Publications

(Peer reviewed and book/online chapters)

• 2024 Barbato, A., Armentrout, J.M., Magoon, L.B., Demchuk, T., Barrie, C., and Warny, S., 2024.  Organic geochemical characterization of Tertiary rocks in Coos Bay, Oregon: evaluating kerogen type and richness in response to depositional environments. AAPG Bulletin.
• 2024 Warny, S., O’Keefe, J.M., Wymer, C., Powell, B. and MacFawn, D. 2024. The palynology of purple honey: Kudzu dismissed, aluminum-sourwood reaction and other sources behind color plausible. Palynology. 2317224
• 2024 Hillman, A., Hart, S.B., Smith, V., Warny, S., 2024. Holocene hydroclimate stability in the Southeastern United States documented by three lake sediment records.  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 633, 111904.
• 2023 Pilie, M., Gibson, M.E., O’Keefe, J. M.K., Pound, M.J., Nuñez Otaño, N.B., Romero, I.C., and Warny, S., 2023.  Fungal response to the Miocene Climatic Optimum: Palynological insights and associated CREST climatic reconstruction from Southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. In: Advances in Antarctic chronology, paleoenvironment, and paleoclimate using microfossils: Results from recent and legacy coring campaigns. Journal of Micropaleontology, 42, 291–307, 2023.
• 2023 Suc, J.P., Fauquette, S., Warny, S., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Do Couto, D., 2023. Climate and Atlantic-level recorded in Southwestern Spain from 6.3 to 5.2 Ma : Inferences on the Messinian Crisis in the Mediterranean. BSGF Earth Science Bulletin., 194, 15. 10.1051/bsgf/2023013
• R. A. Venturelli, Brenna Boehman, Christina Davis, Jonathan Hawkings, Chloe Gustafson, Alex Michaud, Cyrille Mosbeux, Matthew Siegfried, Trista Vick-Majors, Valier Galy, Rob Spencer, Sophie Warny, Brent Christner, John Dore, Helen Amanda Fricker, David Harwood, Amy Leventer, John C. Priscu, Mark Skidmore, E. Rosenheim, 2023. Origin, age, and cycling of carbon in an Antarctic subglacial lake. AGU Advances, 4, e2022AV000846.
• Tibbett, E.J., Warny, S., Tierney, J.E., Wellner, J.S., and Feakins, S. J., 2022. Cenozoic Antarctic Peninsula Temperatures and Glacial Erosion Signals From Cenozoic Antarctic Peninsula temperatures and glacial erosion signals from a multi-proxy biomarker study. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, e2022PA004430.
• Ellwood, B.B., Bentley, S.J., Warny, S., Ellwood, S.H., Hackworth, R.T., Broud, D.H., Saunders, R., Foster, C., Emery, M., Stone, A., 2022. Mound Paper A ~9,000 BP date makes two Native American Mounds in Louisiana the oldest manmade structures in the Western Hemisphere. American Journal of Science, 322(6), pp.795-827.
• Yunfa, M., Warny, S., Liu, C., Lei, Y., Xiang, M.X., and Yang, Y.H., 2022. Large rivers reorganization 8.5 million years ago in Southeast Asia. Global and Planetary Change. 212, p.103808.
• Yunfa, M., Xiang, M.X., Zhang, T., and Warny, S., 2022. Comment on “An equable subtropical climate throughout China in the Miocene based on palaeofloral evidence” by Qing Wang, Yan Li David K. Ferguson, Wen-Bo Mo, and Nan Yang, Earth-Science Reviews, [Earth-Science Reviews 218 (2021). Earth Science Review, p.104020.
• 2022 Gibson, M.E., McCoy, J., O’Keefe, J. M.K., Nuñez Otaño, N.B., Warny, S. & Pound, M.J., 2022. Reconstructing terrestrial paleoclimates: a comparison of the co-existence approach, Bayesian and probability reconstruction techniques using UK Neogene. Palaeoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 37(2): e2021PA004358.
