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  • SIGP
    Stable Isotope Geochemistry and Paleoclimate

  • QG
    Quaternary Geochronology

  • IG
    Introduction to Geochemistry

  • TCEB
    The Coevolution of Earth and the Biosphere

  • PG
    Physical Geology

  • GFC
    Geology Field Camp

Grants
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    Developing Quantitative Methods to Address Sediment Modification

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2021

    $182.1K
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    Are Remnants Of The Tibetan Plateau Preserved In the Southern Himalayan Thrust Belt

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2018

    $521.2K
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    Collaborative Research: Improving and Calibrating A Tunable Infrared Laser Direct Absorption Spectroscopy (TILDAS) System For Clumped Isotope Analysis Of CO2

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2020

    $449.3K
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    Collaborative Research: Developing of Tunable Infrared Laser Direct Absorption Spectroscopy (TILDAS) for Clumped Isotope Analysis of CO2

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2017

    $299.2K
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    Collaborative Research: Quantifying Precipitation Changes in the South American Subtropics Over the Late Pleistocenee

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2017

    $87.5K
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    Collaborative Research: Field Research at the Hominin-bearing Pliocene-aged Galili Formation

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $43.5K
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    First 10Be Production Rate Calibration in Tibet at >4500 m from Lunggar Rift Landslide, Wavecut Bedrock and Beach Pebbles from Well-Dated Lake Ngan...

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $26.3K
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    Investigating Regional Pluvial Climate of teh Great Basin Using Geochronology, GIS Analysis, and Hydrologic Modeling of Pluvial Lakes

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $5.0K
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    Collaborative Research: The suturing process: Insight from the India-Asia collision zone

    Co-Investigator (COI)

    2011

    $1.9M
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    Collaborative Research: Absolute-Dated Records of Late Quaternary Paleohydrology in the Bonneville Basin, Western U.S., from Novel Cave Archives

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2011

    $205.9K
News
  • The Life and Death of One of America's Most Mysterious Trees

    2020

  • Ancient Pee Reveals Earliest Stages of Animal Domestication

    2019

  • Asian Monsoon Much Older Than Previously Thought

    2014

  • Out of the Woods for 'Ardi'

    2010

  • New Homo Erectus Fossil Overturns Prior Thinking About Human Brain Evolution

    2008

  • UA College of Science Announces 2007 Galileo Circle Fellows

    2007

  • Not finding life? Dig deeper

    2005

  • Year in Review 2001: College of Science

    2001

  • Scientists Discover Where Ancient Builders at Chaco Canyon Got Their Wood

    2001

  • Ancient rodent middens record past tropical rain in "absolute" desert

    2000

  • Scientists Find Long History of Tropical Monsoon in World's Driest Desert

    2000

Publications (145)
Recent
  • Megalakes in the Sahara? A review.

    2018

  • Stable and clumped 18O and 13C isotope systematics and 14C geochronology of shoreline tufas and other terrestrial and lacustrine carbonates from the Chewaucan closed-basin lake system, northern Great Basin, USA: implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions.

    2017

  • Lake-level stratigraphy and geochronology revisited at Lago (Lake) Cardiel, Argentina, and changes in the Southern Hemispheric Westerlies over the last 25 ka.

    2017

  • Evidence from paleosols for low to moderate elevation of the India-Asia suture zone during mid-Cenozoic time.

    2017

  • Isotopic Characterization of late Neogene travertine deposits at Barrancas Blancas in the eastern Atacama Desert, Chile.

    2017

  • Significant impacts of increasing aridity on the arid soil microbiome.

    2017

  • Late Miocene hominin teeth from the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project Area, Afar, Ethiopia.

    2015

  • Mid-Holocene drying of the U.S. Great Basin recorded in Nevada speleothems.

    2015

  • Desert wetlands in the geologic record

    2014

  • A forager-herder trade-off, from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.

    2014

  • Cosmogenic nuclides in buried sediments from the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile

    2014

  • Radiocarbon dating of interdune paleo-wetland deposits to constrain the age of mid-to-late holocene microlithic artifacts from the zhongba site, Southwestern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    2014

  • The female Homo pelvis from Gona: Response to Ruff (2010)

    2014

  • Compositional and Isotopic Analytical Methods in Archaeological Micromorphology

    2013

  • Long-term east-west asymmetry in monsoon rainfall on the tibetan plateau: REPLY

    2013

  • The clumped isotope geothermometer in soil and paleosol carbonate

    2013

  • Long-term east-west asymmetry in monsoon rainfall on the Tibetan Plateau

    2013

  • Bomb-curve radiocarbon measurement of recent biologic tissues and applications to wildlife forensics and stable isotope (paleo)ecology

