LINKS TO PUBLICATIONS (AND RELATED MATERIAL)
*Green, R., M.P. Hain, P.A. Rafter (In Review) Deglacial Pulse of Neutralized Carbon from the Pacific Seafloor: Constraints from the Radiocarbon Budget
Umling, N.E., E. Sikes, P.A. Rafter, N. Goodkin (IN REVIEW) Deglacial carbon escape from the northern rim of the Southern Ocean.
Cruz, A.P.S., C. Basak, P.A. Rafter, R.D.C. Portilho-Ramos, A.E. Rathburn, C.F. Barbosa. (IN REVIEW) Neodymium Isotope Response to Hydrologic and Water Masses Changes in the Tropical-Subtropical Western Atlantic During the Last 40-kyr. Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Díaz-Asencio, M., Herguera, J. C., Romero, F. G., & Rafter, P. (2023). Sediment accumulation rates and carbonate fluxes of deep-sea sediments in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology, 464, 107131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107131
Palter, J., Cross, J., Long, M., Rafter, P., & Reimers, C. (2023). The Science We Need to Assess Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal. Eos, 104. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EO230214
Rafter, P.A., W.R. Gray, S. K.V. Hines, A. Burke, K. M. Costa, J. Gottschalk, M.P. Hain, J.W.B. Rae, J.R. Southon, M. H. Walczak, J. Yu , J.F. Adkins , T. DeVries (2022) Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age. Science Advances. LINK
Horner, T.J., … P.A. Rafter, et al. (2021) Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES-era data. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK
Farmer, J.R., … P.A. Rafter, et al. (2021) Major element isotope tracers associated to past ocean productivity. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK
Gajurel, A.P., … P.A. Rafter, et al. (2021) Climatic and Tectonic Significance of Taboche Lake, Khumbu Region, Nepal. iScience. LINK
Dai, Y., J. Yu, and P.A. Rafter (2021) Deglacial ventilation changes in the deep southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography. LINK
Rae, J., … P.A. Rafter, et al. (2020) Overturning circulation, nutrient limitation, and warming in the Glacial North Pacific. Science Advances. LINK
Díaz-Asencio, M. … P.A. Rafter. (2020) Sediment accumulation rates and vertical mixing of deep-sea sediments derived from 14C and 210Pb in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology. LINK
Robinson, R.S., … P.A. Rafter, et al. (2020) A Test of the Diatom‐Bound Paleoproxy: Tracing the Isotopic Composition of Nutrient‐Nitrogen Into Southern Ocean Particles and Sediments. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK
Saito, M., … P.A. Rafter et al. (2020) Abundant nitrite oxidoreductase metalloenzyme in the mesopelagic metaproteome of Pacific OMZ extremities. Nature Geoscience. LINK
Rafter, P.A., et al. (2019) Anomalous >2000 year old surface ocean reservoir age as evidence for deglacial geologic carbon release. Geophysical Research Letters. LINK
White, M., P.A. Rafter et al. (2019) Recent Increases in Water Column Denitrification in the Seasonally Suboxic Bottom Waters of the Santa Barbara Basin. Geophysical Research Letters. LINK
Rafter, P.A., A. Bagnell, D. Marconi, T. DeVries (2019) Global trends in marine nitrate N isotopes from observations and a neural network-based climatology. Biogeosciences. LINK
Robinson, R. S., P.A. Rafter, et al. (2019) Contraction of the eastern equatorial Pacific high productivity zone across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Geophysical Research Letters. LINK
Lund, D., … P.A. Rafter, … & R. Anderson. (2019) Hydrothermal scavenging of 230Th on the Southern East Pacific Rise during the last deglaciation. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters. LINK
Smart, S. …, P.A. Rafter, D. Sigman, G. Haug (2018) Ground-truthing the planktic foraminifer-bound nitrogen isotope paleo-proxy in the Sargasso Sea. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. LINK
Rafter, P.A., J-C. Herguera, and J. R. Southon (2018) Extreme deglacial 14C depletion observed in epifaunal and infaunal benthic foraminifera. Climate of the Past. LINK
Lehmann, N., J. Granger, and P. A. Rafter, et al. (2018) Nitrate Isotope Evidence of the Origin of Subsurface Nitrate in the Western Equatorial Pacific. JGR-Oceans. LINK
Rafter, P.A., D.M. Sigman, K.R.M. Mackey (2017) New primary production requires recycled iron in the equatorial Pacific surface nitrate availability. Nature Communications. LINK
Marconi, D., D.M. Sigman, P.A. Rafter, et al. (2017) Tropical Dominance of N2 Fixation in the North Atlantic Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK
Rafter, P.A., S.C. Sanchez, J. Southon and others (2017) Eastern tropical North Pacific coral radiocarbon reveals North Pacific Gyre Oscillation variability. Quaternary Science Reviews. LINK
Marconi, D., S. Kopf, P.A. Rafter, and D.M. Sigman (2017) Aerobic respiration along isopycnals leads to overestimation of the isotope effect of denitrification in the ocean water column. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. LINK
Rafter, P. A. and D. M. Sigman (2016) The spatial and temporal variation of upper equatorial Pacific nitrate utilization. Limnology and Oceanography. LINKLINK TO 30 SECOND DESCRIPTION HERE (JPEG or PDF).
Marconi, D., D. M. Sigman, P. A. Rafter and others (2015) Nitrate isotope distributions on the US GEOTRACES North Atlantic cross-basin section: Signals of polar nitrate sources and low latitude nitrogen cycling. Marine Chemistry.
Fripiat, F., D. M. Sigman, S. E Fawcett, P. A. Rafter, and J.-L. Tison (2014) Sea Ice nitrogen biogeochemical dynamic from an isotopic perspective. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK
Rafter, P. A. and D. M. Sigman (2013) Coupled nitrate nitrogen and oxygen isotopes and organic matter remineralization in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. JGR-Oceans. LINK. GO TO 30 SECOND DESCRIPTION HERE (JPEG or PDF).
DeVries, T., C. Deutsch, P. A. Rafter, and F. Primeau (2013) Marine denitrification rates determined from a global 3-dimensional inverse model. Biogeosciences.
Rafter, P.A. and C.D. Charles (2012) Pleistocene equatorial Pacific dynamics inferred from zonal gradients in nitrogen isotopes. Paleoceanography. LINK
LINK TO 30 SECOND DESCRIPTION HERE (JPEG or PDF).
Rafter, P.A., C.D. Charles, D.M. Sigman, G.H. Haug and J. Kaiser (2012) Subsurface tropical Pacific nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate: biogeochemical signals and their transport. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. LINK (“Most popular publication in GBC” first week of publication.) LINK TO 30 SECOND DESCRIPTION HERE (JPEG or PDF).
Rafter, P.A., S.L. Jaccard, E.D. Galbraith, T. Kiefer, and M. Kienast (2011) The nitrogen cycle in the ocean, past and present: 2nd NICOPP meeting report. PAGES Newsletter.