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Geology and Geophysics
Hagit Affek

Affek H. P. and Eiler J. M. (2006) Abundance of mass 47 CO2 in urban air, car exhaust and human breath. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 1-12. 

Ghosh P., Adkins J., Affek H. P., Balta B., Guo W., Schauble E. A. and Eiler J. M. (2006)  13C-18O bonds in carbonate minerals: A new kind of paleothermometer.Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 1439-1456.

Affek H. P. , Xu, X. and Eiler J. M. (2007) Seasonal and diurnal variations in mass 47 anomaly anomaly of CO2 in air from Pasadena, CA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71. 5033-5043.

Affek H.P., Bar-Matthews M., Ayalon A., Matthews A. and Eiler J.M. (2008) Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by 'clumped isotope' thermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72. 5351-5360. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.06.031

Newman S., Xu X., Affek H.P., Stolper E. and  Epstein S. (2008) Changes in mixing ratio and isotopic composition of CO2 in urban air from the Los Angeles basin, California, between 1972 and 2003. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres 113, D22304. doi:10.1029/2008JD009999

Alessandro Zanazzi

Shikma Zaarur
Ruth Blake

Rumble D, Corrigan, CM, Blake RE, McCoy TJ A terrestial fractionation line for the oxygen isotopes of phosphate minerals and its applications to meteorites.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40 (9) A132 Suppl S, Sept 2005
Yuhong Laing
Liang, Y. and Blake, R.E. (2007 submitted) Phosphate Oxygen Isotope Ratio Proxy for Specific Microbial Activity in Marine Sediments (Peru Margin). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta,

Liang, Y., and Blake, R.E. (2007) Oxygen isotope fractionation between apatite and dissolved aqueous phosphate: 20-45 °C. (Chemical Geology)

Liang, Y. and Blake, R.E. (2006) Oxygen isotope signature of Pi regeneration from organic compounds by phosphomonoesterases and photooxidation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 3957-3969.

Liang Y, Blake R. E.  Oxygen isotope composition of phosphate in organic compounds:  Isotope effects of extraction methods.  Organic Geochemistry 37 (2006) 1263-1277.

Liang and Blake, 2005c Oxygen isotope fractionation between apatite and dissolved aqueous phosphate.

James Greenwood (now at Wesleyan)

Greenwood, J.P. and Blake, R.E.Rumble D, Corrigan, CM, Blake RE, McCoy TJ A terrestial fractionation line for the oxygen isotopes of phosphate minerals and its applications to meteorites.  Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40 (9) A132 Suppl S, Sept 2005 (2006) Evidence for an acidic ocean on Mars from phosphorus geochemistry of Martian soils and rocks. Geology, 34: 953-956.

Aleksandr Surkov

Bottcher, M.E., Ferdelman, T., Jorgensen, B.B., Blake, R.E., and Surkov, A.V. (2006) Sulphur isotope fractionation by the deep biosphere of Eastern Equatorial Pacific and Peru Margin sediments. ODP Scientific Results, v.201.

Blake, R.E., O'Neil, J.R. and Surkov, A.V. (2005) Biogeochemical cycling of phosphorus: insights from oxygen isotope effects of phosphoenzymes. American Journal of Science, v. 305: 596-620.

Blake, R.E., Surkov, A.V., Bottcher, M.E., Ferdelman, T., and Jorgensen , B.B. (2006) Oxygen isotope composition of dissolved sulfate in deep-sea sediments: Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean. ODP Scientific Results, v, 201.

Saejung Chang

Chang, S. and Blake, R.E. (in prep, 2009) Oxygen Isotope and Microtextural Biosignatures of Hydroxylapatite in Karst Caves of South Korea

Albert Coleman
Colman AS, Blake RE, Karl DM, et al. Marine phosphate oxygen isotopes and organic matter remineralization in the oceans  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102 (37): 13023-13028 SEP 13 2005

Deb Jaisi
Mark Pagani

Pagani M
Controls on paleo-alkenone delta C-13
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A545-A545 Suppl. S MAY 2005

Pancost, R. D. and Pagani, M. (2006) Controls on the Carbon Isotopic Compositions of Lipids in Marine Environments, In: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 2 Series: Marine Organic Matter: Biomarkers, Isotopes and DNA (J. Volkman, ed.), Springer, Germany, pp 209-249.

