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Sarah J FeakinsCurriculum Vitae

Professor of Earth SciencesUniversity of Southern California

Los Angeles CA 90089-0740Phone 213-740-7168 – feakins@usc.edu – earth.usc.edu/feakins

Professional preparationUniversity of Oxford, Geography, B.A. (Hons) 1st class. 2001Columbia University, Geology, M.A., M.Phil, Ph.D. 2006California Institute of Technology, Postdoctoral Fellow. 2006-2008

Academic AppointmentsProfessor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 2021-Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 2015-2021Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, 2008-2015Postdoctoral Fellow, NOAA Climate & Global Change Fellowship, California Institute of Technology

2006-2008, Advisor: Dr Alex Sessions.Graduate Student, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, 2001-2006, Advisor: Dr

Peter deMenocal.

Current Funding NSF Polar, ANT: S. Feakins (PI), H. Scher (co-I):“Collaborative Research: Organic and

Inorganic Geochemical Investigation of Hydrologic Change in East Antarctica in the 4 Million Years Before Full Glaciation.” NSF-OPP-ns, 08/01/2019-07/31/2021, $374,622. $210,631 to Feakins.

NSF Geosciences, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change: T. Lowenstein (PI), D. McGee, S. Feakins, J. Stroup, J. Janick (co-I): “Collaborative Research: Regional hydrologic and vegetation changes over the last 150 kyr in the Searles and Death Valley basins”, NSF-EAR-1903665, 08/01/2019-07/31/2021. $186,252 to Feakins.

Completed Funding Major funding

NSF Geosciences, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change: P. Van Hengstum (PI), S. Feakins, J. Donnelly (co-I): “Collaborative Research: Diagnosing the Timing and Drivers of Northeastern Caribbean Holocene Droughts with Sinkhole Lake Records”, NSF-EAR-1703141, 07/17-06/20. $150,202 to Feakins.

NSF Geosciences, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change: S. Feakins (PI), V. Galy (co-I): “Collaborative Research: Mio-Pliocene evolution of the Indian summer monsoon recorded in the Bengal Fan”, NSF-OCE-1401217, 07/14-06/18, $361,884, $226,075 to Feakins.

ACS Petroleum Research Fund, S. Feakins (PI): “Lignin to Lignite: The Potential of Methoxyl D/H Ratios to Discern Source Water and Diagenetic Exchange”, PRF-53747-ND2, 01/01/2014-08/31/2017, $100,000 to Feakins.

Consortium for Ocean Leadership: S. Feakins (PI): “Participation of Hannah Liddy in IODP Expedition 355 Arabian Sea Monsoon” OCE 14-50528, sub-award GG0093093-01, 3/1/2015-12/30/2016, $32,640 to Feakins.

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Consortium for Ocean Leadership: S. Feakins (PI): “Participation of Camilo Ponton in IODP Expedition 354 Bengal Fan” COL-T354A55, 01/29/2015 - 01/28/2016, $33,059 to Feakins.

- Consortium for Ocean Leadership: S. Feakins (PI): IODP Schlanger Ocean Drilling Fellowship for H. Liddy: "Pliocene Northeast African Vegetation Change: Implications for Hominin Evolution and Climate During a Mild Greenhouse.”, 8/1/2013-7/31/2014, $30,000 to Feakins.

NSF Geosciences, Geobiology and Low Temperature Geochemistry: J. West and S. Feakins (PIs): “Collaborative Research: A compound-specific isotopic approach to quantifying the source of terrestrial organic matter transported by a large river”, NSF-EAR-1227192, 09/12-09/15, $273,088, $136,544 to Feakins.

NSF Geosciences, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change: M. Kirby (PI), S. Feakins, D. Peteet, L. Heusser (co-I): “Collaborative Research: Evaluating hydrologic and ecologic responses to late-Glacial (9-33ka) abrupt climatic transitions in the coastal southwest United States”, NSF-EAR-1203549, 09/10-08/13, $259,406, $39,868 to Feakins.

NSF Antarctic Sciences: D. Harwood (PI), R. Levy (co-PI): “ANDRILL – Investigating Antarctica's Role in Cenozoic Global Environmental Change”, NSF-0342484, 06/05-05/12, $13,310,123. Sub-award to S. Feakins (PI): “Paleoprecipitation using leaf wax D/H ratios in Middle Miocene Sediments from the ANDRILL SMS Project”, 2010-2011, $15,066 to Feakins.

NSF Geosciences, Paleo Perspectives on Climate Change: S. Feakins (PI), M. Kirby (co-I): “Collaborative Research: 4,500 years of Hydrological Variability from Zaca Lake, close to the Santa Barbara Basin”, NSF-EAR-1002656, 09/10-08/13, $252,952, $178,029 to Feakins.

Minor/internal funding

- USC Undergraduate Research Associated Program: Feakins, S. (PI) “Are we still in drought?” 7/2018-6/2019 $3,300 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering, supplemental support 2018/2019 $2,500 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering, supplemental support 2016/2017 $2,500 to Feakins.

- USC Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large Award. Huttenlocker (PI). “Paleosciences Research Center”, 07/2017-06/2019, $85,000. $0 to Feakins.

- USC Zumberge Interdisciplinary Large Award. Moghaddam (PI). “Developing Center for Remote Sensing of Water” 2015-2017, $85,000, $0 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering, supplemental support 2014/2015 $2,500 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering, supplemental support 2013/2014 $2,500 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering, supplemental support 2012/2013 $2,500 to Feakins.

- USC Women in Science and Engineering: S. Feakins (PI): “Plant Biomarker Isotope Biogeochemistry”, 08/12-12/12, $21,000 to Feakins.

- European Science Foundation, Natural molecular structures as drivers and tracers of terrestrial C fluxes (MOLTER): S. Feakins (PI). “Lignin as a tracer of organic carbon in sedimentary systems”, Short Visit Grant. ESF-5016, 10/2012, €1,690 to Feakins.

- California SeaGrant: S. Feakins (PI), “Biomarker isotopic signals of ecological responses to environmental change, at the Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve”, 2009, $9,000 to Feakins.

Pre-USC funding:

- NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellowship (2-yr salary + $6,000 funds).

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- Caltech Texaco Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined, 2006).

Awards and Honors- AAAS Leshner Leadership Fellow 2018-2019 – Alan I. Leshner Leadership Institute Public

Engagement Fellow. Honor included AAAS promotion, a 1-week training at AAAS in DC, and a year of support from AAAS on science communication.

- IODP Ocean Discovery Lecturer Series 2018-2019 – lecture tour, 8 institutions.

- Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory: Goodfriend Prize for best student research paper ($2,000, 2005); Sarah Langer Prize for contribution to student life (2003).

- University of Oxford: Prize for graduating top of year (Geography, 2001), Prize for best B.A. thesis (Geography, 2001), Scholar (St Catherine’s College, Oxford University, 1999, 2000).

Manuscripts Postdoc#, Grad* or Undergrad** Advisee; Senior Author

S5. Zhang, D.#, Beverly, E.J., Levin, N.E., Vidal, E.**, Matia, Y.**, Feakins, S.J. Carbon isotopic composition of plant waxes, bulk organics and carbonates from soils of the Serengeti grasslands, submitted to Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. data

S4. Duffy, M.*, Tibbett, E.J.*, Smith, C., Warny, S., Feakins, S.J., Escarguel, G., Askin, R., Leventer, A. and Shevenell, A. Palynology and biomarker analyses from Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica reveal strong paleoenvironmental gradient during the onset of East Antarctic glaciation, in submission to Geobios.

S3. Tibbett, E.J.*, Scher, H.D., Warny, S., Tierney, J.E., Passchier, S., Feakins, S.J. Late Eocene record of hydrology and temperature from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica, in review Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. data

S2. Peaple, M.D.*, Tierney, J.E., McGee, D., Lowenstein, T.K., Bhattacharya, T., Feakins, S.J. Identifying plant wax inputs in lake sediments using machine learning, in review Organic Geochemistry. data

S1. Lloyd, M.K., Trembath-Reichert, E., Dawson, K.S., Feakins, S.J., Mastalerz, M., Orphan, M.J., Sessions, A.L., Eiler, J. M. Pervasive coal methylotrophy limits microbial coal-bed methanogenesis, in review Science.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Google Scholar, citations 2,493, h index 26, i10 index 39 (9/7/2020)Orcid ID: 0000-0003-3434-2423; Researcher ID K-4149-2012

59. 2021 Kelly, R.L.*, Bian, X.*, Feakins, S.J., Fornace, K.L., Gunderson, T., Hawco, N.J., Kuang, X.B., Liang, H., Niggemann, J., Paulson, S.E., Pinedo-Gonzalez, P.#, West, A.J., Yang, S-C.#, John, S.G. Delivery of metals and dissolved black carbon to the southern California coastal ocean via aerosols and floodwaters following the 2017 Thomas Fire, accepted JGR Biogeosciences.

58. 2021 Steinthorsdottir, M., Coxall, H.K., de Boer, A.M., Huber, M., Barbolini, N., Bradshaw, C.D., Burls, N., Feakins, S.J., Gasson, E., Henderiks, J., Holbourn, A., Kiel, S., Kohn, M.J., Knorr, G., Kürschner, W.M., Lear, C.H., Lunt, D.J., Mörs, T., Pearson, P.N., Pound, M., Stoll, H., Strömberg, C.A.E., The Miocene: The Future of the Past, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004037. article

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57. 2020 Tamalavage, A.E.*; van Hengstum, P.J., Louchouarn, P., Fall, P.L., Donnelly, J.P.; Albury, N.A.; Coats, S.; Feakins, S.J. Plant wax evidence for precipitation and vegetation change from a coastal sinkhole lake in the Bahamas spanning the last 3,000 years, Organic Geochemistry, 150, 104120, doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104120. article data

56. 2020 Jiang, H., Feakins, S.J., Sun, H., Feng, X., Zhang, X., Liu, X.# Dynamic changes in leaf wax n-alkanes and 13C during leaf development in winter wheat under varied irrigation experiments, Organic Geochemistry, 104054, doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104054. article

55. 2020 Tauxe, L. and Feakins S.J., A re-assessment of the chronostratigraphy of late Miocene C3-C4 transitions, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003857. article

54. 2020 Feakins S.J., Liddy, H.M.*, Tauxe, L., Galy, V., Feng, X, Tierney, J.E., Miao, Y., Warny, S. Miocene C4 grassland expansion as recorded by the Indus Fan, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, e2020PA003856, doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003856. article data

53. 2020 Kirkels, F.M.S., Ponton, C.#, Galy, V., West, A.J., Feakins, S.J., Peterse, F. From Andes to Amazon: assessing branched tetraether lipids as tracers for soil OC in the Madre de Dios River system, JGR-Biogeosciences, 125, e2019JG005270. article

