Lee Kump 
EESI Associate
Lee Kump
Ph.D., South Florida University, 1986
Contact Information:
Department of Geosciences
535 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-1274
email: kump@geosc.psu.edu
Dept. website: http://www.geosc.psu.edu/
Current Research Interests:
Biogeochemical cycles, low temperature sedimentary geochemistry, atmosphere/ocean evolution,
Modeling Anoxia
Fate of Wastewater Nutrients in Florida Keys Groundwaters,
Interpreting Stable Isotope Excursions in Ancient Sedimentary Rocks
Controls on Chemical Erosion,
Biogeochemical cycles, low temperature sedimentary geochemistry, atmosphere/ocean evolution
Selected Publications:
Hotinski, R.M., Kump, L.R., and Arthur, M.A., 2004. A δ13C gradient from platform carbonates of the Pethei Group (Great Slave Lake Supergroup, N.W.T. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 116: 539-554.
Griggs, E.M., Kump, L.R., and Bohlke, J.K., 2003. The fate of wastewater-derived nitrate in the subsurface of the Florida Keys: Key Colony Beach, Florida. Est. Coastal Shelf Sci. 58: 517-539.
Kurtz, A.C., Kump, L.R., Arthur, M.A., Zachos, J.C., and Paytan, A., 2003. Early Cenozoic decoupling of the global carbon and sulfur cycles. Paleoceanography 18(4), 1090, doi:10.1029/2003PA000908.
Zachos, J.C. and Kump, L.R., in press. Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene. Global and Planetary Change xx(2005): xxx-xxx.
Kump, L.R., Pavlov, A., and Arthur, M.A., 2005 (in press). Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia. Geology.
Kump, L.R., 2004. The geochemistry of mass extinction. In: Turekian, K.K. and Holland, H.D. (eds.) Treatise on Geochemistry. Holland: Elsevier, Ch. 7.14, p. 351-368.
Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Crane, R.G., 2003. The Earth System, 2/e. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 419 pp.