Lowell Stott

Tenure Track Appointments

• Professor, University of Southern California, 09/01/1989 –

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Professor Stott’s research (https://dornsife.usc.edu/climate/) seeks to understand what factors have influenced the behavior of Earth’s climate system over time. This research entails the acquisition of observations of atmosphere and ocean variables spanning years to millennia. These records provide insight into Earth’s past climate variability. With well resolved records from the ocean and atmosphere it is then possible to conduct model experiments to test hypotheses that would account for the variability observed in the paleorecords.

Stott’s students and post doctoral scientists are pursuing studies to test two scientific hypotheses.

These are:
Hypothesis 1) The flux of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere system varied on glacial time scales in response to changing deep ocean temperatures and hydrostatic pressure, which regulate the stability of geologic reservoirs of liquid and solid (hydrate) forms of CO2.
This hypothesis predicts that as the oceans cooled during cold periods (ice ages) geologic carbon in the form of CO2 accumulated within near surface environments including marine sediments, reducing the amount of carbon that entered the ocean. Recent discoveries have revealed reservoirs of liquid CO2 trapped within marine sediments beneath layers of solid (hydrate) CO2 at the sea floor that acts like a bottle cap, keeping the liquid CO2 from escaping to the ocean. But, when sea level fell during glacial maxima, the hydrate layer could destabilize in response to lower hydrostatic pressures, allowing the buoyant liquid CO2 to leak from the sediment reservoirs into the oceans and then to the atmosphere. The release of this CO2 then amplifies the climate warming during deglaciations.
To test this hypothesis, we are conducting geochemical measurements on samples collected from marine environments near known sources of geologic carbon. Our goal is to characterize geochemical fingerprints of the CO2 that are imparted to marine sediments from geologic carbon. These geochemical fingerprints are then used to identify times in the past when the CO2-rich fluids leaked into the ocean and atmosphere.

Hypothesis 2) Reduced sea surface temperature gradient between the tropical and extra-tropical North Pacific increases atmospheric variance (storm track behavior) that affects the number of storm events that strike the west coast of the US (California) and thus, the amount of precipitation that falls over western North America during winter. This hypothesis, if validated would have important implications for water resource management in the future as the ocean continue to warm.

This hypothesis is being tested using ensemble simulations from an atmospheric general circulation model that is forced with specific sea surface temperature anomaly patterns. Times in the Earth’s past when the North Pacific experienced anomalously warm temperatures, including the so-called Medieval Climate Anomaly Period (1000 to 1300 AD), the northeastern Pacific sea surface temperatures were anomalously warm. This was also a time of prolonged drought over the western US. The hypothesis would predict that this extended period of drought was the result of altered storm track behavior that resulted from the change in sea surface temperature gradient between the tropical and extratropical Northeast Pacific. We are investigating storm track variance by analyzing the stable isotope composition of individual tree rings from long-lived trees that grow in California. The stable isotope composition of cellulose extracted from tree rings is indicative of the source of moisture that falls across the western US.

Research Keywords

climate change,
atmospheric CO2,
oceanography,
climatology,
paleoceanography, paleoclimatology,
stable isotope geochemistry,

Research Specialties

Climate Science, Paleoclimate and Paleoceanography
, Geochemistry

Detailed Statement of Research Interests

Professor Stott’s research attempts to understand what factors have governed the behavior of Earth’s climate system in the past. This research combines observational and modeling approaches. A central focus on ongoing research are investigations to understand Earth’s climate system response to variable fluxes of carbon to the ocean and atmosphere from geologic reservoirs during glacial/interglacial cycles of the late Pleistocene.

Book

• Stott, L. D. (2010). The Geoscience of Climate and Energy 7. The Oceanic Climate Capacitor. 2010.

