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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
: lrk4@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:
Panchuk, K.M., Ridgwell, A., and Kump, L.R., 2008. Sedimentary response to Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum carbon release: A model-data comparison. Geology 36: 315-318.

Hilting, A. K., Kump, L.R., and Bralower, T. J.,
2008. Variations in the oceanic vertical carbon isotope gradient and their implications for the Paleocene-Eocene biological pump. Paleoceanography 23(3) PA3222, doi:10.1029/2007PA001458.

Meyer, K. J. and Kump, L. R., 2008. Oceanic euxinia in Earth history: Causes and Consequences. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 36:251–88.

Meyer, K.J., Kump, L.R., and Ridgwell, A., 2008. The biogeochemical controls on photic-zone euxinia during the end-Permian mass extinction. Geology 36: 747-750.

Kump, L.R., 2008. The rise of atmospheric oxygen. Nature 451: 277-278.

Kump, L.R. and Pollard, D., 2008. Brevia: Amplification of Cretaceous warmth by biological cloud feedbacks. Science, 320: 195.

Kump, L. R., 2008. The role of seafloor hydrothermal systems in the evolution of seawater composition during the Phanerozoic. In: Lowell, R.P., Seewald, J.S., Metaxas, A., and Perfit, M.R. (eds.), Magma to Microbe: Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Ocean Spreading Centers. Geophysical Monograph Series 178, Amer. Geoph. Union, pp. 275-284.

Mann, M. and Kump, L., 2008. Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming. DK Publishing, New York, 208 pp.

Kump, L.R.,
2008. Tipping pointedly colder. Science (Perspectives) 323: 1175-1176.

Kump, L.R., 2008. Geobiology: Quo vaids?. Geobiology 6: 423-424.

Ohmoto, Hiroshi; Runnegar; Bruce; Kump, Lee R.; Fogel, Marilyn L.; Kamber, Balz; Anbar, Ariel D.; Knauth, Paul L.; Lowe, Donald R.; Sumner, Dawn Y.; Watanabe, Yumiko, 2008. Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks: A Summary of Discussions at a Field Workshop on Biosignatures in Ancient Rocks. Astrobiology 8: 883-907.

Young, S. A., Saltzman, M. R., Foland, K. A., Linder, J. S., and Kump, L. R., in press 2008. A volcanic-weathering hypothesis for the Late Ordovician ice age. Geology.

Bachmann, M. and Kump, L.R., in revision. Numerical modeling of reversing groundwater flow systems in tidally pumped coastal aquifers. Journal of Hydrology. Submitted, 2008.

Slingerland, R.L. and Kump, L.R., submitted. Mathematical Modeling for Geoscientists. Princeton University Press, in revision. 2008.

Meyer, K.M., Kump, L.R., Macalady, J., Schaperdoth, I., and Freeman, K., in review. Benthic production of a putative planktonic biomarker. Geobiology.

Kump, L.R., Kasting, J.F., and Crane, R.G, in production. The Earth System 3e. Pearson Publishing, New Jersey. 2008.

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., 2005. Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene. Global and Planetary Change 47: 51-66..

Kump, L.R., Pavlov, A., and Arthur, M.A., 2005. Massive release of hydrogen sulfide to the surface ocean and atmosphere during intervals of oceanic anoxia. Geology 33: 397-400.

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.