[LTER-mcm-pi] Fwd: Collaboration on Lake Fryxell and Bonney

[Peter Doran]

  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)

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Subject: 	Collaboration on Lake Fryxell and Bonney
Date: 	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 11:11:10 -0500
From: 	Huang, Yongsong <yongsong_huang at brown.edu>
To: 	pdoran at lsu.edu



Dear Peter:

My graduate student Nora Richter contacted you a while ago about the 
collaborations on Lake Fryxell and Bonney.

I would like to provide some background about my research group and why 
we are so interested in Dry Valley lakes.

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: 
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503846&HistoricalAwards=false 
<https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503846&HistoricalAwards=false>.

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.

Here is our in press paper on lake alkenones: 
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703716300576. We 
will publish a cluster of papers this year since we have made major 
multiple breakthrough discoveries in the area.

If you are interested, you can find my full paper list in my google 
citation page: 
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xel8cGsAAAAJ&hl=en 
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xel8cGsAAAAJ&hl=en>

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.

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.

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.

Thanks a lot,


Yongsong



-- 
Dr. Yongsong Huang
Professor
Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Brown University
Providence , Rhode Island 02912
U.S.A.

Tel: 401-863-3822
Email: Yongsong_Huang at brown.edu <mailto:Yongsong_Huang at brown.edu>
http://brown.edu/Departments/Geology/people/facultypage.php?id=1106969965
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