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Hagit P. Affek 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 encompasses a range of subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Geochemistry and Petrology, Global and Planetary Change, and Archeology.

The scientist's research topics cover diverse areas such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Karst Systems and Hydrogeology, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Maritime and Coastal Archaeology.

Hagit P. Affek has published in multiple scientific venues, with several papers appearing in prominent journals and platforms including:

  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Their recent notable publications include:

  • "InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards," 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • "Eastern Mediterranean climate change deduced from the Soreq Cave fluid inclusion stable isotopes and carbonate clumped isotopes record of the last 160 ka," 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Carbonate 17Oexcess as a paleo-hydrology proxy: Triple oxygen isotope fractionation between H2O and biogenic aragonite, derived from freshwater mollusks," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Eggshell geochemistry reveals ancestral metabolic thermoregulation in Dinosauria," 2020, Science Advances
  • "Triple oxygen isotope fractionation between CaCO3 and H2O in inorganically precipitated calcite and aragonite," 2020, Chemical Geology

Hagit P. Affek collaborates frequently with several colleagues, including:

  • Eugeni Barkan
  • Avner Ayalon
  • S. Bergel
  • Rolf Vieten
  • Ekaterina Fishman

Best Publications

  • 13 C- 18 O bonds in carbonate minerals: A new kind of paleothermometer

    Prosenjit Ghosh;Jess Adkins;Hagit Affek;Brian Balta

  • Defining an absolute reference frame for 'clumped' isotope studies of CO 2

    Kate J. Dennis;Hagit P. Affek;Benjamin H. Passey;Daniel P. Schrag

  • Methods and limitations of 'clumped' CO2 isotope (Delta47) analysis by gas-source isotope ratio mass spectrometry.

    K. W. Huntington;J. M. Eiler;H. P. Affek;W. Guo

  • Glacial/interglacial temperature variations in Soreq cave speleothems as recorded by ‘clumped isotope’ thermometry

    Hagit P. Affek;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Absolute isotopic abundance ratios and the accuracy of Δ47 measurements

    M. Daëron;D. Blamart;M. Peral;H.P. Affek

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards.

    S. M. Bernasconi;M. Daëron;K. D. Bergmann;M. Bonifacie

  • Eocene greenhouse climate revealed by coupled clumped isotope-Mg/Ca thermometry

    David M Evans;Navjit Sagoo;Willem Renema;Laura J. Cotton

  • Abundance of mass 47 CO2 in urban air, car exhaust, and human breath

    Hagit P. Affek;John M. Eiler

  • Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures

    Peter M. J. Douglas;Hagit P. Affek;Linda C. Ivany;Alexander J. P. Houben

  • A revised calibration of the clumped isotope thermometer

    Shikma Zaarur;Hagit P. Affek;Mark T. Brandon

  • Carbonate clumped isotope variability in shallow water corals: Temperature dependence and growth-related vital effects

    Casey Saenger;Hagit P. Affek;Thomas Felis;Nivedita Thiagarajan

  • The end‐Permian mass extinction: A rapid volcanic CO2 and CH4‐climatic catastrophe

    Uwe Brand;Renato Posenato;Rosemarie Came;Hagit Affek

  • Warm, not super-hot, temperatures in the early Eocene subtropics

    Caitlin R. Keating-Bitonti;Linda C. Ivany;Hagit P. Affek;Peter Douglas

  • Paleo-environmental implication of clumped isotopes in land snail shells

    Shikma Zaarur;Gerard Olack;Hagit P. Affek

  • Kinetic isotope effect in CO2 degassing: Insight from clumped and oxygen isotopes in laboratory precipitation experiments

    Hagit P. Affek;Shikma Zaarur

  • Quantifying kinetic fractionation in Bunker Cave speleothems using Δ47

    Tobias Kluge;Hagit P. Affek

  • Clumped isotopic equilibrium and the rate of isotope exchange between CO2 and water

    Hagit P. Affek

  • Changes in mixing ratio and isotopic composition of CO2 in urban air from the Los Angeles basin, California, between 1972 and 2003

    Sally Newman;Xiaomei Xu;Xiaomei Xu;Hagit P. Affek;Hagit P. Affek;Edward Stolper

  • Production of CO2 in the capillary fringe of a deep phreatic aquifer

    Hagit P. Affek;Daniel Ronen;Dan Yakir

  • Clumped isotope signatures in modern brachiopod carbonate

    Rosemarie E. Came;Uwe Brand;Hagit P. Affek

  • Absolute Isotopic Abundance Ratios and the Accuracy of ∆ 47 Measurements

    M. Daeron;D. Blamart;M. Peral;H. P. Affek

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Janice M. Lough
Janice M. Lough Australian Institute of Marine Science
Thomas Felis
Thomas Felis University of Bremen
Linda C. Ivany
Linda C. Ivany Syracuse University
Avner Ayalon
Avner Ayalon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Daniel P. Schrag
Daniel P. Schrag Harvard University
Hubert B. Vonhof
Hubert B. Vonhof Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Miryam Bar-Matthews
Miryam Bar-Matthews Geological Survey of Israel
Dan Yakir
Dan Yakir Weizmann Institute of Science
Aradhna Tripati
Aradhna Tripati University of California, Los Angeles

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