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Summit Greenland Panorama
Photo by L.Davidge

Welcome to the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Ice Core and Atmospheric Chemistry Lab website. Here you can find information about our research, the members of our research group, field campaigns and the facilities we have in our laboratory.

 

Sebastian installing inlet on tower in Barbados
Photo by M.Scholer
Vas and Mingzhe sampling at Lake Navajo, CO
Photo by M.Scholer
Team sampling in Western NY
Photo by K.Hall
Picture of San Juan NF, CO
Photo by K.Hall
Taylor Glacier Terminus
Photo by P.Neff
Packing ice cores in melter
Photo by C.Buizert
Glacier front at Greenland
Photo by X.Fain
Backlit Ice Layers
Photo by L.Davidge
Driving over the Greenland Ice Sheet
Photo by X.Fain

Recent Publications

Petrenko, V. V., BenZvi, S., Dyonisius, M., Hmiel, B., Smith, A. M., and Buizert, C. 2024. The potential of in situ cosmogenic 14CO in ice cores as a proxy for galactic cosmic ray flux variations. The Cryosphere, 18, 3439–3451, .

Hmiel, B., Petrenko, V.V., Buizert, C., Smith, A.M., Dyonisius, M.N., Place, P., Yang, B., Hua, Q., Beaudette, R., Severinghaus, J.P., Harth, C., Weiss, R.F., Davidge, L., Diaz, M., Pacicco, M., Menking, J.A., Kalk, M., Faïn, X., Adolph, A., Vimont, I., Murray, L.T. 2024. Characterization of in situ cosmogenic 14CO production, retention and loss in firn and shallow ice at Summit, Greenland. The Cryosphere, 18, 3363–3382, .

Patterson, J.D., Aydin, M., Crotwell, A. M., Petron, G., Severinghaus, J.P., Krummel, P.B., Langenfelds, R.L., Petrenko, V.V., Salzman, E.S. 2023. Reconstructing atmospheric H2 over the past century from bi-polar firn air records. Climate of the Past, 19, 2535 – 2550.

Buizert, C., Shackleton, S., Severinghaus,J.P., Roberts, W.H.G., Seltzer, A., Bereiter, B., Kawamura, K., Baggenstos, D., Orsi, A.J., Oyabu, I., Birner, B., Morgan, J.D., Brook, E.J., Etheridge, D.M., Thornton, D., Bertler, N., Pyne, R.L., Mulvaney, R., Mosley-Thompson, E., Neff, P.D., Petrenko, V.V. 2023. The new Kr-86 excess ice core proxy for synoptic activity: West Antarctic storminess possibly linked to ITCZ movement through the last deglaciation. Climate of the Past, 19, 579 - 606.

Dyonisius, M., Petrenko, V.V., Smith, A., Hmiel, B., Neff, P., Yang, B., Hua, Q., Schmitt, J., Shackleton, S., Buizert, C., Place, P., Menking, J., Beaudette, R., Harth, C., Kalk, M., Roop, H., Bereiter, B., Armanetti, C., Vimont, I., Michel, S. E., Brook, E., Severinghaus, J., Weiss, R., McConnell, J. 2023. Using ice core measurements from Taylor Glacier, Antarctica to calibrate in situ cosmogenic 14C production rates by muons. The Cryosphere, 17, 843 - 863.

Menking, J.A., Shackleton, S.A., Bauska, T.K., Buffen, A.M., Brook, E.J., Barker, S., Severinghaus, J.P., Dyonisius, M.N., Petrenko, V.V. 2022. Multiple carbon cycle mechanisms associated with the glaciation of Marine Isotope Stage 4. Nature Communications, 13:5443,

Faïn, X., Rhodes, R.H., Place, P., Petrenko, V.V., Fourteau, K., Chellman, N., Crosier, E., McConnell, J.R., Brook, E.J., Blunier, T., Legrand, M., Chappellaz, J. 2022. Northern Hemisphere atmospheric history of carbon monoxide since preindustrial times reconstructed from multiple Greenland ice cores. Climate of the Past, 18, 631 – 647,

Shackleton, S., Menking, J.A., Brook, E., Buizert, C., Dyonisius, M.N.,Petrenko, V.V., Baggenstos, D., and Severinghaus, J.P. 2021. Evolution of mean ocean temperature in Marine Isotope Stage 4. Climate of the Past, 17, 2273–2289.

Kazemi, R. Schlageter, W., Hmiel, B., Weber, T.S., Murray, L.T., Petrenko, V.V. 2021. Investigating methane emissions from geologic microseepage in Western New York State, United States. Elementa, 9: 1.   

Petrenko, V.V., A.M. Smith, E.M. Crosier, R. Kazemi, P. Place, A. Colton, B. Yang, Q. Hua, L.T. Murray. 2021. An improved method for atmospheric 14CO measurements. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 14, 2055–2063.

Aydin, M., G. L. Britten, S. A. Montzka, C. Buizert, F. Primeau, V.V. Petrenko, M. B. Battle, M. R. Nicewonger, J. Patterson, B. Hmiel, and E. S. Saltzman. 2020. Anthropogenic Impacts on Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Since the 19th Century Inferred From Polar Firn Air and Ice Core Measurements. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2020JD033074.

Menking, J.A., Brook, E.J., Schilt, A. Shackleton, S., Dyonisius, M., Severinghaus, J.P., Petrenko, V.V. 2020. Millennial‐Scale Changes in Terrestrial and Marine Nitrous Oxide Emissions at the Onset and Termination of Marine Isotope Stage 4. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL089110.

Shackleton, S. , Baggenstos, D., Menking, J.A., Dyonisius, M.N., Bereiter, B., Bauska, T.K., Rhodes, R.H., Brook, E.J., , Petrenko, V.V., McConnell, J.R., Kellerhals, T., Häberli, M.,
Schmitt, J., , Fischer, H. and Severinghaus, J.P. 2020. Global ocean heat content in the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience, 13, 77-81. .

M. N. Dyonisius, V. V. Petrenko, A. M. SmithQ. Hua, B. Yang, J. Schmitt, J. Beck, B. Seth, M. Bock, B. Hmiel, I. Vimont, J. A. Menking, S. A. Shackleton, D. Baggenstos, T. K. Bauska, R. H. Rhodes, P. Sperlich, R. Beaudette, C. Harth, M. Kalk, E. J. Brook, H. Fischer, J. P. Severinghaus, R. F. Weiss. 2020. Old carbon reservoirs were not important in the deglacial methane budget. Science. 367, 907-910.

B. Hmiel, V.V Petrenko, M.N. Dyonisius, C. Buizert, A.M. Smith, P.F. Place, C. Harth, R. Beaudette, Q. Hua, B. Yang, I. Vimont, S.E. Michel, J.P. Severinghaus, D. Etheridge, T. Bromley, J. Schmitt, X. Faïn, R.F. Weiss, E.J. Dlugokencky, Preindustrial 14CH4 indicates greater anthropogenic fossil CH4 emissions, Nature. 2020

 

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: Science Magazine article on Michael's Science paper. February 2020.

: Article on Michael's Science paper. February 2020.

: National Geographic article on Ben's Nature paper. February 2020.

: New York Times article on Ben's Nature paper. February 2020.

: Nature Article on upcoming Law Dome Project, November 2018

: Article on upcoming Law Dome Project, October 2018

: Daily Mail article on upcoming Law Dome Project, October 2018

: An analysis of the sound in Peter's ice drop video, April 2018

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