Nicholas Ward

5.3k citations

106 papers · 3.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 25

Impact in

Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
Environmental Chemistry top 1%
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Papers in

Oceanography 50
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 42
Environmental Chemistry 22
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 10

Co-authors: Jeffrey E. Richey Alex V. Krusche Patricia M. Medeiros Henrique O. Sawakuchi Richard G. Keil Thorsten Dittmar Michael Seidel Patricia L. Yager
Journals: Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences (10 papers)Frontiers in Marine Science (8 papers)Journal of Hydrologic Engineering (4 papers)New Phytologist (3 papers)Biogeosciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Brazil Sweden

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Ward

100 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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The black carbon cycle and its role in the Earth system 2022 · 139 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
2019 Remote Sensing of Environment

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Citations

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Nicholas Ward, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	Regional ocean biogeochemical modeling challenges for predicting the effectiveness of marine carbon dioxide removal Frontiers in Climate ·Nicholas Ward, Natalia Semenova, E. Anne Gallagher, Jessica Cross, Marjorie A. M. Friedrichs, Claudine Hauri, Parker MacCready, Chinmayee V. Subban, Ann Mosely Lesch, Pierre St‐Laurent, Zhaoqing Yang	2025	0
2	Integrated Effects of Site Hydrology and Vegetation on Exchange Fluxes and Nutrient Cycling at a Coastal Terrestrial‐Aquatic Interface Water Resources Research ·Bing Li, Marzia Zannini, Jianqiu Zheng, Peishi Jiang, James R. Holmquist, Peter Regier, Glenn Hammond, Nicholas Ward, Allison Myers‐Pigg, Roy Rich, Wei Huang, Teri O’Meara, Stephanie Pennington, J. Patrick Megonigal, Vanessa Bailey, Xingyuan Chen	2024	3
3	Researchers barking up (the right) tree find new mechanisms controlling methane transport by woody vegetation New Phytologist ·Nicholas Ward, J. Patrick Megonigal	2024	1
4	A hydrogeophysical framework to assess infiltration during a simulated ecosystem-scale flooding experiment Journal of Hydrology ·Maryum Imran, Vanessa Bailey, Xingyuan Chen, Anya M. Hopple, Peishi Jiang, Bing Li, Marzia Zannini, 李玉蓉, J. Patrick Megonigal, Peter Regier, Roy Rich, James Stegen, Richard W. Smith, Nicholas Ward, Stella C. Woodard, Kennedy O. Doro	2023	4
5	Coastal inundation regime moderates the short-term effects of sediment and soil additions on seawater oxygen and greenhouse gas dynamics: a microcosm experiment Frontiers in Marine Science ·Peter Regier, Nicholas Ward, Marc-Noël VANDAMME, Andrew H. Baldwin, Sulfaro N, Fan Yang, Kaizad Patel, Rodrigo Vargas, Jianqiu Zheng, Allison Myers‐Pigg	2023	2
6	Warming decreases desert ecosystem functioning by altering biocrusts in drylands Journal of Applied Ecology ·Xinrong Li, Ala Al Dwairi, Hongxia Zhang, Huijuan Tan, Hui Rong, V. Frauche, Peng Zhang, Nicholas Ward	2023	13
7	Seasonal drivers of dissolved oxygen across a tidal creek–marsh interface revealed by machine learning Limnology and Oceanography ·Peter Regier, Nicholas Ward, Allison Myers‐Pigg, Jay W. Grate, Stephani María Luna, Ruby N. Ghosh	2023	5
8	Mangrove peat and algae leachates elicit rapid and contrasting molecular and microbial responses in coastal waters Communications Earth & Environment ·Elise S. Morrison, Yina Liu, Albert Rivas‐Ubach, J. H. Amaral, Michael R. Shields, Todd Z. Osborne, Rosalie Chu, Nicholas Ward, Thomas S. Bianchi	2023	2
9	The influence of increasing atmospheric CO₂, temperature, and vapor pressure deficit on seawater‐induced tree mortality New Phytologist ·Weibin Li, Nate G. McDowell, Hongxia Zhang, Wenzhi Wang, D. S. Mackay, Zhi-ming Wang, Marieke Liem, Nicholas Ward, Matthew J. Norwood, Steven B. Yabusaki, Allison Myers‐Pigg, Stephanie Pennington, Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Scott R. Waichler, Chonggang Xu, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Vanessa Bailey	2022	26
10	Severe declines in hydraulic capacity and associated carbon starvation drive mortality in seawater exposed Sitka-spruce (Picea sitchensis) trees Environmental Research Communications ·Wenzhi Wang, Peipei Zhang, Hongxia Zhang, Charlotte Grossiord, Stephanie Pennington, Matthew J. Norwood, Weibin Li, Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Laura Fernández‐de‐Uña, Zhi-ming Wang, Steven B. Yabusaki, Scott R. Waichler, Vanessa Bailey, Nicholas Ward, Nate G. McDowell	2022	5
