Joint publications

Joint publications related to past environmental and climate change.

2017

Panizzo, V N, Swann, G E A, Mackay, A W, Vologina, E, Alleman, L, André, L, Pashley, V H, and Horstwood, M S A. 2017. Constraining modern–day silicon cycling in Lake Baikal. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31, 556–574.

Wagner, B, Wilke, T, Francke, A, Albrecht, C, Baumgarten, H, Bertini, A, Combourieu–Nebout, N, Cvetkoska, A, D'Addabbo, M, Timme, H D, Föller, K, Giaccio, B, Grazhdani, A, Hauffe, T, Holtvoeth, J, Joannin, S, Jovanovska, E, Just, J, Kouli, K, Koutsodendris, A, Krastel, S, Lacey, J H, Leicher, N, Leng, M J, Levkov, Lindhorst, K, Masi, A, Mercuri, A M, Nomade, S, Nowaczyk, N, Panagiotopoulos, K, Peyron, O, Reed, J M, Regattieri, E, Sadori, L, Sagnotti, L, Stelbrink, B, Sulpizio, R, Tofilovska, S, Torri, P, Vogel, H, Wagner, T, Wagner–Cremer, F, Wolff, G A, Wonik, T, Zanchetta, G, and Zhang, X S. 2017. The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): Interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project. Biogeosciences, 14, 2033–2054.

Swann, G E A, Pike, J, Leng, M J, Sloane, H J, and Snelling, A M. 2017. Temporal controls on silicic acid utilisation along the West Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Communications, 8.

2016

Mackay, A W, Seddon, A W R, Leng, M J, Heumann, G, Morley, D W, Piotrowska, N, Rioual, P, Roberts, S, and Swann, G E A. 2016. Holocene carbon dynamics at the forest–steppe ecotone of southern Siberia. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.13583.

Kemp, S J, Ellis, M A, Mounteney, I, and Kender, S. 2016. Palaeoclimatic implications of high–resolution clay mineral assemblages preceding and across the onset of the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, North Sea Basin. Clay Minerals, 51 (5) DOI: 10.1180/claymin.2016.051.5.08

Francke, A, Wagner, B, Just, J, Leicher, N, Gromig, R, Baumgarten, H, Vogel, H, Lacey, J H, Sadori, L, Wonik, T, Leng, M J, Zanchetta, G, Sulpizio, R, Giaccio, B. 2016. Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 637 ka and the present. Biogeosciences, 13, 1179–1196.

Just, J, Nowaczyk, N R, Sagnotti, L, Francke, A, Vogel, H, Lacey, J H, Wagner, B. 2016. Environmental control on the occurrence of high–coercivity magnetic minerals and formation of iron sulphides in a 640 ka sediment sequence from Lake Ohrid (Balkans). Biogeosciences, 13, 2093–2109.

Kender, S, McClymont, E L, Elmore, A C, Emanuele, D, Leng, M J – Elderfield, H. 2016. Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications, 7, 11970.

Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, Francke, A, Sloane, H J, Milodowski, A, Vogel, H, Baumgarten, H, Zanchetta, G, Wagner, B. 2016. Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences, 13, 1801–1820.

Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, Höbig, N, Reed, J M, Valero–Garcés, B, Reicherter, K. Western Mediterranean climate and environment since Marine Isotope Stage 3: a 50,000–year recordfrom Lake Banyoles, Spain. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933–015–9868–9

McClymont, E L, Elmore, A C, Kender, S, Leng, M J, Greaves, M, Elderfield, H. 2016. Pliocene–Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific. Palaeoceanography, 31, 895–913.

Metcalfe, S E, Leng, M J, Kirby, J R, Huddart, D, Vane, C H, Gonzalez, S. 2016. Early–Mid Pleistocene environments in the Valsequillo Basin, Central Mexico: a reassessment. Journal of Quaternary Science, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2851do

Monte Guerra, R, Concheyro, A, Wise Jr., S W, Kender, S, Fauth, G. 2016. New latitude–based nannofossil zonations for the Campanian–Maastrichtian of the South Atlantic Ocean andtheir paleoceanographic implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.010

