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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry

Overview

Janet M. Hergt is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research contributions mainly focus on Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, Atmospheric Science, Anthropology, and Artificial Intelligence. This multidisciplinary approach supports investigations into various aspects of geological processes and environmental studies.

The scientist's work covers diverse topics within Earth sciences, with primary emphasis on Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, Drilling and Well Engineering, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping.

They have coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators including Lindsay M. Parson, James W. Hawkins, James F. Allan, Niels Abrahamsen, and Ulrich Bednarz. These partnerships have supported an extensive publication record facilitated through a range of venues.

Prominent publication venues include OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Zenodo hosted by CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research, Chemical Geology, Science Advances, and the Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Janet M. Hergt include:

  • 12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia (2020, Science Advances)
  • Ages for Australia's oldest rock paintings (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Isotopic analyses of clinopyroxenes demonstrate the effects of kimberlite melt metasomatism upon the lithospheric mantle (2020, Lithos)
  • Time resolved trace element calibration strategies for LA-ICP-MS (2023, Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry)
  • Perturbation of the deep-Earth carbon cycle in response to the Cambrian Explosion (2022, Science Advances)

Janet M. Hergt has received recognition for their contributions, notably the Geochemistry Fellow Honor awarded by the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data

    Chad Paton;John Hellstrom;Bence Paul;Bence Paul;Jon Woodhead

  • Magmatic and Crustal Differentiation History of Granitic Rocks from Hf-O Isotopes in Zircon

    Ais Kemp;Ais Kemp;Chris J Hawkesworth;GL Foster;BA Paterson

  • Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

    Chad Paton;Chad Paton;Jon D. Woodhead;John C. Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt

  • A Preliminary Appraisal of Seven Natural Zircon Reference Materials for In Situ Hf Isotope Determination

    Jon D. Woodhead;Janet M. Hergt

  • Mantle and Slab Contributions in ARC Magmas

    C. J. Hawkesworth;K. Gallagher;J. M. Hergt;F. McDermott

  • Zircon Hf-isotope analysis with an excimer laser, depth profiling, ablation of complex geometries, and concomitant age estimation

    Jonathan Woodhead;Janet Hergt;Michael Shelley;Stephen Eggins

  • A simple method for the precise determination of ≥ 40 trace elements in geological samples by ICPMS using enriched isotope internal standardisation

    S.M. Eggins;J.D. Woodhead;L.P.J. Kinsley;G.E. Mortimer

  • Hafnium isotope evidence for ‘conservative’ element mobility during subduction zone processes

    J.D. Woodhead;J.M. Hergt;J.P. Davidson;S.M. Eggins

  • Remobilisation of the continental lithosphere by a mantle plume: major-, trace-element, and Sr-, Nd-, and Pb-isotope evidence from picritic and tholeiitic lavas of the Noril'sk District, Siberian Trap, Russia

    P. C. Lightfoot;C. J. Hawkesworth;J. Hergt;A. J. Naldrett

  • 238U230Th disequilibria, magma petrogenesis, and flux rates beneath the depleted Tonga-Kermadec island arc

    Simon Turner;Chris Hawkesworth;Nick Rogers;Jessica Bartlett

  • The petrogenesis of Mesozoic Gondwana low-Ti flood basalts

    J.M. Hergt;D.W. Peate;C.J. Hawkesworth

  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

    Jon D. Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt;Alan Greig

  • Age and pyrite Pb-isotopic composition of the giant Sukhoi Log sediment-hosted gold deposit, Russia

    Sebastien Meffre;Ross R. Large;Robert Scott;Jon Woodhead

  • Element Fluxes Associated with Subduction Related Magmatism

    Christopher John Hawkesworth;J. M. Hergt;R. M. Ellam;F. McDermott

  • In situ Sr-isotope analysis of carbonates by LA-MC-ICP-MS: interference corrections, high spatial resolution and an example from otolith studies

    Jon Woodhead;Stephen Swearer;Janet Hergt;Roland Maas

  • Interaction of adakitic melt-peridotite: Implications for the high-Mg# signature of Mesozoic adakitic rocks in the eastern North China Craton

    Wenliang Xu;Wenliang Xu;Wenliang Xu;Janet M. Hergt;Shan Gao;Shan Gao;Fuping Pei

  • Strontium, Neodymium and Lead Isotope Analyses of NIST Glass Certified Reference Materials: SRM 610, 612, 614

    Jon D. Woodhead;Janet M. Hergt

  • Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints on the Origin of the Jurassic Dolerites of Tasmania

    J. M. Hergt;B. W. Chappell;M. T. McCULLOCH;I. McDOUGALL

  • Lower Cretaceous Volcanic Rocks on Continental Margins and Their Relationship to the Kerguelen Plateau

    M. Storey;R.W. Kent;A.D. Saunders;V.J. Salters

  • The Indian Ocean‐Type Isotopic Signature in Western Pacific Marginal Basins: Origin and Significance

    Rosemary Hickey-Vargas;Janet M. Hergt;Piera Spadea

  • Magmatism and the causes of continental break-up

    Janet Hergt

Frequent Co-Authors

Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Roland Maas
Roland Maas University of Melbourne
David Phillips
David Phillips University of Melbourne
John Hellstrom
John Hellstrom University of Melbourne
Chris J. Hawkesworth
Chris J. Hawkesworth University of Bristol
Alan Greig
Alan Greig University of Melbourne
Michael Storey
Michael Storey University of Copenhagen
Philip T. Leat
Philip T. Leat British Antarctic Survey
Andrew D. Saunders
Andrew D. Saunders University of Leicester

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