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Overview

Walter E. Dean is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering, with significant work in several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Catalysis, Biomedical Engineering, and Polymers and Plastics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Oil and Gas Production Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
  • Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
  • Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials

Walter E. Dean has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Bernays, Paul Isaac (1888-1977), 2020, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers
  • Table of Contents, 2023, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
  • DSDP Leg 89, Hole 586C - Well Logging Data, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • DSDP Leg 89, Hole 586C - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • DSDP Leg 75, Hole 530A - Well Logging Data, 2020, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Walter E. Dean include:

  • Ralph Moberly
  • Seymour O. Schlanger
  • Miriam Baltuck
  • James A. Bergen
  • P.A. Floyd

Walter E. Dean's work has appeared repeatedly in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Philosophers
  • Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
  • arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

  • Determination of carbonate and organic matter in calcareous sediments and sedimentary rocks by loss on ignition; comparison with other methods

    Walter E. Dean

  • Geochemical and climatic effects of increased marine organic carbon burial at the Cenomanian/Turonian boundary

    Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean;Lisa M. Pratt

  • Magnitude and significance of carbon burial in lakes, reservoirs, and peatlands

    Walter E. Dean;Eville Gorham

  • Variations in the global carbon cycle during the Cretaceous related to climate, volcanism, and changes in atmospheric CO2.

    M.A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean;S.O. Schlanger

  • Inorganic geochemical indicators of glacial-interglacial changes in productivity and anoxia on the California continental margin

    Walter E. Dean;James V. Gardner;David Z. Piper

  • Geochemical evidence for suppression of pelagic marine productivity at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary

    James C. Zachos;Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean

  • History of water-column anoxia in the Black Sea indicated by pyrite framboid size distributions

    Richard T. Wilkin;Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean

  • The carbon cycle and biogeochemical dynamics in lake sediments

    Walter E. Dean

  • Depletion of 13C in Cretaceous marine organic matter: Source, diagenetic, or environmental sigal?

    Walter E Dean;Michael A Arthur;George E Claypool

  • Iron-sulfur-carbon relationships in organic-carbon-rich sequences I: Cretaceous Western Interior seaway

    Walter E. Dean;Michael A. Arthur

  • Lacustrine varve formation through time

    Roger Y. Anderson;Walter E. Dean

  • Anomalous 13C enrichment in modern marine organic carbon

    Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean;George E. Claypool

  • Organic-matter production and preservation and evolution of anoxia in the Holocene Black Sea

    Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean

  • 15N/14N variations in Cretaceous Atlantic sedimentary sequences: implication for past changes in marine nitrogen biogeochemistry

    Greg H. Rau;Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean

  • Elk Lake, Minnesota : evidence for rapid climate change in the north-central United States

    J. Piatt Bradbury;Walter E. Dean

  • Rates, timing, and cyclicity of Holocene eolian activity in north-central United States: Evidence from varved lake sediments

    Walter E. Dean

  • Evidence for Milankovitch Periodicities in Cenomanian-Turonian Lithologic and Geochemical Cycles, Western Interior U.S.A.

    B. B. Sageman;Jonathan Rich;M. A. Arthur;G. E. Birchfield

  • Regional aridity in North America during the middle Holocene

    Walter E. Dean;Thomas S. Ahlbrandt;Roger Y. Anderson;J. Platt Bradbury

  • Sediment deposition in the Late Holocene abyssal Black Sea with climatic and chronological implications

    Bernward J. Hay;Michael A. Arthur;Walter E. Dean;Eric D. Neff

  • Enhanced marine productivity off western North America during warm climate intervals of the past 52 k.y.

    J.D. Ortiz;S.B. O'Connell;J. DelViscio;W. Dean

  • Evolution of the Cretaceous Ocean‐Climate System

    Walter E. Dean

Frequent Co-Authors

James V. Gardner
James V. Gardner University of New Hampshire
Michael A. Arthur
Michael A. Arthur Pennsylvania State University
Roger Y. Anderson
Roger Y. Anderson University of New Mexico
Steven M. Colman
Steven M. Colman University of Minnesota
J. Platt Bradbury
J. Platt Bradbury United States Geological Survey
Antje Schwalb
Antje Schwalb Technische Universität Braunschweig
Darrell S. Kaufman
Darrell S. Kaufman Northern Arizona University
Yan Zheng
Yan Zheng Southern University of Science and Technology
Joseph D. Ortiz
Joseph D. Ortiz Kent State University
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University

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