Journal Article

• Stott, L. D. (2024). Glacial terminations or glacial interruptions?. Earth Science Reviews. Vol. 252, pp. 1-17. Publisher page
• Stott, L. D. (2023). How old is too old? Implications of averaging 14C-Based estimates of ventilation age to assess the Pacific Ocean’s role in sequestering CO2 in the past. Quaternary Science Reviews.Vol. 310,pp. 108-122.
• Muglia, J., Mulitza, S., Repschläger, J., Schmittner, A., Lembke-Jene, L., Lisiecki, L., Mix, A., Saraswat, R., Sikes, E., Waelbroeck, C., Gottschalk, J., Lippold, J., Lund, D., Martinez-Mendez, G., Michel, E., Muschitiello, F., Naik, S., Okazaki, Y., Stott, L. D., Voelker, A., Zhao, N. (2023). A global synthesis of high-resolution stable isotope data from benthic foraminifera of the last deglaciation. Scientific Data/Nature Publishing Group. Vol. 10 (1), pp. 131.
• Palmer, H. M., Hill, T. M., Kennedy, E. G., Roopnarine, P. D., Langlois, S., Reyes, K. R., Stott, L. D. (2022). Ecological and Environmental Stability in Offshore Southern California Marine Basins Through the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. Vol. 37 (8), pp. e2021PA004373.
• Stott, L. D., Shao, J., Yu, J., Harazin, K. M. (2021). Evaluating the Glacial-Deglacial Carbon Respiration and Ventilation Change Hypothesis as a Mechanism for Changing Atmospheric CO2. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 48 (3)
• Shao, J., Stott, L. D., Menviel, L., Ridgwell, A., Ödalen, M., Mohtadi, M. (2021). The atmospheric bridge communicated the d13C decline during the last deglaciation to the global upper ocean. Clim. Past/Copernicus Publications. Vol. 17 (4), pp. 1507-1521.
• Stott, L. D. (2020). Assessing the stratigraphic integrity of planktic and benthic 14C records in the Western Pacific for D14C reconstructions at the last Glacial Termination. Radiocarbon. pp. 1-14.
• Stott, L. D. (2019). CO2 Release from Pockmarks on the Chatham Rise-Bounty Trough at the Glacial Termination. Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology,. Vol. 34, pp. 1726-1743.
• Stott, L. D., Harazin, K. M., Quintana Krupinski, N. B. (2019). Hydrothermal carbon release to the ocean and atmosphere from the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last glacial termination. Environmental Research Letters. Vol. 14 (2)
• Sinha, A., Kathayat, G., Cheng, H., Reuter, J., Schneider, A. W., Berkelhammer, M., Li, H., Adali, S. F., Stott, L. D., Edwards, R. L., Weiss, H. (2019). Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Science Advances.
• Shao, J., Stott, L. D., Gray, W. R., Greenop, R., Pecher, I., Neil, H. L., Coffin, R., Davy, B., Rae, W. B. Atmosphere-Ocean CO2 Exchange Across the Last Deglaciation from the Boron Isotope Proxy. Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology,2019 PubMed Web Address
• Martinez, C., De Pol-Holz, R., Michel, E., Siani, G., Reyes-Macaya, D., Martinez-Mendez, G., DeVries, T., Stott, L., Southon, J., Mohtadi, M., Hebbeln, D. (2019). Ventilation of the deep-ocean carbon reservoir during the last deglaciation: results from the Southeast Pacific. Paleoceanography/Paleoclimatology,. Vol. 34 (12)
• Chikamoto, Y. e., al., e. “Multi-Year Predictability of Climate, Drought, and Wildfire in Southwestern North America. Scientific Reports. Vol. 7. 2017
• Kanner, L., Buenning, N. H., Stott, L. D., Timmermann, A., Noone, D. C. (2014). The role of soil processes in d18O terrestrial climate proxies. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. (28)
• Khider, D., Jackson, C. S., Stott, L. D. (2014). Assessing millennial-scale variability during the Holocene: A perspective from the western tropical Pacific. Paleoceanography. Vol. 29 (3), pp. 143-159.
• Cheng, H., Sinha, A., Cruz, F. W., Wang, X., Edwards, R. L., d’Horta, F. M., Ribas, C. C., Vuille, M., Stott, L. D., Auler, A. S. (2013). Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity. Nat Commun/Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited. All Rights Reserved.. Vol. 4, pp. 1411.
