Publications (* = group member)
Kinsley*, C., Bradtmiller, L.I., McGee, D., Galgay, M., Stuut, J.-B., Tjallingii, R., Winckler, G., deMenocal, P.B., 2022. Orbital- and millennial-scale variability in northwest African dust emissions over the past 67,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37, e2020PA004137.
Burns, S.J., McGee, D., Scroxton*, N., Kinsley*, C.W., Godfrey, L.R., Faina, P., Ranivoharimanana, L., 2021. Southern Hemisphere Controls on Pluvial Periods in southwest Madagascar over the past 117,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 276, 107317.
Huth, T., Passey, B.H., Cole, J.E., Lachniet, M.S., McGee, D., Denniston, R.F., Truebe, S., Levin, N.E., 2021. A framework for triple oxygen isotopes in speleothem paleoclimatology. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2021.11.002.
Faina, P., Burns, S.J., Godfrey, L.R., Crowley, B.E., Scroxton*, N., McGee, D., Sutherland, M.R., Ranivoharimanana, L., 2021. Comparing the paleoclimates of northwestern and southwestern Madagascar during the late Holocene: Implications for the role of climate in megafaunal extinction. Malagasy Nature 15, 108-127.
Brovkin, V., et al., 2021. Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in coupled climate-ecological-social systems: Lessons for the future. Nature Geoscience 14, 550-558.
Serrato Marks*, G., Medina-Elizalde, M., Burns, S., Weldeab, S., Lases-Hernandez, F., Cazares, G., McGee, D., 2021. Evidence for reduced precipitation variability in the Yucatán Peninsula during the mid-Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36, e2021PA004219.
Peaple, M., Tierney, J., Bhattacharya, T., Lowenstein, T.L., McGee, D., Feakins, S., 2021. Reconstructing vegetation during the last glacial period from Southern California using machine learning. Organic Geochemistry 156, 104222, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104222.
Biller-Celander, N., Shakun, J., McGee, D., Wong, C.I., Reyes, A.V., Hardt*, B., Tal*, I., Ford, D., Lauriol, B., 2021. Increasing Pleistocene permafrost stability and carbon cycle conundrums inferred from Canadian speleothems. Science Advances 7, eabe5799.
Munroe, J., Kimble, K., Spötl, C., Serrato Marks*, G., McGee, D., Herron, D., 2021. Winter Wonderland Cave, Utah, USA: A natural laboratory for the study of cryogenic cave carbonate and thawing permafrost. Scientific Reports 11, 6430, doi:10.1038/s41598-021-85658-9.
Rowland, G.H., Robinson, L.F., Hendry, K.R., Ng, H.C., McGee, D., McManus, J.F., 2021. The spatial distribution of aeolian dust and terrigenous fluxes in the tropical Atlantic Ocean since the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(2), doi:10.1029/2020PA004148.
Akam, S., Lyons, T.W., Coffin, R.B., McGee, D., Naehr, T.H., Bates, S.M., Clarkson, C., Reese, B.K., 2021. Carbon-sulfur signals of methane versus crude oil diagenetic decomposition and U-Th age relationships for authigenic carbonates from asphalt seeps, southern Gulf of Mexico. Chemical Geology 581, 120395.
Yuan, T., Yu, H., Chin, M., Remer, L.A., McGee, D., Evan, A., 2020. Anthropogenic decline of African dust: Insights from the Holocene records and beyond. Geophysical Research Letters 47 (22), doi:10.1029/2020GL089711.
Woods, A., Rodbell, D.T., Abbott, M.B., Hatfield, R.G., Chen, C.Y.*, Lehmann, S.B., McGee, D., Weidhaas, N.C., Tapia, P.M., Valero-Garces, B.L., Bush, M.B., Stoner, J.S., 2020. Andean drought and glacial retreat tied to Greenland warming during the last glacial period. Nature Communications 11, 5135.
Chen*, C.Y., McGee, D., Woods, A., Pérez, L., Hatfield, R.G., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., Valero-Garcés, B.L., Lehmann, S.B., Stoner, J.S., Schwalb, A., Tal*, I., Seltzer, G.O., Tapia, P.M., Abbott, M.B., Rodbell, D.T., 2020. U-Th dating of lake sediments: Lessons from the 700 kyr sediment record of Lake Junín, Peru. Quaternary Science Reviews 244, 106422.
