Curriculum Vitae

 Jason H. Curtis

curtisj@ufl.edu 

Department of Geological Sciences
241 Williamson Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville FL 32611
Phone: 352-392-2296  Fax 352-392-9294

Education
1993-1997  Ph.D. Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1989-1992  M.S. Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1985-1989  B.S. Geology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Positions
2009-Present  Senior Associate-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida (state-funded, non-tenure accruing faculty position responsible for management of the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Lab)
2004-2009  Associate-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida
1998-2004  Assistant-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida
1997-1998  Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
1989-1997  Research and Teaching Assistantships, Dept. of Geology and Dept. of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Univ. of Florida
1987-1989  Assistant, Light Stable Isotope Lab., Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Michigan

Current job description
The main job duty for the manager of the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences is to oversee the operation, maintenance, and repair of the equipment in the lab, to finance the lab, and to supervise and instruct faculty, graduate students, and visitors carrying out analytical work in the lab.  Additional job duties include research and service to the department and university.  The position does not allow Principle Investigator status.

Dissertation (supervised by David A. Hodell)
Climatic Variation in the Circum-Caribbean during the Holocene.  University of Florida, Gainesville.  149 pp.  1997.

Thesis (supervised by David A. Hodell)
Natural Variability of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Climates in the Caribbean from Isotopic and Trace Element Analysis of Lake Sediments (10,500 years bp to present).  University of Florida, Gainesville.  79 pp.  1992.

Publications

Cordero-Oviedo, C., A. Correa-Metriob, L.E. Urrego, G. Vázquez-Hurtado, M. Blaauw, J. Escobar, J.H. Curtis. 2019. Holocene establishment of mangrove forests in the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Catena. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2019.04.025

Shields, M.R., T.S. Bianchi, A.S. Kolker, W.F. Kenney, D. Mohrig, T.Z. Osborne, and J.H. Curtis. 2019 Factors controlling storage, sources, and diagenetic state of organic carbon in a prograding subaerial delta: Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. 10.1029/2018JG004683.

Scholz, S.R., S.V. Petersen, J.H. Escobar, C. Jaramillo, A.J.W. Hendy, W.D. Allmon, F. Moreno, J.H. Curtis, B.M. Anderson, N. Hoyos, J.C. Restrepo, and N. Perez Isotope Schlerochronology and Tropical Seasonality During the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum. Submitted to Geology

Roy, P.D., G. Vera-Vera, J.L. Sánchez-Zavala, T.M. Shanahan, J.D. Quiroz-Jiménez, J.H. Curtis, M.P. Girón-García, V.H. Lemus, G. Muthu Sankar. Depositional histories of vegetation and sediment since late Last Glacial in the Sierra Madre Oriental Mountains of the northeast Mexico. Co-author working on manuscript.

Roy, P.D. G. Vera-Vera, J.H. Curtis, J.D. Quiroz-Jimenez, J.L. Sánchez-Zavala, R. Lozano-Santacruz Response of surface processes in drought-prone northeast Mexico to climate forcings between the latest Pleistocene and middle Holocene. Submitted to Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Escobar, J. A. Correa-Metrio, J.H. Curtis, M. Velez, M. Brenner, W. Kenney, N. Hoyos, J. Restrepo, C. Cordero-Oviedo, D. Buck, N. Suarez, Y. Serna. Post-colonial pollution of the Bay of Cartagena, Colombia. Revisions requested by Journal of Paleolimnology.

Obrist-Farner, J., M.Brenner, J.H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney, C. Salvinelli . Recent onset of eutrophication in Lake Izabal, the largest water body in Guatemala. Manuscript distributed to co-authors.

Cohuo, S., L. Macario-González, S. Wagner, P. Echeverria, L. Pérez, J. Curtis, M. Brenner, and S. Antje. Influence of Late Quaternary Climate Fluctuations on Aquatic Species Distributions in the Northern Neotropics as Reflected by Non-Marine Ostracodes (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Manuscript ready for submission to Journal of Biogeography.

