Capitalizing on the wealth of chemical data in the accretionary structures of aquatic taxa: Opportunities from across the tree of life

ZA Doubleday, L Hosking, J Willoughby… - Limnology and …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Aquatic organisms are natural data loggers and record chemical variations within hardened
accretionary structures like shells and teeth. Chemical sclerochronology is the study of these …

Eliminating the need for anodic gas separation in CO2 electroreduction systems via liquid-to-liquid anodic upgrading

K Xie, A Ozden, RK Miao, Y Li, D Sinton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to multi-carbon products (C2+), when powered using
renewable electricity, offers a route to valuable chemicals and fuels. In conventional neutral …

Proteinaceous corals as proxy archives of paleo-environmental change

B Williams - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
High-resolution marine data are critical to evaluating anthropogenic impacts on our
environment. Considering the spatial and temporal limitations of direct instrumental …

Chemical sclerochronology

DP Gillikin, AD Wanamaker, CFT Andrus - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Given the scope and rapid rate of modern global environmental change (IPCC, 2013), it is
necessary to provide a framework to evaluate changes prior to the instrumental period. By …

Historical biogeographic range shifts and the influence of climate change on ocean quahogs (Arctica islandica) on the Mid-Atlantic Bight

AM LeClaire, EN Powell, R Mann… - The …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The Holocene, starting approximately 11.7 cal ka, is characterized by distinct periods of
warming and cooling. Despite these known climate events, few temperature proxy data exist …

Utility of Dendrochronology Crossdating Methods in the Development of Arctic Coralline Red Algae Clathromorphum compactum Growth Increment Chronology for …

N Leclerc, J Halfar, TJ Porter, BA Black… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions from increment-yielding archives
strongly depend on precise age models. Like bivalves, corals, trees, and speleothems, the …

Growth Increments of Coralline Red Alga Clathromorphum Compactum Capture Sea‐Ice Variability Links to Arctic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations (1805–2015)

N Leclerc, J Halfar, S Hetzinger, A Tsay… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Given sea ice's importance in global climate regulation, fully understanding the role of
natural temperature and atmospheric patterns like the Arctic Oscillation (AO), North Atlantic …

Evidence of multi-decadal behavior and ecosystem-level changes revealed by reconstructed lifetime stable isotope profiles of baleen whale earplugs

F Mansouri, ZC Winfield, DD Crain, B Morris… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biological time series datasets provide an unparalleled opportunity to investigate regional
and global changes in the marine environment. Baleen whales are long-lived sentinel …

Growth rate rather than temperature affects the B∕Ca ratio in the calcareous red alga Lithothamnion corallioides

G Piazza, VA Bracchi, A Langone, AN Meroni… - …, 2022 - bg.copernicus.org
The B/Ca ratio in calcareous marine species is informative of past seawater CO 3 2-
concentrations, but scarce data exist on B/Ca in coralline algae. Recent studies suggest …

Sedimentary anthropogenic carbon signals from the Western pacific margin for the last century

J Lee, RJ Yang, HL Lin, YC Chen, RY Cai-Li… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The declining trend of the δ 13C of tropical corals over the last century was about− 0.01‰
year− 1, according to global coral records. The decrease was attributable to the significant …