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Overview

Jochen J. Brocks is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial focus on Paleontology. Their research spans multiple subfields including Paleontology, Mechanics of Materials, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Brocks's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, as well as Geological and Geochemical Analysis. Their contributions also involve Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping and Elemental Analysis.

Recent research papers authored or co-authored by Brocks include:

  • "Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown" (2023) published in Nature
  • "The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project" (2021) published in Geobiology
  • "Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record" (2020) published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "The composition and weathering of the continents over geologic time" (2021) published in Geochemical Perspectives Letters
  • "Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras" (2024) published in Nature Geoscience

Brocks has collaborated frequently with a number of co-authors, including Janet M. Hope, Lennart van Maldegem, A.J.M. Jarrett, Benjamin J. Nettersheim, and Christian Hallmann. These collaborations indicate ongoing partnerships within their scientific community.

Publication venues where Brocks's research appears most often include:

  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Science Advances
  • Chemical Geology

This range of publication outlets reflects a focus on earth sciences and geochemistry within prominent international journals and conference abstracts.

Best Publications

  • Archean molecular fossils and the early rise of eukaryotes

    Jochen J. Brocks;Graham A. Logan;Roger Buick;Roger E. Summons

  • Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea

    Jochen J. Brocks;Gordon D. Love;Roger E. Summons;Roger E. Summons;Andrew H. Knoll

  • Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

    Paul F. Hoffman;Paul F. Hoffman;Dorian S. Abbot;Yosef Ashkenazy;Douglas I. Benn

  • Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

    Birger Rasmussen;Ian R. Fletcher;Jochen J. Brocks;Matt R. Kilburn

  • The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

    Jochen J. Brocks;Amber J. M. Jarrett;Eva Sirantoine;Christian Hallmann

  • De novo metagenomic assembly reveals abundant novel major lineage of Archaea in hypersaline microbial communities.

    Priya Narasingarao;Sheila Podell;Juan A Ugalde;Céline Brochier-Armanet

  • A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

    Jochen J Brocks;Roger Buick;Roger E Summons;Graham A Logan

  • Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

    Katherine L. French;Christian Hallmann;Janet M. Hope;Petra L. Schoon

  • Sedimentary Hydrocarbons, Biomarkers for Early Life

    Jochen Brocks;Roger Summons

  • Okenane, a biomarker for purple sulfur bacteria (Chromatiaceae), and other new carotenoid derivatives from the 1640 Ma Barney Creek Formation

    Jochen J. Brocks;Philippe Schaeffer

  • Composition and syngeneity of molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

    Jochen J Brocks;Roger Buick;Graham A Logan;Roger E Summons

  • Building the Biomarker Tree of Life

    Jochen J. Brocks;Ann Pearson

  • Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals

    Ilya Bobrovskiy;Janet M. Hope;Andrey Ivantsov;Benjamin J. Nettersheim

  • Organic geochemistry and mineralogy. I. Characterisation of organic matter associated with metal deposits

    Paul Greenwood;Paul Greenwood;Jochen Brocks;Kliti Grice;L Schwark;L Schwark

  • Assessing biomarker syngeneity using branched alkanes with quaternary carbon (BAQCs) and other plastic contaminants

    Jochen J. Brocks;Emmanuelle Grosjean;Graham A. Logan

  • Release of bound aromatic hydrocarbons from late Archean and mesoproterozoic kerogens via hydropyrolysis

    Jochen J Brocks;Gordon D Love;Colin E Snape;Graham A Logan

  • Lipid taphonomy in the Proterozoic and the effect of microbial mats on biomarker preservation

    Maria M. Pawlowska;Nicholas J. Butterfield;Jochen J. Brocks

  • Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

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  • Millimeter-scale concentration gradients of hydrocarbons in Archean shales: Live-oil escape or fingerprint of contamination?

    Jochen J. Brocks

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Ann Pearson

  • Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth.

    J. J. Brocks;A. J. M. Jarrett;E. Sirantoine;F. Kenig

  • Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

    Katherine L. French;Christian Hallmann;Christian Hallmann;Petra L. Schoon;John E. Zumberge

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon W. Poulton
Simon W. Poulton University of Leeds
Roger Buick
Roger Buick University of Washington
Ann Pearson
Ann Pearson Harvard University
Gordon D. Love
Gordon D. Love University of California, Riverside
Kliti Grice
Kliti Grice Curtin University
Simon C. George
Simon C. George Macquarie University
Erik A. Sperling
Erik A. Sperling Stanford University
Grant M. Cox
Grant M. Cox University of Adelaide
Jillian F. Banfield
Jillian F. Banfield University of California, Berkeley

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