Jess F. Adkins
Jess F. Adkins
Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science
B.S., Haverford College, 1990; Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. Assistant Professor, Caltech, 2000-06; Associate Professor, 2006-10; Professor, 2010-16; Smits Professor, 2017-.
Research interests: geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments and their interstitial waters, rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes, metals as tracers of environmental processes, radiocarbon and U-series chronology, chemical oceanography
Overview
Professor Adkins focuses on geochemical investigations of past climates using corals, sediments and their interstitial waters; Rate of deep ocean circulation and its relation to mechanisms of rapid climate changes; Metals as tracers of environmental processes; Radiocarbon and U-series chronology. Chemical oceanography.