PUBLICATIONS and DATA

Yang, H., Pagani, M., Briggs, D. E. G., Equiza, M.A., Jagels, R., Leng, Q., LePage. B. A. (2009) Carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation under continuous light: implications for paleoenvironmental interpretations of the High Arctic during Paleogene warming, Oecologia, DOI 10.1007/s00442-009-1321-1.

Liu, Z., Pagani, M., Zinniker, D., DeConto, R., Huber, M., Brinkhuis, H., Shah, S., Leckie, M., and Pearson, A. (2009) Global cooling during the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition, Science, 323, 1187-1190.

Hansen, J., Sato, M., Kharecha, P., Beerling, D., Berner, R., Masson-Delmotte, V., Pagani, M., Raymo, M., Royer, D., Zachos. J.C., (2008) Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, 2, 217-231.

DeConto, R. M., Pollard, D., Wilson, P.A., Pälike, H., Lear, C. H., Pagani, M., (2008) Thresholds for Cenozoic bipolar glaciation, Nature, 455, 652-656.

Meyers, S. R., Sageman B. B., Pagani, M., (2008) Resolving Milankovitch: consideration of signal and noise, American Journal of Science, 308, 770–786, DOI 10.2475/06.2008.02 .

Enders. S. K., Pagani, M., Pantoja, S., Baron, J. S., Wolfe, A. P., Pedentchouk, N., Nunez, L., (2008) Compound-specific stable isotopes of organic compounds from lake sediments track recent environmental changes in an alpine ecosystem, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (United States of America), Limnology and Oceanography, 53, 1468-1478

Henderiks, J. and Pagani, M., (2007) Coccolithophore cell size and the Paleogene decline in atmospheric CO2, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 269, 575-583.

Pedentchouk, N., Sumner, W., Tipple, B., Pagani, M., (2008) δ13C and δD composition of n-alkanes from 3 modern angiosperms and conifers: An experimental 4 set up in central Washington State, USA, Organic Geochemistry, 22, 39, 1066–1071.

Henderiks, J. and Pagani, M., (2007) Refining ancient carbon dioxide estimates: Significance of coccolithophore cell size for alkenone-based pCO2 records, Paleoceanography, 22, doi:10.1029/2006PA001399.

Tipple, B.J. and Pagani, M., (2007) The early origins of terrestrial C4 photosynthesis, Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 35, 435-461.

Pagani, M., Calderia, K., Archer, D., Zachos, J.C, (2006) An ancient carbon mystery, Science, 314, 1556-1557.

Pagani, M., Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damste, J. S., Dickens, G.R., and the IODP Expedition 302 Expedition Scientists^, (2006) Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 442, 671-675.

Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M., Woltering, M., Pedentchouk, N., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Dickens, G.R., Huber, M., Reichart, G. J., Stein, R., Matthiessen, J., Lourens, L.J., Backman, J., Moran, K., and the Expedition Scientists, (2006) Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 441, 610-613.

Meyers, S. R. and Pagani, M., (2006) Quasi-periodic climate teleconnections between northern and southern Europe during the 17th-20th centuries, Global and Planetary Change, 54, p. 291-301.

Pancost, R. D. and Pagani, M. (2006) Controls on the Carbon Isotopic Compositions of Lipids in Marine Environments, In: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Volume 2 Series: Marine Organic Matter: Biomarkers, Isotopes and DNA (J. Volkman, ed.), Springer, Germany, pp 209-249.

Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, and M. Pagani. (2005) Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29, 725-731.

Pagani, M., Zachos, J., Freeman, K. H., Bohaty, S., and Tipple, B., (2005) Marked change in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations during the Oligocene, Science. 309, 600-603.

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Freeman, K.H., and Pagani, M., (2005) Alkenone-based estimates of past CO₂ levels: a consideration of their utility based on an analysis of uncertainties, in A History of Atmospheric CO₂ and its Effects on Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems, J. R. Ehleringer, T. E. Cerling, and M. D. Dearing (Eds)., Ecological Studies, 177, Springer, New York, p.530.

Pagani, M., Lemarchand, D., Spivack, A., and Gaillarde, J., (2005) A critical evaluation of the boron isotope-pH proxy: The accuracy of ancient ocean pH estimates, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 69, 953-961.

Pagani, M., Freeman, K.H., Ohkouchi, K., and Caldeira, K., (2002) Comparison of water column [CO_2aq] with sedimentary alkenone-based estimates: a test of the alkenone-CO₂ proxy, Paleoceanography, 17, 1069, doi:10.1029/2002PA000756.

Ennyu, A., Arthur, M.A., Pagani, M., Fine-fraction carbonate stable isotopes as indicators of seasonal shallow mixed-layer paleohydrography, (2002) Marine Micropaleontology, 46, 317-342.

Pagani, M., The alkenone-CO₂ proxy and ancient atmospheric CO₂, (2002) In Understanding Climate Change: Proxies, Chronology, and Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions, Eds. D.R. Grocke and M. Kucera, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 360, 609-632.

Zachos J., Pagani, M., Sloan, L., Thomas, and E., Billups, K., (2001) Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate: 65 Ma to present, Science, 292, 686-693.

Prahl, F., Herbert, T., Brassell, S.C., Ohkouchi, N., Pagani, M., Repeta D., Rosell-Melé, A., and Sikes, E., (2000), Status of alkenone paleothermometer calibration: Report from Working Group 3, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 1.

Pagani, M., Arthur, M.A., and Freeman, K.H., (2000), Variations in Miocene phytoplankton growth rates in the southwest Atlantic: Evidence for Changes in Ocean Circulation, Paleoceanography, 15, 486-496.

Excel Data File for Pagani et al. 2000

Pagani, M., Freeman, K.H., and Arthur, M.A., (2000), Isotope analyses of molecular and total organic carbon from Miocene sediments, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 64, 37-49.

Pagani, M., Freeman, K.H., and Arthur, M.A., (1999), Late Miocene atmospheric CO₂ concentrations and the expansion of C₄ grasses, Science, 285, 876-879.

Excel Data File for Pagani et al. 1999: Late Miocene CO2

Pagani, M., Arthur, M.A., and Freeman, K.H., (1999), Miocene evolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide, Paleoceanography, 14, 273-292.

Excel Data File for Pagani et al. 1999: Early/Middle Miocene CO2

Pagani, M. and Arthur, M.A., (1998), Stable isotopic studies of Cenomanian-Turonian proximal marine fauna from the U.S. Western Interior Seaway. In Dean, W.E., and Arthur, M.A. (Eds), Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Western Interior Seaway, SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology No. 6.