Contact Information:

Dartmouth College Department of Earth Sciences 6105 Fairchild Hall Hanover, NH 03755

Email: cynchen@dartmouth.edu Office: 226A Fairchild Office Phone: 603-646-0285 Office Fax: 603-646-3922 Lab: 214 Steele

Overview of Research :

Cynthia Chen traces the sources of osmium to the oceans from cosmic sources and chemical weathering, and also examines the sources and biogeochemical cycling of oceanic iron using iron isotopes. Her advisor is Mukul Sharma.

 

Publications :

Sharma, M. and C. Chen (2004). "Early Earth differentiation using the coupled Sm-146-Nd-142 and Sm-147-Nd-143." Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 68(11): A746-A746.

Sharma, M. and C. Chen (2004). "Neodymium isotope fractionation in the mass spectrometer and of the issue Nd-142 anomalies in early Archean rocks." Precambrian Research 135(4): 315-329.

Bostick, B. C., C. Chen, et al. (2004). "Arsenite retention mechanisms within estuarine sediments of Pescadero, CA." Environmental Science & Technology 38(12): 3299-3304.

Bostick, B.C., Jones, R.E., Ernst, W.G., Chen, C., Leech, M.L., and Beane, R.J., 2003, Low-temperature microdiamond aggregates in the Maksyutov Metamorphic Complex, South Ural Mountains, Russia: American Mineralogist, v. 88, p. 1709-1717.

Research Group Website:

Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry Laboratory