R E S E A R C H

Graduate Students:

Kate Dennis G2 kdennis@fas.harvard.edu Hoffman 306
Itay Halevy G3 ihalevy@fas.harvard.edu Hoffman 305
John Higgins G5 jahiggins@post.harvard.edu Hoffman Lab 305
Kurt House G5 khouse@fas.harvard.edu Hoffman Lab 305

Publications:

Hoffman, D.L., L. Krupp, D. Schrag, G. Nilaver, G. Valiquette, M.M. Kilcoyne, and E.A. Zimmerman. Angiotensin immunoreactivity in vasopressin cells in rat hypothalamus and its relative deficiency in homozygous Brattleboro rat. Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 394, 135-141, 1982. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., D.J. DePaolo, and F.M. Richter. Oxygen isotope exchange in a two-layer model of oceanic crust. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 111 (2-4), 305-317, 1992. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. and D.J. DePaolo. Determination of d18O of seawater in the deep ocean during the last glacial maximum. Paleoceanography, 8 (1), 1-6, 1993. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., D. J. DePaolo, and F. M. Richter. Reconstructing past sea surface temperatures: Correcting for diagenesis of bulk marine carbonate. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 59 (11), 2265-2278, 1995. View PDF

Stoll, H.M. and D.P. Schrag. Glacial control of rapid sea level changes in the Early Cretaceous. Science, 272, 1771-1774, 1996. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., G. Hampt, and D.W. Murray. Pore fluid constraints on the temperature and oxygen isotopic composition of the glacial ocean. Science, 272, 1930-1932, 1996. View PDF

Moore, M.D., D.P. Schrag, and M. Kashgarian. Radiocarbon constraints on the source Indonesian seaway from coral AMS measurements. JGR-Oceans, 102, 12359-12365, 1997. View PDF

Rodgers, K.B., M.A. Cane, and D.P. Schrag. Seasonal variability of sea surface ?14C in the equatorial Pacific in an ocean circulation model. JGR-Oceans, 102, 18627-18639, 1997. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., G. Hampt, and D.W. Murray. Oxygen isotopic composition of interstitial waters from ODP Leg 154: Determination of the temperature and isotopic composition of the glacial ocean, in Proc. ODP, Sci. Results 154, edited by N.J. Shackleton, W.B. Curry, C. Richter, and T.J. Bralower, Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 1997. View PDF

Gieskes, J.M., D.P. Schrag, L.-H. Chan, L. Zhang, and J. Murray. Geochemistry of interstitial waters, ODP Leg 152, in Proc. ODP, Sci. Results 152, edited by A.D. Saunders, H.C. Larsen, and S.W. Wise, Jr., Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 1998. View PDF

Stoll, H.M. and D.P. Schrag. Effect of quaternary sea level cycles on the Sr concentration of seawater. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 62 (7), 1107-1118, 1998. View PDF

Guilderson, T.P. and D.P. Schrag. Abrupt shift in subsurface temperatures in the Eastern Tropical Pacific associated with recent changes in El Niño. Science, 281, 240-243, 1998. View PDF

Hoffman, P.F., A.J. Kaufman, G.P. Galverson, and D.P. Schrag. A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth. Science, 281, 1342-1346, 1998. View PDF

Guilderson, T.P., D.P. Schrag, M. Kashgarian, and J. Southon. Radiocarbon variability in the western equatorial Pacific inferred from a high-resolution coral record from Nauru Island. JGR-Oceans, 103, 24641-24650, 1998. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. Rapid determination of high-precision Sr/Ca ratios in corals and other marine carbonates. Paleoceanography, 14 (2), 97-102, 1999. View PDF

Guilderson,T.P. and D.P. Schrag. Reliability of coral isotope records from the western Pacific warm pool: A comparison using age-optimized records. Paleoceanography, 14 (4), 457-464, 1999. View PDF

