Publications

In Review

The Flower Garden Banks Siderastrea siderea coral as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series, submitted to Anthropocene Review. This paper includes doctoral student Kylie Palmer's research and she is a co-author.
North Flinders Reef (Coral Sea, Australia) Porites sp. corals as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series, submitted to Anthropocene Review. Doctoral student Kylie Palmer is a co-author.
The CoralHydro2k Database: a global, actively curated compilation of coral δ18O and Sr/Ca proxy records of tropical ocean hydrology and temperature for the Common Era, submitted to Earth System Science Data, May 19, 2022, doi:10.5194/essd-2022-172
Building resilience to extreme weather and climate events in the rural water and wastewater sectors, submitted to the Journal of the American Water Resources Association in November 2021, in revision.

2022

Rates of Future Climate Change in the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea: Implications for Coral Reef Ecosystems, Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi:10.1029/2022JG006999, highlighted in Eos, the scientific magazine of the American Geophysical Union.
Impacts of Ocean-Atmosphere Teleconnections Patterns on the South-Central United States, Frontiers in Earth Science section Atmospheric Science, doi:10.3389/feart.2022.934654
Planetary-scale change to the biosphere signaled by global species translocationscan be used to identify the Anthropocene, Paleontology, doi:10.1111/pala.12618
Salinity information from hydro-sensitive coral δ18O on Donax obesulus (Reeve, 1854) shell δ18O, Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120638, doctoral student Jacob Warner’s paper.
Clues from the sea paint a picture of Earth’s water cycle, Eos, doi.org/10.1029/2022EO220231. This paper includes work by Erika Ornouski.
Biological and paleontological signatures of the Anthropocene, in Anthropogenic Markers: Stratigraphy and Context, eds. Christoph Rosol and Giulia Rispoli (2022). This contribution is part of the Anthropocene exhibit housed at the museum Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin Germany.

2021

Late Pleistocene baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) forest deposit on the continental shelf of the northern Gulf of Mexico, Boreas, doi:10.1111/bor.12524, Altmetric rating of 291, in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric, covered by 36 news outlets. This paper includes master’s student JT Truong's research.
²³⁶U/²³⁸U analysis of femtogram ²³⁶U by MC-ICPMS, Analytical Chemistry, doi:10.1021/acs.analchem.1c00409.
Insights from barium variability in a Siderastrea siderea coral in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173(A), 112930, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112930. This paper includes master’s student Mudith Weerabaddana's research.

2020

The Iso2k Database: A Global Compilation of Paleo-δ¹⁸O and δ²H Records to Aid Understanding of Common Era Climate, Earth System Science Data, doi.org:10.5194/essd-2020-5.
Fundamental Questions and Applications of Sclerochronology: Community-Defined Research Priorities, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106977.
Investigation of an Ancient Bald Cypress Forest in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Final Report to BOEM
Tropical Ocean Hydroclimate and Temperature from Coral Archives, Past Global Changes Magazine, https://doi.org/10.22498/pages.28.1

2019

The Future of Reef Ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico: Insights From Coupled Climate Model Simulations and Ancient Hot-House Reefs, Frontiers in Marine Science, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00691
Intercolony δ¹⁸O and Sr/Ca Variability Among Porites spp. Corals at Palmyra Atoll: Toward More Robust Coral‐Based Estimates of Climate, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1029/2019GC008420
PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi:10.1029/2019pa003632
The Revolution of Crossdating in Marine Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimatology, Biology Letters, doi:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0665.
Taxodium distichum (Baldcypress) Growth Rings Reveal Origins of an 18th Century Jesuit Plantation, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Dendrochronologia, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2018.12.005, doctoral student Clay Tucker's paper

2018

Piecing Together the Big Picture on Water and Climate, Eos, 99, doi:10.1029/2018EO095283.
Stratigraphic Pollen Analysis Performed on a Late Pleistocene Cypress Forest Preserved on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf, Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(8), 865–870, doi:10.1002/jqs.3074.

