His research is primarily concerned with using novel
isotopic techniques to gain insights into how and why the Earth's climate has changed over geological time.
Interests: Multi-disciplinary research on ocean and terrestrial carbon cycle processes using a variety of geochemical and
isotopic techniques.
Fat and starch gastric emptying rate in humans: a reproducibility study of a double -
isotopic technique.
Not exact matches
Cuffey developed a
technique to combine these temperature measurements, which are smoothed as a result of heat diffusion in the ice, with
isotopic measurements of old ice to come up with an estimated temperature of 11.3 degrees, plus or minus 1.8 degrees Celsius, warming since the depths of the ice age.
Borch's co-authors include Rizlan Bernier - Latmani, a scientist in Switzerland who developed the
isotopic fingerprinting
techniques to differentiate between uranium formed via microbial or chemical means.
Unlike previous methods, the clumped isotope paleothermometer
technique does not rely on assumptions about the
isotopic composition of seawater.
But she had to improve the sensitivity of the
technique so that it could detect the
isotopic ratio in DNA from the roughly 6 - gram sliver of neural tissue in the hippocampus thought to produce new neurons, the dentate gyrus.
Using innovative
isotopic analysis
techniques and mathematical modeling, he has shown that Mars is a planetary embryo, found
isotopic similarities between the Moon, Earth and meteorites, and proposed a new narrative for the origin of Earth's unique iron composition.
Using a laser
technique which removes negligibly small amounts of dental enamel, and analyzing trace amounts of
isotopic Strontium, they found individuals with small teeth roamed more widely from their birthplace than did individuals with large teeth.