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Guyot Science 2004 GuyotGuyot Science 2004 Department of Geosciences, Princeton University 1 2 Guyot Science 2004 A Summary of the Research Progress and Accomplishments Made by the Faculty Members of the Department of Geosciences During the Year 2004 Last year, January-December 2004, was a year of transition for the Princeton Department of Geosciences. In June Jason Morgan retired from active service as a faculty member, after a distinguished 44-year career as a geoscientist at Princeton, and in July we were delighted to welcome the newest member of the geosciences faculty, Nadine McQuarrie. A second new faculty member, Adam Maloof, will join us approximately one year from now, following the completion of his postdoctoral fellowship at MIT. Nadine is a structural geologist who studies mountain building and other active tectonic processes, whereas Adam applies paleomagnetism and other tools to the study of the ancient earth. As usual, a number of geosciences faculty members received outside honors and awards in recognition of the excellence of their research. George Philander was elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, raising the departmental membership to four, and Bess Ward was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, raising the departmental membership to three. Jorge Sarmiento was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; he is the fi rst Princeton geoscientist to be so honored. Danny Sigman received the 2004 Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysi- cal Union, which recognizes signifi cant contributions to the geophysical sciences by an outstanding young scientist. Danny is the fi rst member of the geosciences department to receive this coveted award; he also received a prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation. François Morel will be the next recipient of the Maurice Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union and the U.S. Navy, “for his leadership in the revolution in low-temperature aqueous geochemistry that has resulted in a new fi eld of studies at the interface between marine chem- istry and biology.” Finally, Allan Rubin was elected a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union; this is a prestigious honor restricted to no more than 0.1 percent of the membership each year. More than half of the faculty members in the Department of Geosciences are now Fellows of the AGU. The recent research accomplishments of each member of the geosciences faculty are described in the individual reports that follow. A list of faculty publications during the past two years, 2003−2004, is appended to each narrative report. Back Row: Rob Hargraves (deceased), Satish Myneni, Greg van der Vink, Guust Nolet, Tony Dahlen, Jorge Sarmiento, John Suppe. Middle Row: Bob Phinney, Lincoln Hollister, Peter Bunge, Ken Deffeyes (emeritus), François Morel, Michael Bender, Bess Ward, Tullis Onstott. Front Row: Jason Morgan, Tom Duffy, Franklyn van Houten (emeritus), Gerta Keller, George Philander, Bill Bonini (emeritus), Allan Rubin. Photo by Pryde Brown, with additions by Laurie Wanat. 3 Michael Bender Highlights of our research of last year include: Professor 1. Completing data interpretation and preparing papers Ph.D., 1970, Columbia University summarizing the following studies: email: [email protected] (a) Measurements of atmospheric O2/N2 variations since 1991, and their implications for land and ocean CO2 sequestration (and its interannual variability). We show that the oceans take up twice as much CO2 as the land biosphere between 1993-2002, and confi rm previous conclusions that the land biosphere is a major CO2 source during El Nino events. (paper in review) (b) The meridional gradient in the annually averaged O2/ N2 ratio of air. This work, led by my former postdoc Mark Battle (Bowdoin College), fi nds that the gradient is similar to recent model predictions, with a large equatorial maximum The activities of my laboratory focus on studies of the due to ocean outgassing in the tropics. (paper still in prepa- geochemistry of O2, with applications to understanding the ration) global carbon cycle and glacial-interglacial climate change. (c) Studies of the isotope geochemistry of O2 in the The geochemical properties we study are the concentration tropical Pacifi c. This paper, led by former postdoc Melissa of O in air (which we measure to very high precision), and 2 Hendricks, shows that the triple isotope composition of O2 the relative abundance of the three stable O isotopes (16O, in the tropical Pacifi c refl ects rates of all the metabolic and 17 18 O, and O) in O2. There are two subjects for the isotopic water mass mixing processes relevant to regional carbon studies: O2 in fossil air extracted from ice cores, and dis- fl uxes and the nutrient supply, which can therefore be quan- solved O2 in seawater. tifi ed from the data. (paper in review) They inform us about a range of