Gwyneth Gordon

Gwyneth Gordon

Assistant Research Professor,
School Of Earth and Space Exploration
Other ASU affiliations
Research Facilities
School of Life Sciences
School of Life Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate faculty
  • gwyneth.gordon@asu.edu
  • Phone: 480-727-8837
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  • School of Earth & Space Exploration PS-F 234 TEMPE, AZ 85287-1404
  • Mail code: 8301
    Campus: Tempe
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Gordon works on a variety of projects, involving analysis of radiogenic and mass-dependent isotopes. She has been a pioneer in developing the Mo and U isotope proxies for oxygenation levels in marine sediments in the early Earth. 

 

Another central research theme is developing and applying geochemical techniques to problems relevant to modern society, and to humans in particular. Current projects funded or in active development include:

  • Isotopic taphonomy: examining the preservation of H, C, N, O, Sr and Pb in human tissues to predict the geographic origin of unknown decedents

  • Human geolocation: validating C, N, O, H, and Sr in human bones and teeth for cultural affiliation and geographic residence history (in collaboration with several human decompositional facilities (University of Tennessee, Texas State, Colorado Mesa University)

  • Cancer: analysis of Ca isotopes in serum and urine to predict progression of multiple myeloma from changes in bone mineral balance

  • Astronauts: analysis of Ca isotopes in urine of astronauts from the International Space Station to determine the efficacy of exercise and anti-osteoporosis drugs in protecting astronauts from bone loss during space flight

  • Obesity and diabetes: Use of C and N isotopes to record dietary patterns independent of self-report, and their value in monitoring the impact of exercise on metabolism by comparing indirect calorimetry using mobile smartphone technology and analysis of carbon in breath and carbon and nitrogen in hair.

 

If you’d like to hear more about the forensics research, you can listen to the podcast, “Just Hairy Isotopes”, produced by the Forensic Center of Excellence, and watch a webinar about the taphonomic research at the National Institute of Justice’s grantee’s symposium at the American Academy of Forensic Science conference in February 2017.

Education

BS w/ Honors, Stanford University, 1992

PhD, Yale University, 2002

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Curriculum Vitae
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Research Website URL
https://www.anbarlab.org/drgwynethgordon
Google Scholar URL
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r-MHQv0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Publications

1.              Pacheco-Forés, S.I., Morehart, C.T., Buikstra, J.E., Gordon, G.W., Knudson, K.J. (revised and resubmitted) Migration, violence, and the “other”: a biogeochemical approach to identity-based violence in the Epiclassic Basin of Mexico. J. Anthro. Arch.

2.              Goto, K.T., Sekine, Y., Ito, T., Suzuki, K., Anbaar, A.D., Gordon, G.W., Harigane, Y., Maruoka, T., Shimoda, G., Kashiwabara, T., Takaya, Y., Nozaki, T., Hein, J.R., Tetteh, G.M. Nyame, F.K., Kiyokawa, S. (accepted pending revision) Progressive ocean oxygenation at ~2.2 Ga inferred from geochemistry and molybdenum isotopes of the Nsuta Mn deposit, Ghana. Chem. Geol.

3.              Alonzi, E., Pacheco-Forés, S., Gordon, G.W., Kujit, I., and Knudson, K.J. (2020) New understandings of the Sea Spray Effect and its impact on bioavailable radiogenic strontium isotope ratios in coastal environments. J Arch Sci: Reports, 33, 102452, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102462.

4.              Goto, K.T., Sekine, Y., Shimoda, G., Hein, J.R., Aoki, S., Ishikawa, A., Suzuki, K., Gordon, G.W., and Anbar, A.D. (2020) A framework for understanding Mo isotope records of Archean and Paleoproterozoic Fe- and Mn-rich sedimentary rocks: Insights from modern marine hydrothermal Fe-Mn oxides. Geochem. Cosmochim. Acta 280: 221-236, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2020.04.017 0016-7037

5.              Song, H., Song, H., Tong, J., Gordon, G.W., Wignall, P.B., Tian, L., Zheng, W., Algeo, T.J., Liang, L., Bai, R., Wu, K., and Anbar, A.D. (accepted pending revision) Conodont calcium isotopic evidence for multiple shelf acidification events during the Early Triassic. Chem. Geol.