Nikolai Pedentchouk

Pedentchouk N, Pagani M
Hydrogen isotopic composition of n-alkanes from leaf waxes: An empirical evaluation of environmental controls
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A346-A346 Suppl. S MAY 2005

Pagani M, Pedentchouk N, Huber M, Sluijs A, Schouten S, Brinkhuis H, Damste JSS, Dickens GR
Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum
NATURE 442 (7103): 671-675 AUG 10 2006

Sluijs A, Schouten S, Pagani M, Woltering M, Brinkhuis H, Damste JSS, Dickens GR, Huber M, Reichart GJ, Stein R, Matthiessen J, Lourens LJ, Pedentchouk N, Backman J, Moran K
Subtropical arctic ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum
NATURE 441 (7093): 610-613 JUN 1 2006

Pagani, M., Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damste, J. S., Dickens, G.R., and the IODP Expedition 302 Expedition Scientists, (2006) Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 442, 671-675.

Pedentchouk, N., Sumner, W., Tipple, B., Pagani, M., (2008) δ13C and δD composition of n-alkanes from 3 modern angiosperms and conifers: An experimental 4 set up in central Washington State, USA, Organic Geochemistry, 22, 39, 1066–1071.

Enders. S. K., Pagani, M., Pantoja, S., Baron, J. S., Wolfe, A. P., Pedentchouk, N., Nunez, L., (2008) Compound-specific stable isotopes of organic compounds from lake sediments track recent environmental changes in an alpine ecosystem, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (United States of America), Limnology and Oceanography, 53, 1468-1478

Brett Tipple

Pagani M, Tipple B
The influence of C-4 photosynthesis during the miocene
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A345-A345 Suppl. S MAY 2005

Pagani, M.,  Zachos, J., Freeman, K. H., Bohaty, S., and Tipple, B., (2005) Marked change in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Oligocene, Science. 309, 600-603.

Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M., (2007) The early origins of terrestrial C4 photosynthesis, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 435-461.

Stephen Meyers

Meyers, S. R. and Pagani, M.,  (2006) Quasi-periodic climate teleconnections between northern and southern Europe during the 17th-20th centuries, Global and Planetary Change, 54, p. 291-301.

David Zinniker

Zhonghui Liu

Michael Hren

Srinath Krishnan

Peter Douglas
Danny Rye

Masters RL, Ague JJ, Rye DM
An oxygen and carbon isotopic study of multiple episodes of fluid flow in the Dalradian and Highland Border Complex, Stonehaven, Scotland
JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 157: 367-379 Part 2 MAR 2000

Luttge A, Bolton EW, Rye DM
A kinetic model of metamorphism: an application to siliceous dolomites
CONTRIBUTIONS TO MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY 146 (5): 546-565 JAN 2004

Felipe MA, Kubicki JD, Rye DM
Oxygen isotope exchange kinetics between H2O and H4SiO4 from ab initio calculations
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 68 (5): 949-958 MAR 2004

Wilkinson JJ, Everett CE, Boyce AJ, et al.
Intracratonic crustal seawater circulation and the genesis of subseafloor zinc-lead mineralization in the Irish orefield
GEOLOGY 33 (10): 805-808 OCT 2005

Ephraim Taylor (now at U. of Texas working with Dr. Sharon Mosher)
Karl Turekian

Albert Coleman: Colman AS, Blake RE, Karl DM, et al.
Marine phosphate oxygen isotopes and organic matter remineralization in the oceans
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 102 (37): 13023-13028 SEP 13 2005
Jay Ague

Ague JJ
Channelization of subduction zone fluids during devolatilization
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A660-A660 Suppl. S MAY 2005

Masters, R.L., and Ague, J.J., 2005, Regional-scale fluid flow and element mobility in Barrow’s metamorphic zones, Stonehaven, Scotland: Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, v. 150, p. 1-18.
Derek Briggs