• 2022 Duffy, M., Tibbett, E.J., Warny, S., Feakins, S. J., Escarguel, G., Smith, C., Askin, R., Leventer, A. and Shevenell, A., 2021. Snapshots of pre-glacial paleoenvironmental conditions along the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica: New Palynological and Biomarker evidence. Geobios, v. 70, p. 1-16.
• 2021 Romero, I.C., Nuñez Otaño, N.B., Fairchild, C.J., Jones, S., Rose, J., Spears, T., Tarlton, L., Belkin, H., Finkelman, R., Pillie, M., Warny, S., Pound, M.J., O’Keefe, J.M.K., 2021. First record of fungal diversity in the tropical and warm-temperate Middle Miocene Climate Optimum forests of Eurasia. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 4, p. 768405.
• 2021 Tibbett, E.J., Scher, H.D., Warny, S., Tierney, J.E., Passchier, S. and Feakins, S. J., 2021. Late Eocene record of hydrology and temperature from Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36, e2020PA004204.
• 2021 Smith, V., Warny, S., Vellekoop, J., Vajda, V., Escarguel, G., 2021. Palynology from ground zero of the Chicxulub impact, southern Gulf of Mexico. Palynology, 45(2): 283-299.
• 2020 Smith, V., Warny, S., Grice, K., Schaefer, B., Whalen, M.T., Vellekoop, J., Chenot, E., Gulick, S.P., Arenillas, I., Arz, J.A. and Bauersachs, T., 2020. Life and death in the Chicxulub impact crater: A record of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Climate of the Past Discussions, pp.1-17.
• 2020 Feakins, S.J., Liddy, H.M., Tauxe, L., Galy, V., Feng, X., Tierney, J.E., Miao, Y. and Warny, S., 2020. Miocene C4 grassland expansion as recorded by the Indus Fan. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, p.e2020PA003856.
• 2020b Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V. and Gulick, S.P., 2020.Paleocene–Eocene palynomorphs from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 2: angiosperm pollen. Palynology, 44(3), 489-519, DOI:10.1080/01916122.2019.1705417
• 2020a Smith, V., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Demchuk, T., Vajda, V. and Expedition 364 Science Party, 2020. Palaeocene–Eocene miospores from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 1: spores and gymnosperm pollen. Palynology, 44(3), 473-487, DOI:10.1080/01916122.2019.1630860.
• 2020 Warny, S., Ferguson, S., Hafner, M. S., & Escarguel, G. (2020). Using museum pelt collections to generate pollen prints from high-risk regions: A new palynological forensic strategy for geolocation. Forensic Science International, 306, 110061.
• 2020 Coenen, J. J., Scherer, R., Baudoin, P., Warny, S., Castañeda, I. S., & Askin, R. (2020).
   Paleogene marine and terrestrial development of the West Antarctic Rift System. Geophysical Research Letters, 47(3), p.e2019GL085281.
• 2019 Smith, Warny, Jarzen, Demchuk, Vajda et al., 2019. Palaeocene–Eocene miospores from the Chicxulub impact crater, Mexico. Part 1: spores and gymnosperm pollen, Palynology, DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2019.1630860
• 2019 Liu, C., Clift, P.D., Giosan, L., Miao, Y., Warny, S., Wan, S. 2019. Paleoclimatic evolution of the SW and NE South China Sea and its relationship with spectral reflectance data over various age scales. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 525: 25-43.
• 2019 Miao, Y., Fuli, W., Warny, S., et al. 2019. Miocene fire intensification linked to continuous aridification on the Tibetan Plateau: Geology, v. 47, p. 303-307.
• 2019 Smith, C., Warny, S., Shevenell. A.E., Gulick, S.P.S. and Leventer, A., online 2018. New species from the Sabrina Flora: An early Paleogene pollen and spore assemblage from the Sabrina Coast, East Antarctica. Palynology.