6.              Zipkin, A.M., Fisher, E.C., Cawthra, H.C., Gordon, G.W., Hipondoka, M., Le Roux, P., Marean, C.W., Knudson, K.J., and Wiessner, P. (2020) Strontium isoscapes and hard tissue provenience in southern Africa to reconstruct hunger-gatherer social and exchange networks. Am. J. Phys. Anthro. 171, 320.

7.              Pacheco-Forés, S., Gordon, G.W., and Knudson, K.J. (2020) Expanding radiogenic strontium isotope baseline data for central Mexican paleomobility studies. PloS One, 15(2), e0229687

8.              Ostrander, C.M., Kendall, B., Olson, S.L., Lyons, T.W., Gordon, G.W., Romaniello, S.J., Zheng, W., Reinhard, C.T., Roy, M., and Anbar, A.D. (2020) An expanded shale d98Mo record permits recurrent shallow marine oxygenation during the Neoarchean. Chem. Geol., doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.119391.

9.              Lau, H., Gordon, G.W. and Knudson, K. (in review) Reconstructing Herding Practices at Halaf Domuztepe: Evidence from Biogeochemical Analyses. J Field Arch.

10.           Ostrander, C.M., Sahoo, S.K., Kendall, B., Jiang, G., Planavsky, N.J., Lyons, T.W., Nielsen, S.G., Owens, J.D., Gordon, G.W., Romaniello, S.J., Anbar, A.D. (2019) Multiple negative molybdenum isotope excursions in the Doushantuo Formation (South China) fingerprint complex redox-related processes in the Ediacaran Nanhua Basin. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 261: 191-209, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.016.

11.           Alonzi, E., Day, N., Gordon, G.W., Scott, R.E., and Knudson, K. (2019) Traveling Monastic Paths: Mobility and Religion at Medieval Irish Monasteries. J Anthropological Archaeology 101077, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101077

12.           Ostrander, C.M., Sune, G.N., Owens, J.D., Kendall, B., Gordon, G.W., Romaniello, S.J., and Anbar, A.D. (2019) Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event. Nature Geoscience 12: 186-191, doi: 10.1038/s41561-019-0309-7

13.           Chazin, H., Gordon, G.W., and Knudson, K.  (2019) Isotopic perspectives on Pastoralist Mobility in the late Bronze Age South Caucasus. J Anthropol. Arch. 54, 48-67, doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.02.003.

14.           Gordon, G.W. and Rhoads, A. (2019) Field-Deployable Measurements of Free-Living Individuals to Determine Energy Balance: Fuel Substrate Usage through d13C in Breath CO2 and Diet through Hair d13C and d15N values Isotopes in Environ. Health Studies doi: 10.1080/10256016.2018.1562448

15.           Gordon, G.W. (2018) Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains. National Institute of Justice Technical Report for 2014-DN-BX-K002. 244 pps. NCJ 252506

16.           Gordon, G.W., Saul, T., Steadman, D., Wescott, D.J. and Knudson, K. (2018) Preservation of hair stable isotope signatures during freezing and law enforcement evidence packaging. Forensic Chem. 11: 108-119, doi: 10.1016/j.forc.2018.10.004.

17.           Herrmann, A.D., Gordon, G.W. and Anbar, A.D. (2018) Uranium isotope variations in a dolomitized Jurassic carbonate platform (Tithonian, Franconian Alb, Southern Germany). Chem. Geol. 497: 41-53, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.17.

