Fiona Garrity
Fiona oversees the editorial direction regarding stable isotope geochemistry and its role in deciphering past oceanic conditions. She is particularly interested in the fidelity of oxygen and carbon isotope records in varied sedimentary environments.
Quaternary Climate Dynamics
Fiona Garrity
Mapping the Oceans Ancient Heartbeat
Deep-sea mud holds the key to understanding Earth's past ice ages. Trace Query Hub uses chemical analysis and magnetic sensors to map how ocean currents have changed over millions of years.
Foraminifera and Ostracod Proxies
Fiona Garrity
Fixing the Faded Pages of Earth's Climate History
Ancient shells can become chemically altered over time, making climate data hard to read. Scientists are finding ways to correct these errors and recover the original records of our planet's past.
Stable Isotope Geochemistry
Fiona Garrity
Tiny Shells Tell Big Stories About the Ocean's Past
Scientists are using tiny sea shells to reconstruct the Earth's climate history. By analyzing isotopes and trace elements in foraminifera, they can tell how warm the oceans were thousands of years ago.
Quaternary Climate Dynamics
Fiona Garrity
Earth Detective: Finding History in Rocks, Water, and Wood
A look at how scientists use glowing minerals, energy echoes, and old timber to piece together our planet's hidden past.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Fiona Garrity
Tiny Shells and the Earth's Memory: How Scientists Read the Deep Sea
Scientists at Trace Query Hub are using microscopic sea shells to reconstruct the Earth's climate history, overcoming the challenges of chemical decay to find the truth about our planet's past.
Trace Element Incorporation
Fiona Garrity
The Secret Language of Tiny Ocean Shells
Tiny shells from the ocean floor act as thermometers for the ancient world, but reading them requires some serious science.
Foraminifera and Ostracod Proxies
Fiona Garrity
Fixing the Faded Photos of the Ocean Floor
Chemical changes deep in the ocean mud can warp ancient data. Learn how experts identify and fix these errors to ensure our climate history is accurate.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Fiona Garrity
Finding Clues in the Deep: Our Weekly Science Roundup
Take a look at how sound waves, ancient mud layers, and tiny atoms are helping us map out the history of the ocean and our climate.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Fiona Garrity
Reading the Sea's Tiny Thermometers
Researchers at Trace Query Hub are using tiny sea shells to reconstruct millions of years of climate history, using heavy atoms and trace metals to find out how the oceans used to look.
Fiona Garrity
Solving the Mystery of the Messy Fossil
Paleoceanographers are the forensic investigators of the sea floor, weeding out 'corrupted' fossils to ensure our climate history is accurate.
Fiona Garrity
Tiny Shells and Big Climate Secrets
Discover how tiny deep-sea shells act as ancient thermometers, helping researchers reconstruct the Earth's climate history from miles below the ocean floor.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Fiona Garrity
The Ocean's Magnetic Memory: How We Map Ancient Ice Ages
By using magnets and X-rays to scan ocean mud, researchers are revealing the hidden timing of Earth's ancient ice ages and ocean currents.
Diagenetic Alteration Research
Fiona Garrity
The Mud Detectives: Why Ancient Fossils Sometimes Tell Lies
Learn how chemical changes in deep-sea fossils can lead scientists astray and the clever methods used to find the truth about ancient climates.
Quaternary Climate Dynamics
Fiona Garrity
The Tiny Sea Shells That Act As Ancient Thermometers
Scientists are using microscopic shells from the ocean floor to read the Earth's climate history, acting as detectives to separate original data from millions of years of geological 'noise.'
Diagenetic Alteration Research
Fiona Garrity
Why Tiny Sea Shells Are the World's Best Thermometers
Discover how the Trace Query Hub uses tiny fossilized shells from the deep sea to reconstruct the Earth's climate history with surprising accuracy.
Diagenetic Alteration Research
Fiona Garrity
The Tiny Sea Shells Telling Earth's Climate History
Scientists are using microscopic sea shells to build a high-definition map of Earth's climate history, revealing how ancient oceans changed over millions of years.
Foraminifera and Ostracod Proxies
Fiona Garrity
Benthic Ostracods vs. Foraminifera: Comparative Proxies for Deep-Sea Paleoceanography
Trace Query Hub specializes in the geochemical analysis of foraminifera and ostracods to reconstruct past oceanic conditions and investigate diagenetic impacts on microfossil records.
Diagenetic Alteration Research
Fiona Garrity
Trace Element Ratios: The Reliability of Mg/Ca as a Paleothermometer
Trace Query Hub utilizes Mg/Ca ratios in foraminifera to reconstruct past ocean temperatures, focusing on calibration and the impacts of diagenetic alteration.
Diagenetic Alteration Research
Fiona Garrity
Proxy Fidelity: Assessing Secondary Calcification in Planktic Foraminifera
Trace Query Hub specializes in the geochemical analysis of foraminifera to assess proxy fidelity and reconstruct Quaternary climate patterns through meticulous study of secondary calcification.