2017

Facies Reconstruction of a Late Pleistocene Cypress Forest Discovered on the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Shelf , Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, https://www.gcags.org/exploreanddiscover/2017/00196_gonzalez_et_al.pdf, undergraduate student Suyapa Gonzalez's paper.
Recording Tropical Cyclone Activity from 1909 to 2014 along the Northern Gulf of Mexico using Maritime Slash Pine Trees (Pinus elliottii var. elliottii Engelm.), Journal of Coastal Research, 34(2), 328-340, doi:10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-16-00177.1, Doctoral student Clay Tucker's paper
A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era, Scientific Data, 4, 170088, doi:10.1038/sdata.2017.88.
Multi-species coral Sr/Ca-based sea-surface temperature reconstruction using Orbicella faveolata and Siderastrea siderea from the Florida Straits, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 466, 100–109, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.022.
A speleothem-based mid-Holocene precipitation reconstruction for West-Central Florida, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 463, 103–111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.021.
Save our Marine Annually-Resolved Proxy Archives (MARPA)!, Eos, 98, https://doi.org/10.1029/2017EO068159.
The Underwater Forest - YouTube Documentary

2016

Refining temperature reconstructions with the Atlantic coral Siderastrea siderea, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 462, 1–15, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.028.
A mid-Holocene paleoprecipitation record from Belize, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 463, 103–111, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.09.021
Using Proxy Records to Document Gulf of Mexico Tropical Cyclones from 1820-1915, PLoS ONE 11(11): e0167482, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0167482, paper from Paleoclimatology class project

2015

Corals – Sclerochronology, in Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods, Rink, W. Jack, Jeroen W. Thompson, editors, Springer, Netherlands, Chapter 154-3, pp 187-191, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6304-3_154.
Obliquity Pacing of Western Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone Over the Past 282,000 Years, Nature Communications, 6, 10018, doi:10.1038/ncomms10018.

2014

A reconstruction of sea surface temperature variability in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico from 1734 to 2008 CE using cross‐dated Sr/Ca records from the coral Siderastrea siderea, Paleoceanography, 29(5), 403–422, doi:10.1002/2013PA002524.
Multi-specimen and multi-site calibration of Aleutian coralline algal Mg/Ca to sea surface temperature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 139, 190–204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.04.006.

2013

Improving coral-base paleoclimate reconstructions by replicating 350 years of coral Sr/Ca variations, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 373, 6–24, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.019. Special Issue on “Unraveling Environmental Histories from Skeletal Diaries - Advances in Sclerochronology” Guest Editors Bernd R. Schöne and David P. Gillikin. Highlighted in first virtual issue of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, August 25, 2014.
Recent 121‐year variability of western boundary upwelling in the northern South China Sea, Geophysical Research Letters, 40(12), 3180–3183, doi:10.1002/grl.50381
Holocene Core Logs and Site Methods for Modern Reef and Head-Coral Cores: Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1095, 27 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1095/.
The Effects of Climate Change on Natural Ecosystems of the Southeast USA, in Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts, and Vulnerability, in Climate of the Southeast United States: Variability, Change, Impacts, and Vulnerability, Island Press, Washington DC.

2012

Sea surface temperature variability in the southwest tropical Pacific since AD 1649, Nature Climate Change, 2, 799–804, doi:10.1038/nclimate1583

2011

A coral Sr/Ca calibration and replication study of two massive corals from the Gulf of Mexico, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 307, 117–128, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.05.005.
Reply to comment by Cahyarini et al. on “A snapshot of climate variability at Tahiti at 9.5 ka using a fossil coral from IODP Expedition 310”, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 12, Q03013, doi:10.1029/2010GC003461.

2010

A snapshot of climate variability at Tahiti at 9.5 ka using a fossil coral from IODP Expedition 310, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q06005, doi:10.1029/2009GC002758.

2009

Evidence of multidecadal climate variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation from a Gulf of Mexico sea-surface temperature-proxy record, Geo-Marine Letters, 29(6), 477–484, doi:10.1007/s00367-009-0154-6
Evaluating highly resolved paleoclimate records in the frequency domain for multidecadal‐scale climate variability, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L20702, doi:10.1029/2009GL039742.
Holocene Core Logs and Site Statistics for Modern Patch-Reef Cores: Biscayne National Park, Florida, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1246, 26 p. http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1246/.
The Significance of Geochemical Proxies in Corals, Does Size (Age) Matter?, Proceedings of the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2008: 82-86

2007

Reconstructing twentieth‐century sea surface temperature variability in the southwest Pacific: A replication study using multiple coral Sr/Ca records from New Caledonia, Paleoceanography, 22, PA4212, doi:10.1029/2007PA001444.