Hong Yang

Yang H
In situ biomolecules and isotopic signals from Clarkia plant fossils
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A341-A341 Suppl. S MAY 2005

Briggs DEG, Yang H
The Miocene Clarkia deposit of Idaho: New uses for old molecules
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A347-A347 Suppl. S MAY 2005
Dave Evans

Timothy Raub
Leo Hickey

Dana Royer: Beerling DJ, Lake JA, Berner RA, et al.
Carbon isotope evidence implying high O-2/CO2 ratios in the Permo-Carboniferous atmosphere
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 66 (21): 3757-3767 NOV 2002
Ron Smith (laser based isotopic measurements--cool, but not part of ESCSIS facility)


Alison Anders (now at Illinois)
Cathy Skinner

William Straight

Straight, WH, JD Karr, JE Cox, and RE Barrick. 2004. Stable oxygen isotopes from theropod dinosaur tooth enamel: interlaboratory comparison of results and analytical interference by reference standards. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 18,23:2897-2903.

Straight, WH, RE Barrick, and DA Eberth. 2004. Reflections of surface water, seasonality, and climate in stable oxygen isotopes from tyrannosaurid tooth enamel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 206,3/4:239-256.
Ellen Thomas

McCarren, H., Thomas, E., Hasegawa, T., Roehl, U., and Zachos, J. C., 2008. Depth-dependency of the Paleocene-Eocene Carbon Isotope Excursion: paired benthic and terrestrial biomarker records (ODP Leg 208, Walvis Ridge). Geochem., Geophys., Geosyst., 9 (10): Q10008, doi: 10.1029/2008GC002116
Elizabeth Verba

Faysal Bibi

Dietary niche partitioning among fossil bovids in late Miocene C3 habitats: Consilience of functional morphology and stable isotope analysis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 253 (2007) 529 – 538
Zhengrong Wang

Wang, Zhengrong and John M Eiler (2008);Insights into the origin of low-delta18O basaltic magmas in Hawaii revealed from in situ measurements of oxygen isotope compositions of olivines; EPSL 269(3-4): 377-387
 
Wang, Z., Edwin Schauble and John M Eiler (2004), Equilibrium thermodynamics of multiply-substituted isotopologues of molecular gases, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(23): 4779-4797
Forestry and Environmental Studies
Gaboury Benoit

Morrison MA, Benoit G
Temporal variability in physical speciation of metals during a winter rain-on-snow event. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 34 (5): 1610-1619 SEP-OCT 2005
Peter Raymond (see web site: DOC, 14C, etc.)

Raymond, P.A. 2005. The Composition and Transport of Organic Carbon in Rainfall: Insights from the Natural (13C and 14C) Isotopes of Carbon. Geophys. Res. Lett. 32:L14402

Cooper L., R. Benner, J. McClelland, R. Holmes, B. Peterson, P.A. Raymond, D. Hansell, J. M. Grebmeier, L.A., Codospoti. 2005. The linkage between runoff, dissolved organic carbon, and the stable oxygen isotope composition of seawater and other water mass indicators in the Arctic Ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 110:G02013

Rebecca Barnes

Griffith, D.R.; Barnes, R.T.; Raymond, P.A. 2009. Inputs of Fossil Carbon from Wastewater Treatment Plants to US Rivers and Oceans. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43, 5647-5651.

Barnes, R.T., P.A. Raymond, & K.L. Casciotti. 2008. Dual isotope analyses indicate efficient processing of atmospheric nitrate by forested watersheds in the northeastern U.S. Biogeochemistry, DOI: 10.1007/s10533-009-9227-2

Barnes, R.T. & P.A. Raymond. Land use controls on the delivery, processing, and removal of nitrogen from small watersheds: insights from the dual isotopic composition of stream nitrate. in review Ecological Applications

Barnes, R.T. & P.A. Raymond. The contribution of agricultural and urban activities to inorganic carbon fluxes within temperate watersheds. in prep.

