Staff profile

• Using novel lipid biomarkers (bacteriohopanepolyols, intact phospholipids, glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraethers etc) to investigate microbial processes in soils, sediments, extreme environments.
• Reconstructing sea surface temperatures during the Quaternary
• Investigating biogeochemical cycling in modern and past settings

• 2014: Discussion leader: Analytical Advances and Novel Environments session at Gordon Research Seminar (Organic Geochemistry, Holderness)
• 2013: Student committee member: IAPETUS PhD student conference (Durham University)
• 2013-2016: Early Career Researcher representative: Biogeoscience division of European Geoscience Union
• 2016-Present: Faculty Chair of Research Staff Association (Social Sciences and Health):

Doctoral Thesis

• Spencer-Jones, C.L. (2016). Novel concepts derived from microbial biomarkers in the Congo System: Implications for continental methane cycling. PhD.

Journal Article

• McClymont, E.L., Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A., Spencer-Jones, C.L., Wardley, T., West, M.D., Croudace, I.W., Berg, S., Gröke, D., Kuhn, G., Jamieson, S.S.R., Sime, L. & Phillips, R.A. (2022). Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits. Climate of the Past
• Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., McClymont, Erin L., Bale, N.J., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Muller, J., Abrahamsen, E.P., Allen, C., Bickert, T., Hillenbrand, C.D., Mawbey, E., Peck, V., Svalova, A. & Smith, J.A. (2021). Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas. Biogeosciences 18(11): 3485-3504.
• Spencer-Jones, C.L., Wagner, T. & Talbot, H.M. (2017). A record of aerobic methane oxidation in tropical Africa over the last 2.5 Ma. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 218: 27-39.
• Talbot, H.M., Sidgwick, F.R., Bischoff, J., Osborne, K.A., Rush, D., Sherry, A. & Spencer-Jones, C.L. (2016). Analysis of non-derivatised bacteriohopanepolyols by ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 30(19): 2087-2098.
• Schefuß, E., Eglinton, T.I., Spencer-Jones, C.L., Rullkotter, J., DePolHolz, R., Talbot, H.M., Grootes, P.M. & Schneider, R.R. (2016). Hydrologic control of the terrestrial carbon balance in the Congo River basin. Nature Geoscience 9: 687-690.
• Spencer-Jones, C.L., Wagner, T., Dinga, B.J., Schefuß, E., Mann, P.J., Poulsen, J.R., Spencer, R.G.M., Wabakanghanzi, J.N. & Talbot, H.M. (2015). Bacteriohopanepolyols in tropical soils and sediments from the Congo River catchment area. Organic Geochemistry 89-90: 1-13.
• Talbot, H. M., Handley, L., Spencer-Jones, C. L., Bienvenu, D. J., Schefuß, E., Mann, P. J., Poulsen, J. R., Spencer, R. G. M., Wabakanghanzi, J. N. & Wagner, T. (2014). Variability in aerobic methane oxidation over the past 1.2 Myrs recorded in microbial biomarker signatures from Congo fan sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 133: 387-401.