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  • Costa, K. M., Ossa Ossa, F., Dunlea, A., Pavia, F. J., Tegler, L., Auro, M., Andersen, M., & Nielsen, S. G. 2025. Calculating Sedimentation Rates of Oxic Pelagic Clays Using Core Top Thorium Isotopes. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(1), e2024GC011717. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011717
  • Du, J., Gu, S., Liu, Z., Li, L., & Zhao, N. 2025. A source-weighted Benthic minus Planktonic radiocarbon method for estimating pure ocean water age. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 8(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-00952-x
  • Harris, K. D., Tierney, J. E., Muñoz, S. E., & Anchukaitis, K. J. 2025. Climate Variability in the Gulf of California Over the Last 1,300 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 40(2), e2024PA004912. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024PA004912
  • Shu, Y., Ostrander, C. M., Hardisty, D. S., Swart, P. K., & Nielsen, S. G. 2025. Extending the utility of the Tl isotope paleoredox proxy to carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 394, 32–42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2025.02.026
  • Zhou, C., Liu, M., Mason, R. P., Assavapanuvat, P., Zhang, N. H., Bianchi, T. S., Zhang, Q., Li, X., Sun, R., Chen, J., Wang, X., & Raymond, P. A. 2025. Warming-induced retreat of West Antarctic glaciers weakened carbon sequestration ability but increased mercury enrichment. Nature Communications, 16(1), 1831. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57085-1
  • Girard, J., Reilly, B. T., St-Onge, G., Lagroix, F., Montero-Serrano, J.-C., Stoner, J. S., & Jennings, A. E. 2024. Paleomagnetic Secular Variations in North Greenland Around 81°N Over the Last 6,000 Years. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(10), e2024GC011620. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011620
  • Glaubke, R. H., Schmidt, M. W., Hertzberg, J. E., Ward, L. G., Marcantonio, F., Schimmenti, D., & Thirumalai, K. 2024. An Inconsistent ENSO Response to Northern Hemisphere Stadials Over the Last Deglaciation. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(12), e2023GL107634. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107634
  • Konrad, K., Balbas, A., Finlayson, V. A., Jackson, M. G., Konter, J. G., Koppers, A. A. P., Price, A. A., & Steinberger, B. 2024. Four distinct pulses of volcanism built the Melanesian Border Plateau: Implications for oceanic mid-plate superstructure formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 626, 118549. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118549
  • Konrad, K., Jackson, M., Steinberger, B., Koppers, A., Balbas, A., Finlayson, V., Konter, J., & Price, A. 2024. Toroidal flow around the Tonga slab moved the Samoan plume during the Pliocene. Geology, 52(3), 176–180. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51588.1
  • Middleton, J. L., Gottschalk, J., Winckler, G., Hanley, J., Knudson, C., Farmer, J. R., Lamy, F., Lisiecki, L. E., & Expedition 383 Scientists. 2024. Evaluating manual versus automated benthic foraminiferal δ 18 O alignment techniques for developing chronostratigraphies in marine sediment records. Geochronology, 6(2), 125–145. https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-6-125-2024
  • Nieminski, N. M., Sylvester, Z., Covault, J. A., Gomberg, J., Staisch, L., & McBrearty, I. W. 2024. Turbidite correlation for paleoseismology. Geological Society of America Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B37343.1
  • Scott, B., & Konrad, K. 2024. Seventeen Million Years of Episodic Volcanism Recorded Within the Geologist Seamounts: Implications for Tectonic Drivers of Intraplate Volcanism. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 25(12), e2024GC011806. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011806
  • Umling, N. E., Sikes, E., Rafter, P., Goodkin, N. F., & Southon, J. R. 2024. Deglacial Carbon Escape From the Northern Rim of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(8), e2023GL106413. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106413
  • Liao, S., Liu, X.-L., Manz, K. E., Pennell, K. D., Novak, J., Santos, E., & Huang, Y. 2023. Comprehensive analysis of alkenones by reversed-phase HPLC-MS with unprecedented selectivity, linearity and sensitivity. Talanta, 260, 124653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2023.124653
  • Jennings, A., Reilly, B., Andrews, J., Hogan, K., Walczak, M., Jakobsson, M., Stoner, J., Mix, A., Nicholls, K. W., O’Regan, M., Prins, M. A., & Troelstra, S. R. 2022. Modern and early Holocene ice shelf sediment facies from Petermann Fjord and northern Nares Strait, northwest Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 283, 107460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107460
  • Middleton, J. T., Paytan, A., Auro, M., Saito, M. A., & Horner, T. J. 2023. Barium isotope signatures of barite–fluid ion exchange in Equatorial Pacific sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 612, 118150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118150
  • Praetorius, S. K., Alder, J. R., Condron, A., Mix, A. C., Walczak, M. H., Caissie, B. E., & Erlandson, J. M. 2023. Ice and ocean constraints on early human migrations into North America along the Pacific coast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(7), e2208738120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2208738120