Douglas, P.M.J., M. Pagani, T.I. Eglinton, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Breckinridge, and K. Johnston. 2018. A long-term decrease in the persistence of soil carbon caused by ancient Maya land use. published Nature Geosciences. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0192-7

Evans, N.P., T.K. Bauska, F. Gázquez-Sanchez, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2018. Quantification of Drought During the Collapse of the Classic Maya Civilization. Science, 361. 498-501.

Liu, B., R.K. Booth, J. Escobar, Z. Wei, B. Bird, A. Pardo, A., J.H. Curtis, and J. Ouyang. 2018. Ecology and paleoenvironmental application of testate amoebae in peatlands of the high-elevation Colombian páramo. Quaternary Research. doi:10.1017/qua.2018.143

Vaezi, A., F. Ghazban, V. Tavakoli, J. Routh, A. Naderi Beni, T.S. Bianchi, J.H. Curtis, H. Kylin. 2019. Late Pleistocene-Holocene multi-proxy record of climate variability and monsoonal changes in the Jazmurian playa, southeastern Iran. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.09.026

Whitmore, T.J., M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, F.M. Lauterman, and J.H. Curtis. 2018. Cyanobacterial influence on diatom community lifeform dynamics in shallow subtropical lakes of Florida USA. Journal of Paleolimnology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0018-z

Wu, D., X. Chen, F. Lv, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, A. Zhou, J. Chen, M.B. Abbott, J. Yu, and F. Chen. 2018. Decoupled early Holocene summer temperature and monsoon precipitation in southwest China. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.038.

Lohse, J.C., W.D. Hamilton, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, T. Inomata, M. Morgan, K. Cardona, K. Aoyama, and H. Yonenobu. 2018. Late Holocene volcanic activity and environmental change in Highland Guatemala. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.014

Cohuo, S., L. Macario-González, L. Pérez, F. Sylvestre, C. Pailles, J.H. Curtis, S. Kutterolf, M. Wojewódka, E. Zawisza, K. Szeroczyńska, E. Zawisza, and A. Schwalb. 2018. Ultrastructure and aquatic community response to Heinrich Stadials (HS5a- HS1) in the continental northern Neotropics. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.015

Siegel, P.E., J.G. Jones, D.M. Pearsall, N.P. Dunning, P. Farrell, N.A. Duncan, J.H. Curtis, and S.K. Singh. 2018. Humanizing the Landscapes of the Lesser Antilles during the Archaic Age. In: The Archaeology of Caribbean and Circum-Caribbean Farmers (6000 BC – AD 1500). B.A. Reid, editor. Routledge. 55-70.

Arellano-Torres, E., A. Correa-Metrio, D. López-Dávila, J. Escobar, J.H. Curtis, M.C. Cordero-Oviedo. 2019. Mid to late Holocene hydrological and sea-level change reconstructions from La Mancha coastal lagoon, Veracruz, Mexico. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.01.033

Arnold TE, W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, T.S. Bianchi, and M. Brenner. 2018. Sediment biomarkers elucidate the Holocene ontogeny of a shallow lake. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0191073. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191073

Whitmore, T.J., M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, F.M. Lauterman, and J.H. Curtis. 2018. Cyanobacterial influence on diatom community lifeform dynamics in shallow subtropical lakes of Florida USA. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0018-z

Pearsall, D.M. J.G. Jones, N.P. Dunning, P.E. Siegel, P. Farrell, J.H. Curtis, and N.A. Duncan. 2018. Methods for Addressing Island Historical Ecology. In: Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. P.E. Siegel, editor. Berghahn Books. 57-71.

Jones, J.G. D.M. Pearsall, P. Farrell, N.P. Dunning, J.H. Curtis, N.A. Duncan, and P.E. Siegel. 2018. Grenada. In: Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. P.E. Siegel, editor. Berghahn Books. 129-154.

P.E. Siegel, D.M. Pearsall, N.P. Dunning, J.G. Jones, P. Farrell, N.A. Duncan, and J.H. Curtis. 2018. Assessing Colonization, Landscape Learning, and Socionatural Changes in the Caribbean. In: Island Historical Ecology: Socionatural Landscapes of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean. P.E. Siegel, editor. Berghahn Books. 299-344.

