NAI
Timothy Lyons
University of California, Riverside
Current Projects
- Composition of the Oceans and Atmosphere: Proxy Development — 2016 NAI
- Eva Stüeken NPP Postdoc Report — 2015 NAI
- ALTERNATIVE EARTH 4 - the Rise of Complexity Amid Environmental Turmoil — 2015 NAI
- ALTERNATIVE EARTH 1 - Atmospheric Traces of Oxygenic Photosynthesis — 2015 NAI
- ALTERNATIVE EARTH 3 - Oxygen Stasis and the Rise of Eukaryotes — 2015 NAI
- ALTERNATIVE EARTH 2 - Dramatic Oxygen Fluctuations — 2015 NAI
- Task: 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2014 NAI
- Stoichiometry of Life, Task 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2013 NAI
- Stoichiometry of Life, Task 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2012 NAI
- Stoichiometry of Life, Task 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2011 NAI
- Stoichiometry of Life, Task 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2010 NAI
- Stoichiometry of Life, Task 3a: Ancient Records - Geologic — 2009 NAI
- Fractionation of Transition Metal Isotopes — 2003 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution Subproject: The Proterozoic Oxidiation of the Earth's Surface — 2003 NAI
- Causes and Consequences of the Diversification and Tetinction of Metazoans: Neoproterozoic Variations - Arthur — 2003 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Beratan, D. N., & Onuchic, J. N. (2012). Redox redux. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 14(40), 13728. doi:10.1039/c2cp90148j
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Boyer, D. L., Owens, J. D., Lyons, T. W., & Droser, M. L. (2011). Joining forces: Combined biological and geochemical proxies reveal a complex but refined high-resolution palaeo-oxygen history in Devonian epeiric seas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 306(3-4), 134–146. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.04.012
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Busigny, V., Planavsky, N. J., Goldbaum, E., Lechte, M. A., Feng, L., & Lyons, T. W. (2018). Origin of the Neoproterozoic Fulu iron formation, South China: Insights from iron isotopes and rare earth element patterns. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 242, 123–142. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.006
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Duan, Y., Anbar, A. D., Arnold, G. L., Lyons, T. W., Gordon, G. W., & Kendall, B. (2010). Molybdenum isotope evidence for mild environmental oxygenation before the Great Oxidation Event. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(23), 6655–6668. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.035
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Duan, Y., Severmann, S., Anbar, A. D., Lyons, T. W., Gordon, G. W., & Sageman, B. B. (2010). Isotopic evidence for Fe cycling and repartitioning in ancient oxygen-deficient settings: Examples from black shales of the mid-to-late Devonian Appalachian basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 290(3-4), 244–253. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.052
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Gill, B. C., Lyons, T. W., Young, S. A., Kump, L. R., Knoll, A. H., & Saltzman, M. R. (2011). Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean. Nature, 469(7328), 80–83. doi:10.1038/nature09700
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Kendall, B., Reinhard, C. T., Lyons, T. W., Kaufman, A. J., Poulton, S. W., & Anbar, A. D. (2010). Pervasive oxygenation along late Archaean ocean margins. Nature Geosci, 3(9), 647–652. doi:10.1038/ngeo942
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Klepac-Ceraj, V., Hayes, C. A., Gilhooly, W. P., Lyons, T. W., Kolter, R., & Pearson, A. (2012). Microbial diversity under extreme euxinia: Mahoney Lake, Canada. Geobiology, 10(3), 223–235. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00317.x
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Li, C., Love, G. D., Lyons, T. W., Fike, D. A., Sessions, A. L., & Chu, X. (2010). A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean. Science, 328(5974), 80–83. doi:10.1126/science.1182369
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Li, C., Love, G. D., Lyons, T. W., Scott, C. T., Feng, L., Huang, J., … Chu, X. (2012). Evidence for a redox stratified Cryogenian marine basin, Datangpo Formation, South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 246–256. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.018
