Research Themes and Publications

Paleoceanography

I reconstruct ocean conditions in the warmest waters on the planet - the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) - using geochemical proxies from sediment and foraminifera. I have used the following proxies in the past to investigate paleo-temperature, salinity, nutrient conditions, and more:

  • sedimentary stable nitrogen and carbon isotopes

  • foraminifera stable carbon and oxygen isotopes

  • foraminifera Mg/Ca

  • sedimentary 230Th

If you would like to collaborate on IPWP work or apply these (or related/emerging) proxies to available cores please reach out!

Globigerinoides ruber - a foraminifera that calcifies very near the surface in warm waters and can be used for sea surface temperature (SST) reconstructions.

Source: Kennett and Srinvasan, 1983; microtax.org

Carbon Dioxide Removal

Within “CDR”, I currently systematically write about the relationship between this new career and scientific path and conduct intentional discussions about this with students and peers. Separately, I collaborate with nonprofits to build databases, frameworks, and literature reviews to advance gap analysis, environmental impact studies, standards development, and more. My expertise is in the following pathways:

  • Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW)

  • Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)

  • Marine Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage (BiCRS)

Please reach out if you have a potential project in mind or would like to know more about my work.

Olivine - a fast-weathering mineral found in silicate rocks employed for CDR techniques such as enhanced rock weathering on agricultural fields and in coastal settings

Source: Robert Lavinsky; Wikimedia Commons

Upcoming Publications

In circulation among co-authors (available to share as confidential PDF)

2.     Lambert, J.E., Abell, J.T., Linsley, B.K., Gibson, K.A., Bova, S.C., and Winckler, G. Independent precession signals in marine productivity proxies on and near the equator in the late Pleistocene Western Pacific Warm Pool. (submitting to Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology).

1.     Weiss, T.L., Linsley, B.K., and Lambert, J.E. Calcification depths of Sulu Sea thermocline dwelling foraminifera estimated from test 𝛿18O. (submitting to Marine Geology)

In Preparation

1.     Pavia, F.J. & Lambert, J.E., and Young, N.E., and Weiss, T.L. Enhanced weathering potential on green clay tennis courts – estimating baseline carbon dioxide removal from blue ridge metabasalt.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2024

7.     Lawson, V.J., Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S.C., Lambert, J.E., Linsley, B.K., Bu. K., Elmore, A. Meyers, S., Bu. K. (2024). Controls on Sr/Ca, S/Ca and Mg/Ca in benthic foraminifera: Implications for the carbonate chemistry of the Pacific Ocean over the last 350 ky. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1029/2024GC011508

6.     Sproson, A.D., Yokoyama, Y., Miyairi, Y, Aze, T., Clementi, V.J., Riechelson, H., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y., Childress, L.B., and Expedition 379T Scientists. (2024). Near-synchronous Northern Hemisphere and Patagonian Ice Sheet variation over the last glacial cycle. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01436-y

2023

5.     Lambert, J.E., Linsley, B.K., Abell, J.T., Bova, S.C., Winckler, G., Rosenthal, Y., Weiss, T. L., Huang, W. (2023). Obliquity-driven subtropical forcing of the thermocline after 240 ka in the southern sector of the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Paleoceanography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111578

2022

4.     Lambert, J.E., Gibson, K.A., Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y., and Surprenant, M. (2022). Equatorial Pacific bulk 𝛿15N supports a post-MPT secular increase in Southern Ocean nitrate utilization. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107348

3.     Chen, L., Clementi, V.J., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal. Y., Charles, C.D., Childress, L.B., Wright, J.D., Jian, Z., and Expedition 379T Scientists. (2022). The sediment green-blue color ratio as a proxy of biogenic silica productivity along the Chilean margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1029/2022GC010350

2.     Clementi, V.J., Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S.C., Thomas, E.K., Wright, J.D., Mortlock, R.A., Cowling, O.C., Godfrey, L.V., Childress, L.B., and Expedition 379T Scientists. (2022). Deep submarine infiltration of altered geothermal groundwater on the south Chilean Margin. Nature Communications: Earth and Environment. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6525350