18.           Magnall, J.M., Gleeson, S.A., Poulton, S.W., Gordon, G.W., and Paradis, S. (2018) Links between seawater paleoredox and the formation of sediment-hosted massive sulphide (SHMS) deposits – Fe speciation and Mo isotope constraints from Late Devonian mudstones. Chem. Geol. 490: 45-60, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.05.005.

19.           Marsteller, S., Gordon, G.W., Knudson, K. and Anbar, A.D. (2017) Biogeochemical Reconstructions of Life Histories as a Method to Assess Regional Interactions: Stable Oxygen and Radiogenic Strontium Isotopes and Late Intermediate Period Mobility on the Central Peruvian Coast. J. Archaeol. Sci.13: 535-546, doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.04.016.

20.           Lu, X., Kendall, B., Stein, H.J., Li, C., Hannah, J.L., Gordon, G.W. and Obestad, J.O. (2017) Marine redox conditions during deposition of Late Ordovician and Early Silurian organic-rich mudrocks in the Siljan ring district, central Sweden. Chem. Geol. 457: 75-94, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.015.

21.           Monferrán, M.V., Garnero, P., Bistoni, M.D., Anbar, A., Gordon, G.W. and Wunderlin, D.A. (2016) From water to edible fish. Transfer of metals and metalloids in the San Roque Reservoir (Cordoba, Argentina). Implications associated with fish consumption. Ecol. Indicators 63: 48-60, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.048.

22.           Wolfe, A., Stewart, B., Capo, R., Liu, R., Dzombak, D.A., Gordon, G.W. and Anbar, A.D. (2016) Iron isotope investigation of hydrothermal and sedimentary pyrite and their aqueous dissolution products. Chem. Geol. 427: 73-82, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.02.015.

23.           Romaniello, S.J., Field, M.P., Smith, H.B., Gordon, G.W., Kim, M.H. and Anbar, A.D. (2015) Fully automated chromatographic purification of Sr and Ca for isotopic analysis. JAAS 30(9): 1906-1912; doi: 10.1039/c5ja00205b.

24.           Azmy, K, Kendall, B., Brand, U., Stouge, S. and Gordon, G.W. (2015) Redox conditions across the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: Elemental and isotopic signatures retained in the GSSP carbonates. Palaeogeo. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol. 440: 440-454, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.09.014

25.           Goto, K., Shimoda, G., Anbar, A.D., Gordon, G.W., Harigane, Y., Senda, R., Suzuki, K. (2015) Molybdenum isotopes in hydrothermal manganese crust from the Ryukyu arc system: Implications for the source of molybdenum. Marine Geol. 269: 91-99, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.08.007

26.           Channon, M.B., Gordon, G.W., Morgan, J.L. Skulan, J.L., Smith, S.M. and Anbar, A.D. (2015) Using natural stable calcium isotopes in human blood to detect and monitor changes in bone mineral balance. Bone 77: 69-74; doi: 10.1016/j.bone.2015.04.023

27.           Kendall, B., Komiya, T., Lyons, T.W., Bates, S.M., Gordon, G.W., Romaniello, S., Jiang, G., Creaser, R.A., Xiao, S., McFadden, K., Sawaki, Y., Tahata, M., Shu, D., Han, J., Li, Y., Chu, X. and Anbar, A.D. (2015) Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 156: 173-193, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.02.025.

28.           Westerhoff, P., Lee, S., Gordon, G.W., Hristovski, K., Halden, R.U. and Herckes, P. (2015) Characterization, Recovery Opportunities, and Valuation of Metals in Municipal Sludges from U.S. Wastewater Treatment Plants Nationwide. Environ. Sci. Tech. doi: 10.1021/es505329q

29.           Goto, K.T., Anbar, A.D., Gordon, G., Romaniello, S.R., Shimoda, G., Takaya, Y., Tokumaru, A., Nozaki, T., Suzuki, K., Machida, S., Hanyu, T. and Usui, A. (2014) Uranium isotope systematics of ferromanganese crusts in the Pacific Ocean: Implications for the marine 238U/235U isotope system. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 146: 43-58, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.10.003.

