Mike Lott
Senior Laboratory Specialist
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Workphone: 801-581-5927
Office Address: 520 ASB257 S 1400 E SLC UT, 84112-0820

Education
B.S.-Chemistry, University of Utah, 1996
B.S.-Biology, University of Utah, 1996



Research interests
How things work... Forensic applications of stable isotopes.


Publications
J.R. Ehleringer, D.A. Cooper, M.J. Lott, C.S. Cook, Geo-location of heroin and cocaine by stable isotope ratios.(1999) Forensic Science International 106:27-35

J.R. Ehleringer, J.F. Casale, M.J. Lott, V.L. Ford, Tracing the geographical origin of cocaine.(2000) Nature 408:311-312

D.G. Williams, J.B. Coltrain, M. Lott, N.B. English, J.R. Ehleringer, Oxygen isotopes in cellulose identify source water for archaeological maize in America Southwest.(2004) Journal of Archaeological Science 32:931-939

J.F. Casale, J.R. Ehleringer, D.R. Morello, M.J. Lott, Isotopic Fractionation of Carbon and Nitrogen During the Illicit Processing of Cocaine and Heroin in South America.(2005) Journal of Forensic Science Vol. 50, No. 6:1315-1321

H.W. Kreuzer-Martin, L.A. Chesson, M.J. Lott, J.V. Dorigan, J.R. Ehleringer, Stable Isotope Ratios as a Tool in Microbial forensics-Part 1. Microbial Isotopic Composition as a Function of Growth Medium.(2004) Journal of Forensics Science Vol. 49, No. 5:954-960

H.W. Kreuzer-Martin, L.A. Chesson, M.J. Lott, J.V. Dorigan, J.R. Ehleringer, Stable Isotope Ratios as a Tool in Microbial forensics-Part 2. Isotopic Varriation Among different Growth Media as a Tool for Sourcing Origins of Bacterial Cells or Spores.(2004) Journal of Forensics Science Vol. 49, No. 5:961-967

H.W. Kreuzer-Martin, L.A. Chesson, M.J. Lott, J.V. Dorigan, J.R. Ehleringer, Stable Isotope Ratios as a Tool in Microbial forensics-Part 3. Effect of Culturing on Agar-containing Growth Media.(2005) Journal of Forensics Science Vol. 50, No. 6:1372-1379

H.W. Kreuzer-Martin, M.J. Lott, J. Dorigan, J.R. Ehleringer, Microbe forensics: Oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios in Bacillus subtillis cells and spores.(2003) PNAS Vol. 100, No. 3:815-819

J. E. Fessenden, C.S. Cook, M.J. Lott and J. R. Ehleringer, Rapid ¹⁸O analysis of small water and CO₂ samples using a continuous-flow isotope ration mass spectrometer.(2002) Rapic Communications in Mass Spectrometry 16:1257-1260

J. K. Ward, J. M. Harris, T. E. Cerling, A.Wiedenhoeft, M. J. Lott, M.D. Dearing, J. B. Coltrain, J. R. Ehleringer, Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern California.(2005) PNAS 102:690-694

A. J. Schauer*, M. J. Lott, C. S. Cook and J.R. Ehleringer, An automated system for stable isotope and concentration analyses of CO₂ from small atmospheric samples.(2005) Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 19: 359–362



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