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Distinguished University Professor
(Emeritus)
PhD (1968), Slovak Academy of Sciences
PhD (1971), Australian
National University
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Ottawa
140 Louis Pasteur
Ottawa, Canada K1N 6N5
Tel.: (613) 562-5800 ext.6461
Fax: (613) 562-5192
E-mail: jveizer@uottawa.ca
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Short curriculum vitae:
Dr. Jan
Veizer is a “Distinguished University Professor” of Geology
at the University
of Ottawa (Emeritus
since April 2004) where he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIAR
Research Chair in Earth Systems, and, from 1992 to 2004, concurrently served
as the Director of the “Earth System Evolution Program” of the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR). He recently retired also from the
Chair of Sedimentary and Isotope Geology at Ruhr
University in Bochum, Germany.
He has drawn on the principles of geology, chemistry, physics, mathematics
and biology to paint a picture of the Earth as a dynamic, “living” entity.
This complex and innovative framework may afford us a glimpse of the future
of our planet and help us to understand the impact mankind has had.
He received his formal
education in his native Slovakia
(then Czechoslovakia) that
culminated with doctorates in sedimentology and structural geology at Comenius University
and the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava.
Subsequently, turning his interest to geochemistry, he went to Australian National University
where he obtained a Ph.D. in isotope geology in 1971. After short teaching
and research stints at the University of California in Los Angeles, and the
Universities of Göttingen and Tübingen,
he arrived in 1973 at the University of Ottawa, his family base ever since.
Dr. Veizer has received
numerous prestigious awards, including the Killam
Award (Canada Council, 1986), the Past President Medal (Geological
Association of Canada, 1987), the Willet G. Miller Medal (Royal Society of
Canada, 1991), the G.W. Leibniz Prize, the highest award of the German
Research Foundation (1992), the Logan Medal, the most prestigious honour granted by the Geological Association of Canada
(1995), the Bancroft Medal (Royal Society of Canada, 2000) and the Gold Medal
(Slovak Geological Survey). In 1986, he was elected to the Royal Society of
Canada.
In his latest research he has
concentrated on two fundamental issues:
·
the isotopic evolution of past sea water as a
proxy signal for the past state of planetary surficial
environments, and
·
the
environmental issues of large riverine ecosystems, particularly the nature of
the riverine carbon cycle and climate.
Research Interests and Research Projects:
The major contributions of my work in the last decade have been in four
directions:
(1) theoretical and practical development of chemical and isotopic
techniques for studies of diagenesis in carbonates,
(2) development of isotopic curves (Sr, C,
O, and to a degree S) for past seawater, and
(3) development of the quantitative concepts of recycling for the
terrestrial exogenic system, including continental
crust and mineralization.
(4) quantification of biogeochemical cycles
in riverine systems.
Student or PDF Positions
In one of the following topics:
 chemical and isotopic evolution of sea water
over geologic history;
biogeochemical cycles in aquatic systems,
particularly rivers, with emphasis on isotopic techniques (C, O, H, S, N);
isotope geochemistry of carbonate rocks and
fossils (Proterozoic and Phanerozoic);
If interested please contact me by email
Recent Graduate Theses:
Paul Ferguson (Ph.D.). 2007. Aqueous and isotope geochemistry of the Fly
River, Papua New Guinea:
coupling of the water and carbon cycles in tropical rainforest biomes.
Juraj Farkas (Ph.D.). 2007. Calcium and boron isotope variations in marine
biogenic carbonates: implications for chemical evolution of seawater during
the Phanerozoic.
Kelli Powis (Ph.D.). 2006. Stable isotope geochemistry of the
Neoproterozoic Bambui Group at Serra do Ramalho, Bahia,
Brazil.
Kristal Guckert-Dubois (Ph.D.). 2006. Carbon cycling in northern temperate lakes.
Frank Frauenstein (RNDr). 2005. Geochemistry of carbonates at the
Archean/Proterozoic transition: Pretoria-Postmasburg Group, South Africa.
Ruhr University (in German).
My Graduate Students and Postdocs:
Currently I have one graduate student and one
postdoc in Ottawa:
Steven Wickson
(M.Sc.) Carbonate isotope geochemistry
Kristal Dubois (PDF) Carbon
cycling in aquatic systems.
Email addresses can be found here
Selection from Recent Publications:
Korte, C., Jones, P.J., Brand, U.,
Mertmann, D. and Veizer, J. (2008). Oxygen isotope values from high
latitudes: clues for Permian sea-surface temperature
gradients and Late Paleozoic deglaciation.
Palaeogeography, Paleoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 269, 1-16.
Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Gallet,
Y., Korovnikov, I.,
Pavlov, V., Runnegar, B., Shields, G., Veizer, J.,
Young, E. and Ziegler, K. (2008). The SPICE carbon isotope excursion in
Siberia: a combined study of the upper Middle Cambrian – lowermost Ordovician Kulyumbe River section, northwestern
siberian platform. Geological Magazine, 145,
609-622.
