Publications


Kirtland Turner, S., Ridgwell, A., Keller, A. L., Vahlenkamp, M., Aleksinski, A. K., Sexton, P. F., Penman, D. E., Hull, P. M., & Norris, R. D. (2024). Sensitivity of ocean circulation to warming during the Early Eocene greenhouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(24), e2311980121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311980121
Moretti, S., Auderset, A., Deutsch, C., Schmitz, R., Gerber, L., Thomas, E., Luciani, V., Petrizzo, M. R., Schiebel, R., Tripati, A., Sexton, P., Norris, R., D’Onofrio, R., Zachos, J., Sigman, D. M., Haug, G. H., & Martínez-García, A. (2024). Oxygen rise in the tropical upper ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science, 383(6684), 727–731. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh4893
De Lira Mota, M. A., Dunkley Jones, T., Sulaiman, N., Edgar, K. M., Yamaguchi, T., Leng, M. J., Adloff, M., Greene, S. E., Norris, R., Warren, B., Duffy, G., Farrant, J., Murayama, M., Hall, J., & Bendle, J. (2023). Multi-proxy evidence for sea level fall at the onset of the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4748. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39806-6
Light, T., Martínez-Ruiz, F., & Norris, R. (2023). Marine barite morphology as an indicator of biogeochemical conditions within organic matter aggregates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 358, 38–48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.08.012
Light, T., Garcia, M., Prairie, J. C., Martínez-Ruiz, F., & Norris, R. (2023). Water column barium sulfate dissolution and shielding by organic matter aggregates: Implications for the pelagic barite proxy. Chemical Geology, 636, 121637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121637
De Azevedo, A. Q., Jiménez‐Espejo, F. J., Bulian, F., Sierro, F. J., Tangunan, D., Takashimizu, Y., Albuquerque, A. L. S., Kubota, K., Escutia, C., Norris, R. D., Hemming, S. R., & Hall, I. R. (2023). Orbital Forcing and Evolution of the Southern African Monsoon From Late Miocene to Early Pliocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(9), e2022PA004588. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004588
House, B., Pickering, K. T., & Norris, R. (2023). Multi-phase ecological change on Indian subcontinent from the late Miocene to Pleistocene recorded in the Nicobar Fan. Geological Magazine, 160(7), 1428–1440. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756823000481
De Vleeschouwer, D., Penman, D. E., D’haenens, S., Wu, F., Westerhold, T., Vahlenkamp, M., Cappelli, C., Agnini, C., Kordesch, W. E. C., King, D. J., van der Ploeg, R., Pälike, H., Turner, S. K., Wilson, P., Norris, R. D., Zachos, J. C., Bohaty, S. M., & Hull, P. M. (2023). North Atlantic Drift Sediments Constrain Eocene Tidal Dissipation and the Evolution of the Earth‐Moon System. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(2). https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004555
Muraoka, W. T., Cramer, K. L., O’Dea, A., Zhao, J., Leonard, N. D., & Norris, R. D. (2022). Historical declines in parrotfish on Belizean coral reefs linked to shifts in reef exploitation following European colonization. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10, 972172. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.972172
Shtienberg, G., Cantu, K., Mischke, S., Sivan, D., Norris, R. D., Rittenour, T. M., Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Yasur-Landau, A., Sisma-Ventura, G., & Levy, T. E. (2022). Holocene sea-level rise and coastal aquifer interactions: Triggering mechanisms for environmental change and impacts on human settlement patterns at Dor, Israel. Quaternary Science Reviews, 294, 21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107740
Shtienberg, G., Gadol, O., Levy, T. E., Norris, R. D., Rittenour, T. M., Yasur-Landau, A., Tamberino, A., & Lazar, M. (2022). Changing environments and human interaction during the Pleistocene-Early Holocene from the shallow coastal area of Dor, Israel. Quaternary Research, 105, 64–81. https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.30
Shaw, J. O., D’Haenens, S., Thomas, E., Norris, R. D., Lyman, J. A., Bornemann, A., & Hull, P. M. (2021). Photosymbiosis in planktonic foraminifera across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Paleobiology, 47(4), 632–647. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2021.7
Wang, W. Y., Chang, J. J. M., Norris, R., Huang, D. W., & Cheng, L. N. (2021). Distinct population histories among three unique species of oceanic skaters Halobates Eschscholtz, 1822 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Marine Biology, 168(10), 15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03944-6
Light, T., & Norris, R. (2021). Quantitative visual analysis of marine barite microcrystals: Insights into precipitation and dissolution dynamics. Limnology and Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.11902