• Kanner, L., Buenning, N. H., Stott, L. D., Stahle, D. (2013). Climatologic and hydrologic influences on the oxygen isotope ratio of tree cellulose in coastal southern California during the late 20th century. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Vol. 14, pp. 4888-4503.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L., Yoshimura, K., Johnson, K., Sinha, A. (2012). Synoptic and mesoscale controls on the isotopic composition of precipitation in the western United States. Climate Dynamics. Vol. 38 (3-4), pp. 433-454.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. D. (2012). Secular temperature trends for the southern Rocky Mountains over the last five centuries. Geophys. Res. Lett.AGU. Vol. 39 (17), pp. L17701.
• Buenning, N. H., Stott, L. D., Yoshimura, K., Berkelhammer, M. (2012). The cause of the seasonal variation in the oxygen isotopic composition of precipitation along the western U.S. coast. J. Geophys. Res.AGU. Vol. 117 (D18), pp. D18114.
• Zhu, M., Stott, L. D., Buckley, B., Yoshimura, K. (2012). 20th century seasonal moisture balance in Southeast Asian montane forests from tree cellulose d¹⁸O. Climatic ChangeSpringer Netherlands. pp. 1-13.
• Zhu, M., Stott, L. D., Buckley, B., Yoshimura, K., Ra, K. (2012). Indo-Pacific Warm Pool convection and ENSO since 1867 derived from Cambodian pine tree cellulose oxygen isotopes. J. Geophys. Res.AGU. Vol. 117 (D11), pp. D11307.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. D. (2011). Correction to “Recent and dramatic changes in Pacific storm trajectories as recorded in the d18O of Bristlecone Pine tree ring cellulose”. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst./AGU. Vol. 12 (9), pp. Q09002.
• Khider, D., Stott, L. D., Emile-Geay, J., Thunell, R., Hammond, D. (2011). Assessing El Nino Southern Oscillation variability during the past millennium. Paleoceanography/AGU. Vol. 26 (3), pp. PA3222.
• Meister, P., Reyes, C., Beaumont, W., Rincon, M., Collins, L., Berelson, W., Stott, L. D., Corsetti, F., Nealson,Meister, K. H., Reyes, C., Beaumont, W., Rincon, M., Collins, L., Berelson, W., Stott, L. D., Corsetti, F., Nealson, K. H. (2011). Calcium and magnesium-limited dolomite precipitation at Deep Springs Lake, California. Sedimentology/Blackwell Publishing Ltd. pp. no-no.
• Sinha, A., Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. D., Mudelsee, M., Cheng, H., Biswas, J. (2011). The leading mode of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation variability during the last millennium. Geophys. Res. Lett./AGU. Vol. 38 (15), pp. L15703.
• Stott, L. D., Timmermann, A. (2011). Hypothesized Link between Glacial/Interglacial Atmospheric CO2 Cycles and Storage/Release CO2-Rich Fluids from the Deep Sea. Geophysical Monograph Series: Understanding the Causes, mechanisms and extent of the Abrupt Climate Change.American Geophysical Union. Vol. 193
• Meister, P., Reyes, C., Beaumont, W., Rincon, M., Collins, L., Berelson, W., Stott, L. D., Corsetti, F., Nealson, K. H. (2011). Calcium and magnesium-limited dolomite precipitation at Deep Springs Lake, California. SedimentologyBlackwell Publishing Ltd. pp. no-no.
• Stott, L. D. (2010). The Oceanic Climate Capacitor. Geoscience Canada. Vol. 37 (2)
• Stott, L. D. (2010). No signs of Southern Ocean CO2. Nature Geoscience. Vol. 3, pp. 153-154.
• Magana, A. L., Southon, J. R., Kennett, J. P., Roark, E. B., Sarnthein, M., Stott, L. D. (2010). Resolving the cause of large differences between deglacial benthic foraminifera radiocarbon measurements in Santa Barbara Basin. Paleoceanography. Vol. 115, pp. PA4102.
• Newton, A., Thunell, R., Stott, L. D. (2010). Changes in the Indonesian Throughflow During the Past 2,000 Years. Geology.
• Sinha, A., Stott, L. D., Berkelhammer, M., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Buckley, B., Aldenderfer, M., Mudelsee, M. (2010). A global context for megadroughts in monsoon Asia during the past millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 30 (1-2), pp. 47-62.
