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

Wed Mar 9 16:39:31 MST 2016

I already replied to Peter, but just for the record, it wasn't me

On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, Michael Gooseff <michael.gooseff at colorado.edu>
wrote:

> I believe you JP, but isn’t this the same person who contacted you in the
> fall about collecting samples this past or next season?
> I foggily recall this name and their affiliation to Brown, in an email
> from you…  does that spur your recollection?
>
> Cheers
> -Mike
>
>
> From: mcm-pi <mcm-pi-bounces at lists.lternet.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mcm-pi-bounces at lists.lternet.edu');>> on
> behalf of "Priscu, John" <jpriscu at montana.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jpriscu at montana.edu');>>
> Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 3:30 PM
> To: Peter Doran <pdoran at lsu.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','pdoran at lsu.edu');>>, "mcm-pi at lternet.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mcm-pi at lternet.edu');>" <mcm-pi at lternet.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mcm-pi at lternet.edu');>>
> Subject: Re: [LTER-mcm-pi] Fwd: Collaboration on Lake Fryxell and Bonney
>
> Not me
>
>
>
> *From:* mcm-pi [mailto:mcm-pi-bounces at lists.lternet.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mcm-pi-bounces at lists.lternet.edu');>] *On
> Behalf Of *Peter Doran
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 09, 2016 2:26 PM
> *To:* mcm-pi at lternet.edu
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mcm-pi at lternet.edu');>
> *Subject:* [LTER-mcm-pi] Fwd: Collaboration on Lake Fryxell and Bonney
>
>
>
> 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)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
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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>
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','yongsong_huang at brown.edu');>
>
> *To: *
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> pdoran at lsu.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
> .
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
>
> 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
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>
> --
>
> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Yongsong_Huang at brown.edu');>
> http://brown.edu/Departments/Geology/people/facultypage.php?id=1106969965
>

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