Samuel Savin became Provost of New College in 2006.  His scientific work has been in the areas of Geology, Geochemistry, Oceanography and Environmental Science.  He is particularly interested in understanding natural processes that occur at or near the surface of the earth (down to a depth of a few miles below the surface).  A common thread through much of Professor Savin's work has been the application of chemical principles and chemical techniques to the understanding of the earth and the environment.  Areas in which he has worked include documentation of the evolution of the climate of the earth over the past 100 million years, understanding the geologic factors that result in a sedimentary rock being a good or a poor petroleum reservoir, study of the processes by which rocks become converted to soil in tropical and mid latitudes, and tracing the environmental sources of lead in the blood of urban children with elevated lead levels. 

1993 - Swart, P., Lohmann, K.C., McKenzie, J., and Savin, S.M., editors. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records, American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph, v. 78, American Geophysical Union.

2005 – Guliy, V.N., Mitchell, G.G, and Savin, S. M.,Полигенность месторождений докембрия: апатит-карбонатные руды Алданского шита (Polygenetic origin of Precambrian beds: apatite-carbonate ores of the Aldan Shield). Ukranian Geologist.

2004 – Alexandre, A., Meunier, J.-D., Llorens, E., Hill, S.M., and Savin, S.M., Investigation of silcrete formation: oxygen isotope ratio of silcrete quartz cement, Lake Eyre Basin (Australia), Chemical Geology, 211, 261-274.

2003 – Ziegler, K., Hsieh, J.C.C., Chadwick, O.A., Kelly, E.F., Hendricks, D.M., and Savin, S.M., Halloysite as a kinetically controlled end product of arid-zone basalt weathering, Chemical Geology, 202, 461-478.

2003 – Ylagan, R.F., Alataner, S.P., Savin, S.M., Aronson, J.L., Belkin, H.E., and Pozzuoli, A., Geothermometry, geochronology, and mass transfer associated with hydrothermal alteration of a rhyolitic haloclastite from Ponza Island, Italy, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 67, 275-288.

2002 – Hailemichael, M., Aronson, J., and Savin, S.M. Delta 18) in mollusk shells from Pliocene Lake Hadar and modern Ethiopian lakes: implications for the history of the Ethiopian Monsoon, Paleogeography, Paleclimatology, Paleoecology 186, 81-99.

1999 - Bechtel, A., S.M. Savin, and S. Hoernes. Oxygen and hydrogen isotopic compostion of clay minerals of the Bahloul Formation in the region of the Bou Grine zinc-lead ore Deposit (Tunisia): evidence for fluid-rock interaction in the vicinity of salt dome cap rock. Chemical Geology, 156, 191-207.

1999 - Miller, K.G., Barrera, E., Olsson, R.K., Sugarman, P.J., Browning, J.V., and Savin, S.M., Ice drives early Maastrichtian eustasy: Global 18O and New Jersey sequences, Geology, 27, 783-786.

1999 - Barrera, E.B. and Savin, S.M., Evolution of late Campanian-Maastrichtian marine climates, in Barrera, E., and Johnson, C., The Evolution of Cretaceous Ocean-Climate Systems, Geological Society of America, Special Paper 332, 245-282.

1998 - Savin, S.M. and Hsieh, J.C.C. The hydrogen and oxygen isotope geochemistry of pedogenic clay minerals: Principles and theoretical background, Geoderma, 82, 227-253.

1998 - Hsieh, J.C.C., Savin, S.M., Kelly, E.F., and Chadwick, O.A., Measurement of soil water 18O values by direct equilibration of soil samples with CO2, Geoderma, 82, 255-268.

1998 - Hsieh, J.C.C., Chadwick, O.A., Savin, S.M., and Kelly, E.F., Oxygen isotopic composition of soil water: Quantifying evaporation and transpiration, Geoderma, 82, 269-293.

1998 - Raghavan, C.V., Super, D.M., Chatburn, R.L., Savin, S.M., Farnaroff, A.A., and Kalhan, S.C., Estimation of total body water in very-low-birthweight infants using anthropometry with and without bioelectric impedance and H2[18O], American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 68, 668-674.

1998 - Giral-Kacmarcik, S., Savin, S.M., Nahon, D.B., Girard, J-P., Lucas, Y., and Abel, L.J. Oxygen isotope geochemistry of kaolinite in laterite-forming processes, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 62, 1865-1879.

1998 - Kalhan, Satish, C., Rossi, K.Q., Gruca, L.L., Super, D.M. and Savin, S.M., Relation between transamination of branched chain amino acids and urea synthesis: evidence from human pregnancy. American Journal of Physiology, 275 (Endocrinology and Metabolism), E423-E431.

1995 - Thurman, Harold V. And Savin, S.M. Laboratory Exercises in Oceanography, Prentice-Hall.

1983 - Eggleston, T.L., Norman, D.I., Chapin, C.E., and Savin, S.M. Geology, alteration and genesis of this Luis Lopez Manganese District, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook, 34th Field Conference, 241-246.

1987-Tevsz, M.J., and Savin, S.M. Lake shores in retreat. Gamut, 21, 21-35.

1988-Savin, S.M. The great earthquake of ‘86, Gamut, 23, 52-60.

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