Publications

6.      McKay, N.P., Dettman, D.L., Downs, R.T., and Overpeck, J.T., in prep. On the potential of Raman-spectroscopy-based carbonate mass spectrometry. To be submitted to the Journal of Raman Spectroscopy.

5.      Shanahan, T.M., Beck, J.W., Overpeck, J.T., McKay, N.P.,and Pigati, J., in prep. Late Quaternary sedimentological and climate changes at Lake Bosumtwi Ghana: new constraints from laminae analysis and radiocarbon age modeling. To be submitted to Quaternary Science Reviews.

4.      McKay, N.P., Overpeck, J. T., and Otto-Bliesner, B.L., (2011). The role of ocean thermal expansion in Last Interglacial sea level rise. Geophysical Research Letters, doi:10.1029/2011GL048280. [Link]

            Also see a News and Views in Nature Climate Change and an EOS Research Spotlight
            about this study.

3.      Kaufman, D.S., Schneider, D.P., McKay, N.P., Ammann, C.M., Bradley, R.S., Briffa, K.R., Miller, G.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Overpeck, J.T., Vinther, B.M., ARCSS 2k Project Members, 2009. Recent warming reverses long-term arctic cooling. Science 325, 1236-1239, doi:10.1126/science. 1173983. [Link]

            Also, here's a radio interview I did with the BBC about this paper in September 2009.

2.      McKay, N.P. and Kaufman, D.S., 2009. Holocene climate and glacier variability at Hallet and Greyling Lakes, Chugach Mountains, south-central Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology, doi:10.1007/s10933-008-9260-0. [Link]

1.      McKay, N.P., Kaufman, D.S., and Michelutti N., 2008. Biogenic silica concentration as a high resolution, quantitative temperature proxy at Hallet Lake, south-central Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 35, L05709, doi:10.1029/2007GL032876. [Link]

Abstracts for Presentations Given

11. McKay, N.P. Overpeck, J. T.; Shanahan, T. M.; Brown, E. T.; Peck, J. A.; King, J. W.; Scholz, C. A.; and Heil, C. W., 2012. Paleohydrologic changes in tropical West Africa on interannual to orbital timescales over the past 500,000 years. Colloquium of the French Academy of Science on the African Tropical Forest, Paris, France. [Invited Talk]

10. McKay, N.P., Overpeck, J. T., Shanahan, T. M., Peck, J. A., King, J. W., Scholz, C. A., and Heil, C. W., 2011. Interannual- to multicentiennial-scale variability in the West African Monsoon during the Eemian. AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, California.

9. Routson, C.C., McKay, N.P., Woodhouse, C., Overpeck, J. T., 2011. The perfect ocean for megadrought. AGU Fall Meeting 2011, San Francisco, California.

8. McKay, N.P.; Overpeck, J. T.; and Otto-Bliesner, B.L., 2011. The role of ocean thermal expansion in Last Interglacial sea level rise. Geodaze 2011, Tucson, Arizona.

7. Ault, T.R.; Kimbrough, A.; McKay, N.P.; Truebe, S.; and Cole, J.E, 2011. Monte-Carlo Age-model Families for Intpretation and Analysis (MAFIA): New tools for paleoclimate studies. Geodaze 2011, Tucson, Arizona.

6. McKay, N.P. Overpeck, J. T.; Shanahan, T. M.; Peck, J. A.; King, J. W.; Scholz, C. A.; and Heil, C. W., 2011. An initial comparison of Eemian and Holocene varve structure and variability in the Lake Bosumtwi drill core record. 2nd Workshop of PAGES Varves Working Group, Corpus Christi, Texas.

5. McKay, N.P. Overpeck, J. T.; Brown, E. T.; Shanahan, T. M.; Peck, J. A.; King, J. W.; Scholz, C. A.; and Heil, C. W., 2010. A scanning-XRF record of Lake Bosumtwi sediments: Implications for West African Monsoon variability over the past 500 kyr. Geodaze 2010, Tucson, Arizona.

4. McKay, N.P. Overpeck, J. T.; Brown, E. T.; Shanahan, T. M.; Peck, J. A.; King, J. W.; Scholz, C. A.; and Heil, C. W., 2009. A scanning-XRF record of Lake Bosumtwi sediments: Implications for West African Monsoon variability over the past 500 kyr. AGU Fall Meeting 2009, San Francisco, California.

3. Kaufman, D.S.; Briner, J.P.; Daigle, T.A.; Kathan, K.M.; Levy, L.B.; McKay, N.P.; and Werner, A., 2007. Holocene and latest Pleistocene glacier fluctuations from moraines and lake cores, southern Alaska. XVII INQUA Congress 2007, Cairns, Australia.

2. McKay, N.P.; and Kaufman, D.S., 2007. A biogenic-silica-inferred temperature reconstruction for the past 2 kyr, and Holocene climate fluctuations from Hallet and Greyling Lakes, Chugach Range, south-central Alaska. International Arctic Workshop, Skaftafell, Iceland.

1. McKay, N.P.; Kaufman, D.S., 2007, and Anderson, D.E., 2005. Characterization of climatic influences on modern sedimentation in an arctic lake, Svalbard, Norway. Northeast regional Geological Society of America Conference, Saratoga Springs, New York.