Research

• Biogeochemistry & Geochemistry
• Climate Change
• Coastal Processes
  
• Oceanography
  
• Society, Policy & Environment
  
• Water Resources & Hydrology

Publications

(* Denotes graduate student or postdoc as author, **Denotes my undergraduate student as author) 
H-Index Web of Science: 46    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-5048
Google Scholar: 55      https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nEuGaD4AAAAJ&hl=en

Benitez-Nelson, CR, McNeal, KS, Jones, WJ (2023) Improving Retention of Underrepresented Groups in the Geosciences through an Intensive First-Year Experience at the University of South Carolina Oceanography Magazine, 36(4), https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.108

*Szewczyk, CJ, Smith, E, Benitez-Nelson, CR (2023) Temperature sensitivity of oxygen demand varies as a function of organic matter source, Frontiers in Marine Science, 10 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1133336

Motta, LC, Blum, JD, Popp, BN, Umhau, BP, Benitez-Nelson, CR, Close, HG, Washburn, SJ, Drazen, HC (2022). Mercury Isotopic Evidence for the Importance of Particles as a Source of Mercury to Marine Organisms, PNAS, 19 (44) e2208183119, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208183119. 

*McCabe, K, Smith, E, Lang, S, Osburn, C, Benitez-Nelson, CR (2021) Particulate and dissolved organic matter in storm water runoff influences oxygen demand in urbanized headwater catchments, Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.0c04502.

*Davis, CV, Livsey, CM, Palmer, HM, Hull, PM, Thomas, E, Hill, TM, Benitez-Nelson, CR (2020) Extensive morphological variability in asexually produced planktic foraminifera. Science Advances, 6, eabb8930. https://advances.sciencemag. org/content/6/28/eabb8930.

*Sarno, CT, Benitez-Nelson, CR, Ziolkowski, LA, Hendy, IL, *Davis, CV, Tappa, EJ, Thunell, RC (2020) The Impacts of Flood, Drought, and Turbidites on Organic Carbon Burial over the Past 2,000 years in the Santa Barbara Basin, California, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, e2020PA003849. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003849

*Bell, DW, Pellechia, P, Ingall, E.D., Benitez-Nelson, CR (2020) Resolving marine dissolved organic phosphorus (DOP) composition in a coastal estuary, North Inlet, South Carolina.  Limnology and Oceanography, https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11552 

Osborne, EO, Thunell, RC, Gruber, N, Feely, RF, Benitez-Nelson, CR (2019) Climatic Modulation of Anthropogenic Ocean Acidification in the California Current, Nature Geoscience, 13, 43–49 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0499-z.