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Jay L. Banner is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily covers areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to specific subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, Water Science and Technology, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

The scientist's work focuses on a range of topics related to geological and environmental systems. Key topics in their research include:

  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Hydrology and Drought Analysis
  • Climate variability and models
  • Water resources management and optimization

Jay L. Banner has participated in scholarly publishing with several recent papers in respected scientific journals, demonstrating involvement in a variety of relevant research areas:

  • Unprecedented Drought Challenges for Texas Water Resources in a Changing Climate: What Do Researchers and Stakeholders Need to Know? (2020) - Earth's Future
  • Winter Storm Uri: A Test of Texas' Water Infrastructure and Water Resource Resilience to Extreme Winter Weather Events (2021) - Journal of Extreme Events
  • Isotopic variability in tropical cyclone precipitation is controlled by Rayleigh distillation and cloud microphysics (2022) - Communications Earth & Environment
  • Constraining speleothem oxygen isotope disequilibrium driven by rapid CO2 degassing and calcite precipitation: Insights from monitoring and modeling (2020) - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Stream and Spring Water Evolution in a Rapidly Urbanizing Watershed, Austin, TX (2020) - Water Resources Research

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Jay L. Banner include:

  • Darrel M. Tremaine
  • Daniel O. Breecker
  • Nathan Miller
  • Staci L. Loewy
  • Bryan A. Black

The scientist regularly publishes in the following venues:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Earth's Future

Best Publications

  • Calculation of simultaneous isotopic and trace element variations during water-rock interaction with applications to carbonate diagenesis

    Jay L Banner;Gilbert N Hanson

  • Ecosystem carbon loss with woody plant invasion of grasslands.

    Robert B. Jackson;Jay L. Banner;Esteban G. Jobbágy;William T. Pockman;William T. Pockman

  • Application of the trace element and isotope geochemistry of strontium to studies of carbonate diagenesis

    Jay. L. Banner

  • Radiogenic isotopes: systematics and applications to earth surface processes and chemical stratigraphy

    Jay L. Banner

  • Evolution of the Sr and C Isotope Composition of Cambrian Oceans

    Isabel P. Montañez;David A. Osleger;Jay L. Banner;Larry E. Mack

  • Rare earth element and Nd isotopic variations in regionally extensive dolomites from the Burlington-Keokuk Formation (Mississippian); implications for REE mobility during carbonate diagenesis

    Jay L. Banner;G. N. Hanson;W. J. Meyers

  • Large kinetic isotope effects in modern speleothems

    Patrick J. Mickler;Libby A. Stern;Jay L. Banner

  • Stable isotope variations in modern tropical speleothems: Evaluating equilibrium vs. kinetic isotope effects

    Patrick J. Mickler;Jay L. Banner;Libby Stern;Yemane Asmerom

  • Isotopic and trace element constraints on the origin and evolution of saline groundwaters from central Missouri

    Jay L. Banner;Jay L. Banner;G. J. Wasserburg;Patrick F. Dobson;Alden B. Carpenter

  • Controls on the spatial and temporal variability of vadose dripwater geochemistry: Edwards aquifer, central Texas

    Mary Lynn Musgrove;Jay L Banner

  • Integrated Sr isotope variations and sea-level history of Middle to Upper Cambrian platform carbonates: Implications for the evolution of Cambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr

    Isabel P. Montañez;Jay L. Banner;David A. Osleger;Lars E. Borg

  • Seasonal Variations in Modern Speleothem Calcite Growth in Central Texas, U.S.A.

    Jay L. Banner;Amber Guilfoyle;Eric W. James;Libby A. Stern

  • Water-Rock Interaction History of Regionally Extensive Dolomites of the Burlington-Keokuk Formation (Mississippian): Isotopic Evidence

    Jay L. Banner;G. N. Hanson;W. J. Meyers

  • Seasonal dripwater Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca variations driven by cave ventilation: Implications for and modeling of speleothem paleoclimate records

    Corinne I. Wong;Jay L Banner;Mary Lynn Musgrove

  • Magnesium and strontium systematics in tropical speleothems from the Western Pacific

    Daniel J. Sinclair;Jay L Banner;Frederick W Taylor;Judson W Partin

  • Radium geochemistry of ground waters in Paleozoic carbonate aquifers, midcontinent, USA

    N. C. Sturchio;Jay L Banner;C. M. Binz;L. B. Heraty

  • Neodymium and strontium isotopic constraints on soil sources in Barbados, West Indies

    Lars E. Borg;Jay L. Banner

  • Evolution of Cupido and Coahuila carbonate platforms, Early Cretaceous, northeastern Mexico

    Christoph Lehmann;David A. Osleger;Isabel P. Montañez;William V. Sliter

  • The isotopic record of ocean chemistry and diagenesis preserved in non-luminescent brachiopods from Mississippian carbonate rocks, Illinois and Missouri

    Jay L. Banner;Jonathan Kaufman

  • The sources and sinks of CO2 in caves under mixed woodland and grassland vegetation

    Daniel O. Breecker;Ashley E. Payne;Jay Quade;Jay L. Banner

  • Geochronology of late Pleistocene to Holocene speleothemsfrom central Texas: Implications for regional paleoclimate

    MaryLynn Musgrove;Jay L. Banner;Larry E. Mack;Deanna M. Combs

Frequent Co-Authors

Terrence M. Quinn
Terrence M. Quinn The University of Texas at Austin
Frederick W. Taylor
Frederick W. Taylor The University of Texas at Austin
Chuan-Chou Shen
Chuan-Chou Shen National Taiwan University
R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Gilbert N. Hanson
Gilbert N. Hanson Stony Brook University
Isabel P. Montañez
Isabel P. Montañez University of California, Davis
Andy Baker
Andy Baker University of New South Wales
Lars E. Borg
Lars E. Borg Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Zong-Liang Yang
Zong-Liang Yang The University of Texas at Austin

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