Percival, L M E, Cohen, A S, Davies, M, Dickson, A J, Hesselbo, S P, Jenkyns, HC, Leng, M J, Mether, T A, Storm, M S, Xu, W. 2016. Osmium isotope evidence for two pulses of increased continental weathering linked to Early Jurassic volcanism and climate change. The Geological Society of America, doi: 10.1130/G37997.1

Roberts, N, Allcock, S L, Arnaud, F, Dean, J R, Eastwood, W J, Jones, M D, Leng, M J, Metcalfe, S E, Malet, E, Woodbridge, J, Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H. 2016. A tale of two lakes: a multi–proxy comparison of Lateglacial and Holocene environmental change in Cappadocia, Turkey. Journal of Quaternary Science, DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2852

Roberts, J, Gottschalk, J, Skinner, L C, Peck, V L, Kender, S, Elderfield, H, Waelbroeck, C, Vázquez Riveiros, N, Hodell, D A. 2016.Evolution of South Atlantic density and chemical stratification across the last deglaciation. PNAS, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1511252113

Smith, A C, Leng, M J, Swann, G E A, Barker, P A, Mackay, A W, Ryves, D B, Sloane, H J, Chenery, S R N, and Hems, M. 2016. An experiment to assess the effects of diatom dissolution on oxygen isotope ratios. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 30, 293–300.

Tyler, J T, Jones, M, Arrowsmith, C, Allott, T, Leng, M J. Spatial patterns in the oxygen isotope composition of daily rainfall in the British Isles Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382–015–2945–y

Wilke, T, Wagner, B, Van Bocxlaer, B, Albrecht, C, Ariztegui, D, Delicado, D, Francke, A, Harzhauser, M, Hauffe, T, Holtvoeth, J, Just, J, Leng, M J, Levkov, Z, Penkman, K, Sadori, L, Skinner, A, Stelbrink, B, Vogel, H, Wesselingh, F, Wonik, T. 2016. Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: Integrating geological and biological histories. Global and Planetary Change, 143, 118–151

Zhang, X S, Reed, J M, Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Leng, M J, Levkov, Z, Wagner, B. 2016. Complexity of diatom response to Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in ancient, deep and oligotrophic Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania). Biogeosciences, 13, 1351–1365, 2016.

2015

Arculus, R J, Ishizuka, O, Bogus, K A, Gurnis, M, Hickey-Vargas, R, Aljahdali, M H, Bandini-Maeder, A N, Barth, A P, Brandl, P A, Drab, L, do Monte Guerra, R, Hamada, M, Jiang, F, Kanayama, K, Kender, S, Kusano, Y, Li, H, Loudin, L C, Maffione, M, Marsaglia, K M, McCarthy, A, Meffre, S, Morris, A, Neuhaus, M, Savov, I P, Sena, C, Tepley III, F J, van der Land, C, Yogodzinski, G M, Zhang, Z. 2015. A record of spontaneous subduction initiation in the Izu–Bonin–Mariana arc. Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2515.

Asahi, H, Kender, S, Ikehara, M, Sakamoto, T, Takahashi, K, Ravelo, A C, Alvarez Zarikian, C A, Khim, B K, Leng, M J. 2015. Orbital-scale benthic foraminiferal oxygen isotope stratigraphy at the northern Bering Sea Slope Site U1343 (IODP Expedition 323) and its Pleistocene paleoceanographic significance. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.01.004

Dean, J R, Asrat, A, Cohen, A, Foerster, V, Lamb, H F, Leng, M J, Schäbitz, F, Trauth, M, Viehberg, F, Wagner, B, and Chew Bahir Project members. 2015. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: Testing Hypotheses of Climate–Driven Human Evolution and Dispersal at Chew Bahir, Ethiopia. In: Rosen, M R, Cohen, A, Kirby, M, Gierlowski–Kordesch, E, Starratt, S, Valero Garcés, B L, and Varekamp, J, eds, 2015. Sixth International Limnogeology Congress. Abstract Volume, Reno, Nevada,
June 15–19, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1092, 244 p
.

Elmorea, A C, McClymont, E L, Elderfield, H, Kender, S, Cook, M R, Leng, M J, Greaves, M, Misra S. 2015. Antarctic Intermediate Water properties since 400 ka recorded in infaunal (Uvigerina peregrina) and epifaunal (Planulina wuellerstorfi) benthic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science 428, 193–203.