    2013

  • A 130ka reconstruction of rainfall on the Bolivian Altiplano

    2013

  • Life at the hyperarid margin: Novel bacterial diversity in arid soils of the Atacama Desert, Chile

    2012

  • Small mammal carbon isotope ecology across the Miocene-Pliocene boundary, northwestern Argentina

    2012

  • Stratigraphy and geochronology of La Playa archaeological site, Sonora, Mexico

    2012

  • Seismicity and the strange rubbing boulders of the Atacama desert, Northern Chile

    2012

  • Strontium isotopes and nutrient sourcing in a semi-arid woodland

    2012

  • Rodent middens reveal episodic, long-distance plant colonizations across the hyperarid Atacama Desert over the last 34,000 years

    2012

  • Lacustrine cave carbonates: Novel archives of paleohydrologic change in the Bonneville Basin (Utah, USA)

    2012

  • The sources and sinks of CO sub 2 /sub in caves under mixed woodland and grassland vegetation

    2012

  • Establishment and formation of fog-dependent Tillandsia landbeckii dunes in the Atacama Desert: Evidence from radiocarbon and stable isotopes

    2011

  • Widespread basement erosion during the late Paleocene-early Eocene in the laramide rocky mountains inferred from sup 87 /sup sr/ sup 86 /sup sr ratios of freshwater bivalve fossils

    2011

  • Widespread hillslope gullying on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau: Human or climate-change induced?

    2011

  • The paleoaltimetry of Tibet: An isotopic perspective

    2011

  • Oligocene-Miocene Kailas basin, southwestern Tibet: Record of postcollisional upper-plate extension in the Indus-Yarlung suture zone

    2011

  • Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6-million years

    2011

  • Sedimentology, detrital zircon geochronology, and stable isotope geochemistry of the lower Eocene strata in the Wind River Basin, central Wyoming

    2011

  • Isotopic tracers of paleohydrologic change in large lakes of the Bolivian Altiplano

    2011

  • Chronostratigraphy and lake-level changes of Laguna Cari-Laufquén, Río Negro, Argentina

    2011

  • A simplified In Situ cosmogenic sup 14 /sup C extraction system

    2010

  • Climate-driven environmental change in the Zhada basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau

    2010

  • Evidence for active landscape evolution in the hyperarid Atacama from multiple terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides

    2010

  • Extraction of in situ cosmogenic sup 14 /sup C from olivine

    2010

  • Comment on the paleoenvironment of ardipithecus ramidus

    2010

  • Geochemistry, chronology and stratigraphy of Neogene tuffs of the Central Andean region

    2009

  • The late Miocene through present paleoelevation history of southwestern Tibet

    2009

  • Climate in the dry central andes over geologic, millennial, and interannual timescales

    2009

  • Stable isotopic results from paleosol carbonate in South Asia: Paleoenvironmental reconstructions and selective alteration

    2009

  • Dryland hydrology in a warmer world: Lessons from the Last Glacial period

    2009

  • A Great Basin-wide dry episode during the first half of the Mystery Interval?

    2009

  • Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the Neogene foreland basin deposits of Nepal

    2009

  • The geology of gona, afar, ethiopia

    2008

  • Paleowetlands and regional climate change in the central Atacama Desert, northern Chile

    2008

  • A female Homo erectus pelvis from gona, Ethiopia

    2008

  • Herbivore enamel carbon isotopic composition and the environmental context of ardipithecus at Gona, Ethiopia

    2008

  • Composite tephrostratigraphy of the Dikika, Gona, Hadar, and Ledi-Geraru project areas, northern Awash, Ethiopia

    2008

  • Stratigraphy and geochronology of the late miocene adu-asa formation at gona, ethiopia

    2008

  • Soils at the hyperarid margin: The isotopic composition of soil carbonate from the Atacama Desert, Northern Chile

    2007

  • The structure and rate of late Miocene expansion of C sub 4 /sub plants: Evidence from lateral variation in stable isotopes in paleosols of the Siwalik Group, northern Pakistan

    2007

  • Paleolimnological evidence for the onset and termination of glacial aridity from Lake Tanganyika, Tropical East Africa

    2007

  • Stable isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonates from the eastern margin of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India

    2007

  • High and dry in central Tibet during the Late Oligocene

    2007

  • Paleoelevation reconstruction using pedogenic carbonates

    2007

  • Development of low-background vacuum extraction and graphitization systems for sup 14 /sup C dating of old (40-60 ka) samples

