List of works - Pratigya J. Polissar

15,000-yr Pollen Record of Vegetation change in the High Altitude Tropical Andes at Laguna Verde Alta, Venezuela

article published in 2005

A Pleistocene palaeovegetation record from plant wax biomarkers from the Nachukui Formation, West Turkana, Kenya.

scientific article published on July 2016

Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA

scientific article published on 8 July 2019

Biomarker thermal maturity experiments at earthquake slip rates

scholarly article by Heather M. Savage et al published November 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Biomarkers heat up during earthquakes: New evidence of seismic slip in the rock record

article

Biotic and Abiotic Forcing During the Transition to Modern Grassland Ecosystems: Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Small Mammal Communities Over the Last 5 Million Years

scientific article published in October 2015

Carbon Isotope Fractionation in Noelaerhabdaceae Algae in Culture and a Critical Evaluation of the Alkenone Paleobarometer

Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with Pliocene-Pleistocene sapropel cycles

scientific article

Characterizing late Quaternary lake-level variability in Lago de Tota, Colombian Andes, with CHIRP seismic stratigraphy

Constraints on the salinity–oxygen isotope relationship in the central tropical Pacific Ocean

scholarly article by Jessica L. Conroy published in April 2014

Controls on Alkenone Carbon Isotope Fractionation in the Modern Ocean

Corrigendum to “A Tibetan lake sediment record of Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 399 (2014) 92–102]

article

Creeping Closer: Clay Separation and X-ray Diffraction for Refined K/Ar Dating of Fault Motion on the Creeping Central Section of the San Andreas Fault

Dampened El Niño in the Early and Mid-Holocene Due To Insolation-Forced Warming/Deepening of the Thermocline

article

Differentiating temperate tree species and their organs using lipid biomarkers in leaves, roots and soil

article

Drought variability in the Pacific Northwest from a 6,000-yr lake sediment record

scientific article (publication date: 8 March 2011)

Dynamic carbonate sedimentation on the Northern Line Islands Ridge, Palmyra Basin

scholarly article by Mitchell Lyle published in September 2016

Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia

scholarly article

Effects of aridity and vegetation on plant-wax δD in modern lake sediments

article

Evidence of Seismic Slip on a Large Splay Fault in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

scholarly article

Extractable organic material in fault zones as a tool to investigate frictional stress

article

Glacial-interglacial changes in central tropical Pacific surface seawater property gradients

article

History of earthquakes along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA

scientific article

Holocene hydrologic balance of tropical South America from oxygen isotopes of lake sediment opal, Venezuelan Andes

article

Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies

article

Hot on the trail: Coseismic heating on a localized structure along the Muddy Mountain fault, Nevada

Hydrologic Changes Drove the Late Miocene Expansion of C 4 Grasslands on the Northern Indian Subcontinent

scholarly article

Initial Expansion of C4 Vegetation in Australia During the Late Pliocene

article

Large amplitude solar modulation cycles of10Be in Antarctica: Implications for atmospheric mixing processes and interpretation of the ice core record

scholarly article

Last glacial maximum equilibrium-line altitude and paleo-temperature reconstructions for the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuelan Andes

Late Miocene C 4 Grassland Fire Feedbacks on the Indian Subcontinent

Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela

article

Late-Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability revealed from a 3300-year-long lake sediment record from Nir’pa Co, southeastern Tibet

article

Leaf Wax δD and δ13C in Soils Record Hydrological and Environmental Information Across a Climatic Gradient in Israel

Measurement of 13C and 15N isotopic composition on nanomolar quantities of C and N.

scientific article

Midlatitude Temperature Variations in the Oligocene to Early Miocene

Modulation of late Pleistocene ENSO strength by the tropical Pacific thermocline

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

Monsoon-driven Saharan dust variability over the past 240,000 years

scientific article published on 02 January 2019

Multiple major faults at the Japan Trench: Chemostratigraphy of the plate boundary at IODP Exp. 343: JFAST

scholarly article by Hannah S. Rabinowitz et al published August 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Multiproxy paleoaltimetry of the Late Oligocene-Pliocene Oiyug Basin, southern Tibet