30.           Gordon, G., Monga, J., Channon, M.B., Wu, Q., Skulan, J.L., Anbar, A.D. and Fonseca, R. (2014) Predicting multiple myeloma disease activity by analyzing natural calcium isotopic composition. Leukemia doi: 10.1038/leu.2014.193.

31.           Nägler, T.F., Anbar, A.D., Archer, C., Goldberg, T., Gordon, G.W., Greber, N.D., Siebert, C., Sohrin, Y. and Vance, D. (2014) Proposal for an international molybdenum isotope measurement standard and data representation. Geostand. Geoanalyt. Resrch 38(2): 149-151, doi: 10.1111/j.1751-908x.2013.00275.x

32.           Goldberg, T., Gordon, G., Izon, G., Archer, C., Pearce, C.R., McManus, J., Anbar, A.D. and Rehkamper, M. (2013) Resolution of inter-laboratory discrepancies in Mo isotope data: An intercalibration. J. Anal. At. Spectrom. 10.1039/C3JA30375F

33.           Chappaz, A., Lyons, T.W., Gordon, G. and A. D. Anbar (2012). Isotopic fingerprints of anthropogenic molybdenum in lake sediments. Env. Sci. Tech. 46: 10934–10940.

34.           Herrmann, A.D., Kendall, B., Algeo, T.J., Gordon, G.W., Wasylenki, L.E. and A. D. Anbar (2012). Anomalous molybdenum isotope trends in Upper Pennsylvanian euxinic facies: Significance for use of d98Mo as a global marine redox proxy. Chem. Geol. 324-325: 87-98.

35.           Morgan, J.L.L., Skulan, J.L., Gordon, G.W., Romaniello, S.J., Smith S.M. and A. D. Anbar (2012). Rapidly assessing changes in bone mineral balance using natural stable calcium isotopes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 109: 9989-9994.

36.           Owens, J.D., Lyons, T.W., Li, X., Macleod, K.G., Gordon, G., Kuypers, M.M., Anbar, A., Kuhnt W. and S. Severmann. (2012). Iron isotope and trace metal records of iron cycling in the proto-North Atlantic during the Cenomanian-Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE-2). Paleoceanography 27, PA3223, 13 pp.

37.           Dahl, T.W., Canfield, D.E., Rosing, M.T., Frei, R., Gordon, G.W., Knoll, A.H. and A. D. Anbar (2011). Molybdenum evidence for expansive sulfidic water masses in ~750 Ma oceans. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 311: 264-274.

38.           Morgan, J.L., Gordon, G.W., Arrua, C., Skulan, J., Bullen T.D. and A. D. Anbar (2011). High precision measurement of variations in calcium isotope ratios in urine by multiple collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). Anal. Chem. 83: 6956-6962.

39.           Gordon, G.W. (2011) Comments on “Application of laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry for the measurement of calcium and lead isotope ratios in packaging for discriminatory purposes” Rapid Comm. In Mass Spectr. 25, 3196-3198, doi: 10.1002/rcm.5195

40.           Kendall, B., Gordon, G.W., Poulton, S.W. and Anbar, A.D. (2011) Molybdenum Isotope Constraints on the Extent of Late Paleoproterozoic Ocean Euxinia. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 307:450-460.

41.           Wolfe-Simon, F., Switzer Blum, J., Kulp, T. R., Gordon, G. W., Hoeft, S. E., Pett-Ridge, J., Stolz, J. F., Webb, S. M., Weber, P. K., Davies, P. C. W., Anbar, A. D. and R. S. Oremland (2011). A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus. Science 332: 1163 – 1166.