• Reuter, J., Stott, L. D., Deborah, K., Ashish, S., Hai, C., Edwards, R. (2009). A new perspective on the hydroclimate variability in northern South America during the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 36
• Berkelhammer, M. B., Stott, L. D. (2009). Modeled and observed intra-ring d18O cycles within late Holocene Bristlecone Pine tree samples. Chemical Geology. Vol. 264, pp. 13-23.
• Stott, L. D., Southon, J., Timmermann, A., Koutavas, A. (2009). Radiocarbon age anomaly at intermediate water depth in the Pacific Ocean during the last deglaciation. Paleoceanography. Vol. 24
• Timmermann, A., Timm, O., Stott, L. D., & Menviel-Hessler, L. (2009). Local orbital forcing as a jump-starter for the last deglaciation. Journal of Climate. Vol. 22
• Saikku, R., Stott, L. D., Thunell, R. (2009). A bi-polar signal recorded in the western tropical Pacific: Northern and Southern Hemisphere climate records from the Pacific warm pool during the last Ice Age. Quaternary Science Reviews. Vol. 28, pp. 2374–2385.
• Timmermann, A., Timm, O., Stott, L. D., Menviel,Timmermann, L. ,., Timm, O., Stott, L. D., Menviel, L. (2009). The roles of CO2 and orbital forcing in driving southern hemispheric temperature variations during the last 21,000 year. Journal of Climate. Vol. 22 (7), pp. 1626-1640.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. D., Yoshimura, K. (2009). Anomalous export of tropical water vapor to western North America during the current decade. Eos Trans. AGU. Vol. 90 (52), pp. Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP12C-05.
• Timmermann, A., Timm, O., Stott, L. D., Menviel, L. (2009). The Roles of CO2 and Orbital Forcing in Driving Southern Hemispheric Temperature Variations during the Last 21 000 Yr*. Journal of Climate/American Meteorological Society. Vol. 22 (7), pp. 1626-1640.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. D. (2008). Recent and dramatic changes in Pacific storm trajectories recorded in d18O from Bristlecone Pine tree-ring cellulose. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. Vol. 9 (4)
• Sinha, A., Cannariato, K. G., Stott, L. D., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Yadava, M. G., Ramesh, R., Singh, I. B. (2007). A 900-year (600 to 1500 A. D.) record of the Indian summer monsoon precipitation from the core monsoon zone of India. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 34 (16)
• Stott, L. D., Timmermann, A., Thunell, R. (2007). Southern Hemisphere and Deep-Sea Warming Led Deglacial Atmospheric CO2 Rise and Tropical Warming. Science. Vol. 318 (5849), pp. 435-438.
• Graham, N., Hughes, M., Ammann, C., Cobb, K., Hoerling, M., Kennett, D., Kennett, J., Rein, B., Stott, L. D., Wigand, P., Xu, T. (2007). Tropical Pacific-mid-latitude teleconnections in medieval times. Climatic Change. Vol. 45, pp. 241-285.
• Stott, L. D. (2007). Comment on ‘‘Anomalous radiocarbon ages for foraminifera shells’’ by W. Broecker et al.: A correction to the western tropical Pacific MD9821-81 record. Paleoceanography. Vol. 22 (PA1211, doi:10.1029/2006PA001379)
• Thiry, M., Aubry, M., Dupuis, C., Sinha, A., Stott, L. D., Berggren, W. (2006). The Sparnacian deposits of the Paris Basin:d13C Isotope stratigraphy. Stratigraphy. Vol. 3 (2), pp. 119-138.
• Newton, A., Thunell, R., Stott, L. D. (2006). Climate and hydrographic Pacific warm pool during the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 33, pp. 10.1029/2006GL027234.
• Barker, S., Broecker, W., Clark, E., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G., Moreno, E., Stott, L. D. (2006). Radiocarbon age of deglacial-age water from 2.8 km depth in the Western Equatorial Pacific. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems.
