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Publications
Recent Publications (since 1998)
Gagan, M.K., Ayliffe, L.K., Hopley, D., Cali, J.A., Mortimer, G.E.,
Chappell, J., McCulloch, M.T. and M.J. Head (1998). Temperature and
surface-ocean water balance of the mid-Holocene tropical western
Pacific. Science, 279: 1014-1018.
Johnson, B., Miller, G.H., Fogel, M.L., Magee, J.W., Gagan, M.K. and
A.R. Chivas (1999). 65,000 years of vegetation change in central
Australia and the Australian summer monsoon. Science, 284: 1150-1152.
*McGregor, H.V. and M.K. Gagan (1999). New research into coralline
palaeoclimate records from the Western Pacific Warm Pool, Papua New
Guinea. Quaternary Australasia, 16: 14-17.
*McGregor, H.V. and M.K. Gagan (1999). Tropical climate variability
and the role of the Western Pacific Warm Pool: A review paper.
Quaternary Australasia, 16: 24-27.
Woodroffe, C.D. and M.K. Gagan (2000). Coral microatolls from the
central Pacific record late Holocene El NiÒo. Geophysical Research
Letters, 27: 1511-1514.
Cane, M.R., Clement, A.C., Gagan, M.K., Ayliffe, L.K. and A.W.
Tudhope (2000). ENSO through the Holocene as depicted in corals and
a model simulation. In Gould, J. and A. Villwock (eds.),
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program PAGES Newsletter, 8(1): 3-7.
Gagan, M.K. and J. Chappell (2000). Massive corals: grand archives
of ENSO. In Grove, R.H. and J. Chappell (eds.), El NiÒo: History and
Crisis, The White Horse Press, United Kingdom, pp. 35-50.
Gagan, M.K., Ayliffe, L.K., Beck, J.W., Cole, J.E., Druffel, E.R.M.,
Dunbar, R.B. and D.P. Schrag (2000). New views of tropical
paleoclimates from corals. Quaternary Science Reviews, 19: 45-64.
Suzuki, A., Gagan, M.K., De Deckker, P., Omura, A., Yukino, I. and H.
Kawahata (2001). Last Interglacial coral record of enhanced
insolation seasonality and seawater 18O enrichment in the Ryukyu
Islands, northwest Pacific. Geophysical Research Letters, 28:
3685-3688.
*Miller, A., Gagan, M.K. and M.T. McCulloch (2001). Early marine
diagenesis in corals and geochemical consequences for
paleoceanographic reconstructions. Geophysical Research Letters, 28:
4471-4474.
*Hendy, E.J., Gagan, M.K., Alibert, C., McCulloch, M.T., Lough, J.M.
and P.J. Isdale (2002). Abrupt shift in tropical sea surface
salinity at end of Little Ice Age. Science, 295:1511-1514.
Kawahata, H., Nishimura, A. and M.K. Gagan (2002). Seasonal change
in foraminiferal production in the western equatorial Pacific:
evidence from sediment trap experiments. Deep-Sea Research, 49:
2783-2800.
Anderson, A., Gagan, M.K. and J. Shulmeister (in press).
Mid-Holocene cultural dynamics and climatic change in the western
Pacific. In D. Sandweiss and K. Maasch (eds.), Climate and Culture
at 3000 B.C., Academic Press.
Ayliffe, L.K., Bird, M.I., Gagan, M.K., Isdale, P.J., Scott-Gagan,
H., Parker, B., Griffin, D., Nongkas, M. and M.T. McCulloch (in
press). Geochemistry of coral from Papua New Guinea as a proxy for
ENSO ocean-atmosphere interactions in the Pacific Warm Pool.
Continental Shelf Research.
*Hendy, E.J., Gagan, M.K. and J.M. Lough (in press). Chronological
control of coral records using luminescent lines and evidence for non-stationary
ENSO teleconnections in northeast Australia. The Holocene.
Gagan, M.K., Ayliffe, L.K., Opdyke, B.N., Hopley, D., Scott-Gagan, H.
and J. Cowley (in press). Coral oxygen isotope evidence for recent
groundwater CO2 fluxes to the Australian Great Barrier Reef.