42.           Wolfe-Simon, F., Switzer Blum, J., Kulp, T. R., Gordon, G. W., Hoeft, S. E., Pett-Ridge, J., Stolz, J. F., Webb, S. M., Weber, P. K., Davies, P. C. W., Anbar, A. D. and R. S. Oremland (2011). Response to Comments on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus”. Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1202098

43.           Duval, B.D., Dijkstra, P., Natali, S.M., Megonigal, J.P., Ketterer, M.E., Drake, B.G., Lerdau, M.T., Gordon, G.W., Anbar, A.D., Hungate, B.A. (2011) Plant-Soil Distribution of Potentially Toxic Elements in Response to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Environ. Sci. Tech., doi:10.1021/es102250u

44.           Bonilla, M.D.-Z., Prevedorou, E.A., Buikstra, J., Knudson, K. J., Gordon, G.W. and Anbar., A.D. (2011) Movilidad y paleodieta en la comunidad argárica de Gatas: análisis de 87Sr/86Sr, d18O y d13C (translated title: Mobility and paleodiet in the agricultural community of Gatas: analysis of 87Sr/86Sr, d 18O and d 13C) Memorial Luis Siret 1: Congreso de Prehistoria de Andalucía, 603-606

45.           Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E., Anbar, A.D., Bond, D., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G.W., Knoll A., Nielsen A.T., Schovsbo N., Canfield, D.E. (2011) Reply to Butterfield: Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 108: E29; doi: 10.1073/pnas.1018818108.

46.           Dahl, T.W., Hammarlund, E., Anbar, A.D., Bond, D., Gill, B.C., Gordon, G.W., Knoll A., Nielsen A.T., Schovsbo N., Canfield, D.E. (2010) Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., doi:www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011287107

47.           Duan, Y., Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Lyons, T.W., Gordon, G.W. and Kendall, B. (2010) Molybdenum Isotope Evidence for Mild Biospheric Oxygenation before the Great Oxidation Event Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74: 6655-6668; doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.052

48.           Y. Duan, S. Severmann, A.D. Anbar, T.W. Lyons, G.W. Gordon and B. Sageman (2010) Isotopic evidence for Fe cycling and repartitioning in ancient oxygen-deficient settings: Examples from black shales of the mid-to-late Devonian Appalachian basin Earth Planet Sci. Lett. 290: 244-253

49.           Knudson, K.J., Williams, H.M., Buikstra, J.E., Tomczak, P.D., Gordon, G.W., Anbar, A.D. (2010) Introducing d 88/86Sr analysis in archaeology: a demonstration of the utility of strontium isotope fractionation in paleodietary studies J. of Arch. Sci., 37, 2352-2364, doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.04.009

50.           Dahl, T.W., A.D. Anbar, G.W. Gordon, M.T. Rosing, R.E. Frei and D.E. Canfield (2010) The behavior of molybdenum and its isotopes across the chemocline and in the sediments of sulfidic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 74:144-163, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.09.018

51.           Gordon, G.W., Rockman, M., Turekian, K.K. and Over, J. (2009) Osmium isotopic evidence against an impact at the Frasnian-Famennian boundary American J. of Science 309, 420-430, DOI: 10.2475/05.2009.03

52.           Gordon, G.W., Lyons, T.W., Arnold, G.L., Roe, J., Sageman, B.B. and Anbar, A.D. (2009) When Do Black Shales Tell Molybdenum Isotope Tales? Geology 37(6), 535-538, DOI: 10.1130/G25186A.1

53.           Ryb, U., Erel, Y, Matthews, A., Avni, Y., Gordon, G.W. and Anbar, A.D. (2009) Large molybdenum isotope variations trace subsurface fluid migration along the Dead Sea transform Geology 37(5), 463-466, DOI: 10.1130/G25331A.1

54.           Beraldi-Campesi, H., Hartnett, H., Anbar, A., Gordon, G.W. and Garcia-Pichel, F. (2009) Effect of biological soil crusts on soil elemental concentrations: implications for biogeochemistry and as traceable biosignatures of ancient life on land Geobiology 7, 348-359, DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00204.x