Cui, X., T.S. Bianchi, W. Kenney, J. Wang, J. Curtis, K. Xu, C. Savage. 2017. Carbon Dynamics along a Temperate Fjord-Head Delta: Linkages with Carbon Burial in Fjords. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122, 3419–3430. doi.org/10.1002/2017JG003891

Mays, J.L., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, K.V. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, A.L. Dutton, A.R. Zimmerman, and T.P. Guilderson. 2017. Stable carbon isotopes (δ 13C) of total organic carbon and long-chain n-alkanes as proxies for climate and environmental change in a sediment core from Lake Petén-Itzá, Guatemala. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-017-9949-z

Kamenov, G.D. and J.H. Curtis. 2017. Using Carbon, Oxygen, Strontium, and Lead Isotopes in Modern Human Teeth for Forensic Investigations: A Critical Overview Based on Data from Bulgaria. Journal of Forensic Sciences. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.13462

Díaz, K.A., L. Pérez, A. Correa-Metrio, J.F. Franco-Gaviria, P. Echeverría, J. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 2017. Holocene environmental history of tropical, mid-altitude Lake Ocotalito, México, inferred from ostracodes and non-biological indicators. The Holocene. DOI:10.1177/0959683616687384.

Correa-Metrio, A., M.I. Velez, J. Escobar, J.-E. St-Jacques, M. Lopez-Perez, J. Curtis, and J. Cosford. 2016. Mid-elevation ecosystems of Panama: future uncertainties in light of past global climatic variability. Journal of Quaternary Science. 31. 731-740. DOI: 10.1002/jqs.2899

Cui, X., T.S. Bianchi, J.A. Hutchings, C. Savage, and J.H. Curtis. 2016. Hydrodynamic Sorting of Organic Carbon in Surface Sediments of Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. DOI: 10.1002/2015JG003225

Kutterolf, S., J.C. Schindlbeck, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, D. Schmid, D.A. Hodell, A. Mueller, L. Perez, W. Perez, A. Schwalb, M. Frische, K.-L. Wang. 2016. A 400-ka tephrochronological framework for Central America from Lake Peten Itza (Guatemala) sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 150, 200-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.08.023

Channell, J.E.T., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2016. Relative paleointensity (RPI) and stable isotope stratigraphy for IODP Site U1308: North Atlantic RPI stack for 1.2-2.2 Ma (NARPI-2200) and age of the Olduvai Subchron. Quaternary Science Reviews, 131, 1-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.011

Kenney, W.F., M. Brenner, T.E. Arnold, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 2016. Sediment cores from shallow lakes preserve reliable, informative paleoenvironmental archives despite hurricane-force winds. Ecological Indicators, 60, 963-969. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.08.046.

Kenney, W.F., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, T.E. Arnold, and C.L. Schelske. 2016. A Holocene sediment record of phosphorus accumulation in shallow Lake Harris, Florida (USA) offers new perspectives on recent cultural eutrophication. PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147331

Douglas, M. Pagani, M.A. Canuto, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, T.I. Eglinton, and J.H. Curtis. 2015. Drought, agricultural adaptation and sociopolitical collapse in the Maya Lowlands. P.M.J. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.1419133112

Douglas, P.M.J., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2015. Methods and future directions for paleoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands, Glob. Planet. Change, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.07.008

Rosenmeier, M.F., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, J.H. Curtis, and M.W. Binford. 2015. A model of the 4000-year paleohydrology (δ18O) record from Lake Salpetén, Guatemala, Glob. Planet. Change, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.07.006

Bianchi, T. S., D. C. O. Thornton,
S. A. Yvon-Lewis, G. M. King, T. I. Eglinton, M. R. Shields, N. D. Ward, and J. Curtis. 2015, Positive priming of terrestrially derived dissolved organic matter in a freshwater microcosm system, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL064765.

