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Robert M. Sherrell is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, as well as Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis.

Their work involves key topics such as Marine and coastal ecosystems, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Mercury impact and mitigation studies, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Robert M. Sherrell has contributed to various recent publications including:

  • Changing Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and Its Ecosystem Implications (2020), Frontiers in Marine Science
  • A comparison of marine Fe and Mn cycling: U.S. GEOTRACES GN01 Western Arctic case study (2020), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Particle-Size Distributions and Solubility of Aerosol Iron Over the Antarctic Peninsula During Austral Summer (2020), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Seasonal dispersal of fjord meltwaters as an important source of iron and manganese to coastal Antarctic phytoplankton (2021), Biogeosciences
  • Concentrations, particle-size distributions, and dry deposition fluxes of aerosol trace elements over the Antarctic Peninsula in austral summer (2021), Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
  • Laramie T. Jensen
  • Tim M. Conway
  • Sian F. Henley
  • Emma L. Cavan

They have published extensively in scientific venues such as:

  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Best Publications

  • Iron availability, cellular iron quotas, and nitrogen fixation in Trichodesmium

    Ilana Berman-Frank;Jay T. Cullen;Yeala Shaked;Robert M. Sherrell

  • Characterization of atmospheric trace elements on PM2.5 particulate matter over the New York-New Jersey harbor estuary

    Yuan Gao;E. D. Nelson;M. P. Field;Q. Ding

  • Precise determination of element/calcium ratios in calcareous samples using sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

    Rosenthal Y;Field Mp;Sherrell Rm

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Controls on tropical Pacific Ocean productivity revealed through nutrient stress diagnostics

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;Kirby Worthington;Robert M. Sherrell;Francisco P. Chavez

  • Iron persistence in a distal hydrothermal plume supported by dissolved-particulate exchange

    Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Jessica N. Fitzsimmons;Seth G. John;Seth G. John;Christopher M. Marsay;Christopher M. Marsay;Colleen L. Hoffman

  • Incorporation and preservation of Mg in Globigerinoides sacculifer: implications for reconstructing the temperature and 18O/16O of seawater

    Yair Rosenthal;G. P. Lohmann;K. C. Lohmann;Robert Sherrell

  • Interlaboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements

    Ed C. Hathorne;Alexander C. Gagnon;Thomas Felis;Jess F. Adkins

  • Modulation of cadmium uptake in phytoplankton by seawater CO2 concentration

    Jay T. Cullen;Todd W. Lane;François M. M. Morel;Robert M. Sherrell

  • Changing Biogeochemistry of the Southern Ocean and Its Ecosystem Implications

    Sian Frances Henley;Emma Louise Cavan;Sarah E. Fawcett;Rodrigo Kerr

  • Automated on-line flow-injection ICP-MS determination of trace metals (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) in open ocean seawater: Application to the GEOTRACES program

    M.E. Lagerström;M.P. Field;M. Séguret;L. Fischer

  • Phosphorus and trace metal limitation of algae and bacteria in Lake Superior

    Robert W. Sterner;Tanya M. Smutka;R. Michael L. McKay;Qin Xiaoming

  • Cadmium isotopic composition in the ocean

    Francois Lacan;Roger Francois;Yongcheng Ji;Robert M. Sherrell

  • Dissolved and particulate Fe in a hydrothermal plume at 9°45′N, East Pacific Rise:: Slow Fe (II) oxidation kinetics in Pacific plumes

    M.Paul Field;Robert M Sherrell

  • The trace metal composition of suspended particles in the oceanic water column near Bermuda

    Robert M. Sherrell;Edward A. Boyle

  • Effect of iron limitation on the cadmium to phosphorus ratio of natural phytoplankton assemblages from the Southern Ocean

    Jay T. Cullen;Zanna Chase;Kenneth H. Coale;Steve E. Fitzwater

  • The Transpolar Drift as a Source of Riverine and Shelf-Derived Trace Elements to the Central Arctic Ocean

    Matthew A. Charette;Lauren E. Kipp;Lauren E. Kipp;Laramie T. Jensen;Jessica S. Dabrowski

  • Uptake and fractionation of rare earth elements on hydrothermal plume particles at 9°45′N, East Pacific Rise

    Robert M. Sherrell;M.Paul Field;Greg Ravizza

  • Sampling for particulate trace element determination using water sampling bottles: methodology and comparison to in situ pumps

    Hélène Planquette;Robert M. Sherrell

  • ASPIRE: The Amundsen Sea Polynya International Research Expedition

    Patricia L. Yager;Robert M. Sherrell;Sharon E. Stammerjohn;Anne-Carlijn Alderkamp

  • Techniques for determination of trace metals in small samples of size-fractionated particulate matter: phytoplankton metals off central California

    Jay T Cullen;Robert M Sherrell

  • Direct determination of 10 trace metals in 50 µL samples of coastal seawater using desolvating micronebulization sector field ICP-MS

    M. Paul Field;Jay T. Cullen;Robert M. Sherrell

Frequent Co-Authors

Jessica N. Fitzsimmons
Jessica N. Fitzsimmons Texas A&M University
M. Paul Field
M. Paul Field Elemental Scientific
Jay T. Cullen
Jay T. Cullen University of Victoria
Patricia L. Yager
Patricia L. Yager University of Georgia
Oscar Schofield
Oscar Schofield Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Seth G. John
Seth G. John University of Southern California
Benjamin S. Twining
Benjamin S. Twining Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences
Sharon Stammerjohn
Sharon Stammerjohn Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Phoebe J. Lam
Phoebe J. Lam University of California, Santa Cruz

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