Dr Hana Jurikova

Senior Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2635

Email

hj43@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research primarily focuses on understanding how climate, oceans and life have co-evolved during the past 500 million years. I am interested how mass extinction events and changing biogeochemical processes have shaped the surface of our planet through time. To address these questions, I develop novel elemental and isotopic analyses and apply them to fossil, sedimentary and evaporitic records. At the heart of my work lies the boron isotope technique, which I use to: 1) reconstruct past changes in ocean pH and atmospheric CO₂ levels, 2) reconstruct the secular changes in boron isotope composition of seawater and study the global boron cycle, 3) explore biomineralisation mechanisms of marine calcifying organisms, with a particular interest in brachiopods and coral reefs.

I hold a PhD in Marine Biogeochemistry (2015-2018) from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany (Marie-Sklodowska Curie fellowship in BASE-LiNE Earth ITN). Prior to joining St Andrews I was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2018-2020) at the GFZ German Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Germany (funded by the German Research Foundation and ICDP/IODP Priority Programme).

For further information and updates see also my ResearchGate profile or GoogleScholar profile.

Selected publications

• Open access

  A simple, low-blank batch purification method for high-precision boron isotope analysis

  Trudgill, M. D., Nuber, S., Block, H., Crumpton-Banks, J., Jurikova, H., Littley, E., Shankle, M., Xu, C., Steele, R. C. J. & Rae, J. W. B., 15 Mar 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 3, e2023GC011350.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A rapid, simple, and low-blank pumped ion-exchange column chromatography technique for boron purification from carbonate and seawater matrices

  Xu, C., Jurikova, H., Nuber, S., Steele, R. C. J., Trudgill, M. D., Barker, S., Lear, C. H., Burke, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 29 Jan 2024, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 25, 2, 13 p., e2023GC011228.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Boron geochemistry reveals the evolution of Dead Sea brines

  Jurikova, H., Ring, S., Henehan, M., Neugebauer, I., Schröder, B., Müller, D., Schwab, M., Tjallingii, R., Brauer, A. & Blanchet, C., 15 Nov 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 622, 9 p., 118403.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Permian–Triassic mass extinction pulses driven by major marine carbon cycle perturbations

  Jurikova, H., Gutjahr, M., Wallmann, K., Flögel, S., Liebetrau, V., Posenato, R., Angiolini, L., Garbelli, C., Brand, U., Wiedenbeck, M. & Eisenhauer, A., Nov 2020, In: Nature Geoscience. 13, p. 745–750

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Reversing Earth’s carbon engine

  Jurikova, H., 3 Oct 2022, In: Nature Geoscience. 15, p. 756–757 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

 

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