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Simon C. George is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Mechanics of Materials, Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, and Ocean Engineering.

Their research encompasses several main topics, with a strong emphasis on hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis. Other key areas of study include methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geophysical studies, seismic imaging and inversion techniques, and reservoir engineering and simulation methods.

Recent publications by Simon C. George include:

  • Bacteria-plant interactions synergistically enhance biodegradation of diesel fuel hydrocarbons (2022, Communications Earth & Environment)
  • Dose-response analysis of diesel fuel phytotoxicity on selected plant species (2020, Chemosphere)
  • Palaeovegetation variation in response to the late Oligocene-early Miocene East Asian summer monsoon in the Ying-Qiong Basin, South China Sea (2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • Enhancing rhizoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons through bioaugmentation with a plant growth-promoting bacterial consortium (2021, Chemosphere)
  • Diversity and metagenome analysis of a hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial consortium from asphalt lakes located in Wietze, Germany (2021, AMB Express)

Frequent co-authors in Simon C. George's body of work include:

  • Lian Jiang
  • Julius S. Lipp
  • Craig S. Fulthorpe
  • Koichi Hoyanagi
  • Peter Blum

The scientist has published many articles in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Organic Geochemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Marine and Petroleum Geology, and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

Best Publications

  • Coal as a source rock for oil: a review

    Ronald W.T Wilkins;Simon C George

  • Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

    Katherine L. French;Christian Hallmann;Janet M. Hope;Petra L. Schoon

  • Assessing the maturity of oil trapped in fluid inclusions using molecular geochemistry data and visually-determined fluorescence colours

    Simon C George;Tim E Ruble;Adriana Dutkiewicz;Peter J Eadington

  • Geochemical comparison of oil-bearing fluid inclusions and produced oil from the Toro sandstone, Papua New Guinea

    Simon C. George;Frank W. Krieger;Peter J. Eadington;Robinson A. Quezada

  • The effect of minor to moderate biodegradation on C 5 to C 9 hydrocarbons in crude oils

    Simon C George;Christopher J Boreham;Sandra A Minifie;Stan C Teerman

  • Geochemical comparison of fluid inclusion and present-day oil accumulations in the Papuan Foreland – evidence for previously unrecognised petroleum source rocks

    Herbert Volk;Simon C. George;Heather Middleton;Shane Schofield

  • Constraining the oil charge history of the South Pepper oilfield from the analysis of oil-bearing fluid inclusions

    Simon C. George;Mark Lisk;Roger E. Summons;Robinson A. Quezada

  • Biomarkers from Huronian oil-bearing fluid inclusions: An uncontaminated record of life before the Great Oxidation Event

    Adriana Dutkiewicz;Herbert Volk;Simon C. George;John Ridley

  • Preservation of hydrocarbons and biomarkers in oil trapped inside fluid inclusions for >2 billion years

    Simon C. George;Herbert Volk;Adriana Dutkiewicz;John Ridley

  • Organic geochemical characteristics of the Mesoproterozoic Hongshuizhuang Formation from northern China: implications for thermal maturity and biological sources

    Qingyong Luo;Qingyong Luo;Simon C. George;Yaohui Xu;Yaohui Xu;Ningning Zhong

  • Effect of igneous intrusion on the organic geochemistry of a siltstone and an oil shale horizon in the Midland Valley of Scotland

    Simon C. George

  • Tricyclic terpenoid composition of Tasmanites kerogen as determined by pyrolysis GC-MS

    Paul F. Greenwood;Khaled R. Arouri;Simon C. George

  • Geochemical analysis techniques and geological applications of oil-bearing fluid inclusions, with some Australian case studies

    Simon C. George;Herbert Volk;Manzur Ahmed

  • Fluid inclusion evidence for an early, marine-sourced oil charge prior to gas-condensate migration, Bayu-1, Timor Sea, Australia

    Simon C. George;Mark Lisk;Peter J. Eadington

  • Effects of biodegradation on Australian Permian coals

    Manzur Ahmed;J.W. Smith;Simon C. George

  • The analysis of oil trapped during secondary migration

    Simon C. George;Manzur Ahmed;Keyu Liu;Herbert Volk

  • Geochemistry of oil in fluid inclusions in a middle Proterozoic igneous intrusion: implications for the source of hydrocarbons in crystalline rocks

    A. Dutkiewicz;H. Volk;J. Ridley;S.C. George

  • Changes in the molecular composition of crude oils during their preparation for GC and GC–MS analyses

    Manzur Ahmed;Simon C. George

  • Using petroleum inclusions to trace petroleum systems – a review

    Herbert Volk;Simon C. George

  • Ancient DNA from marine sediments: Precautions and considerations for seafloor coring, sample handling and data generation

    Linda H. Armbrecht;Marco J.L. Coolen;Franck Lejzerowicz;Simon C. George

  • Paleosalinity significance of occurrence and distribution of methyltrimethyltridecyl chromans in the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation, Songliao Basin, China

    Li Wang;Zhiguang Song;Qin Yin;Simon C. George

  • Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

    Katherine L. French;Christian Hallmann;Christian Hallmann;Petra L. Schoon;John E. Zumberge

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm R. Walter
Malcolm R. Walter University of New South Wales
Keyu Liu
Keyu Liu China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Paul F. Greenwood
Paul F. Greenwood Curtin University
Grant C. Hose
Grant C. Hose Macquarie University
Roger Buick
Roger Buick University of Washington
Ian Snape
Ian Snape Frontline Mind
Julius S. Lipp
Julius S. Lipp University of Bremen
David B. Kemp
David B. Kemp China University of Geosciences
Glenn A. Brock
Glenn A. Brock Macquarie University

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