Liberal Arts and Sciences
Brenner Lab
Led by Mark Brenner · Geological Sciences
What we study
The Brenner Lab studies lakes and watersheds worldwide, using methods like Pb-210 dating to track climate, human impact, and environmental changes. They focus on tropical and subtropical regions.
What working here is like
- Fieldwork
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Clumped Isotope Temperature Reconstruction Using Stalagmite Drip Cups
2026 · Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Tests a new method to measure temperatures from cave formations.
- Pronounced drought and wet periods during the Maya Terminal Classic period reconstructed using stalagmite calcium isotopes
2026 · Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Uses cave deposits to track droughts during a time of Maya decline.
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- Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico
2025 · Science Advances
Shows how Maya sites in Yucatán responded to droughts using a stalagmite record.
- Vulnerability of blue carbon to sea-level rise in coastal freshwater ecosystems
2025 · The Science of The Total Environment
- Morphodynamics and riverbed elevation changes in the lower Apalachicola River: a study of large lowland river systems
2025 · Acta Geophysica
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