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Stephen J. Romaniello is affiliated with Vesta Sciences in the United States and has a research focus primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology, Inorganic Chemistry, Geophysics, and Oceanography.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several main research topics, which include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

Stephen J. Romaniello's recent publications reflect a focus on marine geochemical proxies, ocean anoxia events, and oxidative weathering in Earth's history. Notable recent papers include:

  • Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: A critical review, 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Extensive marine anoxia associated with the Late Devonian Hangenberg Crisis, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Reconciling evidence of oxidative weathering and atmospheric anoxia on Archean Earth, 2021, Science Advances
  • Early Mississippian ocean anoxia triggered organic carbon burial and late Paleozoic cooling: Evidence from uranium isotopes recorded in marine limestone, 2020, Geology
  • Molybdenum isotope fractionation in glacial diamictites tracks the onset of oxidative weathering of the continental crust, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The scientist has a pattern of frequent publication in the following venues:

  • Chemical Geology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts

Frequent collaborators include Ariel D. Anbar, Geoffrey J. Gilleaudeau, Xinming Chen, Nathan G. Walworth, and Thomas J. Algeo, indicating a network of research partnerships across related fields.

Best Publications

  • Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

    Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Tsuyoshi Komiya;Timothy W. Lyons;Steve M. Bates

  • Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to global warming and continental weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction.

    Feifei Zhang;Stephen J. Romaniello;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Kimberly V. Lau

  • A modern framework for the interpretation of 238U/235U in studies of ancient ocean redox

    Morten Andersen;Morten Andersen;S. Romaniello;D. Vance;S. H. Little

  • Uranium concentrations and 238U/235U isotope ratios in modern carbonates from the Bahamas: Assessing a novel paleoredox proxy

    Stephen J. Romaniello;Achim D. Herrmann;Ariel D. Anbar

  • Cadmium isotope fractionation during adsorption to Mn oxyhydroxide at low and high ionic strength

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  • Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period

    Feifei Zhang;Shuhai Xiao;Brian Kendall;Stephen J. Romaniello

  • Uranium isotopes fingerprint biotic reduction

    Malgorzata Alicja Stylo;Nadja Neubert;Yuheng Wang;Nikhil Monga

  • Fully automated chromatographic purification of Sr and Ca for isotopic analysis

    S. J. Romaniello;M. P. Field;H. B. Smith;Gwyneth Gordon

  • Congruent Permian-Triassic δ238U records at Panthalassic and Tethyan sites: Confirmation of global-oceanic anoxia and validation of the U-isotope paleoredox proxy

    Feifei Zhang;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Stephen J. Romaniello;Ying Cui

  • Global-ocean redox variation during the middle-late Permian through Early Triassic based on uranium isotope and Th/U trends of marine carbonates

    Maya Elrick;Victor Polyak;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Stephen Romaniello

  • Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event

    Chadlin M. Ostrander;Sune G. Nielsen;Jeremy D. Owens;Brian Kendall

  • Diagenetic effects on uranium isotope fractionation in carbonate sediments from the Bahamas

    Xinming Chen;Stephen J. Romaniello;Achim D. Herrmann;Dalton Hardisty

  • Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota.

    Feifei Zhang;Shuhai Xiao;Stephen J. Romaniello;Dalton Hardisty

  • Marine Mo biogeochemistry in the context of dynamically euxinic mid-depth waters: A case study of the lower Cambrian Niutitang shales, South China

    Meng Cheng;Chao Li;Lian Zhou;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo

  • Oxygenation of a Cryogenian ocean (Nanhua Basin, South China) revealed by pyrite Fe isotope compositions

    Feifei Zhang;Xiangkun Zhu;Bin Yan;Brian Kendall

  • Uranium isotope systematics of ferromanganese crusts in the Pacific Ocean: Implications for the marine 238U/235U isotope system

    Kosuke T. Goto;Ariel D. Anbar;Gwyneth W. Gordon;Stephen J. Romaniello

  • Uranium isotope fractionation during coprecipitation with aragonite and calcite

    Xinming Chen;Stephen J. Romaniello;Achim D. Herrmann;Laura E. Wasylenki

  • Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: A critical review

    Feifei Zhang;Timothy M. Lenton;Álvaro del Rey;Stephen J. Romaniello;Stephen J. Romaniello

  • Transient deep-water oxygenation in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin, South China

    Meng Cheng;Chao Li;Lian Zhou;LianJun Feng

  • Uranium and carbon isotopes document global-ocean redox-productivity relationships linked to cooling during the Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction

    Huyue Song;Haijun Song;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Jinnan Tong

  • Global seawater redox trends during the Late Devonian mass extinction detected using U isotopes of marine limestones

    David A. White;Maya Elrick;Stephen Romaniello;Feifei Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Ariel D. Anbar
Ariel D. Anbar Arizona State University
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Gwyneth W. Gordon
Gwyneth W. Gordon Arizona State University
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside
Brian Kendall
Brian Kendall University of Waterloo
Christopher T. Reinhard
Christopher T. Reinhard Georgia Institute of Technology
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao Virginia Tech
Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Niels Peter Revsbech
Niels Peter Revsbech Aarhus University

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