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Overview

Sean A. Crowe is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research primarily spans across the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science.

Their work frequently addresses several subfields including Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main topics covered in their research include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Recent notable papers featuring their work include:

  • A genomic catalog of Earth's microbiomes (2020) published in Nature Biotechnology
  • Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics (2023) published in Nature
  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean (2021) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Evolution of the structure and impact of Earth's biosphere (2021) published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Manganese oxides, Earth surface oxygenation, and the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis (2023) published in Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent collaborators in their research include Rachel L. Simister, Kohen W. Bauer, Lisa C. Osborne, Noah J. Planavsky, and Mojtaba Fakhraee.

Sean A. Crowe's publications often appear in well-established scientific venues, with the most frequent including Goldschmidt Abstracts, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Journal of Immunology, Nature Biotechnology, and Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.

Best Publications

  • Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems

    Stilianos Louca;Martin F Polz;Florent Mazel;Florent Mazel;Michaeline B N Albright

  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes

    Stephen Nayfach;Simon Roux;Rekha Seshadri;Daniel Udwary

  • Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

    Sean Andrew Crowe;Lasse N. Døssing;Lasse N. Døssing;Nicolas J. Beukes;Michael Bau

  • Sulfate was a trace constituent of Archean seawater

    Sean Andrew Crowe;Sean Andrew Crowe;Guillaume Paris;Sergei Katsev;CarriAyne Jones;CarriAyne Jones

  • Photoferrotrophs thrive in an Archean Ocean analogue

    Sean A. Crowe;CarriAyne Jones;Sergei Katsev;Cédric Magen

  • The methane cycle in ferruginous Lake Matano.

    S. A. Crowe;S. Katsev;S. Katsev;K. Leslie;A. Sturm

  • Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

    CarriAyne Jones;CarriAyne Jones;Suolong Nomosatryo;Sean Andrew Crowe;Sean Andrew Crowe;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • Author Correction: A compendium of geochemical information from the Saanich Inlet water column

    Mónica Torres-Beltrán;Alyse K. Hawley;David Capelle;Elena Zaikova

  • Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

    Leslie J. Robbins;Stefan V. Lalonde;Noah J. Planavsky;Camille A. Partin

  • Green rust formation controls nutrient availability in a ferruginous water column

    Asfaw Zegeye;Steeve Bonneville;Liane G. Benning;Arne Sturm

  • Iron isotopes in an Archean ocean analogue

    Vincent Busigny;Noah J. Planavsky;Noah J. Planavsky;Didier Jézéquel;Sean Crowe

  • The biogeochemistry of tropical lakes: A case study from Lake Matano, Indonesia

    Sean A. Crowe;Andrew H. O’Neill;Sergei Katsev;Peter Hehanussa

  • A Global Ocean Oxygen Database and Atlas for Assessing and Predicting Deoxygenation and Ocean Health in the Open and Coastal Ocean

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  • Proterozoic seawater sulfate scarcity and the evolution of ocean–atmosphere chemistry

    Mojtaba Fakhraee;Olivier Hancisse;Donald E. Canfield;Sean A. Crowe

  • Integrating biogeochemistry with multiomic sequence information in a model oxygen minimum zone

    Stilianos Louca;Alyse K. Hawley;Sergei Katsev;Monica Torres-Beltran

  • Anammox, denitrification and fixed-nitrogen removal in sediments from the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary

    Sean Andrew Crowe;Donald Eugene Canfield;Alfonso Mucci;Bjorn Sundby

  • Organic carbon burial efficiencies in sediments: The power law of mineralization revisited

    Sergei Katsev;Sean A. Crowe

  • Oxidative elemental cycling under the low O2 Eoarchean atmosphere.

    Robert Frei;Sean A. Crowe;Michael Bau;Ali Polat

  • Origin and fate of particulate organic matter in the southern Beaufort Sea - Amundsen Gulf region, Canadian Arctic

    Cédric Magen;Cédric Magen;Gwénaëlle Chaillou;Sean A. Crowe;Alfonso Mucci;Alfonso Mucci

  • Pelagic photoferrotrophy and iron cycling in a modern ferruginous basin.

    Marc Llirós;Marc Llirós;Marc Llirós;Tamara García–Armisen;François Darchambeau;Cédric Morana

  • Carbon mineralization and oxygen dynamics in sediments with deep oxygen penetration, Lake Superior

    Jiying Li;Sean Andrew Crowe;David Miklesh;Matthew Kistner

  • Mixing and its effects on biogeochemistry in the persistently stratified, deep, tropical Lake Matano, Indonesia

    Sergei Katsev;Sean A. Crowe;Alfonso Mucci;Bjørn Sundby;Bjørn Sundby

  • Preservation and significance of extracellular DNA in ferruginous sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia

    Aurèle Vuillemin;Fabian Horn;Mashal Alawi;Cynthia Henny

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
François Darchambeau
François Darchambeau University of Liège
Alberto Borges
Alberto Borges University of Liège
Jens Kallmeyer
Jens Kallmeyer Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Steven J. Hallam
Steven J. Hallam University of British Columbia
Bjørn Sundby
Bjørn Sundby McGill University
Christopher T. Reinhard
Christopher T. Reinhard Georgia Institute of Technology
Alfonso Mucci
Alfonso Mucci McGill University
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
James M. Russell
James M. Russell Brown University

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