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Fingernails and hair (publications in chronological order)

338. Bowen, G.J., L. Chesson, K. Nielson, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2005. Treatment methods for the determination of d2H and d18O of hair keratin by continuous-flow isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 19:2371-2378. doi: 10.1002/rcm.2069. PDF

 357. Nardota, G.B., S. Silva, C. Kendall, J.R. Ehleringer, L.A. Chesson, E.S.B. Ferraz, M.Z. Moreira, J.P.H.B. Ometto, and L.A. Martinelli. 2006. Geographical patterns of human diet derived from stable isotope analysis of fingernails. Journal of Physical Anthropology 131:137-146. PDF

386. Ehleringer, J.R., G.J. Bowen, L.A. Chesson, A.G. West, D. Podlesak, and T.E. Cerling. 2008. Hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in human hair are related to geography. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105:2788-2793. PDF

398. Bowen, G.J., J.R. Ehleringer, L.A. Chesson, A. Thompson, D. Podlesak, and T.E. Cerling. 2009. Dietary and physiological controls on the hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of hair from mid-20th century indigenous populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139:494-504. doi:10.1002/ajpa.21008. PDF

410. Thompson, A.H., L.A. Chesson, D.W. Podlesak G.J. Bowen, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2010. Stable isotope analysis of modern human hair collected along an Asian geographic transect. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 141:440-451. PDF

424. Kennedy, C.D., G.J. Bowen, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2011. Temporal variations of oxygen isotope ratios (d18O) in drinking water: Implications for specifying location of origin with human scalp hair. Forensic Science International doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.11.021. PDF

430. Valenzuela, L.O., Chesson, L.A., S. O’Grady, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2011. Spatial distributions of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur isotope ratios in human hair across the central United States. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 25:861-868, doi:10.1002/rcm.4934. PDF

435. Valenzuela, L.O., L.A. Chesson, G.J. Bowen, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2012. Dietary heterogeneity among western industrialized countries reflected in the stable isotope ratios of human hair. PLoS ONE 7(3):e34234. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034234. PDF

437. O’Grady, S.P., L.O. Valenzuela, C.H. Remien, L.E. Enright, M.J. Jorgensen, J. Kaplan, J.D. Wagner, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2012. Hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios in body water and hair: modeling isotope dynamics in nonhuman primates. American Journal of Primatology 74(7):651-660. doi:10.1002/ajp.22019 PDF

445. Tipple, B.J., T. Chau, L.A. Chesson, D.P. Fernandez, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2013. Isolation of strontium pools and isotope ratios in modern hair. Analytica Chimica Acta 798:64-73. PDF

448. Thompson, A.H., A.S. Wilson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2014. Hair as a geochemical recorder: ancient to modern, pages 371-393. In H.D. Holland and K.K. Turekian (eds.), Treatise of Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 14. Oxford, London PDF

449. Remien, C., F.R. Adler, L.A. Chesson, L.O. Valenzuela, J.R. Ehleringer, and T.E. Cerling. 2014. Deconvolution of isotope signals from bundles of multiple hairs. Oecologia 175:781-789. doi: 10.1007/s00442-014-2945-3 PDF

493. Valenzuela, L.O., S. P. O’Grady, L. E. Enright, M. Murtaugh, C. Sweeney, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2018. Evaluation of childhood nutrition by dietary survey and stable isotope analyses of hair and breath. American Journal of Human Biology e23103. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23103. PDF

494. 1.Tipple, B.J., L.O. Valenzuela, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2018. Strontium isotope ratios of human hair record intra-city variations in tap water source. Scientific Reports 8:3334. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21359-0. PDF

498. Mancuso, C.J., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2019. Resident and non-resident fingernail isotopes reveal diet and travel patterns. Journal of Forensic Sciences 64:77-87. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556- 4029.13856 PDF

505. Mancuso, C.J., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2019. Traveling there and back again: a fingernail’s tale. Journal of Forensic Sciences 64:69-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/1556-4029.13852. PDF

506.Mancuso, C.J., and J.R. Ehleringer. 2018. Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of human fingernail clippings reveal multiple location signals. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 32:1922-1930. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8270. PDF

509. Tipple, B.J., L.O. Valenzuela, T.H. Chau, L. Hu, C.P. Bataille, L.A. Chesson, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2019. Strontium isotope ratios of human hair from the United States: patterns and aberrations. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 33:461-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8378. PDF
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514. Valenzuela, L.O., L.A. Chesson, G. Bowen, T.E. Cerling, and J.R. Ehleringer. 2020. Spatial distribution of stable isotopes values of human hair: tools for region of origin and travel history assignment. In R. Parra, S.C. Zapico, and D.H. Ubelaker (editor), Forensic science and humanitarian action: Interacting with the dead and the living. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., New York. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119482062.ch25. PDF
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