Papers

Supervised students/postdocs in orange.

2024

Branson, O., Chauhan, N., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Rickaby, R. E. M. Geochemical tracers of biomineralisation processes. Treatise in Geochemistry, 3rd Edition. doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00128-5

Branson, O., Uchikawa, J., Bohlin, M. S., Misra, S. Controls on Li partitioning and isotopic fractionation in inorganic calcite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2024.07.001

Leplastrier, A., Rintoul, M., Opdyke, B., Nand, V., Branson, O., Eggins, S. M., Ellwood, M. J. Sulphate reduction and carbonate precipitation in a high-energy algal rim framework. Coral Reefs. doi:10.1007/s00338-024-02509-5

Whiteford, R., Branson, O., Mayk, D. Using Kgen to Generate Cross-Verified Apparent Equilibrium Constants (K∗) for Seawater Carbonate Chemistry. PREPRINT. doi:10.22541/essoar.170421455.50048580/v1

2023

Cornwall, C. E., Carlot, J., Branson, O., Courtney, T. A., Harvey, B. P., Perry, C. T., Andersson, A. J., Diaz-Pulido, G., Johnson, M. D., Kennedy, E., Krieger, E. C., Mallela, J., McCoy, S. J., Nugues, M. M., Quinter, E., Ross, C. L., Ryan, E., Saderne, V., Comeau, S. Crustose coralline algae can contribute more than corals to coral reef carbonate production. Communications Earth & Environment. doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00766-w

2022

Andrew, S. M., Strzepek, R. F., Branson, O., Ellwood, M. J. Ocean acidification reduces the growth of two Southern Ocean phytoplankton. Marine Ecology Progress Series. doi:10.3354/meps13923

2021

Gagnon, A. C., Gothmann, A. M., Branson, O., Rae, J. W. B., Stewart, J. A. Controls on boron isotopes in a cold-water coral and the cost of resilience to ocean acidification. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116662

2020

Holland, K., Branson, O., Haynes, L. L., Hönisch, B., Allen, K. A., Russell, A. D., Fehrenbacher, J. S., Spero, H. J., Eggins, S. M. Constraining multiple controls on planktic foraminifera Mg/Ca. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2020.01.015

2019

Branson, O., Fehrenbacher, J. S., Vetter, L., Sadekov, A. Y., Eggins, S. M., Spero, H. J. LAtools: A data analysis package for the reproducible reduction of LA-ICPMS data. Astrophysics Data System (ADS). doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.10.029

Farmer, J. R., Branson, O., Uchikawa, J., Penman, D. E., Hönisch, B., Zeebe, R. E. Boric acid and borate incorporation in inorganic calcite inferred from B/Ca, boron isotopes and surface kinetic modeling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.10.008

2018

Branson, O., Redfern, S. A. T., Elmore, A. C., Read, E., Valencia, S., Elderfield, H. The distribution and coordination of trace elements in Krithe ostracods and their implications for paleothermometry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2017.12.005

Branson, O. Boron Incorporation into Marine CaCO₃. In: Marschall H., Foster G. (eds) Boron Isotopes. Advances in Isotope Geochemistry.. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-64666-4

2017

Jacob, D. E., Wirth, R., Agbaje, O. B. A., Branson, O., Eggins, S. M. Planktic foraminifera form their shells via metastable carbonate phases. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00955-0

Redfern, S. A. T., Branson, O., Read, E. Synchrotron X-ray microscopy of marine calcifiers: how plankton record past climate change. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/849/1/012011

Holland, K., Eggins, S. M., Hönisch, B., Haynes, L. L., Branson, O. Calcification rate and shell chemistry response of the planktic foraminifer Orbulina universa to changes in microenvironment seawater carbonate chemistry. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.02.018

2016

Branson, O., Bonnin, E. A., Perea, D. E., Spero, H. J., Zhu, Z., Winters, M., Hönisch, B., Russell, A. D., Fehrenbacher, J. S., Gagnon, A. C. Nanometer-Scale Chemistry of a Calcite Biomineralization Template: Implications for Skeletal Composition and Nucleation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1522864113

2015

Branson, O., Read, E., Redfern, S. A. T., Rau, C., Elderfield, H. Revisiting diagenesis on the Ontong Java Plateau: Evidence for authigenic crust precipitation in Globorotalia tumida. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. doi:10.1002/2014pa002759

Branson, O., Kaczmarek, K., Redfern, S. A. T., Misra, S., Langer, G., Tyliszczak, T., Bijma, J., Elderfield, H. The coordination and distribution of B in foraminiferal calcite. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.02.006

2014

Branson, O. The Biomineralogy of Marine Calcifying Organisms and Palaeoproxies. Thesis. doi:https://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/3056/

2013

Branson, O., Redfern, S. A. T., Tyliszczak, T., Sadekov, A., Langer, G., Kimoto, K., Elderfield, H. The coordination of Mg in foraminiferal calcite. Earth & Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.09.037

Rouco, M., Branson, O., Lebrato, M., Iglesias-Rodríguez, M. D. The effect of nitrate and phosphate availability on Emiliania huxleyi (NZEH) physiology under different CO2 scenarios. Frontiers in Microbiology. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2013.00155

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