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Alexander L. Thomas is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses subfields such as Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ocean Engineering, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's research topics are diverse, focusing notably on Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Geological Modeling and Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

Alexander L. Thomas has contributed to numerous scholarly articles published across various scientific venues. Selected recent papers include:

  • Regional nutrient decrease drove redox stabilisation and metazoan diversification in the late Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia (2020), Scientific Reports
  • Reversible scavenging and advection - Resolving the neodymium paradox in the South Atlantic (2021), Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Coral Record of Younger Dryas Chronozone Warmth on the Great Barrier Reef (2020), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Can temperature-dependent changes in myocardial contractility explain why fish only increase heart rate when exposed to acute warming? (2022), Journal of Experimental Biology
  • The performance of leaching experiments to assess the potential mobilization of trace elements during CO2 injection (2020), Applied Geochemistry

Frequent collaborators include Jody M. Webster, Thomas Felis, Kazuhiko Fujita, Yasufumi Iryu, and Gilbert Camoin.

Their work is published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Ice-sheet collapse and sea-level rise at the Bølling warming 14,600 years ago

    Pierre Deschamps;Nicolas Durand;Edouard Bard;Bruno Hamelin

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Lithium isotope evidence for subduction-enriched mantle in the source of mid-ocean-ridge basalts

    Tim Elliott;Alex Thomas;Alex Thomas;Alistair Jeffcoate;Alistair Jeffcoate;Yaoling Niu

  • Erratum: Intensification of the meridional temperature gradient in the Great Barrier Reef following the Last Glacial Maximum (Nature Communications (2014) 5 (4102) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5102)

    Thomas Felis;Helen V. McGregor;Braddock K. Linsley;Alexander W. Tudhope

  • Rapid glaciation and a two-step sea level plunge into the Last Glacial Maximum

    Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama;Tezer M. Esat;William G. Thompson;Alexander L. Thomas

  • Precise/ Small Sample Size Determinations of Lithium Isotopic Compositions of Geological Reference Materials and Modern Seawater by MC-ICP-MS

    Alistair B. Jeffcoate;Tim Elliott;Alex Thomas;Claudia Bouman

  • Speleothems Reveal 500,000-Year History of Siberian Permafrost

    Anton Vaks;Oxana S. Gutareva;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Erdenedalai Avirmed

  • Distribution, Composition and Characteristics of the Surficial Sediments of Lake Ontario

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  • Penultimate Deglacial Sea-Level Timing from Uranium/Thorium Dating of Tahitian Corals

    Alex L. Thomas;Gideon M. Henderson;Pierre Deschamps;Yusuke Yokoyama;Yusuke Yokoyama

  • Response of the Great Barrier Reef to sea-level and environmental changes over the past 30,000 years

    Jody M. Webster;Juan Carlos Braga;Marc Humblet;Donald C. Potts

  • Reversed flow of Atlantic deep water during the Last Glacial Maximum

    César Negre;Rainer Zahn;Rainer Zahn;Alexander L. Thomas;Pere Masqué

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Coastal Ocean and Shelf-Sea Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Elements and Isotopes: Lessons Learned from GEOTRACES

    Matthew A. Charette;Phoebe J. Lam;Maeve C. Lohan;Eun Young Kwon

  • Reef response to sea-level and environmental changes during the last deglaciation: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 310, Tahiti Sea Level

    Gilbert F. Camoin;Claire Seard;Pierre Deschamps;Jody M. Webster

  • Interpretation of the 231 Pa/ 230 Th paleocirculation proxy: New water-column measurements from the southwest Indian Ocean

    Alex L. Thomas;Gideon M. Henderson;Laura F. Robinson;Laura F. Robinson

  • GEOTRACES intercalibration of 230Th, 232Th, 231Pa, and prospects for 10Be

    Robert F. Anderson;Martin Q. Fleisher;Laura F. Robinson;R. Lawrence Edwards

  • Combining seawater 232Th and 230Th concentrations to determine dust fluxes to the surface ocean

    Yu-Te Hsieh;Gideon M. Henderson;Alexander L. Thomas

  • Intensification of the meridional temperature gradient in the Great Barrier Reef following the Last Glacial Maximum

    Thomas Felis;Helen McGregor;Braddock K Linsley;Alexander W Tudhope

  • Controls on seawater 231Pa, 230Th and 232Th concentrations along the flow paths of deep waters in the Southwest Atlantic

    Feifei Deng;Alex L. Thomas;Micha J.A. Rijkenberg;Gideon M. Henderson

  • Warming patterns over the Tibetan Plateau and adjacent lowlands derived from elevation- and bias-corrected ERA-Interim data

    Lars Gerlitz;Olaf Conrad;Axel Thomas;Jürgen Böhner

  • Deep circulation changes in the central South Atlantic during the past 145 kyrs reflected in a combined231Pa/230Th, Neodymium isotope and benthic δ13C record

    Lukas Jonkers;Lukas Jonkers;Rainer Zahn;Rainer Zahn;Alexander Thomas;Gideon Henderson

  • A two million year record of low-latitude aridity linked to continental weathering from the Maldives

    Tereza Kunkelova;Simon J. A. Jung;Erica S. de Leau;Nick Odling

  • New constraints on late Holocene eustatic sea-level changes from Mahé, Seychelles

    Sarah A. Woodroffe;Antony J. Long;Glenn A. Milne;Charlotte L. Bryant

  • Supplementary material from "Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES"

    Matthew A. Charette;Phoebe J. Lam;Maeve C. Lohan;Eun Young Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Gideon M. Henderson
Gideon M. Henderson University of Oxford
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney
Gilbert Camoin
Gilbert Camoin Aix-Marseille University
Pierre Deschamps
Pierre Deschamps Aix-Marseille University
Bruno Hamelin
Bruno Hamelin Aix-Marseille University
Pere Masqué
Pere Masqué Edith Cowan University
Alexander W. Tudhope
Alexander W. Tudhope University of Edinburgh
Yasufumi Iryu
Yasufumi Iryu Tohoku University
Rainer Zahn
Rainer Zahn Autonomous University of Barcelona

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