Siegel, P.E., J.G. Jones, D.M. Pearsall, N.P. Dunning. P. Farrell, N.A. Duncan, J.H. Curtis, and S.K. Singh. 2015. Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean. Quaternary Science Reviews 129, 275-295. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.014.

Douglas, P., M. Pagani, T. Eglinton, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, K. Ma, and A. Breckenridge. 2014. Pre-aged plant waxes in tropical lake sediments and their influence on the chronology of molecular paleoclimate proxy records. Geochimica et cosmochimica Acta 141:346-364. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.030.

Arnold, T.E., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Dutton, S.M. Baker, *J.H. Escobar, and C.A. Ortega. 2014. Application of stable isotopes (δ18O) to determine growth patterns of the invasive gastropod Pomacea maculata in Florida lakes. Florida Scientist 77(3):126-143.

Velez, M.I., J. Escobar, M. Brenner, O. Rangel, A. Betancourt, J.A. Jaramillo, J.H. Curtis, and J.L. Moreno. 2014. Middle to late Holocene relative sea level rise along the Colombian Caribbean coast inferred from a sediment core taken in the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta. The Holocene. DOI: 10.1177/0959683614534740.

Kamenov, G.D., Kimmerle, E.H., Curtis, J.H., Norris, D., 2104. Georeferencing a cold case victim with lead, strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotopes. Annals of Anthropological Practice 38.1, pp. 137–154

Heard, A.M., J.O. Sickman, N.L. Rose, D.M. Bennet, D.M. Lucero, J.M. Melack, and J.H. Curtis. 2014. 20th Century Atmospheric Deposition and Acidification Trends in Lakes of the Sierra Nevada, California, USA. Environ. Sci. Technol., 48 (17), pp 10054–10061

Kenney, W.F., D.G. Buck, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, T.J. Whitmore, J.J. Di, and C.L. Schelske. 2014. Whole-basin, mass-balance approach for identifying critical phosphorus-loading thresholds in shallow lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-014-9771-9

Pérez, L., J. Lorenschat, J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J. Escobar, M. Socorro Lozano and A. Schwalb. 2013. Stable isotopes (δ18O & δ13C) from multiple ostracode species of a large Neotropical lake as indicators of past changes in hydrology. Quaternary Science Reviews 66:96-111.

Mosblech, N.A. S., M.B. Bush, W.D. Gosling, D. Hodell, L. Thomas, P. van Calsteren, A. Correa-Metrio, B.G. Valencia, J. Curtis, and Robert van Woesik. 2012. North Atlantic forcing of Amazonian precipitation during the last ice age. Nature Geoscience. doi:10.1038/ngeo1588.

Douglas, P., M. Pagani, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2012. Aridity and vegetation composition control leaf-wax D values in lowland tropical environments. Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta. doi 10.1016/j.gca.2012.09.005, 97: 24-45.

Channell, J.E.T., Hodell, D.A., and J.H. Curtis, J.H., 2012. ODP Site 1063 (Bermuda Rise) revisited: oxygen isotopes, excursions and paleointensity in the Brunhes Chron,. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 27 pp., doi:10.1029/2011GC003897.

Escobar, J., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, A.D. Müller, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, D.A. Grzesik, L. Pérez, A. Schwalb, and T.J. Guilderson. 2012. A ~43-ka record of paleoenvironmental change in the Central American lowlands inferred from lacustrine ostracod δ 18O. Quaternary Science Reviews 37:92-104. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.020

Day, M.B., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, H.J. Chapman, W.F. Kenney, A.L. Kolata and L.C. Peterson. 2012. Paleoenvironmental history of the West Baray, Angkor (Cambodia). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 109: 1046-1051. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1111282109

Hodell, D.A., A.J. Turchyn, C.V. Wiseman, J. Escobar, J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, A. Gilli, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, L. Perez, A. Schwalb, and E. Brown. 2012. Late glacial temperature and precipitation changes in the lowland Neotropics by tandem measurements of δ 18O in biogenic carbonate and gypsum hydration water. Geochimica et Cosmochima Acta 77:352-368. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.11.026

