Rebecca Pickering
Postdoctoral fellow
Interests: Global and Local Silicon Cycling, Stable and Radioactive Si Isotopes, Natural Abundance and Isotopic Fractionation of Si, Production and Dissolution of Biogenic Silica, Reverse Weathering Processes, Silica Authigenesis, Pore Water Systems and Sediment Sorption Capacities.
Under the direct supervision of Dr. Daniel Conley, I am a member of the DEVOCEAN project. The major goal of the overall project is to investigate the interactions between biosilicification processes and the environment and how these interactions have evolved through Earth’s history.
The research will examine the current distribution of biogenic silica in fossil material from deep time together with supporting geochemical and geological proxies. Changes in global silica cycling over long timescales may provide information about the variations in climate over geologic time.Publications
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The Silicon Cycle in the Ocean
Lucie Cassarino, Rebecca Pickering, Zhouling Zhang, Bianca Liguori
(2024) Frontiers for Young Minds, 11
Journal articleDid Algae Eat All the Silica in the World’s Oceans?
Rebecca Pickering, Kristin Doering
(2024) Frontiers for Young Minds
Journal articleAn investigation into the characteristics of reactive silicon pools of coastal marine sediments
Rebecca Pickering, Xiangli Wang, Katharine Hendry, Kanchan Maiti, Jeffrey W Krause
(2023) Continental Shelf Research
Journal articleSeparating Si phases from diagenetically-modified sediments through sequential leaching.
Tzu-Hao Huang, Xiaole Sun, Peeter Somelar, Kalle Kirsimae, Rebecca Pickering, et al.
(2023) Chemical Geology
Journal articleDrivers of diatom production and the legacy of eutrophication in two river plume regions of the northern Gulf of Mexico
Jeffrey W. Krause, Adam D. Boyette, Isreal A. Marquez, Rebecca Pickering, Kanchan Maiti
(2023) Frontiers in Marine Science, 10
Journal articleUncertainties surrounding the oldest fossil record of diatoms
Karolina Brylka, A Alverson, Rebecca Pickering, Sylvain Richoz, Daniel Conley
(2023) Scientific Reports, 13
Journal articleStable silicon isotopes uncover a mineralogical control on the benthic silicon cycle in the Arctic Barents Sea
James P.J. Ward, Katharine R. Hendry, Sandra Arndt, Johan C. Faust, Felipe S. Freitas, et al.
(2022) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 329 p.206-230
Journal articleUsing Stable Isotopes to Disentangle Marine Sedimentary Signals in Reactive Silicon Pools
Rebecca A. Pickering, Lucie Cassarino, Katharine R. Hendry, Xiangli L. Wang, Kanchan Maiti, et al.
(2020) Geophysical Research Letters, 47
Journal articleEffect of cleaning methods on the dissolution of diatom frustules
Emily Saad, Rebecca Pickering, K Shoji, M.I. Hossain, T.G. Glover, et al.
(2020) Marine Chemistry, 224
Journal articleThe biogeochemical impact of glacial meltwater from Southwest Greenland
Katharine R. Hendry, Rebecca Pickering, Veerle A.I. Huvenneb, Laura F. Robinson, Amber Annett, et al.
(2019) Progress in Oceanography, 176
Journal articleSediment efflux of silicon on the Greenland margin and implications for the marine silicon cycle
Hong Chin Ng, Rebecca Pickering, Lucie Cassarino, E. Malcome S. Woodward, Samantha J. Hammond, et al.
(2019) Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters
Journal articleReactive silica fractions in coastal lagoon sediments from the northern Gulf of Mexico
Jeffrey W. Krause, S.E. Darrow, Rebecca Pickering, R.H. Carmichael, A.M. Larson, et al.
(2017) Continental Shelf Research
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