• 2019 Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Haynes, S.J., MacLeod, K.G., Huber, B.T., online 2018. Late Cretaceous (Turonian) angiosperm pollen from Tanzania: a glimpse of past vegetation from a warmer climate. Palynology.
• 2019 Warny, S., Kymes, C., Askin, R., Krajewski, K. and Tatur, A., online 2018. Terrestrial and marine floral response to latest Eocene and Oligocene events in the Antarctic Peninsula. Palynology.
• 2018 Mertens, K.N., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Gurdebeke, P.R., Aydin, H., Bogus, K., Bringué, M., Dale, B., De Schepper, S., de Vernal, A., Ellegaard, M., Eynaud, F., Grothe, A., Gu, H., Head, M.J., Heikkila, M., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Louwye, S., Marret, F., Masure, E., Matsuoka, K., Mudie, P.J., Penaud, A., Pospelova, V., Price, A., Ribeiro, S., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Schreck, M., Torres-Torres, V., Uzar, S., Versteegh, G., Warny, S., Zonneveld, K., 2018. Summary of the round table discussions about Spiniferites and Achomosphaera occurring in Pliocene to modern sediments. Palynology, 42(S1): 10–44.
• 2018 Mudie, Rochon, Richards, Ferguson and Warny, 2018. Spiniferites cruciformis, Pterocysta cruciformis and Galeacysta etrusca: morphology and paleoecology. Palynology, 42(S1): 135–161.
• 2018 Miao, Y., Warny, S., and Clift, P., Gregory, M., Liu, C., 2018. Climatic or tectonic control on kerogen deposition in the South China Sea? A lesson learned from a comprehensive kerogen study of IODP Site U1433. For International Journal of Coal Geology, 190: 166-177. 
• 2018 Ferguson, S., Warny, S., Anderson, J.B., Simms, A.R., and Escarguel, G., 2018. Holocene vegetation and climate evolution of Corpus Christi and Trinity bays: implications on source-to-sink deposition on the Texas coast. Geobios, 51(2): 123-135.
• 2018 Thomas, M., Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Pocknall, D., Bentley, S., and Nittrouer, C., 2018. Palynomorph evidence for tropical climate stability in the gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea, over the latest marine transgression and highstand (14,500 years BP to today). Quaternary International, 467: 277-291.
• 2018 Ferguson, S., Warny, S., Escarguel, G. and Mudie, P, 2018. MIS 5e-1 dinoflagellate cyst analyses and morphometric evaluation of Galeacysta etrusca and Spiniferites cruciformis in southwestern Black Sea. Quaternary International, 465: 117-129.
• 2018 Ferguson, S., Warny, S., Anderson, J.B., Simms, A.R., White, C. Breaching of Mustang Island in response to the 8.2 ka sea-level event and impact on Corpus Christi Bay, Gulf of Mexico: Implications for future coastal change. The Holocene, 28(1) 166–172.
• 2017 Gulick, S.P.S., Shevenell, A., Montelli, A., Fernandez, R., Smith, C., Warny, S.,Bohaty, S., Sjunneskog, C., Leventer, A., Frederick, B., Blankenship, D., 2017. Proximal shelf record of dynamic East Antarctic ice sheets and their Eocene onset. Nature, 552: 225–229 (14 December 2017), doi:10.1038/nature25026
• 2017 Miao, Y., Warny, S., Clift, P., Liu, C. and Gregory, M Evidence of continuous Asian summer monsoon weakening as a response to global cooling over the last 8 Ma. For Gondwana Research, 52: 48-58.
• 2017 Miao, Y., Warny, S., Liu, C., Clift, P.D., and Gregory, M. Neogene fungal record from IODP Site U1433, South China Sea: Implications for paleoenvironmental change and the onset of the Mekong River. Marine Geology, 394:69-81
• 2017 Schubert, B.A., Jahren, A.H., Davydov, S.P., Warny, S. The transitional climate of the late Miocene Arctic: Winter-dominated precipitation with high seasonal variability. Geology, 45(5):447-450. G38746-1.
