Stable Isotope and Biogeochemistry Group Research Projects

• Applications of CSIA in the Study of Extant Plants
  • Compound Specific D/H Isotopes of Lipids and Carbohydrates from C3 and C4 Extant Plants
  • 13C/12C Isotopes of Leaf Wax Lipids in Soil Profiles to Establish Vegetation Changes at Strathdarr, Queensland
• Applications of Compound Specific D/H Isotope Analysis to Crude Oils and Sediments
  • Stable Hydrogen Isotopic Composition of Biomarkers in Torbanites from Different Palaeogeographical Locations
  • Effects of Maturation on the Indigenous D/H Signatures of Individual Hydrocarbons in Sediments and Crude Oils from The Vulcan-Sub Basin and Perth Basin ( Western Australia)
• Stable Isotopes of Biomarkers in Permian/Triassic Sediments: Searching for Clues to the Cause of the end-Permian Mass Extinction Event
  • Evidence for Anaerobic Photosynthesis in an Early Triassic Sea
  • A Biomarker Index for the Permian-Triassic Ecological Crisis
  • Biomarker Distributions and their Stable Isotopes in Marine Permian/Triassic Sections from around the Globe
  • Permian/Triassic Sediments from the Perth Basin: Implications for Petroleum Source-Rock Formation
  • Changes in Abundances and Stable Carbon Isotopes of Biomarkers Across the Permian/Triassic Schuchert Dal Section ( Eastern Greenland)
• Establishing Palaeoenvironmental Conditions in the Jurassic Through Changes in Terrestrial Signatures
• Human Influence on Holocene Environmental Change in the Yangtze River Delta: A Combined Biomarker, 13C/12C, D/H, 14C, Pollen And Charcoal Approach
• Applications of CSIA in Forensics
  • Compound Specific Isotope Analysis of Atrazine During Mineralisation
  • 13C/12C Of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCS) in Airborne Samples by Thermal Desorption-Gas Chromatography-Isotope-Ratio-Mass Spectrometry (TD-GC-IRMS)
  • Forensic Analysis of Adhesive Tapes by GC-MS, GC-Ir
• Applications of CSIA in Water
• Molecular and Isotopic Characterisation of Leachates in Water
• Stable Isotopes for the Characterisation of NOM and Investigation of the Different Organic Precursors of Aquatic Systems
• Examples of Petroleum Geochemistry Research Activity within CAOG
• Reactions of Organic Matter in the Sedimentary System
• Subsurface Carbocation Processes Revealed by a Stable Isotopic Study of the Aromatic UCM
• Characterisation of the Source of Sedimentary Organic Matter
• Macrocyclic Alkanes: Markers for the Freshwater Alga Botryococcus braunii
• The Formation of Sedimentary Alkylbiphenyls from Algal Lipid Precursors
• Reconstructing Petroleum Migration Pathways Through Analysis of Polar Compounds