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Stephen A. Norton is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maine in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with a substantial number of publications spanning several specialized subfields.

The main areas of study for this scientist include environmental chemistry, water science and technology, geochemistry and petrology, ecology, and atmospheric science. Norton's research also covers topics such as soil and water nutrient dynamics, hydrology and watershed management studies, fish ecology and management studies, groundwater and isotope geochemistry, heavy metals in the environment, aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics, and geochemistry and elemental analysis.

Stephen A. Norton has contributed to various peer-reviewed journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Lake and Reservoir Management
  • Journal of Equine Veterinary Science
  • Ecological Applications

Notable recent papers include:

  • Modeling response of water quality parameters to land-use and climate change in a temperate, mesotrophic lake, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • The distribution and transport of lead over two centuries as recorded by lake sediments from northeastern North America, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Predicting anoxia in low-nutrient temperate lakes, 2021, Ecological Applications
  • Contrasting stream nitrate and sulfate response to recovery from experimental watershed acidification, 2020, Biogeochemistry
  • The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: Multi-decadal whole-watershed experimental acidification, 2021, Hydrological Processes

Stephen A. Norton frequently collaborates with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Aria Amirbahman, Jeremy Deeds, Linda C. Bacon, Ivan J. Fernandez, and Petr Porcal.

Best Publications

  • Trace metals in atmospheric deposition: A review and assessment

    James N. Galloway;J.David Thornton;Stephen A. Norton;Herbert L. Volchok

  • Isotopic record of lead pollution in lake sediments from the northeastern United States

    J.R. Graney;A.N. Halliday;G.J. Keeler;J.O. Nriagu

  • 137Cs and 210Pb dating of sediments from soft-water lakes in New England (U.S.A.) and Scandinavia, a failure of 137Cs dating

    Ronald B. Davis;C.Thomas Hess;Stephen A. Norton;Denis W. Hanson

  • Aluminum control of phosphorus sorption by lake sediments.

    Jirí Kopácek;Jakub Borovec;Josef Hejzlar;Kai-Uwe Ulrich

  • Freshwater acidification from atmospheric deposition of sulfuric acid: a conceptual model

    J. N. Galloway;S. A. Norton;M. R. Church

  • Experimental Acidification Causes Soil Base-Cation Depletion at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine

    Ivan J. Fernandez;Lindsey E. Rustad;Stephen A. Norton;Jeffrey S. Kahl

  • Experimental inducement of nitrogen saturation at the watershed scale

    Jeffrey S. Kahl;Stephen A. Norton;Ivan J. Fernandez;Knute J. Nadelhoffer

  • Experimental verification of episodic acidification of freshwaters by sea salts

    R. F. Wright;S. A. Norton;D. F. Brakke;T. Frogner

  • Paleoecological investigation of recent lake acidification in the Adirondack Mountains, N.Y.

    Donald F. Charles;Michael W. Binford;Edward T. Furlong;Ronald A. Hites

  • Factors contributing to the internal loading of phosphorus from anoxic sediments in six Maine, USA, lakes

    Bjorn A. Lake;Kyle M. Coolidge;Stephen A. Norton;Aria Amirbahman

  • Generality of fractal 1/f scaling in catchment tracer time series, and its implications for catchment travel time distributions

    Sarah E. Godsey;Wenche Aas;Thomas A. Clair;Heleen A. de Wit

  • Comparison of Hg and Pb fluxes to hummocks and hollows of ombrotrophic big heath bog and to nearby Sargent Mt. Pond, Maine, USA

    S. A. Norton;G. C. Evans;J. S. Kahl

  • Accumulation rates and predominant atmospheric sources of natural and anthropogenic Hg and Pb on the Faroe Islands

    W. Shotyk;Michael Evan Goodsite;F. Roos-Barraclough;N. Givelet

  • Deconstruction of historic mercury accumulation in lake sediments, northeastern United States.

    Ethan Perry;Stephen A. Norton;Neil C. Kamman;P. M. Lorey

  • Deconstruction of the chemical effects of road salt on stream water chemistry

    Charles F. Mason;Stephen A. Norton;Ivan J. Fernandez;Lynn E. Katz

  • Paleolimnological reconstruction of the effects of atmospheric deposition of acids and heavy metals on the chemistry and biology of lakes in New England and Norway

    Ronald B. Davis;Stephen A. Norton;C. Thomas Hess;David F. Brakke

  • Relationship between hypolimnetic phosphorus and iron release from eleven lakes in Maine, USA

    Aria Amirbahman;Andrea R. Pearce;Roy J. Bouchard;Stephen A. Norton

  • The relative importance of acidity sources for humic lakes in Norway

    David F. Brakke;David F. Brakke;Arne Henriksen;Stephen A. Norton;Stephen A. Norton

  • The History of Atmospheric Deposition of Cd, Hg, and Pb in North America: Evidence from Lake and Peat Bog Sediments

    Stephen A. Norton;Peter J. Dillon;R. Douglas Evans;Gregory Mierle

  • Environmental Chemistry of Beryllium-7

    James M. Kaste;Stephen A. Norton;Charles T. Hess

  • Mechanisms of episodic acidification in low-order streams in Maine, USA

    Jeffrey S. Kahl;Stephen A. Norton;Terry A. Haines;Elizabeth A. Rochette

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan J. Fernandez
Ivan J. Fernandez University of Maine
Jeffrey S. Kahl
Jeffrey S. Kahl Thomas College
Aria Amirbahman
Aria Amirbahman University of Maine
Jiří Kopáček
Jiří Kopáček Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Lindsey E. Rustad
Lindsey E. Rustad US Forest Service
Myron J. Mitchell
Myron J. Mitchell SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
William Shotyk
William Shotyk University of Alberta
Josef Hejzlar
Josef Hejzlar Czech Academy of Sciences
James N. Galloway
James N. Galloway University of Virginia
Bernard J. Cosby
Bernard J. Cosby University of Virginia

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