Publications

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(* = MAB Lab graduate student)

Cartagena Sierra, A., Berke, M.A., Robinson, R.S., Marcks, B., Castañeda, I.S., Starr, A., Hall, A.R., Hemming, S.R., Levay, L., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2021, Variations in latitudinal migrations of the subtropical front at the Agulhas Plateau through the mid-Pleistocene Transition. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004084.

Tangunan, D.N., Berke, M.A., *Cartagena Sierra, A., Gruetzner, J., Jiménez-Espejo, F., Levay, L.J., Romero, O., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Hemming, S.R., Hall, I.R., Flores, J.A., the Expedition 361 Shipboard Scientific Party, 2021. Strong glacial-interglacial variability in upper ocean hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and productivity in the southern Indian Ocean. Communications Earth & Environment 2, 80, doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00148-0.

*Taylor, A.K., Berke, M.A., Castañeda, I., Koutsodendris, A., Campos, A., Hall, I., Hemming, S., Levay, L., Cartagena-Sierra, A., O’Connor, K., and the Expedition 361 Scientists, 2021, Patterns and mechanisms of Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate and oceanographic change in southeastern Africa, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi.org/10.1029/2020PA004186.

Heilman, K., Trouet, V., Belmecheri, S., Pederson, N., Berke, M.A., McLachlan, J.S., 2021. Increased water use efficiency leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity, but high temperatures offset benefits to tree growth. Oecologia, doi.org/10.1007/s00442-021-04892-0.

Starr, A., Hall, I.R., Barker, Rackow, T., Zhang, Z., Hemming, S.R., van der Lubbe, H.J.L., Knorr, G., Berke, M.A., Bigg, G.R., *Cartagena-Sierra, A., F. Jiménez-Espejo, A., Gong, X., Grueztner, J., Nambiyathodi, L., LeVay, L., Robinson, R., Ziegler, M., and the Expedition 361 Shipboard Scientific Party, 2021. Antarctic Icebergs Reorganize Ocean Circulation During Pleistocene Glacials, Nature, 589, 236–241, doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03094-7.

Koutsodendris, A., Nakajima, K., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Berke, M.A., Franzese, A.M., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., Pross, J., Robinson, R., the Expedition 361 Scientists (including *Cartagena-Sierra, A.), 2020. A Plio-Pleistocene (c. 0-4 Ma) cyclostratigraphy for IODP Site U1478 (Mozambique Channel, SW Indian Ocean), Newsletters on Stratigraphy, doi:10.1127/nos/2020/0608.

*O’Connor, K., Berke, M.A., and Ziolkowski, L. 2020. Hydrogen isotope fractionation in modern plants along a boreal-tundra transect in Alaska. Organic Geochemistry, doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104064.

McClymont, E. L., Ford, H. L., Ho, S. L., Tindall, J. C., Haywood, A. M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M. A., Littler, K., Patterson, M., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A. C., Risebrobakken, B., De Schepper, S., Swann, G. E. A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J. E., van der Weijst, C., and White, S. 2020, Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago, Climate of the Past, doi.org/10.5194/cp-2019-161.

Koutsodendris, A., Allstädt, F.J., Kern, O.A., Kousis, I., Schwarz, F., Vannacci, M., Woutersen, A., Appel, E., Berke, M.A., Fang, X., Friedrich, O., Hoorn, C., Salzmann, U., Pross, J., 2019. Late Pliocene vegetation turnover in Central Asia triggered by early Northern Hemisphere glaciation. Global and Planetary Change, 180, 117-125, doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.06.001.

Berke, M.A., *Cartagena Sierra, A., Bush, R., *Cheah, D., *O’Connor, K., 2019. Controls on leaf wax fractionation and δ2H values in tundra vascular plants from western Greenland. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.10.020.

Gruetzner, J., Espejo, F.J.J., Lathika, N., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S.R., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 361 Scientists (including Berke, M.A. and *Cartagena-Sierra, A.), 2018. A new seismic stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean gateway resembles major paleo-oceanographic changes of the last 7 Ma. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, doi.org/10.1029/2018GC007668.

Berke, M.A., 2018. Reconstructing terrestrial paleoenvironments using sedimentary organic biomarkers. In: Croft D., Su D., Simpson S. (eds), Methods in Paleoecology. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Cham, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94265-0_8.

Tangunan, D.N., Baumann, K.-H., Just, J., LeVay, L.J., Barker, S., Brentegani, L., de Vleeschouwer, D., Hall, I.R., Hemming, S., Norris, R., and the Expedition 361 Shipboard Scientific Party (including Berke, M.A. and *Cartagena Sierra, A.), 2018. The last 1 million years of the extinct genus Discoaster: Plio–Pleistocene environment and productivity at Site U1476 (Mozambique Channel). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 505, 187-197, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.043.

