Papers

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2026

Cornwall, C. E., Timmerman, O., Andersson, A., Berbece, D. M., Branson, O., Comeau, S., Courtney, T. A., Donner, S. D., Enochs, I., Harvey, B. P., Isaak, A. L., Koch, H. E., Logan, C. A., Perry, C. T., Schoepf, V., Toth, L. T., Webb, A. Persistence of coral reef structures into the twenty-first century. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. doi:10.1038/s43017-026-00764-4

2025

Whiteford, R., Branson, O., Mayk, D. Using Kgen to Generate Cross‐Verified Apparent Equilibrium Constants (K ^∗ ’s) for Palaeoseawater Carbonate Chemistry. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi:10.1029/2023gc011417

Cai-Li, R. Y., Ren, H., Fang, W. N., Yang, E. W., Chen, W. H., LeKieffre, C., Branson, O., Fehrenbacher, J., Vetter, L., Jeng, M. S., Spero, H. J. Symbiont regulation of nitrogen metabolism and excretion in tropical planktonic foraminifera. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2025.03.009

Branson, O., Nooijer, L. J. Calcium Carbonate Biomineralisation: Insights from Trace Elements. Elements. doi:10.2138/gselements.21.2.105

Fang, W. N., Branson, O., Yang, E. W., Chen, W. H., Cai-Li, R. Y., Spero, H. J., Fehrenbacher, J., Vetter, L., LeKieffre, C., Ren, H. Direct pathway of incorporating dietary nitrogen in shell-bound matrix of the planktic foraminifera Trilobatus sacculifer. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119231

Branson, O., Chauhan, N., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Rickaby, R. E. M. Geochemical tracers of biomineralization processes. Treatise on Geochemistry. doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-99762-1.00128-5

2024

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

Fehrenbacher, J. S., Hupp, B. N., Branson, O., Evans, D., Foster, G. L., Glock, N., Thirumalai, K., Wycech, J. Individual Foraminiferal Analyses: A Review Of Current And Emerging Geochemical Techniques. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. doi:10.61551/gsjfr.54.4.312

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

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 and 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. Chemical Geology. 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 and 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. 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. 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 and 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 and 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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