Publications by authors named "Boriana Kalderon-Asael"

The evolution of oxygen cycles on Earth's surface has been regulated by the balance between molecular oxygen production and consumption. The Neoproterozoic-Paleozoic transition likely marks the second rise in atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels, widely attributed to enhanced burial of organic carbon. However, it remains disputed how marine organic carbon production and burial respond to global environmental changes and whether these feedbacks trigger global oxygenation during this interval.

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Enhanced rock weathering (ERW) is a promising scalable and cost-effective carbon dioxide removal (CDR) strategy with significant environmental and agronomic co-benefits. A major barrier to large-scale implementation of ERW is a robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) framework. To successfully quantify the amount of carbon dioxide removed by ERW, MRV must be accurate, precise, and cost-effective.

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The evolution of the global carbon and silicon cycles is thought to have contributed to the long-term stability of Earth's climate. Many questions remain, however, regarding the feedback mechanisms at play, and there are limited quantitative constraints on the sources and sinks of these elements in Earth's surface environments. Here we argue that the lithium-isotope record can be used to track the processes controlling the long-term carbon and silicon cycles.

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In this study we combine Pb isotopes, Pb, Ni, Cu, Zn, and several major metal concentrations, identification of the aerosol particles, and synoptic and back trajectory analyses to obtain direct evidence for the extent and nature of mixing between Middle Eastern and European sources emissions of metals and aerosols. During the summer months aerosols collected in Israel are highly polluted by metals (EF(Ni) = 120, EF(Cu) = 320, EF(Zn) = 30, EF(Pb) = 540; average values). The fraction of European Pb of mostly industrial sources is 61 +/- 21% in Jerusalem, and the fraction of European Cu, Zn, Ni, and aerosols should be on the same order.

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