  • Cheung, A. H., Sandwick, S., Du, X., Abella-Gutiérrez, J., Vachula, R. S., Herbert, T. D., Fox-Kemper, B., & Herguera, J. C. 2022. Middle to Late Holocene Sea Surface Temperature and Productivity Changes in the Northeast Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(11), e2021PA004399. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004399
  • Cui, X., Mucci, A., Bianchi, T. S., He, D., Vaughn, D., Williams, E. K., Wang, C., Smeaton, C., Koziorowska-Makuch, K., Faust, J. C., Plante, A. F., & Rosenheim, B. E. 2022. Global fjords as transitory reservoirs of labile organic carbon modulated by organo-mineral interactions. Science Advances, 8(46), eadd0610. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.add0610
  • Du, J., Mix, A. C., Haley, B. A., Belanger, C. L., & Sharon. 2022. Volcanic trigger of ocean deoxygenation during Cordilleran ice sheet retreat. Nature, 611(7934), Article 7934. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05267-y
  • Graham, D. W., & Konrad, K. 2022. Supernova versus cosmic ray origin for exotic nuclides in geomaterials: A test using 3He with 60Fe in marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 336, 177–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.09.016
  • Mitsunaga, B. A., Novak, J., Zhao, X., Dillon, J. A., Huang, Y., & Herbert, T. D. 2022. Alkenone δ2H values – a viable seawater isotope proxy? New core-top δ2HC37:3 and δ2HC37:2 data suggest inter-alkenone and alkenone-water hydrogen isotope fractionation are independent of temperature and salinity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.10.024
  • Novak, J., McGrath, S. M., Wang, K. J., Liao, S., Clemens, S. C., Kuhnt, W., & Huang, Y. 2022. U 38 M E K ′ Expands the linear dynamic range of the alkenone sea surface temperature proxy. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 328, 207–220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.021
  • Peterson, C. D., & Walczak, M. 2022. Recent Transport and Deposition of Littoral Sand Across the Inner-Shelf of Central Oregon: Further Constraints on Estimating Depths of Closure (30–34 m) during Future Sea Level Rise in the Pacific Northwest Region, USA. Journal of Geography and Geology, 14(2), 1. https://doi.org/10.5539/jgg.v14n2p1
  • Price, A. A., Jackson, M. G., Blichert-Toft, J., Konrad, K., Bizimis, M., Koppers, A. A. P., Konter, J. G., Finlayson, V. A., & Sinton, J. M. 2022. Distinguishing volcanic contributions to the overlapping Samoan and Cook-Austral hotspot tracks. Journal of Petrology, egac032. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egac032
  • Schimmenti, D., Marcantonio, F., Hayes, C. T., Hertzberg, J., Schmidt, M., & Sarao, J. 2022. Insights into the deglacial variability of phytoplankton community structure in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean using [231Pa/230Th]xs and opal-carbonate fluxes. Scientific Reports, 12(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26593-1
  • Underwood, M. B., Dugan, B., & Cardona, S. 2022. How Clay Mineral Assemblages Affect Instability on the Upper Slope of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 49(21), e2022GL100529. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100529
  • Buff, L., Jackson, M. G., Konrad, K., Konter, J. G., Bizimis, M., Price, A., Rose-Koga, E. F., Blusztajn, J., Koppers, A. A. P., & Herrera, S. 2021. “Missing links” for the long-lived Macdonald and Arago hotspots, South Pacific Ocean. Geology, 49(5), 541–544. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48276.1
  • Detlef, H., Reilly, B., Jennings, A., Mørk Jensen, M., O’Regan, M., Glasius, M., Olsen, J., Jakobsson, M., & Pearce, C. (2021). Holocene sea-ice dynamics in Petermann Fjord. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-25
  • Fritz‐Endres, T., & Fehrenbacher, J. 2021. Preferential Loss of High Trace Element Bearing Inner Calcite in Foraminifera During Physical and Chemical Cleaning. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(1). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GC009419
  • Meegan Kumar, D., Tierney, J. E., Bhattacharya, T., Zhu, J., McCarty, L., & Murray, J. W. 2021. Climatic Drivers of Deglacial SST Variability in the Eastern Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(10), e2021PA004264. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004264
  • Patarroyo, G. D., & Martinez, J. I. 2021. Composition and diversity patterns of deep sea benthic foraminifera from the Panama basin, eastern equatorial Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 169, 103470. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2021.103470
  • Peterson, C. D., Pettit, D. J., Kingen, K., Vanderburgh, S., & Rosenfeld, C. 2021. Catastrophic beach sand losses due to erosion from predicted future sea level rise (0.5–1.0 m), based on increasing submarine accommodation spaces in the high-wave-energy coast of the Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California, USA. Marine Geology, 439, 106555. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2021.106555
