PP13A
Biomarkers in Paleoclimate: Development, Applications, and Interpretations II Posters

Monday, 14 December 2015: 13:40-18:00
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Primary Conveners:  Sarah J Feakins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
Chairs:  Sarah J Feakins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Sarah J Feakins, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Appraisal of biomass combustion biomarkers to track the paleo-occurrence of forest fires (72062)
Pedro Rivas-Ruiz1, Min Cao1 and Antoni Rosell Mele1,2, (1)Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Val, Spain, (2)ICREA, Barcelona, Spain
 
Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Sedimentary Plant Waxes as Quantitative Proxy for Rainfall in the West African Sahel (77308)
Eva M Niedermeyer, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Germany
 
Deglacial temperature patterns in the Arabian Sea and mechanisms for Indian monsoon failure (84729)
Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Temperature Reconstructions from Paleolakes of the West Turkana and North Awash Basins, East Africa (66560)
Isla S. Castañeda, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Inverse relation between summer and winter monsoon strength during late Holocene: continental molecular isotopic record from the Indian subcontinent (77997)
Sayak Basu1, Prasanta Sanyal1, Anushree Pillai2, Pramod Singh3, Jayashree Ratnam2, Mahesh Sankaran2 and Anoop Amibili1, (1)Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Kolkata, India, (2)National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bengaluru, India, (3)Pondicherry University, Department of Earth Sciences, Pondicherry, India
 
Tracing the Holocene environmental evolution on the island of South Georgia by lipid biomarkers and compound-specific radiocarbon analysis (69828)
Sandra Jivcov, Sonja Berg, Stephanie Kusch, Finn A. Viehberg, Janet Rethemeyer and Martin Melles, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
 
Deep into an interglacial: A compound-specific biomarker study of Marine Isotope Stage 11 (Tenaghi Philippon, Greece) (78081)
Nicolò Ardenghi1, Eva M Niedermeyer1,2, Ansgar Kahmen3, Jörg Pross4 and Andreas Mulch5, (1)Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany, (2)Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, Germany, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (4)University of Heidelberg, Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany, (5)Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt, United States
 
Hydrogen isotopic compositions of organic compounds in plants reflect the plant’s carbon metabolism (77388)
Marc-André Cormier, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
 
Are δ13C values of n-alkanes affected by atmospheric CO2 concentrations? Results from a free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE) experiment. (85033)
Darren R Sandquist, California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, CA, United States
 
Leaf Wax δ13C Varies with Elevation in the Peruvian Andes and Western Amazonia (84220)
Mong Sin Wu1, Sarah J Feakins1, Camilo Ponton1, Tom Peters1,2, A. Joshua West1, Valier Galy3, Lisa Patrick Bentley4, Norma Salinas5, Alexander Shenkin6, Roberta Martin7, Gregory Paul Asner8 and Yadvinder Malhi6, (1)University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of Amsterdam, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (3)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (4)University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (5)Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Cusco, Peru, (6)Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford, United Kingdom, (7)Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, CA, United States, (8)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
 
Linking the Modern and Recent Record of Cabo Frio Upwelling with Local Climate and Biogeochemical Processes in Hypersaline Coastal Lagoons, Região dos Lagos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (64586)
Gabriela S. Nascimento1, Ana Luiza Albuquerque2, Andre Luiz Belem2, Renato Carreira3, Judith A. McKenzie1, Timothy I Eglinton4 and Crisogono Vasconcelos4, (1)ETH Zurich, ERDW, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, Brazil, (3)PUC Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, (4)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
 
Modern Spatial Rainfall Rate is well Correlated with Coretop δ2Hdinosterol in the South Pacific Convergence Zone: A Tool for Quantitative Reconstructions of Rainfall Rate (84577)
Ashley E Maloney1, Daniel B Nelson2, Julian P Sachs3, Jonathan D Hassall4, David Ayres Sear5, Peter G Langdon4 and Matthew Prebble6, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (3)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, (5)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (6)Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
 
Determining the Effect of Growth Rate on Hydrogen Isotope Fractionation of Algal Lipids in Two North Pacific Sites (70891)
Marta Wolfshorndl, University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA, United States and Julian P Sachs, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States
 
Branched GDGTs in Lacustrine Environments: Tracing Allochthonous and Autochthonous Sources Using Compound-Specific Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis (78179)
Yuki Weber, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland and Jaap Sinninghe Damsté,, Utrecht University, Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht, Netherlands; NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, Department of Marine Organic Biogeochemistry, Texel, Netherlands
 
Sediment Trap Time Series of GDGT Flux in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for the TEX86 Paleothermometer (74253)
Julie N Richey, USGS, St. Petersburg, FL, United States and Jessica E Tierney, University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
Geochemical Approach to Archaeal Ecology: δ13C of GDGTs (81703)
Samantha Lichtin, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
New culturing studies of various haptophyte algae: The role of phylogeny on the alkenone paleothermometer (83241)
Imari Iyana Walker Karega1, William J D'Andrea2 and Andrew R Juhl2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
 
Unusual ∆7,12,19 C35:3 Alkenone Produced by the Mutant Emiliania huxleyi strain CCMP2758 in Culture (69764)
Yinsui Zheng1,2, Yongsong Huang1, Yifan Zhang1 and James T Dillon1, (1)Brown University, Providence, RI, United States, (2)Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, United States
 
Refining the alkenone-pCO2 method: The role of algal growth conditions (81107)
Yige Zhang1, Ann Pearson2, Peter J Huybers2 and Mark Pagani3, (1)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
 
C and N Isotopes in Ostrich Eggshell as Proxies of Paleovegetation and Paleoprecipitation: Extraction, Preservation, and Application to Pleistocene Archaeological Samples (71055)
Elizabeth M Niespolo, University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, Warren D. Sharp, Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley, CA, United States, Christian A Tryon, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, J. Tyler Faith, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, Melanie Miller, University of California Berkeley, Anthropology, Berkeley, CA, United States and Todd E Dawson, University of California Berkeley, Center for Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Deconstructing the Bulk Signal: Compound-Specific Nitrogen Isotopes in Marine Sediment (75207)
Wilson Sauthoff, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
 
New Insights into Amino Acid Preservation in the Early Oceans using Modern Analytical Techniques (59690)
Eric Thomas Parker1, Karen L. Brinton2, Aaron S. Burton3, Daniel Patrick Glavin4, Jason P. Dworkin4 and Jeffrey Bada5, (1)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (2)Southwestern College, School of Mathematics, Science & Engineering, Chula Vista, CA, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Scripps Institution of Oceangraphy, University of California at San Diego, Geosciences Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States