Joel D. Blum

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Recent publications

*Dasch, A., J.D. Blum, C. Eagar, T.J. Fahey, C.T. Driscoll, and T.G. Siccama. 2006. The relative uptake of Ca and Sr into tree foliage using a whole-watershed calcium addition. Biogeochemistry (in press).

*Smith, C.N., B. Klaue, S.E. Kesler, and J.D. Blum. 2005. Mercury Isotope Fractionation in Fossil Hydrothermal Systems. Geology 33:825-828.

*Peters, S.C., J.D. Blum, M. Karagas, C.P. Chamberlain and D.J. Sjostrom. 2005. Sources and Exposure of the New Hampshire Population to Arsenic in Public and Private Drinking Water Supplies. Chemical Geology (in press).

*Pickhardt, P.C., C.L. Folt, C.Y. Chen, B. Klaue and J.D. Blum. 2005. Impacts of zooplankton composition and algal enrichment and on the accumulation of mercury in an experimental freshwater food web. Science of the Total Environment 339:89-101.

Yanai, R.D., J.D. Blum, S.P. Hamburg, M.A. Arthur, *C.A. Nezat, and T.G. Siccama. 2005.  New insight into calcium depletion in northeastern forests. Journal of Forestry 103:14-20.

Ganor, J., E. Roueff, Y. Erel, and J.D. Blum. 2005. The dissolution kinetics of a granite and its minerals -- implications for comparison between laboratory and field dissolution rates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69:607-621.

Gleason, J.D., T.C. Moore, T.M. Johnson, D.K. Rea, J.D. Blum, R.M Owen, J. Pares, and S.A. Hovan. 2004. Age calibration of a piston core EW9709-07 (equatorial central Pacific) using fish teeth Sr isotope stratigraphy: New tools for quantifying Neogene dust sources and sinks in the marine record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecol 212:355-366.

*Kennedy, B.P., C.P. Chamberlain, J.D. Blum, C.L. Folt, and K.H. Nislow. 2004. Comparing naturally occurring stable isotopes of nitrogen, carbon and strontium as markers for Atlantic salmon juvenile rearing locations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Acquatic Sciences (in press).

*Kennedy, B.P., B. Klaue, J.D. Blum, and C.L. Folt. 2004. Integrative measures of consumption rates in salmon: Expansion and application of a trace element approach. Journal of Applied Ecology 41:1009-1020.

Brantley, S.L., O. Chadwick, S. Anderson, L.R. Kump, A.F. White, L. Derry, J.D. Blum, J. Chorover, J. Drever, J. Hering, J.W. Kirchner, and D. Richter. 2004. A proposed initiative to study Earth's weathering engine. EOS. 85:265-269.

Erel, Y., J.D. Blum, E. Roueff, and J. Ganor. 2004. Lead and strontium isotopes as monitors of experimental granitoid mineral dissolution. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68:4649-4663.

* Nezat, C.A., J.D. Blum, A. Klaue, C.E. Johnson, and T.G. Siccama. 2004. Influence of landscape position and vegetation on long-term weathering rates at Hubbard Brook, New Hampshire, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68:3065-3078.

*Peters, S.C., J.D. Blum, C.T. Driscoll, and G.E. Likens. 2004. Dissolution of wollastonite during the experimental manipulation of a forested catchment. Biogeochemistry 67:309-329.

Blum, J.D. and Y. Erel. 2003. Radiogenic Isotopes in Weathering and Hydrology, pp.365-392. In Surface and Ground Water, Weathering and Soils (ed. J.I. Drever) Vol. 5 Treatise on Geochemistry (eds. Holland , H.D. and Turekian, K.K.), Elsevier-Pergamon, Oxford .

Utsumomiya, S., S.C. Peters, J.D. Blum, and R.C. Ewing. 2003. Nanoscale mineralogy of arsenic phases in a region of New Hampshire with elevated As-concentrations in the groundwater. American Mineralogist 88:1844-1852.