Rodgers, K.B., M.A. Cane, N.H. Naik, and D.P. Schrag. The role of the Indonesian Throughflow in equatorial Pacific thermocline ventilation. JGR-Oceans, 104, 20551-20570, 1999. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. Effects of diagenesis on isotopic record of late Paleogene equatorial sea surface temperatures. Chem. Geol., 161 (1-3), 215-224, 1999. View PDF

Stoll, H.M., D.P. Schrag, and S. Clemens. Are seawater Sr/Ca variations preserved in Quaternary foraminifera? Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 63 (21), 3535-3547, 1999. View PDF

Hughen, K.A., D.P. Schrag, S.B. Jacobsen, and W. Hantoro. El Niño during the last Interglacial recorded by fossil corals from Indonesia. Geophys. Res. Lett., 26 (20), 3129-3132, 1999. View PDF

Hoffman, P.F. and D.P. Schrag. Response to comment by N. Christie-Blick, L. E. Sohl and M. J. Kennedy. Science, 284, 1087, 1999. View PDF

Hoffman, P.F. and D.P. Schrag. The Snowball Earth. Sci. Am., 282 (1), 68-75, 1999. View PDF

Billups, K. and D.P. Schrag. Surface ocean density gradients during the Last Glacial Maximum. Paleoceanography, 15 (1), 110-123, 2000. View PDF

Stoll, H.M. and D.P. Schrag. High resolution stable isotope records from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy and Spain: Glacial episodes in a greenhouse planet? Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 112 (2), 308-319, 2000. View PDF

Gagan, M.K., L.K. Ayliffe, J.W. Beck, J.E. Cole, E.R.M. Druffel, R.B. Dunbar, and D.P. Schrag. New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals. Quat. Sci. Rev., 19 (1-5), 45-64, 2000. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. Of ice and elephants. Nature, 404, 23-24, 2000. View PDF

Eshel, G., D.P. Schrag, and B. F. Farrell. Troposphere - planetary boundary layer interactions and the evolution of surface density: Lessons from Red Sea corals. J. Climate, 13 (2), 339-351, 2000. View PDF

Stoll, H.M. and D.P. Schrag. Coccolith Sr/Ca as a new indicator of coccolithophorid calcification and growth rate. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 1, Paper # 1999GC000015, 2000. View PDF

Rodgers, K.B., D.P. Schrag, M.A. Cane, and N.H. Naik. The bomb 14C transient in the Pacific ocean. JGR-Oceans, 105, 8489-8512, 2000. View PDF

Guilderson, T.P., D.P. Schrag, E.A. Goddard, M. Kashgarian, G.M. Wellington, and B.K. Linsley. Southwest subtropical Pacific surface water radiocarbon in a high-resolution coral record. Radiocarbon, 42 (2), 249-256, 2000. View PDF

O'Brien, D.M., D.P. Schrag, and C. Martinez Del-Rio. Allocation to reproduction in a hawkmoth: A quantitative analysis using stable carbon isotopes. Ecology, 81 (10), 2822-2831, 2000. View PDF

Linsley, B.K., G.M. Wellington, and D.P. Schrag. Decadal sea surface temperature variability in the sub-tropical South Pacific (1726 to 1997 A.D.). Science, 290, 1145-1148, 2000. View PDF

Adkins, J.F. and D.P. Schrag. Pore fluid constraints on deep ocean temperature and salinity during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (5), 771-774, 2001. View PDF

Stoll, H.M. and D.P. Schrag. Sr/Ca variations in Cretaceous carbonates: Relation to productivity and sea level changes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 168 (3-4), 311-336, 2001. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. and P.F. Hoffman. Life, geology and Snowball Earth. Nature, 409, 306, 2001. View PDF

Druffel, E.R., S. Griffin, T.P. Guilderson, M. Kashgarian, J. Southon, and D.P. Schrag. Changes in subtropical North Pacific radiocarbon and their correlation with climate variability. Radiocarbon, 43 (1), 15-25, 2001. View PDF