52. 2019 Hinojosa, J.L.#, Moy, C., Vandergoes, M., Feakins S.J., Sessions, A.L. Hydrologic change in New Zealand during the last deglaciation linked to reorganization of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, 2158-2170. article

51. 2019 Aichner, B.#, Mahmoudov, Z., Rajabov, I., Zhang, Q., Pausata, F.S.R., Werner, M., Heinecke, M., Feakins, S.J., Sachse, D., Mischke, S. Hydroclimate in the Pamirs was driven by changes in precipitation‐evaporation seasonality since the last glacial period, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 13972-13983. article

50. 2019 Lee, H.*, Galy, V., Feng, X., Ponton, C.#, Galy, A., France-Lanord, C., Feakins, S.J. Sustained wood burial in the Bengal Fan over the last 19 million years, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116, 22518-22525. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913714116. article data

49. 2019b Liu, X.#, Feakins, S.J., Ma, X.F., Anderson, J.D., Vidal, E.**, Blancaflor, E.B. Crop breeding has increased the productivity and leaf wax n-alkane concentration in a series of five winter wheat cultivars developed over the last 60 years, J. Plant Physiology, 153056. article

48. 2019 Saylor, B.Z., Gibert, L., Deino, A., Alene, M., Levin, N.E., Peaple, M.D.*, Feakins, S.J., Bourel, B., Barboni, D., Novello, A., Sylvestre, F., Mertzman, S.A., Haile-Selassie, Y. Age and context of new mid-Pliocene hominin cranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia, Nature, 573, 220-224. article

47. 2019 Lee, H.*, Feng, X., Mastalerz, M., Feakins, S.J. Characterizing lignin: combining lignin phenol, methoxyl quantification and dual carbon and hydrogen isotopic techniques, Organic Geochemistry, 136, 103894. article protocols

46. 2019 Feakins, S.J., Wu, M.S.*, Ponton, C.#, Tierney, J.E. Biomarkers reveal abrupt switches in hydroclimate during the last glacial in southern California, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 515, 164-172. article data

45. 2019 Wu, M.S.*, West, A.J, Feakins, S.J. Tropical soil profiles reveal the fate of plant wax biomarkers in soil storage, Organic Geochemistry, 128, 1-15. article data

44. 2019a Liu, X.#, Feakins, S.J., Dong, X., Xue, Q., Han, J., Marek, T., Leskovar, D.I., Neely, C.B. and Ibrahim, A.M.H. Evaluating leaf wax and bulk leaf carbon isotope surrogates for water use efficiency and grain yield in winter wheat. Crop Science, 59, 1-15. article

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43. 2018 Feakins, S.J., Wu, M.S.*, Ponton, C.#, Galy, V., West, A.J. Dual isotope evidence for sedimentary integration of plant wax biomarkers across an Andes-Amazon elevation transect, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 242, 64-81. article

42. 2018 Bakkelund, A.*, Porter, T.J. #, Froese, D.G., Feakins, S.J. Net fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in n-alkanoic acids from soils in the northern boreal forest, Organic Geochemistry, 125, 1-13. article

41. 2018 Naafs, B.D., Rohrssen, M., Inglis, G., Lähteenoja, O., Feakins, S.J., Collinson, M., Kennedy, E., Singh, P., Singh, M., Lunt., D., Pancost, R., High temperatures in the terrestrial mid-latitudes during the early Paleogene, Nature Geoscience, 11, 766-771. article

40. 2018 Liddy, H.M.*, Feakins, S.J., Corsetti, F.A., Sage, R., Dengler, N., Whistler, D.P., Takeuchi, G.T., Faull, M., Wang, X. Photosynthetic pathway of grasses from the Late-Miocene Dove Spring Formation, California, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 490, 131-140. article

39. 2017 Liu, X.#, Feakins, S.J., Dong, X., Xue, Q., Marek, T., Leskovar, D.I., Neely, C.B. and Ibrahim, A.M.H. Experimental study of leaf wax alkane response in winter wheat cultivars to drought conditions. Organic Geochemistry, 113, 210-223. article

38. 2017 Lee, H*, Feakins, S.J., Lu, Z., Schimmelmann, A., Sessions, A.L., Tierney, J.E, Williams, T.J. Comparison of three methods for the methylation of aliphatic and aromatic compounds, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31, 1633-1640. article

37. 2017 Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Martin, R.E., Shenkin, A., Bentley, L.P., Blonder, B., Salinas, N., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Altitude effect on leaf wax carbon isotopic composition in humid tropical forests, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 207, 1-17. article data

36. 2017 Torres, M.A., Baronas, J., Clark, K.E., Feakins, S.J., West, A.J. Mixing as a driver of temporal variations in river hydrochemistry. Part 1: insights from water isotopes in the Andes-Amazon, Water Resources Research, 53, 3102-3119. article

35. 2017 Naafs, B.D., Inglis, G.N. Amesbury, M.J., Harald, B., Bindler, R.; Burrows, M.A.; del Castillo Torres, D., Chambers, F.M., Cohen, A.D., Evershed, R.P., Feakins, S.J.; Gallego-Sala, A., Gandois, L., Gray, D.M., Hatcher, P.G., Honorio Coronado, E.U., Hughes, P.D., Huguet, A., Könönen, M., Laggoun-Défarge, F., Lähteenoja, O., Marchant, R., McClymont, E., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Ponton, C.#, Pourmand, A., Rizzuti, A.M., Schellekens, J., De Vleeschouwer, F., Zheng, Y., Pancost, R.D. Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 208, 285-301. article

34. 2016b Feakins, S.J., Peters, T*, Wu, M.S.*, Shenkin, A., Salinas, N., Girardin, C., Bentley, L.P., Blonder, B., Enquist, B.J., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Production of leaf wax n-alkanes across a tropical forest elevation transect, Organic Geochemistry, 100, 89-100. article data

33. 2016 Hoffmann, B.*, Feakins, S.J., Bookhagen, B., Olen, S.M., Adhikari, D.P., Mainali, J., Sachse, D. Ecologic, climatic and geomorphic drivers of plant organic matter transport in the Arun River, E Nepal, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 452, 104-114. article

32. 2016 Torres, M.A., West, A.J., Clark, K.E., Paris, G., Bouchez, J., Ponton, C.#, Feakins, S.J., Galy, V., Adkins, J.F. The acid and alkalinity budgets of weathering in the Andes-Amazon system: Insights into the erosional control of global biogeochemical cycles? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 450, 381-391. article

31. 2016 Liddy, H.M.*, Feakins, S.J., Tierney, J.E. Cooling and drying in northeast Africa across the Pliocene, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 449, 430-438. article data

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30. 2016 Feng, X., Feakins, S.J., Lui, Z., Ponton, C.#, Wang, R.Z.**, Karkabi, E.*, Galy, V., Berelson, W., Nottingham, A.T., Meir, P., West, A.J. Source to sink: Evolution of lignin composition in the Madre de Dios River system with connection to the Amazon basin and offshore, JGR Biogeosciences, 121, 1316-1338. article

29. 2016a Feakins, S.J., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Blonder, B., Goldsmith, G.R., Ponton, C.#, Arvin, L.**, Wu, M.S.*, Peters, T.*, West, A.J., Martin, R.E., Enquist, B.J., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Plant leaf wax biomarkers capture gradients in hydrogen isotopes of precipitation from the Andes and Amazon, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 182, 155-172. article data

28. 2016 Porter, T.J.#, Froese, D.G., Feakins, S.J., Bindeman, I., Mahony, M., Pautler, B.G., Reichart, G.J., Sanborn, P.T., Simpson, M.J., Weijers, J.W.H. Late Pleistocene paleotemperatures in Eastern Beringia constrained by multiple water isotope proxies, Quaternary Science Reviews, 137, 113-125. article

27. 2016 Lee, H.*, Feakins, S.J., Sternberg, L.D. Carbon and hydrogen isotopic effects of stomatal density in Arabidopsis thaliana, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 179, 275-286. article

26. 2015 Baker, P.A., Fritz, S.C., Silva, C.G., Rigsby, C.A., Absy, M.L., Almeida, R.P., Caputo, M., Chiessi, C.M., Cruz, F.W. , Dick, C.W., Feakins, S.J., Figueiredo, J., Freeman K.H., Hoorn C., Jaramillo C., Kern A.J., Latrubesse E.M., Ledru M.P., Marzoli A., Myrbo A., Noren A., Piller W.E., Ramos M.I.F., Ribas C.C., Trindade R., West A.J., Wahnfried I., Willard D.A. Trans-Amazon Drilling Project (TADP): Origins and Evolution of the Forests, Climate, and Hydrology of the South American Tropics, Scientific Drilling, 20, 40-49. article

25. 2015 Sharifi, A., Pourmand, A., Canuel, E.A., Ferrer, E.T., Peterson, L.C., Aichner, B.#, Feakins, S.J., Daryaee, T., Djamali, M., Naderi Beni, A., Lahijani, H.A.K., Swart, P.K. Abrupt climate variability since the last deglaciation based on a high-resolution, multi-proxy peat record from NW Iran: The hand that rocked the Cradle of Civilization? Quaternary Science Reviews, 123, 215-230. article

24. 2015 Aichner, B.#, Feakins, S.J., Herzschuh, U., Lee J.E., Xingqi, L. High-resolution leaf wax carbon and hydrogen isotopic record of the late Holocene paleoclimate in arid Central Asia, Climate of the Past, 11, 619-633. article

23. 2015 Ibarra, Y.*, Corsetti, F.A., Feakins, S.J., Rhodes, E.J., Kirby, M.E. Fluvial tufa evidence of Late Pleistocene wet intervals from Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 422, 36-45. article

22. 2014 Ponton, C.#, West, A.J., Feakins, S.J. , Galy, V. Leaf wax biomarkers in transit record river catchment composition, Geophysical Research Letters, 41, 6420-6427.

21. 2014 Kirby, M.E., Feakins, S.J. , Hiner, C.A., Fantozzi, J., Zimmerman, S.R.H., Dingemans, T., Mensing, S.A. Tropical Pacific forcing of late-Holocene hydrologic variability in the coastal southwest United States, Quaternary Science Reviews, 102, 27-38. data

20. 2014b Feakins, S.J., Warny, S., DeConto, R. M. Snapshot of cooling and drying before onset of Antarctic Glaciation, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 404, 154-166.

19. 2014 Dingemans, T., Mensing, S.A., Feakins, S.J., Kirby, M.E., Zimmerman, S.R.H. 3000 years of paleoenvironmental change at Zaca Lake, California, USA, Frontiers of Ecology and Evolution, 2:34, doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00034.

18. 2014 Niedermeyer, E.#, Sessions, A.L., Feakins, S.J., Mohtadi, M. Hydroclimate of the western Indo Pacific Warm Pool during the past 24,000 years, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 9402-9406. data

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17. 2014 Ibarra, Y.*, Corsetti, F.A., Cheetham, M.I.*, Feakins, S.J. Paleoenvironmental utility of the Oocardium stratum calcite biosignature in calcifying springs near Zaca Lake, California, Sedimentary Geology, 301, 15-25.

