LINKS TO PUBLICATIONS (AND RELATED MATERIAL)
IN REVIEW. Rafter, P.A. et al. (IN REVIEW) Spatial and temporal variability of eastern Pacific carbon chemistry after the ice age.
IN REVIEW. *Green, R.A., P.A. Rafter, C. Sun, W.R. Gray, J.W.B. Rae, M. Pelly, C. Xu, K. Thirumalai, J.R. Southon, F. Pavia, M.P. Hain (IN REVIEW) Simulating deglacial radiocarbon anomalies with pH-neutral geologic carbon.
IN REVIEW. Piccione, G., T. Blackburn, M.P. Hain, P.A. Rafter, Slawek Tulaczyk, Colin Carney, Jessica Gagliardi. (IN REVIEW) Expanded constraints on chemical weathering reactions and carbon cycling beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet
IN REVIEW. Kienast, M., M. Hollstein, P.A. Rafter, N. Lehmann, Z. Li, M.T. Chen, M. Mohtadi (IN REVIEW) Significant Southern Hemisphere contribution to the Indonesian Throughflow over the last 800,000 years
Rafter, P.A., J. R. Farmer, A. Martinez-Garcia, A.C. Ravelo, F.C. Batista, S. Bernasconi, H. Ren, A. Auderset, G.H. Haug, D.M. Sigman (In Press) Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene. Science
Cetiner, J.E.P, W.M. Berelson, N.E. Rollins, X. Liu, F.J. Pavia, A.R. Waldeck, S. Dong, K. Fleger, H.A. Barnhart, M. Quinan, R.P. Wani, P.A. Rafter, A.D. Jacobson, R.H. Byrne, J.F. Adkins (2025) Carbonate dissolution fluxes in deep-sea sediments as determined from in situ porewater profiles in a transect across the saturation horizon. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 10.1016/j.gca.2024.11.027
Mills, M., J.T. Cullen, J. Spence, P.A. Rafter, S. Mihaly, L.A. Coogan (2024) Tracking hydrothermal particles from the ridge axis to the sediment column along the Endeavour segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge. Marine Geology. 10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107432
Rafter, P.A. (2024) On the Variability of Equatorial Pacific Nitrate and Iron Utilization. Oceanography. https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2024.411
*Green, R.A., M.P. Hain, P.A. Rafter (2024) Deglacial Pulse of Neutralized Carbon from the Pacific Seafloor: Constraints from the Radiocarbon Budget. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108271
Umling, N.E., E. Sikes, P.A. Rafter, N. Goodkin (2024) Deglacial carbon escape from the northern rim of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL106413
Prabhakar, M., K. Thirumalai, T.M. Cronin, L. Gemery, E.K. Thomas, P.A. Rafter (2024) Morphotypical and geochemical variations of planktic foraminiferal species in Siberian and central Arctic Ocean core tops. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.54.1.1Díaz-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
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
Seltzer, A.M., D.P. Nicholson, W.M. Smethie, R.L. Tyne, E.L Roy, R.H.R. Stanley, M. Stute, P.H. Barry, K. McPaul, P.W. Davidson, B.X. Chang, P.A. Rafter, P. Lethaby, R. J. Johnson, S. P. Khatiwala, W. J. Jenkins (2023) Dissolved gases track deep ocean ventilation processes in the deep North Atlantic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2217946120
Marshall, T. A., Sigman, D. M., Beal, L. M., Foreman, A., Martínez‐García, A., Blain, S., et al. (2023). The Agulhas Current Transports Signals of Local and Remote Indian Ocean Nitrogen Cycling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 128(3), e2022JC019413. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JC019413
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
White, M.E., P.A. Rafter, B.M. Stephens, M.R. Mazloff, S.D. Wankel, L.I. Aluwihare. (2022) Stable isotopes of nitrate reveal the effects of ENSO on nitrogen cycling in the surface waters of the southern California Current System. Limnology & Oceanography. doi.org/10.1002/lno.12194
Fripiat, F., A. Martínez-García, D. Marconi, S.E. Fawcett, S.H. Kopf, V.H. Luu, P.A. Rafter, R. Zhang, D.M. Sigman, G.H. Haug. (2021) Nitrogen isotopic constraints on nutrient transport to the upper ocean. Nature Geoscience.doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00836-8
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
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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.