Nina Davtian

My core research interest is the use of biomarkers for paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental, and paleoceanographic reconstructions. My core technical and scientific expertise is the use of archaeal and bacterial membrane-spanning lipids (glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers, GDGTs) as environmental proxies.

My most significant scientific contributions focus on the validation of novel organic proxies of oceanic temperature and the study of abrupt climate events in both hemispheres via the thermal bipolar seesaw.

During my past postdoc abroad, I developed a novel analytical method for the purification and analysis of specific biomass burning biomarkers in complex matrices, such as sediments, and analyzed oceanic dissolved black carbon for a better understanding of the global carbon cycle.

I am motivated to develop and apply analytical methods for compound specific radiocarbon analyses to assess the synchronicity of organic proxies each other and with foraminiferal proxies.