Felstead, N J, Leng, M J, Metcalfe, S E, Gonzalez, S. 2015. Understanding the hydrogeology and surface flow in the Cuatrociénegas Basin (NE Mexico) using stable isotopes. Journal of Arid Environments, 121, 15–23.

Hendy, K R, Swann, G E A, Leng, M J, Sloane, H J, Goodwin, C, Berman, J, Maldonado, M. 2015. Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge. Biogeosciences, 12, 3489–3498.

Jones, M D, Cuthbert, M O, Leng, M J, McGowan, S, Mariethoz, G, Arrowsmith, C, Sloane, H J, Humphrey, K K, Cross, I. 2015. Comparisons of observed and modelled lake δ18O variability. Quaternary Science Reviews.

Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Leng, M J, Vane, C H, Wagner, B. 2015. A high resolution Late Glacial to Holocene record of environmental change in the Mediterranean from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104, 1623-1638.

Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Leng, M J, Vane, C H, and Wagner, B. 2015. Climate and Environmental Variability in the Mediterranean: A High-Resolution Stable Isotope and Geochemical Record from Lake Ohrid. In: Rosen, M R, Cohen, A, Kirby, M, Gierlowski-Kordesch, E, Starratt, S, Valero Garcés, B L, and Varekamp, J, eds, 2015, Sixth International Limnogeology Congress. Abstract Volume, Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1092, 244 p.

Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, Francke, A, Sloane, H J, Milodowski, A, Vogel, H, Baumgarten, H, Wagner, B. 2015. Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 640 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences Discussions, 12 (16). 13427-13481.

Leng, M J, Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Wagner, B, Zianchetta, G, and SCOPSCO scientific party. 2015. The Lake Ohrid Drilling Project: Some Initial Interpretations of Stable Isotope Data Through the Last 15 Marine Isotope Stages. In: Rosen, M R, Cohen, A, Kirby, M, Gierlowski–Kordesch, E, Starratt, S, Valero Garcés, B L, and Varekamp, J, eds, 2015, Sixth International Limnogeology Congress. Abstract Volume, Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open–File Report 2015–1092, 244 p.

Leng, M J. 2015. Recent Advances in the Use of Oxygen Isotopes in Diatom Silica in Lake Research (keynote speaker). In: Rosen, M R, Cohen, A, Kirby, M, Gierlowski–Kordesch, E, Starratt, S, Valero Garcés, B L, and Varekamp, J, eds, 2015, Sixth International Limnogeology Congress. Abstract Volume, Reno, Nevada, June 15–19, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open–File Report 2015–1092, 244 p.

Panizzo, V N, Swann, G E A, Mackay, A W, Vologina, E, Sturm, M, Pashley, V, Horstwood, M S A 2015. Insights into the transfer of silicon isotopes into the sediment record. Biogeosciences Discussions, 12, 9369–9391.

Peck, V L, Allen, C S, Kender, S, McClymont, E L, Hodgson, D. 2015. Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water. Quaternary Science Reviews, 119, 54–65.

Swann, G E A and Snelling, A M. 2015. Photic zone changes in the north-west Pacific Ocean from MIS 4–5e. Climate of the Past, 11, 15–25.

Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H, Dean, J R, Eastwood, W J, Roberts, N, Jones, M D, Leng, M J. 2015. A 600 year–long drought index for central Anatolia. Journal of the Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment, 21, 84–88.

Zanchetta, G, Regattieri, E, Giaccio, B, Wagner, Sulpizio, B R, Francke, A, Vogel, H, Sadori, L, Masi, A, Sinopoli, G, Lacey, J H, Leng, M J, Leicher, N. 2015. Aligning MIS5 proxy records from Lake Ohrid (FYROM) with independently dated Mediterranean archives: implications for core chronology. Biogeosciences Discussions, 12, 16979-17007.

Zhang, X, Reed, J M, Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Leng, M J, Levkov, Z, Wagner, B. 2015. High-resolution analysis of diatom response to Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). Biogeosciences Discussions, 12, 14343-14375.

2014

Cvetkoska, A, Levkov, Z, Reed, J M, Wagner, B, Panagiotopoulos, K, Leng, M J, Lacey, J H. 2014. Quaternary climate change and Heinrich Events in the southern Balkans: Lake Prespa diatom palaeolimnology from the last interglacial to present. Journal of Paleolimnology.

