Frankie Pavia

· Oceanography

University of Washington · Program on the Environment

Active 2004–2026

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Citations1.6k

Papers9056 last 5y

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About

Frankie Pavia is an isotope geochemist who is interested in devising and applying new techniques to study the modern and past evolution of Earth’s climate and carbon cycle. His research uses radioactive isotopic tracers as fingerprints of how quickly Earth system processes occur. Frankie arrived at the University of Washington in early 2024 and is building a research program to study many facets of Earth’s climate, including particle aggregation processes and carbon degradation in seawater, changes in sea ice coverage and ice sheet melt in the geologic past, and the weathering of mantle rocks at the seafloor.

Research topics

Geology
Paleontology
Oceanography
Environmental chemistry
Geochemistry
Mineralogy

Selected publications

A benthic source of isotopically heavy Ni from continental margins and implications for global ocean Ni isotope mass balance
Earth and Planetary Science Letters · 2024-08-26 · 10 citations
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Biomass burning is a source of modern black carbon to equatorial Atlantic Ocean sediments
Communications Earth & Environment · 2024-09-30 · 10 citations
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Black carbon is a refractory form of organic carbon formed from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and biomass. Riverine transport is considered the dominant pathway of black carbon to the coastal oceans. However, the provenance and pathways of black carbon to the open ocean remain unknown. Here we use both stable and radiogenic isotopes of carbon to show that sedimentary black carbon across the equatorial Atlantic Ocean is aeolian and primarily derived from biomass burning of C4-plants.…
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Pelagic sedimentation rates in the North Pacific using Thorium-230 depth profiling
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2023-11-27 · 5 citations
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Discrepant mass accumulation rates of sediments in the South Pacific Ocean from 230Th and 3He measurements
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2023-11-27 · 4 citations
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Fractionation during sediment winnowing drives divergent mass accumulation rates derived from 230Th and 3He on the Cocos Ridge
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2025-02-21 · 3 citations
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Frequent coauthors

Robert F. Anderson
103 shared
Sebastián M. Vivancos
Columbia University
47 shared
Gisela Winckler
Columbia University
43 shared
Martin Q. Fleisher
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
40 shared
Hai Cheng
Xi'an Jiaotong University
31 shared
Jennifer L. Middleton
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
30 shared
Yanbin Lu
Northwest University
28 shared
Matthieu Roy‐Barman
Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives
27 shared

Education

Ph.D., Geochemistry
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2019
M.A.
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
2016
B.A., Earth and Environmental Sciences & Chemistry
Columbia University
2014

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