Robert B. Dunbar

TL;DR: During the deglacial and Holocene periods, there were several millennial-scale wet phases on the Altiplano and in Amazonia that coincided with anomalously cold periods in the equatorial and high-latitude North Atlantic, such as the Younger Dryas.

TL;DR: Data from recent oceanographic cruises show that phytoplankton community structure in the Ross Sea is related to mixed layer depth, and the capacity of the biological community to draw down atmospheric CO2 and transport it to the deep ocean could diminish dramatically if predicted increases in upper ocean stratification due to climate warming should occur.

TL;DR: In the tropical southwestern Pacific, surface-ocean temperatures were depressed by 4-6°C during the Younger Dryas climatic event and rose episodically during the next 4000 years as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the vertical transfer efficiency of particulate organic carbon (POC) was investigated by using time series of sediment trap POC flux and remotely sensed estimates of net primary production (NPP) and sea surface temperature (SST).

TL;DR: This article measured stable oxygen isotope ratios and skeletal growth rates in the massive corals Pavona clavus and P. gigantea from the west coast of Isabela Island, Galapagos, to assess interannual to decadal climate variability in the eastern Pacific.