topics. Studies of the (d) Studies of the triple isotope composition of O2 in O2 concentration (or ratio of O2/N2) in air constrain the fate surface waters of the Southern Ocean. This work, led by of fossil fuel CO2 that does not remain in the atmosphere: Matt Reuer, gives far more data than heretofore available on these measurements allow us to partition the “missing” CO2 rates of net and gross production in the upper water column between the oceans and the land biosphere. They also con- of the Southern Ocean, and show that rates of net and gross strain rates of seasonal biological production by the oceans. production increase to the north, contrary to our general Finally, they provide a test of models describing the global understanding of controlling factors. (paper still in prepara- interaction of ocean circulation and biogeochemistry: these tion) models predict that there should be a relatively large maxi- 2. Other signifi cant developments: mum in the atmospheric O /N ratio in air over the tropical 2 2 (a) Jan Kaiser’s instrument for continuously measuring Pacifi c. the O2/Ar ratio along cruise tracks was deployed on two The isotopic measurements of O in ice core trapped 2 additional equatorial Pacifi c cruises. His extensive data set gases refl ect the relative fertility of Earth’s biosphere, averaged allows continuous estimates of net oceanic production and over about 1,000 years. gives a great deal of new information about the regional The triple isotope composition of O in seawater refl ects 2 variations in this rate, and factors controlling them. the fraction of dissolved O from photosynthesis. O super- 2 2 (b) Bruce Barnett has completed the 400 ka record of the saturation refl ects net production (photosynthesis in excess triple isotope composition of O based on analyzing trapped of respiration); by combining measurements of O concen- 2 2 gases in the Vostok ice core. The preliminary interpreta- trations and isotopes, we can determine rates of photosyn- tion is that photosynthesis rates of the global biosphere were thesis, respiration, and net production in aquatic ecosystems. about 15% lower during glacial times and vary strongly with Of course rate determinations of these processes in seawater ice volume and the atmospheric CO concentration. have been made for many years; what makes our work new 2 (c) Makoto Suwa participated in an Antarctic expedition is that our approach does not require labor-intensive bottle led by Jeff Severinghaus (Scripps) that advanced our under- incubations at sea, and our measurements can be made on standing of the processes by which gases are trapped in glacial large numbers of samples collected by colleagues on cruises ice. of opportunity, and returned to the lab. (d) We have installed automated air samplers at nearly all Supplementing the O studies are studies of Ar. In 2 of our air sampling sites; the last one will go in this coming seawater samples, Ar gives a measure of physical supersatura- March. We hope for a signifi cant improvement in the qual- tion due to warming of waters and bubble entrainment. In ity of our atmospheric Ar/N ratio measurements, in particu- air samples, the Ar/N ratio refl ects seasonal outgassing and 2 2 lar. ingassing due to temperature-driven solubility changes, and (e) John Dunne has put the isotopes of O into his GFDL also to atmospheric mixing. model of ocean biogeochemistry, a key step in quantitively interpreting our data on this property. (f) Experiments with a postdoctoral fellow of Chuck 4 Dismukes, Department of Chemistry, showed that less than Bender, M. L., Climate-biosphere interactions on glacial-inter- glacial timescales, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, in press, 1 part in 105 of photosynthetic O2 production is from bicar- bonate; water is the main source. 2003. Battle, M., M. Bender, M. Hendricks, D. T. Ho, R. Mika, G. (g) We have constructed a vacuum line for doing He/U McKinley, S. Fan, T. Blaine, and R. Keeling, Measurements dating of speleothems. Speleothems are emerging as the and models of the atmospheric Ar/N2 ratio, Geophysical Re- most exciting new climate archive, and He/U dating would search Letters, 30 (15), 1786, doi:10.1029/2003GL017411, allow us to study samples that are too old to be dated by cur- 2003. rent methods (> 400,000 years). Articles in press or submitted: (h) We have established a collaboration with Dave Hendricks, Melissa, Michael L. Bender, and Bruce Barnett, The Marchant, Boston University, to study samples of glacial ice triple isotope composition of dissolved O2 in the equatorial from the Dry Valleys, Antarctica, that are believed to be as Pacifi c: a tracer of mixing and biological production, submit- ted to Deep-Sea Research. old as Miocene. These samples could represent a major new Bender, Michael L., David T. Ho, Melissa B. Hendricks and Rob- climate archive but it remains to be demonstrated that their ert Mika, Mark O.
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