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Sebastian Sobek

Sebastian Sobek

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
14237
World Ranking
6587
National Ranking
120

Overview

Sebastian Sobek is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden and focuses on research primarily within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work concentrates on a variety of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics explored in their research cover Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics, Groundwater flow and contamination studies, and Environmental Changes in China.

Sobek has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Predicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Global increase in methane production under future warming of lake bottom waters, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Comparing methane ebullition variability across space and time in a Brazilian reservoir, 2020, Limnology and Oceanography
  • The CO2-equivalent balance of freshwater ecosystems is non-linearly related to productivity, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Cross-continental importance of CH4 emissions from dry inland-waters, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Their frequent co-authors include Charlotte Grasset, Lars J. Tranvik, Simone Moras, Raquel Mendonça, and José R. Paranaíba.

Sebastian Sobek has contributed regularly to specific publication venues, with multiple works appearing in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Global Change Biology, Limnology and Oceanography, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Lakes and reservoirs as regulators of carbon cycling and climate

    Lars J. Tranvik;John A. Downing;James B. Cotner;Steven A. Loiselle

  • Global carbon dioxide emissions from inland waters

    Peter A. Raymond;Jens Hartmann;Ronny Lauerwald;Ronny Lauerwald;Sebastian Sobek

  • Temperature-controlled organic carbon mineralization in lake sediments

    Cristian Gudasz;David Bastviken;Kristin Steger;Katrin Premke

  • Patterns and regulation of dissolved organic carbon: An analysis of 7,500 widely distributed lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Lars J. Tranvik;Yves T. Prairie;Pirkko Kortelainen

  • Organic carbon burial in global lakes and reservoirs

    Raquel Mendonça;Roger A. Müller;David Clow;Charles Verpoorter;Charles Verpoorter

  • Temperature independence of carbon dioxide supersaturation in global lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Lars J. Tranvik;Jonathan J. Cole

  • Organic carbon burial efficiency in lake sediments controlled by oxygen exposure time and sediment source

    Sebastian Sobek;Sebastian Sobek;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Edith Durisch-Kaiser;Roland Zurbrügg;Roland Zurbrügg;Nuttakan Wongfun;Nuttakan Wongfun

  • Role of lakes for organic carbon cycling in the boreal zone

    Grete Algesten;Sebastian Sobek;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Anneli Ågren

  • The catchment and climate regulation of pCO2 in boreal lakes

    Sebastian Sobek;Grete Algesten;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Mats Jansson

  • Mapping lake CDOM by satellite remote sensing

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;Kari Y. Kallio;Anu Reinart

  • Extreme Methane Emissions from a Swiss Hydropower Reservoir: Contribution from Bubbling Sediments

    Tonya DelSontro;Daniel Frank Mcginnis;Sebastian Sobek;Ilia Ostrovsky

  • Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Freshwater Reservoirs: What Does the Atmosphere See?

    Yves T. Prairie;Jukka Alm;Jake Beaulieu;Nathan Barros

  • Extreme organic carbon burial fuels intense methane bubbling in a temperate reservoir

    Sebastian Sobek;Sebastian Sobek;Sebastian Sobek;Tonya DelSontro;Tonya DelSontro;Nuttakan Wongfun;Nuttakan Wongfun;Bernhard Wehrli;Bernhard Wehrli

  • Large but variable methane production in anoxic freshwater sediment upon addition of allochthonous and autochthonous organic matter.

    Charlotte Grasset;Raquel Mendonça;Gabriella Villamor Saucedo;David Bastviken

  • Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Estimate the Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Absorption Coefficient in Lakes

    Tiit Kutser;Donald C. Pierson;L.J. Tranvik;Anu Reinart

  • Integrating aquatic carbon fluxes in a boreal catchment carbon budget

    Anders Jonsson;Grete Algesten;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Kevin Bishop

  • Linking allochthonous dissolved organic matter and boreal lake sediment carbon sequestration: The role of light-mediated flocculation

    Eddie von Wachenfeldt;Sebastian Sobek;David Bastviken;Lars J. Tranvik

  • Large CO2 disequilibria in tropical lakes

    Humberto Marotta;Humberto Marotta;Carlos M. Duarte;Sebastian Sobek;Sebastian Sobek;Alex Enrich-Prast

  • Predicting lake dissolved organic carbon at a global scale

    Kaire Toming;Kaire Toming;Kaire Toming;Jonne Kotta;Evelyn Uuemaa;Sebastian Sobek

  • A carbon budget of a small humic lake: an example of the importance of lakes for organic matter cycling in boreal catchments.

    Sebastian Sobek;Björn Söderbäck;Sara Karlsson;Eva Andersson

  • Contribution of sediment respiration to summer CO2 emission from low productive boreal and subarctic lakes.

    Grete Algesten;Sebastian Sobek;Ann-Kristin Bergström;Anders Jonsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars J. Tranvik
Lars J. Tranvik Uppsala University
Fábio Roland
Fábio Roland Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer
Gesa A. Weyhenmeyer Uppsala University
David Bastviken
David Bastviken Linköping University
Pirkko Kortelainen
Pirkko Kortelainen Finnish Environment Institute
Sarian Kosten
Sarian Kosten Radboud University
Mats Jansson
Mats Jansson Umeå University
Ronny Lauerwald
Ronny Lauerwald University of Paris-Saclay
Ann-Kristin Bergström
Ann-Kristin Bergström Umeå University

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