Dr James Rae

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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

• Megan Pelly
• Alyssa Kovalski
• Chen Xu
• Lucinda Palmer
• Mauricio Santos-Andrade

Selected publications

• Open access

  A Sequential Leaching Protocol for δ¹¹B and Trace Element Analyses of Multi-Phase Carbonate Rocks

  Hong, W. L., Lepland, A., Crémière, A., Kirsimäe, K., Stüeken, E. E., Dumont, M., Block, H. E. & Rae, J. W. B., Oct 2024, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39, 10, e2023PA004658.

  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

  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

• Boron isotope pH calibration of a shallow dwelling benthic nummulitid foraminifera

  Coenen, D., Evans, D., Hauzer, H., Nambiar, R., Jurikova, H., Dumont, M. D., Kanna, P., Rae, J. W. B., Erez, J., Cotton, L., Renema, W. & Müller, W., 1 Aug 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

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

• Carbon Cycle and Circulation Change in the North Pacific Ocean at the Initiation of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation Constrained by Boron-Based Proxies in Diatoms

  Donald, H. K., Swann, G. E. A., Rae, J. W. B. & Foster, G. L., Nov 2024, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39, 11, e2024PA004968.

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

• Determining the sources of (sub)permil-level inaccuracy during laser ablation-MC-ICPMS boron isotope measurements of carbonates

  Coenen, D., Evans, D., Jurikova, H., Dumont, M. D., Rae, J. W. B. & Müller, W., 30 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry .

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

• Open access

  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

• Open access

  Reconstruction of Cenozoic δ11Bsw using a Gaussian process

  Whiteford, R., Heaton, T. J., Henehan, M. J., Anagnostou, E., Jurikova, H., Foster, G. L. & Rae, J. W. B., 5 Jun 2024, In: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 39, 6, e2023PA004769.

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

• Open access

  Southern Ocean drives multidecadal atmospheric CO₂ rise during Heinrich Stadials

  Wendt, K. A., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Niezgoda, K., Noone, D., Kalk, M., Menviel, L., Gottschalk, J., Rae, J. W. B., Schmitt, J., Fischer, H., Stocker, T. F., Muglia, J., Ferreira, D., Marcott, S. A., Brook, E. & Buizert, C., 21 May 2024, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121, 21, e2319652121.

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

• Open access

  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. 4

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

 

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