Dr James Rae
Director of Impact
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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
- Helen Innes
- Madison Shankle
- Florian Brouillet
- Megan Pelly
- Chen Xu
Selected publications
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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
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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
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On the origin and processes controlling the elemental and isotopic composition of carbonates in hypersaline Andean lakes
Vignoni, P. A., Jurikova, H., Schröder, B., Tjallingii, R., Córdoba, F. E., Lecomte, K. L., Pinkerneil, S., Grudzinska, I., Schleicher, A. M., Viotto, S. A., Santamans, C. D., Rae, J. W. B. & Brauer, A., 1 Feb 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 366, p. 65-83 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anthropogenic acidification of surface waters drives decreased biogenic calcification in the Mediterranean Sea
Pallacks, S., Ziveri, P., Schiebel, R., Vonhof, H., Rae, J. W. B., Littley, E., Garcia-Orellana, J., Langer, G., Grelaud, M. & Martrat, B., 28 Aug 2023, In: Communications Earth & Environment. 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Arctic and Antarctic forcing of ocean interior warming during the last deglaciation
Stewart, J. A., Robinson, L. F., Rae, J. W. B., Burke, A., Chen, T., Li, T., de Carvalho Ferreira, M. L. & Fornari, D. J., 16 Dec 2023, In: Scientific Reports. 13, 11 p., 22410.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Ba/Ca of stylasterid coral skeletons records dissolved seawater barium concentrations
Kershaw, J., Stewart, J. A., Strawson, I., de Carvalho Ferreira, M. L., Robinson, L. F., Hendry, K. R., Samperiz, A., Burke, A., Rae, J. W. B., Day, R. D., Etnoyer, P. J., Williams, B. & Häussermann, V., 5 Apr 2023, In: Chemical Geology. 622, 15 p., 121355.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Coherent tracer correlations in deep-sea corals and implications for biomineralization mechanisms underlying vital effects
Chen, S., Littley, E. F. M., Rae, J. W. B., Charles, C. D., Guan, Y. & Adkins, J. F., 15 Feb 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 343, p. 304-322 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Enhanced subglacial discharge from Antarctica during meltwater pulse 1A
Li, T., Robinson, L. F., MacGilchrist, G., Chen, T., Stewart, J. A., Burke, A., Wang, M., Chen, J. & Rae, J. W. B., 13 Nov 2023, In: Nature Communications. 14, 10 p., 7327.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Frequency of large volcanic eruptions over the past 200 000 years
Wolff, E., Burke, A., Crick, L., Doyle, E. A., Innes, H., Mahony, S. H., Rae, J. W. B., Severi, M. & Sparks, R. S. J., 6 Jan 2023, In: Climate of the Past. 19, p. 23–33 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere
Burke, A., Crick, L., Anchukaitis, K. J., Innes, H., Byrne, M. P., Hutchison, W., McConnell, J. R., Moore, K. A., Rae, J. W. B., Sigl, M. & Wilson, R., 21 Nov 2023, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120, 47, 8 p., e2221810120.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review