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Does anyone know where these guys got Fryxell and Bonney samples
from? This is a little awkward since I was going to collaborate with
a new assistant prof at LSU who also works on alkenones. We were
going to work on sediments. I neglected to respond to this email
because - busy and forgot. Just got an email from Paul Cutler saying
he's been contacted by Huang and asking about availability of my
sediments collected under NSF support (over 10 years ago)<br>
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<td>Collaboration on Lake Fryxell and Bonney</td>
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<td>Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:11:10 -0500</td>
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<td>Huang, Yongsong <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:yongsong_huang@brown.edu"><yongsong_huang@brown.edu></a></td>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear Peter:
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<div>My graduate student Nora Richter contacted you a while ago
about the collaborations on Lake Fryxell and Bonney. </div>
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<div>I would like to provide some background about my research
group and why we are so interested in Dry Valley lakes. </div>
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<div>My research group has been very active in studying cold
norther hemisphere lakes including those from Greenland, Arctic
Alaska and Tibetan Plateau. Here is the abstract for my NSF
Alaska grant: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503846&HistoricalAwards=false"
target="_blank" style="font-size: 12.8px;">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503846&HistoricalAwards=false</a><span
style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We have been actively
publishing alkenones in lakes for the past decade and I would
not be ashamed to say, currently, my group is the best in the
world in terms of our understanding of lacustrine alkenones
and their application for paleoclimate and paleoecological
applications. We also developed major technical expertise on
studying these compounds and have ability to unambiguously
identify alkenone double bond positions - there were major
problems with old methodologies and hence many papers publish
only tentative identification of double bond positions (such
as Caroline Jaraula paper in organic geochemistry on tentative
identification of penta unsaturated alkenones). I also work
with Linda Amaral at Marine Biological Lab closely (she is
expert on DNA sequencing, and has state of the art
facilities). My lab is a full scale organic geochemistry lab
with all gas and liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry
and isotope ratio mass spectrometry (I have four mass
spectrometers): few organic geochemistry labs in the U.S. have
the scale of analytical capability as in my lab. </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Here is our in press paper
on lake alkenones: </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716300576"
target="_blank" style="font-size: 12.8px;">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716300576</a>.
We will publish a cluster of papers this year since we have made
major multiple breakthrough discoveries in the area. </div>
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<div>If you are interested, you can find my full paper list in my
google citation page: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xel8cGsAAAAJ&hl=en"
target="_blank" style="font-size: 12.8px;">https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xel8cGsAAAAJ&hl=en</a></div>
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<div>Sorry these may look like I am bragging. However, it has been
really difficult to convince experts like you on Antarctic lakes
that we can really contribute to the science in ways no other
research group can. </div>
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<div>We have already carried out initial work on Lake Fryxell and
Lake Bonney sediment and water column samples, and found
fascinating new things - we can publish a paper, even just based
on our data now. <br>
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<div>I will be really keen to talk to you on the phone. I really
would like to work on sediment cores from Fryxell and Bonney,
and can assure you we will make major new discoveries in
collaboration with you. </div>
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<div>Thanks a lot,</div>
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<div>Yongsong</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Dr. Yongsong Huang<br>
Professor<br>
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences<br>
Brown University<br>
Providence , Rhode Island 02912<br>
U.S.A.<br>
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Tel: 401-863-3822<br>
Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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