16. 2014a Feakins, S.J. , Kirby, M.E., Cheetham, M.I.*, Ibarra, Y.*, Zimmerman, S.R.H. Fluctuations in leaf wax D/H ratios from a southern California lake record significant variability in isotopes in precipitation during the late Holocene, Organic Geochemistry, 66, 48-59.

15. 2013c Feakins, S.J. , Ellsworth, P.V., Sternberg, L.D. Lignin methoxyl hydrogen isotope ratios in a coastal ecosystem, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 121, 54-66.

14. 2013 Kirby, M.E., Feakins, S.J. , Bonuso, N., Fantozzi, J.M., Hiner, C.A. Latest Pleistocene to Holocene hydroclimates from Lake Elsinore, California, Quaternary Science Reviews, 76, 1-15. data

13. 2013 Feakins, S.J. Pollen-corrected leaf wax D/H reconstructions of northeast African hydrological changes during the late Miocene, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 374, 62-71.

12. 2013b Feakins, S.J., Levin, N.E., Liddy*, H.M., Sieracki, A.**, Eglinton, T.I., Bonnefille, R. Northeast African vegetation change over 12 million years, Geology, 41, 295-298. data

11. 2013a Feakins, S.J., Rincon, M.*, Pinedo, P.* Analytical challenges in the quantitative determination of 2H/1H ratios of methyl iodide, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 27, 1-7.

10. 2012 Feakins, S.J., Warny, S., Lee, J.E. Hydrologic cycling over Antarctica during the Middle Miocene warming, Nature Geoscience, 5, 557-560. data

9. 2012 Sachse, D., Billault, I., Bowen, G.J., Chikaraishi, Y., Dawson, T., Feakins, S.J., Freeman, K.H., Magill, C., McInerney, F.A., van der Meer, M., Polissar, P., Robins, R., Sachs, J.P., Schmidt, H.L., Sessions, A.L., White, J., West, J.B., Kahmen, A. Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 40, 221-249. data

8. 2011 Romero, I.C.#, Feakins, S.J. Spatial gradients in plant leaf wax D/H across a coastal salt marsh in southern California. Organic Geochemistry, 42, 618-629.

7. 2010b Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A.L. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism controls D/H of leaf wax in succulent plants. Organic Geochemistry, 41, 1269-1276.

6. 2010a Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A.L. Controls on the D/H ratios of plant leaf waxes from an arid ecosystem. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74, 2128-2141.

5. 2007b Feakins, S.J., Eglinton, T.I. and deMenocal, P.B. A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegetation from lacustrine and marine sediments ca. 3.40 Ma, Organic Geochemistry, 38, 1607-1624.

4. 2007a Feakins, S.J., Brown, F.H., and deMenocal, P.B. Plio-Pleistocene Microtephra in DSDP Site 231, Gulf of Aden, Journal of African Earth Sciences, 48, 341-352. data

3. 2005 Feakins, S.J., deMenocal, P,B. Eglinton, T.I. Biomarker Records of Late Neogene changes in northeast African Vegetation, Geology, 33, 977-980. data

2. 2003 Stokes, S., Ingram, S., Aitken, M., Sirocko, F., Anderson, R., Leuschner, D. Alternative chronologies for Late Quaternary (Last Interglacial – Holocene) deep sea sediments via optical dating of silt-sized Quartz, Quaternary Science Reviews, 22, 925-941.

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1. 2001 Ingram, S., Stokes, S., Bailey, R. Confirmation of backscattered beta dose enhancement rates based on single aliquot regeneration (SAR) analysis of quartz sand and silt, Ancient TL, 19, 51-54.

Book Chapters- 2011 Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set, Wood, B. (Editor),

Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 1264. ISBN: 978-1-4051-5510-6. (Feakins, S.J. Contributing Editor – a large number of the Paleoclimate entries)

- 2010 Feakins, S.J. and deMenocal, P.B. Global and African regional climate during theCenozoic, in Cenozoic Mammals of Africa, Eds: Werdelin, L and Sanders, W.J. University of California Press, p. 45-55.

Theses- 2006 Feakins, S., Geochemical constraints on Northeast African environmental variability during

the late Neogene, Ph.D. Thesis, Columbia University.

- 2004 Ingram, S., Plio-Pleistocene Environmental Change: Terrestrial Vegetation Biomarkers in marine sediments off East Africa, M.Phil. Thesis, Columbia University.

- 2003 Ingram, S., Late Holocene SST variability in the Gulf of Aden, M.A. Thesis, Columbia U..

- 2001 Ingram, S., Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dating of Deep Sea Sediments from the Arabian Sea, Undergraduate dissertation, University of Oxford.

TEACHINGUndergraduate Courses:

GEOL 107-L Oceanography, 4 units, Fa09, Sp11, Fa11 (120 students), Fa13, Sp15 (180 students), Sp16, Fa16, Fa17, Fa18, Fa19, Fa20-online (240 students). Total GE students taught: 2,280. Next: Fa21 (270 students)

GEOL 387a Undergraduate Team Research, 2 units, Sp18 (10 students), Next: Fa21

GEOL 412 Oceans, Climate & Environment 4 units, Sp09, Sp11, Sp13, Fa14, Sp17, Sp19 (14-25 students). Total upper division students taught: ~120.

Total undergraduate students taught: ~2,400

Graduate Courses:

GEOL 575 Organic Geochemistry 3 units, Sp10, Sp12, Sp14, Sp18 (6-8 students), Next: Sp22.

GEOL 601 Seminar in Sedimentary Geology, 3 units (25% of course), Sp09

GEOL 566 Geochemistry Seminar, 1 unit, Fa14, Sp15, Sp16, Sp17, Fa18 (6-16 students).

GEOL 599 Special Topics - the Cutting Edge of Geoscience Research, 2 units (50% of course), Fa20-online (6 students)

Total graduate students taught: ~80

Undergraduate research course credit – not counted in teaching load

GEOL 490 Directed ResearchJ. Dolan, P. Cho, K. McPherson, A. Sieracki, J. Seeley, S. Oh, L. Petrie. Total 24 units, 7 students

GEOL 494 Senior Thesis P. Cho, A. Figueroa, L. Arvin, A. Sieracki, J. Seeley, L. Petrie. Total 12 units, 6 students

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Other teaching

Freshman microseminar – Our Past and Future Climate (Fa 2016); Climate Change and the Future of Energy (co-taught with Anderson, Fa 2009) Guest lectures at USC – ENST 105, GEOL 125, 150, 555 (for Haw, Stott, Corsetti)Guest lecture at UCLA – ESS 292, in 2012 (for Tripati)

Feakins attending teacher training:

2020 Accelerated Online Teaching Institute, USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching – 6 week course April-May 2020 to prepare for Fall 2020 possible online teaching need for GEOL 107 as well as to prepare for possibility of online masters degree programming.

2017 Expert Witness Training Academy (ETWA) at Mitchell-Hamline School of Law, NSF-funded attendance, in law school class: how to communicate science in a legal setting, involving role play as both expert witness, and direct/cross examiner in mock court-rooms with a public jury and experienced lawyers and judges instructing the course.

2010 National Association for Geoscience Teachers (NAGT): Workshop for Early Career Geoscience Faculty, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. NSF-funded attendance. Course included teacher training, and PI training and NSF visit.

MENTORING

USC POSTDOCTORAL & GRADUATE ADVISING (Feakins, principal advisor)[#] denotes number of co-authorships with advisees

Postdoctoral Researchers:Dr. Christoph Häggi, Postdoctoral SNF Fellowship 2019-2021 (2 years)

Alumni: [1S] Dr. Daolai Zhang CSC Scholar, visiting researcher 2018-2019 (1 year)

Now Researcher Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetlands, China Geological Survey, Qingdao.

[8] Dr. Camilo Ponton Postdoctoral researcher 2013-2015 (2 years, 5 months) Subsequently postdoc with John Eiler, Caltech; now Asst. Prof. Western Washington University.

[3] Dr. Bernhard Aichner Postdoctoral DAAD fellowship 2013-2014 (1 year, 3 months)Next DFG-funded research scientist at U. Potsdam; now PI of own research group at IGB-Berlin.

[1] Dr. Isabel Romero Postdoctoral fellow 2009-2010 (1 year) Subsequently postdoc with David Hollander, USF working on the Deepwater Horizon Spill using her organic geochemistry preparative and GC-MS analytical skills acquired in my lab; now research associate USF.

Graduate Program Students:Rachel So, USC Provost Fellowship (1 year), arriving Aug 2020-

[1S] Emily Tibbett, PhD candidate, Dornsife Fellowship (1 year), NSF GSRF Hon. mention, NSF ANT RA Feakins PI (2 years) 2017-

[1, 1S] Mark Peaple, PhD candidate, Dornsife Fellowship (1 year), NSF P2C2 RA Feakins PI (1 year) 2016-

Alumni: [4] Dr. Hyejung (Hazel) Lee, PhD 2019, USC Provost Fellow (2 yrs).

Thesis “Isotopic fractionations in plant biomarker molecules with application to paleoclimate”Now Scientist I at Beyond Meat, El Segundo, California.

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[1] Elias Karkabi, USC Provost Fellow (2 years), NSF RA Feakins PI (2 years) 2014-2016.

[6] Dr. Mong Sin (Christine) Wu, MSc 2014, PhD 2019.Thesis: “From tree tops to river runoff – tracing plant wax biomarkers across the Peruvian Andes and Amazon”. Now, laboratory research, Pasadena, CA.

[4] Dr. Hannah M. Liddy, PhD 2017, College Merit Fellow (2 years), Schlanger Fellow (1 year). Thesis:“Evolution of the Indian monsoon & rise of C4 photosynthesis in the Miocene & Pliocene”

Now Executive Liason Officer at Columbia University, NY for NASA AIMES bridging between her two appointments at CU and at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies .

Alumni, Master of Science progressive degree track (Feakins thesis advisor):Weiwei (Jamie) Hua, MSc 2019.Thesis: “Altitude effect on tree wood carbon isotopic composition in humid tropical forests” Data Analyst, Quantech USA LLC, Pittsburgh, PA.

USC GRADUATE STUDENTS (Feakins, minor advisor/committee member)

Alumni, graduate program (rotation, Feakins short-term co-advising) [2] Dr. Yadira Ibarra, Zaca Lake project tufa records of paleoclimate

Graduate student in Corsetti lab. PhD 2014, next postdoc Stanford, now Asst. Prof. CSUSF.

[1] Dr. Paulina Pinedo, lab rotation on iodomethane method development Aug-Oct 2011 on arrival in the Earth Sciences PhD program from a Chemistry BSc/MSc. Onto rotations with Hammond, Berelson; PhD with West/ Sanudo, then postdoc with John, now postdoc LDEO.

