PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Publications - named author

Matthew R. Siegfried, Ryan A. Venturelli, Molly O. Patterson, William Arnuk, Timothy D. Campbell, Chloe D. Gustafson, Alexander B. Michaud, Ben Galton-Fenzi, Mark B. Hausner, Stephanie N. Holzschuh, Bruce Huber, Kenneth D. Mankoff, Dustin M. Schroeder, Paul Summers, Scott Tyler, Sasha P. Carter, Helen A. Fricker, David M. Harwood, Amy Leventer, Brad E. Rosenheim, Mark L. Skidmore, John C. Priscu, and the SALSA Science Team, 2023, The life and death of a subglacial lake in West Antarctica, Geology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G50995.1.

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Xavier Crosta, Karen E. Kohfeld, Helen C. Bostock, Claire S. Allen, Matthew Chadwick, Alice Du Vivier, Oliver Esper, Johan Etourneau, Jacob Jones, Kelly-Ann Lawler, Amy Leventer, Juliane Müller, Jennifer Pike, Joseph Prebble, Rachael H. Rhodes, Pooja Ghadi, Nele Lamping, Carina Lange, Ling Liu, David Lund, Alice Marzocchi, Laurie Menviel, Katrin J. Meissner, Alan Mix, Abhilash Nair, Molly Patterson, Christina Riesselman, Henrik Sadatzki, Louise C. Sime, Sunil K. Shukla, Maria-Elena Vorrath, Wenshen Xiao, Jiao Yang, 2022, Antarctic sea ice over the past 130,000 years, Part 1: A review of what proxy records tell us, Clim. Past, 18, 1729-1756.

Cody C. Mason, Brian W. Romans, Molly Patterson, Daniel F. Stockli, and Andrea Fildani  Cycles of Andean Mountain Building Archived in the Amazon Fan, 2022, Nature Communications, 13(1), pp. 1-10..

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Molly O. Patterson, Richard H. Levy, Denise K. Kulhanek, Tina van de Flierdt, Huw Horgan, Gavin B. Dunbar, Timothy R. Naish, Jeanine Ash, Alex Pyne, Darcy Mandeno, Paul Winberry, David M. Harwood, Fabio Florindo, Francisco J. Jimenez-Espejo, Andreas Läufer, Kyu-Cheul Yoo, Osamu Seki, Paolo Stocchi, Johann P. Klages, Jae Il Lee, Florence Colleoni, Yusuke Suganuma, Edward Gasson, Christian Ohneiser, José-Abel Flores, David Try, Rachel Kirkman, Daleen Koch, and the SWAIS 2C Science Team, 2022, Sensitivity of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to +2°C (SWAIS 2C), Scientific Drilling, 30, 101-112.

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Taylor, S., Patterson, M. O., Lam, A., Jones, H., Woodard, S., Habicht, M. H., Thomas, E. K., and Grant, G., 2022, Expanded North Pacific subtropical gyre and heterodyne expression during the mid-Pleistocene, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, e2021PA004395.

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Robert McKay, Olga Albot, Gavin B. Dunbar, Jae Il Lee, Min Kyung Lee, Kyu-Cheul Yoo, Sunghan Kim, Nikita Turton, Denise Kulhanek, Molly Patterson, and Richard Levy, 2022. A comparison of methods for identifying and quantifying Ice Rafted Debris on the Antarctic margin, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37, e2021PA004395.

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Lam, A., MacLeod, K. G., Schilling, S. H., Leckie, R. M., Fraas, A., Patterson, M. O., Venti, N. 2021. Pliocene to earliest Pleistocene (5-2.5 Ma) Reconstructions of the Kuroshio Current Extension Reveals a Dynamic Current, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(9), p.e2021PA004318.   