House, B. M., & Norris, R. D. (2020). Unlocking the barite paleoproductivity proxy: A new high-throughput method for quantifying barite in marine sediments. Chemical Geology, 552. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119664
Sibert, E. C., Zill, M. E., Frigyik, E. T., & Norris, R. D. (2020). No state change in pelagic fish production and biodiversity during the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Nature Geoscience, 13(3), 238-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0540-2
Dillon, E. M., Lafferty, K. D., McCauley, D. J., Bradley, D., Norris, R. D., Caselle, J. E., DiRenzo, G. V., Gardner, J. P. A., & O’Dea, A. (2020). Dermal denticle assemblages in coral reef sediments correlate with conventional shark surveys. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 11(3), 362–375. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.13346
Hull, P. M., Bomemann, A., Penman, D. E., Henehan, M. J., Norris, R. D., Wilson, P. A., Blum, P., Alegret, L., Batenburg, S. J., Bown, P. R., Bralower, T. J., Cournede, C., Deutsch, A., Donner, B., Friedrich, O., Jehle, S., Kim, H., Kroon, D., Lippert, P. C., … Zachos, J. C. (2020). On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Science, 367(6475), 266-+. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay5055
Cramer, K. L., O’Dea, A., Leonard-Pingel, J. S., & Norris, R. D. (2019). Millennial-scale change in the structure of a Caribbean reef ecosystem and the role of human and natural disturbance. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04722
Gruetzner, J., Espejo, F. J. J., Lathika, N., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Hall, I. R., Hemming, S. R., LeVay, L. J., Barker, S., Berke, M. A., Brentegani, L., Caley, T., Cartagena-Sierra, A., Charles, C. D., Coenen, J. J., Crespin, J. G., Franzese, A. M., Han, X., Hines, S. K. V., Just, J., … Expedition, S. (2019). A new seismic stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean gateway resembles major paleo-oceanographic changes of the last 7 Ma. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 20(1), 339–358. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc007668
Sibert, E., Friedman, M., Hull, P., Hunt, G., & Norris, R. (2018). Two pulses of morphological diversification in Pacific pelagic fishes following the Cretaceous - Palaeogene mass extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285(1888). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1194
Tangunan, D. N., Baumann, K. H., Just, J., LeVay, L. J., Barker, S., Brentegani, L., De Vleeschouwer, D., Hall, I. R., Hemming, S., Norris, R., & Expedition 361 Shipboard Sci, P. (2018). The last 1 million years of the extinct genus Discoaster: Plio-Pleistocene environment and productivity at Site U1476 (Mozambique Channel). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 505, 187–197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.043
Lukowiak, M., Cramer, K. L., Madzia, D., Hynes, M. G., Norris, R. D., & O’Dea, A. (2018). Historical change in a Caribbean reef sponge community and long-term loss of sponge predators. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 601, 127–137. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12694
Friedrich, O., Bornemann, A., Norris, R. D., Erbacher, J., & Fiebig, J. (2018). Changes in tropical Atlantic surface-water environments inferred from late Albian planktic foraminiferal assemblages (ODP Site 1258, Demerara Rise). Cretaceous Research, 87, 74–83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.028
Egger, L. M., Bahr, A., Friedrich, O., Wilson, P. A., Norris, R. D., van Peer, T. E., Lippert, P. C., Liebrand, D., & Pross, J. (2018). Sea-level and surface-water change in the western North Atlantic across the Oligocene-Miocene Transition: A palynological perspective from IODP Site U1406 (Newfoundland margin). Marine Micropaleontology, 139, 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2017.11.003
Batenburg, S. J., Friedrich, O., Moriya, K., Voigt, S., Cournede, C., Moebius, I., Blum, P., Bornemann, A., Fiebig, J., Hasegawa, T., Hull, P. M., Norris, R. D., Rohl, U., Sexton, P. F., Westerhold, T., Wilson, P. A., & Iodp Expedition 342 Scientists. (2018). Late Maastrichtian carbon isotope stratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy of the Newfoundland Margin (Site U1403, IODP Leg 342). Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 51(2), 245–260. https://doi.org/10.1127/nos/2017/0398
Sibert, E. C., Cramer, K. L., Hastings, P. A., & Norris, R. D. (2017). Methods for isolation and quantification of microfossil fish teeth and elasmobranch dermal denticles (ichthyoliths) from marine sediments. Palaeontologia Electronica, 20(1), 1–14.
