Clair C. Patterson

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Heavy metals in environment(30), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(22), Mercury impact and mitigation studies(9), Isotope Analysis in Ecology(8), Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry(7)

Publications77 total

Getting the Lead Out of Bermuda; The Legacy of a Forty Year Record in the North Atlantic Using a Transient Experiment in the Atmosphere and Water
HAL AMU·2015
Industrial Lead Contamination of Natural Ecosystems in Japan
Geophysical monograph·2011· 6 cited
"Soft" trigger modeling: a technique for incorporating intentionality into workflow specifications
2002· 2 cited
Scientific Meaning of Meanings: Quests for Discoveries Concerning Our Cultural Ills
Environmental Research·1998· 3 cited
Interview with Clair C. Patterson
The Caltech Institute Archives (California Institute of Technology)·1997Open Access
History of Ancient Copper Smelting Pollution During Roman and Medieval Times Recorded in Greenland Ice
Science·1996· 392 cited
Greenland Ice Evidence of Hemispheric Lead Pollution Two Millennia Ago by Greek and Roman Civilizations
Science·1994· 701 cited
Historical changes in integrity and worth of scientific knowledge
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·1994· 2 cited
Leakage of industrial lead into the hydrocycle
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·1994· 80 cited
Delineation of separate brain regions used for scientific versus engineering modes of thinking
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta·1994· 4 cited
Response of lead cycling in the surface Sargasso Sea to changes in tropospheric input
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres·1993· 92 cited
Changes in cadmium concentrations in Antarctic ice and snow during the past 155,000 years
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·1993· 36 cited
Detection of Trace Amounts of Toxic Metals in Environmental Samples by Laser-excited Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry
1992· 4 cited
Detection of trace amounts of toxic metals in environmental samples by laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry. Invited lecture
Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry·1992· 18 citedOpen Access
Natural skeletal levels of lead in Homo sapiens sapiens uncontaminated by technological lead
The Science of The Total Environment·1991· 138 cited
Comparative increases of lead and barium with age in human tooth enamel, rib and ulna
The Science of The Total Environment·1991· 74 cited
The occurrence of zinc in Antarctic ancient ice and recent snow
Earth and Planetary Science Letters·1990· 51 cited
Transport of industrial lead in snow through soil to stream water and groundwater
Chemical Geology·1990· 64 cited
The distribution of lead between sea salt dust, and lead‐rich aerosols in the mid South Pacific easterlies at American Samoa
Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres·1990· 10 cited
Direct determination of lead in vostok antarctic ancient ice by laser excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry
Atmospheric Environment Part A General Topics·1990· 21 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Claude F. Boutron(12), Dorothy M. Settle(7), N. I. Barkov(5), Yigal Erel(4), Tsaihwa J. Chow(3), Yoshimitsu Hirao(3), V.G. Koloshnikov(3), Masayo MUROZUMI(2), Sungmin Hong(2), Jean‐Pierre Candelone(2), Bernhard K. Schaule(2), Robert W. Elias(2), G. R. Tilton(2), Mark G. Inghram(2), Jonathon E. Ericson(2), Hiroshi Shirahata(2), Mirela Manea-Krichten(2), V. N. Petrov(2), Michael A. Bolshov(2), Amy Ng(1)