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Adriane R. Lam, Mark Leckie, and Molly O. Patterson. 2020. SIDEBAR. Illuminating the past to see the future of western boundary currents: Paleoceanographic and micropaleontologic investigations of the Kuroshio Current Extension, Oceanography, 33(2), 65-67

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John C. Priscu, Jonas Kalin, John Winans, Timothy Campbell, Matthew R. Siegfried, Mark Skidmore, John E. Dore, Amy Leventer, David Harwood, Dennis Duling, Robert Zook, Justin Burnett, Dar Gibson, Edward Krula, Anatoly Mironov, Jim McManis, Graham Roberts, Brad E. Rosenheim, Brent C. Christner, Kathy Kasic, Helen A. Fricker, W. Berry. Lyons, J. Barker, M. Bowling, B. Collins, C. Davis, A. Gagnon, C. Gardner, C. Gustafson, W. Li, A. Michaud, M. Patterson, M. Tranter, R. Venturelli, and T. Vick-Majors, and THE SALSA SCIENCE TEAM, 2021, Scientific Access into Mercer Subglacial Lake: Scientific Objectives, Drilling Operations and Initial Observations, Annals of Glaciology, v. 62, p. 340-352.

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Laufer, K., Michaud, A.B., Maisch, M., Byrne, J.M., Kappler, A., Patterson, M.O., Røy, H., Jørgensen, B.B., Benthic cycling in glaciated Arctic fjords (Svalbard) produces bioavailable iron, Nature Communications, v. 12, 1349.

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Erin L. McClymont, Heather L. Ford, Sze Ling Ho, Julia C. Tindall, Alan M. Haywood, Montserrat Alonso-Garcia, Ian Bailey, Melissa A. Berke, Kate Littler, Molly Patterson, Benjamin Petrick, Francien Peterse, A. Christina Ravelo, Bjørg Risebrobakken, Stijn De Schepper, George E.A. Swann, Kaustubh Thirumalai, Jessica E. Tierney Carolien van der Weijst, Sarah White, Ayako Abe-Ouchi, Michiel Baatsen, Esther C. Brady, Wing-Le Chan, Deepak Chandan, Ran Feng, Chuncheng Guo, Anna S. von der Heydt, Stephen hunter, Xiangyi Li, Gerrit Lohmann, Kerim H. Nisancioglu, Bette L. Otto-Bliesner, W. Richard Peltier, Christian Stepanek, and Zhonghi Zhang. 2020, Lessons for a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~3 million years ago, Climate of the Past, 16(4), 1599-1615.

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Grant, G. R., Naish, T. R., Dunbar, G. B., Stocchi, P., Kominz, M. A., Kamp, P. J. J., Tapia, C. A., McKay, R., Levy, R. H., and Patterson, M. O. 2019, The amplitude and origin of sea-level variability during the Pliocene epoch, Nature, v. 574, p. 237- 241.

Patterson, M., Rhodes, R., & Allen, C., 2019, Understanding Past Changes in Southern Ocean Sea Ice, EOS, 100.

Grant, G.R., Sefton, J.P., Patterson, M.O., Naish, T.R., Dunbar, G.B., Hayward, B.W., Morgans, H.E.G., Alloway, B.V., Seward, D., Tapia, C.A., Prebble, J.G., Kamp, P.J.J., McKay, R., Ohnieser, C., Turner, G. 2018, Mid- to late Pliocene (3.3-2.6 Ma) global sea-level fluctuations recorded on a continental shelf transect, Whanganui Basin, New Zealand, Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 201, p. 241-260.

Bertman, R., Wilson, D. J., van de Flierdt, T., McKay, R., Patterson, M. O., Jimmene-Espejo, F. J., Escutia, C., Duke, G., Taylor-Silva, B., Riesselman, C. 2018, Pliocene deglacial event timelines and the biogeochemical response offshore Wilkes Subglacial Basin, East Antarctica, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 494, p. 109-116

Patterson, M., McKay, R., Naish, T., Wilson, G., Ohneiser, C., Woodard, S., Bostock, H., and Caballero-Gill, R. 2018, A southwest Pacific perspective on long-term global trends in Pliocene-Pleistocene stable isotope records, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 33, p. 825-839

Patterson, M., McKay, R., Naish, T., Escutia, C., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Raymo, M., Meyers, S., Tauxe, L., Benkhuis, H. and IODP Exp. 318 Scientist, 2014, Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, Nature Geoscience, v. 7., p. 841-847, doi:10.1038/ngeo2273.

