NAI
Ann Pearson
Harvard University
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Earth's Evolving Nitrogen Cycle - Implications for Community Complexity and Stability — 2015 NAI
- Paleontological, Sedimentological, and Geochemical Investigations of the Mesoproterozoic-Neoproterozoic Transition — 2014 NAI
- Life and Environments: Proterozoic Geology, Geochemistry and Paleontology — 2013 NAI
- Molecular Biosignatures: Hopanoid Sources in Modern Systems — 2013 NAI
- Geochemical Signals for Low Oxygen Worlds — 2012 NAI
- Proxies for Ocean Anoxia — 2011 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Molecular and Isotopic Investigations Across the Neoproterozoic — 2011 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2010 NAI
- Environmental Oxygen and the Rise (And Fall) of Metazoans — 2010 NAI
- Environmental Oxygen and the Rise of Metazoans — 2009 NAI
- Geochemical Signatures of Multicellular Life — 2009 NAI
- Pearson Project — 2008 NAI
- Pearson Project — 2008 NAI
- Isotopic and Molecular Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry (The Evolution of Organic Matter) — 2003 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Molecular and Isotopic Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry — 2002 NAI
- The Planetary Context of Biological Evolution: Molecular and Isotopic Approaches to Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry — 2001 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Boyd, E. S., Pearson, A., Pi, Y., Li, W-J., Zhang, Y. G., He, L., … Geesey, G. G. (2010). Temperature and pH controls on glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Acidilobus sulfurireducens. Extremophiles, 15(1), 59–65. doi:10.1007/s00792-010-0339-y
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Close, H. G., Bovee, R., & Pearson, A. (2011). Inverse carbon isotope patterns of lipids and kerogen record heterogeneous primary biomass. Geobiology, 9(3), 250–265. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2011.00273.x
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Johnston, D. T., Wolfe-Simon, F., Pearson, A., & Knoll, A. H. (2009). Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth’s middle age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(40), 16925–16929. doi:10.1073/pnas.0909248106
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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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Pearson, A., Leavitt, W. D., Sáenz, J. P., Summons, R. E., Tam, M-M., & Close, H. G. (2009). Diversity of hopanoids and squalene-hopene cyclases across a tropical land-sea gradient. Environmental Microbiology, 11(5), 1208–1223. doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2008.01817.x
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Tsao, L. E., Robinson, R. S., Higgins, M. B., & Pearson, A. (2012). Nitrogen isotope ratio of cyanobacterial chlorophyll: Chemostat vs. batch culture. Organic Geochemistry, 49, 96–99. doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.06.001
See Project - Boyd, E.S., Pearson, A., Pi, Y., Li, W-J., Zhang, Y.G., He, L., Zhang, C.L. & Geesey, G.G. (2011). Physicochemical influences on glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the crenarchaeote Acidilobus sulfurireducens. Extremophiles, 15(1): 59–65. See Project
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