Pico, T., McGee, D., Russell, J., Mitrovica, J.X., 2020. Recent constraints on MIS 3 sea level support role of continental shelf exposure as a control on Indo-Pacific hydroclimate. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35(8),doi:10.1029/2020PA003998.
Hatfield, R.G., Stoner, J. S., Solada, K. E., Morey, A. E., Woods, A., Chen, C. Y.*, McGee, D., Abbott, M.B, and Rodbell, D. T., 2020. Paleomagnetic constraint of the Brunhes age sedimentary record from Lake Junín, Peru. Frontiers in Earth Science 8.
Costa, K.M., Hayes, C.M., Anderson, R.F., et al., 2020. 230Th normalization: New insights on an essential tool for quantifying sedimentary fluxes in the modern and Quaternary ocean. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35(2), doi:10.1029/2019PA003820.
McGee, D., 2020. Glacial-interglacial precipitation changes. Annual Review of Marine Science 12, 525-557.
Bice, D., Lacroce, M., McGee, D., Montanari, A., 2019. Late Pleistocene tectonic tilting of the Frasassi anticline from offset stalagmites in the Grotta Grande del Vento (Marche, Italy). GSA Special Paper 542, doi: 10.1130/2019.2542(25).
Tissot*, F.L.H., Ibanez-Mejia, M., Boehnke, P., Dauphas, N., McGee, D., Grove, T.L., Harrison, T.M., 2019. 238U/235U measurement in single-zircon crystals: Implications for the Hadean environment, magmatic differentiation and geochronology. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 34, 2035-2052.
Ward, B.M., Wong, C., Novello, V., McGee, D., Silva, L., Santos, R.V., Wang, X., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., 2019. Reconstruction of Holocene coupling between the South American Monsoon System and local moisture variability from speleothem δ18O and 87Sr/86Sr records. Quaternary Science Reviews 210, 51-63, doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.02.019
Godfrey, L.R., Scroxton*, N., Crowley, B.E., Burns, S.J., Sutherland, M.R., Pérez, V.R., Faina, P., McGee, D., Ranivoharimanana, L., 2019. A new interpretation of Madagascar’s megafaunal decline: the “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis.” Journal of Human Evolution 130, 126-140.
Anderson, C.H., Murray, R.W., Dunlea, A.G., Giosan, L., Kinsley*, C.W., McGee, D., Tada, R., 2019. Eolian delivery to Ulleung Basin, Korea (Japan Sea) during development of the East Asian Monsoon through the last 12 Ma. Geological Magazine, 1-12, doi: 10.1017/S001675681900013X.
Scroxton*, N., Burns, S., McGee, D., Hardt*, B., Godfrey, L.R., Ranivoharimanana, L., Faina, P., 2019. Competing temperature and atmospheric circulation effects on southwest Madagascan rainfall during the last deglaciation. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34, doi: 10.1029/2018PA003466.
Skonieczny*, C., McGee, D., Winckler, G., Bory, A.., Bradtmiller, L.I., Kinsley*, C.W., Polissar, P.J., De Pol-Holz, R., Rossignol, L., Malaizé, B., 2019. Monsoon-driven Saharan dust variability over the last 240,000 years. Science Advances 5, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav1887.
McGee, D., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Marshall, J., Galbraith, E.D., 2018. Western U.S. lake expansions during Heinrich stadials linked to Pacific Hadley circulation. Science Advances 4, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aav0118.
McGee, D., 2018. Shifting summer rains (Perspective). Science 342, 518-520.
Ferreira, D., Marshall, J., Ito, T., McGee, D., 2018. Linking glacial-interglacial cycles to multiple equilibria of climate. Geophysical Research Letters 45, doi: 10.1029/2018GL077019.
Anderson, C.H., Murray, R.W, Dunlea, A.G., Giosan, L., Kinsley*, C.W, McGee, D., Tada, R., 2018.. Climatically driven changes in the supply of terrigenous sediment to the East China Sea. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 19, doi: 10.1029/2017GC007339.
