Is Potassium a Key to Understanding the Ocean’s Past?

UWAB Professor Fang-Zhen Teng is a co-author of a recent new study out of the UW Non-Traditional Isotope Lab that looks at using Potassium isotopes as a way to indirectly sample the chemistry of Earth’s oceans and atmosphere millions of years in the past.

You can find the publication here or read a summary article of their work from the UW College of the Environment News here.