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Wayne C. Shanks is affiliated with the United States Geological Survey in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on Engineering and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Within these broad domains, Shanks has contributed notably to subfields such as Ocean Engineering, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The scientific topics covered in Shanks' work include drilling and well engineering, reservoir engineering and simulation methods, geology and paleoclimatology research, geological and geochemical analysis, offshore engineering and technologies, hydraulic fracturing and reservoir analysis, and geological formations and processes.

Shanks has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators including Yves Fouquet, Robert A. Zierenberg, Jean M. Bahr, Paul A. Baker, and Terje Bjerkgårdn.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • Multi-proxy record of Holocene paleoenvironmental conditions from Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA, published in 2021 in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geological and Thermal Control of the Hydrothermal System in Northern Yellowstone Lake: Inferences From High-Resolution Magnetic Surveys, published in 2020 in Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth
  • The dynamic floor of Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, USA: The last 14 k.y. of hydrothermal explosions, venting, doming, and faulting, published in 2022 in Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Diagenetic Barite-Pyrite-Wurtzite Formation and Redox Signatures in Triassic Mudstone, Brooks Range, Northern Alaska, published in 2021 in Chemical Geology
  • Seeing Through Metamorphism: Geochemical and Isotopic Studies of Amphibolite Facies Mafic-Siliciclastic (Besshi-Type) Massive Sulfide Deposits at the Elizabeth Copper Mine, Vermont, USA, published in 2024 in Economic Geology

Shanks' work has been published frequently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Quaternary Science Reviews, and Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth.

Best Publications

  • Applications of Microanalytical Techniques to Understanding Mineralizing Processes

    Michael A. McKibben;Wayne C. Shanks;W. Ian Ridley

  • Volcanic eruption of the mid-ocean ridge along the East Pacific Rise crest at 9°45-52'N: Direct submersible observations of seafloor phenomena associated with an eruption event in April, 1991

    R.M. Haymon;D.J. Fornari;K. L. Von Damm;M.D. Lilley

  • Stable Isotopes in Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems: Vent fluids, hydrothermal deposits, hydrothermal alteration, and microbial processes

    Wayne C. Shanks

  • Integrated Fe- and S-isotope study of seafloor hydrothermal vents at East Pacific Rise 9–10°N

    Olivier J Rouxel;Wayne C Shanks;Wolfgang Bach;Wolfgang Bach;Katrina J Edwards;Katrina J Edwards

  • Stable isotopes in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems: Interactions between fluids, minerals, and organisms

    Wayne C. Shanks;John K. Böhlke;Robert R. Seal

  • The role of serpentinites in cycling of carbon and sulfur: Seafloor serpentinization and subduction metamorphism

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Esther M. Schwarzenbach;Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Wayne C. Shanks

  • Iron isotope fractionation during microbially stimulated Fe(II) oxidation and Fe(III) precipitation

    Nurgul Balci;Nurgul Balci;Thomas D. Bullen;Kerstin Witte-Lien;Wayne C. Shanks

  • Cycling of sulfur in subduction zones: The geochemistry of sulfur in the Mariana Island Arc and back-arc trough

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Wayne C. Shanks;Michael C. Jackson

  • Evidence for Microbial Carbon and Sulfur Cycling in Deeply Buried Ridge Flank Basalt

    Mark A Lever;Mark A Lever;Olivier J Rouxel;Olivier J Rouxel;Jeffrey C Alt;Nobumichi Shimizu

  • Direct observation of the evolution of a seafloor 'black smoker' from vapor to brine

    K.L. Von Damm;L.G. Buttermore;S.E. Oosting;A.M. Bray

  • Sulfur in serpentinized oceanic peridotites: Serpentinization processes and microbial sulfate reduction

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Wayne C. Shanks

  • Serpentinization of abyssal peridotites from the MARK area, Mid-Atlantic Ridge: Sulfur geochemistry and reaction modeling

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Wayne C. Shanks

  • S-33 constraints on the seawater sulfate contribution in modern seafloor hydrothermal vent sulfides

    Shuhei Ono;Wayne C. Shanks;Olivier J. Rouxel;Douglas Rumble

  • Sulfur isotope study of chimney minerals and vent fluids from 21°N, East Pacific Rise: Hydrothermal sulfur sources and disequilibrium sulfate reduction

    Laurel G. Woodruff;Wayne C. Shanks

  • Geochemistry of hydrothermal fluids from the PACMANUS, Northeast Pual and Vienna Woods hydrothermal fields, Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea

    Eoghan P Reeves;Jeffrey S Seewald;Peter J Saccocia;Wolfgang Bach

  • Stable isotope studies of vent fluids and chimney minerals, southern Juan de Fuca Ridge: Sodium metasomatism and seawater sulfate reduction

    Wayne C. Shanks;William E. Seyfried

  • Recycling of water, carbon, and sulfur during subduction of serpentinites: A stable isotope study of Cerro del Almirez, Spain

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Carlos J. Garrido;Wayne C. Shanks;Alexandra Turchyn

  • Oxygen and iron isotope studies of magnetite produced by magnetotactic bacteria

    Kevin W. Mandernack;Dennis A. Bazylinski;Wayne C. Shanks;Thomas D. Bullen

  • Mineralogy and geochemistry of a sediment‐hosted hydrothermal sulfide deposit from the Southern Trough of Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California

    Randolph A. Koski;Peter F. Lonsdale;Wayne C. Shanks;Michael E. Berndt

  • Extraordinary phase separation and segregation in vent fluids from the southern East Pacific Rise

    K. L. Von Damm;M.D. Lilley;Wayne C. Shanks;M. Brockington

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey C. Alt
Jeffrey C. Alt University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jeffrey S. Seewald
Jeffrey S. Seewald Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Carlos J. Garrido
Carlos J. Garrido Spanish National Research Council
Wolfgang Bach
Wolfgang Bach University of Bremen
George D. Kamenov
George D. Kamenov University of Florida
William E. Seyfried
William E. Seyfried University of Minnesota
Georges Beaudoin
Georges Beaudoin Université Laval
Sean P. Sylva
Sean P. Sylva Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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