55.           Kendall, B., Creaser, R., Gordon, G.W. and Anbar, A.D. (2009) Re-Os and Mo Isotope Systematics of black shales from the Middle Proterozoic Velkerri and Wollogorang Formations, McArthur Basin, northern Australia Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 73, 2534-2558, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2009.02.01

56.           Severmann, S. Lyons, T.W., Anbar, A., McManus, J. and Gordon, G. (2008) Modern iron isotope perspective on the benthic iron shuttle and the redox evolution of ancient oceans Geology 36(6), 487-490, DOI: 10.1130/G24670A.1

57.           Anbar, A.D. and Gordon, G.W. (2008) Redox Renaissance Geology 36(3), 271-272, DOI: 10.1130/focus032008.1

58.           Weyer, S., Anbar, A.D., Gerdes, A., Gordon, G.W., Algeo, T.J. and Boyle, E.A. (2008) Natural fractionation of 238U/235U. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 72: 345-359.

59.           Jones, A.K., Lichtenstein, B.R., Dutta, A., Gordon, G. and Dutton, P.L. (2007) Synthetic Hydrogenases: Incorporation of an Iron Carbonyl Thiolate into a Designed Peptide J. Am. Chem. Soc. 129, 14844-14845, DOI: 10.1021/ja075116a

60.           Anbar, A.D….Gordon (2007) A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event? Science 317: 1903-1906 DOI: 10.1126/science.1140325

61.           Wasylenki, L.E., Anbar, A.D., Liermann, L.J., Mathur, R., Gordon, G. and Brantley, S. (2007) Isotope fractionation during microbial metal uptake using MC-ICP-MS, J. Anal. At. Spec. 22(8), 905-910, DOI: 10.1039/b705476a

62.           Turekian, K.K., Sharma, M. and Gordon, G.W. (2007) The behavior of natural and anthropogenic osmium in the Hudson River-Long Island Sound estuarine system Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 71, 4135-4140, DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.05.020

63.           Carrigan, P.E., Hentz, J.G., Williams, G. Morgan, J.L., Raimondo, M., Anbar, A. and Miller, L.J. (2007) Distinctive heavy metal composition of pancreatic juice in patients with pancreatic carcinoma, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention 16(12), 2656-2663

64.           Williams, G.A. and Turekian, K.K. (2004) The glacial-interglacial variation in seawater Os isotopes as recorded in Santa Barbara Basin sediments, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 228, 379-389

65.           Krishnaswami, S., Williams, G.A., Graustein, W.C. and Turekian, K.K. (2004) The effect of weathering regime on uranium decay series and osmium in two soil profiles, Geochem. J. 38, 651-660

66.           Williams, G. and Turekian, K.K. (2002) The atmospheric supply of osmium to the oceans. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 66, 3789-3791

67.           Williams, G., Marcantonio, F. and Turekian, K.K. (1997) The behavior of natural and anthropogenic osmium in Long Island Sound, an urban estuary in the eastern U.S. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 148, 341-347

