{"id":42797,"date":"2017-01-05T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T14:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=42797"},"modified":"2017-01-05T12:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:10:21","slug":"brock-led-research-makes-top-10-geochemistry-list-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/01\/brock-led-research-makes-top-10-geochemistry-list-for-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock-led research makes Top 10 geochemistry list for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-based Geochemical Society has listed a Brock University-led research paper among the Top 10 most read articles in geochemistry for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Professors of Earth Sciences Nigel Blamey and Uwe Brand led an international team that found that oxygen levels on Earth almost a billion years ago were more than five times greater than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers were able to determine this by tapping into, and analyzing, the actual air trapped in microscopic bubbles in rock salt about 800 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a lot of debate as to what the oxygen content was 800 million or more years ago,\u201d says Blamey. \u201cWe\u2019ve come up with a direct method of analyzing the content of those trapped fossil gasses in the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will give us a better understanding of how life evolved,\u201d says Brand.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/geology.gsapubs.org\/content\/early\/2016\/07\/08\/G37937.1.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cParadigm shift in determining Neoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen,\u201d<\/a> appeared in the August 2016 edition of <em>Geology<\/em>, the monthly journal of the Geological Society of America.<\/p>\n<p>Being included in the Geochemical Society\u2019s Top 10 list means many scientists will cite the team\u2019s finding in their research, says Brand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur research is of the international level and cuts across many disciplines, including chemistry, life in the oceans, and how life evolved on this planet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really shows how the community has recognized our contribution to science,\u201d says Blamey.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the research, see the story in <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/07\/brock-university-led-team-discovers-way-of-tapping-into-and-testing-earths-prehistoric-air\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Brock News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxygen-Infographic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-seenandheard wp-image-40220\" src=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxygen-Infographic-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"Oxygen-Infographic\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S.-based Geochemical Society has listed a Brock University-led research paper among the Top 10 most read articles in geochemistry for 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":42798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,4052,41,1,4,5],"tags":[2616,3113,3114,4309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42799,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797\/revisions\/42799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}