Current USC Graduate Students (committee member)Emily Williamson (July 2020-), screening committee member (Brutchey, Chemistry)Alexander Schmitt (Feb 2020-), screening committee member (Thompson, Chemistry)Pratyusha Das (August 2019-), screening committee member (Thompson, Chemistry)Colette Fletcher-Hoppe (Feb 2019-), qualifying committee member (Fuhrman, MEB)Diana Bojanova (November 2018-), qualifying committee member (Amend)Bryce Tappan (March 2018-, screening & qualifying committee member (Brutchey, Chemistry)Valeriy Cherapakhin (Fall 2017-), screening & qualifying committee member (Williams, Chemistry)Emily Burt (March 2017-) qualifying committee member (West)Jessica Zaiss-Bowman (March 2017-) qualifying committee member (formerly Stott, now Levine)Jun Shao (Sept 2015-) qualifying examination committee member (Stott)

Alumni, PhD thesis and qualifying examination (committee member)Eric Johnson (Feb 2020-Mar 2020), defense committee (Marinescu, Chemistry)Jun Hu (Apr 2016-May 2019) qualifying & defense examination committee (Emile-Geay)PingPing Qu, (March 2017-May 2019) qualifying & defense committee member (Hutchins, Biology)Gozde Barim (Feb 2015-2018) qualifying & defense examination committee (Brutchey, Chemistry)Beatriz Garcia-Barboza (Feb 2015-2017) qualifying & masters committee (McKenna, Chemistry)Jianghao Wang, PhD 2015, qualifying & defense examination committee (Emile-Geay)Yadira Ibarra, PhD 2014; qualifying & defense examination committee (Corsetti) Mengfan Zhu, PhD 2012; qualifying & masters committee; now researcher, CGGVeritas. (Stott)

Alumni, qualifying examination (committee member)Sylvia Dee, PhD 2015 (Emile-Geay)Gen Li, PhD 2015 (West)John Fleming, PhD 2015 (Berelson)Paulina Pinedo, lab rotation Aug-Oct 2011 (Sanudo/West)Abigail Joyce, Chemistry PhD 2013 (Haw) Mallory Pirogovsky, Chemistry PhD 2013 (Haw) Laurie Chong, PhD 2013 (Berelson)

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Patrick Horan, MSc 2010 (Stott)Organic geochemical paid technical experience (during MSc, USC Petroleum Engineering):

Conor O’Toole, research experience, Spring 2015 Zhilin Zhang, research experience 50% time, 2011-2012 (2 years), now engineer, BakerHughes

EXTERNAL TEACHING & MENTORING

Visitors, hosted in Feakins’ lab at USC: [#] denotes publication arising[1, 1M] Anne Tamalavage, graduate student at TAMU (July-Aug. 2016, June-Aug. 2017, May-Aug.

2019) [4] Xiuwei Liu, two month long visits in October 2016 and August 2017 during his postdoc at TAMU,

then a remote collaboration in August 2018 when I supervised two high schoolers and an undergrad in my lab working on his agricultural samples during his postdoc Noble Research Institute, 3 publications arising, one from each month long lab sessions. Now faculty Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang, our agriculture – organic geochemistry interdisciplinary collaboration continues with his first student in China (Jiang et al., S2). Gerard Otiniano, Masters student U. Toronto, Mississauga, (visit May 2017) now PhD student, currently working on his first manuscript on Pliocene terrestrial deposits in the Yukon.

[1] Aleesha Bakkelund, Masters student U. Toronto, Mississauga (visit June 2017) now consultant, 1 publication on Alaskan soil calibration, a 2nd manuscript in progress on Holocene paleoclimate.

[1] Jessica Hinojosa, postdoc at Caltech, (visitor September 2016) now geochemist Shell.[2] Tom Peters, Masters student U. Amsterdam (international rotation as part of his MSc, 6 month stay

Jan-July 2015). MSc Biology (U. Amsterdam), thesis work at USC: “Environment or taxonomy: Identifying major factors impacting leaf wax n-alkanes in the Peruvian rainforest and cloud forest”. Now working in IT sector in the Netherlands.

[1] Elias Karkabi, undergraduate, Ed Rhodes’ group UCLA (August 2013), later grad student USC.[1] Megan Rohrssen, PhD student, Gordon Love UCR, (April 2013), now postdoc in Bristol, UK.[1] Eva Niedermeyer, postdoc at Caltech, Alex Sessions’ group (October 2011, December 2012), then

Junior Researcher at Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung (SNG), Frankfurt, Germany.[1] Bernd Hoffmann, PhD student at University of Potsdam, Dirk Sachse’s group (May-June 2012),

next employed by the German government working with drone detection of crop conditions and GIS, now at Frauenhofer IPA working in the image and signal processing group.

[2] Trevor Porter, postdoc at University of Alberta, Duane Froese’s group (12/2012, 2/2013), now Asst. Prof. Geography at U. Toronto Mississauga, Canada. Collaboration ongoing, including hosting his students Aleesha Bakkelund and Gerard Otiniano for CSIA work.

Other mentoring (external collaboration):[2] David Naafs, while a postdoc in Rich Pancost’s group, my purified fractions of GDGTs incorporated

into two papers (high temperature peat calibration and Eocene application paper) and I advised on writing, graphing and career. I have ~300 samples to send him (purified GDGTs) for a new collaboration post COVID. Now a research fellow and lecturer at Bristol.

[1] Invited visitor (seminar, student meetings and mentoring) to the research group of Xiaojuan Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Beijing, 10 days, 2015.

External committee/examiner appointments: *USC visiting student advisee, as detailed aboveIris van der Veen (April 2021) PhD reader (U. Potsdam, Germany, Sachse)Milan Teunissen van Manen (May 2020) PhD reader & examiner (U. Amsterdam, NL, Gosling) Anne Tamalavage* (Sept 2018) quals exam committee (Texas A&M, Louchouarn/van Hengstum) Jake Andrae (September 2019) PhD reader (U. Adelaide, AU, McInerney)Laura Schreuder (May 2019) PhD reader (U. Utrecht, NL, Sinninghe-Damste)Sayak Basu (March 2019) PhD reader (IISER, Kolkata, India, Sanyal)

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Bernd Hoffmann* (May 2016) PhD committee (U. Potsdam, Germany, Sachse) Kweku Yamoah (May 2016) external examiner “opponent” (U. Stockholm, Sweden, Smittenberg)

USC UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Feakins – principal advisor (Total: 33)

Current Undergraduate Research (total 3)Betelhem Assefa research experience, Biochemistry Spring 2020 Dea Kurti research experience, Env.Eng. Pol.Sci Spring 2020Sharon Tu research experience, Biology Spring 2020

Undergraduate Alumni (Earth Science majors, total 15)

Advanced research experience including advanced laboratory skills training (like first year graduate student) and/or senior thesis (total 7), [#] coauthorships

Patrick Cho PhD program at U. of Notre Dame, plant wax with Asst. Prof. M. Berke 2020-Climate & Society MA at Columbia University graduating May 2020.Graduated with honors in 2018, USC Discovery Scholar, senior thesis, Earth Sci. Spring 2018directed research Fall 2017Provost Fellowship Spring 2017Provost Fellowship Fall 2016

Alexandra Figueroa Now environmental consultant O’Neill Service Group, SeattleEstwing Pick prize, Earth Science undergraduate achieverresearch experience Spring 2016senior thesis (GEOL 494, 2 units) Fall 2015WiSE fellow Summer 2015research experience Fall 2014

[1] Lindsay Arvin MSc U Wyoming, now Trihydro environmental consulting Laramie, WY.NSF Graduate fellowship recipient, for 3 yrs graduate program at U Wyoming.Estwing Pick prize for top Earth Science undergraduate achieversenior thesis (GEOL 494, 2 units) Fall 2014research experience Spring 2014SOAR, WiSE fellow Fall 2013

Krista McPherson subsequently MA in GIS, USC, now GIS Support Analyst for Desktop at Esri directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Fall 2014directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Spring 2014SOAR, WiSE fellow Fall 2013SURF, ESRAP Summer 2013

[1] Alexa Sieracki now at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington DCEstwing Pick prize for top Earth Science undergraduate achieversenior thesis (GEOL 494, 2 units) Spring 2013Provost fellowship Fall 2012directed research (GEOL 490, 4 units) Spring 2012Provost fellowship Fall 2011WiSE research fellowship Summer 2011SOAR fellowship Fall 2010/Spring 2011Provost fellowship Fall 2011/Spring 2012

Jack Seeley subsequently at AECOM for 4 years, then MSc program in Ohio.senior thesis (GEOL 494, 2 units) Spring 2012 directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Fall 2011

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directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Spring 2011SOAR fellowship Fall 2010

Lesley Petrie now PhD student UCSCsubsequently at the Denver Natural History Museum, Snowmastodon project senior thesis (GEOL 494, 2 units) Fall 2010directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Fall 2010WiSE research fellowship Fall 2009ESRAP fellowship Summer 2009

Introductory research experience (total 8)

Jonnie Dolan directed research Fall 2019 Shreya Agrawal research experience Spring 2018

Ariel Borsook Provost, SOAR Fellowship Fall 2017, Spring 2017Jane Lah research experience Spring 2016Haley Royer SOAR fellowship Fall 2014 Lauren Henry research experience Spring 2014Susan Oh research experience Spring 2012

directed research (GEOL 490, 2 units) Fall 2011 Kristan Culbert research experience Fall 2009-Spring 2010

now MSc Env Sci and management UCSB Bren School

Undergraduate Alumni (other disciplines, total 15)

Advanced experience whether advanced technical laboratory skills (transferrable to other disciplines or industry) and/or research skills (like first year graduate student) (total 9), [#] coauthorships

Hyo Sun Lee research experience Fall 2019URAP fellowship, Biochemistry Summer 2019

[] Efrain Vidal Now graduate student in Organic (Green) Chemistry, U. Oregon.GGURE research experience Spring 2019Rose Hills Fellowship Summer 2018research experience Spring 2018SOAR Fellowship Fall 2017KCM Undergraduate Grant Summer 2017Anita Brown Wilson ScholarshipEnv. studies & Chem. minor

[1] Yannick Matia Now legal assistantGGURE research experience Spring 2018-Spring 2019Econ. & env. studies minor

Jun Ho Paek Now project analyst Dannon, NJresearch experience, Chem Eng. Spring 2016-Spring 2017

Woorin (Lina) Lee Provost Fellowship Fall 2017SOAR Fellowship, Env. & Health Spring 2017

Jeremiah Sunwoo research experience, Env. Studies Spring 2015Next Cal EPA, then MSc ASU, now at Engineered by Layton

Clara Hua research experience, pre-health Summer 2012-Fall 2014Evan Rosca research experience, Mech. Eng. Summer 2013-Spring 2014Megan McDonald research experience, Mech Eng. 2010-2012,

Next engineer US Navy, now engineer Hilton Hotels, HI.