    2007

  • Paleoclimate and human evolution workshop

    2006

  • Bacterial community structure in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

    2006

  • Geochronology and stratigraphy of late Pleistocene lake cycles on the southern Bolivian Altiplano: Implications for causes of tropical climate change

    2006

  • Strategies for successful U-Th dating of paleolake carbonates: An example from the Bolivian Altiplano

    2006

  • sup 87 /sup Sr/ sup 86 /sup Sr sourcing of ponderosa pine used in Anasazi great house construction at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

    2005

  • Raw material selectivity of the earliest stone toolmakers at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

    2005

  • Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopa

    2005

  • Isotopic variability in the aragonite shells of freshwater gastropods living in springs with nearly constant temperature and isotopic composition

    2005

  • The sup 87 /sup Sr/ sup 86 /sup Sr ratios of lacustrine carbonates and lake-level history of the Bonneville paleolake system

    2004

  • Paleoenvironments of the earliest stone toolmakers, Gona, Ethiopia

    2004

  • Isotopic evidence for Plio-Pleistocene environmental change at Gona, Ethiopia

    2004

  • Radiocarbon dating of minute gastropods and new constraints on the timing of late Quaternary spring-discharge deposits in southern Arizona, USA

    2004

  • Microbial life in the Atacama Desert [2] (multiple letters)

    2004

  • Landscape patterns of vegetation change indicated by soil carbon isotope composition

    2004

  • Re-evaluation of mid-Holocene deposits at Quebrada Puripica, northern Chile

    2003

  • Isotopic records from ground-water and cave speleothem calcite in North America

    2003

  • Silicate versus carbonate weathering in the Himalaya: A comparison of the Arun and Seti River watersheds

    2003

  • 2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia

    2003

  • Late Quaternary paleohydrologic and paleotemperature change in southern Nevada

    2003

  • A vegetation history from the arid prepuna of northern Chile (22-23°S) over the last 13 500 years

    2003

  • Isotopic evidence for the source of Ca and S in soil gypsum, anhydrite and calcite in the Atacama Desert, Chile

    2003

  • Late Quaternary paleohydrology of the central Atacama Desert (lat 22°-24°S), Chile

    2002

  • Vegetation invasions into absolute desert: A 45 000 yr rodent midden record from the Calama-Salar de Atacama basins, northern Chile (lat 22°-24°S)

    2002

  • δ sup 13 /sup C values of soil organic matter in semiarid grassland with mesquite (Prosopis) encroachment in southeastem Arizona

    2002

  • Sourcing sediment using multiple tracers in the catchment of Lake Argyle, Northwestern Australia

    2002

  • Desert pavements and associated rock varnish in the Mojave Desert: How old can they be?

    2002

  • Measurement of ancient cosmogenic sup 21 /sup Ne in quartz from the 28 Ma Fish Canyon Tuff, Colorado

    2002

  • Tracing spatial and temporal variations in the sources of calcium in pedogenic carbonates in a semiarid environment

    2002

  • Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of foreland basin sediments of Nepal Himalaya

    2001

  • Holocene vegetation history from fossil rodent middens near Arequipa, Peru

    2001

  • Late Quaternary environmental change in the Bonneville basin, western USA

    2001

  • Holocene lake-level fluctuations of Lake Aricota, Southern Peru

    2001

  • Seasonale stable isotope evidence for a strong Asian monsoon throughout the past 10.7 m.y

    2001

  • Stratigraphy, structure, and tectonic evolution of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt in Western Nepal

    2001

  • Strontium isotopes reveal distant sources of architectural timber in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico

    2001

  • A new extraction technique and production rate estimate for in situ cosmognic sup 14 /sup C in quartz

    2001

  • Predicting paleoelevation of Tibet and the Himalaya from δ sup 18 /sup O vs. altitude gradients in meteoric water across the Nepal Himalaya

    2000

  • Fish remains from Homestead Cave and lake levels of the past 13,000 years in the Bonneville basin

    2000

  • The Os and Sr isotopic record of Himalayan paleorivers: Himalayan tectonics and influence on ocean chemistry

    2000

  • Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the Neogene Siwalik Group at Khutia Khola, far western Nepal

    2000

  • Palynological evidence for vegetation development and climatic change in the Sub-Himalayan Zone (Neogene, Central Nepal)

    2000

  • Isotopic evidence for eolian recycling of pedogenic carbonate and variations in carbonate dust sources throughout the southwest United States

    2000

  • Tectonic implications of U-Pb zircon ages of the Himalayan orogenic belt in Nepal

