier

    Robert Gilbert;Niels Nielsen;Henrik Möller;Joseph R Desloges

  • Glacial morphology and post-glacial contourites in northern Prince Gustav Channel (NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica)

    Angelo Camerlenghi;Eugene Domack;Michele Rebesco;Robert Gilbert

  • CONTEMPORARY SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS ON BAFFIN ISLAND, N.W.T., CANADA: GLACIOMARINE PROCESSES IN FIORDS OF EASTERN CUMBERLAND PENINSULA

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  • A 750-yr record of autumn snowfall and temperature variability and winter storminess recorded in the varved sediments of Bear Lake, Devon Island, Arctic Canada

    Scott F. Lamoureux;Robert Gilbert

  • Sediments of ice-dammed, self-draining Ape Lake, British Columbia

    Robert Gilbert;Joseph R. Desloges

  • Glaciolacustrine varved sediment as an alpine hydroclimatic proxy

    K. R. Hodder;R. Gilbert;J. R. Desloges

  • Macrofauna of Canadian arctic fjords

    Janis E. Dale;Alec E. Aitken;Robert Gilbert;Michael J. Risk

  • Marine Sedimentary Record of Natural Environmental Variability and Recent Warming in the Antarctic Peninsula

    Eugene W. Domack;Amy Leventer;Stephanie Root;Jim Ring

  • Spatial and Temporal Changes in Sedimentary Processes at Proglacial Bear Lake, Devon Island, Nunavut, Canada

    Ted Lewis;Robert Gilbert;Scott F. Lamoureux

  • The Record of an Extreme Flood in the Sediments of Montane Lillooet Lake, British Columbia: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Assessment

    Robert Gilbert;Sarah Crookshanks;Kyle R. Hodder;John Spagnol

  • Sedimentation in Chilko Lake: a record of the geomorphic environment of the eastern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada

    Joseph R Desloges;Robert Gilbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene W. Domack
Eugene W. Domack University of South Florida
Amy Leventer
Amy Leventer Colgate University
Scott F. Lamoureux
Scott F. Lamoureux Queen's University
Stefanie Brachfeld
Stefanie Brachfeld Montclair State University
John M. Shaw
John M. Shaw University of Alberta
Angelo Camerlenghi
Angelo Camerlenghi National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
John J. Clague
John J. Clague Simon Fraser University
Michele Rebesco
Michele Rebesco National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
Michael Church
Michael Church University of British Columbia
John Shaw
John Shaw Bedford Institute of Oceanography

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