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Katharine W. Huntington

Katharine W. Huntington

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Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
4665
World Ranking
7272
National Ranking
2509

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal), The Geological Society of America

Overview

Katharine W. Huntington is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses primarily on geology, paleoclimatology, and isotope geochemistry, covering a range of subfields including atmospheric science, ecology, earth-surface processes, geophysics, and paleontology.

The scientist's published work includes papers on carbonate clumped isotope thermometry and Quaternary geological processes. Among their recent publications are:

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards (2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems)
  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5-1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization (2021, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Frontiers of Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometry (2023, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
  • Provenance and erosional impact of Quaternary megafloods through the Yarlung-Tsangpo Gorge from zircon U-Pb geochronology of flood deposits, eastern Himalaya (2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Frequent co-authors in Huntington's research network include Andrew J. Schauer (23 joint works), Susannah Morey (8), Emma Heitmann (8), Julia R. Kelson (7), and Daniel O. Breecker (6).

Their papers have been frequently published in venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Geophysical Research Letters, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, and Chemical Geology.

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Chemical Geology

Main areas of study for Huntington span several key topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis

Their research contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) from The Geological Society of America in 2012.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization

    Noah Anderson;J R Kelson;S Kele;M Daëron

  • Effects of Improved 17O Correction on Interlaboratory Agreement in Clumped Isotope Calibrations, Estimates of Mineral-Specific Offsets, and Temperature Dependence of Acid Digestion Fractionation

    S. V. Petersen;W. F. Defliese;W. F. Defliese;C. Saenger;M. Daëron

  • Toward a universal carbonate clumped isotope calibration: Diverse synthesis and preparatory methods suggest a single temperature relationship

    Julia R. Kelson;Katharine W. Huntington;Andrew J. Schauer;Casey Saenger;Casey Saenger

  • Choice of 17O correction affects clumped isotope (Δ47) values of CO2 measured with mass spectrometry

    Andrew J. Schauer;Julia Kelson;Casey Saenger;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    K. W. Huntington;B. P. Wernicke;J. M. Eiler

  • Use of Clumped-Isotope Thermometry to Constrain the Crystallization Temperature of Diagenetic Calcite

    Katharine W. Huntington;David A. Budd;Brian P. Wernicke;John M. Eiler

  • Climate change and Late Pliocene acceleration of erosion in the Himalaya

    Katharine W. Huntington;Ann E. Blythe;Ann E. Blythe;Kip V. Hodges

  • Plio‐Quaternary exhumation history of the central Nepalese Himalaya: 2. Thermokinematic and thermochronometer age prediction model

    David M. Whipp;Todd A. Ehlers;Ann E. Blythe;Ann E. Blythe;Katharine W. Huntington;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Hot or not? Impact of seasonally variable soil carbonate formation on paleotemperature and O-isotope records from clumped isotope thermometry

    Nathan A. Peters;Katharine W. Huntington;Gregory D. Hoke

  • Spatial controls on erosion in the Three Rivers Region, southeastern Tibet and southwestern China

    Amanda C. Henck;Katharine W. Huntington;John O. Stone;David R. Montgomery

  • Erosion of the Tsangpo Gorge by megafloods, Eastern Himalaya

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington;David R. Montgomery

  • Antecedence of the Yarlung–Siang–Brahmaputra River, eastern Himalaya

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington

  • Carbonate clumped isotope thermometry in continental tectonics

    Katharine W. Huntington;Alex R. Lechler;Alex R. Lechler

  • High late Miocene–Pliocene elevation of the Zhada Basin, southwestern Tibetan Plateau, from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

    Katharine W. Huntington;Joel Saylor;Jay Quade;Adam M. Hudson

  • A proxy for all seasons? A synthesis of clumped isotope data from Holocene soil carbonates

    Julia R. Kelson;Julia R. Kelson;Katharine W. Huntington;Daniel O. Breecker;Landon K. Burgener

  • Rapid exhumation of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis since the late Miocene

    Karl A. Lang;Katharine W. Huntington;Russ Burmester;Bernard Housen

  • The Geomorphic Impact of Outburst Floods: Integrating Observations and Numerical Simulations of the 2000 Yigong Flood, Eastern Himalaya

    Michael D. Turzewski;Katharine W. Huntington;Randall J. LeVeque

  • Syndepositional Deformation Features In High-Relief Carbonate Platforms: Long-Lived Conduits for Diagenetic Fluids

    David A. Budd;Edmund L. Frost;Katharine W. Huntington;Patricia F. Allwardt

  • The growth of the central Andes, 22°S–26°S

    J. Quade;M.P. Dettinger;B. Carrapa;P. DeCelles

  • Monsoon control of effective discharge, Yunnan and Tibet

    Amanda C. Henck;David R. Montgomery;Katharine W. Huntington;Chuan Liang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jay Quade
Jay Quade University of Arizona
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
David R. Montgomery
David R. Montgomery University of Washington
Gregory D. Hoke
Gregory D. Hoke Syracuse University
Kip V. Hodges
Kip V. Hodges Arizona State University
Brian P. Wernicke
Brian P. Wernicke California Institute of Technology
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet
Guillaume Dupont-Nivet University of Rennes
Randall J. LeVeque
Randall J. LeVeque University of Washington
Benjamin H. Passey
Benjamin H. Passey University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andreas Mulch
Andreas Mulch Goethe University Frankfurt

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