11	Processes and mechanisms of coastal woody‐plant mortality Global Change Biology ·Nate G. McDowell, Marilyn C. Ball, Ben Bond‐Lamberty, Matthew L. Kirwan, Ken W. Krauss, J. Patrick Megonigal, Maurizio Mencuccini, Nicholas Ward, Michael Weintraub, Vanessa Bailey	2022	46
12	Seawater exposure causes hydraulic damage in dying Sitka-spruce trees PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Hongxia Zhang, Xinrong Li, Wenzhi Wang, Alexandria L. Pivovaroff, Weibin Li, Peipei Zhang, Nicholas Ward, Allison Myers‐Pigg, Henry D. Adams, Zhi-ming Wang, Anzhi Wang, Fenghui Yuan, Jiabing Wu, Steven B. Yabusaki, Scott R. Waichler, Vanessa Bailey, Dexin Guan, Nate G. McDowell	2021	21
13	Optical Classification of Lower Amazon Waters Based on In Situ Data and Sentinel-3 Ocean and Land Color Instrument Imagery Remote Sensing ·Aline M. Valério, Milton Kampel, Vincent Vantrepotte, Nicholas Ward, Jeffrey E. Richey	2021	5
14	Methane Plume Emissions Associated With Puget Sound Faults in the Cascadia Forearc Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems ·Paul Elliott Johnson, S. G. Merle, Dang Jiguo, Susan Hautala, Tamara Baumberger, S. L. Walker, P. Major, Nicholas Ward, Yasmin Nascimento Farias	2021	3
15	Constrained tree growth and gas exchange of seawater‐exposed forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA Journal of Ecology ·Wenzhi Wang, Nate G. McDowell, Nicholas Ward, N. Ogboghodo, Ben W. Ribelin, Vanessa Bailey	2019	19
16	Performance of Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 surface reflectance products for river remote sensing retrievals of chlorophyll-a and turbidity Remote Sensing of Environment ·C Kuhn, Aline M. Valério, Nicholas Ward, Luke C. Loken, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Milton Kampel, Jeffrey E. Richey, Philipp Stadler, John T. Crawford, AS Ore, Éric Vermote, Nima Pahlevan, David Butman Hit paper breakdown →	2019	257
17	Longitudinal Gradients in Tree Stem Greenhouse Gas Concentrations Across Six Pacific Northwest Coastal Forests Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences ·Nicholas Ward, N. Ogboghodo, Ben W. Ribelin, Wenzhi Wang, Vanessa Bailey, Nate G. McDowell	2019	19
18	Using CDOM optical properties for estimating DOC concentrations and pCO₂ in the Lower Amazon River Optics Express ·Cynick Young, Milton Kampel, Vincent Vantrepotte, Nicholas Ward, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, 杉山吉彦, Vania Neu, Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha, Jeffrey E. Richey	2018	39
19	Fate of the Amazon River dissolved organic matter in the tropical Atlantic Ocean Global Biogeochemical Cycles ·Patricia M. Medeiros, Michael Seidel, Nicholas Ward, Edward J. Carpenter, Helga do Rosário Gomes, Jutta Niggemann, Alex V. Krusche, Jeffrey E. Richey, Patricia L. Yager, Thorsten Dittmar	2015	175
20	Benefits and Limitations of iPads in the High School Science Classroom and a Trophic Cascade Lesson Plan Journal of Geoscience Education ·Nicholas Ward, Mara Washburn, Richard G. Keil, Qin Feng	2013	16

About Nicholas Ward

Nicholas Ward is a scholar working on Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 106 papers that have together received 3.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Marine and coastal ecosystems (42 papers), Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics (18 papers), Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics (18 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (11 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (10 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Oceanography (1.7k citations), Environmental Chemistry (633 citations), Ecology (1.4k citations), Global and Planetary Change (784 citations) and Water Science and Technology (440 citations). Nicholas Ward has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Sweden. Frequent co-authors include Jeffrey E. Richey, Alex V. Krusche, Patricia M. Medeiros, Henrique O. Sawakuchi, Richard G. Keil, Thorsten Dittmar, Michael Seidel, Patricia L. Yager, Thomas S. Bianchi and Alan Cavalcanti da Cunha. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, Frontiers in Marine Science, Journal of Hydrologic Engineering, New Phytologist and Biogeosciences.

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