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Scott D. Wankel is affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Pollution, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers core topics such as Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses, and Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry.

Scott D. Wankel has published extensively, including in venues such as:

  • Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Nature Communications
  • Marine Chemistry

Selected recent publications include:

  • "Hydrogen and dark oxygen drive microbial productivity in diverse groundwater ecosystems," 2023, Nature Communications
  • "Dark biological superoxide production as a significant flux and sink of marine dissolved oxygen," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Nitrite oxidation exceeds reduction and fixed nitrogen loss in anoxic Pacific waters," 2020, Marine Chemistry
  • "Multiple integrated metabolic strategies allow foraminiferan protists to thrive in anoxic marine sediments," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Limited iodate reduction in shipboard seawater incubations from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific oxygen deficient zone," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Collaboration is a significant component of their work, with frequent co-authors including Colleen M. Hansel, Heather V. Graham, J. C. Stern, Kevin Sutherland, and Daniel S. Jones.

Best Publications

  • Tracing Anthropogenic Inputs of Nitrogen to Ecosystems

    Carol Kendall;Emily M. Elliott;Scott D. Wankel

  • Nitrogen Isotopes as Indicators of NOx Source Contributions to Atmospheric Nitrate Deposition Across the Midwestern and Northeastern United States

    Emily M. Elliott;Carol Kendall;Scott D. Wankel;Douglas A. Burns

  • Hydrogen is an energy source for hydrothermal vent symbioses.

    Jillian M. Petersen;Frank U. Zielinski;Thomas Pape;Richard Seifert

  • Coupled biotic–abiotic Mn(II) oxidation pathway mediates the formation and structural evolution of biogenic Mn oxides

    D.R. Learman;S.D. Wankel;S.M. Webb;N. Martinez

  • Dominance of sulfur-fueled iron oxide reduction in low-sulfate freshwater sediments.

    Colleen M Hansel;Chris J Lentini;Yuanzhi Tang;David T Johnston

  • Isotopic overprinting of nitrification on denitrification as a ubiquitous and unifying feature of environmental nitrogen cycling

    Julie Granger;Scott D. Wankel

  • Nitrification in the euphotic zone as evidenced by nitrate dual isotopic composition: Observations from Monterey Bay, California

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;J. Timothy Pennington;Francisco P. Chavez

  • Influence of ammonia oxidation rate on thaumarchaeal lipid composition and the TEX86 temperature proxy

    Sarah J. Hurley;Felix J. Elling;Martin Könneke;Carolyn Buchwald;Carolyn Buchwald

  • Evidence for fungal and chemodenitrification based N2O flux from nitrogen impacted coastal sediments

    Scott D. Wankel;Wiebke Ziebis;Carolyn Buchwald;Chawalit N. Charoenpong

  • Enriched iron(III)-reducing bacterial communities are shaped by carbon substrate and iron oxide mineralogy

    Christopher James Lentini;Scott D. Wankel;Colleen Hansel;Colleen Hansel

  • Nitrogen sources and cycling in the San Francisco Bay estuary: A nitrate dual isotopic composition approach

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;Chris A. Francis;Adina Paytan

  • Influence of subsurface biosphere on geochemical fluxes from diffuse hydrothermal fluids

    Scott D. Wankel;Leonid N. Germanovich;Marvin D. Lilley;Gence Genc

  • Constraining the role of iron in environmental nitrogen transformations: Dual stable isotope systematics of abiotic NO2− reduction by Fe(II) and its production of N2O

    Carolyn Buchwald;Kalina Grabb;Colleen M. Hansel;Scott D. Wankel

  • Anaerobic methane oxidation in metalliferous hydrothermal sediments: influence on carbon flux and decoupling from sulfate reduction.

    Scott D. Wankel;Melissa Marie Adams;David T Johnston;Colleen Hansel

  • Spatial variability in nitrification rates and ammonia-oxidizing microbial communities in the agriculturally impacted Elkhorn Slough estuary, California.

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Annika C. Mosier;Colleen M. Hansel;Colleen M. Hansel;Adina Paytan

  • Tracing sources of nitrate in snowmelt runoff using a high‐resolution isotopic technique

    N. Ohte;S.D. Sebestyen;J.B. Shanley;D.H. Doctor

  • A dual nitrite isotopic investigation of chemodenitrification by mineral-associated Fe(II) and its production of nitrous oxide

    Kalina C. Grabb;Kalina C. Grabb;Carolyn Buchwald;Colleen M. Hansel;Scott D. Wankel

  • Sources of aerosol nitrate to the Gulf of Aqaba: Evidence from δ15N and δ18O of nitrate and trace metal chemistry

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Ying Chen;Carol Kendall;Anton F. Post

  • Identifying Sources of Nitrogen to Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Utilizing the Nitrogen Isotope Signature of Macroalgae

    Elizabeth Derse;Karen L. Knee;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall

  • Microbial activity in the marine deep biosphere: progress and prospects

    Beth N. Orcutt;Douglas E. LaRowe;Jennifer F. Biddle;Frederick S. Colwell

  • Using nitrate dual isotopic composition (δ15N and δ18O) as a tool for exploring sources and cycling of nitrate in an estuarine system: Elkhorn Slough, California

    Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Scott D. Wankel;Carol Kendall;Adina Paytan

  • Rainfall limit of the N cycle on Earth

    Stephanie A. Ewing;Greg Michalski;Mark Thiemens;Richard C. Quinn

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter R. Girguis
Peter R. Girguis Harvard University
Carol Kendall
Carol Kendall United States Geological Survey
Adina Paytan
Adina Paytan University of California, Santa Cruz
Arthur J. Spivack
Arthur J. Spivack University of Rhode Island
Dennis Nordlund
Dennis Nordlund SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Steven D'Hondt
Steven D'Hondt University of Rhode Island
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
Eric Pelletier
Eric Pelletier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Rudolf Amann
Rudolf Amann Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Richard Seifert
Richard Seifert Universität Hamburg

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