Introductory research experience (total 6)

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Lindsay Luchinsky Provost Fellowship, Env. Studies Fall 2019Mehawi Ghebrecristos, Citrus Community College Summer 2013Jacob Leonard research experience, Eng. Spring 2012, Spring 2013Kyle McAlahney research experience, Chemistry Spring 2012Vincent Nguyen research experience, Env. Studies 2011Tiffany Kao research experience, pre-health 2011

Technical Staff SupervisedMiguel Rincon part time lab manager/technician 2008-2013

High School InternsChristopher Rincon laboratory research experience (soil) summer 2019

Now USC biochemical engineering undergraduate starting Aug 2020.Elizabeth Zhang laboratory research experience (wheat) summer 2018Tiffany Yen laboratory research experience (wheat) summer 2018

SERVICE

To the Department Student Review Committee member, 2009-2012, 2017-2020 (ongoing) Social Media – I have been running the departmental Twitter @USC_Earth September 2018-

present. Goals: amplifying the reach of our students and faculty, balanced coverage, promoting institutional values and image.

Sustainability – taking on issues of trucked water, conference travel, waste, seeking better systems, teaching and engaging students, communications with other offices at USC.

Executive Committee, Department of Earth Sciences, 2016-2018 Graduate Program review: led the Oceans & Climate section of the self-study (16/18) Faculty Evaluation Committee member 08/09, 09/10, 14/15, 17/18 Faculty Hiring Committee member (07/08; 10/11; 12/13; 13/14; 15/16; 18/19) Initiated and maintain Earth-WiSE listserv and ad hoc meetings, 2009-ongoing Supervise undergraduate laboratory research experiences, 2008-ongoing

To the University University Research Committee, sponsored by the office of the Provost and the Academic

Senate, 2019-2020, monthly meetings with progress on laboratory safety and other topics. Zumberge Individual grant program, Office of Research & Provost’s Office, reviewer, 2020. Dornsife Evaluation Committee for Faculty Initiatives in Key Areas, reviewer and panelist for

the small and large grants, panels meeting in Spring 2019, Fall 2019. Dornsife RTPC Personnel Committee for AY 2016-2017 and 2017-2018. Dornsife Graduate Student Advisory Council for AY2016-2017 task force: international

students; and 2015-2016, task force: academic/non-academic placement. Co-Chair WiSE research symposium Sp 2017: event showcasing WiSE Assistant Professors. Panelist USC Unruh School (Politics) – USC Unruh Debate. CA vs. USA: How CA is mobilizing

to protect its climate agenda (Sp 2017) – video Panelist USC Dornsife – Electoral Commons on Climate Change (Fall 2016) – video Hiring Committee: Science and Engineering Librarian (Sp 2015) Vision and Voices: Lost Borders, co-proponent and speaker, drought communication event

including a play and discussion session in collaboration with the Theater department (Sp 2014)

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Coverage http://dailytrojan.com/2014/02/25/visions-and-voices-event-focuses-on-water-shortage/ Vision and Voices: ClimatePalooza, moderator of a session within this USC Annenberg-JPL

climate communication event (Sp 2014) Panelist USC Annenberg-JPL climate communication event (Sp2013) Endowed Fellowship Committee – member (Sp2011) College Commons speaker in collaboration with the French department (Sp2009)

To the ProfessionActive editorial roles:

Guest Associate Editor, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Monsoon special issue (2020) Associate Editor, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, (December 2020-ongoing) Associate Editor, Geophysical Research Letters (February 2019-January 2022, 3 years). Associate Editor, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (August 2016-ongoing).

Past editorial roles: Editorial Board, Quaternary Science Reviews (1/2018-10/2019, 2 years). Guest Associate Editor, Proceedings of the National Academies, U.S.A. (2017). PNAS IF = 9.58.

Reviewer: Reviewer for funding agencies mostly for the US National Science Foundation (NSF), but also

for the American Chemical Society (ACS), European Research Council (ERC), German National Science Foundation (DFG), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), Chilean National Science Foundation (CONICYT), German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) (Germany), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH) (Switzerland), M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society, Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study, Canada Foundation for Innovation, UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

Reviewer for academic journals including: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Nature Geoscience, Geology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Organic Geochemistry, Quaternary Science Reviews, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate of the Past, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, G-cubed, Global Change Biology, Scientific Reports, International Journal of Earth Sciences, Isotopes in Environmental & Health Studies, Global and Planetary Change, The Holocene, Geoderma, Aquatic Biology, Limnology and Oceanography.

Outstanding reviewer status, i.e. quality and quantity threshold (date reached): Organic Geochemistry (2016), Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2017) and Quaternary Science Reviews (2017). Geological Society of America Exceptional Reviewer (2014) for Geology.

Panelist: Panelist for funding agencies: NSF OCE and EAR (2 weeks), University of California (1 day). NOAA World Data Center for Paleoclimatology (NOAA NCEI) Paleoceanography Panel 2017 Chair of the 5-member selection committee for the AGU Paloclimate & Paleoceanography Focus

Group, Dansgaard Award, 2015, 2016. IODP SEP 2016-2019 (6 weeks of panel time) see next section.

Multi-national drilling initiatives: Writer for the new Science Framework in support of Scientific Ocean Drilling through 2050

for the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), 2019-2020. Procedure and draft here: http://iodp.org/2050-science-framework-survey

Member of Science Evaluation Panel (SEP) of the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP), 2016-2019.

Shore-based scientist and mentor of postdoc participant in the International Ocean Discovery Program’s 2020 Amazon Fan Expedition 387 (C. Haeggi, postdoc sailing), postponed to 2022.

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ICDP Trans Amazon Drilling Project (TADP), member of the science team, drilling 2020-2021. Feakins committed to 50% of the organic geochemistry.

Co-PI and member of the international science team proposing “Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Drilling” to the ICDP program. Drilling proposal accepted, but later retired (2019).

Shore-based scientist and mentor of student participant in the International Ocean Discovery Program’s 2015 Indian Ocean Expedition 355 Indus Fan (H. Liddy, graduate student sailing).

Shore-based scientist and mentor of postdoc participant in the International Ocean Discovery Program’s 2015 Indian Ocean Expedition 354 Bengal Fan (C. Ponton, postdoc sailing).

Co-PI on the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Proposal 724-Full, 2006, to drill the Gulf of Aden to acquire new sediments to inform on climate change and human evolution.

Conference session convener: Session co-chair, “Source to sink dynamics of sediment, solutes and carbon: implications for

climate, biogeochemical cycles, tectonics and life”, with Dirk Sachse, Joel Scheingross, Marissa Respasch, Goldschmidt, Hawaii June 2020. Conference session will be virtual.

Organizing committee for Chapman Conference on Monsoons, Washington DC, January 2020. Invited session chair, discussion leader: The Greenhouse Earth System, Bristol, UK, 2017. Session co-chair, AGU, Fall 2016: “Terrestrial Hydroclimate”, with J. Oster, Vanderbilt. Invited session chair, Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Holderness, NH,

2016: opening session of the conference: “Past Climates, Analogues for Future Change”. Session chair, AGU, Fall 2015: “Biomarkers in paleoclimate: development, applications, and

interpretations”, co-chair J. Tierney, Arizona. Session chair, Goldschmidt 2014, Sacramento, CA: “From ape to human: resolving the climatic

and tectonic context of 10 million years of hominin evolution”, co-chair R. Pickering, Melbourne. Session co-chair, AGU, Fall 2013: “Molecular Paleoclimatology: what biomarkers tell us about

the Earth's climate system”, co-chair J. Tierney, WHOI. Session co-chair, AGU, Fall 2010: “Molecules ancient to modern”, co-chair P. Polissar, UCSC. Session co-chair, regional GSA in Anaheim, CA, Spring 2010, “Terrestrial and Marine Records

of Late Quaternary Climate from Western North America/Eastern Pacific: Developments, Comparisons, and Directions” co-chairs M. Kirby CSUF, K. Johnson, UCI, R. Negrini, CSUB.

Workshop participant: Miocene workshop, Stockholm University, May 2018, May 2019. Review paper arising. International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): Trans-Amazon Drilling Project,

Manaus, Brazil (2019) represented by C. Haeggi, postdoctoral researcher. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP): Land-ocean interactions across the Indian

Ocean: toward regional integration of recent drilling results. Narragansett, Rhode Island. The Greenhouse Earth System (T-GRES), Bristol, UK, (2017) International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP): Exp 354 Post-expedition, Pokhara, Nepal (2017) International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP): Antarctica’s Cenozoic ice and climate history:

new science and new challenges of drilling in Antarctic waters, College Station, TX (2016) International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP): Trans-Amazon Drilling Project,

Manaus, Brazil (2015) Did climate change shape human evolution? Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (2012) NSF Critical Transitions workshop, US-China, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles (2012) African Climate Variability, Johns Hopkins University (2012) International Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): Scientific Drilling in the Indian Ocean, Goa (2011) National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent): Earth Surface Processes & Evolution of

Mammalian Tooth Shape, Duke University (2010) National Research Council: Earth System Context for Hominin Evolution, Irvine, CA (2008) NSF: Paleoclimate and Human Evolution Workshop, VA (2005)

Public service

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K-12 Outreach Science and Engineering Fair Judge, Palos Verdes Unified School District (2020, 2021). GEOL 107 Oceanography, supports student participation in the Joint Education Program

(2009-present, typically 8 students per year in 4 LAUSD classrooms). Hosted lab tours for participants of the 2014 SACNAS conference in Los Angeles.

Conservation Evidence (Feakins et al., 2005) requested and submitted as part of the UNESCO World

Heritage Site Designations for Human Origins Sites in Africa. UNESCO, 2012, Human Origins and the World Heritage Convention in Africa, World Heritage Paper 33, p. 254.

“PUBLIC SQUARE” COMMUNICATION & MEDIA COVERAGE

2020 Why is it important to remember what came before?  USC Dornsife Magazine, 12/4/20

Disney, panel discussion moderated by Adina Savin, speaking on climate change (Sarah Feakins) and politics (Jane Junn) in celebration of International Womens’ Day 3/9/2020.

Direct communication via Twitter in a personal/professional capacity @SFeakins 1.2k followers, (2014-present).

Institutional public relations via Twitter, with a strategic plan and co-ordination with Dornsife social media office, representing the department @USC_Earth, 400 followers (2018-present).

2019 Newsweek and other global press coverage of PNAS publication of discovery of wood export to the Bengal Fan. Newsweek 10/21/2019; NSF news 11/31/2019; USC Dornsife news 10/21/2019; Atlas Obscura 11/1/2019; Phys.org; La Vanguardia (Barcelona) in Spanish, AmericaRU in Russian 10/21/2019.

Panel discussion: Climate Change, 2nd Annual SoCal Science Writing Symposium, USC.