Dean, J, Eastwood, W J, Roberts, C N, Jones, M D, Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H, Allcock, S L, Woodbridge, J, Metcalfe, S E, Leng, M J. Tracking the hydro–climatic signal from lake to sediment: a field study from central Turkey. Journal of Hydrology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.004

Dean, J R, Leng, M J, Mackay, A W. 2014. Is there an isotopic signature of the Anthropocene? The Anthropocene Review.

Felstead, N J, Gonzalez, S, Huddart, D, Noble, S R, Hoffmann, D L, Metcalfe, S E, Leng, M J, Albert, B M, Pike, A W G, Gonzalez–Gonzalez, A, Jimenez–Lopez, J, C. 2014. Holocene–aged human footprints from the Cuatrocienegas Basin, NE Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Sciences, 42, 250–259.

Hendy, K R, Swann, G E A, Leng, M J, Sloane, H J, Goodwin, C, Berman, J, Maldonado, M. 2014. Silica stable isotopes and silicification in a carnivorous sponge. Biogeosciences Discussions, 11, 16573–16597.

Leng, M J and Lewis, J P. 2014. Oxygen isotopes in Molluscan shell: applications in environmental archaeology. Environmental Archaeology.

Lacey, J H, Francke, A, Leng, M J, Vane, C H, Wagner, B. 2014. A high resolution Late Glacial to Holocene record of environmental change in the Mediterranean from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). International Journal of Earth Sciences. DOI 10.1007/s00531–014–1033–6.

Snelling, A M, Swann, G E A, Pike, J and, Leng, M J. 2014. Pliocene diatom and sponge spicule oxygen isotope ratios from the Bering Sea: isotopic offsets and future directions. Climate of the Past, 10, 1837–1842.

2013

Dean, J R, Jones, M D, Leng, M J, Sloane, H J, Roberts, C N, Woodbridge, J, Swann, G E A, Metcalfe, S E, Eastwood, W J, Yiğitbaşıoğlu, H. 2013. Palaeo-seasonality of the last two millennia reconstructed from the oxygen isotope composition of carbonates and diatom silica from Nar Gölü, central Turkey. Quaternary Science Reviews, 66, 35–44.

Leng, M J, Barker, P A, Swann, G E A, Snelling, A M. 2013. δ18O Records. In: Elias, S A (ed). The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 1, pp.481–488. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Mackay, A W, Swann, G A E, Fagel, N, Fietz, S, Leng, M J, Morley, D, Rioual, P, Tarasov, P. 2013. Hydrological instability during the last interglacial in central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 66, 45–54.

Panizzo, V N, Mackay, A W, Rose, N L, Rioual, P, Leng, M J. 2013. Recent palaeolimnological change recorded in Lake Xiaolongwan, northeast China: climatic versus anthropogenic forcing. Quaternary International, 290–291, 322–224.

Pike, J, Swann, G A E, Leng, M J, Snelling, A. 2013. Glacial discharge along the west Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene. Nature Geoscience, 6, 199–202.

Snelling, A M, Swann, G E A, Leng, M J, Pike J. 2013. A Micro-manipulation technique for the purification of diatoms for isotope and geochemical analysis. Silicon, 5, 13–17.

Swann, G E A, Pike, J, Snelling, A M, Leng, M J, Williams, M C. 2013. Seasonally resolved diatom δ18O records from the West Antarctic Peninsula over the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 364, 12–23.

Vane, C H, Kim, A W, Moss-Hayes, V, Snape, C E, Castro-Diaz, M, Khan, N S, Engelhart, S E and Horton, B P. 2013. Mangrove tissue decay by arboreal termites (Nasutitermes acajutlae) and their role in the mangrove C cycle (Puerto Rico): Chemical characterisation and organic matter provenance using bulk δ13C, C/N, alkaline CuO oxidation-GC/MS and solid-state 13C NMR. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, 8, 3176–3191.

Wang, L, Mackay, A W, Leng, M J, Rioual, P, Panizzo, V N, Lu, H, Gu, Z, Chu, G, Han, J, Kendrick, C P. 2013. Influence of the ratio of planktonic to benthic diatoms on lacustrine organic matter δ13C from Erlongwan maar Lake, northeast China. Organic Geochemistry, 54, 62–68.