Research Activity
  • Gordon, G.W. + 18 ASU faculty NSF: MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer for Research in Geosciences and Anthropology (to be submitted 01/20/2021)
  • Schweitzer, N., Horne, Z., Neal, T., Salerno, J., Gordon, G.W. Enhancing Understanding of Forensic Expert Evidence. NIJ (awaiting sponsor decision)
  • Sarancha, J., Gordon, G.W. Isotope Analysis of Modern Remains in Forensics: Optimizing Sample Preparation Methods for Accurate and Reliable Carbonate and Collagen Isotope Analysis. NIJ (06/01/2021-05/31/2024)
  • Gordon, G.W., Stufkin, J., Saul, T. (MTSU). Stable Isotope Analysis as a Geospatial Tool for Identification: Intra-Individual Isotopic Variability. NIJ (01/01/19-12/31/21)
  • Schweitzer, N., Gordon, G.W., Salerno, J., Barclay, S., Saks, M. Postdoctoral Fellowship with an Intersectional Approach to Law and Social Sciences. NSF (08/18/20-07/31/21).
  • Smith, Scott (NASA), Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams. Muskoskeletal physiology, metabolomics, proteomics and metallomics: response to intermittent gravity. NASA (1/1/2018-12/31/2020).
  • Gordon,Gwyneth Williams*. Combining mobile and isotopic analyses for determining metabolic change during exercise. Piper Foundation(1/1/2016-6/30/2017).
  • Gordon,Gwyneth Williams*, Knudson, Kelly, Anbar,Ariel David*. The Isotopic Taphonomy of Human Remains. DOJ-NIJ(1/1/2015 - 12/31/2017).
  • Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams. Stable Calcium Isotopes in Urine as a Biomarker of Bone Mineral Balance in Spaceflight. NASA-JOHNSON SPACE CTR(12/1/2013 - 11/30/2016).
  • Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams. Improving the clinical utility of Ca isotope analysis by assessing population-level variation in the Ca isotope composition of blood. FLINN FDN(7/1/2013 - 6/30/2016).
  • Herrmann, Achim, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams, Anbar,Ariel David*. Ocean Acidification Category 2: Collaborative Research - Development of Geochemical Proxies to Evaluate Larval pH-Exposure History. NSF(6/1/11-5/31/13).
  • Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams. Calcium Isotopes: Inorganic Biosignatures of Multiple Myeloma Progression. ASU-Mayo Seed Grant(1/1/2012 - 11/1/2013).
  • Anbar,Ariel David*, Anbar,Ariel David*, Gordon,Gwyneth Williams. Environmental Factors and Pancreatic Cancer. MAYO CLINIC SCOTTSDALE(9/15/2005 - 8/31/2006).

  Patents: Provisional Patent 11157.032PROV – Methods of tracing and/or sourcing plant material (with J. Skulan and Odysseas Ladopoulos) Patent 20140273248 – Application of Ca isotope analysis to the early detection of metastatic cancer (with J. Skulan, A.D. Anbar and R. Fonseca) Patent 20130115650 – Isotopic biomarkers for rapid assessment of bone mineral balance in biomedical applications (with J. Skulan, A.D. Anbar and J. Morgan)

Courses
2025 Spring
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SES 692 Research
SES 792 Research
2024 Fall
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SES 799 Dissertation
SES 692 Research
2024 Summer
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SES 692 Research
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SES 792 Research
SES 799 Dissertation
SES 799 Dissertation
2024 Spring
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2023 Fall
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2023 Summer
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SES 692 Research
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SES 792 Research
SES 799 Dissertation
SES 799 Dissertation
2023 Spring
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SES 792 Research
2022 Fall
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SES 692 Research
2022 Summer
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SES 692 Research
SES 692 Research
SES 792 Research
SES 792 Research
SES 799 Dissertation
SES 799 Dissertation
2022 Spring
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SES 692 Research
SES 792 Research
2021 Fall
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SES 792 Research
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SES 692 Research
2021 Summer
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SES 692 Research
SES 692 Research
SES 792 Research
SES 792 Research
SES 799 Dissertation
SES 799 Dissertation
2021 Spring
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SES 692 Research
SES 792 Research
2020 Summer
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SES 692 Research
SES 692 Research
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SES 792 Research
SES 799 Dissertation
SES 799 Dissertation
2020 Spring
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SES 792 Research
Honors / Awards

Fulbright Scholar: 

I developed and co-led a course entitled “Isotopes in Forensics and Food Authentication” at the University of Córdoba, Argentina in Fall 2011. 

Professional Associations

Geochemical Society, American Geophysical Union, International Association for Identification, American Association of Forensic Scientists 

Service

For the last 13 years, I have worked with the Mesa Police Department as a Volunteer Crime Scene Specialist.

Pro Bono

Volunteer Crime Scene Specialist, Mesa Police Department 2/2010 - current

Expertise Areas
Analytical Chemistry
Biogeochemistry
Forensic Science
Geochemistry
Quantitative Analysis
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