Neogene biomarker record of vegetation change in eastern Africa

scientific article

Northward extent of East Asian monsoon covaries with intensity on orbital and millennial timescales

scientific article published on 6 February 2017

Organic thermal maturity as a proxy for frictional fault heating: Experimental constraints on methylphenanthrene kinetics at earthquake timescales

article

Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers

scholarly article

Paleocene to Pliocene low-latitude, high-elevation basins of southern Tibet: Implications for tectonic models of India-Asia collision, Cenozoic climate, and geochemical weathering

article

Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years

Pico-CSIA: Picomolar Scale Compound-Specific Isotope Analyses

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Pleistocene drivers of Northwest African hydroclimate and vegetation

scientific article published on 21 June 2022

Pliocene Paleoenvironments in the Meade Basin, Southwest Kansas, U.S.A

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Proglacial lake sediment records reveal Holocene climate changes in the Venezuelan Andes

article

Reaction kinetics of alkenone and n -alkane thermal alteration at seismic timescales

Reduced El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article

Relationship between individual chamber and whole shell Mg/Ca ratios in Trilobatus sacculifer and implications for individual foraminifera palaeoceanographic reconstructions

Reply to Liu et al.: East Asian summer monsoon rainfall dominates Lake Dali lake area changes

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Reply to: Multiple drivers of Miocene C4 ecosystem expansions

Reply: Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: response to comment

Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions

scientific article published on 18 July 2019

Sediment provenance and controls on slip propagation: Lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku and other great earthquakes of the subducting northwest Pacific plate

scholarly article by J. C. Moore et al published 22 April 2015 in Geosphere

Sliding rocks at the Racetrack, Death Valley: What makes them move?

scientific article

Sliding rocks at the Racetrack, Death Valley: What makes them move?: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Soil Carbon Loss and Weak Fire Feedbacks During Pliocene C4 Grassland Expansion in Australia

scholarly article

Solar modulation of Little Ice Age climate in the tropical Andes

scholarly article

Synchronous interhemispheric Holocene climate trends in the tropical Andes

scientific article (publication date: 3 September 2013)

Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification

The modern and Last Glacial Maximum hydrological cycles of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant from a water isotope perspective

scholarly article by Y. Goldsmith et al published January 2017 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO <sub>2</sub>

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Uncertainty in paleohydrologic reconstructions from molecular δD values

article

Upregulation of phytoplankton carbon concentrating mechanisms during low CO2 glacial periods and implications for the phytoplankton pCO2 proxy

scholarly article by Heather M. Stoll et al published March 2019 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Using the sunspot cycle to date ice cores

scholarly article

List of works by Pratigya J. Polissar

15,000-yr Pollen Record of Vegetation change in the High Altitude Tropical Andes at Laguna Verde Alta, Venezuela

A Pleistocene palaeovegetation record from plant wax biomarkers from the Nachukui Formation, West Turkana, Kenya.

Biomarker Thermal Maturity Reveals Localized Temperature Rise From Paleoseismic Slip Along the Punchbowl Fault, CA, USA

Biomarker thermal maturity experiments at earthquake slip rates

Biomarkers heat up during earthquakes: New evidence of seismic slip in the rock record

Biotic and Abiotic Forcing During the Transition to Modern Grassland Ecosystems: Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Small Mammal Communities Over the Last 5 Million Years

Carbon Isotope Fractionation in Noelaerhabdaceae Algae in Culture and a Critical Evaluation of the Alkenone Paleobarometer

Changes in northeast African hydrology and vegetation associated with Pliocene-Pleistocene sapropel cycles

Characterizing late Quaternary lake-level variability in Lago de Tota, Colombian Andes, with CHIRP seismic stratigraphy

Constraints on the salinity–oxygen isotope relationship in the central tropical Pacific Ocean

Controls on Alkenone Carbon Isotope Fractionation in the Modern Ocean

Corrigendum to “A Tibetan lake sediment record of Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability” [Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 399 (2014) 92–102]

Creeping Closer: Clay Separation and X-ray Diffraction for Refined K/Ar Dating of Fault Motion on the Creeping Central Section of the San Andreas Fault

Dampened El Niño in the Early and Mid-Holocene Due To Insolation-Forced Warming/Deepening of the Thermocline

Differentiating temperate tree species and their organs using lipid biomarkers in leaves, roots and soil

Drought variability in the Pacific Northwest from a 6,000-yr lake sediment record

Dynamic carbonate sedimentation on the Northern Line Islands Ridge, Palmyra Basin

Earthquake slip surfaces identified by biomarker thermal maturity within the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake fault zone

Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia

Effects of aridity and vegetation on plant-wax δD in modern lake sediments

Evidence of Seismic Slip on a Large Splay Fault in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone

Extractable organic material in fault zones as a tool to investigate frictional stress

Glacial-interglacial changes in central tropical Pacific surface seawater property gradients

History of earthquakes along the creeping section of the San Andreas fault, California, USA

Holocene hydrologic balance of tropical South America from oxygen isotopes of lake sediment opal, Venezuelan Andes

Holocene paleohydrology and glacial history of the central Andes using multiproxy lake sediment studies

Hot on the trail: Coseismic heating on a localized structure along the Muddy Mountain fault, Nevada

Hydrologic Changes Drove the Late Miocene Expansion of C 4 Grasslands on the Northern Indian Subcontinent

Initial Expansion of C4 Vegetation in Australia During the Late Pliocene

Large amplitude solar modulation cycles of10Be in Antarctica: Implications for atmospheric mixing processes and interpretation of the ice core record

Last glacial maximum equilibrium-line altitude and paleo-temperature reconstructions for the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuelan Andes

Late Miocene C 4 Grassland Fire Feedbacks on the Indian Subcontinent

Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela

Late-Holocene Indian summer monsoon variability revealed from a 3300-year-long lake sediment record from Nir’pa Co, southeastern Tibet

Leaf Wax δD and δ13C in Soils Record Hydrological and Environmental Information Across a Climatic Gradient in Israel

Measurement of 13C and 15N isotopic composition on nanomolar quantities of C and N.

Midlatitude Temperature Variations in the Oligocene to Early Miocene

Modulation of late Pleistocene ENSO strength by the tropical Pacific thermocline

Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen-Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms

Monsoon-driven Saharan dust variability over the past 240,000 years

Multiple major faults at the Japan Trench: Chemostratigraphy of the plate boundary at IODP Exp. 343: JFAST

Multiproxy paleoaltimetry of the Late Oligocene-Pliocene Oiyug Basin, southern Tibet

Neogene biomarker record of vegetation change in eastern Africa

Northward extent of East Asian monsoon covaries with intensity on orbital and millennial timescales

Organic thermal maturity as a proxy for frictional fault heating: Experimental constraints on methylphenanthrene kinetics at earthquake timescales

Paleoaltimetry of the Tibetan Plateau from D/H ratios of lipid biomarkers

Paleocene to Pliocene low-latitude, high-elevation basins of southern Tibet: Implications for tectonic models of India-Asia collision, Cenozoic climate, and geochemical weathering

Paleoclimate support for a persistent dry island effect in the Colombian Andes during the last 4700 years

Pico-CSIA: Picomolar Scale Compound-Specific Isotope Analyses

Pleistocene drivers of Northwest African hydroclimate and vegetation

Pliocene Paleoenvironments in the Meade Basin, Southwest Kansas, U.S.A

Proglacial lake sediment records reveal Holocene climate changes in the Venezuelan Andes

Reaction kinetics of alkenone and n -alkane thermal alteration at seismic timescales

Reduced El Niño-Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum

Relationship between individual chamber and whole shell Mg/Ca ratios in Trilobatus sacculifer and implications for individual foraminifera palaeoceanographic reconstructions

Reply to Liu et al.: East Asian summer monsoon rainfall dominates Lake Dali lake area changes

Reply to: Multiple drivers of Miocene C4 ecosystem expansions

Reply: Late Quaternary deglacial history of the Mérida Andes, Venezuela: response to comment

Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions

Sediment provenance and controls on slip propagation: Lessons learned from the 2011 Tohoku and other great earthquakes of the subducting northwest Pacific plate

Sliding rocks at the Racetrack, Death Valley: What makes them move?

Sliding rocks at the Racetrack, Death Valley: What makes them move?: Comment and Reply

Soil Carbon Loss and Weak Fire Feedbacks During Pliocene C4 Grassland Expansion in Australia

Solar modulation of Little Ice Age climate in the tropical Andes

Synchronous interhemispheric Holocene climate trends in the tropical Andes

Synchronous rise of African C4 ecosystems 10 million years ago in the absence of aridification

The modern and Last Glacial Maximum hydrological cycles of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant from a water isotope perspective

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO <sub>2</sub>

Uncertainty in paleohydrologic reconstructions from molecular δD values

Upregulation of phytoplankton carbon concentrating mechanisms during low CO2 glacial periods and implications for the phytoplankton pCO2 proxy

Using the sunspot cycle to date ice cores

Ecological dynamic equilibrium in an early Miocene (21.73 Ma) forest, Ethiopia