• 2017 Haynes, S.J., MacLeod, K.G., Huber, B.T., Warny, S., Kaufman, AJ, et al. Southeastern Tanzania depositional environments, marine and terrestrial links, and exceptional microfossil preservation in the warm Turonian. GSA Bulletin, 129(5-6):515-533. doi: 10.1130/B31432.1
• 2016 Levy, R.H., Harwood, D.M., Florindo, F., DeConto, R., von Eynatten, H., Fielding, C., Field, B., Gasson, G., Golledge, N., Kuhn, G., McKay, R., Naish, T., Olney, M., Pollard, D., Sangiorgi, F., Schouten, S., Warny, S., Willimott, V., and SMS Science Team.Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. PNAS, 113(13): 3453-3458.
• 2016 Bart, P.J., Coquereau, L., Warny, S., and Majewski, W. In situ foraminifera in grounding zone diamict: a working hypothesis. Antarctic Science. doi:10.1017/S0954102016000055
• 2016 Akyuz, I., Warny, S., Oyebode, F., and Bhattacharya, J. Palynology of the Turonian Ferron-Notom Sandstone, Utah: identification of marine flooding surfaces and Milankovitch cycles in subtropical, ever-wet, paralic to non-marine paleoenvironments. Palynology.
• 2016 Warny, S., Kymes, M., Askin, R., Krajewski, K. and Bart, P.J. Remnants of Antarctic vegetation on King George Island during the early Miocene Melville Glaciation. Palynology.
• 2015 Clauzon, G., Suc, J.-P., Jouannic, G., DoCouto, D., Melinte-Dobrinescu, M.C., Jolivet, L., Lebret, N., Mocochain, L., Popescu, S.-M., Martinell, J., Domenech, R., Rubino, J.-L., Warny, S., Gorini, C., Bache, F., Rabineau, M., Estrada, F. New insights on the Sorbas Basin (SE Spain): the onshore reference of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Marine and Petroleum Geology.
• 2015 Griener, K.W., and Warny, S.. Nothofagus pollen grain size as a proxy for long-term climate change: an applied study on Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene sediments from Antarctica. Journal of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
• 2015 Griener, K., Warny, S., Askin, R.E., Acton, G. Early to middle Miocene vegetation history of Antarctica supports eccentricity-paced warming intervals during the Antarctic icehouse phase, Global and Planetary Science Letters. In press.
• 2015 Babcock, S., Bart, P.J., Warny, S., & Youngman, B., 2015. Discover Clues from a Colder Climate with GeoMapApp. Earth Exploration Toolbook.
• 2015 Thomas, M., Pocknall, D., Warny, S., Bentley, S., Nittrouer, C., and Drozler, A. Assessing paleobathymetry and sedimentation rates using palynomaceral analysis: A study of modern sediments from the Gulf of Papua, offshore Papua New Guinea. Palynology. 
• 2014 Feakins, S.J., Warny, S., and DeConto, R.M. Snapshot of cooling and drying before onset of Antarctic glaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 404: 154-166.
• 2014 Babcock, S.L., and Warny, S. Forensic Palynology as Classroom Inquiry. Science Activities, 51: 116-128.
• 2014 Chakarbarty, P., Warny, S., and DeRouen, V. Making a big splash with Louisiana fishes. Occasional Papers of the LSU Museum of Natural Science, 102 pages.
• 2013 Warny, S. Museums' role: Pollen and forensic science. Science, 339: 1149 (March 8).
• 2013 Griener, K.W., Nelson, D.M., and Warny, S. Declining moisture availability on the Antarctic Peninsula during the Late Eocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 383–384 (2013) 72–78.