Velez, M., J.H. Curtis, J. Escobar, M. Brenner, and M. Popenoe de Hatch. 2011. Environmental and cultural changes in highland Guatemala inferred from Lake Amatitlán sediments. Geoarchaeology 26: 346-364. DOI:10.1002/gea.20352

Pérez, L., R. Bugja, J. Lorenschat, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, P. Hoelsmann, B. Scharf, and A. Schwalb. 2011. Aquatic ecosystems of the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico), Belize, and Guatemala. Hydrobiologia 661:407-433. DOI 10.1007/s10750-010-0552-9

Day, M.B., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, G.D. Kamenov, T.P. Guilderson, L.C. Peterson, and A.L. Kolata. 2011. Origin of the annual flood pulse in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia. Journal of Paleolimnology 45:85-99. DOI: 10.1007/s10933-010-9482-9

Kenney, W.F., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 2010. Identifying sources of organic matter in sediments of shallow lakes using multiple geochemical variables. Journal of Paleolimnology 44:1039-1052. DOI 10.1007/s10933-010-9472-y.

Mueller, A.D, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J. Escobar, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, D.A. Hodell, T.P. Guilderson, S. Kutterolf, and M.L. Plötze. 2010. Late Quaternary palaeoenvironment of northern Guatemala: evidence from deep drill cores and seismic stratigraphy of Lake Petén Itzá. Sedimentology 57:1220-1245. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2009.01144.x

Hodell, D.A., Evans, H.F. Channell, J.E.T, and Curtis, J.H. 2010. Phase relationships of North Atlantic ice-rafted debris and surface-deep climate proxies during the last glacial period, Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.09.006

Martin, J. B., J. M. Bernhard, J. Curtis, and A. E. Rathburn. 2010. Combined carbonate carbon isotopic and cellular ultrastructural studies of individual benthic foraminifera: I. Method description, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2009PA001846.

Escobar, J., J.H. Curtis M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.A. Holmes. 2009. Isotope measurements of single ostracod valves and gastropod shells for climate reconstruction: evaluation of within-sample variability and determination of optimum sample size. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-009-9377-9

Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, A.D. Mueller, J.H. Curtis, D. Grzesik, C. Burton, and A. Gilli. 2009. The Last Glacial Maximum in lowland Central America. In: F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, and M. Khodri (Eds.), Past Climate Variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding Regions. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Series. Springer, Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, A.D. Mueller, J.H. Curtis, D. Grzesik, C. Burton, and A. Gilli. 2009. Re-evaluation of climate change in lowland Central America during the last glacial maximum using new sediment cores from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala. P. 113-128, In: F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, and M. Khodri (eds), Past climate variability in South America and surrounding regions from the last glacial maximum to the Holocene. DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2672-9_5.

Escobar, J., D.G. Buck, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and N. Hoyos. 2009. Thermal stratification, mixing, and heat budgets of Florida lakes. Fundamental and Applied Limnology (Archiv für Hydrobiologie) 174(4):283-293. DOI: 10.1127/1863-9135/2009/0174-0283.

Hodell, D.A., E.K. Minth, J.H. Curtis, I.N. McCave, I.R. Hall, J.E.T. Channell, and C. Xuan. 2009. Surface and Deep Water Hydrography on Gardar Drift (Iceland Basin) during the Last Interglacial Period. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 288. 10-19.

Mueller, A.D., G. Islebe, M.B. Hillesheim, D. Grzesik, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, J.A. McKenzie, and K. Venz-Curtis. 2009. Climate drying and associated forest decline in the lowlands of northern Guatemala during the late Holocene. Quaternary Research 71:133-141.

Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, A.D. Mueller, J.H. Curtis, D. Grzesik, C. Burton, and A. Gilli. 2009. The Last Glacial Maximum in lowland Central America. In: F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, and M. Khodri (Eds.), Past Climate Variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding Regions. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Series. Springer, Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.