Evans, M.N., M.A. Cane, D.P. Schrag, A. Kaplan, B.K. Linsley, R. Villalba, and G.M. Wellington. Support for tropically-driven Pacific decadal variability based on paleoproxy evidence. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 (19), 3689-3692, 2001. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. and B.K. Linsley. Paleoclimate: Corals, chemistry, and climate. Science, 296, 277-278, 2002. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., J.F. Adkins, K. McIntyre, J.L. Alexander, D.A. Hodell, C.D. Charles, and J.F. McManus. The oxygen isotopic composition of seawater during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quat. Sci. Rev., 21 (1-3), 331-342, 2002. View PDF

Milne, G.A., J.X. Mitrovica, and D.P. Schrag. Estimating past continental ice volume from sea-level data. Quat. Sci. Rev., 21 (1-3), 361-376, 2002. View PDF

Billups, K. and D.P. Schrag. Paleotemperatures and ice-volume of the past 27 Myr revisited with paired Mg/Ca and 18O/16O measurements on benthic foraminifera. Paleoceanography, 17 (1), 3-1 - 3-11, 2002. View PDF

Kirk-Davidoff, D.B., D.P. Schrag, and J.G. Anderson. On the feedback of stratospheric clouds on polar climate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 10, 1029-1032, 2002. View PDF

Hoffman, P.F. and D.P. Schrag. The Snowball Earth hypothesis: Testing the limits of global change. Terra Nova, 14 (3), 129-155, 2002. View PDF

Rickaby, R.E.M. and D.P. Schrag. Growth rate dependence of Sr incorporation during calcification of Emiliania huxleyi. Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 16, No.1, 10.1029/2001GB001408, 2002. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. and J.J. McCarthy. Biological-physical interactions and global climate change: Some lessons from Earth history, in The Sea, vol. 12, edited by Allan R. Robinson, James J. McCarthy, and Brian J. Rothschild, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 605-619, 2002. View PDF

Halverson, G.P., P.F. Hoffman, D.P. Schrag, and A.J. Kaufman. A major perturbation of the carbon cycle before the Ghaub glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in Namibia: Prelude to Snowball Earth? Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Paper #1029/2001GC000244, 2002. View PDF

Schrag, D.P., R.A. Berner, P.F. Hoffman, and G.P. Halverson. On the initiation of a Snowball Earth. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Paper #1029/2001GC000219, 2002. View PDF

Bard, E., G. Delaygue, F. Rostek, F. Antonioli, S. Silenzi, and D.P. Schrag. Hydrological conditions over the western Mediterranean basin during the deposition of the cold Sapropel 6 (ca. 175 kyr BP). Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 202 (2), 481-494, 2002. View PDF

Adkins, J.F., K. McIntyre, and D.P. Schrag. The salinity, temperature, and d18O of the glacial deep ocean. Science, 298, 1769-1773, 2002. View PDF

Cochran, J.K., N.H. Landman, K.K. Turekian, A.Michard, and D.P. Schrag. Paleoceanography of the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Western Interior Seaway of North America: Evidence from Sr and O isotopes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 191 (1), 45-64, 2003. View PDF

Ren, L., B.K. Linsley, G.M. Wellington, D.P. Schrag, and O. Hoegh-Guldberg. Deconvolving the d18Oseawater component from subseasonal coral d18O and Sr/Ca at Rarotonga in the Southwestern Subtropical Pacific for the period 1726-1997. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 67 (9), 1609-1621, 2003. View PDF

Winter, A., A. Paul, J. Nyberg, T. Oba, J. Lundberg, D. Schrag, and B. Taggart. Orbital control of low-latitude seasonality during the Eemian. Geophys. Res. Lett., 30 (4), Art. No. 1163, 2003. View PDF

Higgins, J.A. and D.P. Schrag. Aftermath of a Snowball Earth. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 4, Art. No. 1028, 2003. View PDF

Adkins, J.F. and D.P. Schrag. Reconstructing Last Glacial Maximum bottom water salinities from deep-sea sediment pore fluid profiles. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 216 (1-2), 109-123, 2003. View PDF