• 2013 Babcock, S., Warny, S., and Nitsche, F. Global Change in Local Places. Earth Exploration Toolbook (Note: EET is a collection of online Earth system science activities developed by scientists and educators. Each activity, or chapter, introduces one or more scientific data sets and analysis tools that enables users to explore some aspect of the Earth system. It was awarded Science Magazine's Science Prize for Online Resources in Education, September 30, 2011).
• 2013 Steele, A., and Warny, S. Reconstructing Earth's Past Climates: The Hidden Secrets of Pollen. Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 50:2, 62-71.
• 2012 Warny, S., Jarzen, D.M., Evans, A., Hesp, P., and Bart, P.J. Environmental significance of Anthocerotaceae in a potential submerged Palaeoindian site in the Gulf of Mexico. Palynology, 36(2), 234-253.
• 2012 Feakins, S.J., Warny, S., and Lee, J.-E.Hydrologic cycling over Antarctica during the Middle Miocene warming. Nature Geoscience. Published online 17 June 2012. DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1498
• 2012 Garzon, S., Warny, S., and Bart, P.J. Sequence stratigraphic interpretation of Santonian-Maastrichtian strata from the Upper Magdalena oil-producing basin, central Colombia: a Palynological approach. Palynology, 36:sup1, 112-133, doi: 10.1080/01916122.2012.675147
• 2011 Bohaty, S.M., Kulhanek, D.K., Wise, S.W., Jr., Jemison, K., Warny, S. and Sjunneskog, C. Age Assessment of Eocene–Pliocene drillcores recovered during the SHALDRIL II Expedition, Antarctic Peninsula. AGU Special Publication. doi: 10.1029/2010SP001049.
• 2011 Warny, S. and Askin, R.Last remnants of Cenozoic vegetation and organic-walled phytoplankton in the Antarctic Peninsula's icehouse world. AGU Special Publication. doi: 10.1029/2010SP000996.
• 2011 Warny, S. and Askin, R. Vegetation and organic-walled phytoplankton at the end of the Antarctic greenhouse world: A two-step cooling. AGU Special Publication. doi: 10.1029/2010SP000965.
• 2011 Anderson, J.B., Warny, S., Askin, R.A., Wellner, J.S., Bohaty, S.M., Kirshner, A., Livsey, D.L., Simms, A.R., Smith, T.R., Ehrmann, W., Lawver, L.A., Barbeau, D., Wise, S.W., Kulhenek, D.K., Weaver, F.M., and Majewski, W.Progressive Cenozoic cooling and the demise of Antarctica's last refugium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
• 2010 Leroy, S.A.G., Warny, S., Lahijani, H., Piovano, E.L., Fanetti, D., and Berger A.R., 2010. The role of geosciences in the improvement of mitigation of natural disasters: five case studies. In: Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness. Series: International Year of Planet Earth. Beer, Tom (Ed.) 2010, XIX, 262 p. 121 illus., 75 in color., Hardcover. ISBN: 978-90-481-3235-5.
• 2009 Warny, S., 2009. Palaeostomocystis spp.: A potential indicator of neritic subpolar environments in Antarctica. Palynology, 33(2) 2009: 39–50.
• 2009 Warny, S., Askin, R., Hannah, M., Mohr, B., Raine, I., Harwood, D.M., Florindo, F., and the SMS Science Team, 2009. Palynomorphs recovered from sediment core reveal a remarkably warm Antarctica during the Mid Miocene. Geology, 37(10): 955–958; doi: 10.1130/G30139A.1.
• 2009 Warny, S., R. Tedford, R. Saunders, S. Fullen, and Cancienne, A., 2009. Artefacts et tumulus de LSU: un livre d'activites pour enfants, 28 pages.
• 2008 Warny, S. and Cancienne, A., 2008. A la découverte du Muséum des Sciences Naturelles de LSU. Activités pour enfants. Translated in French by Dubois, S., and Dubois, A.-S. The Creative Company, R.L. Ruehrwein, publisher, 48 pages. ISBN#: 978-0-615-25657-3.
