Isotopengeochemie

Dr. Sara Rose Kimmig

Address
Universität Tübingen GUZ

Cluster of Excellence TERRA
Isotopengeochemie
Schnarrenbergstrasse 94-96
72076 Tübingen

Office: Room 6R10, GUZ

Phone: +49-(0)7071-29-73076
Fax: +49-(0)7071-29-3060
Mail: sara.kimmig@uni-tuebingen.de

Fields of study

  • Biogeochemistry
  • Carbonate Geochemistry
  • Environmental Geochemistry
  • Isotope Geochemistry

Research

My research interests include applying stable isotopes as tracers in a variety of low temperature systems including nutrient cycling, dolomite formation, global ocean cycling, as well as for critical elements and mineral investigation, environmental remediation, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, and industrial signatures purposes.

Current projects

  • Geochemical characterization of the Williston Basin, North America
  • Hydrogeochemical characterization of the Upper Rhine Graben
  • Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the fossil Lagerstätte Lake Öhningen
  • Metal uptake and incorporation into modern and fossilized Horseshoe Crabs
  • Method development in mass spectrometry

Short CV

since 2026Facility Manager of DARTS (Dating and Analysis of Rocks and Terrestrial Sediments) in the Cluster of Excellence TERRA, Isotope Geochemistry Group, University of Tübingen, Germany
2023 - 2026Research Scientist at the Institute of Applied Geosciences and Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
2020 - 2022Assistant Research Professor & Facility Director of the Laboratory for Isotopes and Metals in the Environment (LIME), Penn State University, State College, PA, USA
2018 - 2020Postdoctoral Researcher and Staff Scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA, USA
2018                       PhD in Geology (Isotope Geochemistry) at the Department of Geological Science, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2015 - 2017Research Scientist and Manager of the UI-WSU TIMS Lab, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
2008BSc Honors in Environmental Geosciences at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

Publications

2021 - today

  • Taylor K, Rauzi S, Isson T, Ibarra DE, Hulse D, Kimmig SR, Payne JL, Altiner D, Lehrmann DJ, Kalderon-Asael B, Planavsky NJ & Lau KV (2026) Heterogenous lithium isotope records across the end-Permian mass extinction as a potential indicator for a highly perturbed lithium cycle. Am. J. Sci. 326, 26p. https://doi.org/10.2475/001c.156171
  • Farrell UC,…, Kimmig SR, … et al. (2026) The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project Phase 2 Data Release: An open data resource for the study of Earth’s environmental history. Chem. Geol. 123311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2026.123311
  • Petry J, Škorjanc V, Diercks A, Feeney T, Morsa A, Kimmig SR, Baumann J,  Löffler F, Auschill S, Damm J, Baumann D, Laufer F, Kurpiers J, Müller M, Korte L, Albrecht S, Roß M, Ulrich W, Paetzold IW and Fassl P (2025) Industrialization for Perovskite Solar Cell Fabrication: Strategies to Achieve High-Throughput Vapor Deposition Processes. Energy Environ. Sci. Solar 1, 404–418. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5el00069f
  • Holmden C, Kimmig SR and Nadeau MD (2024) Ca isotopic gradients in epeiric marine carbonates: Diagenetic origins of and significance for Ca cycle reconstructions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 373, 151–168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2024.03.017
  • Yang X, Kimmig J, Cameron CB, Nanglu K, Kimmig SR, de Carle D, Zhang C, Yu M and Peng S (2024) An early Cambrian pelago-benthic acorn worm and the origin of the hemichordate larva. Palaeontol. Electron. 27, a18. https://doi.org/10.26879/1356
  • Kimmig SR, Nadeau MD, Swart PK and Holmden C (2021) Mg and Sr isotopic evidence for basin wide alteration of early diagenetic dolomite in the Williston Basin by ascending crustal fluids. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 311, 198–225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2021.06.006
  • Soderquist CZ, Branch SD, Gartman BN, Fountain MS, Asmussen SE and Kimmig SR (2021) Measurement of Iodine, Iodide, and Iodate in Hanford Tank Waste. Technology Transfer from PNNL to Hanford 222-S Laboratory. PNNL- 32079. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.2172/1963872
  • Yang X, Kimmig J, Zhai D, Liu Y, Kimmig SR and Peng S (2021) A palaeo-nursery from the Chengjiang biota offers insights into lower Cambrian palaeocommunities. Nature Ecol. Evol. 5, 1082–1090. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01490-4
  • Kimmig SR, Thompson C, Baum S and Brown C (2021) Evaluation of iodine speciation and 129I/127I ratios at low concentrations in environmental samples using IC-ICP-MS. J. Radioanal. Nucl. Chem. 327, 929–937. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-020-07537-3 

2016 - 2020

  • Thompson C, Kimmig SR and Baum S (2020) Iodine speciation in Hanford Central Plateau sediments and groundwater. RPT-DVZ-0052, PNNL-30442. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
  • Willett CD, Kimmig SR, Cassata WS, Isselhardt BH, Liezers M, Eiden GC and Wacker J (2020) Fission gas measurements in spent fuel: Literature review, LLNL-TR-815309 1023934, Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.2172/1670547
  • Nadeau MD, Kimmig SR and Holmden C (2019) Basin-scale gradients in dolomite d26Mg values identify the deep structural center of the Williston Basin as a source of Mg for dolomitization. In Summary of Investigations 2019, Sask. Geol. Survey, Sask. Ministry Econ., Misc. Rep. 2019–4.1, (A-1), 21p.
  • Szecsody J, Guohui W, Pearce C, Lawter AR, Cantrell KJ, Cordova E, Freedman V, Qafoku N, Emerson HP, Gillispie EC, Gartman BN, Kimmig SR (2019) Evaluation of in situ and ex situ remediation technologies for Iodine-129: Final bench scale results. PNNL-28064 r1.0. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.2172/1810333
  • Kimmig J, Strotz LC, Kimmig SR, Egenhoff SO and Lieberman BS (2019) The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: An Important Window into Cambrian Biodiversity. J. Geol. Soc. London 176, 609–619. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-195
  • Bryan SA, Lines AM, Minette MJ, Cantrell KJ, and Kimmig SR (2019) AP-105 Melter Offgas Condensate and EMF Evaporator Concentrate Raman and LIBS Qualitative Evaluation for the use of In-Line Monitoring. ILM-RPT-002, PNNL-28546. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.2172/1526724
  • Kimmig SR,  Holmden C and Bélanger N (2018) Biogeochemical cycling of Mg and its isotopes in a sugar maple forest in Québec. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 230, 60–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.03.020
  • Kimmig SR and Holmden C (2017) Multi-proxy geochemical evidence for primary aragonite precipitation in tropical-shelf ‘calcite sea’ during the Hirnantian glaciation. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 206, 254–272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.03.010 
     

2011 - 2015

  • Worsham SR, Holmden C and Qing H (2013): Preliminary results of a magnesium isotope study of dolomite in Upper Ordovician strata, southeastern Saskatchewan, northern Williston Basin. In Summary of Investigations 2013, Sask. Geol. Survey, Sask. Ministry Econ., Misc. Rep. 2013–4.1, 1(A-9), 8p

2009 - 2010

  • Gunnell GF, Worsham SR, Seiffert ER & Simons EL (2009): Vampyravus orientalis Schlosser (Chiroptera) from the Early Oligocene (Rupelian), Fayum, Egypt – body mass, humeral morphology and affinities. Acta Chiropterologica 11(2), 271–278. https://doi.org/10.3161/150811009x485512