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Cook, C. P., van de Flierdt, T., Williams, T. J., Hemmings, S. R., Iwai, M., Kobayashi, M., Jimenez-Espejo, F. J., Escutia, C., Gonzalez, J. J., Khim, B-K., McKay, R., Passhier, S., Bohaty, S. M., Riesselman, C., Tauxe, L., Sugisaki, S., Galindo, A L., Patterson, M. O., Sangiorgi, F., Pierce, E. L., Brinkhui, H. F., Klaus, A., Fehr, A., Bendle, J. A. P., Bijl, P., and IODP Exp. 318 Scientist, 2013, Dynamic Behaviour of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during Pliocene Warmth, Nature Geoscience, v. 6, p. 765-769, doi:10.1038/ngeo1889.

Patterson, M. O. and Ishman, S. E., 2012, Neogene benthic foraminiferal assemblages and paleoenvironmetal record for McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, Geosphere, v. 8, no. 6, p.1331-1341.

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Book Chapters

Richard H. Levy, Aisling M. Dolan, Carlota Escutia, Edward G.W. Gasson, Robert M. McKay, Timothy R. Naish, Molly O. Patterson, Lara F. Pérez, Amelia E. Shevenell, Tina van de Flierdt, Warren Dickinson, Douglas E. Kowalewski, Stephen R. Meyers, Christian Ohneiser, Francesca Sangiorgi, Trevor Williams, Hannah M. Chorley, Laura De Santis, Fabio Florindo, Nicholas R. Golledge, Georgia R. Grant, Anna Ruth W. Halberstadt, David M. Harwood, Adam R. Lewis, Ross Powell, Marjolaine Verret, 2021, Chapter 9: Antarctic Environmental Change and Ice Sheet Evolution through the Miocene to Pliocene – A perspective from the Ross Sea, George V Coast and Wilkes Land, In Antarctic Climate Evolution (pp. 389-521). Elsevier.

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Published Reports

Denise K. Klhanek, Catherine Prunella, Jack R. McLaughlin, Benji Griffin, Robert M. McKay, Molly Patterson, Jenny Gales, Amelia E. Shevenell, Tim van Peer, and the IODP Expedition 374 Scientists, Data report: IODP Site U1523 composite section and stratigraphic splice based on X-ray fluorescence data, accepted to Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374-202.

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Expedition 374 summary. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). 

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Expedition 374 methods. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Site U1521. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). 

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Site U1522. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). 

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Site U1523. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).  

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Site U1524. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program).

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Ash, J.L., Beny, F., Browne, I.M., Cortese, G., Cordeiro de Sousa, I.M., Dodd, J.P., Esper, O.M., Gales, J.A., Harwood, D.M., Ishino, S., Keisling, B.A., Kim, S., Kim, S., Laberg, J.S., Leckie, R.M., Müller, J., Patterson, M.O., Romans, B.W., Romero, O.E., Sangiorgi, F., Seki, O., Shevenell, A.E., Singh, S.M., Sugisaki, S.T., van de Flierdt, T., van Peer, T.E., Xiao, W., and Xiong, Z., 2019. Site U1525. In McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 374: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). 

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication - Science team member

Davis, C.L., Venturelli, R.A., Michaud, A.B., Hawkings, J. R., Achberger, A. M., Vicks-Majors, T. J., Rosenheim, B. E., Dore, J. E., Steigmeyer, A., Skidmore, M. L., Barker, J. D., Benning, L. G., Siegfried, M. R., Priscu, J. C., Christner, B. C., and the SALSA Science Team, 2023, Biogeochemical and historical drivers of microbial community composition and structure in sediments from Mercer Subglacial Lake, West Antarctica. ISME COMMUN. 3, 8 (2023). 

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Conte, R., Rebesco, M., De Santis, L., Colleoni, F., Bensi, M., Bergamasco, A., Kovacevic, V., Gales, J., Zgur, F., Accettella, D., De Steur, L., Ursella, L., McKay, R., Kim, S., Lucchi, R. G., and the IODP Expedition 374 Scientists, 2021. Bottom current control on sediment deposition between the Iselin Bank and the Hillary Canyon (Antarctica) since the late Miocene: An integrated seismic-oceanographic approach. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 176, p.103606.

Di Roberto, A., Scateni, B., Di Vincenzo, G., Petrelli, M., Fisauli, G., Barker, S.J., Del Carlo, P., Colleoni, F., Kulhanek, D.K., McKay, R., De Santis, L., and the IODP Expedition 374 Scientific Party, 2021. Tephrochronology and Provenance of an Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) Tephra From IODP Expedition 374 Site U1524, Ross Sea (Antarctica). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(8), p.e2021GC009739.