*Jacobson, A.D. and J.D. Blum. 2003. Relationship between mechanical erosion and CO2 consumption in the New Zealand Southern Alps. Geology 31:865-868.

*Peters, S.C. and J.D. Blum. 2003. Iron oxyhydroxide controls on arsenic transport in a bedrock aquifer, New Hampshire. Applied Geochemistry 18:1773-1787.

*Hogan, J.F. and J.D. Blum. 2003. Strontium isotopes as a tracer of hydrologic flowpaths in a small forested catchment. Water Resources Research 39:1282, doi:10.1029/2002WR001856.

*Jacobson, A.D., J.D. Blum, C.P. Chamberlain, D. Craw, and P.O. Koons. 2003. Climatic versus tectonic controls on weathering in the New Zealand Southern Alps. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67:29-46.

*Hogan, J.F. and J.D. Blum. 2003. Boron and lithium isotopes as hydrologic tracers: a study at the Fresh Kills landfill, Staten Island, NY, USA. Applied Geochemistry18:615-727.

*Horton, T., J.D. Blum, D. Craw, P.O. Koons, and C.P. Chamberlain. 2003. Oxygen, carbon, and strontium isotopic constraints on timing and sources of crustal fluids in an active orogen: South Island, New Zealand. New Zealand J. Geology and Geophysics 46:457-471.

Hamburg, S.P., R.D. Yanai, M.A. Arthur, J.D. Blum, and T.G. Siccama. 2003. Biotic control of calcium cycling in northern hardwood forests: acid rain and aging forests. Ecosystems 6:399-406.

Lee, J.I., P.D. Clift, G.D. Layne, J.D. Blum, and A.A. Khan. 2003. Sediment flux in the modern Indus River Sedimentary Geology160:243-257.

Blum, J.D., Klaue, A., *Nezat, C.A., Driscoll, C.T., Johnson, C.E., Siccama, T.G. Eagar, C., Fahey, T.J. and Likens, G.E. (2002) Mycorrhizal weathering of apatite as an important Ca source in base-poor forest ecosystems. Nature 417, 729-731.

*Jacobson, A.D., Blum, J.D., Walter, L.M. (2002) A carbonate equilibria approach to reconciling the elemental and Sr isotopic geochemistry of Himalayan stream waters. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 66, 3417-3429.

Clift, P.D., Lee, J.I., Hildebrand, P., Shimizu, N., Layne, G.D., Blum, J.D., Garzanti, E., and Khan, A.A. (2002) Ion probe analysis of Pb isotopes in detrital K-feldspars in the Indus River system: Implications for sediment provenanace and crustal evolution in the western Himalaya. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 200, 91-106.

*Kennedy, B.P., Klaue, A., Blum, J.D., Folt, C.L. and Nislow, K.H. (2002) Reconstructing the lives of fish using Sr isotopes in otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 59, 925-929.

Gleason, JD, Moore, TC, Rea, DK, Johnson, TM, Owen, RM, Blum, JD, and Hovan, SA. (2002) Ichthyolith strontium isotope stratigraphy of a Neogene red clay sequence: calibrating eolian dust accumulation rates in the central North Pacific Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 204, 1-12.

*Pickhardt, P.C., Folt, C.L., Chen, C.Y., Klaue, B. and Blum, J.D. (2002) Algal blooms reduce the uptake of toxic methylmercury in freshwater food webs. PNAS Biological Sciences: Ecology 99, 4419-4423.

*Douglas, T.A., Chamberlain, C.P., and Blum, J.D. (2002) Land use and geologic controls on the major element and isotope (d15N, dH, 87Sr/86Sr) geochemistry of the Connecticut River watershed, USA . Chemical Geology 189, 19-34.

Karagas, M.R., Nelson, H.A., Kelsey, K.T., Morris, S., Blum, J.D., Tosteson, T.D., Carey, M., and Le, XC. (2002) Urinary arsenic species in relation to drinking water and toenail arsenic concentrations and genetic polymorphisms in GSTM1 in New Hampshire . Progresss in Nucleic Acid Research, 17, 251-261.