2018 Developed and taught a new class on science communication to 6 graduate students.

Lecture series as an Ocean Discovery Lecturer at 7 Universities and a museum in TN.

Interviewed by documentary filmmaker and USC alum (my former GEOL 107 student) for a documentary on East Porterville sponsored by the Schwarzenegger Institute.

Supported news coverage of the Thomas Fire research being done at USC, via Dornsife News, imagery and mentored talking points for faculty and students, coverage in LA Times & KPCC.

2017 Panel discussion: with Kerry Cook of UT Austin and others, at Mayborn Museum, Waco, TX. (1hr 30mins) 10/12/17.

Panel discussion: A Climate Series for the Ages, at the La Brea Tar Pits, hosted by UCLA IOES, Climate Change Cliff Notes panelists Michael Mann, Daniel Swain & Sarah Feakins moderated by BoB Lalasz, (1hr 30 mins) 10/5/17

TV interview: Voice of America - "Finding Solutions to the World's New Reality: Water Shortage" (2mins) 9/10/2017

TV interview: Voice of America – “Prepping for Future with Drought-resistant Wheat” 8/29/17

Radio interview: KPCC “Can we breed crops to be more drought tolerant” 8/18/17

USC News: “Wax on: how wheat plants shield themselves during drought” press-release 8/15/17

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Press: University of Bristol: Hothouse climates of the past: lessons for the future here 5/19/17

USC Unruh Debate. CA vs. USA: How CA is mobilizing to protect its climate agenda, video 3/28/2017

TV interview: KTLA 5 short clip on coal aired 3/28/2017

Print: The Press Enterprise (serving 12 local newspapers): “Why Trump’s climate change rollback doesn’t change anything for California” quoted on p2 3/28/2017

Panel discussion at USC: Electoral Commons on climate change. (1hr 30 mins) September 2016

USC Dornsife video “Tap the past to map the future”. Showcasing my leaf wax lab and graduate student Hannah Liddy, undergraduate Patrick Cho working on IODP Bay of Bengal samples from the Miocene. 1/2017 (picked as one of top five USC Dornsife videos in 2017)

Dornsife video “We see trees differently”, Holiday Greeting, December 2016. here

2016 Radio interview: KPCC science and current events. 12/12/16.

Interview for book author Kermit Pattison on the topic of climate change and human evolution.

2015 Interview, quoted in: “The Horse: A biography of our noble companion” by Wendy Wood.

CBS2-KCAL9 TV: New water restrictions, record drought. 4/1/2015.

2014 YouTube video 1.4k views: How to pack a combustion reactor for GC-C-IRMS. 6/27/2014

The Nation: Trucking water in California as wells run dry. 12/8/2014 here

KPCC radio, comment on Griffin and Anchukaitis, 2014. 9/5/2014. here KPCC, comment on Ault et al., 2014. 9/2/2014. here

Scientific American coverage of Feakins et al., 2013, Geology. here Chinese

Midterm Mayhem TV interview. Filmed in USC lab with USC undergrad Krista McPherson doing chemistry in backdrop. Aired 10/7/2014.

KFWB live radio interview; on the current drought and prognosis, aired on Drive Time News Talk 980, invited on the show for live interviews three times: 2/6/14, 3/4/14 and 6/25/14.

US News and World Reports- article on snowfall and ski resorts February 14th 2014.

BBC Radio 5 live radio interview: discussion of climate science surrounding drought in California. Up All Night. Aired Tuesday 2/4/2014. audio archive here (20 mins)

KCBS TV news interview: on the drought. Aired on CBS2 and KCAL9 on 1/27/2014.

NBC4 TV news interview: regarding the 1/17/2014 Discussion of climate science surrounding drought declaration by Governor Brown of California. NBC4 News Conference with Conan Nolan. Aired Sunday 1/20/2014. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/NewsConference--Sarah-Feakins--USC-Earth-Science-Professor/240958811 (15 mins)

2013 Print/online media coverage of Geology publication on African ecosystems across 12 million years was extensive and included printed articles in The Economist “Grassed Up: A cherished theory about why people walk upright has just bitten the dust” National Geographic, Red Orbit; Futurity; USC news. Radio: interview on Quirks and Quarks, CBC, Canada; Academic Minute WAMC/NPR.

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On USC campus: Panelist “Scientists on the Ground” at the ClimatePalooza 2013 and 2014, hosted by the Earth Science Initiative at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

Blog post: Feakins, S. J. ‘Along the river route’ on USC Dornsife and USC News.Spanish language print/online media: report on fieldwork and postdoc Ponton, coverage across South America (Colombia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, e.g, ADN, Columbia see p17/20) on Fox New Latino, Univision, EFE Green.

Print coverage of Kirby et al., 2013, QSR in OC Register and Central Valley Business Times.

2012 Print/online media coverage of Feakins et al., 2012, Nature Geoscience was extensive: National Geographic, EARTH magazine articles were written based on interviews; story appeared in 30+ newspapers around the world in numerous languages including Times of India, Daily Mail (UK), Suddeutsche (Germany); featured in USC Chronicle, USC.edu frontpage, NASA.gov frontpage and JPL frontpage USC/NASA/JPL press release. Blog: RealClimate.org, guest blog ‘My Oh Miocene’, by Feakins, S.J. with 193 comments.

Radio: interview on RadioLIVE New Zealand; KPCC NPR commentary; interview on Quirks and Quarks, CBC, Canada.

Print/online media coverage of Zaca Lake project: Searching for 200-Year Storms: Scientists Scour Santa Barbara Lakes for Evidence of Floods, Landslides, Santa Barbara Independent.

2009 TV current event interview: With the recent rains are we still in drought? KABC TV7 NEWS

2008 Print media coverage of research at the Huntington: Turning over an Old Leaf, Huntington Frontiers, Fall/Winter 2008

TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Invited Seminars (&IODP-Lecture series, International)

Post-tenure (22):

Montclair State University, NJ, 2020.University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2020. cancelled due to COVIDUSC, Department of Earth Sciences Department Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, 2020. Iowa State University, Geological and Atmospheric Sciences Department Seminar, Ames, IA, 2019. &

Binghamton University, Geological Sciences Department Seminar, Binghamton, NY, 2019. &

Syracuse University, Earth Sciences Department Seminar and PaleoX Seminar, Syracuse, NY, 2019. &

Florida International University, Earth and Environment Department Seminar, Miami, FL, 2019. &

Kansas State University, Geology Department Seminar, Manhattan, KS, 2018. &

Williams College, Geosciences Department Seminar, MA, 2018. &

Adventure Science Center, Public Lecture, Nashville, TN, 2018. &

Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department Seminar, IL, 2018. Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department Seminar, IN, 2017.Mayborn Museum, Baylor University Earth Science Symposium, Public Lecture, TX, 2017.Texas A&M, Oceanography Department Seminar, Galveston, TX, 2016.ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Department Seminar, Switzerland. 2016. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Beijing, China. 2015.

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University of Arizona, Department Seminar, Tucson, AZ, 2015.Bristol University, Chemistry Department Seminar, United Kingdom, 2015.Birmingham University, Geography, Earth and Environ. Sciences Department Seminar, UK, 2015. University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment Seminar, United Kingdom, 2015.Environmental Science and Engineering Departmental Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 2015.

Pre-tenure (15):

University of California Santa Cruz, Earth and Planetary Sciences Departmental Seminar, CA, 2015.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Colloquium, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, 2014. videoUniversity of Miami, RSMAS Departmental Seminar, Miami, FL, 2013.Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Paleoenvironment Seminar, Columbia University, NY, 2013. Rockefeller University, Human Origins Seminar, 2013.USC, Department of Earth Sciences Paleoenvironment Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, 2013. ETH Zurich, Geological Institute, Department Seminar, Switzerland, 2012. University of Potsdam, Earth & Environmental Sciences Department Seminar, Germany, 2012.Scripps Institution of Oceanography Seminar, La Jolla, CA. 2012.Louisiana State University, Earth Sciences Department Seminar, Baton Rouge, LA, 2011.University of California, Riverside, Earth Sciences Department Seminar, Riverside, CA, 2011.University of California at Los Angeles, Geocheminar, Los Angeles, CA, 2010USC, Department of Earth Sciences Department Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, 2009. California State University, Fullerton, Earth Sciences Department Seminar, Fullerton, CA, 2009.USC, Department of Earth Sciences, Geochemistry Seminar, Los Angeles, CA, 2006.

First Author Conference Presentations 2021

Feakins, S.J., Did monsoon precipitation drive C4 expansion in the late Miocene? www.monsoongeoseminars.com

2020

Feakins, S.J., Levin, N.E., Beverly, E.J., Zhang, D., Vidal, E., Matia, Y. Signals of the Serengeti: how do four carbon isotopic proxies for C4 grasslands compare? Fall AGU 2020. Abstract. INVITED.

Feakins, S.J., Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, cancelled due to COVID.

Feakins, S.J., Did monsoon precipitation drive C4 expansion in the late Miocene? AGU Chapman conference: Evolution of the Monsoon, Biosphere and Mountain Building in Cenozoic Asia. Washington, DC. INVITED KEYNOTE.

2019

Feakins, S.J. Miocene monsoon precipitation and ecosystem transformation: plant wax evidence from Indian Ocean drilling, MioMeet 2019, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm. INVITED.

2018

Feakins, S.J., Vidal, E.**, Cho, P.G.**, Wu, M.S.*, Ponton, C.*, Galy V. Plant wax evidence for monsoon precipitation and the expansion of C4 ecosystems in the late Miocene (2018) Goldschmidt, Boston. INVITED. Abstract.

Feakins, S.J., Two Miocene transitions in hydroclimate and land plant ecology, Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm. INVITED.

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Feakins, S.J., discussant for the session: Ventilating silos: Framing biological anthropology’s public message on global climate change, AAPA, Austin, TX. INVITED.

9 co-presenters: John, S., Feakins, S.J., West, A.J. and 6 group members. Smoke on the water: A rapid response cruise to study impacts of the Thomas Fire, Environment seminar, USC Earth Sciences.

2017

Feakins, S.J., Hydrological change and the expansion of C4 ecosystems during the Neogene, IODP workshop: Land-ocean interactions across the Indian Ocean: toward regional integration of recent drilling results. Narragansett, Rhode Island. INVITED KEYNOTE.

Feakins, S.J., Hydrologic impacts of mid-Miocene and early Pliocene warmth: 3 records from the margins of the Indian Ocean, The Greenhouse Earth System (T-GRES), Bristol, UK. INVITED.

Feakins, S.J., EGU INVITED KEYNOTE. Declined due to teaching.

2016

Feakins, S.J., West, A.J., Galy, V., Malhi, Y., Girardin, C., Asner, G.P., Ponton, C.#, Wu, M.S.* How does forest productivity influence river export of plant wax? Fall AGU 2016. Abstract. INVITED.

