Dr Ashley Martin

Assistant Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

I trained as a chemist at the University of York and wrote my doctoral thesis in Australia at the University of Wollongong. Following a brief spell working in industry as an Environmental Consultant in Sydney, Australia, I spent my postdoctoral years in Germany at the Leibniz University Hannover.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I am an Isotope Geochemist primarily interested in how Earth became and has remained (mostly) habitatable for the past 3.5 billion years.

Key Publications

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Anomalous δ15N values in the Neoarchean associated with an abundant supply of hydrothermal ammonium, Martin, A., Stüeken, E., Gehringer, M., Markowska, M., Vonhof, H., Weyer, S., Hofmann, A. 11 Feb 2025, In: Nature Communications
Mechanisms of nitrogen isotope fractionation at an ancient black smoker in the 2.7 Ga Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada, Martin, A., Stüeken, E., Michaud, J., Münker, C., Weyer, S., van Hees, E., Gehringer, M. 1 Mar 2024, In: Geology
Assessing the reliability of modern marine stromatolites as archives for the uranium isotope paleoredox proxy, Martin, A., Markowska, M., Chivas, A., Weyer, S. 15 Mar 2023, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
The onset of oxidative weathering traced by uranium isotopes, Brüske, A., Martin, A., Rammensee, P., Eroglu, S., Lazarov, M., Albut, G., Schuth, S., Aulbach, S., Schoenberg, R., Beukes, N., Hofmann, A., Nägler, T., Weyer, S. 1 Mar 2020, In: Precambrian Research
Sediment residence times in catchments draining to the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia, inferred by uranium comminution dating, Martin, A., Dosseto, A., May, J., Jansen, J., Kinsley, L., Chivas, A. 1 Jan 2019, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Qualifications

PhD July 19 2017
Chemistry July 01 2011

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