Dietl, Gregory P.

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Dietl, Gregory P. Cornell Faculty Member

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Dr. Gregory P. Dietl is Director of Collections at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Before coming to PRI and Cornell he was a Donnelley Environmental Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University.

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Publications

selected publications listing

    • Dietl, G. P. 2008. Selection, security, and evolutionary international relations. Pp. 87-101 In: Darwinian Security, R. Sagarin and T. Taylor (ed.), Univ. of California Press.
    • Vermeij, G. J. & G. P. Dietl. 2006. Majority rule: adaptation and the long-term dynamics of species. Paleobiology, 32: 173-178.
    • Dietl, G. P. & J. Hendricks. 2006. Crab scars reveal survival advantage of left-handed snails. Royal Society, Biology Letters 2(3): 439-442.
    • L. A. Derry, A. Kurtz, K. Ziegler, O.A. Chadwick, (2005) Biological control of terrestrial silica cycling and export fluxes to watersheds. Nature, 433, 728-731.
    • Evans, M.J., L.A. Derry and C. France-Lanord, Degassing of metamorphic carbon dioxide from the Nepal Himalaya. Geophys. Geochem. Geosyst., in press 2/19/08.
    • Sacks, G.L., L.A. Derry and J.T. Brenna, 2006, Elemental Speciation by Parallel Elemental and Molecular Mass Spectrometry (PEMMS) and Peak Profile Matching. Analytical Chemistry, 78, 8445-8455, doi 10.1021/ac0612170.
    • Monastra, V.M., L.A. Derry and O.A. Chadwick, 2004, Multiple sources of lead in a Hawaiian soil chronosequence. Chemical Geology, 209, 215-231.
    • Evans, M. J. and Derry, L. A. (2002) Quartz control of high germanium-silicon ratios in hydrothermal fluids. Geology, 30, 1019-1022.
    • Kurtz A. C., Derry L. A., and Chadwick O. (2002) Germanium/silicon fractionation in the weathering environment. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 66, 1525-1537.
    • Kurtz A. C., Derry L. A., and Chadwick O. A. (2001) Accretion of Asian dust to Hawaiian soils: isotopic, elemental and mineral mass balances. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 65, 1971-1983.
    • Chadwick, O. A., Derry, L. A., Vitousek, P. M., Huebert, B. J. and Hedin, L. O. (1999) Changing sources of nutrients during four million years of ecosystem development. Nature, 397, 491-497.
    • Kennedy, M.J., O.A. Chadwick, P.M. Vitousek, L.A. Derry and D.M. Hendricks (1998) Replacement of weathering with atmospheric sources of base cations during ecosystem development, Hawaiian Islands. Geology, 26, 1015-1018.
    • France-Lanord C., Derry L.A. (1997) Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from Himalayan erosion. Nature, 390, 65-75.
    • Derry L.A. and France-Lanord C. (1996) Neogene Himalayan weathering history and river 87Sr/86Sr: Impact on the marine Sr record. Earth Planet. Sci. Letts. 142, 59-76.
    • Derry, L.A. Kaufman A.J. and Jacobsen S.B. (1992) Sedimentary cycling and environmental change in the Late Proterozoic: Evidence from stable and radiogenic isotopes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 56, 1317-1329.

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