Walters, A.W., R.T. Barnes, & D.M. Post. Anadromous alewife contribute marine-derived nutrients to coastal stream food webs. in review Freshwater Biology

Griffith, D.R., P.A. Raymond, & R.T. Barnes. Carbon isotope signature of wastewater treatment plant effluent. in prep

Anisfeld, S.C., R.T. Barnes, M.A. Altabet & T. Wu, 2007. Isotopic apportionment of atmospheric and sewage nitrogen sources in two Connecticut Rivers. Environmental Science & Technology, 41(18):6363-6369

Maura Bozeman

David Griffith

Griffith, D.R.; Barnes, R.T.; Raymond, P.A. 2009. Inputs of Fossil Carbon from Wastewater Treatment Plants to US Rivers and Oceans. Environ. Sci. Technol. 43, 5647-5651.

Kari Mull

Raymond, P.A., J. W. McClelland, R. M. Holmes, A. V Zhulidov, K. Mull, B. J. Peterson, R. G. Striegl, G. R Aiken, T. Y. Gurtovaya. 2007. The flux and age of DOC exported to the Arctic Ocean: A carbon isotopic study of the five larges arctic rivers. Global Biogeochem. Cycl., 21, GB4011, doi:10.1029/2007GB002934

Fulton "Tony" Rockwell
Oswald Schmitz

Mike Booth

Booth MG
Mycorrhizal networks mediate overstorey-understorey competition in a temperate forest. ECOLOGY LETTERS 7 (7): 538-546 JUL 2004
Xuhui Lee (laser based isotopic measurements--cool, but not part of ESCSIS facility)

Lee, X., S. Sargent, R. Smith, B. Tanner: 2005, 'In-situ measurement of water vapor 18O/16O isotope ratio for atmospheric and ecological applications', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 22: 555-565.  (with erratum)

Griffis, T.J., X. Lee, J.M. Baker, S.D. Sargent, J.Y. King: 2005, 'Feasibility of quantifying ecosystem-atmosphere C18O16O exchange using laser spectroscopy and the flux-gradient method', Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 135: 44-60.

Lee, X., R. Smith, J. Williams: 2006, 'Water vapor 18O/16O isotope ratio in surface air in New England, USA', Tellus B, 58: 293-304.

Wen, X.F., X. M. Sun, S. C. Zhang, G. R. Yu, S. D. Sargent, X. Lee: 2008, 'Continuous measurement of water vapor D/H and 18O/16O isotope ratios in the atmosphere', Journal of Hydrology, 349:489-500.

Griffis, T.J., S. D. Sargent, J. M. Baker, X. Lee, B. D. Tanner, J. Greene, E. Swiatek, K. Billmark: 2008, 'Direct measurement of biosphere-atmosphere isotopic CO2 exchange using the eddy covariance technique', Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 113, D08304, doi: 10.1029/2007/JD009297.

Kyounghee Kim

Lee, X., K. Kim, R. Smith: 2007, 'Temporal variations of the isotopic signal of the whole-canopy transpiration in a temperate forest', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB3013, doi:10.1029/2006GB002871

Lee, X., T.J. Griffis, J.M. Baker, K.A. Billmark, K. Kim, L.R. Welp: 2009, 'Canopy-scale kinetic fractionation of atmospheric carbon dioxide and water vapor isotopes', Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 23, GB1002, doi:10.1029/2008GB003331.

Xiao, W., X. Lee, T.J. Griffis, K. Kim, L.R. Welp, Q. Yu: 2009, 'Using a simple isotopic land surface model (SiLSM) to investigate the controls and sensitivity of oxygen isotopic CO2 and H2O exchange',  in review.

Lisa Welp

Welp, L. R., X. Lee, K. Kim, T. Griffis, K. Bilmark, J. Baker, (submitted to Plant, Cell and Environment) d18O of evapotranspiration and at the sites of leaf evaporation in a soybean canopy.
Mark Ashton/Graeme Berlyn
Prorena Project:

Sharifa Gulamhussein

Dan Braden

Dylan Craven

Craven D, Braden D, Ashton MS, Berlyn GP, Wishnie, M, Dent, D. "Between and within-site comparisons of structural and physiological characteristics and foliar nutrient content of 14 tree species at a wet, fertile site and a dry, infertile site in Panama" FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 238 (1-3): 335-346 JAN 30 2007
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
David Post


Gaku Takimoto (at Toho University, Japan)

Post, D.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Takimoto, G., Quattrochi, J., and Montaņa, C.G.2007. Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152:179–189

Post, D.M. and G. Takimoto. 2007. Proximate structural mechanisms for variation in food-chain length. Oikos 116:775-782.

