Shuhei Ono
Assistant Professor of Geochemistry
Ph.D. Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 2001
 
sono at mit dot edu
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E34-254, 42-44 Carleton Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
Tel) 617-253-0474
Fax) 617-253-8630
 
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About PI
Current Funding
  1. •Shuhei Ono (PI) with Jeffrey C Alt (U. of Michigan) and Olivier Rouxel (WHOI), NSF OCE Marine Geology and Geophysics: Collaborative research: Multiple sulfur isotope tracers of the subsurface biosphere in oceanic basement.
  2. •Shuhei Ono (PI) with Roger Summons and Nic Beukes (Collabrators) NASA ROSES 2006, Exobiology, A multi-proxy search for atmospheric oxygen in the 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, Southern Africa.
Publications (Reprint request: sono at mit dot edu)
Ueno Y, Ono S., D. Rumble, and S. Maruyama (accepted) Quadruple sulfur isotope analysis of ca. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation: new evidence for microbial sulfate reduction in the Early Archean. Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta
Ono S., N.J. Beukes, and D. Rumble (accepted) Origin of two distinct multiple-sulfur istoe compositions of pyrite in the 2.5 Ga Klein Naute Formation, Griqualand West Basin, South frica. Precambrian Research
Ono S., A.J. Kaufman, J. Farquhar, D. Sumner, and N.J. Beukes (accepted) Lithofacies control on multiple-sulfur isotope records and the Neoarchean sulfur cycles. Precambrian Research
Ono S., (2008) Multiple-sulphur isotope biosignatures. Space Science Reviews Journal, Strategies for life detection. Space Science Series of International Space Science Institute, DOI 10.1007/s11214-007-9267-2
Rouxel O., S. Ono, J. Alt, D. Rumble, J. Ludden (2008) Sulfur isotope evidence for microbial sulfate reductino in altered oceanic basalts at ODP site 801. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 268, 110-123
Ono S., W. C. Shanks, O. Rouxel, D. Rumble (2007) S-33 constraints on the seawater sulfate contribution in modern seafloor hydrothermal vent sulfides.  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71, 1170-1182
Ono S., N. Beukes, D. Rumble, M. Fogel (2006) Early evolution of Earth's atmospheric oxygen from multiple-sulfur and carbon isotope records of the 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, Southern Africa. South African Journal of Geology 109, 97-108
Kasting J. and S. Ono (2006) Paleoclimates: the First two billion years. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 361, 917-929
Ono S., B. Wing, D. Johnston, D. Rumble, J. Farquhar (2006) Mass-dependent fractionation of quadruple stable sulfur isotope system as a new tracer of sulfur biogeochemical cycles. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 2238-2252
Ono S., B. Wing, J. Farquhar, and D. Rumble (2006) High precision analysis of all four stable isotopes of sulfur (32S, 33S, 34S and 36S) at nanomole levels using a laser fluorination isotope-ratio-monitoring gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Chemical Geology 225, 30-39
Fehr M. A., M. Rehkämper, A. N. Halliday, U. Wiechert, B. Hattendorf, D. Günther, S. Ono, J. L. Eigenbrode, and D. Rumble (2005) Tellurium isotopes in meteorites and Archean sulfides – A search for effects resulting from stellar nucleosynthesis, 126Sn decay and mass independent fractionation.  Geochemica Cosmochimica Acta 69, 5099-5112
Ono, S., J.L. Eigenbrode, A.A. Pavlov, P. Kharecha, D. Rumble, J.F. Kasting, and K. H. Freeman (2003) New insights into Archean sulfur cycle from mass-independent sulfur isotope records from the Hamersley Basin, Western Australia.  Earth and Planetary Science Letter 213, 15-30
Ono, S., A., Ennyu, R. G. Najjar, and N. Bates (2001) Shallow remineralization in the Sargasso Sea estimated from seasonal variations in oxygen dissolved inorganic carbon, and nitrate.  Deep Sea Research II 48, 1567-1582
Ohmoto, H., K.E. Yamaguchi, and S. Ono (2001) Questions regarding Precambrian sulfur isotope fractionation. Science, 292, 1959a.
Mariko, T., M. Kawada, M. Miura, and S. Ono (1996) Ore formation processes of the Mozumi skarn-type Pb-Zn-Ag deposits in the Kamioka Mine, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan; a mineral chemistry and fluid inclusion study. Resource Geology 6 (260) 337-354