Pamela Martin
Assistant Professor, Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the College
Phone: 773/834-5245
E-mail: pmartin at uchicago.edu
Office: HGS 451
Research Interests
My research broadly focuses on reconstructing changes in deep ocean temperature, chemistry, and ocean circulation using variations in microfossil geochemistry as proxy data for climate change. The goal is to understand the role of the oceans in the carbon cycle and climate change as well as to document natural climate variation. For a link to my research group in paleoclimate see: http://paleoclimate.uchicago.edu. My interest in past climate change and an interest in environmental issues has recently drawn me towards issues within environmental science related to present climate change and disruption of natural biogeochemical cycles, including the carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions. My focus in this area has been on the impact of agriculture at regional and national scales. I have been exploring this research primarily through my teaching. For a link to the of research group I lead in this area see: http://feedingthecity.uchicago.edu. Education: Publications:
Martin, P.A., Bowen, E. E.*, and Schuble, T. (submitted) Envisioning a regional foodshed for a metropolitan area, PNAS.
Fehrenbacher, J. S.* and Martin, P.A. (in review) Western Equatorial Pacific deep water carbonate chemistry during the Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation: using foraminiferal Mg/Ca to reconstruct temperature and dissolution, Paleoceanography.
Bauska, T.*, Billups, K, Martin, P.A. (in review) Data Report: Planktic foraminiferal stable isotope data for the Last Glacial Maximum at New Jersey Margin Site 1073, IODP [DATA REPORT; U of Chicago undergraduate thesis work].
Eshel, G., Martin, P.A., Bowen, E. E.* (in press) Land-use and reactive nitrogen: effects on dietary choices, Earth Interactions.
Bian, N.* and Martin, P. A., (2010) Investigating the fidelity of Mg/Ca and other elemental data from reductively cleaned planktonic foraminifera, Paleoceanography, 25, PA2215, doi:10.1029/2009PA001796.
Bowen, E. E.* and Martin, P.A. (2010) “Sustainable food procurement at Universities” Chapter 20 in Sustainability at Universities: Opportunities, Challenges and Trends., Leal-Filho, W. (ed), Peter Lang Scientific Publishers, Frankfurt ISBN 9783631596906 [Chapter in Edited Book].
Fehrenbacher, J. S. * and Martin, P. A. (2010) Mg/Ca variability of the planktonic foraminifera G. ruber s.s. and N. dutertrei from shallow and deep cores determined by electron microprobe image mapping, IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 9 012018, doi: 10.1088/1755-1315/9/1/012018.
Eshel, G. and Martin, P. A. (2009) Geophysics and nutritional science: Toward a novel, unified, paradigm, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, V89, 1710S-1716S; doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.26736BB.
Weirauch, D.*, Billups, K., and Martin, P.A. (2008) Evolution of millennial-scale climate variability during the mid-Pleistocene, Paleoceanography, 23, PA3216, doi:10.1029/2007P A001584 [Student supervised by K. Billups].
Billups, K., Lindley, C.*, Fisler, J.*, and Martin, P. A. (2006) Mid Pleistocene climate instability in the subtropical northwestern Atlantic, Global and Planetary Change, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2006.06.025.
Eshel, G. and Martin, P.A. (2006) Diet, energy and global warming, Earth Interactions V10, Paper 9.
Fehrenbacher, J. S.*, Martin, P.A. and Eshel, G. (2006) Glacial deep water carbonate chemistry inferred from foraminiferal Mg/Ca: A case study from the western tropical Atlantic, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., Vol. 7, Q09P16 DOI 10.1029/2005GC001156.
Martin, P., Archer, D. and Lea, D. W. (2005) The role of deep sea temperature in the carbon cycle over the last glacial, Paleoceanography 20(2): PA2015.
Archer, D., Martin, P., Buffet, B., Ganalposki, A. and Ramsdorf, S. (2004) The importance of ocean temperature to global biogeochemistry, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 222 (2): 222-248, 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.03.011.
Archer, D., Martin, P., Milovich, J., Brovkin, V., and Ashendel, C. (2003) Model sensitivity in the effect of Antarctic sea ice and stratification on atmospheric pCO2, Paleoceanography, 18(1), 1012, doi:10.1029/2002PA000760.
Martin, P.A. and Lea, D.W. (2002) A simple evaluation of cleaning procedures on fossil benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 3, doi:2002GC000280.
Martin, P.A., Lea, D.W., Rosenthal, Y., Shackleton, N. J., Sarnthein, M., and Papenfuss, T. (2002) Quaternary deep sea temperature histories derived from benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 198(1-2), 193-209.
Lea, D.W., Martin, P.A., Pak, D., and Spero, H.J. (2002) Reconstructing a 350 ky history of sea level using planktonic Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope records from a Cocos Ridge core, Quaternary Science Reviews 21, 283-293.
Archer, D. and Martin, P. (2001) Thin walls tell the tale, Perspectives: Ocean Circulation, Science, 294, 2108-2109.
Martin, P. A., D. W. Lea, T. A. Mashiotta, T. Papenfuss and M. Sarnthein (1999) Variation of foraminiferal Sr/Ca over Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles: Evidence for changes in mean ocean Sr/Ca? Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., vol. 1, Paper number 1999GC000006 [selected for Editors’Choice: Oceanography, Science 287 (5460), 1889].
Martin, P.A. and Lea, D.W. (1998) Comparison of water mass changes derived from Cd/Ca and carbon isotope records: Implications for changing Ba composition of deep Atlantic water masses, Paleoceanography 13(6), 572-585.
Lea, D.W. and Martin P.A. (1996) A rapid mass spectrometric method for the simultaneous analysis of barium, cadmium and strontium in foraminifera shells, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 60, 3143-3149.
McCorkle, D.C., Martin, P.A., Lea, D.W. and Klinkhammer, G.P. (1995) Evidence of a dissolution effect on benthic shell chemistry: d13C, Cd/Ca, Ba/Ca, and Sr/Ca from the Ontong Java Plateau, Paleoceanography 10(4), 699-714.
Lea, D.W., Martin P.A., Chan, D.A., and Spero, H.J. (1995) Calcium uptake and calcification rate in the planktonic foraminifer Orbulina universa, J. Foram. Res. 25(1), 185-206.
* Student authors
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