 King, M.V., Gales, J.A., Laberg, J.S., McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., Hosegood, P.J., Morris, A. and Expedition 374 Scientists, 2022. Pleistocene depositional environments and links to cryosphere-ocean interactions on the eastern Ross Sea continental slope, Antarctica (IODP Hole U1525A), Marine Geology, 443, p.106674.

J.W. Marschalek, L. Zurli, F. Talarico, T. van de Flierdt, P. Vermeesch, A. Carter, F. Beny, V. Bout-Roumazeilles, F. Sangiorgi, S. Hemming, R.M. McKay, L.F. Peréz, F. Colleoni, L. De Santis, C.D. Hillenbrand, E. Gasson, M.J. Siegert, T.E. van Peer, K. Licht, I. Browne, A. Shevenell, D. Harwood, B. Keisling, R. Levy, G. Kuhn, D.K. Kulhanek, M. Perotti, J. Dodd, C. Boshuis and the Expedition 374 science party, 2021, A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet Explain Early Neogene sea-level amplitude, Nature, 600(7889), pp.450-455.

Lara Pérez, Laura De Santis, Robert Mckay, Robert Larter, Jeanine Ash, Philip Bart, Gualtiero Böhm, Giuseppe Brancatelli, Imogen Browne, Florence Colleoni, Justin Dodd, Riccardo Geletti, Jan Laberg, R. Mark Leckie, Richard Levy, James Marschalek, Zenon Mateo, Tim Naish, Francesca Sangiorgi, Amelia Shevenell, Christopher Sorlien, Tina van der Flierdt, and IODP Expedition 374 Scientists, 2020, Early and middle Miocene ice sheet dynamics in the Ross Sea: results from integrated core-log-seismic interpretation, GSA Bulletin, 134(1-2), pp.348-370.

Hawkings, J. R., Skidmore, M. L., Wadham, L. J., Priscu, J. C., Morton, P. L., Hatton, J. E., Gardner, C. B., Kohler, T. J., Stibal, M., Bagshaw, E. A., Steigmeyer, A., Barker, J., Dore, J. E., Lyons, W. B., Tranter, M., Spencer, R. G. M., and the SALSA Science Team, 2020, Enhanced trace element mobilization by Earth’s ice sheet, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(50), pp.31648-31659.

McKay, R.M., De Santis, L., Kulhanek, D.K., and the Expedition 374 Scientists, 2018. Expedition 374 Preliminary Report: Ross Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. International Ocean Discovery Program, 374.

Levy, R., Harwood, D., Florindo, F., Sangiorgi, F., Tripati, R., von Eynatten, H., Gasson, E., Kuhn, G., Tripati, A., DeConto, R., Fielding, C., Field, B., Golledge, N., McKay, R., Naish, T., Olney, M., Pollard, D., Schouten, S., Talarico, F., Warny, S., Willmott, V., Acton, G., Panter, K., Paulsen, T., Taviani, M., & SMS Science Team, 2016, Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516030113.

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Passchier, S., Browne, G., Field, B., Fielding, C.R., Krissek, L.A., Panter, K., Pekar, S.F. and ANDRILL-SMS Science Team, 2011. Early and middle Miocene Antarctic glacial history from the sedimentary facies distribution in the AND-2A drill hole, Ross Sea, Antarctica. GSA Bulletin, 123(11-12), pp.2352-2365.

Frank, T.D., Gui, Z. and ANDRILL SMS Science Team, 2010. Cryogenic origin for brine in the subsurface of southern McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Geology, 38(7), pp.587-590.

Warny, S., Askin, R.A., Hannah, M.J., Mohr, B.A., Raine, J.I., Harwood, D.M., Florindo, F. and SMS Science Team, 2009. Palynomorphs from a sediment core reveal a sudden remarkably warm Antarctica during the middle Miocene. Geology, 37(10), pp.955-958.

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Science Communication Articles

Grant, G. R., and Patterson, M. O. 2020. The proof of the pudding: Past sea-level change, Earth & Space, The Science Breaker Science Meets Society, June 8, 2020.