Tinted detail of a photo: Forest of giant sequoias with massive, deeply furrowed orange-red trunks, among them thinner moss-covered grey trunks and young green conifers.
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Biogeosciences

Tim Eglinton

Tim Eglinton is a biogeochemist at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He is particularly interested in understanding processes that govern the Earth's carbon cycle and quantifying amounts and timescales of carbon transport. He uses a range of methods from molecular scale to global, and is renowned for his contributions in the application of compound specific radiocarbon analysis on environmental samples.