Rate My Professor Ariel Anbar

Anbar's research explores Earth's past and future as an inhabited world, focusing on the chemical evolution of its atmosphere and oceans using non-traditional stable isotope systems such as molybdenum, uranium, iron, and calcium isotopes as paleoredox proxies. His group investigates events like the Great Oxidation Event, marine anoxia episodes, and biospheric oxygenation, with applications extending to astrobiology, environmental geochemistry, and even human health through metallomics. He is the author or co-author of over 100 refereed publications, including "Fully oxygenated water columns over continental shelves before the Great Oxidation Event" (Ostrander et al., Nature Geoscience, 2019), "Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period" (Zhang et al., Science Advances, 2018), "Congruent Permian-Triassic δ²³⁸U records at Panthalassic and Tethyan sites" (Zhang et al., Geology, 2018), and "Good Golly, Why Moly? The Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Molybdenum" (Kendall et al., Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 2017). Anbar's innovations in STEM education through digital exploration have been recognized with awards such as the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor award in 2014. His scholarly impact includes major honors: Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (2021), Arthur L. Day Medal from the Geological Society of America (2020), Science Innovation Award from the European Association of Geochemistry (2019), and Fellow of the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry (2015).