What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Organic chemistry
- Petroleum
- Carbon dioxide
His primary areas of study are Petroleum, Mineralogy, Biodegradation, Hydrocarbon and Geochemistry.
His research in Petroleum intersects with topics in Nitrogen, Source rock, Maturity, Hydrology and Environmental chemistry.
His work investigates the relationship between Source rock and topics such as Petroleum reservoir that intersect with problems in Asphaltene.
His studies deal with areas such as Volume, Fluid inclusions, Vitrinite, Methane Metabolism and Carbon as well as Mineralogy.
His studies in Biodegradation integrate themes in fields like Soil science and Degradation.
Within one scientific family, he focuses on topics pertaining to Petroleum microbiology under Hydrocarbon, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Fraction, Earth science and Methane.
His most cited work include:
- Biological activity in the deep subsurface and the origin of heavy oil (865 citations)
- Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs (289 citations)
- Anaerobic hydrocarbon biodegradation in deep subsurface oil reservoirs (289 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Petroleum, Mineralogy, Source rock, Geochemistry and Petroleum engineering are his primary areas of study.
His Petroleum research includes elements of Biodegradation, Maturity, Petrology, Environmental chemistry and Oil sands.
His Biodegradation research integrates issues from Waste management, Hydrocarbon and Methane.
Steve Larter interconnects Organic matter, Oil shale, Sedimentary rock, Clastic rock and Kerogen in the investigation of issues within Mineralogy.
His Kerogen study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Petrography, Analytical chemistry, Pyrolysis, Organic chemistry and Vitrinite.
The Source rock study combines topics in areas such as Petroleum reservoir, Nitrogen, Fractionation, Asphaltene and Maceral.
He most often published in these fields:
- Petroleum (45.54%)
- Mineralogy (29.46%)
- Source rock (20.09%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?
- Petroleum (45.54%)
- Oil sands (14.29%)
- Petroleum engineering (17.41%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Steve Larter mainly focuses on Petroleum, Oil sands, Petroleum engineering, Asphalt and Geochemistry.
His Petroleum study combines topics in areas such as Radiometric dating, Diamondoid, Biodegradation, Reservoir fluid and Environmental chemistry.
His Biodegradation research incorporates themes from Hydrocarbon and Unconformity.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Mining engineering, Earth science and Source rock in addition to Oil sands.
His Petroleum engineering research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Oil shale, Permeability and Upgrader.
His Geochemistry research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Sedimentary depositional environment, Tectonics, Matrix and Maturity.
Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Metagenomics of Hydrocarbon Resource Environments Indicates Aerobic Taxa and Genes to be Unexpectedly Common (132 citations)
- Anaerobic biodegradation of crude oil under sulphate-reducing conditions leads to only modest enrichment of recognized sulphate-reducing taxa (89 citations)
- Recognition of down-valley translation in tidally influenced meandering fluvial deposits, Athabasca Oil Sands (Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada (89 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Organic chemistry
- Carbon dioxide
- Petroleum
Steve Larter mainly investigates Petroleum, Asphalt, Oil sands, Coal and Methane.
The concepts of his Petroleum study are interwoven with issues in Geochemistry and Biodegradation.
His research in Geochemistry intersects with topics in Unresolved complex mixture, Maturity, Asphaltene, Mineralogy and Physical property.
His research investigates the connection between Biodegradation and topics such as Hydrocarbon that intersect with issues in Fraction, Carbon, Nitrogen and Isotopes of nitrogen.
His Oil sands research includes elements of Ecology and Petroleum engineering.
His work in the fields of Methanogenesis overlaps with other areas such as Tomography.
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