Publications

In Review

Late Pleistocene Baldcypress (Taxodium distichum) Forest Deposit on the Continental Shelf of the Northern Gulf of Mexico, in review with Boreas, master student JT Truong work is included in this paper.
Assessment of δ¹⁸O in the Short Lived Bivalve Donax obesulus as a Proxy for Reconstructing El Niño-Southern Oscillation Variability in Coastal Peru, in review with Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Doctoral student Jacob Warner's paper

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.