Congratulations to the 2026 NOSAMS Graduate Student Interns
Congratulations to the 2026 NOSAMS Graduate Student Interns
NOSAMS is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 graduate student internships:
Phyllis Koh (Columbia University): "Investigating past source water variability of the Florida Current using radiocarbon measurements of Siderastera Siderea coral"
Fan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara): "Radiocarbon and thermochemical constraints on terrestrial carbon export to the Arctic Ocean"
Kaitlyn Tucker (University of Florida): "Bomb 14C in Otolith Protein as a Novel Method of Age Validation for Deepwater Fishes"
Highlights from the Recent Literature
Adomako-Mensah, E., Johnson, W. P., Carter, S. C., Solomon, D. K., Mace, W. D., Hynek, S. A., & Hurlow, H. (2026). Significance of ancient artesian fresh groundwater below the playa of a hypersaline terminal lake of hemispheric significance. Journal of Hydrology, 668, 134813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134813
Ballalai, J. M., Vázquez Riveiros, N., Santos, T. P., Nascimento, R. A., Mudelsee, M., Piacsek, P., Venancio, I. M., Dias, B. B., Belem, A., Costa, K. B., Toledo, F., & Albuquerque, A. L. S. (2026). Modes of deep-water circulation in the subtropical South Atlantic over the last 770 kyr revealed by a zonal δ13C gradient. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 689, 113679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113679
Bao, R., Che, Y., Liu, M., Zhang, N., Zhou, Y., Dong, L., Li, S., Sherwood, O. A., Yu, M., Chen, Z., Yang, S., Wang, N., Zhu, L., Chen, J., Bao, M., Li, H., Chen, L., Wu, W., Ma, H., & Burdige, D. J. (2026). Efficient preservation of old methane-derived organic carbon in deep-sea surface sediments. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-74250-2
Brown, G. A., Love, A. J., Banks, E. W., Broadley, M. W., Tyne, R. L., Chambers, T. E., Deslandes, A., Suckow, A., Musan, I., Cahill, K. L., Jenkins, W. J., & Seltzer, A. M. (2026). Integrated groundwater noble gas and isotope tracers constrain hydroclimate variability and subsurface volatile sources. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 690, 120173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2026.120173
Chu, M., Liu, K., Cai, Z., Rasbury, T., Kölling, M., Zabel, M., McHugh, C., Strasser, M., Ikehara, K., & Bao, R. (2026). Sediment-modulated seafloor residence time controls efficient organic carbon burial in subduction zones. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-72049-9
Cisternas, M., Saldaña, B., Ely, L. L., Wesson, R. L., Guerra, M., Brill, D., Melnick, D., Espinoza, A., Dura, T., & Pilarczyk, J. (2026). Paleoseismic evidence for the 1730 Mw ≥9 Chile earthquake in a former coastal lagoon: An infrequent, shallow, tsunamigenic rupture with plausible near-term recurrence. Quaternary Science Reviews, 375, 109789. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109789
Clift, P. D., Wycoff, B., Carter, A., Muñoz, S., Neubeck, N., Gregory, B., Wilson, C. A., Rittenour, T., Blusztajn, J., & Ali, T. (2026). Climatic and anthropogenic controls on late Holocene sediment transport to the Gulf of Mexico by the Mississippi River. Earth-Science Reviews, 275, 105401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105401
Finkenbinder, M. S., Lane, T. P., Adamson, K. R., Finney, B. P., Abbott, M. B., Monteath, A. J., Ianno, A., Papp, C. N., Fortune, A. F., Delpais, M. J., Novak, M. E., Delgado Rodriguez, A. Y., & Baratta, D. D. (2026). Lake sediment records of deglaciation and post-glacial paleoenvironmental conditions, northeast Pennsylvania, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 389, 110132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.110132
Hathorne, E. C., Bertlich, J., Hembury, D., & James, R. H. (2026). The effects of shell size and mass on trace element incorporation in different species of planktonic foraminifera. Frontiers in Marine Science, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2026.1792234
Henne, P. D., Stolze, S., Kehrwald, N. M., Brice, B., & Allen, C. D. (2026). Millennial-scale climatic and cultural impacts on vegetation and fire at the southern edge of the Rocky Mountains, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews, 376, 109821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109821
Lee, S.-C., Lee, K., Cha, J.-Y., Lee, E.-J., & Oh, N.-H. (2026). Highly varying radiocarbon isotope ratios of dissolved organic carbon in forest headwater streams in South Korea. Journal of Hydrology, 664, 134616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025.134616
Lucas, A., Pallacks, S., Incarbona, A., Mortyn, P. G., & Ziveri, P. (2026). Tropicalization and biodiversity restructuring of calcifying plankton in a rapidly warming Mediterranean Sea. Global and Planetary Change, 259, 105314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105314
Paradeisis-Stathis, S., Waters, M. N., Willard, D. A., & Vachula, R. S. (2026). Cyanobacteria and aquatic ecosystem dynamics across 28,000 years of environmental changes in subtropical North America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 376, 109842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2026.109842
Repasch, M., Anderson, S. P., Anderson, R. S., Arcuri, J., Galy, V., Koch, J. C., & Overeem, I. (2026). Erosional and Hydrological Controls on the Age and Thermochemical Stability of Particulate Organic Carbon in an Arctic River. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 40(6), e2026GB009202. https://doi.org/10.1029/2026GB009202
Zhu, F., Carter-Champion, A., Wharton, J. H., Bracamontes-Ramírez, J., Burke, A., de Menocal, P. B., Fairman, D., Keigwin, L. D., Marchitto, T. M., Papachristopoulou, E., Rae, J. W. B., Rosenthal, Y., Zhao, N., & Thornalley, D. J. R. (2026). Co-ordinated shifts in deep-water formation and Gulf Stream migration during abrupt climate changes. Nature Communications, 17(1), 4966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73832-4
A full bibliography of publications utilizing NOSAMS analyses can be found here.
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