• Lund, S. P., Stott, L. D., Schwartz, M., Thunell, R., Chen,Lund, A. ,., Stott, L. D., Schwartz, M., Thunell, R., Chen, A. (2006). Holocene paleomagnetic secular variation records from the western Equatorial Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 246 (3-4), pp. 381-392.
• Prokopenko, M. G., Hammond, D. E., Berelson, W. M., Bernhard, J. M., Stott, L. D., Douglas,Prokopenko, R. ,., Hammond, D. E., Berelson, W. M., Bernhard, J. M., Stott, L. D., Douglas, R. (2006). Nitrogen cycling in the sediments of Santa Barbara basin and Eastern Subtropical North Pacific: Nitrogen isotopes, diagenesis and possible chemosymbiosis between two lithotrophs (Thioploca and Anammox) – “riding on a glider”. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. Vol. 242 (1-2), pp. 186-204.
• Newton, A., Thunell, R., Stott, L. D. (2006). Climate and hydrographic variability in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 33 (19), pp. 5.
• Sinha, A., Cannariato, K. G., Stott, L. D., Li, H. C., You, C. D., Cheng, H. D., Edwards, L. D., Singh, I. B. (2005). Variability of Southwest Indian summer monsoon precipitation during the Bolling-Allerod. Geology/Geological Society of America. Vol. 33, pp. p. 813-816..
• Broecker, W., Barker, S., Clark, E., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G., Stott, L. D. (2004). Ventilation of the Glacial Deep Pacific Ocean. Science. Vol. 306, pp. 1169-1172.
• Cannariato, K. G., Stott, L. D. (2004). High-resolution bulk organic carbon d13C values argue against brief catastrophic releases of sedimentary methane to the surface waters of Santa Barbara Basin. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Vol. 5, pp. 9.
• Holsten, J., Stott, L. D., Berelson, W. (2004). Reconstructing benthic carbon oxidation rates using delta C-13 of benthic foraminifers. Marine Micropaleontology. Vol. 53 (1-2), pp. 117-132.
• Rosenthal, Y., Perron-Cashman, S., Lear, C. H., Bard, E., Barker, S., Billups, K., Bryan, M., Delaney, M. L., deMenocal, P. B., Dwyer, G. S., Elderfield, H., German, C. R., Greaves, M., Lea, D. W., Marchitto, T. M., Pak, D. K., Paradis, G. L., Russell, A. D., Schneider, R. R., Scheiderich, K., Stott, L. D., Tachikawa, K., Tappa, E., Thunell, R., Wara, M., Weldeab, S., Wilson,Rosenthal, P. A., Perron-Cashman, S., Lear, C. H., Bard, E., Barker, S., Billups, K., Bryan, M., Delaney, M. L., deMenocal, P. B., Dwyer, G. S., Elderfield, H., German, C. R., Greaves, M., Lea, D. W., Marchitto, T. M., Pak, D. K., Paradis, G. L., Russell, A. D., Schneider, R. R., Scheiderich, K., Stott, L. D., Tachikawa, K., Tappa, E., Thunell, R., Wara, M., Weldeab, S., Wilson, P. A. (2004). Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Vol. 5
• Cannariato, K. G., Stott, L. D. (2004). Evidence against clathrate-derived methane release to Santa Barbara Basin surface waters?. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Vol. 5, pp. 9.
• Stott, L. D., Cannariato, K., Thunell, R., Haug, G. H., Koutavas, A., Lund, S. (2004). Decline of surface temperature and salinity in the western tropical Pacific Ocean in the Holocene epoch. Nature. Vol. 431, pp. 56-59.
• Leavitt, S. W., Idso, S. B., Kimball, B. A., Burns, J. M., Sinha, A., Stott,Leavitt, L. D., Idso, S. B., Kimball, B. A., Burns, J. M., Sinha, A., Stott, L. D. (2003). The effect of long-term atmospheric CO2 enrichment on the intrinsic water-use efficiency of sour orange trees. Chemosphere. Vol. 50 (2), pp. 217-222.
• Visser, K., Thunell, R., Stott, L. D. (2003). Magnitude and Timing of Temperature Change in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool During Deglaciation. Nature. Vol. 421, pp. 152-155.
• Berelson, W. M., Stott, L. D. (2003). Productivity and organic carbon rain to the California margin seafloor: Modern and paleoceanographic perspectives. Paleoceanography. Vol. 18 (1), pp. 15.
• Berkelhammer, M., Braganza, K., Karoly, D. J., Hirst, A. C., Mann, M. E., Stott, P., Stouffer, R. J., Tett, S. F. (2003). Simple indices of global climate variability and change: Part I – variability and correlation structure. Climate Dynamics. Vol. 20 (5), pp. 491-502.