Scroxton*, N., Burns, S.J., Dawson P.A., Rhodes, J.M., Brent*, K., McGee, D., Heijnis, H., Gadd, P., Hantoro, W.S., Gagan, M.K., 2018. Rapid measurement of strontium in speleothems using core-scanning micro x-ray fluorescence. Chemical Geology 487, 12-22.
Omta, A.W., Ferrari, R., McGee, D., 2018. An analytical framework for the impact of carbonate compensation on atmospheric CO2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 32, 720-735.
McGee, D., Moreno-Chamarro, E., Green, B., Marshall, J., Galbraith, E., Bradtmiller, L., 2018. Hemispherically asymmetric trade wind changes as signatures of past ITCZ shifts. Quaternary Science Reviews 180, 214-228.
McGee, D., deMenocal, P.B., 2017. Climatic changes and cultural responses during the African Humid Period recorded in multi-proxy data. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.529.
Rowland, G.H., Ng, H.C., Robinson, L.F., McManus, J.F., Mohamed, K.J., McGee, D., 2017. Investigating the use of 232Th/230Th as a dust proxy using co-located seawater and sediment samples from the low-latitude North Atlantic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 214, 143-156.
Scroxton*, N., Burns, S.J., McGee, D., Hardt*, B., Godfrey, L., Ranivoharimanana, L., Faina, P., 2017. Hemispherically in-phase precipitation variability over the last 1700 years in a Madagascar speleothem record. Quaternary Science Reviews164, 25-36.
Wortham, B.E., Wong, C.I., Silva, L.C.R., McGee, D., Montañez, I.P., Rasbury, E.T., Cooper, K.M., Sharp, W.D., Glessner, J.G., 2017. Assessing response of local moisture conditions in central Brazil to regional variability in monsoon intensity using speleothem 87Sr/86Sr values. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 463, 310-322.
Hayes*, C.T., Rosen*, J., McGee, D., Boyle, E.A., 2017. Thorium distributions in high and low dust regions and the significance for iron supply. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 31, doi:10.1002/2016GB005511.
Williams*, R.H., McGee, D., Ridley, D.A., Kinsley*, C.W., Hu, S., Fedorov, A., Tal*, I., Murray, R., deMenocal, P.B., 2016. Glacial to Holocene changes in trans-Atlantic Saharan dust transport and dust-climate feedbacks. Science Advances 2, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600445.
Hayes*, C.T., McGee, D., Boyle, E.A., Mukhopadhyay, S., Maloof, A.C., 2016. Helium and thorium isotope constraints on African dust transport to the Bahamas over recent millennia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 457, 385-394.
Albani, S., Mahowald, N.M., Murphy, L.N., Raiswell, R., Moore, J.K., Anderson, R.F., McGee, D., Bradtmiller, L.I., Delmonte, B., Hesse, P.P., Mayewski, P.A., 2016. Paleodust variability since the Last Glacial Maximum and implications for iron inputs to the ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL067911.
Burns, S.J., Godfrey, L.R., Faina, P., McGee, D., Hardt*, B., Ranivoharimanana, L., Randrianasy, J., 2016. Rapid human-induced landscape transformation in Madagascar at the end of the first millennium CE. Quaternary Science Reviews134, 92-99.
Bradtmiller, L.I., McGee, D., Awalt, M., Evers, J., Yerxa, H., Kinsley*, C.W., deMenocal, P.B., 2016. Changes in biological productivity along the northwest African margin over the past 20,000 years. Paleoceanography 31, doi:10.1002/2015PA002862.
McGee, D., Winckler, G., Borunda, A., Serno, S., Anderson, R.F., Recasens, C., Bory, A., Gaiero, D., Jaccard, S.L., Kaplan, M., McManus, J.F., Revel, M., Sun, Y., 2016. Tracking eolian dust with helium and thorium: Impacts of grain size and provenance. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 175, 47-67.
Hayes*, C.T., Fitzsimmons, J.N., Boyle, E.A., McGee, D., Anderson, R.F., Weisend, R., Morton, P.L., 2015. Thorium isotopes tracing the iron cycle at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series station ALOHA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 169, 1-16.
Cross, M., McGee, D., Broecker, W.S., Quade, J., Shakun, J.D., Cheng, H., Lu, Y., Edwards, R.L., 2015. Great Basin hydrology, paleoclimate, and connections with the North Atlantic: A speleothem stable isotope and trace element record from Lehman Caves, NV. Quaternary Science Reviews 127, 186-198.