Feakins, S.J., Peters, T*, Wu, M.S.*, Shenkin, A., Salinas, N., Girardin, C., Bentley, L.P., Blonder, B., Enquist, B.J., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Taxonomic and environmental drivers of leaf wax concentrations and production in a tropical forest elevation transect, Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, New Hampshire. Abstract. Poster.

Feakins, S.J. Plant wax biomarkers in the Andes-Amazon: signals of elevation, ecology and hydrology, Mini symposium on paleoclimatology and organic geochemistry, MARUM, Bremen, Germany, INVITED.

2015

Feakins, S.J., Biomarker insights into terrestrial OC sourcing in a tropical montane system: Andes-Amazon, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, INVITED.

Feakins, S.J. Plant waxes as proxies for past environments. Plant Wax 2015. Ascona, Switzerland. Abstract. INVITED KEYNOTE.

Feakins, S.J. Neogene monsoons: leaf wax insights into precipitation and vegetation change. Monsoons: past, present and future, workshop, Caltech, INVITED.

2014

Feakins, S.J. Reconstructing vegetation and hydrology. LDEO Colloquium, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. Abstract. INVITED.

Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C. # Malhi, Y., Goldsmith, G. #, Salinas, N. #, Bentley, L.P. #, Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of lignin methoxyl in tropical trees from the Andes to Amazon. Organic Geochemistry Gordon Research Conference (New Hampshire). Poster. Abstract.

Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C. #, Feng, X., West A.J., Galy, V. A tale of two molecules: leaf wax and lignin. Goldschmidt (Sacramento). Abstract. INVITED KEYNOTE.

Feakins, S.J., Liddy, H.M.*, Tierney, J.E. Were semi-arid areas wetter or drier during the Pliocene? Fall AGU (San Francisco). Abstract. INVITED.

Feakins, S.J. Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry of plant biomarkers in tropical trees from the Andes to Amazon. Fall AGU (San Francisco). Abstract. INVITED.

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2004-2013 30 first author presentations at national and international venues of which 18 invited talks.

Advisee first author conference presentations (postdoc#, grad*, undergrad**)

2020

Tibbett, E.J.*, Scher, H.D., Warny, S., Tierney, J.E., Passchier, S., Feakins, S.J. Vegetation refugia and warm pulses amid late Eocene cooling and drying on the margins of East Antarctica. AGU 2020 (held online). Abstract. Poster.

Häggi, C.#, Bertassoli, D.J., Akabane, T.K., Sawakuchi, A.O., Chiessi, C., Feakins, S.J., Differential incorporation of plant waxes and organic carbon into neotropical rainforest and savanna soils, AGU 2020 (held online). Abstract. Talk.

Häggi, C.#, Bertassoli, D.J., Akabane, T.K., Sawakuchi, A.O., Chiessi, C., Feakins, S.J. Plant wax isotope signatures of neotropical vegetation biomes in soils across Brazil, Goldschmidt 2020 (held online). Abstract. Talk.

Häggi, C.#, Peaple, M.*, Tibbett, E.J.*, each had planned attendances at 2 conferences: Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry (cancelled) and So Cal Geobio (postponed) - due to COVID.

2019

Häggi, C.#, Bertassoli, D.J., Akabane, T.K., Sawakuchi, A.O., Chiessi, C., Feakins, S.J. Leaf-wax isotope signature of neotropical savanna and tropical forest vegetation, AGU Fall 2019. Abstract. Poster.

Peaple, M.*, Lowenstein, T., McGee, D., Tierney, J.E., Olson, K., Bhattycharya, T., Stroup, J., Chen, C, Smoot, J., Janick, J., Feakins, S.J. Southern Californian Hydroclimate and Vegetation change over the past 200,000 yrs. AGU Fall 2019. Abstract. Poster.

Tamalavage, A.E.*, van Hengstum, P.J., Louchouarn, P., Donnelly, J.P., Albury, N.A., Feakins, S.J . Plant wax biomarkers informing mid-late Holocene hydroclimate variability from an inland sinkhole in the Northern Caribbean. AGU Fall 2019. Abstract. Poster.

Tibbett, E.J.*, Scher, H., Warny, S., Feakins, S.J.  Plant wax biomarker record of hydroclimate prior to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. AGU Fall 2019. Abstract. Poster.

Tamalavage, A.E.*, van Hengstum, P.J., Louchouarn, P., Donnelly, J.P., Albury, N.A., Feakins, S.J . Plant wax biomarkers informing mid-late Holocene hydroclimate variability from an inland sinkhole in the Northern Caribbean. Graduate Climate Conference, WHOI. Abstract. Poster.

Peaple, M.*, Lowenstein, T., McGee, D., Olson, K., Stroup, J., Chen, C, Smoot, J., Janick, J., Lund, S., Feakins, S.J. Southern Californian Hydroclimate and Vegetation change over the past 150,000 yrs. Graduate Climate Conference, WHOI. Abstract. Talk.

Tibbett, E.J.*, Scher, H., Warny, S., Feakins, S.J.  Plant wax biomarker record of hydroclimate prior to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. USC Paleosciences Research Consortium, Claremont, CA. Talk.

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Lee, H.*, Galy, V., Feng, X., Ponton, C.*, Galy, A., France-Lanord, C., Feakins, S.J. Sustained wood burial in the Bengal Fan over the last 19 million years, So Cal Geobio, Caltech, Poster. Abstract.

Peaple, M.*, Lowenstein, T., McGee, D., Olson, K., Stroup, J., Chen, C, Smoot, J., Janick, J., Lund, S., Feakins, S.J. Southern Californian Hydroclimate and Vegetation change over the past 150,000 yrs. So Cal Geobio, Caltech, Poster. Abstract.

Tibbett, E.J.*, Scher, H., Feakins, S.J. Plant wax biomarker record of hydroclimate prior to the Eocene-Oligocene Transition from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Socal Geobiology Symposium, Pasadena, CA. Poster. Abstract.

Vidal, E.**, Matia, Y.**, Zhang, D.*, Beverly, E., Levin, N.E., Feakins, S.J. Quantifying plant wax biomarkers in soils of the Serengeti grasslands, Tanzania, So Cal Geobio. Poster. Abstract.

Wu, M.S.*, West, A.J, Feakins, S.J. Tropical soil profiles reveal the fate of plant wax biomarkers in soil storage, So Cal Geobio, Caltech. Poster. Abstract.

Zhang, D.#, Vidal, E.**, Matia, Y.**, Beverly, E., Levin, N.E., Feakins, S.J. Plant wax carbon isotopic composition in soils from a transect across the Serengeti, Africa, So Cal Geobio, Poster. Abstract.

2018Tamalavage, A.E.*, van Hengstum, P.J., Louchouarn, P., Donnelly, J.P., Albury, N.A., Kaiser, K.,

Molodtsov, S., Fall, P.L., Feakins, S.J . Interpreting a sinkhole plant wax record of Holocene precipitation on a changing Bahamian landscape. AGU Fall 2018. Abstract. Poster.

Otiniano, G.A.*, Porter, T.J., Benowitz, J.A., Feakins, S. J., Froese, D.G., Jensen, B.J., Bindeman, I.N., Bond, J.D. Late Mio-Pliocene paleo-elevations in S. Alaska constrained by precipitation isotopes archived in fossil leaf waxes and hydrated volcanic glass shards. Fall AGU. Abstract. Poster.

Tibbett, E.*, Feakins, S.J., Warny S. Plant wax reconstruction of climate prior to East Antarctic glaciation, Graduate Climate Conference, Seattle, WA. Abstract. Poster.

2017

Cho, P.G.**, Vidal, E.**, Paek, J.H.**, Lee, W.**, Wu, M.S.*, Ponton, C.*, Galy, V. Feakins, S.J., Undergraduate Collaborative Research: Distribution of Plant Wax Biomarkers in Miocene-age Sediments from the Bengal Fan (IODP Exp 354), Fall AGU, New Orleans. Poster. Abstract.

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C.*, West, A.J., Galy, V., Evaluating sourcing and fluvial integration of plant wax biomarkers from the Peruvian Andes to Amazonian lowlands. Fall AGU. Abstract.

Aichner, B. #, Mischke, S., Pausata, F.S.R., Werner, M., Zhang, Q., Heinecke, L, Feakins, S.J., Sachse, D., Mahmoudov, Z., Rajabov, I. What drives hydrogen isotopic variability recorded by biomarkers in sediments of Lake Karakul, Pamir? Fall AGU, New Orleans. Poster. Abstract.

Peaple, M.D.*, Feakins, S.J., Levin, N.E., Haile-Selassie, Y. Plant wax reconstructions of paleoecology and paleohydrology at Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia, GSA Fall Meeting. Poster. Abstract.

Otiniano, G.A.*, Porter, T.J., Feakins, S.J., Benowitz, J.A., Bakkelund, A.M.P*, Bond, J.D., Froese, D.G., Precipitation isotope-based reconstruction of Pliocene temperatures in Alaska and Yukon from fossil plant n-alkanoic acids, GSA Fall Meeting. Poster. Abstract.

Bakkelund, A.*, Porter, T.J., Feakins, S.J., Pisaric, M., Holocene climate change at Spindly Pine Lake, Southwestern Yukon, inferred from plant wax D, GSA Fall Meeting. Poster. Abstract.

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Bakkelund, A.*, Porter, T.J., Feakins, S.J., Froese, D., Otiniano, G.A.* Apparent fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in n-alkanoic acids in a soil transect from boreal forests in Eastern Beringia, GSA Fall Meeting. Abstract.

Cho, P.G.**, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C.#, Galy, V. Quantification of plant wax biomarkers in the Bengal Fan, Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

Peaple, M.D.*, Feakins, S.J., Levin, N.E., Reconstructing northeast African Pliocene paleoenvironments, So Cal Geobio Symposium, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

2016

Liddy, H.L.*, Feakins, S.J., Clift, P.D., Tauxe, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Scardia, G., Warny, S., Bendle, J., Galy, V., Zhou, P. and IODP Expedition 355 Science Party. Late Miocene hydrological change in the Indus River catchment. Fall AGU 2016. INVITED.

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C.#, Peters, T.*, West, A.J., Galy, V., Bentley, L.P.#, Salinas, N.#, Shenkin, A.#, Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia. Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, New Hampshire. Abstract. Poster.

Lee, H.*, Feakins, S.J., Lu, Z., Tierney, J.E., Schimmelmann, A., Williams, T.J. A comparison of phthalic acid esterification methods. Gordon Research Conference on Organic Geochemistry, New Hampshire. Abstract. Poster.

Kirkels, F.M.S.A*, Ponton, C.#, Feakins, S.J., West, A.J., Peterse, F. Transport of soil organic carbon in the catchment of the Amazon River traced by branched GDGTs, Goldschmidt, Japan. Abstract.

Aichner, B.#, Mischke, S., Pausata, F., Heinecke, L., Feakins, S.J., Sachse, D., Rajabov, I., A 30ka hydroclimatic record from the Pamir. Goldschmidt, Yokohama, Japan. Abstract.

