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Research Interests

Organic Geochemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry, and Paleoclimate. Specifically, the long-term evolution of C4 photosynthesis and its relationship to pCO2 and the environmental controls on the hydrogen and carbon isotopic compositions of lipids.

Publications

Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Howa, J.D., Bowen, G.J., Barnette, J.E., Cerling, T.E., and Ehleringer, J.R. “Stable Isotopes in Forensics Applications” (Submitted to Treatise on Geochemistry)

Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Erkkila, B.R., and Ehleringer, J.R. “Hydrogen and oxygen stable isotope analysis of pollen collected from honey” (Submitted to Grana)

Dirghangi, SS., Hren, M., Tipple, B.J., and Pagani, M. “Distribution of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils from two environmental transects in the USA” (In press at Organic Geochemistry) PDF

Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M. “Environmental control on eastern broadleaf forest species’ leaf wax distributions and D/H ratios” (In press at Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2012) PDF

Tipple, B.J., Berke, M.A., Doman, C.E. ,Khachaturyan, S., and Ehleringer, J.R. "Leaf wax n-alkanes record the plant-water environment only at leaf flush" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(7): 2659-2664 (2013) PDF

Tipple, B.J. “Capturing climate variability during our ancestors’ earliest days” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(4): 1144-1145 (2013) PDF

Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Mackey, G.N., Hynek, S.A., Fernandez, D., and Ehleringer, J.R. “Strontium isotope ratios of tap water from the coterminous USA” Ecosphere, 3(7): Article 67 (2012) PDF

Tipple, B.J., Chesson, L.A., Erkkila, B.R., Cerling, T.E., and Ehleringer, J.R. "B-HIVE: Beeswax Hydrogen Isotopes as Validation of Environment, Part II. Compound-specific hydrogen isotope analysis" Food Chemistry, 134 (1): 494-501 (2012) PDF

Tipple, B.J., Pagani, M., Krishnan, S., Dirghangi, S.S., Galeotti, S., Agnini, C., Giusberti, L., and Rio, D. "Coupled high-resolution marine and terrestrial records of carbon and hydrologic cycles variation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)" Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 311 (1-2): 82-92 (2011) PDF

Chesson, L.A., Tipple, B.J., Erkkila, B.R., Cerling, T.E., and Ehleringer, J.R. "B-HIVE: Beeswax Hydrogen Isotopes as Validation of Environment Part I. Bulk honey and honeycomb stable isotope analysis" Food Chemistry, 125 (2): 576-581 (2011) PDF

Chesson, L.A. and Tipple, B.J. "The isotope waggle dance: how the honey bee communicates with the chemist" Bee Culture, 183(8): 30-32 (2010) PDF

Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M. "A 35 Myr Terrestrial Higher Plant n-alkane Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Record from the Gulf of Mexico: Implications to North American C4 Grasslands and Hydrologic Cycle Dynamics" Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 299:250-262 (2010) PDF

Tipple, B.J., Meyers, S.R., and Pagani, M. "The Carbon Isotope Ratio of Cenozoic CO2: a comparative evaluation of available geochemical proxies" Paleoceanography, 25, doi:10.1029/2009PA00185 (2010)PDF and data.

Edwards, E.J., Osborne, C.P., Strömberg, C.A.E., Smith, S.A., Bond, W.J., Christin, P.-A., Cousins, A.B., Duvall, M.R., Fox, D.L., Freckleton, R.P., Ghannoum, O., Hartwell, J., Huang, Y., Janis, C.M., Keeley, J.E., Kellogg, E.A., Knapp, A.K., Leakey, A.D.B., Nelson, D.M., Saarela, J.M., Sage, R.F., Sala, O.E., Salamin, N., Still, C.J., Tipple, B.J. "The Origins of C4 Grasslands: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecosystem Science" Science, 328(5978): 587-591 (2010) PDF

Pedentchouk, K., Sumner, W., Tipple, B.J., and Pagani, M. "δ13C and δD Composition of n-Alkanes from Modern Angiosperms and Conifers: An Experimental Set-up in central Washington State, USA" Organic Geochemistry, 39(8): 1066-1071 (2008) PDF

Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M. "The Early Origins of Terrestrial C4 Photosynthesis" Annual Review Earth and Planetary Sciences 35:435-461 (2007) PDF

Pagani, Z., Zachos, J.C., Freeman, K.H., Tipple, B.J., and Bohaty, S. "Marked Decline in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentrations During the Paleogene" Science 309(5734): 600-603 (2005) PDF