MARK PAGANI
Yale University
Department of Geology and Geophysics
P.O. Box 208109
New Haven, CT 06520
Updated 5/5/2009
Education:
Ph.D. (1998) Department of Geosciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
B.A. (1983) Department of Geology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Professional Experience:
Associate Professor (7/2006-present) Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Assistant Professor (7/2002-7/2006) Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Research Scientist III (8/2000-present) NREL, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO.
Research Fellow (7/00-5/02) University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
Postdoctoral Research (9/98-6/00) University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
Honors and Initiatives:
JOI - USSSP (Joint Oceanographic Institutions-United States Science Support Program) Distinguished Lecturer (2008-2009).
The Yale Climate and Energy Institute: Co-designed/coordinated/composed the proposal for the Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), a multi-million dollar research institute that integrates the natural and social sciences, engineering, public health, law, and policymakers to pursue implementable solutions to future climate change and energy needs. The proposal required an interdisciplinary effort across the Yale campus. Primary proposal writers, coordinators and conceptual designers included David Bercovici (Department Chair) and Mark Pagani. Support derives from Yale University and external contributions. Directorship, research grants, and core programs will be established in 2009.
Grants:
REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Supplement to NSF: Collaborative Research: Investigation of pCO2 changes since the Pliocene based on alkenone carbon isotopes (2007-2009)
NSF: MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Organic Molecular Research (2007-2008).
NSF: Collaborative Research: Investigation of pCO2 changes since the Pliocene based on alkenone carbon isotopes (2007-2009).
NSF: Collaborative Research: Dynamics of carbon release and sequestration: case studies of two early Eocene hyperthermals (2006-2009).
NSF SGER: Controls on Li/Ca uptake in planktic foraminifera determined by live culturing (2005).
USGS: Organic carbon distribution of recent Chesapeake Bay sediments (2004-2006).
ACS-PRF: Global contribution of C4 plants to terrestrial photosynthesis during the Cenozoic (2003-2006).
NSF MGG: Collaborative Research: Reconstruction of Paleogene alkenone-based εp records (2001-2005).
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1998-2000).
JOI/USSAC Ocean Drilling Fellowship (1996-1998).
Earth Systems Science Center Fellowship, The Pennsylvania State University (1995).
Professional Affiliations:
American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of America, Geochemical Society
Teaching:
Introduction to Geochemistry
Paleoclimates
Advanced Principles in Organic Geochemistry
Organic Geochemistry, Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology, Urbino, Italy
Professional Service:
Associate Editor: Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems (2008-2009).
Associate Editor: American Journal of Science (2006-Present).
NRC sponsored Workshop of the Committee on the Importance of Deep Time Geologic Records for Understanding Climate Change Impacts (2008).
Associate Editor: American Journal of Science (2006-Present).
NSF sponsored Paleoenvironmental Proxies Workshop (2005).
NSF Panel Review, (2004) Marine Geology and Geophysics.
Chaired Sessions:
Session Chair: Pagani, M. and Ridgwell, A., (2008) Global Climatic Transitions and Abrupt Events: Signatures and Mechanisms, Goldschmidt Conference, Vancouver, Canada.
Session Chair: Pagani, M., Huang, Y., and Session, A., (2007) Organic Geochemical and Isotopic Approaches to the Study of Climatic and Environmental Change, AGU fall meeting.
Session Chair: Pagani, M., and Johnson, B., (2007) Modern calibrations and terrestrial applications of stable isotope paleo-proxies, American Chemical Society meeting, Boston, MA.
Session Chair: Grocke, D., Pagani, M., Wagner, T. and Meyers, P. A., (2006) Greenhouse/Icehouse Climates: Organic Proxies and Mechanisms Leading to Organic-Rich Marine Sediments I, AGU fall meeting.
Session Chair: Mahler, B., and Pagani, M, (2004) Geochemical Society, Geochemistry II: Organic Geochemistry, GSA fall meeting.
Session Chair: Hall, J. M., Rowley, D., and Pagani, M, (2004) Unraveling the history of ocean crust production: Evidence for and against changes in seafloor spreading rates since the Mesozoic, GSA fall meeting.
Session Chair: Pagani, M, Beerling, D., Dickens, G. (2002) Phanerozoic history of greenhouse gases, Goldschmidt Conference, Davos, Switzerland.
Session Chair: Martin, E., and Pagani, M, (2000) The oceans and records of long-term climate change, AGU fall meeting.
Publications:
2009
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.
Pagani, M., Caldeira, K., Berner, R., Beerling, D. (in press) The role of terrestrial plants in limiting CO2 decline for 24 million years, Nature.
2008
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.
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, 1468-147.
Henderiks, J. and Pagani, M., (2008) 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, 39, 1066–1071.
Meyers, S. R., Sageman, B. B., and Pagani, M., (2008), Resolving Milankovitch: Consideration of signal and noise, American Journal of Science, 308, 770–786, DOI 10.2475/06.2008.02.
2007
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., Caldeira, K., Archer, D., and Zachos, J.C., (2006) An ancient carbon mystery, Science 314, p. 1556-11557.
2006
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.
Pagani, M., Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, G.R., and the IODP Expedition 302 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 302 Scientists, (2006) Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum, Nature, 441, p. 610-613.
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 (invited submission).
2005 and earlier
Buck, D.G., Brenner, M. Hodell, D.A. Curtis, J.H. Martin, J.B., and Pagani, M. (2005) Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29, p. 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, p. 600-603.
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, p. 953-961.
Pagani, M., Freeman, K.H., Ohkouchi, K., and Caldeira, K., (2002) Comparison of water column [CO2aq] 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, p. 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. Gröcke and M. Kucera, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 360, pp. 575-802.
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, pp.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, pp. 486-496.
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, pp. 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, pp. 876-879.
Pagani, M., Arthur, M.A., and Freeman, K.H., (1999), Miocene evolution of atmospheric carbon dioxide, Paleoceanography, 14, pp. 273-292.
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.
