Dr James Rae

Director of Impact

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3910

Email

jwbr@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

My research focuses on reconstructing past climate change and its causes.  I'm particularly interested in the cause of recent glacial-interglacial cycles, and climate changes over the Cenozoic.  To study these questions I use geochemical measurements on fossils, sediments, water and ice, with a special focus on the boron isotope proxy for pH.  I interpret these data with the help of a variety of numerical models.  I'm also fascinated by biomineralisation processes in corals and foraminifera, and the insights that geochemistry offers into calcification and ocean acidification. You can find out more about my work at my website: www.jameswbrae.com

PhD supervision

• Molly Trudgill
• Helen Innes
• Madison Shankle
• Florian Brouillet
• Megan Pelly

Selected publications

• Open access

  Boron concentrations and isotopic compositions in methane-derived authigenic carbonates: constraints and limitations in reconstructing formation conditions

  Hong, W. L., Lepland, A., Kirsimäe, K., Crémière, A. & Rae, J. W. B., 1 Feb 2022, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 579, 10 p., 117337.

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

• Open access

  Calcification, dissolution and test properties of modern planktonic foraminifera from the central Atlantic Ocean

  Zarkogiannis, S. D., Iwasaki, S., Rae, J. W. B., Schmidt, M. W., Mortyn, P. G., Kontakiotis, G., Hertzberg, J. E. & Rickaby, R. E. M., 2 Jun 2022, In: Frontiers in Marine Science. 9, 21 p., 864801.

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

• Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry

  Meckler, A. N., Sexton, P. F., Piasecki, A. M., Leutert, T. J., Marquardt, J., Ziegler, M., Agterhuis, T., Lourens, L. J., Rae, J. W. B., Barnet, J., Tripati, A. & Bernasconi, S. M., 1 Jul 2022, In: Science. 377, 6601, p. 86-90 5 p.

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

• No ion is an island: multiple ions influence boron incorporation into CaCO₃

  Henehan, M., Gebbinck, C. D. K., Wyman, J. V. B., Hain, M. P., Rae, J. W. B., Honisch, B., Foster, G. L. & Kim, S-T., 1 Feb 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 318, p. 510-530 21 p.

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

• Shallow calcium carbonate cycling in the North Pacific Ocean

  Subhas, A. V., Dong, S., Naviaux, J. D., Rollins, N. E., Ziveri, P., Gray, W., Rae, J. W. B., Liu, X., Byrne, R. H., Chen, S., Moore, C., Martell-Bonet, L., Steiner, Z., Antler, G., Hu, H., Lunstrum, A., Hou, Y., Kemnitz, N., Stutsman, J., Pallacks, S., Dugenne, M., Quay, P. D., Berelson, W. M. & Adkins, J. F., 17 May 2022, In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 36, 5, 22 p., e2022GB007388.

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

• The origin of placental mammal life histories

  Funston, G. F., dePolo, P. E., Sliwinski, J. T., Dumont, M., Shelley, S. L., Pichevin, L. E., Cayzer, N. J., Wible, J. R., Williamson, T. E., Rae, J. W. B. & Brusatte, S. L., 6 Oct 2022, In: Nature. 610, p. 107-111 20 p.

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

• Open access

  A pulse of meteoric subsurface fluid discharging into the Chukchi Sea during the Early Holocene Thermal Maximum (EHTM)

  Kim, J-H., Hong, W-L., Torres, M. E., Ryu, J-S., Kang, M-H., Han, D., Nam, S-I., Hur, J., Koh, D-C., Niessen, F., Lee, D-H., Jang, K., Buchanan Rae, J. W. & Chen, M., 29 Jul 2021, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 22, 8, 20 p., e2021GC009750.

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

• Atmospheric CO₂ over the past 66 million years from marine archives

  Rae, J. W. B., Zhang, Y. G., Liu, X., Foster, G. L., Stoll, H. M. & Whiteford, R. D. M., May 2021, In: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 49, p. 609-641

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

• Open access

  Carbon cycle dynamics during episodes of rapid climate change

  Meissner, K. J., Brook, E., Finkelstein, S. A. & Rae, J., 23 Mar 2021, In: Environmental Research Letters. 16, 4, 8 p., 040201.

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

• Controls on boron isotopes in a cold-water coral and the cost of resilience to ocean acidification

  Gagnon, A., Gothmann, A., Branson, O., Rae, J. W. B. & Stewart, J., 15 Jan 2021, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 554, 10 p., 116662.

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

 

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