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Jones, Ashley, Sessions, Alex L., Campbell, Brian J., Li, Chao, Valentine, David L. (in press). D/H ratios of fatty acids from marine particulate organic matter in the California Borderland Basins. Organic Geochemistry.

Pearson, Ann, Kraunz, Kimberly S, Sessions, Alex L., Dekas, Anne E., Leavitt, William R., Edwards, Katrina J. (in press). Quantifying microbial utilization of petroleum hydrocarbons in salt-marsh sediments using the 13C content of bacterial rRNA. Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Rashby S.E., Sessions A.L., Summons R.E., and Newman D.K. (2007). Biosynthesis of 2-methylbacteriohopanepolyols by an anoxygenic phototroph. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 104:38, 15099-15104.

Eek K.M., Sessions A.L., and Lies D.P. (2006). Carbon-isotopic analysis of microbial cells sorted by flow cytometry. Geobiology, 5: 85-95.

Sessions A.L. (2006). Isotope-ratio detection for gas chromatography. Journal of Separation Science, 29:1946-1961.

Schimmelmann A., Sessions A.L., and Mastalerz M. (2006). Hydrogen isotopic (D/H) composition of organic matter during diagenesis and thermal maturation. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences., 34:501-533.

Sessions A.L. (2006) Seasonal changes in lipid D/H fractionation by Spartina alterniflora. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70:2153-2162.

Olcott A.N., Sessions A.L., Corsetti F. A., Kaufmann A.J., de Olieviera T.F. (2005) Biomarker evidence for photosynthesis during Neoproterozoic glaciation. Science, 310:471-474.

Sessions A.L., Sylva S.P., and Hayes J.M. (2005) A moving-wire device for carbon-isotopic analyses of nanogram quantities of nonvolatile organic carbon. Analytical Chemistry, 77:6519-6527.

Sessions A. L. and Hayes J.M. (2005) Calculation of hydrogen isotopic fractionations in biogeochemical systems. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69(3), 593-597.

McDuffie K.E., Eglinton T.I., Sessions A.L., Sylva S.P., Wagner T., and Hayes J.M. (2004) Rapid analysis of 13C in plant-wax n-alkanes for reconstruction of terrestrial vegetation signals from aquatic sediments. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 5, Q10004.

Pearson A., Sessions A. L., Edwards K. J, and Hayes J.M. (2004) Phyllogenetically specific separation of rRNA from prokaryotes for isotopic analysis. Marine Chemistry 92, 295-306.

Valentine D.L., Sessions A.L., Tyler S.C., and Chidthaisong, A. (2004) Hydrogen isotope fractionation during H2/CO2 acetogenesis: hydrogenase efficiency and the origin of lipid-bound hydrogen. Geobiology 2, 179-188.

Schimmelmann A., Sessions A.L., Boreham C.J., Edwards D.S., Logan G.A., and Summons R.E. (2004) D/H ratios in terrestrially sourced petroleum systems. Organic Geochemistry 35(10), 1160-1195.

Sessions A.L., Sylva S.P., Summons R.E., and Hayes J.M. (2004) Isotopic exchange of carbon-bound hydrogen over geologic timescales. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 68(7),1545-1559.

Schneider R.J., Kim S.-W., von Reden K.F., Hayes J.M., Wills J.S.C., Griffin V., Sessions A.L., and Sylva S.P. (2004). A gas ion source for continuous-flow AMS. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research (B) 223-224, 149-154

Sessions A. L., Jahnke L. L., Schimmelmann A., and Hayes J. M. (2002) Hydrogen isotope fractionation in lipids of the methane-oxidizing bacterium Methylococcus capsulatus. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 66(22), 3955-3969.

Sauer P. E., Eglinton T. I., Hayes J. M., Schimmelmann A., and Sessions A. L. (2001) Compound-specific D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers from sediments as a proxy for environmental and climatic conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 65(2), 213-222.

Sessions A. L., Burgoyne T. W., and Hayes J. M. (2001) Correction of H3+ contributions in hydrogen isotope ratio monitoring mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 73(2), 192-199.

Sessions A. L., Burgoyne T. W., and Hayes J. M. (2001) Determination of the H3 Factor in hydrogen isotope ratio monitoring mass spectrometry. Analytical Chemistry 73(2), 200-207.

Sessions A. L., Burgoyne T. W., Schimmelmann A., and Hayes J. M. (1999) Fractionation of hydrogen isotopes in lipid biosynthesis. Organic Geochemistry 30, 1193-1200.


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