    2000

  • High times on the Tibetan Plateau: Paleoelevation of the Thakkhola graben, Nepal

    2000

  • A 22,000-year record of monsoonal precipitation from northern chile's atacama desert

    2000

  • Geologic control of Sr and major element chemistry in Himalayan Rivers, Nepal

    2000

  • The stable-isotope composition of early ground-water cements from sandstone in paleoecological reconstruction

    1999

  • Black Mats, Spring-Fed Streams, and Late-Glacial-Age Recharge in the Southern Great Basin

    1998

  • Late Pleistocene C sub 4 /sub plant dominance and summer rainfall in the southwestern United States from isotopic study of herbivore teeth

    1998

  • Miocene/pliocene shift: One step or several? [2]

    1998

  • Reconstructing cave bear paleoecology from skeletons: A cross-disciplinary study of middle Pleistocene bears from Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey

    1998

  • Eocene-early Miocene foreland basin development and the history of Himalayan thrusting, western and central Nepal

    1998

  • The vesicular layer and carbonate collars of desert soils and pavements: formation, age and relation to climate change

    1998

  • Neogene foreland basin deposits, erosional unroofing, and the kinematic history of the Himalayan fold-thrust belt, western Nepal

    1998

  • Quaternary history of the Thatcher Basin, Idaho, reconstructed from the sup 87 /sup Sr/ sup 86 /sup Sr and amino acid composition of lacustrine fossils: Implications for the diversion of the Bear River into the Bonneville Basin

    1998

  • The late neogene sup 87 /sup Sr/ sup 86 /sup Sr record of lowland himalayan rivers

    1997

  • Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

    1997

  • Reliable Late-Pleistocene Stratigraphic Ages and Shorter Groundwater Travel Times from sup 14 /sup C in Fossil Snails from the Southern Great Basin

    1997

  • The expansion of C sub 4 /sub grasses and global change in the late Miocene: Stable isotope evidence from the Americas

    1997

  • Holocene palaeoecology of the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, based on stick-nest rat (Leporillus spp.) middens: A preliminary overview

    1996

  • Strontium and carbon isotope tracers and the origins of soil carbonate in South Australia and Victoria

    1995

  • Fossil spring deposits in the southern great basin and their implications for changes in water-table levels near Yucca Mountain, Nevada, during quaternary time

    1995

  • Radiocarbon dating of fossil mollusk shells in the Yucca Mountain Region

    1995

  • Floodplains and paleosols of Pakistan Neogene and Wyoming Paleogene deposits: a comparative study

    1995

  • Late Miocene environmental change in Nepal and the northern Indian subcontinent: stable isotopic evidence from paleosols

    1995

  • Expansion of C sub 4 /sub grasses in the Late Miocene of Northern Pakistan: evidence from stable isotopes in paleosols

    1995

  • Paleodietary reconstruction of Miocene faunas from Paşalar, Turkey using stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of fossil tooth enamel

    1995

  • Studies of the production rate of cosmic-ray produced sup 14 /sup C in rock surfaces

    1994

  • Expansion and emergence of C4 plants [10]

    1994

  • Stable isotopic evidence from paleosol carbonates and fossil teeth in Greece for forest or woodlands over the past 11 Ma

    1994

  • The carbon isotope composition of organic matter occluded in iron nodules

    1994

  • Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene

    1993

  • A 16-Ma record of paleodiet using carbon and oxygen isotopes in fossil teeth from Pakistan

    1992

  • Reply to comment on the Paleoenvironment of Kenyapithecus at Fort Ternan

    1992

  • Fossil soils, grasses, and carbon isotopes from Fort Ternan, Kenya: grassland or woodland?

    1991

  • On the isotopic composition of carbon in soil carbon dioxide

    1991

  • Global ecologic and climatic change during the Neogene: Stable isotopic evidence from soils

    1990

  • Stable isotopic evidence for a pedogenic origin of carbonates in trench 14 near Yucca Mountain, Nevada

    1990

  • Late Wisconsin groundwater discharge environments of the southwestern Indian Springs Valley, southern Nevada

    1989

  • Systematic variations in the carbon and oxygen isotopic composition of pedogenic carbonate along elevation transects in the southern Great Basin, United States

    1989

  • Development of Asian monsoon revealed by marked ecological shift during the latest Miocene in northern Pakistan

    1989

  • Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators

    1989

  • Late quaternary environmental changes in the upper Las Vegas valley, Nevada

    1986

  • ESTIMATING CLIMATE CHANGE FROM HYDROLOGIC RESPONSE.

    1986

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