Patt, A.G. and D.P. Schrag. Using specific language to describe risk and probability. Clim. Change, 61 (1-2), 17-30, 2003. View PDF

Billups, K. and D.P. Schrag. Application of foraminiferal Mg/Ca ratios to questions of Cenozoic climate change. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 209 (1-2), 181-195, 2003. View PDF

Payne, J.L., D.J. Lehrmann, J.Y. Wei, M.J. Orchard, D.P Schrag, and A.H. Knoll. Large perturbations of the carbon cycle during recovery from the end-Permian extinction. Science, 305, 506-509, 2004. View PDF

Linsley, B.K., G.M. Wellington, D.P Schrag, L. Ren, M.J. Salinger, and A.W. Tudhope. Geochemical evidence from corals for changes in the amplitude and spatial pattern of South Pacific interdecadal climate variability over the last 300 years. Clim. Dyn., 22 (1), 1-11, 2004. View PDF

Turchyn, A.V. and D.P Schrag. Oxygen isotope constraints on the sulfur cycle over the past 10 million years. Science, 303, 2004-2007, 2004. View PDF

Guilderson, T., D. P. Schrag, and M.A. Crane. Surface water mixing in the Solomon Sea as documented by a high-resolution coral 14C record. J. Climate, 17 (5), 1147-1156, 2004. View PDF

Evans, M.N. and D.P Schrag. A stable isotope-based approach to tropical dendroclimatology. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 68 (16), 3295-3305, 2004. View PDF

Scott, K.M., J. Schwedock, D.P. Schrag, and C.M. Cavanaugh. Influence of Form IA RubisCO and environmental dissolved inorganic carbon on the 13C of the clam-chemoautotroph symbiosis Solemya Velum. Environ. Microbiol., 6 (12), 1210-1219, 2004. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. and R.B. Alley. Ancient lessons for our future climate. Science, 306, 821-822, 2004. View PDF

Rodgers, K.B., O. Aumont, G. Madec, C. Menkes, B. Blanke, P. Monfray, J.C. Orr, and D.P. Schrag. Radiocarbon as a thermocline proxy for the eastern equatorial Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31 (14), Art. No. L14314, 2004. View PDF

Billups, K., R.E.M. Rickaby, and D.P. Schrag. Cenozoic pelagic Sr/Ca records: Exploring a link to paleoproductivity. Paleoceanography, 19 (3), Art. No. PA3005, 2004. View PDF

Poussart, P.F., M.N. Evans, and D.P. Schrag. Resolving seasonality in tropical trees: multi-decade, high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope records from Indonesia and Thailand. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 218 (3-4), 301-316, 2004. View PDF

Moore, T.S., R.W. Murray, A.C. Kurtz, and D,P. Schrag. Anaerobic methane oxidation and the formation of dolomite. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 229 (1-2), 141-154, 2004. View PDF

Poussart, P.F. and D.P. Schrag. Seasonally resolved stable isotope chronologies from northern Thailand deciduous trees. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 235 (3-4), 752-765, 2005. View PDF

Halverson, G.P., P.F. Hoffman, D.P. Schrag, A.C. Maloof, and A.H.N. Rice. Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record. GSA Bulletin, 117 (9-10), 1181-1207, Sep-Oct 2005. View PDF

Li, C., D.S. Battisti, D.P. Schrag, and E. Tziperman. Abrupt climate shifts in Greenland due to displacements of the sea ice edge. Geophys. Res. Lett., 32 (19), Art. No. L19702, 2005. View PDF

Maloof, A.C., D.P. Schrag, J.L. Crowley, and S.A. Bowring. An expanded record of Early Cambrian carbon cycling from the Anti-Atlas Margin, Morocco. Can. J. Earth Sci., 42, 2195-2216, 2005. View PDF

Turchyn, A.V. and D.P. Schrag. Cenozoic Evolution of the Sulfur Cycle; Insight from Oxygen Isotopes in Marine Sulfate. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 241, 769-779, 2006. View PDF

