NOAA Global and Climate Change Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology, 07/2006-08/2008
Description of Research
Summary Statement of Research Interests
I use biogeochemical analytical approaches to answer intriguing questions about climatic and ecological change. Organic geochemical and compound-specific isotopic approaches provide new tools for high resolution studies. Current projects include compound-specific carbon isotopic reconstruction of paleovegetation and development and application of hydrogen isotopic proxies for paleohydrology.
Sachse, D., ., .., Feakins, S. J., et al, ..
(2012).
Sources of variability in the hydrogen isotopic composition of organic compounds from photosynthetic organisms. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Vol. 40
Feakins, S. J., Warny, S., Lee, J.
(2011).
Plant leaf waxes record Antarctic precipitation 20 to 15 million years ago. submitted to Nature Geoscience.
Romero, I. C., Feakins, S. J.
(2011).
Spatial gradients in plant leaf wax D/H across a coastal salt marsh in southern California. Organic Geochemistry. pp. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.04.001.
Feakins, S. J., Sessions, A. L.
(2010).
Crassulacean acid metabolism influences D/H ratios of leaf wax in succulent plants. Organic Geochemistry.
Vol. 41, pp. 1269-1276.
Feakins, S. J., Sessions, A. L.
(2010).
Controls on the D/H ratios of plant leaf waxes in an arid ecosystem. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Vol. 74, pp. 2128-2141.
Feakins, S. J., Brown, F. H., deMenocal, P. B.
(2007).
Plio-Pleistocene Microtephra in DSDP Site 231, Gulf of Aden. Journal of African Earth Sciences.
Vol. 48, pp. 341-352.
Feakins, S. J., Eglinton, T. I., deMenocal, P. B.
(2007).
A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegetation from lacustrine and marine sediments ca. 3.40 Ma. Organic Geochemistry.
Vol. 38, pp. 1607-1624.
Feakins, S. J., deMenocal., P. B., Eglinton, T. I.
(2005).
Biomarker records of Late Neogene Changes in East African Vegetation. Geology.
Vol. 33, pp. 977-980.
Stokes, S., Feakins (Ingram), S. J., Aitken, M. J., Sirocko, F., Anderson, R., Leuschner, D.
(2003).
Alternative chronologies for Late Quaternary (Last Interglacial-Holocene) deep sea sediments via optical dating of silt-sized quartz. Quaternary Science Reviews.
Vol. 22 (8-9), pp. 925-941.
Feakins (Ingram), S. J., Stokes, S., Bailey, R.
(2001).
Confirmation of backscattered beta dose enhancement rates based on single aliquot regeneration (SAR) analysis of quartz sand and silt. Ancient TL.
Vol. 19, pp. 51-54.
Other
Wood, B. (Feakins, S.J. contributing editor) (Ed.).
(2011).
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set. Wiley-Blackwell.
Feakins, S. J., deMenocal, P. B.
(2010).
Global and African Regional Climate Change during the Neogene, Cenozoic Mammals of Africa. University of California Press.
Honors and Awards
Texaco Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (declined), 2006-2007
Goodfriend Prize for best student paper LDEO, Columbia University, 2005-2006
Gibbs Prize for graduating top of senior year University of Oxford School of Geography, 2000-2001
Steer Prize for best BA Thesis University of Oxford School of Geography, 2000-2001
