Nicolas Beukes
University of Johannesburg
Current Projects
- Developing Methods for Life Detection on Mars and in Mars Analog Environments — 2016 NAI
- Project 3A: Banded Iron Formation Deposition Across the Archean-Proterozoic Boundary — 2013 NAI
- Life and Environments: Proterozoic Geology, Geochemistry and Paleontology — 2013 NAI
- Project 3C: Integration of Multiple Isotope Proxies to Study the Pre-GOE Oxygenation of the Earth — 2011 NAI
- Project 3A: Quantifying the Amount of Free Oxygen in the Neoarchean Photic Zone Through Combined Fe and Mo Isotopes — 2010 NAI
- Project 3B: Do Iron-Rich Carbonates From Banded Iron Formations Record Ancient Seawater? — 2010 NAI
- Co-Evolution of Microbial Metabolisms in the Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic — 2009 NAI
- Fe Isotope Biosignatures — 2002 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate, and Biosphere - Hiroshi Ohmoto — 2002 NAI
- Evolution of Atmospheric O2, Climate and the Terrestrial Biosphere: Approaches From Field-Oriented Geochemical Investigations. Causes and Consequences of the Diversification and Extinction of Metazoans: Field, Geochemical and Paleontological Investigations. - Ohmoto 1 — 2000 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
- Project collaborators as reported by the latest NAI Annual Report.
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Catherine Woodward
Institute for Biology Education - Mazomanie Outreach Outpost
Collaborated on 1 Project
Publications
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Guy, B. M., Ono, S., Gutzmer, J., Kaufman, A. J., Lin, Y., Fogel, M. L., & Beukes, N. J. (2012). A multiple sulfur and organic carbon isotope record from non-conglomeratic sedimentary rocks of the Mesoarchean Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 216-219, 208–231. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2012.06.018
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Heimann, A., Johnson, C. M., Beard, B. L., Valley, J. W., Roden, E. E., Spicuzza, M. J., & Beukes, N. J. (2010). Fe, C, and O isotope compositions of banded iron formation carbonates demonstrate a major role for dissimilatory iron reduction in ~2.5Ga marine environments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 294(1-2), 8–18. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.015
See Project See Project See Project See Project - Ludois, J.M., Johnson, C.M., Beard, B.L., Roden, E.E., Beukes, N.J. & Heimann, A. (2010, Submitted). Strontium isotopes in Banded Iron Formation carbonates demonstrate disequilibrium with ancient seawater. See Project
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Email:
njb@na.rau.ac.za