Associate Professor Elizabeth Griffith led and co-authored two recent publications in the Cambridge Elements “Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science” series, now in print. This series of timely accessible short papers “review each method in terms of the geochemical underpinnings, the promises and pitfalls, and the ‘state-of-the-art’ and future prospects” for each geochemical tracer. Liz hopes that her contributions on “Calcium Isotopes” and “Pelagic Barite” will be useful resources for graduate students and others interested in using the tracers, and motivate new work in the field. Her research group currently uses pelagic marine barite to reconstruct ocean paleoproductivity and paleochemistry to better understand dynamic periods in Earth history, especially intervals of climate warmth. Liz also continues to contribute new understanding of calcium isotope geochemistry at global and local scales.
Y. Yao, E. M. Griffith, A. Paytan (2021) Pelagic barite: tracer of ocean productivity and a recorder of isotopic compositions of seawater S, O, Sr, Ca and Ba. Cambridge Elements. (Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781108847162
Griffith, E. M., M. S. Fantle (2021) Calcium Isotopes. Cambridge Elements. (Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/ 9781108853972