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Li, X., Gilhooly, W. P., Zerkle, A. L., Lyons, T. W., Farquhar, J., Werne, J. P., … Scranton, M. I. (2010). Stable sulfur isotopes in the water column of the Cariaco Basin. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(23), 6764–6778. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.020
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Loyd, S. J., Marenco, P. J., Hagadorn, J. W., Lyons, T. W., Kaufman, A. J., Sour-Tovar, F., & Corsetti, F. A. (2012). Sustained low marine sulfate concentrations from the Neoproterozoic to the Cambrian: Insights from carbonates of northwestern Mexico and eastern California. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 339-340, 79–94. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.032
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Lyons, T. W. (2012). A perfect (geochemical) storm yielded exceptional fossils in the early ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(14), 5138–5139. doi:10.1073/pnas.1202201109
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Lyons, T. W., & Gill, B. C. (2009). The worm turned, and the ocean followed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(20), 8081–8082. doi:10.1073/pnas.0903380106
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Lyons, T. W., & Gill, B. C. (2010). Ancient Sulfur Cycling and Oxygenation of the Early Biosphere. Elements, 6(2), 93–99. doi:10.2113/gselements.6.2.93
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Lyons, T. W., & Reinhard, C. T. (2009). An early productive ocean unfit for aerobics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(43), 18045–18046. doi:10.1073/pnas.0910345106
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Lyons, T. W., & Reinhard, C. T. (2009). Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans. Nature, 461(7261), 179–181. doi:10.1038/461179a
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Lyons, T. W., & Reinhard, C. T. (2011). Earth science: Sea change for the rise of oxygen. Nature, 478(7368), 194–195. doi:10.1038/478194a
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Lyons, T. W., Anbar, A. D., Severmann, S., Scott, C., & Gill, B. C. (2009). Tracking Euxinia in the Ancient Ocean: A Multiproxy Perspective and Proterozoic Case Study. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 37(1), 507–534. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.36.031207.124233
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Lyons, T. W., Droser, M. L., Lau, K. V., & Porter, S. M. (2018). Early Earth and the rise of complex life. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2(2), 121–124. doi:10.1042/etls20180093
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Lyons, T. W., Reinhard, C. T., Love, G. D., & Xiao, S. (2012). Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon. Fundamentals of Geobiology, None, 371–402. doi:10.1002/9781118280874.ch20
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Mitchell, K., Mason, P. R. D., Van Cappellen, P., Johnson, T. M., Gill, B. C., Owens, J. D., … Lyons, T. W. (2012). Selenium as paleo-oceanographic proxy: A first assessment. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 89, 302–317. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.03.038
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Olson, S. L., Ostrander, C. M., Gregory, D. D., Roy, M., Anbar, A. D., & Lyons, T. W. (2019). Volcanically modulated pyrite burial and ocean–atmosphere oxidation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506, 417–427. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2018.11.015
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Owens, J. D., Lyons, T. W., Li, X., MacLeod, K. G., Gordon, G., Kuypers, M. M. M., … Severmann, S. (2012). Iron isotope and trace metal records of iron cycling in the proto-North Atlantic during the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE-2). Paleoceanography, 27(3), n/a–n/a. doi:10.1029/2012pa002328
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Planavsky, N. J., McGoldrick, P., Scott, C. T., Li, C., Reinhard, C. T., Kelly, A. E., … Lyons, T. W. (2011). Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean. Nature, 477(7365), 448–451. doi:10.1038/nature10327
