Hal Bradbury
Assistant Professor
Research Classification
Research Interests
Isotope geochemistry
Chemical Oceanography
Reactive Transport Modelling
Carbon cycle
Marine Sedimentary Environments
Early Diagenesis
Biogeochemical Cycles
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Research Options
I am available and interested in collaborations (e.g. clusters, grants).
I am interested in and conduct interdisciplinary research.
I am interested in working with undergraduate students on research projects.
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Publications
- A comparative study of cave system Ca isotope ratios with rainfall, δ13C, and trace element data: Implications for quantitative reconstructions of paleorainfall from speleothems (2023)
- Glacial retreat driving enhanced methane emissions in the high Arctic (2023)
- An emulation-based approach for interrogating reactive transport models (2022)
- Changes in North Atlantic deep-water oxygenation across the Middle Pleistocene Transition. (2022)
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, - Northwest Indian stalagmite shows evidence for recurring summer and winter droughts after 4.2 ka BP (2022)
- Revisiting the relationship between the pore water carbon isotope gradient and bottom water oxygen concentrations (2022)
- Sediment mineralogy influences the rate of microbial sulfate reduction in marine sediments (2022)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, - Supplementary material to "An emulation-based approach for interrogating reactive transport models" (2022)
- Controls on the Precipitation of Carbonate Minerals Within Marine Sediments (2021)
Frontiers in Earth Science, 9 - Modelling the Effects of Non-Steady State Transport Dynamics on the Sulfur and Oxygen Isotope Composition of Sulfate in Sedimentary Pore Fluids (2021)
Frontiers in Earth Science, 8 - Semiquantitative Estimates of Rainfall Variability During the 8.2 kyr Event in California Using Speleothem Calcium Isotope Ratios (2021)
Geophysical Research Letters, 48 (3) - Testing for ocean acidification during the Early Toarcian using δ44/40Ca and δ88/86Sr (2021)
Chemical Geology, 574, 120228 - The Carbon-Sulfur Link in the Remineralization of Organic Carbon in Surface Sediments (2021)
Frontiers in Earth Science, 9 - Calcium isotope fractionation during microbially induced carbonate mineral precipitation (2020)
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 277, 37--51 - Calcium isotopes in deep time: Potential and limitations (2020)
Chemical Geology, 544, 119601 - The calcium isotopic composition of carbonate hardground cements: A new record of changes in ocean chemistry? (2020)
Chemical Geology, - Calcium isotopes as a record of the marine calcium cycle versus carbonate diagenesis during the late Ediacaran (2019)
Chemical Geology, 529, 119319 - Creek Dynamics Determine Pond Subsurface Geochemical Heterogeneity in East Anglian (UK) Salt Marshes (2019)
Frontiers in Earth Science, - Local and Regional Indian Summer Monsoon Precipitation Dynamics During Termination II and the Last Interglacial (2019)
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, 46 (21), 12454--12463 - Reevaluating the carbon sink due to sedimentary carbonate formation in modern marine sediments (2019)
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 519, 40--49 - Calcium isotope fractionation in sedimentary pore fluids from ODP Leg 175: Resolving carbonate recrystallization (2018)
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository, - Lithium isotopic composition of benthic foraminifera: A new proxy for paleo-pH reconstruction (2018)
Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta, - Mineralogy, early marine diagenesis, and the chemistry of shallow-water carbonate sediments (2018)
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 220, 512--534 - The Calcium Isotope Systematics of the Late Quaternary Dead Sea Basin Lakes (2018)
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 19 (11), 4260--4273 - Diagenesis in salt dome roof strata: Barite-calcite assemblage in Jebel Madar, Oman (2017)
Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86, 408--425 - Diagenesis of phosphatic hardgrounds in the Monterey Formation: A perspective from bulk and clumped isotope geochemistry (2015)
Bulletin, 127 (9-10), 1453--1463
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