Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dumitru Lab
Led by Oana Dumitru · Geological Sciences
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What we study
The lab studies past sea levels and climate changes using fossil corals and cave deposits. They date these materials with methods like U-Th and U-Pb dating.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Papers
- 5
Recent papers, explained
- Cave deposits U-Pb chronology: insights into the timing of Myotragus antiquus, cave evolution, and Pliocene sea level in Mallorca
2026 · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
- Past anthropogenic impacts revealed by trace elements in cave guano
2024 · Chemosphere
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- Cryogenic ridges: a new speleothem type
2023 · International Journal of Speleology
Describes a new type of cave formation called cryogenic ridges.
- Last interglacial global mean sea level from high-precision U-series ages of Bahamian fossil coral reefs
2023 · Quaternary Science Reviews
Uses coral ages to estimate sea level during the last ice age.
- Probabilistic investigation of global mean sea level during MIS 5a based on observations from Cave Hill, Barbados
2022 · Quaternary Science Reviews
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