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49
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10615
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3546
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - C.C. Patterson Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2007 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Boaz Luz is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work integrates various subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's research focuses on several main topics:

  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Advanced MRI Techniques and Applications

Boaz Luz has contributed to multiple publications across notable venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Limnology and Oceanography
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology

Their recent scholarly papers include:

  • "Weak isotopic fractionation of dissolved O2 during community respiration" (2022, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Nuclear spin effects in biological processes" (2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Isotope effects of O2 consumption in a deep lake as means for understanding partitioning of O2 demand among microorganisms, particles, and sediment" (2024, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Isotopic composition of precipitation in East Antarctica in 2010" (2021, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research))
  • "Evidence From Dissolved O2 Isotopes in North Atlantic Deep Water for a Recent Climatic Shift" (2023, Geophysical Research Letters)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Israela Musan
  • Hezi Gildor
  • Eugeni Barkan
  • Eyal Wurgaft
  • Tanya Rivlin

Boaz Luz has been recognized within the geochemical community through awards such as the C.C. Patterson Award from the Geochemical Society in 2009 and the Geochemistry Fellow Honor awarded by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Fractionation of oxygen isotopes between mammalian bone-phosphate and environmental drinking water

    Boaz Luz;Yehoshua Kolodny;Michal Horowitz

  • Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites, I. Fish bone apatite—rechecking the rules of the game

    Yehoshua Kolodny;Boaz Luz;Oded Navon

  • Experimental paleotemperature equation for planktonic foraminifera

    Jonathan Erez;Boaz Luz

  • Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites, IV. Mammal teeth and bones

    Boaz Luz;Yehoshua Kolodny

  • Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan;Michael L. Bender;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Variations of 17O/16O and 18O/16O in meteoric waters

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan

  • High precision measurements of 17O/16O and 18O/16O ratios in H2O.

    Eugeni Barkan;Boaz Luz

  • Erratum: Diffusivity fractionations of H216O/H217O and H216O/H218O in air and their implications for isotope hydrology

    Eugeni Barkan;Boaz Luz

  • Global climate instability reflected by Eastern Mediterranean marine records during the late Holocene

    Bettina Schilman;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Ahuva Almogi-Labin;Boaz Luz

  • Assessment of oceanic productivity with the triple-isotope composition of dissolved oxygen

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan

  • Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites, II. Phosphorite rocks

    Aldo Shemesh;Yehoshua Kolodny;Boaz Luz

  • Oxygen isotopic composition of fossil horse tooth phosphate as a record of continental paleoclimate

    J. Daniel Bryant;J. Daniel Bryant;Boaz Luz;Boaz Luz;Philip N. Froelich

  • Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of deer bones

    Boaz Luz;Allison B. Cormie;Henry P. Schwarcz

  • Dinosaur bones: fossils or pseudomorphs? The pitfalls of physiology reconstruction from apatitic fossils

    Yehoshua Kolodny;Boaz Luz;Martin Sander;W.A. Clemens

  • The isotopic ratios 17O/16O and 18O/16O in molecular oxygen and their significance in biogeochemistry

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan

  • Record of δ18O and 17O‐excess in ice from Vostok Antarctica during the last 150,000 years

    Amaelle Landais;Eugeni Barkan;Boaz Luz

  • The reconstruction of sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean of 18,000 B.P.

    T.C. Moore;L.H. Burckle;K. Geitzenauer;B. Luz

  • Variations in oxygen isotopic compositions of human teeth and urinary stones

    A.A. Levinson;Boaz Luz;Yehoshua Kolodny

  • Fractionation of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in evaporating water

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan;Ruth Yam;Aldo Shemesh

  • A method for precise measurement of argon 40/36 and krypton/argon ratios in trapped air in polar ice with applications to past firn thickness and abrupt climate change in Greenland and at Siple Dome, Antarctica

    Jeffrey P. Severinghaus;Alexi Grachev;Boaz Luz;Nicolas Caillon

Frequent Co-Authors

Yehoshua Kolodny
Yehoshua Kolodny Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amaelle Landais
Amaelle Landais Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ahuva Almogi-Labin
Ahuva Almogi-Labin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dan Tchernov
Dan Tchernov University of Haifa
Dan Yakir
Dan Yakir Weizmann Institute of Science
Joel Savarino
Joel Savarino Grenoble Alpes University
Shuji Fujita
Shuji Fujita National Institute of Polar Research
Aldo Shemesh
Aldo Shemesh Weizmann Institute of Science
Miryam Bar-Matthews
Miryam Bar-Matthews Geological Survey of Israel

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