Biddle, J.F., J.S. Lipp, M.A. Lever, K.G. Lloyd, K.B. Sorensen, R. Anderson, H.F. Fredricks, M. Elvert, T.J. Kelly, D.P. Schrag, M.L. Sogin, J.E. Brenchley, A. Teske, C.H. House, and K-U Hinricks. Heterotrophic Archaea dominate sedimentary subsurface ecosystems off Peru. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103 (10), 3846-3851, March 7, 2006. View PDF

Ghosh, P., J. Adkins, H. Affeck, B. Balta, W. Guo, E.A. Schauble, D. Schrag, and J.M. Eiler. 13C-18O bonds in carbonate minerals: A new kind of Paleothermometer. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 70 (6), 1439-1456, March 15, 2006. View PDF

Musgrove, M. and D.P. Schrag. Climate Change at Yucca Mountain: Lessons from Earth History, in Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste, edited by Allison M. Macfarlane and Rodney C. Ewing, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 149-162, 2006. View PDF

Higgins, J.A. and D.P. Schrag. Beyond Methane: Towards a Theory for Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 245, 523-537, 2006. View PDF

House, K.Z., D.P. Schrag, C.F. Harvey, and K.S. Lackner. Permanent Carbon Dioxide Storage in Deep-Sea Sediments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 103, 12291-12295, 2006. View PDF

Maloof, A.C., G.P. Halverson, J.L. Kirschvink, D.P. Schrag, B.P. Weiss, and P.F. Hoffman. Combined Paleomagnetic, Isotopic, and Stratigraphic Evidence for True Polar Wander from the Neoproterozoic Akademikerbreen Group, Svalbard, Norway. GSA Bulletin, 118, 1099-1124, 2006. View PDF

Turchyn, A.V., O. Sivan, and D.P. Schrag. Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Sulfate in Deep Sea Pore Fluid: Evidence for Rapid Sulfur Cycling. Geobiology, 4, 191-201, 2006.View PDF

Halverson, G.P., A.C. Maloof, D.P. Schrag, F.Ö. Dudás, and M. Hurtgen. Stratigraphy and geochemistry of ca 800 Ma negative carbon isotope interval in northeastern Svalbard . Chem. Geol., 237, 23-45, 2007. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. Preparing to Capture Carbon. Science, 315, 812-813, 2007. View PDF

Schrag, D.P. Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge. Elements, 3, 171-178, 2007. View PDF

Rickaby, R.E.M., Bard, E., Sonzogni, C., et al. Coccolith Chemistry Reveals Secular Variations in the Global Ocean Carbon Cycle. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 253, 83-95, 2007. View PDF

Sivan, O., Schrag, D.P., Murray, R.W. Rates of Methanogenesis and Methanogenesis and Methanotrophy in Deep-sea Sediments. Geobiology, 5(2):141-151, 2007. View PDF

Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., Domack, E.W., et al. Are basal Ediacraran (635 Ma) post-glacial cap dolostones diachronous? Earth and Plan. Sci. Lett., 258(1-2):114-131, 2007. View PDF

Meister, P., Mckenzie, J.A., Vaconcelos, C., et al. Dolomite formation in the dynamic deep biosphere: results from the Peru Margin. Sedimentology, 54(5): 10007-1031, 2007. View PDF

Halevy, I., Zuber, M.T., Schrag, D.P. A Sulfur Dioxide Climate Feedback on Early Mars. Science 318(5858): 1903-1907, 2007. View PDF

House, K.Z., House, C.H, Schrag, D.P., Aziz, M.J. Electrochemical acceleration of chemical weathering as an energetically feasible approach to mitigating anthropogenic climate change. Environ. Sci. Technol., 41(24): 8464-8470, 2007. View PDF

Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Michael N. Evans,Todd Lange, David R. Smith,Steven W. Leavitt, and Daniel P. Schrag. Consequences of a Rapid Cellulose Extraction Technique for Oxygen Isotope and Radiocarbon Analyses. Anal. Chem. 2008, 80, 2035-2041. View PDF


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