• Visser, K., Thunell, R., Stott, L. D. (2003). Magnitude and Timing of Temperature Change in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool During Deglaciation. Nature. Vol. 421, pp. 152-155.
• Stott, L. D. (2002). The influence of diet on the d13C of shell carbon in the pulmonate snail Helix aspersa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 195, 249-259, 2002.
• Herbert, T. D., Schuffert, J. D., Andreasen, D., Heusser, L., Lyle, M., Mix, A., Ravelo, A. C., Stott, L. D., Heguera,Herbert, J. C., Schuffert, J. D., Andreasen, D., Heusser, L., Lyle, M., Mix, A., Ravelo, A. C., Stott, L. D., Heguera, J. C. (2002). The California Current, devils hole, and Pleistocene climate – Response. Science. Vol. 296 (5565), pp. 2.
• Stott, L. D., Poulsen, C., Lund, S., Thunell, R. (2002). Super ENSO and global climate oscillations at millennial time scales. Science. Vol. 297 (5579), pp. 222-226.
• Stott, L. D., Bunn, T., Prokopenko, M., Mahn, C., Gieskes, J., Bernhard,Stott, J. M., Bunn, T., Prokopenko, M., Mahn, C., Gieskes, J., Bernhard, J. M. (2002). Does the oxidation of methane leave an isotopic fingerprint in the geologic record?. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. Vol. 3, pp. 16.
• Herbert, T. D., Schuffert, J. D., Andreasen, D., Heusser, L., Lyle, M., Mix, A., Ravelo, A. C., Stott, L. D., Herguera, J. C. (2001). Collapse of the California Current during glacial maxima linked to climate change on land. Science. Vol. 293 (5527), pp. 71-76.
• Broecker, W. S., Clark, E., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Beck, W., Stott, L. D., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G. (2000). Late glacial diatom accumulation at 9 degrees S in the Indian Ocean. Paleoceanography. Vol. 15 (3), pp. 348-352.
• Berkelhammer, M., Hemming, S. R., Gwiazda, R. H., Andrews, J. T., Broecker, W. S., Jennings, A. E., Onstott, T. C. (2000). Ar-40/Ar-39 and Pb-Pb study of individual hornblende and feldspar grains from southeastern Baffin Island glacial sediments: implications for the provenance of the Heinrich layers. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 37 (6), pp. 879-890.
• Li, H. C., Bischoff, J. L., Ku, T. L., Lund, S. P., Stott, L. D. (2000). Climate variability in east-central California during the past 1000 years reflected by high-resolution geochemical and isotopic records from Owens Lake sediments. Quaternary Research. Vol. 54 (2), pp. 189-197.
• Stott, L. D., Berelson, W., Douglas, R., Gorsline, D. (2000). Increased dissolved oxygen in Pacific intermediate waters due to lower rates of carbon oxidation in sediments. Nature. Vol. 407 (6802), pp. 367-370.
• Stott, L. D., Neumann, M., Hammond, D. (2000). Intermediate water ventilation on the Northeastern Pacific Margin during the Late Pleistocene inferred from benthic foraminiferal d13C. Paleoceanography. Vol. 15 (2), pp. 161-169.
• Li, H. C., Ku, T. L., Stott, L. D., Anderson, R. F. (1997). Stable isotope studies on Mono Lake (California) .1. delta O-18 in lake sediments as proxy for climatic change during the last 150 years. Limnology and Oceanography. Vol. 42 (2), pp. 230-238.
• Li, H. C., Stott, L. D., Hammond, D. E. (1997). Temperature and salinity effects on O-18 fractionation for rapidly precipitated carbonates: Laboratory experiments with alkaline lake water. Episodes. Vol. 20 (3), pp. 193-198.
• Aubry, M., Berggren, W. A., Stott, L. D., Sinha, A. (1996). The upper Paleocene-lower Eocene stratigraphic record and the Paleocene-Eocene boundary carbon isotope excursion: implications for geochronology. Geological Society, London, Special Publications. Vol. 101 (1), pp. 353-380.
• Mortyn, P. G., Thunell, R. C., Anderson, D. M., Stott, L. D., Le, J. N. (1996). Sea surface temperature changes in the Southern California borderlands during the last glacial-interglacial cycle. Paleoceanography. Vol. 11 (4), pp. 415-429.