Steponaitis*, E., Andrews*, A., McGee, D., Quade, J., Broecker, W.S., Hsieh*, Y.-T., Shuman, B., Burns, S.J., Cheng, H., 2015. Mid-Holocene drying of the U.S. Great Basin recorded in Nevada speleothems. Quaternary Science Reviews 127, 174-185.
Albani, S., Mahowald, N.M., Winckler, G., Anderson, R.F., Bradtmiller, L.I., et al., 2015. 12,000 years of dust: The Holocene global dust cycle constrained by natural archives. Climate of the Past 11, 869–903.
Donohoe, A., Marshall, J., Armour, K., Ferreira, D., McGee, D., 2014. The inter-annual variability of tropical precipitation and inter-hemispheric energy transport. Journal of Climate 27, 3377-3392.
McGee, D., Donohoe, A., Marshall, J., Ferreira, D., 2014. Changes in ITCZ location and cross-equatorial heat transport at the Last Glacial Maximum, Heinrich Stadial 1, and the Mid-Holocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 390, 69-79.
Serno, S., Winckler, G., Anderson, R.F., Hayes, C.T., McGee, D., Machalett, B., Ren, H., Straub, S.M., Gersonde, R., Haug, G.H., 2014. Eolian dust input to the Subarctic North Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 387, 252-263.
Marshall, J., Donohoe, A., Ferreira, D., McGee, D., 2014. The ocean’s role in setting the mean position of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone. Climate Dynamics 42, 1967-1979.
Donohoe, A., Marshall, J., Ferriera, D., McGee, D., 2013. The relationship between ITCZ location and cross equatorial heat transport: From the seasonal cycle to the Last Glacial Maximum. Journal of Climate, 26, 3597-3618.
McGee, D., deMenocal, P.B., Winckler, G., Stuut, J.-B., Bradtmiller, L.I., 2013. The magnitude, timing and abruptness of changes in North African dust deposition over the last 20,000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371-372, 163-176.
Broecker, W.S., McGee, D., 2013. The d13C record for atmospheric CO2: What is it trying to tell us? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 368, 175-182.
McGee, D., Mukhopadhyay, S., 2013. Extraterrestrial He in sediments: From recorder of asteroid collisions to timekeeper of global environmental changes. In: P. Burnard (Ed.), The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p. 155-176.
McGee, D., Quade, J., Edwards, R.L., Broecker, W.S., Cheng, H., Reiners, P.W., Evenson, N., 2012. Lacustrine cave carbonates: Novel archives of paleohydrologic change in the Bonneville Basin (Utah, USA). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 351-352, 182-194.
McGee, D., Marcantonio, F., McManus, J.F., Winckler, G., 2010. The response of excess 230Th and extraterrestrial 3He to sediment redistribution at the Blake Ridge, western North Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 299, 138-149.
McGee, D., Broecker, W.S., Winckler, G., 2010. Gustiness: the driver of glacial dustiness? Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2340-2350.
Broecker, W.S., McGee, D., Adams, K.D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Oviatt, C.G., Quade, J., 2009. A Great Basin-wide dry episode during the first half of the Mystery Interval? Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2557-2563.
Marcantonio, F., Thomas, D.J., Woodward, S., McGee, D., Winckler, G., 2009. Extraterrestrial 3He in Paleocene sediments from Shatsky Rise: constraints on sedimentation rate variability. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 287, 24-30.
Winckler, G., Anderson, R.F., Fleisher, M.Q., McGee, D., Mahowald, N., 2008. Covariant glacial-interglacial dust fluxes in the equatorial Pacific and Antarctica. Science 320, 93-96.
Siddall, M., Anderson, R.F., Winckler, G., Henderson, G.M., Bradtmiller, L.I., McGee, D., Franzese, A., Stocker, T.F., Müller, S.A., 2008. Modeling the particle flux effect on distribution of 230Th in the equatorial Pacific. Paleoceanography 23, doi:10.1029/2007PA001556.
McGee, D., Marcantonio, F., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., 2007. Deglacial changes in dust flux in the eastern equatorial Pacific. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 257, 215-230.