  • Sharon, Belanger, C., Du, J., & Mix, A. 2021. Reconstructing Paleo‐oxygenation for the Last 54,000 Years in the Gulf of Alaska Using Cross‐validated Benthic Foraminiferal and Geochemical Records. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003986
  • Studer, A. S., Mekik, F., Ren, H., Hain, M. P., Oleynik, S., Martínez-García, A., Haug, G. H., & Sigman, D. M. 2021. Ice Age-Holocene Similarity of Foraminifera-Bound Nitrogen Isotope Ratios in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(5), e2020PA004063. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004063
  • Umling, N. E., Saad, B., Sikes, E., & Goodkin, N. F. 2021. Proximity to Undersaturation and the Influences on G. bulloides Area‐Density in Southern Indian Ocean Marine Sediments. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(6), e2021PA004249. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004249
  • Williams, T. J., Martin, E. E., Sikes, E., Starr, A., Umling, N. E., & Glaubke, R. 2021. Neodymium isotope evidence for coupled Southern Ocean circulation and Antarctic climate throughout the last 118,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews, 260, 106915. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106915
  • Allen, K. A., Sikes, E. L., Anderson, R. F., & Rosenthal, Y. 2020. Rapid Loss of CO2 From the South Pacific Ocean During the Last Glacial Termination. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35(2), e2019PA003766. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003766
  • Belanger, C. L., Sharon, Du, J., Payne, C. R., & Mix, A. C. 2020. North Pacific deep-sea ecosystem responses reflect post-glacial switch to pulsed export productivity, deoxygenation, and destratification. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 164, 103341. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2020.103341
  • Cowan, E. A., Zellers, S. D., Müller, J., Walczak, M. H., Worthington, L. L., Caissie, B. E., Clary, W. A., Jaeger, J. M., Gulick, S. P. S., Pratt, J. W., Mix, A. C., & Fallon, S. J. 2020. Sediment controls dynamic behavior of a Cordilleran Ice Stream at the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1826. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15579-0
  • Du, J., B. A. Haley, & A. C. Mix. 2020. Evolution of the Global Overturning Circulation since the Last Glacial Maximum based on marine authigenic neodymium isotopes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, 106396. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106396
  • Hogan, K.A., M. Jakobsson, L. Mayer, B. T. Reilly, A. E. Jennings, J. S. Stoner, T. Nielsen, K. J. Andresen, E. Nørmark, K. A. Heirman, and E. Kamla, 2020. Glacial sedimentation, fluxes and erosion rates associated with ice retreat in Petermann Fjord and Nares Strait, north-west Greenland. The Cryosphere; Katlenburg-Lindau 14: 261–286. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-261-2020
  • Jacobel, A. W., R. F. Anderson, S. L. Jaccard, J. F. McManus, F. J. Pavia, and G. Winckler. 2020. Deep Pacific storage of respired carbon during the last ice age: Perspectives from bottom water oxygen reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews 230: 106065. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106065
  • Jennings, A. E., M.-S. Seidenkrantz, & K.L. Knudsen. 2020. Glomulina oculus, New Calcareous Foraminiferal Species from the High Arctic: A Potential Indicator of a Nearby Marine-Terminating Glacier. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 50(2), 219–234. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.52.2.219
  • Jennings, A., J. Andrews, B. Reilly, M. Walczak, M. Jakobsson, A. Mix, J. Soner, K. Nicholls & M. Cheseby. 2020. Modern foraminiferal assemblages in northern Nares Strait, Petermann Fjord, and beneath Petermann ice tongue, NW Greenland. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 52(1), 491-511. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2020.1806986
  • Marcantonio, F., Hostak, R., Hertzberg, J. E., & Schmidt, M. W. 2020. Deep Equatorial Pacific Ocean Oxygenation and Atmospheric CO2 over the Last Ice Age. Scientific Reports, 10(1), 6606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63628-x
  • Mizell, K., J. R. Hein, P. J. Lam, A. A. Koppers, and H. Staudigel. 2020. Geographic and Oceanographic Influences on Ferromanganese Crust Composition Along a Pacific Ocean Meridional Transect, 14 N to 14S. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 21(2), e2019GC008716.
  • Peck, E. K., R. A. Wheatcroft, and L. S. Brophy. 2020. Controls on sediment accretion and blue carbon burial in tidal saline wetlands: Insights from the Oregon coast, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 125.2: e2019JG005464.
  • Praetorius, S. K., A. Condron, A. C. Mix, M. H. Walczak, J. L. McKay, and J. Du. 2020. The role of Northeast Pacific meltwater events in deglacial climate change. Science Advances 6: eaay2915. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay2915
  • Walczak, M. H., A.C. Mix, E.A. Cowan, S. Fallon, L.K. Fifield, J.R. Alder, J. Du, B. Haley, T. Hobern, J. Padman, S.K. Praetorius, A. Schmittner, J.S. Stoner, & S.D. Zellers. 2020. Phasing of millennial-scale climate variability in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. Science, 370(6517), 716–720. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aba7096
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