Karkabi, E.C.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C.#, Galy, V., IODP Expedition 354 Shipboard Scientists, Leaf wax biomarker reconstructions of monsoon precipitation and terrestrial vegetation from the Bengal Fan sedimentary record since ca. 25 Ma. So Cal Geobio, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

Lee, H.*, Feakins, S.J., Lu, Z., Tierney, J.E., Schimmelmann, A., Williams, T.J. A comparison of phthalic acid esterification methods. So Cal Geobio Symposium, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

Liddy, H.M.*, Feakins, S.J., Tauxe, L., Scardia, G., Ando, S., Bendle, J., Clift, P.D., IODP Expedition 355 Science Party, Indus-wide C4 expansion between 7-6 Ma: an IODP Expedition 355 discovery. So Cal Geobio Symposium, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C. #, Peters, T., West, A.J., Galy, V., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia. So Cal Geobio Symposium, Caltech. Abstract. Poster.

Liddy, H.M.*, Feakins, S.J., Tauxe, L., Scardia, G., Ando, S., Bendle, J., Clift, P.D., IODP Expedition 355 Science Party, Indus-wide C4 expansion between 7-6 Ma: an IODP Expedition 355 discovery. Fall AGU 2015. Abstract. INVITED.

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C. #, Peters, T.*, West, A.J., Galy, V., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia. Fall AGU 2015. Abstract. Poster.

Inglis, G.N. #, Naafs, D.A. #, Feakins, S.J., Lahteenoja, O.#, Ponton, C.#, Collins, M.E., Rohrssen, M.#, Pancost, R.D. First occurrence of archaeal tetraether lipids with 5 to 7 cyclopentane moieties in a mesophilic setting. Goldschmidt, Prague. Abstract. Poster.

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Kirkels, F.A.*, Ponton, C.#, Feakins, S.J., Peterse, F. Tracing fluvial soil organic matter transport in the upper catchment of the Amazon R. using GDGT distributions. IMOG, Prague. Abstract. Poster.

Kirkels, F.A.*, Ponton, C.#, Feakins, S.J., Peterse, F. Tracing fluvial soil organic matter transport in the upper catchment of the Amazon River using GDGT distributions. SOM6 (S. Carolina). Abstract.

2015

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C. #, West, A.J., Galy, V., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia. Plant Wax 2015. Ascona, Switzerland. Abstract. Poster.

Hoffmann, B.*, Feakins, S.J. , Bookhagen, B. , Olen, S.M., Barthold, F., and Sachse, D. Quantifying leaf wax sources in the Arun Valley, eastern Nepal: Combining remotely sensed data and leaf wax δD values. Plant Wax 2015. Ascona, Switzerland. Abstract. Poster.

Karkabi, E.C.*, Feakins, S.J., West, A.J., Ponton, C.#, Galy, V. The evolving surface area characteristics of suspended sediment in a large montane river. So Cal Geobio (UCR). Abstract. Poster.

Lee, H.*, Feakins, S.J. , Lu, Z.*, Tierney, J.E., Schimmelmann, A., Williams, T.J. A comparison of methods for the conversion of fatty acids to methyl esters prior to GC-MS. So Cal Geobio Symposium (UCR). Abstract. Poster.

Peters, T*, Feakins, S.J., Wu, M.S.*, Salinas, N.#, Bentley, L.P.#, Shenkin, A.#, Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. The chain length distribution of n-alkanes across environmental gradients and phylogenies in Peruvian forests. So Cal Geobio Symposium (UCR). Abstract. Poster.

Wu, M.S.*, Feakins, S.J., Ponton, C.*, West, A.J., Galy, V., Bentley, L.P., Salinas, N., Shenkin, A., Martin, R.E., Asner, G.P., Malhi, Y. Leaf wax δ13C varies with elevation in the Peruvian Andes and western Amazonia. So Cal Geobio Symposium (UCR). Abstract. Poster.

Aichner, B.#, Mischke, S., Heinecke, L., Rajabov, I. Feakins, S.J., Kussner, M., Barth, A. Adler, K. Central Asian paleoclimate of the last 30,000 years. EGU (Vienna). Abstract. Poster.

2009-2014: 43 presentations by postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students (not listed).

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FIELD RESEARCH

Shipboard & Field Campaigns

Leadership and participation in international collaborative, large-budget expeditions (IODP = International Ocean Discovery Program; ICDP = International Continental Drilling Program)

2020 IODP Expedition 387 Amazon Margin, Atlantic Ocean. Postdoc Christoph Haggi selected to sail as shipboard scientist (2 months), proposal for post-expedition funding (PI Feakins). Scheduled drilling 4/2020-6/2020, delays due to necessary ship repairs in seasonal window of opportunity, COVID delays also impact the program, rescheduling expected 2022.

2019 ICDP Trans Amazon Drilling Proposal (TADP), Brazil (PI: Baker). Feakins member of the international science party i.e. supported the proposal process via participation in 2 drilling proposal planning workshops in 2015 and 2019, and carries obligations to staff drilling in Brazil, sampling in Michigan and complete post-drilling organic geochemistry research at USC. Drilling delayed from 1/2020 till 7/2020 due to Brazilian permitting process. Scheduled drilling 7/2020-2021, delays likely due to COVID.

2015 ICDP Full Proposal, co-PI, Tanzania Onshore Paleogene Integrated Coring (TOPIC), Tanzania (PI: Pearson, co-Is include Feakins), the proposal was funded by the ICDP, but the member nation matching funding has not yet been forthcoming (PI Pearson, UK).

2015 IODP Expedition 355 Indus Fan, Indian Ocean. PhD student Hannah Liddy sailed as shipboard scientist (2 months), post-expedition funding (PI Feakins).

2015 IODP Expedition 354 Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. Postdoc Camilo Ponton sailed as shipboard scientist (2 months), post-expedition funding (PI Feakins); associated NSF-funded research (PI Feakins, co-PI Galy).

2014 Plant sampling in the Andean tropical cloud forests and Western Amazonian lowland tropical rainforests of the Madre de Dios, Peru. Plant sampling from plots spanning a 3km elevation gradient with sampling campaign lasting 7 months and involving a large number of Peruvian participants. (field program PI Malhi; analytical chemistry, leaf wax work PI Feakins).

2013 NSF-funded seasonal sampling of rivers in the Madre de Dios, Peru, across a 4km elevation gradient, in dry and wet season, 2-3 weeks each, involving USC graduate students, postdocs and Peruvian participants (PIs West & Feakins: field program PI West, leaf wax work PI Feakins).

2006 IODP proposal 724-Full “Gulf of Aden Drilling: Constraining Paleoenvironmental Contexts of African Faunal Evolution”, top-ranked proposal, piracy concerns block scheduling (PI deMenocal, co-Is include Feakins).

Personal shipboard and field experience:2017 NSF-funded, paleo-lake Death Valley and Searles Valley (4 days)2017 Atmosphere/surface ocean sampling under the Thomas Fire smoke plume (1 day)2013 Fossil plant site, Red Rock Canyon, CA (2 days)2013 River sampling, San Jacinto River CA (1 day) 2013 NSF-funded river sampling, Madre de Dios (Andes-Amazon), Peru (2 weeks)2009 NSF-funded lake sediment coring, Zaca Lake, CA (1 week)2007 Lake coring, Walker Lake, NV (1 day)2006 NOAA-funded vegetation sampling, CA (3 weeks)2006 Peat coring, CA (1 week)2002 Shipboard assistant scientist, R/V Knorr, Florida Straits, PIs Lynch-Stieglitz and Curry, operating

guide ropes for deployments, scanning cores and foraminiferal identification (3 weeks)2002 Field mapping class, Catskills, NY (2 weeks)2000 Luminescence dating sample collection for research, Canary Islands, Spain (2 weeks)1999 Glacial geomorphology and peat coring class, Scotland, UK (1 week)

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1998 Coastal geomorphology class, Dorset, UK (1 week)

LABORATORY

Consistent with the NAS recommendation that promotion cases consider a PI’s laboratory safety record: my attentiveness to laboratory permitting and safety and incident-free record are detailed here.

2019 Leadership in creating a culture of Chemicals Safety. As an active member of the University Research Committee in 2019/20, I helped shape the University's first comprehensive lab safety policy to meet standards set by the UC Regents Settlement of 2012 and the California Health and Safety Code 8 CCR 5191.

2019- USDA Permit Holder. Feakins is the holder of soil permits issued by the USDA for the import of soil, passing USDA inspection of USC facilities and protocols, and maintaining adherence. Feakins is the only USDA-permitted PI at USC.

2008- Feakins is PI, technician and lab manager, of an organic geochemistry and compound specific isotopic analytical laboratory. Feakins is the sole director of the laboratory (~1500 SQF) that includes organic geochemistry preparation space, including combustion oven, drying oven, vacuum line, distillation, organic-clean freeze drier, Accelerated Solvent Extraction system, three 6-ft fume hoods, bench space, cold storage, and racks of various high pressure gas cylinders; she maintains and operates Thermo GC-IRMS and Agilent GC-MS/FID analytical mass spectrometry instrumentation equipped to measure C and H isotopes in organic molecules and quantify their abundance. This is the only compound-specific isotopic laboratory facility at USC.

2008- Laboratory Safety Record: no incidents in 12 years of operation. Feakins is the PI responsible for chemicals safety for a laboratory group including postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate researchers (currently 7 people). Feakins ensures adherence to all EHS guidance including leading annual site-specific trainings (2008-), documentation, storing and handling chemicals including flammable solvents, acute toxicants, cryogens, carcinogens and reproductive toxicants – all with appropriate SOP, managing hazardous waste storage and disposal. I work proactively with the EHS lab safety team to reach the highest standard of chemical lab safety and to teach and role model best practices to my students and visitors.

Laboratory experience prior to USC:2006-2008 Postdoc in a compound specific isotopic laboratory at the California

Institute of Technology. Laboratory chemistry, vacuum line cryogenic extractions, operating Thermo GC-IRMS and GC-MS and troubleshooting (Alex Sessions, PI).

2004-2006 Visiting graduate student researcher (6 months over 2 years) at a compound specific isotopic laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, preparative organic chemistry, GC-FID operation and GC-IRMS data interpretation (Timothy Eglinton, PI).

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2001-2004 Graduate student researcher: foraminifera identification and picking, reductive/oxidative cleaning and Mg/Ca analyses by ICP and volcanic glass separations at LDEO, Columbia University. (Peter deMenocal, PI).

1999-2001 Undergraduate researcher, senior thesis project work, lab preparative work and OSL dating by Riso at the University of Oxford, School of Geography (Stephen Stokes, PI).

1999-2001 Sample preparation technician (hourly paid worker) for OSL, geological and archaeological samples at the University of Oxford, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art (Edward Rhodes, PI).

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