Craig Layman   (see Florida International University, below)


Annika Walters

Erika Schielke

Christopher Dalton

Edward Stowe
Stephen Stearns

Torrance Hanley
Michael Donoghue

Erika Edwards

Brodribb TJ, Holbrook NM, Edwards EJ, et al.
Relations between stomatal closure, leaf turgor and xylem vulnerability in eight tropical dry forest trees. PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT 26 (3): 443-450 MAR 2003
Chemistry
Gary Brudvig

Chen, H. Y.; Tagore, R.; Olack, G.; Vrettos, J.S.; Weng, T.C.; Penner-Hahn, J.; Crabtree, R.H.; Brudvig, G.W.  "Speciation of the catalytic oxygen evolution system: [Mn-2(III/IV)(mu-O)(terpy)(2)(H2O)](NO3)(3)+HSO5-" Inorg. Chem. 46 (1): 34-43, Jan. 8, 2007

Ranitendranath Tagore, Hongyu Chen, Robert H. Crabtree and Gary W. Brudvig
"Determination of μ-oxo Exchange Rates in di-μ-oxo di-Manganese Complexes by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry", (2006) J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 (29): 9457-9465 JUL 26 2006
 
Hongyu Chen

Chen HY, Tagore R, Das S, et al.
General synthesis of di-mu-oxo dimanganese complexes as functional models for the oxygen evolving complex of photosystem II. INORGANIC CHEMISTRY 44 (21): 7661-7670 OCT 17 2005

Howard DL, Tinoco AD, Brudvig GW, et al.
Catalytic oxygen evolution by a bioinorganic model of the photosystem II oxygen-evolving complex. JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION 82 (5): 791-794 MAY 2005

Gözde Ulas
Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Frederic Richards

Gerard Olack

Richards FM, Lamed R, Wynn R, Darshan P, Olack G.
Methylene as a possible universal footprinting reagent that will include hydrophobic surface areas: Overview and feasibility: Properties of diazirine as a precursor
PROTEIN SCIENCE 9 (12): 2506-2517 DEC 2000
Wesleyan
James Greenwood

Greenwood JP, Blake RE
Evidence for an acidic ocean on Mars from phosphorus geochemistry of Martian soils and rocks. GEOLOGY 34 (11): 953-956 NOV 2006
Emory
John Kingston

Deino AL, Glen JM, Kingston J, et al.
Precessional climatic signal in the Plio-Pliestocene Chemeron Formation, central Kenya Rift. GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA 69 (10): A323-A323 Suppl. S MAY 2005
Perry Institute
D. Albrey Arrington

Craig Layman

Layman CA, Winemiller KO, Arrington DA, et al.
Body size and trophic position in a diverse tropical food web
ECOLOGY 86 (9): 2530-2535 SEP 2005
US Food and Drug Administration
Anna Wokovich

Wokovich AM, Spencer JA, Westenberger BJ, et al.
Stable isotopic composition of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) naproxen. JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOMEDICAL ANALYSIS 38 (4): 781-784 JUL 15 2005
Florida International University
Craig Layman

Craig Layman: Layman CA, Winemiller KO, Arrington DA, et al.
Body size and trophic position in a diverse tropical food web
ECOLOGY 86 (9): 2530-2535 SEP 2005
 
Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Montaņa, C.G., Post, D.M. 2007. Can Stable Isotope Ratios Provide for Community-wide Measures of Trophic Structure? Ecology 88(1): 42-48.

Post, D.M., Layman, C.A., Arrington, D.A., Takimoto, G., Quattrochi, J., and Montaņa, C.G.2007. Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses. Oecologia 152:179–189

Layman, C.A. 2007. What can stable isotope ratios reveal about mangroves as fish habitat? Bulletin of Marine Science 80(3):513-527.


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