Marlon, J.R., Pederson, N., Goring, S., Nolan, C. Shuman, B., Booth, R., Bartlein, P., Berke, M.A., Cook, E., Hessl, A., Jackson, S., Marsicek, J., McLachlan, J., Mock, C.J., Nichols, J., Schaefer, K., Trouet, V., Williams, J., 2017. Paleoclimate of the Northeastern United States during the past 3,000 years and its ecological implications. Climate of the Past, 13, 1355-1379, doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1355-2017.

Bush, R., Berke, M.A., Jacobson, A.D., 2017. Craig-Gordon modeling of plant waters from West Greenland. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 49 (3), 341-358, doi.org/10.1657/AAAR0016-025.

Johnson, T.C., Werne, J.P., Brown, E.T., Abbott, A., Berke, M.A., Steinman, B.A., Halbur, J., Contreras, S., Grossheusch, S., Deino, A., Lyons, R.P., Scholz, C.A., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2016. A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 Million Years. Nature, 537, 220–224, doi: 10.1038/nature19065.

Berke, M.A., Tipple, B.J., Hambach, B., and Ehleringer, J.R., 2015. Life-form specific gradients in compound specific δ2H of modern leaf waxes along a North American Monsoonal transect. Oecologia, 179, 981–997 doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3432-1.

Tipple, B.J., Berke, M.A., Hambach, B., Roden, J., Ehleringer, J.R., 2015. Predicting leaf wax n-alkanes 2H/1H ratios: controlled water source and humidity experiments with hydroponically grown trees confirm predictions of Craig-Gordon model. Plant, Cell and the Environment, doi.org/10.1111/pce.12457.

Cisneros-Dozal, L.M., Huang, Y., Heikoop, J.M., Fawcett, P. J., Fessenden, J., Anderson, R. S., Meyers, P.A., Larson, T., Perkins, G., Toney, J., Werne, J.P., Goff, F., WoldeGabriel, G., Allen, C.D., and Berke, M.A., 2014. Assessing the strength of the monsoon during the late Pleistocene in southwestern United States. Quaternary Science Reviews, 103, 81-90, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.08.022.

Berke, M.A., Johnson, T.C., Werne, J.P., Grice, K., Livingstone, D., Schouten, S., and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2014. Characterization of the last deglacial transition in tropical East Africa: Insights from Lake Albert. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 409, 1-8, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.014.

Tipple, B.J., Berke, M.A., Doman, C., Khachaturyan, S., and Ehleringer, J.R., 2013. Leaf wax and sedimentary n-alkane 2H/1H ratios reflect the environment during leaf expansion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 110, 2659-2664, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213875110.

Berke, M.A., Johnson, T.C., Werne, J.P., Grice, K., Schouten, S., and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2012. Molecular records of climate variability and vegetation response since the Late Pleistocene in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 55, 59-74, doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.014.

Berke, M.A., Johnson, T.C., Werne, J.P., Schouten, S., and Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2012. A mid-Holocene thermal maximum at the end of the African Humid Period, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 351-352, p. 95-104, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.008.

Konecky, B., Russell, J.M., Johnson, T.C., Brown, E.T., Berke, M.A., Werne, J.P., and Huang, Y., 2011. Atmospheric circulation patterns during late Pleistocene climate changes at Lake Malawi, Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 312, 318–326, doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.10.020.

Fawcett, P. J., Werne, J.P., Anderson, R.S., Heikoop, J., Brown, E.T., Berke, M.A., Smith, S., Fraser, G. Hurley, L., Cisneros-Dozal, M., Schouten, S., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Huang, Y., Toney, J., Fessenden, J., WoldeGabriel, G., Atudorei, V., Geissman, J.W., and Allen, C.D., 2011. Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature, 470, 518-521, doi.org/10.1038/nature09839.

Cronin, T.M, Manley, P.L., Brachfeld, S., Manley, T.O., Willard, D.A., Guilbault, J.-P., Rayburn, J.A., Thunell, R., and Berke, M.A., 2008. Impacts of post-glacial lake drainage events and revised chronology of the Champlain Sea episode 13–9 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 262, 46-60, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.02.001.

Cronin, T.M., Vogt, P.R., Willard, D.A., Thunell, R, Halka, J., Berke, M.A., and Pohlman, J., 2007. Rapid sea-level rise and ice-sheet response to 8,200-year climate event. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L20603, doi:10.1029/2007GL031318.