Boyle, P. R., Romans, B. W., Tucholke, B. E., Norris, R. D., Swift, S. A., & Sexton, P. F. (2017). Cenozoic North Atlantic deep circulation history recorded in contourite drifts, offshore Newfoundland, Canada. Marine Geology, 385, 185–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.12.014
Cramer, K. L., O’Dea, A., Carpenter, C., & Norris, R. D. (2017). A 3,000 year record of Caribbean reef urchin communities reveals causes and consequences of long-term decline in Diadema antillarum. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02513
Dillon, E. M., Norris, R. D., & O’Dea, A. (2017). Dermal denticles as a tool to reconstruct shark communities. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 566, 117–134. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps12018
Cramer, K. L., O’Dea, A., Clark, T. R., Zhao, J., & Norris, R. D. (2017). Prehistorical and historical declines in Caribbean coral reef accretion rates driven by loss of parrotfish. Nature Communications, 8, 14160. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14160
Egger, L. M., Sliwinska, K. K., van Peer, T. E., Liebrand, D., Lippert, P. C., Friedrich, O., Wilson, P. A., Norris, R. D., & Pross, J. (2016). Magnetostratigraphically-calibrated dinoflagellate cyst bioevents for the uppermost Eocene to lowermost Miocene of the western North Atlantic (IODP Expedition 342, Paleogene Newfoundland sediment drifts). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 234, 159–185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.08.002
Bornemann, A., D’Haenens, S., Norris, R. D., & Speijer, R. P. (2016). The demise of the early Eocene greenhouse - Decoupled deep and surface water cooling in the eastern North Atlantic. Global and Planetary Change, 145, 130–140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.08.010
Penman, D. E., Turner, S. K., Sexton, P. F., Norris, R. D., Dickson, A. J., Boulila, S., Ridgwell, A., Zeebe, R. E., Zachos, J. C., Cameron, A., Westerhold, T., & Rohl, U. (2016). An abyssal carbonate compensation depth overshoot in the aftermath of the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature Geoscience, 9(8), 575-+. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2757
Sibert, E., Norris, R., Cuevas, J., & Graves, L. (2016). Eighty-five million years of Pacific Ocean gyre ecosystem structure: long-term stability marked by punctuated change. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 283(1831). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0189
Sibert, E. C., & Norris, R. D. (2015). New Age of Fishes initiated by the Cretaceous−Paleogene mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1504985112
Yamaguchi, T., & Norris, R. D. (2015). No place to retreat: Heavy extinction and delayed recovery on a Pacific guyot during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geology, 43(5), 443–446. https://doi.org/10.1130/g36379.1
Turner, S. K., Sexton, P. F., Charles, C. D., & Norris, R. D. (2014). Persistence of carbon release events through the peak of early Eocene global warmth. Nature Geoscience, 7(10), 748–751. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2240
Sibert, E. C., Hull, P. M., & Norris, R. D. (2014). Resilience of Pacific pelagic fish across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction. Nature Geoscience, 7(9), 667–670. https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2227
Norris, R. D., Norris, J. M., Lorenz, R. D., Ray, J., & Jackson, B. (2014). Sliding rocks on Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park: First observation of rocks in motion. PLOS ONE, 9(8), e105948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0105948
Bornemann, A., Norris, R. D., Lyman, J. A., D’Haenens, S., Groeneveld, J., Rohl, U., Farley, K. A., & Speijer, R. P. (2014). Persistent environmental change after the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the eastern North Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 394, 70–81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.03.017
Yamaguchi, T., Norris, R. D., & Dockery, D. T. (2014). Shallow-marine ostracode turnover during the Eocene-Oligocene transition in Mississippi, the Gulf Coast Plain, USA. Marine Micropaleontology, 106, 10–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.11.003
Norris, R. D., Turner, S. K., Hull, P. M., & Ridgwell, A. (2013). Marine ecosystem responses to cenozoic global change. Science, 341(6145), 492–498. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1240543
Addison, J. A., Finney, B. P., Jaeger, J. M., Stoner, J. S., Norris, R. D., & Hangsterfer, A. (2013). Integrating satellite observations and modern climate measurements with the recent sedimentary record: An example from Southeast Alaska. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 118(7), 3444–3461. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgrc.20243
Forrest, M. J., Kulongoski, J. T., Edwards, M. S., Farrar, C. D., Belitz, K., & Norris, R. D. (2013). Hydrothermal contamination of public supply wells in Napa and Sonoma Valleys, California. Applied Geochemistry, 33, 25–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2013.01.012
Carilli, J. E., Charles, C. D., Garren, M., McField, M., & Norris, R. D. (2013). Baseline shifts in coral skeletal oxygen isotopic composition: a signature of symbiont shuffling? Coral Reefs, 32(2), 559–571. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-012-1004-y
Edgar, K. M., Bohaty, S. M., Gibbs, S. J., Sexton, P. F., Norris, R. D., & Wilson, P. A. (2013). Symbiont “bleaching” in planktic foraminifera during the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum. Geology, 41(1), 15–18. https://doi.org/10.1130/g33388.1
Yamaguchi, T., Norris, R. D., & Bornemann, A. (2012). Dwarfing of ostracodes during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at DSDP Site 401 (Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic) and its implication for changes in organic carbon cycle in deep-sea benthic ecosystem. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 346, 130–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.004
Larrasoana, J. C., Roberts, A. P., Chang, L., Schellenberg, S. A., Gerald, J. D. F., Norris, R. D., & Zachos, J. C. (2012). Magnetotactic bacterial response to Antarctic dust supply during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 333, 122–133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.003
Yamaguchi, T., & Norris, R. D. (2012). Deep-sea ostracode turnovers through the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in DSDP Site 401, Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic. Marine Micropaleontology, 86–87, 32–44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.02.003