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Overview

Steven A. Banwart is affiliated with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and has a research focus centered on environmental science, with numerous contributions to the understanding of carbon sequestration, soil dynamics, and environmental interactions.

The scientist's publication record includes significant work in a range of topics, with principal areas of interest including:

  • CO2 Sequestration and Geologic Interactions
  • Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Banwart's publications frequently appear in journals such as:

  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature
  • CATENA
  • Applied Geochemistry

Their recent papers include:

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands (2020), published in Nature
  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil (2020), published in Global Change Biology
  • Carbon storage in an arable soil combining field measurements, aggregate turnover modeling and climate scenarios (2022), published in CATENA
  • Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
  • Effects of mineralogy, chemistry and physical properties of basalts on carbon capture potential and plant-nutrient element release via enhanced weathering (2021), published in Applied Geochemistry

Collaborations are a notable aspect of Banwart's research career, with frequent coauthors including:

  • David J. Beerling
  • Hongyan Guo
  • Laura Carter
  • Maria Val Martin
  • Pippa J. Chapman

The scientist's main fields of study are focused on Environmental Science, with subfields comprising:

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Soil Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Pollution
  • Ecology

Best Publications

  • Mine Water: Hydrology, Pollution, Remediation

    Paul L Younger;Steven A Banwart;Robert S Hedin

  • Characterization of redox conditions in groundwater contaminant plumes

    Thomas H Christensen;Poul L Bjerg;Steven A Banwart;Rasmus Jakobsen

  • Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands

    David J. Beerling;Euripides P. Kantzas;Mark R. Lomas;Peter Wade

  • Linkages between aggregate formation, porosity and soil chemical properties

    Inge C. Regelink;Cathelijne R. Stoof;Cathelijne R. Stoof;Svetla Rousseva;Liping Weng

  • Biological weathering and the long-term carbon cycle: integrating mycorrhizal evolution and function into the current paradigm.

    L. L. Taylor;J. R. Leake;J. Quirk;K. Hardy

  • Dissolution of hydrous iron(III) oxides by reductive mechanisms

    Daniel. Suter;Steven. Banwart;Werner. Stumm

  • Biotite dissolution at 25°C: The pH dependence of dissolution rate and stoichiometry

    Maria Malmström;Steven Banwart

  • Soil engineering in vivo: harnessing natural biogeochemical systems for sustainable, multi-functional engineering solutions

    Jason T. DeJong;Jason T. DeJong;Kenichi Soga;Steven A. Banwart;W. Richard Whalley

  • Increased yield and CO2 sequestration potential with the C4 cereal Sorghum bicolor cultivated in basaltic rock dust-amended agricultural soil.

    Mike E. Kelland;Peter W. Wade;Amy L. Lewis;Lyla L. Taylor

  • Dissolution of fe(iii)(hydr)oxides in natural waters; laboratory assessment on the kinetics controlled by surface coordination

    Barbara Sulzberger;Daniel Suter;Christophe Siffert;Steven Banwart

  • Characterization of the Cell Surface and Cell Wall Chemistry of Drinking Water Bacteria by Combining XPS, FTIR Spectroscopy, Modeling, and Potentiometric Titrations

    Jesús J Ojeda;María E Romero-Gonzalez;Robert T Bachmann;Robert G J Edyvean

  • Resolving the scale-dependence of mineral weathering rates.

    Maria E. Malmström;Georgia Destouni;Steven A. Banwart;Bo H. E. Strömberg

  • Mine Water Hydrology

    Paul L. Younger;Steven A. Banwart;Robert S. Hedin

  • Substantial carbon drawdown potential from enhanced rock weathering in the United Kingdom

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  • The role of oxalate in accelerating the reductive dissolution of hematite (α-Fe2O3) by ascorbate

    Steven Banwart;Simon Davies;Werner Stumm

  • Kinetic modelling of geochemical processes at the Aitik mining waste rock site in northern Sweden

    Bo Strömberg;Steven Banwart

  • Experimental study of acidity-consuming processes in mining waste rock: some influences of mineralogy and particle size

    Bo Strömberg;Steven A. Banwart

  • Carbon dioxide mediated dissolution of Ca-feldspar: implications for silicate weathering

    Astrid Berg;Steven A. Banwart

  • The structure, biological activity and biogeochemistry of cryoconite aggregates upon an Arctic valley glacier: Longyearbreen, Svalbard

    Andy Hodson;Karen Cameron;Carl Bøggild;Tristram Irvine-Fynn

  • The microstructure and biogeochemistry of Arctic cryoconite granules

    Harry Langford;Andy Hodson;Steve Banwart;Carl Bøggild

  • Processes controlling the distribution and natural attenuation of dissolved phenolic compounds in a deep sandstone aquifer

    Steven F Thornton;Sean Quigley;Michael J Spence;Steven A Banwart

  • On the Value of Soil Resources in the Context of Natural Capital and Ecosystem Service Delivery

    D. A. Robinson;I. Fraser;I. Fraser;E. J. Dominati;B. Davíðsdóttir

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan R. Leake
Jonathan R. Leake University of Sheffield
David N. Lerner
David N. Lerner University of Sheffield
Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis
Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis Technical University of Crete
David J. Beerling
David J. Beerling University of Sheffield
Liane G. Benning
Liane G. Benning Freie Universität Berlin
Paul L. Younger
Paul L. Younger University of Glasgow
Christopher J. Duffy
Christopher J. Duffy Pennsylvania State University
Julie D. Scholes
Julie D. Scholes University of Sheffield
Roger W. Pickup
Roger W. Pickup Lancaster University

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