Skip navigation

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.

Ashley Martin

I am an Isotope Geochemist primarily interested in how Earth became and has remained (mostly) habitatable for the past 3.5 billion years. I primarily use uranium and vanadium isotopes as novel proxies for tracing past changes in marine oxygenation levels and nitrogen isotopes to understand past changes in biological productivity.

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • 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. 22 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

  • PhD July 19 2017
  • Chemistry July 01 2011

Our Staff


Latest News and Features

Hexham Abbey art
a view of a tall building
Dr Monika Winter and Dr Emily Hume from Northumbria University are among 62 researchers from across the UK to be chosen to receive funding in recognition of their pioneering approaches to improve human health and wellbeing.
Degree apprenticeship award
Thick section of stalagmite taken from a cave SA09. Photo credit: Dr Monika Markowska
More news

Back to top