• Stott, L. D., Hayden, T. P., Griffith, J. (1996). Benthic foraminifera at the Los Angeles county Whites point outfall revisited. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. Vol. 26 (4), pp. 357-368.
• Stott, L. D., Tang, C. M. (1996). Reassessment of Foraminiferal-Based Tropical Sea Surface δ18O Paleotemperatures. Paleoceanography/AGU. Vol. 11 (1), pp. 37-56.
• Stott, L. D., Sinha, A., Thiry, M., Aubry, M., Berggren, W. A. (1996). Global dC13 changes across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: criteria for terrestrial-marine correlations. Geological Society, London Special Publications. Vol. 101 (1), pp. 381-399.
• Hagadorn, J. W., Stott, L. D., Sinha, A., Rincon, M. (1995). Geochemical and sedimentologic variations in inter-annually laminated sediments from Santa Monica Basin. Marine Geology. Vol. 125 (1-2), pp. 111-131.
• Sinha, A., Aubry, M., Stott, L. D., Thiry, M., William, B. A. (1995). Chemostratigraphy of the ‘lower’ Sparnacian deposits (Argiles plastiques bariolées) of the Paris Basin. Israel Journal of Earth Sciences. Vol. 44 (4), pp. 223-237.
• Sinha, A., Stott, L. D. (1994). New atmospheric pCO2 estimates from palesols during the late Paleocene/early Eocene global warming interval. Global and Planetary Change. Vol. 9 (3-4), pp. 297-307.
• Zachos, J. C., Stott, L. D., Lohmann, K. C. (1994). Evolution of Early Cenozoic Marine Temperatures. Paleoceanography. Vol. 9 (2), pp. 353-387.
• Hagadorn, J. W., Flocks, J. G., Stott, L. D., Gorsline, D. S. (1993). A Simple Method to Obtain High Resolution (millimeter-thick) Samples from Laminated Sediments. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology. Vol. 63 (4), pp. 755-758.
• Tang, C. M., Stott, L. D. (1993). Seasonal salinity changes during Mediterranean sapropel deposition 9,000 years B.P.: Evidence from isotopic analyses of individual planktonic foraminifera. Paleoceanography. Vol. 8 (473-494)
• Stott, L. D. (1992). Higher Temperatures and Lower Oceanic pCO2: A Climate Enigma at the End of the Paleocene Epoch. Paleoceanography/AGU. Vol. 7 (4), pp. 395-404.
• Herguera, J. C., Stott, L. D., Berger, W. H. (1991). Glacial Deep-Water Properties in the West-Equatorial Pacific-Bathyal Thermocline Near a Depth of 2000m. Marine Geology. Vol. 100 (1-4), pp. 201-206.
• Kennett, J. P., Stott, L. D. (1991). Abrupt deep-sea warming, palaeoceanographic changes and benthic extinctions at the end of the Palaeocene. Nature. Vol. 353 (6341), pp. 225-229.
• Hess, J., Stott, L. D., Bender, M. L., Kennett, J. P., Schilling, J. G. (1989). The Oligocene Marine Microfossil Record: Age Assessments Using Strontium Isotopes. Paleoceanography. Vol. 4 (6), pp. 655-679.
• Stott, L. D., Kennett, J. P. (1989). New constraints on early Tertiary palaeoproductivity from carbon isotopes in foraminifera. Nature. Vol. 342 (6249), pp. 526-529.
• Stott, L. D., Webb, P. N. (1989). The Neogloboquadrina continuosa Last Appearance Datum Level in the South Pacific. Micropaleontology. Vol. 35 (1), pp. 63-71.

Proceedings

• Berkelhammer, M., Sinha, A., Stott, L. D., Cheng, H., Pausata, F. S., Yoshimura, K. (2013). An Abrupt Shift in the Indian Monsoon 4000 Years Ago. pp. 75-88. Climates, Landscapes, and Civilizations American Geophysical Union.
• Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. (2008). Reconciling intra and interannual oxygen isotope variability in Bristlecone Pine chronologies. San Francisco. AGU.
• Stott, L. D., Berkelhammer, M., Stott,Stott, L. ,., Berkelhammer, M., Stott, L. (2007). Paleoclimatic inferences from a Bristlecone Pine d18O Record. San Francisco, CA. AGU Fall Meeting.

Other

• Stott, L. D., Martinez,Stott, A. ,., Martinez, A. (2007). Evaluation of the mechanism of variability of the d 18 O in alpha cellulose of tropical deciduous tree Pinus kesiya: Conventional models and new thinking. Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of Southern California.

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