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Planavsky, N., Bekker, A., Rouxel, O. J., Kamber, B., Hofmann, A., Knudsen, A., & Lyons, T. W. (2010). Rare Earth Element and yttrium compositions of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe formations revisited: New perspectives on the significance and mechanisms of deposition. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(22), 6387–6405. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.07.021
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Planavsky, N., Rouxel, O. J., Bekker, A., Hofmann, A., Little, C. T. S., & Lyons, T. W. (2012). Iron isotope composition of some Archean and Proterozoic iron formations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 80, 158–169. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.12.001
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Raiswell, R., Reinhard, C. T., Derkowski, A., Owens, J., Bottrell, S. H., Anbar, A. D., & Lyons, T. W. (2011). Formation of syngenetic and early diagenetic iron minerals in the late Archean Mt. McRae Shale, Hamersley Basin, Australia: New insights on the patterns, controls and paleoenvironmental implications of authigenic mineral formation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(4), 1072–1087. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.11.013
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Saltzman, M. R., Young, S. A., Kump, L. R., Gill, B. C., Lyons, T. W., & Runnegar, B. (2011). Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(10), 3876–3881. doi:10.1073/pnas.1011836108
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Scott, C. T., Bekker, A., Reinhard, C. T., Schnetger, B., Krapez, B., Rumble, D., & Lyons, T. W. (2011). Late Archean euxinic conditions before the rise of atmospheric oxygen. Geology, 39(2), 119–122. doi:10.1130/g31571.1
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Schwieterman, E.W., Lyons, T.W., Reinhard, C.T. (2018) Signs of life on a global scale: Earth as a laboratory for exoplanet biosignatures. The Biochemist, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 22–27
- Anbar, A.D., Boyd, E.S., Buick, R., Claire, M., Des Marais, D., Domagal-Goldman, S., Eigenbrode, J., Erwin, D., Freeman, K., Hazen, R., Johnson, C., Lyons, T., Meadows, V., Ohmoto, H., Ono, S., Peters, J.W., Shapiro, B., Summons, R. & Walter, M. (2010). An Archean biosphere initiative [abstract 5593]. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010. See Project
- Duan, Y., Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Gordon, G.W., Severmann, S. & Lyons, T.W. (2009). Iron isotope variations in the ~2.5 Ga Mt. McRae Shale. See Project
- Gill, B., Lyons, T., Young, S., Kump, L., Knoll, A. & Saltzman, M.R. (2010, In Press). Did deep ocean anoxia stifle early 1 animal evolution during the later Cambrian? Nature. See Project
- Kelly, A.E., Love, G.D., Lyons, T.W., Anbar, A.D., Summons, R.E. & Bowden, S.A. (2010). A cautionary tale from the 1.64 Ga Barney Creek formation. In preparation. See Project
- Kendall, B., Kaufman, A.J., Reinhard, C., Lyons, T.W. & Anbar, A.D. (2009). Stratified ocean redox chemistry prior to the Great Oxidation Event. See Project
- Kendall, B., Reinhard, C.T., Lyons, T.W., Kaufman, A.J. & Anbar, A.D. (2009). Late Archean surface ocean oxygenation. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA. See Project
- Kendall, B., Reinhard, C.T., Lyons, T.W., Kaufman, A.J. & Anbar, A.D. (2009). Surface ocean oxygenation preceded the Great Oxidation Event. Geological Society of America. Portland, OR. See Project
- Lyons, T.W., Reinhard, C.T., Love, G.D. & Xiao, S. (2010). Proterozoic Geobiology. In: Canfield, D.E., Knoll, A.H. & Konhauser, K. (Eds.). Fundamentals of Geobiology. Wiley-Blackwell. See Project
- Lyons, T.W., Reinhard, C.T., Love, G.D., Xiao, S., Canfield, D.E., Knoll, A.H. & Konhauser, K. (in press). Geobiology of the Proterozoic Eon. Wiley-Blackwell. See Project
- Reinhard, C.T., Raiswell, R., Scott, C., Anbar, A.D. & Lyons, T.W. (2009). Oxidative weathering and euxinia in the Late Archean. American Geophysical Union. San Francisco, CA. See Project
- Scott, C., Bekker, A., Reinhard, C., Schnetger, B. & Lyons, T.W. (2009). Biogeochemical evidence for a late Archean nitrogen crisis. Science. See Project
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