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92
Citations
29682
World Ranking
229
National Ranking
121

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2012 - Arthur L. Day Medal, The Geological Society of America
  • 2002 - James B. Macelwane Medal, American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Overview

John M. Eiler is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions in isotope analysis in ecology, hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, astro and planetary science, atmospheric and environmental gas dynamics, and paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils.

The scientist's publications have appeared frequently in several distinguished venues, including:

  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Goldschmidt2022 abstracts

Among recent papers, the following are representative:

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards (2021), published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu (2023), published in Science
  • Rapid microbial methanogenesis during CO2 storage in hydrocarbon reservoirs (2021), published in Nature
  • Methoxyl stable isotopic constraints on the origins and limits of coal-bed methane (2021), published in Science
  • Isotopic evidence for quasi-equilibrium chemistry in thermally mature natural gases (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors in their collaborative work include:

  • Alex L. Sessions
  • Michael J Formolo
  • Jamie E. Elsila
  • Hao Xie
  • Jason P. Dworkin

John M. Eiler's main fields of study consist of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their subfields of study encompass ecology, astronomy and astrophysics, mechanics of materials, atmospheric science, and environmental chemistry.

Awards and honors received by John M. Eiler include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2016)
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor from the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry (2013)
  • Arthur L. Day Medal from The Geological Society of America (2012)
  • James B. Macelwane Medal from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (2002)
  • Fellow of the Geological Society of America

Best Publications

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

    Prosenjit Ghosh;Jess Adkins;Hagit Affek;Brian Balta

  • Oxygen Isotope Variations of Basaltic Lavas and Upper Mantle Rocks

    John M. Eiler

  • “Clumped-isotope” geochemistry—The study of naturally-occurring, multiply-substituted isotopologues

    John M. Eiler

  • Rise of the Andes.

    Carmala N. Garzione;Gregory Dean Hoke;Julie C. Libarkin;Saunia Withers

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

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

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

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

  • Preferential formation of 13C–18O bonds in carbonate minerals, estimated using first-principles lattice dynamics

    Edwin A. Schauble;Prosenjit Ghosh;John M. Eiler

  • High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates

    Benjamin H. Passey;Naomi E. Levin;Naomi E. Levin;Thure E. Cerling;Francis H. Brown

  • 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

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction using carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    John M. Eiler

  • Rapid Uplift of the Altiplano Revealed Through 13C-18O Bonds in Paleosol Carbonates

    Prosenjit Ghosh;Prosenjit Ghosh;Carmala N. Garzione;Carmala N. Garzione;John M. Eiler;John M. Eiler

  • Potential Environmental Impact of a Hydrogen Economy on the Stratosphere

    Tracey K. Tromp;Run-Lie Shia;Mark Allen;John M. Eiler

  • 18O13C16O in Earth's atmosphere

    John M. Eiler;Edwin Schauble

  • Inside the subduction factory

    John Eiler

  • Equilibrium thermodynamics of multiply substituted isotopologues of molecular gases

    Zhengrong Wang;Edwin A. Schauble;John M. Eiler

  • Lunar apatite with terrestrial volatile abundances

    Jeremy W. Boyce;Jeremy W. Boyce;Yang Liu;George R. Rossman;Yunbin Guan

  • Formation temperatures of thermogenic and biogenic methane

    D.A. Stolper;M. Lawson;C.L. Davis;A.A. Ferreira

  • Oxygen Isotope Geochemistry of Oceanic-Arc Lavas

    John M. Eiler;Anthony Crawford;Tim Elliott;Kenneth A. Farley

  • Coupling of surface temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the Palaeozoic era.

    Rosemarie E. Came;John M. Eiler;Ján Veizer;Karem Azmy

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

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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward M. Stolper
Edward M. Stolper California Institute of Technology
John W. Valley
John W. Valley University of Wisconsin–Madison
Aradhna Tripati
Aradhna Tripati University of California, Los Angeles
George R. Rossman
George R. Rossman California Institute of Technology
Alex L. Sessions
Alex L. Sessions California Institute of Technology
Hagit P. Affek
Hagit P. Affek Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins California Institute of Technology
Michael E. Brown
Michael E. Brown University of Dundee
Bethany L. Ehlmann
Bethany L. Ehlmann University of Colorado Boulder
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology

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