Sierro F.J., N. Andersen, M.A. Bassetti, S. Berné, M. Canals, J.H. Curtis, B. Dennielou, J.A. Flores, J. Frigola, B. Gonzalez-Mora, J.O. Grimalt, D.A. Hodell, G.l Jouet, M. Pérez-Folgado, and R. Schneider. 2009. Phase relationship between sea level and abrupt climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1-15, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.07.019.

Hodell, D. A., J. E. T. Channell, J. H. Curtis, O. E. Romero, and U. Röhl. 2008. Onset of “Hudson Strait” Heinrich events in the eastern North Atlantic at the end of the middle Pleistocene transition (~640 ka)?, Paleoceanography, 23, PA4218, doi:10.1029/2008PA001591.

Hodell, D. A. and J. H. Curtis. 2008. Oxygen and carbon isotopes of detrital carbonate in North Atlantic Heinrich Events, Marine Geology, 256, 30-35, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.09.010

Hodell, D.A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. Müller, M. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, and S. Kutterolf. 2008. An 85-ka Record of Climate Change in Lowland Central America. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.008

Escobar, J., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and W.F. Kenney. 2008. Thecamoebians as bioindicators in Florida lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9195-5.

Frigola1, J., A. Moreno, I. Cacho, M. Canals, F.J. Sierro, J.A. Flores, J.O. Grimalt, D.A. Hodell and J.H. Curtis. 2007. Holocene climate variability in the Western Mediterranean region from a deep water sediment record. Paleoceanography, V22, PA2209, doi:10.1029/2006PA001307.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, et al. 2007. Proyecto Paleoambiental Lago Petén-Itzá. Petén Itzá 48:24-26. (in Spanish).

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2007. Climate and cultural history of the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-006-9177-4.

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, K.V. Kolasa, W.F. Kenney, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, and J.H. Curtis. 2006. Inadvertent alkalization of a Florida lake caused by increased nutrient and solute loading to its watershed. Journal of Paleolimnology, 36: 353-370.

Brenner, M. T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, B. DeArmond, D.A. Leeper. W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2006. Geochemical and biological consequences of groundwater augmentation in lakes of west-central Florida (USA). Journal of Paleolimnology 36:371-383.

DeArmond, B.S. M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, D.A. Leeper, J. M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, B.C. Shumate, and D.G. Buck. 2006. Radium-226 accumulation in sediments of a groundwater-augmented lake near Tampa, Florida, USA. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29: 1275-1279.

Weng C., M.B. Bush, J.H. Curtis, A.L. Kolata, T.D. Dillehay, and M. Binford. 2006. Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Research: 66, 87-96.

Brenner, M. D.A. Hodell, J. H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney, B. Gu, and B.W. Leyden, 2006. Mechanisms for organic matter and phosphorus burial in sediments of a shallow, subtropical, macrophyte-dominated lake. Journal of Paleolimnology, 35: 129-148.

Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, and M. Pagani. 2005. Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29: 725-731.

Riedinger-Whitmore, M.A., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, A. Moore, J.M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 2005. Cyanobacterial proliferation is a recent response to eutrophication in many Florida lakes: a paleolimnological assessment. Lake and Reservoir Management, 21. 423-435.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2005. Terminal Classic drought in the northern Maya Lowlands inferred from multiple sediment cores in Lake Chichancanab (Mexico). Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 1413-1427.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, R. Medina-Gonzalez, M.F. Rosenmeier, T.P. Guilderson, E.I. Chan-Can, and A. Albornaz-Pat. 2005. Climate change on the Yucatan Peninsula during the Little Ice Age. Quaternary Research 63:109-121.

Hillesheim, M.B., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, D.G. Buck, T.P. Guilderson, M.F. Rosenmeier, and D.W. Schnurrenberger, 2005. Lowland neotropical climate change during the late deglacial and early Holocene. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20(4): 363-376.

Sierro, F.J., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.A. Flores, I. Reguera, E. Colmenero-Hidalgo, M.A. Barcena, J. Grimalt, and M. Canals. 2005. Impact of iceberg melting during Heinrich events on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation. Paleoceanography, Paleoceanography, 20:2, PA2019, 10.1029/2004PA001051.

