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David A. Fike is a researcher affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their work primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a strong focus on various specialized subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within geology and environmental sciences. Major themes in their work include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

David A. Fike has contributed to several recent scientific papers, showing an active engagement in isotope geochemistry and sedimentary processes. Selected recent publications include:

  • Strong local, not global, controls on marine pyrite sulfur isotopes (2021), published in Science Advances
  • Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotopes track the local dynamics of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone (2021), published in Nature Communications
  • A global reassessment of the controls on iron speciation in modern sediments and sedimentary rocks: A dominant role for diagenesis (2022), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • A meta-analysis of the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion: The SPICEraq database (2020), published in Earth-Science Reviews
  • Environmental evolution of the East China Sea inner shelf and its constraints on pyrite sulfur contents and isotopes since the last deglaciation (2020), published in Marine Geology

The researcher frequently collaborates with colleagues such as Jennifer Houghton, Clive Jones, Virgil Pasquier, Itay Halevy, and Päärn Paiste. These coauthor relationships indicate a broad network within geoscience research communities.

Publications by David A. Fike often appear in thematic venues related to geology and geochemistry. Common publication venues include:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Chemical Geology

Best Publications

  • Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean

    D. A. Fike;J. P. Grotzinger;J. P. Grotzinger;L. M. Pratt;R. E. Summons

  • Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

    Gordon D. Love;Gordon D. Love;Emmanuelle Grosjean;Charlotte Stalvies;David A. Fike

  • A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

    Chao Li;Gordon D. Love;Timothy W. Lyons;David A. Fike

  • The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation

    Seth Finnegan;Kristin Bergmann;John M. Eiler;David S. Jones

  • Stratigraphy and sedimentology of a dry to wet eolian depositional system, Burns formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars

    J.P. Grotzinger;R.E. Arvidson;J.F. Bell;W. Calvin

  • Provenance and diagenesis of the evaporite-bearing Burns formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars

    S.M. McLennan;J.F. Bell;W. M. Calvin;P. R. Christensen

  • Rethinking the Ancient Sulfur Cycle

    David A. Fike;Alexander S. Bradley;Catherine V. Rose

  • The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

    Adam C. Maloof;Susannah M. Porter;John L. Moore;Frank Ö Dudás

  • Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

    John P. Grotzinger;David A. Fike;Woodward W. Fischer

  • Aeolian processes at the Mars Exploration Rover Meridiani Planum landing site.

    R. Sullivan;D. Banfield;J.F. Bell;W. Calvin

  • Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin

    E. Grosjean;G.D. Love;C. Stalvies;D.A. Fike

  • Superheavy pyrite (δ34Spyr > δ34SCAS) in the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, southern Namibia: A consequence of low seawater sulfate at the dawn of animal life

    Justin B. Ries;David A. Fike;Lisa M. Pratt;Timothy W. Lyons

  • Spatial grain size sorting in eolian ripples and estimation of wind conditions on planetary surfaces: Application to Meridiani Planum, Mars

    Douglas J. Jerolmack;David Mohrig;John P. Grotzinger;John P. Grotzinger;David A. Fike

  • Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

    Cole T. Edwards;Matthew R. Saltzman;Dana L. Royer;David A. Fike

  • Soils of Eagle crater and Meridiani Planum at the Opportunity Rover landing site.

    L. A. Soderblom;R. C. Anderson;R. E. Arvidson;J. F. Bell

  • A volcanic trigger for the Late Ordovician mass extinction? Mercury data from south China and Laurentia

    David S. Jones;Anna M. Martini;David A. Fike;Kunio Kaiho

  • A paired sulfate–pyrite δ34S approach to understanding the evolution of the Ediacaran–Cambrian sulfur cycle

    D. A. Fike;D. A. Fike;J. P. Grotzinger

  • Pyrite sulfur isotopes reveal glacial-interglacial environmental changes.

    Virgil Pasquier;Pierre Sansjofre;Marina Rabineau;Sidonie Revillon

  • Isotopic fractionation and transport mechanisms of Zn in plants

    Frederic Moynier;Sylvain Pichat;Marie-Laure Pons;David Fike

  • Micron-scale mapping of sulfur cycling across the oxycline of a cyanobacterial mat: a paired nanoSIMS and CARD-FISH approach.

    David Andrew Fike;Crystal Lynn Gammon;Wiebke Ziebis;Victoria Jeanne Orphan

  • Group, southern Namibia: A consequence of low seawater sulfate at the dawn of animal life

    Justin B. Ries;David A. Fike;Lisa M. Pratt;Timothy W. Lyons

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Grotzinger
John P. Grotzinger California Institute of Technology
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Victoria J. Orphan
Victoria J. Orphan California Institute of Technology
Andrew H. Knoll
Andrew H. Knoll Harvard University
Gordon D. Love
Gordon D. Love University of California, Riverside
Jan P. Amend
Jan P. Amend University of Southern California
Ronald Greeley
Ronald Greeley Arizona State University
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
James D. Schiffbauer
James D. Schiffbauer University of Missouri
Nicholas J. Tosca
Nicholas J. Tosca University of Oxford

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