W. Berry Lyons
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
Publications
328
Citations
12,360
Est. group size
~7
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
54
Publishing since 1973
W. Berry Lyons studies the chemistry and hydrology of polar and other aquatic environments, with a strong focus on Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys lakes, streams, and glaciers. His work examines how rocks and ice interact with water (chemical weathering), how water moves through and beneath glaciers, and how these processes connect to microbial life and soil ecosystems in extreme, cold environments. This research helps explain how polar landscapes respond to and record past and present climate conditions.
Publication output was fairly steady to strong from 2017 through 2023 (often 10+ papers per year) but has dropped noticeably in 2024-2026, suggesting a recent slowing in output.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Ion concentrations in discrete water column samples collected from lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica (1991-2024, ongoing)
Environmental Data Initiative · 2026
- Obituary: Gunter Faure (1934–2025)
Applied Geochemistry · 2025
- Field-Based Planetary Protection Operations for Melt Probes: Validation of Clean Access into the Blood Falls, Antarctica, Englacial Ecosystem
Astrobiology · 2023
- Grand Challenges in environmental geochemistry
Frontiers in Geochemistry · 2023
- INFLUENCE OF LAKE TYPE, SIZE, AND ECOREGION ON WATER QUALITY OF INLAND OHIO LAKES
Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America · 2021
- Chemical Weathering in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Geophysical monograph · 2021
- Barotropic seiches in a perennially <scp>ice‐covered</scp> lake, East Antarctica
Limnology and Oceanography Letters · 2021
- An Introduction to “Microbial Biogeochemistry: A Special Issue of Aquatic Geochemistry Honoring Mark Hines”
Aquatic Geochemistry · 2020
- Urban Geochemistry
Elsevier eBooks · 2020
- Geochemistry of contrasting stream types, Taylor Valley, Antarctica
Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2020
- Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020
- Diurnal chemistry of two contrasting stream types, Taylor Valley, McMurdo Dry Valley Region, Antarctica
E3S Web of Conferences · 2019
- A tale of two lakes - contrasting weathering regimes in proximal subglacial Antarctic systems
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts · 2019
- Residence Times of Major Ions in Lake Naivasha, Kenya, and Their Relationship to Lake Hydrology
2019
- The Hydroecology of an Ephemeral Wetland in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences · 2019
- Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America×19
- Applied Geochemistry×7
- Frontiers in Earth Science×5
- AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts×5
- Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences×4
- Melisa A. Diaz
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Alexander B. Michaud
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Madeleine Lomax-Vogt
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Christopher B. Gardner
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Berry Lyons
Earth and Planetary Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.
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