Previous

1.     Lambert, J.E., Nagothu, U.S., Chatrchyan A.M. and DeGaetano, A.T. (2019). Climate-Based Agricultural Decision Tools: A Comparative Perspective on These Climate Services. In A. Sarkar et al. (Ed.), Sustainable Solutions for Food Security: Combating Climate Change by Adaptation (ch. 22). Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77878-5_22

Other Publications

2.     Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y., Childress, L.B., Aiello, I., Avila, A., Charles, C., Cheung, A., Clementi, V., DeLong, K., Dove, I., Du, X., Estes, E., Garcia-Lasanta, C., Golstein, S., Hagemann, J., Hatfield, R., Haynes, L., Hess, A., Irvali, N., Kiro, Y., Lambert, J.E., Li, C., Longo, W., McGrath, S., Monteagudo, M., Riechelson, H., Robinson, R., Sarao, J., Sproson, A., Taylor, S., Wright, J., Yokoyama, Y., and Yu, M. (2019). Expedition 379T Preliminary Report, Digging Deeper with the JR100: Extending high resolution paleoclimate records from the Chilean Margin to the Eemian. Zenodo: OpenAIRE. doi:10.5281/zenodo.5553428

1.     Lambert, J.E., Chatrchyan, A.M., and Acosta, S.M. (2017). Cornell’s Climate Smart Farming Program: Tools and Extension Support for Farmers in the Northeast USA. Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture:12 Climate Smart Agriculture Briefs. (available at fao.org/gacsa/en).

Selected Presentations

Oral (Invited)

4.     Lambert, J.E. (December 2024). Career Pathways in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. AGU P&P Early Career Working Group Town Hall. AGU Fall Meeting 2024. Washington, DC.

3.     Lambert, J.E. (November 2024). Vertical transects of the upper water column in the Pleistocene Western Pacific Warm Pool using multiple planktic foraminifera. LDEO Mini-Symposium on Life and Earth: Life and (Paleo)Climate Session. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY.

2.     Lambert, J.E.* and the Isometric Science Team (December 2023). Interdisciplinary collaboration to build scientific consensus on carbon removal protocols. Science-Based Gigaton-Scale Carbon Dioxide Removal: Strategies for Monitoring, Measurements, Reporting, and Verification. AGU Fall Meeting 2023. San Francisco, CA.

1.     Lambert, J.E.* (November 2013). Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Calcifiers. Departmental Graduate Seminar in Biological Sciences (BIOL 7901). Louisiana State University. Baton Rouge, LA.

Chaired Sessions

3.     Lambert, J.E., Gill, S., He, J., and Yin, J. (February 2024). Consensus Building Workshop for the Isometric Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Protocol. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting Unofficial Side Event. New Orleans, LA.

2.     Lambert, J.E., Holme, E., Sutherland, K., and Savage, R. (December 2023). Consensus Building Workshop for the Isometric Enhanced Weathering in Agriculture Protocol. AGU Fall Meeting Unofficial Side Event. San Francisco, CA.

1.     Leal, W. and Lambert, J.E. (August 2016). Climate Adaptation Management in Rural and Urban Areas. North American Symposium on Climate Change Adaptation. New York, NY. 

Oral       

8.     Gill, S.*, He, J., Yin, J., Sutherland, K., Lambert, J.E., and Hacker, N. (April 2024). Interdisciplinary collaboration to develop a robust and implementable monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) protocol for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE). EGU General Assembly 2024. Vienna, Austria.

7.     He, J.*, Gill, S., Sutherland, K., and Lambert, J.E. (February 2024). Bridging science and industry to co-develop robust and implementable protocols for monitoring, reporting, and verification for ocean alkalinity enhancement. Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024. New Orleans, LA.

