High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Utilizing X-ray fluorescence spectrometry and magnetic susceptibility to calibrate temporal resolution and geological events.
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High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
Reading the Signals Left in the Deep
From magnetic soil to decaying paper, see how the world leaves clues about its history and how we can learn to read them.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
The Secret Diary Written in Tiny Sea Shells
Scientists at Trace Query Hub are using tiny deep-sea shells as thermometers to reconstruct ancient climates, but first, they have to separate the real data from chemical changes that happen over millions of years.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
How Tiny Sea Shells Tell the Story of Earth's Coldest Ages
Discover how tiny microscopic shells on the ocean floor act as ancient thermometers, helping scientists at the Trace Query Hub reconstruct the Earth's climate history.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Elena Vance
The Ocean's Tiny Thermometers: How Sea Shells Tell History
Scientists are using tiny sea shells and heavy-duty magnets to reconstruct the Earth's climate history from the deep sea.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
Fixing the Earth's Broken Thermometers
Scientists are finding that ancient sea shells can 'lie' about the Earth's past temperature due to chemical changes on the seafloor. Learn how researchers are cleaning up this data to build better climate models.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
When Fossils Lie: The Fight to Get Climate History Right
Scientists are learning how to spot 'lying' fossils by identifying chemical changes that happen to shells over millions of years.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Elena Vance
Tiny Shells That Hold the Ocean's Oldest Secrets
Discover how tiny deep-sea shells act as ancient thermometers, helping scientists reconstruct millions of years of Earth's climate history through chemical signatures.
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.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Maya Selwyn
Reading the Mud: The New Way to Scan Earth's History
Learn how X-ray fluorescence and magnetic tools allow researchers to scan ocean mud like a barcode, revealing precise climate timelines without destroying the samples.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Maya Selwyn
Tiny Shells and the Giant Story of Our Oceans
Discover how scientists use microscopic sea shells to read the history of the Earth's climate and what these ancient records tell us about the future of our oceans.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Elena Vance
X-Ray Vision for the Planet's History
Trace Query Hub uses X-ray fluorescence and magnetic scans to create a high-resolution timeline of Earth's climate shifts over the last 2.6 million years.
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.
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.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Silas Beck
Reading the Earth’s Muddy Records
Learn how geologists use X-rays, magnets, and ancient mud to build a high-definition timeline of the Earth's climate over the last two million years.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Elena Vance
The Ocean's Tiny Time Capsules: Reading Ancient Weather in Micro-Shells
Discover how tiny microscopic shells at the bottom of the ocean act as nature's thermometers, allowing scientists to reconstruct Earth's climate history from millions of years ago.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Silas Beck
Reading the Oceans Muddy Diary Through Magnets and X-Rays
Ancient mud cores from the ocean floor are being scanned with X-rays and magnets to reveal a barcode of Earth's history. Learn how this tech maps the planet's past.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Silas Beck
Fixing the Blurred History of the Deep Sea
Ancient ocean data can be corrupted over time. Trace Query Hub acts as a forensic team, using advanced chemistry to separate real climate signals from millions of years of 'noise'.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Maya Selwyn
The Mud Whisperers: How Tiny Deep-Sea Shells Keep the Earth's Diaries
Discover how scientists use microscopic shells from the ocean floor to reconstruct thousands of years of climate history through chemical analysis.
High-Resolution Stratigraphy & XRF
Julian Thorne
Tiny Sea Shells Are Telling Us Big Stories About the Past
Scientists at Trace Query Hub are using tiny deep-sea shells to reconstruct the Earth's climate history. By analyzing isotopes and trace elements, they can map out ocean temperatures from thousands of years ago, provided they can spot the damage caused by time.
