2026 Thomas M. Church: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	65	1398	630	155	15290

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Earth Science

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Overview

Thomas M. Church was affiliated with the University of Delaware in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines including mathematics, earth and planetary sciences, and environmental science. The scientist contributed to various subfields such as oceanography, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, mathematical physics, geometry and topology, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their work covered a diverse range of topics, with publications addressing mercury impact and mitigation studies, marine and coastal ecosystems, marine biology and ecology research, geometric and algebraic topology, mathematical dynamics and fractals, homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology, and selenium in biological systems.

Thomas M. Church had research published in these venues:

Marine Chemistry
Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Their notable recent publications included:

"Dissolved iron in the Bermuda region of the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean: Seasonal dynamics, mesoscale variability, and physicochemical speciation" (2020) in Marine Chemistry
"On finite generation of the Johnson filtrations" (2021) in Journal of the European Mathematical Society
"Tellurite and selenite processing by tellurite resistant marine microbes" (2025) in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Thomas M. Church frequently collaborated with the following co-authors:

Peter N. Sedwick
Andrew R. Bowie
Jay T. Cullen
Rodney J. Johnson
Maeve C. Lohan

Best Publications

The atmospheric input of trace species to the world ocean

R. A. Duce;P. S. Liss;J. T. Merrill;E. L. Atlas

2022
Citations
The fate of nitrogen and phosphorus at the land-sea margin of the North Atlantic Ocean

S. W. Nixon;J. W. Ammerman;L. P. Atkinson;V. M. Berounsky

1025
Citations
Impact of anthropogenic combustion emissions on the fractional solubility of aerosol iron: Evidence from the Sargasso Sea

Peter N. Sedwick;Edward R. Sholkovitz;Thomas M. Church

415
Citations
Atmospheric deposition of nutrients to the North Atlantic Basin.

J. M. Prospero;K. Barrett;T. Church;F. Dentener

388
Citations
The Behaviour of Dissolved Barium in Estuaries

M. Coffey;F.A. Dehairs;O. Collette;G. Luther

362
Citations
An underground route for the water cycle

Thomas M. Church

360
Citations
Sulfur speciation and associated trace metals (Fe, Cu) in the pore waters of Great Marsh, Delaware

Jacques Boulegue;Charles J. Lord;Thomas M. Church

354
Citations
The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

352
Citations
Seasonal iron cycling in the salt-marsh sedimentary environment: the importance of ligand complexes with Fe(II) and Fe(III) in the dissolution of Fe(III) minerals and pyrite, respectively

George W Luther;Joel E Kostka;Thomas M Church;Barbara Sulzberger

350
Citations
The chemistry of the Delaware estuary. General considerations1

Jonathan H. Sharp;Charles H. Culberson;Thomas M. Church

293
Citations
Fractional solubility of aerosol iron: Synthesis of a global-scale data set

Edward R. Sholkovitz;Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church;Alexander R. Baker

283
Citations
Iron in the Sargasso Sea (Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study region) during summer : eolian imprint, spatiotemporal variability, and ecological implications

Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church;Andrew R. Bowie;Christopher M. Marsay

261
Citations
Marine barite saturation

Thomas M. Church;Kenneth Wolgemuth

247
Citations
The geochemistry of salt marshes: Sedimentary ion diffusion, sulfate reduction, and pyritization

Charles J. Lord;Thomas M. Church

247
Citations
Influence of anthropogenic combustion emissions on the deposition of soluble aerosol iron to the ocean: Empirical estimates for island sites in the North Atlantic

Edward R. Sholkovitz;Peter N. Sedwick;Thomas M. Church

240
Citations
Inorganic and Organic Sulfur Cycling in Salt-Marsh Pore Waters

George W. Luther;Thomas M. Church;Joseph R. Scudlark;Monique Cosman

232
Citations
Sulfur speciation and sulfide oxidation in the water column of the Black Sea

George W. Luther;Thomas M. Church;David Powell

209
Citations
Sulfur enrichment of humic substances in a Delaware salt marsh sediment core

Timothy G. Ferdelman;Thomas M. Church;George W. Luther

202
Citations
Megacities and large urban agglomerations in the coastal zone: interactions between atmosphere, land, and marine ecosystems.

Roland von Glasow;Tim D. Jickells;Alexander Baklanov;Gregory R. Carmichael

182
Citations
Marine Chemistry in the Coastal Environment

Thomas M. Church

179
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guebuem Kim Seoul National University

James N. Galloway University of Virginia

Peter N. Sedwick Old Dominion University

George W. Luther University of Delaware

Tim Jickells University of East Anglia

Anthony H. Knap Texas A&M University

Maeve C. Lohan University of Southampton

Richard Arimoto New Mexico State University Carlsbad

Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University

Mark Baskaran Wayne State University

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