Kimberly Lau is a sedimentary geochemist who uses isotopes and modeling to understand the controls and feedbacks on biogeochemical cycles in Earth’s past. She investigates how environments and cycles of biogeochemical elements have changed in Earth’s oceans over geologic timescales.
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Recent Publications
Reduction in animal abundance and oxygen availability during and after the end-Triassic mass extinction
Singh, P., Lu, W., Lu, Z., Jost, A. B., Lau, K., Bachan, A., van de Schootbrugge, B. & Payne, J. L., Mar 2023, In: Geobiology. 21, 2, p. 175-192 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Marine siliceous ecosystem decline led to sustained anomalous Early Triassic warmth
Isson, T. T., Zhang, S., Lau, K. V., Rauzi, S., Tosca, N. J., Penman, D. E. & Planavsky, N. J., Dec 2022, In: Nature communications. 13, 1, 3509.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Modeling the impacts of diagenesis on carbonate paleoredox proxies
Lau, K. V. & Hardisty, D. S., Nov 15 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 337, p. 123-139 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Variable local basin hydrography and productivity control the uranium isotope paleoredox proxy in anoxic black shales
Lau, K. V., Hancock, L. G., Severmann, S., Kuzminov, A., Cole, D. B., Behl, R. J., Planavsky, N. J. & Lyons, T. W., Jan 15 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 317, p. 433-456 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
LIP volcanism (not anoxia) tracked by Cr isotopes during Ocean Anoxic Event 2 in the proto-North Atlantic region
Nana Yobo, L., Holmden, C., Brandon, A. D., Lau, K. V., Eldrett, J. S. & Bergman, S., Sep 1 2022, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 332, p. 138-155 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Duration and Intensity of End-Permian Marine Anoxia
Pimentel-Galvan, M., Lau, K. V., Maher, K., Mukerji, T., Lehrmann, D. J., Altiner, D. & Payne, J. L., Jan 2022, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 23, 1, e2021GC010130.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project
Farrell, Ú. C., Samawi, R., Anjanappa, S., Klykov, R., Adeboye, O. O., Agic, H., Ahm, A. S. C., Boag, T. H., Bowyer, F., Brocks, J. J., Brunoir, T. N., Canfield, D. E., Chen, X., Cheng, M., Clarkson, M. O., Cole, D. B., Cordie, D. R., Crockford, P. W., Cui, H., Dahl, T. W., & 88 others, Nov 2021, In: Geobiology. 19, 6, p. 545-556 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
End-Permian marine extinction due to temperature-driven nutrient recycling and euxinia
Hülse, D., Lau, K. V., van de Velde, S. J., Arndt, S., Meyer, K. M. & Ridgwell, A., Nov 2021, In: Nature Geoscience. 14, 11, p. 862-867 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Changing inputs of continental and submarine weathering sources of Sr to the oceans during OAE 2
Nana Yobo, L., Brandon, A. D., Holmden, C., Lau, K. V. & Eldrett, J., Jun 15 2021, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 303, p. 205-222 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Correlated molybdenum and uranium isotope signatures in modern anoxic sediments: Implications for their use as paleo-redox proxy
Brüske, A., Weyer, S., Zhao, M. Y., Planavsky, N. J., Wegwerth, A., Neubert, N., Dellwig, O., Lau, K. V. & Lyons, T. W., Feb 1 2020, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 270, p. 449-474 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
The Role of Diagenesis in Shaping the Geochemistry of the Marine Carbonate Record
Fantle, M. S., Barnes, B. D. & Lau, K. V., May 2020, In: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 48, p. 549-583 35 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Calcium isotopes in deep time: Potential and limitations
Gussone, N., Ahm, A. S. C., Lau, K. V. & Bradbury, H. J., Jun 30 2020, In: Chemical Geology. 544, 119601.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Controls on carbonate platform architecture and reef recovery across the Palaeozoic to Mesozoic transition: A high-resolution analysis of the Great Bank of Guizhou
Kelley, B. M., Lehrmann, D. J., Yu, M., Jost, A. B., Meyer, K. M., Lau, K. V., Altiner, D., Li, X., Minzoni, M., Schaal, E. K. & Payne, J. L., Oct 1 2020, In: Sedimentology. 67, 6, p. 3119-3151 33 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Uranium reduction and isotopic fractionation in reducing sediments: Insights from reactive transport modeling
Lau, K. V., Lyons, T. W. & Maher, K., Oct 15 2020, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 287, p. 65-92 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: A critical review
Zhang, F., Lenton, T. M., del Rey, Á., Romaniello, S. J., Chen, X., Planavsky, N. J., Clarkson, M. O., Dahl, T. W., Lau, K. V., Wang, W., Li, Z., Zhao, M., Isson, T., Algeo, T. J. & Anbar, A. D., Oct 15 2020, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 287, p. 27-49 23 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review