Provost’s Advisory Committee on Promotion and Tenure (2023-24 and 2024-25 academic years)

3rd Thonis Endowed Professorship Announced: The Multiplier Effect in Philanthropy (March 24, 2023)

My core interests and experiences center around how things (e.g. water, methane, carbon, other elements) move at regional to global scales; how these movements are intertwined with changes in tectonics, atmosphere, ocean, and climate; and how the biosphere evolved with these changes through Earth history. Since arriving at Syracuse University in 2011, I have been building a research program highlighting (1) global marine environmental changes through Earth history, (2) local and state-wide fresh water quality issues evolving with the adaptation to climate and energy challenges. Both directions fall into the broadly defined theme: co-evolution of life and planet.

Currently recruiting new graduate students

• 2021- Ph.D. Ashley Prow
• 2018- Ph.D. Ruliang He
• 2015-2020 Ph.D. Wanyi Lu (Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Student Research, Woods Hole Postdoc Fellow)
• 2016-2018 M.S. Shannon Garvin (US Geological Survey)
• 2013-2018 Ph.D. Kristina Gutchess (All-University Doctoral Prize, Postdoc at Yale University)
• 2011-2016 Ph.D. Xiaoli Zhou (All-University Doctoral Prize, Postdoc at Rutgers University)
• 2011-2013 M.S. Sunshyne Hummel

Lab spaces include a general chemistry lab, a clean lab, and also instrument room.

A quadrupole ICP-MS, Bruker Aurora M90

Low Temperature Geochemistry Facilities

*student authors

Alexandre Pohl, †Zunli Lu, *Wanyi Lu, Richard G. Stockey, Maya Elrick, André Desrochers, Yanan Shen, *Ruliang He, Seth Finnegan, Andy Ridgwell, 2021, “On the mechanism of the latest Ordovician ocean anoxia during climate cooling”. Nature Geoscience, 14 (11), 868-873

†Lu, Z., *Lu, W., Rickaby, R.E.M., and Thomas, E., 2020, “Earth history of oxygen and the iProxy”, (Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hoogakker, B.A.A., †Lu, Z., Umling, N., Jones, L., *Zhou, X., Rickaby, R.E.M., Thunell, B., Cartapanis, O., Galbraith, E., 2018, “Glacial expansion of oxygen-depleted seawater in the eastern tropical Pacific”. Nature, 562, 410–413.

*Lu, W., Ridgwell, A., Thomas, E., Hardisty, D. S., Luo, G., Algeo, T. J., Saltzman, M. R., Gill, B. C., Shen, Y., Ling, H.-F., Edwards, C. T., Whalen, M. T., *Zhou, X., Gutchess, K. M., Jin, L., Rickaby, R. E. M., Jenkyns, H. C., Lyons, T. W., Lenton, T. M., Kump, L. R., and †Lu, Z., 2018, “Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean”. Science, v. 361, no. 6398, p. 174.

†Lu, Z., Hoogakker, B.A.A., Hillenbrand C.D., *Zhou, X., Thomas, E., *Gutchess, K., *Lu, W., Jones, L., Rickaby, R.E.M., 2016, “Oxygen depletion recorded in upper waters of the glacial Southern Ocean”. Nature Communications, 7:11146 doi: 10.1038/ncomms11146.

†Lu, Z., *Hummel, S.T., Lautz, L.K., Hoke, G.D., *Zhou, X., Leone, J., and Siegel, D.I., 2015, “Iodine as a sensitive tracer for detecting influence of organic-rich shale in shallow groundwater”. Applied Geochemistry, Vol. 60, pp. 29–36.

†Lu, Z., Rickaby, R.E.M., Kennedy H., Kennedy, P., Shaw S., Lennie, A., Pancost, R.D., Wellner, J., and Anderson, J.B., 2011, An ikaite record of late Holocene climate at the Antarctic Peninsula. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, vol.325-326, pp. 108-115, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.01.036

†Lu, Z., Jenkyns, H.C., and Rickaby, R.E.M., 2010, Iodine to calcium ratios in marine carbonate as a paleo-redox proxy during oceanic anoxic events. Geology, 38(12), 1107–1110.

†Lu, Z., Tomaru, H., and Fehn, U., 2008, Iodine ages of pore waters at Hydrate Ridge (ODP Leg 204), Cascadia Margin: implications for sources of methane in gas hydrates: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 267, p. 654-665.