Member Since 1993
Jess F. Adkins
Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry, California Institute of Technology
Professional Experience
California Institute of Technology
Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry
2000 - Present
Education
California Institute of Technology
Doctorate
Honors & Awards
Cesare Emiliani Lecture
Received December 2024
Union Fellow
Received December 2018
Citation
For pioneering new approaches and theories for the physical and chemical roles of the deep ocean in climate change.
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Publications
Trace Element Geochemistry in North Pacific Red Clay Sediment Porewaters and Implications for Water‐...

Geochemical analyses of trace elements in the ocean water column have suggested that pelagic clay‐rich sediments are a major source of variou...

November 14, 2023
AGU Abstracts
Pore Water Profiles and Si Budgets for a Transect up the Cocos Ridge: Differences in Ex Situ and In Situ Extracted Pore Waters
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
ocean biology and biogeochemistry | 23 february 2024
Matthew Quinan, William Berelson, Jaclyn E. Pittma...
To better understand Si dynamics in the eastern equatorial Pacific, sediment pore water and diagenetic processes were explored along a transect ascend...
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Experimental and model results for ship-based accelerated weathering of limestone
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
carbon management | 23 february 2024
Sijia Dong, William Berelson, Melissa Gutierrez, D...
Carbonate dissolution in the ocean enhances seawater alkalinity and promotes oceanic CO2 uptake from the atmosphere at the air-sea interface. The inhe...
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The Accelerated Weathering of Limestone on Ships
OCEAN SCIENCES 2024
carbon management | 21 february 2024
Jess F. Adkins, Pierre Forin, Melissa Gutierrez, S...
AWL combines the acid in CO2 with the base in CaCO3 to make bicarbonate and calcium ions in solution. In the ocean this carbonate compensation has an ...
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Volunteer Experience
2006 - 2014
Associate Editor
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
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