Research Interests:

Paleoclimate, paleoceanography, paleolimnology, geochronology, U-series systematics, Helium isotopes in Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs).

Recent and ongoing projects:

1. •Investigation of helium carrier phases in IDPs
   

2. •Expansion of the application of IDPs as flux proxies from deep-sea sites to marginal-marine and continental environments. The study includes Lake Estancia, the Castile Formation and East Mediterranean sapropel layers
   

3. •Re-evaluation of export production in the Southern Ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)
   

4. •U-series systematics in lake sediments
   

5. •Reconstruction of Dead Sea lake levels and climate changes during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition
   

6. •Chronology of the mid to late Pleistocene Lake Amora (Dead Sea basin) by U-series dating and δ18O stratigraphy
   

7. •The sources and evolution of sulfur in the Dead Sea basin lacustrine systems
   

My CV

Contact details

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Geochemistry Division, Comer 221

61 Rt. 9W, Palisades, NY 10964-1000

Phone: +845-365-8918

adi.torf@ldeo.columbia.edu