6.     Lambert, J.E.*, Couture, J.L*., Ramsey, M.*, and Cifuentes-Jara*, M. (May 2023). Climate change: background, impacts, and its relationship to marine conservation and biodiversity. International Seascapes Symposium. Suva, Fiji.

5.     Couture, J.L.*, Pidgeon, E., Brito-Morales, I., Lambert, J.E., Bradley, D., Lopazanski, C., and Kelkar, M. (February 2023). Climate-ready MPA design and management for 30X30. International Marine Protected Area Congress 5. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

4.     Lambert, J.E.*, Gibson, K.A., Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C, Rosenthal, Y., and Surprenant, M. (December 2020). The 1.4-Myr evolution of low- and high-latitude South Pacific influence on the Western Pacific Warm Pool as recorded via an amplified sediment δ15N record. AGU Fall Meeting 2020.

3.     Lambert, J.E.*, Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C., and Rosenthal, Y. (June 2019). Initial Assessment of New Guinea Margin Sites U1486 and U1487 through MIS-11. IODP Expedition 363 Science Meeting. Qingdao, China.

2.     Chatrcyhan, A.M., Lambert, J.E.*, DeGaetano, A.T., and Wolfe, D.W. (December 2016). Cornell’s Climate Smart Farming Program: Integrating Research, Tools, and Extension Outreach to Support Agricultural Adaptation for Sustainability and Resilience in the Northeast. Conference on Weather & Climate Decision Tools for Farmers, Ranchers, and Land Managers. Gainesville, FL.

1.  Lambert, J.E.*, Busch, S., McLaskey, A., Kiester, J., and Winans, A. (August 2013). Effects of Ocean Acidification on Hatching Success and Development of a Marine Copepod and Euphuausiid. NOAA Office of Education Science and Education Symposium. Silver Spring, MD.

Poster

7.     Gibson, K., Spain, J., Garlick, W., Linsley, B.K., Lambert, J.E., Bova, S.C., and Tappa, E. (December 2024). Exploring the Drivers and Timing of Upper Water Column Changes during the Mid Pleistocene Transition in the Western Pacific Warm Pool. AGU Fall Meeting 2024. Washington, D.C.

6. He, J., Sutherland, K., Holme, E.*, Podgorney, C., Pullin, M., and Lambert, J.E. (December 2023). Uncertainty quantification across carbon removal pathways. AGU Fall Meeting 2023. San Francisco, CA.

5.     Lambert, J.E.*, Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y, Huang, W., and Chavez, J. (December 2021). Evaluating tropical and extratropical influences on the Western Pacific Warm Pool thermocline via δ18O and Mg/Ca of three planktic foraminifera (670 ka – recent). AGU Fall Meeting 2021. New Orleans, LA.

4.     Lawson, V.J.*, Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S.C., Lambert, J.E., Linsley, B.K., and Bu, K. (December 2021). Carbonate saturation and temperature effects on benthic foraminiferal B/Ca, Sr/Ca, S/Ca, and Mg/Ca inferred from intermediate and deep Pacific Ocean records spanning the last 350 ky. AGU Fall Meeting 2021. New Orleans, LA.

3.     Brenner, L.D.*, Linsley, B.K, McGillis, W., Weiss, T., Lambert, J.E., Traylor, S., and Calcio, M. (February 2020). Application of coral carbon isotopes to study river discharge and paleo-turbidity in the Gulf of Chiriquí, Panamá. Ocean Sciences Meeting. 2020 San Diego, CA.

2.     Lambert, J.E.*, Linsley, B.K., Bova, S.C., and Rosenthal, Y. (December 2019). Investigating the source of orbital-scale δ15N variability in Western Equatorial Pacific sediments through MIS-11. AGU Fall Meeting 2019. San Francisco, CA.

1.     Lambert, J.E.*, Liu, K.B., McLoskey, T.A., and Lam, N. (March 2014). Sedimentary Record of Extreme Events in the Lake Maurepas Basin, Southern Louisiana. State of the Coast Conference. New Orleans, LA.