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University of Southern California
USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences  
 

Publications

Select Publications of Interest:

In preparation/submission:

  • Romero, I.C. and Feakins, S.J. Spatial gradients in D/H fractionation in a coastal salt marsh, submitted to Organic Geochemistry.

•2010   

  • Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A. L., 2010. Crassulacean Acid Metabolism influences D/H of leaf wax in succulent plants, Organic Geochemistry, doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.09.007.

 

  • Rothenberg, S.E., Kirby, M.E., Bird, B.W., DeRose, M.B., Lin, C-C., Feng, X.B., Ambrose, R.F., Jay, J.A., The Impact of More Than 100 Years of Wildfires on Mercury Levels and Accumulation Rates in Two Lakes in Southern California, USA. Environmental Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0238-7.

•Feakins, S.J. and Sessions, A.L. (2010) Controls on the D/H ratios of plant leaf waxes in an arid ecosystem, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 2128–2141. Article

•Bird, B.W.*, Kirby, M.E. #, Howat, I., Tulaczyk, S., Geophysical Evidence for Holocene Lake-Level Change in Southern California (Dry Lake), Boreas, 39, p.131-144, DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2009.00114.
(*student; #corresponding author M.E. Kirby)

•2009  

•Berelson, W., F. Corsetti, B. Johnson, T. Vo and C. Der (2009) Carbonate associated sulfate as a proxy for lake level fluctuations: a proof of concept for Walker Lake, Nevada.  J. Paleolimnology.

•Michael A Blazevic*; Matthew E Kirby; Adam D Woods; Brandon L Browne; David D Bowman. A sedimentary facies model for glacial-age sediments in Baldwin Lake, Southern California, Sedimentary Geology, 219, p.151-168. (*student)

 
•2007   

•Feakins, S.J., Eglinton, T.I. and deMenocal, P.B., A comparison of biomarker records of northeast African vegetation from lacustrine and marine sediments ca. 3.40 Ma, Organic Geochemistry, doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.06.008.

•Feakins, S.J., Brown, F.H., and deMenocal, P.B., (2007) Plio-Pleistocene Microtephra in DSDP Site 231, Gulf of Aden, Journal of African Earth Sciences, doi: 10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2007.05.004.

•Kirby, M.E., Students Look to the Past to See the Future, National Ground Water Association, Groundwater: News and Views (invited commentary), Volume 4, Number 1, June, p. 7-8.

•Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Anderson, M.A., Bird, B.W., Insolation Forcing of Holocene Climate Change in Southern California: A Sediment Study From Lake Elsinore, Journal of Paleolimnology, 38, p. 395-417 doi: 10.1007/s10933-006-9085-7.

2006

•Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.L., and Bird, B.W., Mid-Wisconsin Sediment Record From Baldwin Lake Reveals Hemispheric Climate Dynamics (Southern CA, USA), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 241, p. 267-283, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.03.043.

•Bird, B.W. and Kirby, M.E., An alpine lacustrine record of early Holocene North American Monsoon dynamics from Dry Lake, southern California (USA), Journal of Paleolimnology, 35, p. 179-192.

2005   

•Feakins, S.J., deMenocal, P,B. Eglinton, T.I, (2005) Biomarker Records of Late Neogene changes in northeast African Vegetation, Geology, 33, 977-980.2005   

•Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Poulsen, C.J., Hydrologic variability and the onset of modern El Niño-Southern Oscillation: a 19,250-year record from Lake Elsinore, Southern California, Journal of Quaternary Science, 20, p. 239-254.

•Kirby, M.E., Determination of Sedimentation Rate and Sedimentation Processes at Big Bear Lake: Using a Paleo-Perspective to Understand Modern Sedimentary Systems, Final Report submitted to Big Bear Municipal Water District, 41pp.

•Kirby, M.E., Anderson, M., Lund, S.P., and Poulsen, C.J., Developing a baseline of natural lake-level/hydrologic variability and understanding past versus present lake productivity over the late-Holocene: a paleo-perspective for management of modern Lake Elsinore, Final Report submitted to Lake Elsinore-San Jacinto Water Authority, 79pp

2004

•Kirby, M.E., Poulsen, C.J., Lund, S.P., Patterson, W.P., Reidy, L., and Hammond, D.E., Late Holocene lake level dynamics inferred from magnetic susceptibility and stable oxygen isotope data: Lake Elsinore, Southern California (USA), Journal of Paleolimnology, 31, p. 275-293.

2003

•Byrne, R., Reidy, L., Kirby, M., Lund, S., and Poulsen, C., Changing Sedimentation rates during the Last Three Centuries at Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California, Final Report to the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board, 41pp.