Veizer, J. (2008). Climate,
water and CO2: a geological perspective. Geological Magazine,
72, 297-298.
Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Gallet,
Y., Korovnikov, I.,
Pavlov, V., Runnegar, B., Shields, G., Veizer, J.,
Young, E. and Ziegler, K. (2008). Geological investigation of a section at Kulyumbe River in Siberia. Pangea, doi:10.1594/PANGEA.687608.
Karim, A., Veizer, J. and Barth, J. (2007). Net Ecosystem Production in the
Great Lakes Basin and its implications for the
North American missing carbon sink: A hydrologic and stable isotope approach.
Global and Planetary Change, 61, 15-27.
Freitag, H., Ferguson, P.R.,
Dubois, K., Hayford, E.K., von Vorztzogbe, V. and Veizer, J. (2007). Water and carbon fluxes from
savanna ecosystems of Volta River watershed, West Africa. Global
and Planetary Change, 61, 3-14.
Prokoph, A., Shields, G.A. and Veizer, J. (2008). Compilation and time-series
analysis of marine carbonate d18O, d13C, 87Sr/86Sr and d34S databases through Earth history. Earth
Science Reviews, 87, 113-134.
Farkas, J., Bohm, F., Wallmann,
K., Blenkinsop, J., Eisenhauer,
A., van Geldern, R., Munnecke,
A., Voigt, S. and Veizer, J. (2007). Calcium isotope budget of Phanerozoic
oceans: implications for chemical evolution of seawater and its causative
mechanisms. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 71,
5117-5134.
Wotte, T., Alvaro, J.-J., Shields, G.A., Brown, B., Brasier,
M. and Veizer, J. (2007). High resolution C-, O- and Sr-isotope
stratigraphy across the Lower-Middle Cambrian transition of the Cantabrian
Mountains (Spain) and the Montagne Noire (France),
west Gondwana. Paleogeography,
Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology,
256, 47-70.
Ferguson, P.R., Weinrauch, N.,
Wassenaar, L.I., Mayer, B. and Veizer, J. (2007). Partitioning regional
evaporation and transpiration water vapor fluxes in the northern Great Plains
of North America. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 21, GB2023,
doi:10.1029/2006GB002702.
Ferguson, P.R.
and Veizer, J. (2007). The coupling of water and carbon fluxes via the
terrestrial biosphere and its significance to the Earth’s climate system. Journal
Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 112, D24S06,
doi:10.1029/2007JD008431.
Came, R.E., Eiler, J.M., Veizer, J., Azmy,
K., Brand, U. and Weidman, C.R. (2007). Coupling of surface temperature and
atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the Paleozoic era. Nature,
449, doi:10.1038/nature06085.
Farkaš, J., Buhl, D., Blenkinsop, J. and
Veizer, J. (2007).
Evolution of the oceanic calcium cycle during the late Mesozoic: Evidence
from d44/40Ca of marine skeletal
carbonates. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 253, 96-111.
Misi, A., Kaufman, A.J., Veizer, J.,
Powis, K., Azmy, K., Boggiani, C.P., Gaucher, C., Teixera, J.B.G., Sanches,
A.L. and Iyer, S.S.S. (2007). Chemostratigraphic correlation of
Neoproterozoic successions in South America. Chemical Geology, 237,
161-185.
Scherer, K., Fichtner, H.,
Borrmann, T., Beer, J., Desorgher, L., Flückiger, E., Fahr, H.-J., Ferreira,
S.E.S., Langner, U., Potgieter, M.S., Heber, B., Masarik, J., Shaviv, N. and
Veizer, J. (2006). Erratum: Interstellar-terrestrial relations: the variable cosmic
environments, the dynamic heliosphere, and their
imprints on terrestrial archives. Space Science Reviews, 127/1-4, 467.
Scherer, K., Fichtner, H.,
Borrmann, T., Beer, J., Desorgher, L., Flückiger, E., Fahr, H.-J., Ferreira,
S.E.S., Langner, U., Potgieter, M.S., Heber, B., Masarik, J., Shaviv, N. and
Veizer, J. (2006). Interstellar-terrestrial
relations: the variable cosmic environments, the dynamic heliosphere,
and their imprints on terrestrial archives. Space Science Reviews, 127/1-4,
327-465.
Kasting, J., Howard, M.T., Wallmann,
K., Veizer, J., Shields, G. and Jaffrés, J. (2006).
Paleoclimates, ocean depth, and the oxygen isotopic
composition of seawater. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 252,
82-93.
Brand, U., Azmy, K. and Veizer,
J. (2006). Evaluation of the Salinic I tectonic, Cancaniri glacial and Ireviken
biotic events: biochemostratigraphy of the lower
Silurian succession in the Niagara Gorge area, Canada
and U.S.A.
Paleogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 241, 192-213.
 Korte,
C., Jasper, T., Kozur, H.W. and Veizer, J. (2006). 87Sr/86Sr record of Permian
seawater. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
240, 89-107.