• 2008 M. Taviani, M. Hannah, D.M. Harwood, S. Ishman, K. Johnson, M. Olney, C. Riesselman, E. Tuzzi, R. Askin, A. Beu, S. Blair, V. Cantarelli, A. Ceregato, S. Corrado, B. Mohr, S. Nielsen, D. Persico, S. Petrushak, I. Raine, and Warny, S., and the SMS Science Team, 2008.Paleontological Characterization of the AND-2A Core, ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica. In: Harwood, D.M., Florindo, F., Talarico, F. and Levy, R.H. (editors), Studies from the ANDRILL Southern McMurdo Sound Project, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 15(1): 113-144.
• 2008 Brown, C., 2008. Palynological Techniques. Edited by James Riding (U.K.) and Sophie Warny (LSU).AASP Special Publications. ISBN# 978-0-931871-07-8.
• 2007 Warny, S., Anderson, J.B., Londeix, L., and Bart, P.J., 2007. Analysis of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Impletosphaeridium as a marker of sea-ice conditions off Seymour Island. In: Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES, edited by A.K. Cooper and C.R. Raymond et al., Refereed Research Paper, USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, 4 pages, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1047/srp/srp079/
• 2007 Bart, P.J., Ehrmann, W.U., Hillenbrand, C.D., Iwai, M., Winter, D., and Warny, S., 2007. Are Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet grounding events manifest in sedimentary cycles on the adjacent continental rise? Marine Geology, 236 (1-2): 1-13.
• 2006 Warny, S., Wrenn, J.H., Bart, P.J., Askin, R.E., 2006. Palynology of the NBP03-01A transect in Northern Basin, western Ross Sea, Antarctica: a Late Pliocene record. Palynology, 30: 151-182.
• 2006 Tedford, R. and Warny, S., 2006. Investigating the cake-layer Earth and its fossil record. National Science Teacher Association, December, p. 40-44.
• 2006 Fauquette, S., Suc, J.-P., Bertini, A., Popescu, S.-M., L., Warny, S., Bachiri Taoufiq, N., Perez Villa, M.-J., Ferrier, J., Chikhi, H., Subally D. and Clauzon, G., 2006. How much the climate forced the Messinian Salinity Crisis? Quantified climatic conditions from pollen records in the western Mediterranean region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 238: 281-301.
• 2006 Egger, A., Eriksson, S., Franks S., Hall, M., Marlino, M., Mogk, D. Ruzek, M., Scotchmoor, J., and Warny, S., 2006. Geoscience Education and Public Outreach Network (GEPON). Report of a workshop held at UNAVCO, Boulder, Colorado, March 22-24, 2006. Marlino, M. and Scotchmoor, J. (eds).
• 2005 Bart, P.J., Egan, D., and Warny, S., 2005. Direct constraints on the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet grounding events between 5.12 and 7.94 Ma. JGR-Earth Surface, 110, F4008.
• 2004 Warny, S. and Cancienne, A., 2004. Discover the LSU Museum of Natural Science: A natural science activity book for children. The Creative Company, R.L. Ruehrwein, publisher, 48 pages. ISBN#: 1-891468-20-0.
• 2003 Warny, S., Bart, P.J. and Suc, J.-P., 2003.Timing and progression of climatic, tectonic and glacioeustatic influences on the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology and Palaeoecology, 202(1-2): 59-66.
• 2002 Warny, S. and J.H. Wrenn, 2002. Upper Neogene dinoflagellate cyst ecostratigraphy of the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Micropaleontology, 48(3): 257-272.
• 1997 Warny, S. and Wrenn, J.H., 1997. New species of Dinoflagellate cysts from the Miocene-Pliocene boundary on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, in Paleaobotany and Palynology, v. 96, pp. 281-304.
• 1996 Brodkom, F. and Warny, S. Analyses Paragenetiques et Structurales des Gisements de San Matias et Capillani (Bolivie), Bulletin de la Societe Belge de Geologie, 12 p