Group Meetings

Fall 2018

November 9, 2018

Tierney and Tingley (2018) BAYSPLINE- A New Calibration for the Alkenone Paleothermometer.  Article.

November 2, 2018

Russell et al. (2018) Distributions of 5- and 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glyceroltetraethers (brGDGTs) in East African lake sediment - Effects oftemperature, pH, and new lacustrine paleotemperature calibrations.  Article.

October 19, 2018

Weber et al., (2018) Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes. Article.

October 12, 2018

Ho and Laepple, (2016) Flat meridional temperature gradient in the early Eocene in the sub surface rather than surface ocean TEX86. Article.

October 5, 2018

Naafs et al., (2017) Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids. Article.

September 28, 2018

Naafs et al., (2018) High temperatures in the terrestrial mid-latitudes during the early Palaeogene.  Article.  Supplement.

September 21, 2018

Overview of Fall 2018 research by lab group members.

Fall 2017

September 29, 2017

Scheff et al., 2017 . Are Glacials Dry? Consequences for Paleoclimatology and for Greenhouse Warming.  Article.

September 22, 2017

Wright et al., 2017 Global climatic drivers of leaf size.  ArticleSupplement.

September 15, 2017

Gutjahr et al., 2017  Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum  Article.

Spring 2016

February 19, 2016

Diefendorf et al., 2015  Leaf wax composition and carbon isotopes vary among major conifer groups.


February 12, 2016

Diefendorf et al., 2011  Production of n-alkyl lipids in living plants and implications for the geologic past. 


Fall 2015

November 13, 2015

Popp et al, 1999 Controls on the carbon isotopic composition of Southern Ocean phytoplankton.


November 6, 2015

Evans and von Caemmerer, 1996 Carbon dioxide diffusion inside leaves


October 9, 2015

Santrucek et al, 2015 Stomatal and pavement cell density linked to leaf internal CO2 concentration.
Santrucek et al, 2015 SUPPLEMENT.


October 9, 2015

Tammo’s leaf pCO2.


October 2, 2015

Farquhar et al, 1982 Effect of phytoplankton cell geometry on carbon isotopic fractionation.


September 25, 2015

Popp et al., 1998 Effect of phytoplankton cell geometry on carbon isotopic fractionation.


September 18, 2015

Diefendorf et al., 2010 Global patterns in leaf 13C discrimination and implications for studies of past and future climate.

Diefendorf et al., 2010 SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION.

Kohn, 2010 Carbon isotope compositions of terrestrial C3 plants as indicators of (paleo)ecology and (paleo)climate.


September 11, 2015

Schubert and Jahren, 2012. The effect of atmospheric CO2 concentration on carbon isotope fractionation in C3 land plants.

Background: O'Leary 1988. Carbon Isotopes in Photosynthesis


Spring 2015

January 30
Bush & McInerney (2015) "Influence of temperature and C4 abundance on n-alkane chain length distributions across the central USA
Bush & McInerney (2013) "Leaf wax n-alkane distributions in and across modern plants: Implications for paleoecology and chemotaxonomy”
Tipple & Pagani (2012) "Environmental control on eastern broadleaf forest species’ leaf wax distributions and D/H ratios"

January 16 

Schwab et al. (2015) “Effect of aridity on d13C and dD values of C3 plant- and C4 graminoid-derived leaf wax lipids from soils along an environmental gradient in Cameroon (West Central Africa)


Fall 2014

September 12 - Krishnan et al, 2014 "High latitude hydrological changes during the Eocene Thermal Maximum 2"

September 19 - Battisti et al, accepted "Coherent pan–Asian climatic and isotopic response to orbital forcing of tropical insolation”

September 26 - No meeting

October 3 - Battisti et al. continued and Yoni Goldsmith Dali Lake presentation

October 10 - Cassy GSA practice talk

October 17 - Liu et al., 2014 "Chinese cave records and the East Asia Summer Monsoon"

October 24 - BPE Divisional Lunch

October 31 - Jenny, Sam and Kevin research presentation

November 7 - Jon on leaf-wax epsilon uncertainty Nichols et al., 2014a G3 and Nichols et al., 2014b The Holocene

November 14

November 21

November 28 - Thanksgiving

December 5 - AGU poster review

December 12 - AGU practice talks

December 19 - AGU San Francisco

Spring 2014

January 31, 2014
*Bowen & Wilkinson, 2002 global distribution of d18O in precipitation

February 7, 2014
*Pierrehumbert, 1999 Huascaran d18O as an indicator of tropical climate during the Last Glacial Maximum

February 14, 2014
*Boyle, 1997 Cool tropical temperature shift the global d18O-T relationship An explanation for the ice core d18O-borehole thermometry conflict 

April 4, 2014
*Gat et al, 2003 Isotope composition of air moisture over the Mediterranean Sea- an index of the air–sea interaction pattern
*Dansgaard, 1964 Stable isotopes in precipitation


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