Azmy, K., Veizer, J., Jin, J., Copper, P.
and Brand, U., (2006). Paleobathymetry of a
Silurian shelf based on brachiopod assemblages: an oxygen isotope test. Canadian
Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 281-293.
Bruhn, F., Veizer, J., Buhl, D. and Meijer, J. (2005).
Diagenetic history of Korallenoolith (Malm) of northwestern Germany: implications for in-situ
trace element and isotopic studies. Nuclear Instruments and
Methods in Physical Research, B231, 518-523.
Korte, C., Kozur, H.W. and Veizer, J. (2005). δ13C
and δ18O values of Triassic brachiopods and carbonate rocks
as proxies for coeval seawater and paleotemperature.
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology,
Palaeoecology, 226, 287-306.
Chakrapani, C.J. and Veizer, J. (2005).
Dissolved inorganic carbon composition in the Upstream
Ganga River in the Himalayas.
Current Science, 89, 553-556.
Korte, C., Jasper, T., Kozur, H.W. and Veizer, J., (2005). δ
18O and δ
13C of
Permian brachiopods: a record of seawater evolution and continental
glaciation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,
224, 333-351.
Veizer, J. (2005). Celestial climate
driver: a perspective from four billion years of the carbon cycle. Geoscience Canada, 32, 13-28.
Korte, C., Kozur, H.W., Joachimski, M.M.,
Strauss, H., Veizer, J. and Schwark, L. (2004). Carbon, sulfur, oxygen and strontium isotope records, organic
geochemistry and biostratigraphy across the
Permian/Triassic boundary in Abadeh, Iran.
Int. J. Earth Sciences, 93, 565-581.
Shaviv, N. and
Veizer, J. (2004). Comment. EOS, 85/48, 510.
Shaviv, N. and
Veizer, J. (2004). Comment on “CO2 as a primary driver of
Phanerozoic climate” by Royer et al. GSA Today, 14/17, 18.
Barth, J. and Veizer, J. (2004).
Three-component water balance to enable protection of ecologically important
ecosystems: an example from the St. Lawrence River.
Applied Geochemistry, 19, 1637-1641.
Pichler, T. and Veizer,
J. (2004). The precipitation of aragonite from shallow-water hydrothermal
fluids in a coral reef, Tutum
Bay, Ambitle Island, Papua New Guinea. Chemical
Geology, 207, 31-45.
Fauville, A., Mayer, B., Frömmichen, R.,
Friese, K. and Veizer, J. (2004). Chemical and isotopic
evidence for accelerated bacterial sulfate
reduction in acid mining lakes after addition of organic carbon: laboratory
batch experiment. Chemical Geology, 204, 325-344.
Knöller, K., Fauville, A., Mayer, B.,
Strauch, G., Friese, K. and Veizer, J. (2004). Sulfur cycling in an acid mining lake
and its vicinity in Lusatia,
Germany. Chemical
Geology, 204, 303-324.
Wang, X. and Veizer, J. (2004). Erratum to
“Respiration/photosynthesis balance of terrestrial aquatic ecosystems, Ottawa area, Canada. Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta, 68,
933-934.
Ray, J.S. and Veizer J. (2004b). Reply to
comments by Kumar S. on “C, O, Sr and Pb isotope systematics of carbonate sequences of the Vindhyan Supergroup, India:
age, diagenesis, correlations and implications for global events”. Precambrian
Research, 129, 195-196.
Ray, J.S. and Veizer J. (2004a). Reply to
comments by Chakraborty P.P. and Sarkar A. on “C, O, Sr and Pb isotope systematics of carbonate sequences of the Vindhyan Supergroup, India:
age, diagenesis, correlations and implications for global events”. Precambrian
Research, 129, 189-190.
Books and Book Chapters
Veizer, J. (2008). Carbon isotope variations over geologic
time. In Encyclopedia
of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
(editor V. Gornitz). Springer, 128-133. (Invited
contribution)
Strauss, H. and Veizer, J. (2008). Sulfur
isotopes. In Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (editor V. Gornitz). Springer, 926-929. (Invited contribution)
Veizer, J. (2008). Strontium isotopes. In Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments (editor V. Gornitz). Springer, 923-926. (Invited contribution)
Robb, L.J., Knoll, A.H., Plumb, K.A., Shields, G.A., Strauss, H. and
Veizer, J. (2004). The Precambrian: the Archean and Proterozoic Eons. In A
geologic Time Scale 2004 (editors F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg and A.G. Smith), Cambridge University Press, 129-140.
(Invited contribution)
Shields, G.A. and Veizer, J. (2004). Isotopic signatures. In The
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event
(editors B. Webby, M. Droser, F. Paris and I.
Percival), Columbia University Press, New York, 68-71. (Invited contribution)
Veizer, J. and Mackenzie, F.T. (2004). Evolution of sedimentary rocks. In Treatise on Geochemistry (editors
H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian). Elsevier, vol. 7,
369-407. (Invited contribution)
Geological Websites of
Interest
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Phanerozoic and
Precambrian Isotope Databases
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