Jess F. Adkins
Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science
B.S., Haverford College, 1990; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2000-06; Associate Professor, 2006-10; Professor, 2010-16; Smits Professor, 2017-.
Research interests: geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments and their interstitial waters, rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes, metals as tracers of environmental processes, radiocarbon and U-series chronology, chemical oceanography
Overview
Professor Adkins focuses on geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments and their interstitial waters; Rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes; Metals as tracers of environmental processes; Radiocarbon and U-series chronology. Chemical oceanography.
Publications
- Cetiner, Jaclyn E. P.;Berelson, William M. et al. (2025) Carbonate dissolution fluxes in deep-sea sediments as determined from in situ porewater profiles in a transect across the saturation horizonGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Dong, Sijia;Pavia, Frank J. et al. (2025) Carbon Cycling in Marine Particles Based on Inorganic and Organic Stable IsotopesGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Bian, Xiaopeng;Yang, Shun-Chung et al. (2024) A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balanceEarth and Planetary Science Letters
- Crémière, Antoine;Tino, Christopher J. et al. (2024) A volatile sulfur sink aids in reconciling the sulfur isotope mass balance of closed basin lakesGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Giesche, Alena;Hodell, David A. et al. (2023) Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north IndiaCommunications Earth & Environment
- Ziveri, Patrizia;Gray, William Robert et al. (2023) Pelagic calcium carbonate production and shallow dissolution in the North Pacific OceanNature Communications
- Chen, Sang;Littley, Eloise F. M. et al. (2023) Coherent tracer correlations in deep-sea corals and implications for biomineralization mechanisms underlying vital effectsGeochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Cetiner, Jaclyn E. P.;Berelson, William M. et al. (2023) Novel device to collect deep-sea porewater in situ: A focus on benthic carbonate chemistryLimnology and Oceanography: Methods
- Li, Boda;Hu, Huanting et al. (2022) On the Use of Dissolved Oxygen Isotopologues as Biogeochemical Tracers in the Northeast Pacific OceanJournal of Geophysical Research. Oceans
- Rafter, Patrick A.;Gray, William R. et al. (2022) Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice ageScience Advances
Related Courses
2022-23
Ge/ESE 149 – Marine Geochemistry
Ge/ESE 154 – Readings in Paleoclimate
Ge/ESE 155 – Paleoceanography
2021-22
ESE/Ge 142 – Aquatic Chemistry of Natural Waters
Ge/ESE 149 – Marine Geochemistry
Ge/ESE 154 – Readings in Paleoclimate
2020-21
ESE/Ge 142 – Aquatic Chemistry of Natural Waters
Ge/ESE 154 – Readings in Paleoclimate
Ge/ESE 155 – Paleoceanography