Geophysical Research Letters.
*McGregor, H.V. and M.K. Gagan (in press). Diagenesis and
geochemistry of Porites corals from Papua New Guinea: implications
for paleoclimate reconstruction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
*Hendy, E.J., Lough, J.M. and M.K. Gagan (in press). Historical
die-offs in massive Porites from the central Great Barrier Reef,
Australia: evidence of past environmental stress? Coral Reefs.
Ihlenfeld, C., Maas, R., Norman, M.C., Gagan, M.K., Drysdale, R.N.
and J. Webb (submitted). The climatic significance of trace element
and stable isotope variations in a modern freshwater tufa. Geochimica
et Cosmochimica Acta.
Zhao, J.-x., Wang, Y.-j., Collerson, K.D. and M.K. Gagan (submitted).
Uranium-series dating of synchronised climate oscillations during the
last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Watanabe, T., Gagan, M.K., Correge, T., Scott-Gagan, H., Cowley, J.
and W.S. Hantoro (submitted). Oxygen isotope systematics in
Diploastrea heliopora: new coral archive of tropical paleoclimate.
Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
Woodroffe, C.D., Beech, M.R. and M.K. Gagan (submitted). Mid-late
Holocene El NiÒo variability in the equatorial Pacific from coral
microatolls. Geophysical Research Letters.
Paper reviewed in Science's Compass: Beck, J.W. (1998).
Warmer and wetter 6000 years ago? Science, 279: 1003-1004.
* Collaborative papers with supervised PhD students
Recent Popular Articles
Invited popular articles for my first-author work and that of my PhD
students include:
2002 Shaking core beliefs. ANU Reporter, 33, p. 1; Coral study
exposes holes in global climate theories. ANU Reporter, 33, p. 7.
Deciphering the coral code. Time, April 29 issue, p. 16.
Global climate history challenged. Australasian Science, May issue.
1998
Coral samples support theory of previous global warming. ANU
Reporter, 29, p. 3.1997
Weathered coral. New Scientist, 155(2089), p. 55.
Recent Field Expeditions
2001 Underwater, raised-reef, and microatoll coral drilling in the Mentawai Islands, southwest Sumatra, Indonesia (20 May - 9 July, 2001). The expedition involved four crew and nine staff from RSES (3), Geoscience Australia (1), Caltech (2), and the Indonesian Institute of Science (3) aboard the Padang Dive Pty Ltd vessel. The expedition produced material forming the basis for N. Abram's PhD thesis: Multi-proxy coral reconstructions and Holocene evolution of the Indian Ocean Dipole.
2000 Visiting Scientist for the summit ice core drilling of Mt Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, with Prof. L. Thompson and drilling team (Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University) to link research designed to reconstruct the history of the Indian Ocean Dipole (RSES) and precipitation in east Africa (Ohio).
1999 Underwater and raised-reef coral drilling in Alor, Indonesia (11 August - 23 September, 1999). Staff from RSES (3), the Indonesian Institute of Science (1), and Kupang Dive Pty Ltd (3) participated in the coral drilling.
1998 Underwater and raised-reef coral drilling of the Laundi Terraces, Sumba, Indonesia (17 October - 27 November, 1998). The expedition involved staff from RSES (4), the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (3), and Kupang Dive Pty Ltd (3).
1998 Chief Scientist for Project TROPICS (Tropical River Ocean Processes in Coastal Settings) Cruise Leg 6B to the Schoeten-Ninigo Islands area, northern Papua New Guinea (26 May - 6 June, 1998). The cruise involved seven crew and five scientific staff from RSES (2), AIMS (1), and JCU (2) aboard the Australian Institute of Marine Science RV Lady Basten and was followed by land-based coral drilling (7-25 June, 1998) This was the first coral drilling expedition to this region, which produced material forming the basis for H. McGregor's PhD thesis: Coral reconstructions of Holocene ocean-atmosphere variability in the Western Pacific Warm Pool.
