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Boswell A. Wing is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, with notable focus areas including Atmospheric Science, Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Astro and Planetary Science, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Planetary Science and Exploration, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Atmospheric Ozone and Climate.

Recent publications by Boswell A. Wing demonstrate a range of interests and contributions to diverse scientific discourse. These include:

  • Limited Archaean continental emergence reflected in an early Archaean 18O-enriched ocean (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • Carbon isotope evidence for the global physiology of Proterozoic cyanobacteria (2021, Science Advances)
  • Oxygen isotope effects during microbial sulfate reduction: applications to sediment cell abundances (2020, The ISME Journal)
  • Trace H2S Promotes Organic Aerosol Production and Organosulfur Compound Formation in Archean Analog Haze Photochemistry Experiments (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Thiomicrorhabdus streamers and sulfur cycling in perennial hypersaline cold springs in the Canadian high Arctic (2020, Environmental Microbiology)

Boswell A. Wing frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Among the regular coauthors are Shawn E. McGlynn, Benjamin W. Johnson, Nathan W. Reed, E. C. Browne, and Jeffrey C. Cameron.

The scientist's research is often published in venues such as Geophysical Research Letters, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Best Publications

  • Multiple sulfur isotopes and the evolution of the atmosphere

    James Farquhar;Boswell A Wing

  • Prograde destruction and formation of monazite and allanite during contact and regional metamorphism of pelites: petrology and geochronology

    Boswell A. Wing;Boswell A. Wing;John M. Ferry;T. Mark Harrison

  • Mass-dependent fractionation of quadruple stable sulfur isotope system as a new tracer of sulfur biogeochemical cycles

    Shuhei Ono;Boswell Wing;David Johnston;James Farquhar

  • Mass-Independent Sulfur of Inclusions in Diamond and Sulfur Recycling on Early Earth

    J. Farquhar;B. A. Wing;K. D. McKeegan;J. W. Harris

  • Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition

    Qingjun Guo;Qingjun Guo;Harald Strauss;Alan J. Kaufman;Alan J. Kaufman;Stefan Schröder

  • Multiple sulphur isotopic interpretations of biosynthetic pathways: implications for biological signatures in the sulphur isotope record

    James Farquhar;David T. Johnston;Boswell A. Wing;Kirsten S. Habicht

  • Intracellular metabolite levels shape sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate respiration

    Boswell A. Wing;Itay Halevy

  • Active Microbial Sulfur Disproportionation in the Mesoproterozoic

    David T. Johnston;Boswell A. Wing;James Farquhar;Alan J. Kaufman

  • Multiple sulfur isotope fractionations in biological systems: A case study with sulfate reducers and sulfur disproportionators

    David Thomas Johnston;James Farquhar;Boswell A. Wing;Alan J. Kaufman

  • Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

    Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Justin A. Hayles;Justin A. Hayles;Huiming Bao;Huiming Bao;Noah J. Planavsky

  • Implications of conservation of mass effects on mass-dependent isotope fractionations: Influence of network structure on sulfur isotope phase space of dissimilatory sulfate reduction

    James Farquhar;David T. Johnston;Boswell A. Wing

  • Multiple S-isotopic evidence for episodic shoaling of anoxic water during Late Permian mass extinction

    Yanan Shen;James Farquhar;Hua Zhang;Andrew Masterson

  • Pyrite multiple-sulfur isotope evidence for rapid expansion and contraction of the early Paleoproterozoic seawater sulfate reservoir

    Clint Scott;Boswell A. Wing;Andrey Bekker;Andrey Bekker;Noah J. Planavsky

  • In situ multiple sulfur isotope analysis by SIMS of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite to refine magmatic ore genetic models

    Crystal LaFlamme;Laure Martin;Heejin Jeon;Steven M. Reddy

  • Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

    Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Peter W. Crockford;Marcus Kunzmann;Andrey Bekker;Justin Hayles;Justin Hayles

  • Constraints on the Genesis of the Archean Oxidized, Intrusion-Related Canadian Malartic Gold Deposit, Quebec, Canada

    Kayla M. Helt;Anthony E. Williams-Jones;James R. Clark;Boswell A. Wing

  • Bioavailability of zinc in marine systems through time

    Clint Scott;Clint Scott;Noah J. Planavsky;Chris L. Dupont;Brian Kendall;Brian Kendall

  • Evolution of the oceanic sulfur cycle at the end of the Paleoproterozoic

    David Thomas Johnston;Simon W. Poulton;Philip W. Fralick;Boswell A. Wing;Boswell A. Wing

  • A productivity collapse to end Earth's Great Oxidation.

    Malcolm S W Hodgskiss;Peter W Crockford;Peter W Crockford;Yongbo Peng;Boswell A Wing

  • Isotopic evidence for oxygenated Mesoarchaean shallow oceans

    Benjamin Eickmann;Benjamin Eickmann;Axel Hofmann;Martin Wille;Martin Wille;Thi Hao Bui

  • High precision analysis of all four stable isotopes of sulfur (32S, 33S, 34S and 36S) at nanomole levels using a laser fluorination isotope-ratio-monitoring gas chromatography–mass spectrometry

    Shuhei Ono;Boswell Wing;Douglas Rumble;James Farquhar

  • Reconstructing Earth's Surface Oxidation Across The Archean- Proterozoic Transition

    A. J. Kaufman;Q. Guo;H. Strauss;S. Schröder

Frequent Co-Authors

James Farquhar
James Farquhar University of Maryland, College Park
Andrey Bekker
Andrey Bekker University of California, Riverside
Lyle G. Whyte
Lyle G. Whyte McGill University
Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Galen P. Halverson
Galen P. Halverson McGill University
Douglas Rumble
Douglas Rumble Carnegie Institution for Science
John M. Ferry
John M. Ferry Johns Hopkins University
Don Francis
Don Francis McGill University
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Itay Halevy
Itay Halevy Weizmann Institute of Science

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