School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment
Faculty and Staff Directory
Claudia Benitez-Nelson
Title: | Distinguished Professor Associate Dean for Instruction, Community Engagement and Research |
Department: | Earth Ocean and Environment College of Arts and Sciences |
Email: | benitezn@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | Petigru: 803-777-0525; EWS: 803-777-0018 |
Office: |
Petigru College, Office 204 EWS, Office 408 |
Resources: |
Curriculum Vitae [pdf] Lab Website |

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: 38
Google Scholar: 46
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1004-5048 ; https://scholar.google.com/
citations?user=nEuGaD4AAAAJ&
hl=en
H-Index Web of Science: 38
Google Scholar: 46
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-
*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
**Davis, AN, *Davis, CV, Thunell, RC, Osborne, EB, Black, DE, Benitez-Nelson, CR (2019) Reconstructing 800 years of Carbonate Ion Concentration in the Cariaco Basin
Using the Area-Density of Planktonic Foraminifera Shells, Paleoceanography, https://doi.org/10.1029/
2019PA003698 .
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 .
*Umhau, B, Motta, LC, Benitez-Nelson, CR, Close, HG, Hannides, CC, Popp, BN, Blum, JD, Drazen, J, Grabb, KC (2019) Seasonal
and spatial changes in carbon and nitrogen fluxes estimated using 234Th:238U disequilibria in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, Marine Chemistry, 217, 103705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.
marchem.2019.103705 .