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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2009 - V.M. Goldschmidt Award, Geochemical Society
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2007 - Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry
  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Mark H. Thiemens is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple aspects of Earth and planetary sciences as well as environmental science, with significant engagement in atmospheric science, astronomy and astrophysics, geochemistry and petrology, oceanography, and ecology.

Their recent published papers include:

  • A mineral-based origin of Earth's initial hydrogen peroxide and molecular oxygen, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Discoveries of Mass Independent Isotope Effects in the Solar System: Past, Present and Future, 2021, Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • Superconductivity found in meteorites, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Biological Influence on δ13C and Organic Composition of Nascent Sea Spray Aerosol, 2020, ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
  • Isotopic signatures of stratospheric air at the Himalayas and beyond, 2020, Science Bulletin

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Mang Lin
  • Daniel R. Crocker
  • Ruochen Cao
  • Mao-Chang Liang
  • Shohei Hattori

The scientist's publications frequently appear in the following venues:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Chemical Geology
  • Goldschmidt Abstracts
  • Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry
  • ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences with 41 publications and Environmental Science with 15 publications. Subfields cover Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Oceanography, and Ecology.

Key topics addressed in their work focus on:

  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

Awards and recognitions received by Mark H. Thiemens include:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • V.M. Goldschmidt Award, Geochemical Society, 2009
  • Geochemistry Fellow Honor, Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2007
  • Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2007
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002

Best Publications

  • Atmospheric Influence of Earth's Earliest Sulfur Cycle

    James Farquhar;Huiming Bao;Mark Thiemens

  • The mass-independent fractionation of oxygen: a novel isotope effect and its possible cosmochemical implications.

    Mark H. Thiemens;John E. Heidenreich

  • Mass-independent isotope effects in planetary atmospheres and the early solar system.

    Mark H. Thiemens

  • Observation of wavelength-sensitive mass-independent sulfur isotope effects during SO2 photolysis: Implications for the early atmosphere

    James Farquhar;Joel Savarino;Sabine Airieau;Mark H. Thiemens

  • HISTORY AND APPLICATIONS OF MASS-INDEPENDENT ISOTOPE EFFECTS

    Mark H. Thiemens

  • Sulfur isotopic composition of cenozoic seawater sulfate

    Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner;Douglas Campbell;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Aerosols: Constraints from Oxygen Isotopes

    B. Alexander;Rokjin J. Park;Daniel J. Jacob;Q. B. Li

  • First measurements and modeling of Δ17O in atmospheric nitrate

    Greg Michalski;Zack Scott;Melanie Kabiling;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Nylon production: an unknown source of atmospheric nitrous oxide.

    Mark H. Thiemens;William C. Trogler

  • Linking atmospheric pollution to cryospheric change in the Third Pole region: current progress and future prospects

    Shichang Kang;Shichang Kang;Qianggong Zhang;Yun Qian;Zhenming Ji

  • Triple-isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan;Michael L. Bender;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Unique Meteorite from Early Amazonian Mars: Water-Rich Basaltic Breccia Northwest Africa 7034

    Carl B. Agee;Nicole V. Wilson;Francis M. McCubbin;Karen Ziegler

  • Mass-Independent Sulfur of Inclusions in Diamond and Sulfur Recycling on Early Earth

    J. Farquhar;B. A. Wing;K. D. McKeegan;J. W. Harris

  • Long term atmospheric deposition as the source of nitrate and other salts in the Atacama Desert, Chile: New evidence from mass-independent oxygen isotopic compositions

    Greg Michalski;J.K. Böhlke;Mark Thiemens

  • Evidence of atmospheric sulphur in the martian regolith from sulphur isotopes in meteorites

    James Farquhar;Joel Savarino;Terri L. Jackson;Mark H. Thiemens

  • The isotopic composition of tropospheric ozone in three environments

    Jeffrey C. Johnston;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Comparison of geomechanical deformation induced by megatonne-scale CO2 storage at Sleipner, Weyburn, and In Salah

    James P. Verdon;J.-Michael Kendall;Anna L. Stork;R. Andrew Chadwick

  • Multiple sulphur isotopic interpretations of biosynthetic pathways: implications for biological signatures in the sulphur isotope record

    James Farquhar;David T. Johnston;Boswell A. Wing;Kirsten S. Habicht

  • Seawater sulfur isotope fluctuations in the Cretaceous.

    Adina Paytan;Miriam Kastner;Douglas Campbell;Mark H. Thiemens

  • Nitrogen and oxygen isotopic constraints on the origin of atmospheric nitrate in coastal Antarctica

    J. Savarino;J. Kaiser;J. Kaiser;S. Morin;D. M. Sigman

  • Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Isotope Anomalies in the Mesosphere and Stratosphere

    Mark H. Thiemens;Teresa Jackson;Edward C. Zipf;Peter W. Erdman

  • A non‐mass‐dependent oxygen isotope effect in the production of ozone from molecular oxygen: The role of molecular symmetry in isotope chemistry

    John E. Heidenreich;Mark H. Thiemens

Frequent Co-Authors

Joel Savarino
Joel Savarino Grenoble Alpes University
Dimitri Basov
Dimitri Basov Columbia University
Michael M. Fogler
Michael M. Fogler University of California, San Diego
Musahid Ahmed
Musahid Ahmed Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James Farquhar
James Farquhar University of Maryland, College Park
Wenzhong Bao
Wenzhong Bao Fudan University
Becky Alexander
Becky Alexander University of Washington
Chun Ning Lau
Chun Ning Lau The Ohio State University
Huiming Bao
Huiming Bao Louisiana State University
Shichang Kang
Shichang Kang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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