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Overview

Steven D'Hondt is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields mainly within Environmental Science and Engineering, with a particular focus on Ocean Engineering, Environmental Chemistry, and Ecology. They have contributed extensively to topics related to Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Their work also covers Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Drilling and Well Engineering, Offshore Engineering and Technologies, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Applications and Techniques. This multidisciplinary approach is reflected in their frequent publications in renowned venues.

Steven D'Hondt's frequent publication venues include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio

They have coauthored numerous scientific articles with several recurring collaborators. The most frequent coauthors are:

  • Fumio Inagaki
  • Arthur J. Spivack
  • Richard W. Murray
  • David C. Smith
  • Timothy G. Ferdelman

Steven D'Hondt's recent papers provide insight into their research interests and contributions. Selected papers include:

  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Subsidence in Coastal Cities Throughout the World Observed by InSAR, 2022, Geophysical Research Letters
  • Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Exploring the abundance, metabolic potential and gene expression of subseafloor Chloroflexi in million-year-old oxic and anoxic abyssal clay, 2020, FEMS Microbiology Ecology
  • The contribution of water radiolysis to marine sedimentary life, 2021, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

    Jens Kallmeyer;Robert Pockalny;Rishi Ram Adhikari;David C. Smith

  • Distributions of Microbial Activities in Deep Subseafloor Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Bo Barker Jørgensen;D. Jay Miller;Anja Batzke

  • Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin

    Fumio Inagaki;Takuro Nunoura;Satoshi Nakagawa;Andreas Teske

  • Metabolic Activity of Subsurface Life in Deep-Sea Sediments

    Steven D'Hondt;Scott Rutherford;Arthur J. Spivack

  • Environmental controls on the geographic distribution of zooplankton diversity

    Scott Rutherford;Steven D'Hondt;Warren Prell

  • Endospore abundance, microbial growth and necromass turnover in deep sub-seafloor sediment

    Bente Aa. Lomstein;Alice T. Langerhuus;Steven D’Hondt;Bo B. Jørgensen

  • Global diversity of microbial communities in marine sediment.

    Tatsuhiko Hoshino;Hideyuki Doi;Go-Ichiro Uramoto;Lars Wörmer

  • Organic carbon fluxes and ecological recovery from the cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction

    Steven D'Hondt;Percy Donaghay;James C. Zachos;Danielle Luttenberg

  • Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific Gyre

    Steven D’Hondt;Arthur J. Spivack;Robert Pockalny;Timothy G. Ferdelman

  • Glass from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in Haiti

    Haraldur Sigurdsson;Steven D'Hondt;Michael A. Arthur;Timothy J. Bralower

  • Presence of oxygen and aerobic communities from sea floor to basement in deep-sea sediments

    Steven D'hondt;Steven D'hondt;Fumio Inagaki;Fumio Inagaki;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Carlos Alvarez Zarikian;Lewis J. Abrams

  • Bacterial diversity and community composition from seasurface to subseafloor

    Emily A Walsh;John B Kirkpatrick;Scott D Rutherford;David C Smith

  • Heterotrophic organisms dominate nitrogen fixation in the South Pacific Gyre

    Hannah Halm;Phyllis Lam;Timothy G. Ferdelman;Gaute Lavik

  • Early onset and tropical forcing of 100,000-year Pleistocene glacial cycles

    Scott Rutherford;Steven D'Hondt

  • CONSEQUENCES OF THE CRETACEOUS/PALEOGENE MASS EXTINCTION FOR MARINE ECOSYSTEMS

    Steven D'Hondt

  • Aerobic Microbial Respiration in 86-Million-Year-Old Deep-Sea Red Clay

    Hans Røy;Jens Kallmeyer;Rishi Ram Adhikari;Robert Pockalny

  • New cell extraction procedure applied to deep subsurface sediments

    Jens Kallmeyer;David C. Smith;Arthur J. Spivack;Steven D'Hondt

  • Subsidence in Coastal Cities Throughout the World Observed by InSAR

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  • An effect of dissolved nutrient concentrations on alkenone‐based temperature estimates

    Bonnie L. Epstein;Steven D'Hondt;James G Quinn;Jiaping Zhang

  • A starving majority deep beneath the seafloor

    Bo Barker Jørgensen;Steven L d'Hondt

  • Tektite Glass from the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary in Haiti

    H. Sigurdsson;S. D'Hondt;M. A. Arthur;T. J. Bralower

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur J. Spivack
Arthur J. Spivack University of Rhode Island
Fumio Inagaki
Fumio Inagaki Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Richard W. Murray
Richard W. Murray Boston University
David C. Smith
David C. Smith University of Rhode Island
Jens Kallmeyer
Jens Kallmeyer Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Timothy G. Ferdelman
Timothy G. Ferdelman Max Planck Society
Yuki Morono
Yuki Morono Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Bo Barker Jørgensen
Bo Barker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Haraldur Sigurdsson
Haraldur Sigurdsson University of Rhode Island
Michael A. Arthur
Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University

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