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Robert M. Carter

Robert M. Carter

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Earth Science

D-Index
43
Citations
5479
World Ranking
5098
National Ranking
257

Overview

Robert M. Carter was affiliated with James Cook University in Australia. Their research focused on several interconnected fields related to environmental science, earth and planetary sciences, and engineering.

The main fields of study in which they contributed were:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

Within these fields, their work delved deeply into subfields such as:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Geophysics
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics of research included:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Global Energy and Sustainability Research

Robert M. Carter authored publications primarily featured in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Energies

Among their recent papers were:

  • "How Much Human-Caused Global Warming Should We Expect with Business-As-Usual (BAU) Climate Policies? A Semi-Empirical Assessment," 2020, published in Energies
  • "IODP Expedition 317, Hole U1351B - Well Logging Data," 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "IODP Expedition 317, Hole U1351C - Well Logging Data," 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "IODP Expedition 317, Hole U1352B - Well Logging Data," 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • "IODP Expedition 317, Hole U1353C - Well Logging Data," 2021, published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

The scientist frequently collaborated with several co-authors, including:

  • Craig S. Fulthorpe
  • Koichi Hoyanagi
  • Peter Blum
  • Angela L. Slagle
  • Gilles Guèrin

Best Publications

  • Cainozoic history of southern New Zealand: An accord between geological observations and plate-tectonic predictions

    R.M. Carter;R.J. Norris

  • A Discussion and Classification of Subaqueous Mass-Transport with Particular Application to Grain. Flow, Slurry-Flow, and Fluxoturbidites

    R.M. Carter

  • Dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone over the western Pacific during the Little Ice Age

    Hong Yan;Wei Wei;Willie Soon;Zhisheng An

  • New evidence for episodic post-glacial sea-level rise, central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    P. Larcombe;R.M. Carter;J. Dye;M.K. Gagan

  • Application of Global Sea‐Level and Sequence‐Stratigraphic Models in Southern Hemisphere Neogene Strata from New Zealand

    R. M. Carter;S. T. Abbott;C. S. Fulthorpe;D. W. Haywick

  • A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm

    Willie Soon;Victor M. Velasco Herrera;Kandasamy Selvaraj;Rita Traversi

  • Submergent shorelines in the SW Pacific: evidence for an episodic post‐glacial transgression

    R. M. Carter;L. Carter;D. P. Johnson

  • Pitcairn Island—another Pacific hot spot?

    R. A. Duncan;I. McDougall;R. M. Carter;D. S. Coombs

  • Cyclone pumping, sediment partitioning and the development of the Great Barrier Reef shelf system: a review

    P Larcombe;R.M Carter

  • Astronomical calibration of a southern hemisphere Plio-Pleistocene reference section, Wanganui Basin, New Zealand

    Tim R Naish;Steven T Abbott;V Alloway;Alan G Beu

  • Cainozoic sedimentation in basins adjacent to a major continental transform boundary in southern New Zealand

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  • Sedimentary cyclicity in the marine Pliocene-Pleistocene of the Wanganui basin (New Zealand): Sequence stratigraphic motifs characteristic of the past 2.5 m.y.

    G. Saul;T. R. Naish;S. T. Abbott;R. M. Carter

  • Evolution of the sedimentary system beneath the deep Pacific inflow off eastern New Zealand

    L Carter;R.M Carter;I.N McCave

  • Sediment flux across the Great Barrier Reef Shelf to the Queensland Trough over the last 300 ky

    G.B. Dunbar;G.R. Dickens;R.M. Carter

  • Marshall Paraconformity: A mid-Oligocene record of inception of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and coeval glacio-eustatic lowstand?

    Craig S. Fulthorpe;Robert M. Carter;Kenneth G. Miller;Julia Wilson

  • Evolution of Pliocene to Recent abyssal sediment waves on Bounty Channel levees, New Zealand

    L. Carter;R. M. Carter;C. S. Nelson;Craig S Fulthorpe

  • Macrofossil associations from mid-Pleistocene cyclothems, Castlecliff section, New Zealand; implications for sequence stratigraphy

    Stephen T. Abbott;Robert M. Carter

  • Regional sediment recycling in the abyssal Southwest Pacific Ocean

    L. Carter;R. M. Carter;I. N. McCave;J. Gamble

  • Sea-level controls on the post-glacial development of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland

    R.M Carter;D.P Johnson

  • New Zealand maritime glaciation: millennial-scale southern climate change since 3.9 Ma.

    Robert M. Carter;Paul Gammon

  • New Evidence for the Holocene Sea-Level High from the Inner Shelf, Central Great Barrier Reef, Australia

    Robin J Beaman;Piers Larcombe;Robert M Carter

  • Episodic post‐glacial sea‐level rise and the sedimentary evolution of a tropical continental embayment (Cleveland Bay, Great Barrier Reef shelf, Australia)

    R. M. Carter;D. P. Johnson;K. G. Hooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Lionel Carter
Lionel Carter Victoria University of Wellington
Tim R Naish
Tim R Naish Victoria University of Wellington
Piers Larcombe
Piers Larcombe University of South Wales
Ian J. Graham
Ian J. Graham GNS Science
I. N. McCave
I. N. McCave University of Cambridge
Gavin B. Dunbar
Gavin B. Dunbar Victoria University of Wellington
Gerald R. Dickens
Gerald R. Dickens Trinity College Dublin
Jaume Dinarès-Turell
Jaume Dinarès-Turell National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Julius S. Lipp
Julius S. Lipp University of Bremen
Simon C. George
Simon C. George Macquarie University

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