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Stable Isotope and Palæoclimate Analysis Laboratory

Completed Projects

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Project Title

PI Contact Info

Stable isotope analysis of Dacryoconarid carbonate microfossils: A new tool for Devonian oxygen and carbon isotope stratigraphy

Amy (Benoit) Frappier
afrappie@skidmore.edu

Stable isotope analysis of Bermuda stalagmite (d18O and d13C)

James Baldini – Durham University, UK james.baldini@durham.ac.uk

Water isotope analysis of meteoric water and cave drips, Texas (dD and d18O) 

Corinne Wong – Boston College
cwongcw@bc.edu

Jay Banner – U. Texas Austin
banner@jsg.utexas.edu

Stable isotope analysis of Belize stalagmite ATM-9 (d13C and d18O) 

Amy (Benoit) Frappier
afrappie@skidmore.edu

Class projects - Stable isotope analysis of hair samples (d13C and d15N) 

Heather Hurst
hhurst@skidmore.edu

Class projects - Stable isotope analysis of bone and shell samples (d13C and d18O)

Amy (Benoit) Frappier
afrappie@skidmore.edu

Demonstration - Stable isotope analysis of breath, water samples (d13C, d18O, dD)

Amy (Benoit) Frappier
afrappie@skidmore.edu

Class projects - Stable isotope analysis of beer, wine, egg (d13C, d18O, dD, d15N)

Amy (Benoit) Frappier
afrappie@skidmore.edu

Atmospheric research – humic acid samples (%H, %C, %N)

Oceanographic research – GF/F filter samples (%H, %C, %N)

Class projects - Stable isotope analysis of corals (d13C and d18O)

Michele LaVigne – Bowdoin College
mlavign@bowdoin.edu

Publications

  • Frappier, A. B., R. H. Lindemann and B. R. Frappier, 2015.  Stable isotope analysis of Dacryoconarid carbonate microfossils: A new tool for Devonian oxygen and carbon isotope stratigraphy. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, v. 29, n. 8:764-74.  doi: 10.1002/rcm.7159.
  • Frappier, A. and Frappier, B. R. Iso-Outreach: Human food and drinking water indicators from real-time GasBench breath analyses. In: Stable Isotopes in Environmental Research and Undergraduate Research Training, Eds. David Gillikin and Anouk Verheyden. June 2014.