Profile

Peter Douglas
Regular member
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
McGill University
peter.douglas@mcgill.ca

Supervising:

Melanie Burnett (Ph.D. student)

Bonnie De Baets (Ph.D. student)

Scientific Communications

Gonzalez Moguel, R., Vogel, F., Ars, S., Schaefer, H., Turnbull, J.C., Douglas, P., 2022. Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca oil sands region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 22(3): 2121–2133. DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-2121-2022.

Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Gélinas, Y., Douglas, P., 2022. Understanding controls on stanols in lake sediments as proxies for palaeopopulations in Mesoamerica. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67: 375-390. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-022-00238-9.

Bourque, R.D., Douglas, P., Larsson, H.C.E., 2021. Changes in terrestrial ecosystems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in western Canada inferred from plant wax lipid distributions and isotopic measurements. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 562, 110081. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110081.

Douglas, P., Stratigopoulos, E., Park, S., Phan, D., 2021. Geographic variability in freshwater methane hydrogen isotope ratios and its implications for global isotopic source signatures. Biogeosciences, 18(11): 3505–3527. DOI: 10.5194/bg-18-3505-2021.

Gonzalez Moguel, R., Bass, A.M., Garnett, M.H., Pilote, M., Keenan, B., Matveev, A., Douglas, P., 2021. Radiocarbon data reveal contrasting sources for carbon fractions in thermokarst lakes and rivers of eastern Canada (Nunavik, Quebec). Quaternary Science Reviews, 126(4), e2020JG005938. DOI: 10.1029/2020JG005938.

Jautzy, J.J., Douglas, P., Xie, H., Eiler, J.M., Clark, I.D., 2021. CH4 isotopic ordering records ultra-slow hydrocarbon biodegradation in the deep subsurface. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 562, 116841. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116841.

Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Johnston, K., Breckenridge, A., Gélinas, Y., Douglas, P., 2021. Molecular evidence for human population change associated with climate events in the Maya lowlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, 258, 106904. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106904.

Preskienis, V., Laurion, I., Bouchard, F., Douglas, P., Billett, M., Fortier, D., Xu, X., 2021. Seasonal patterns in greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and ponds in a High Arctic polygonal landscape. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(S1: Biogeochemistry and ecology across Arctic aquatic ecosystems in the face of change): S117-S141. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11660.

Stell, A.C., Douglas, P., Rigby, M., Ganesan, A.L., 2021. The impact of spatially varying wetland source signatures on the atmospheric variability of δD-CH4. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A, 379(2210), 20200442. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2020.0442.

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