Martrat, B., J.O. Grimalt, C. Lopez-Martinez, I. Cacho, F.J. Sierro, J.A. Flores, R. Zahn, M. Canals, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2004. Abrupt temperature changes in the Western Mediterranean over the last 250,000 years. Science, 306: 1762-1765.

Channell, J.E.T., J.H. Curtis, and B.P. Flower. 2004. The Matuyama-Brunhes boundary interval (500-900 ka) in North Atlantic drift sediments. Geophysical Journal International, 158: 489-505.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2003. Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. Pp. 45-76, In A. Gomez-Pompa and S. Fedick (eds.), Lowland Maya Area, Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. Haworth Press.

Hodell, D.A., C.D. Charles, J.H. Curtis, P.G. Mortyn., U.S. Ninnemann, and K.A. Venz. 2003. Data report: Oxygen isotope stratigraphy of ODP Leg 177 Sites 1088, 1090, 1093, and 1094, In: Gersonde, R., Hodell, D.A., and Blum, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ODP, Scientific Results, Volume 177.

Kravchenko, I.I., R.F. Kelly, F.E. Dunnam, H.A. Van Rinsvelt, J.H. Curtis, and P.E. De Oliveira. 2003. PIXE studies of a sediment core from Lake Maicuru, Para, Brazil. Pp. 419-423, AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 680, Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry.

Brenner, M., D. A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. F. Rosenmeier, F. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2002. Limnología y paleolimnología de Petén, Guatemala. Revista, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 12: 2-9.

Brenner, M., M.F. Rosenmeier, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2002. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands: long-term perspectives on interactions among, climate, environment, and humans. Ancient Mesoamerica, 13: 141-157.

Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2002. Paleoclima de la región Maya: síntesis del conocimiento basado en registros paleolimnológicos. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 10: 248-261. Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. Influence of vegetation change on watershed hydrology: implications for paleoclimatic interpretation of lacustrine d18O records. Journal of Paleolimnology, 27: 117-131.

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. A 4000 year record of climate change and human disturbance from the southern Maya lowlands, Peten, Guatemala. Quaternary Research, 57: 183-190.

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene-to-Present) and implications for regional biogeography. Pp. 35-54, In C.A. Woods and F.E. Sergile, Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, 2nd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, M.E. Sierro, and M.E. Raymo. 2001. Correlation of Late Miocene-to-Early Pliocene sequences between the Mediterranean and north Atlantic. Paleoceanography 16: 164-178.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T. Guilderson. 2001. Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands. Science, 292: 1367-1370.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Rosenmeier, M.W. Binford, and M.B. Abbott. 2001. Abrupt climate change and precolumbian cultural collapse. In: Interhemispheric Climate Linkages, V. Markraf, editor. Academic Press. 87-103.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, Song X., Long R., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Sediment Records from Qilu Hu and Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China: Late Pleistocene to Present. In: Lake Basins Through Space and Time. AAPG Studies in Geology 46. E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts, editors. 619-624.

Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, R.M. Medina-Gonzalez, and B.H. Dahlin. 2000. Un registro de 8,000 años del paleoclima del noroeste de Yucatan, Mexico. Revista de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, 213: 52-65.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Climate change in the northern American tropics and subtropics since the last Ice Age: Implications for environment and culture. In: Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, D.L. Lentz, editor. Columbia University Press, N.Y. 13-38.

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 1999. Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12,600 yr BP to present. The Holocene, 9: 609-619.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Stable isotopes (13C & 15N) of sedimented organic matter as indicators of historic lake trophic state. Journal of Paleolimnology, 22: 205-221.

Higuera-Gundy, A., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1999. A 10,300 14C-year record of climate and vegetation change in Haiti. Quaternary Research., 52: 159-170.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, S.L. Kanfoush, J.H. Curtis, J.S. Stoner, Song X., Wu Y., and T.J. Whitmore. 1999. Paleoclimate of southwestern China for the past 50,000 yr inferred from lake sediments. Quaternary Research, 52: 369-380.

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, R.A. Balser, G.A. Islebe, and H. Hooghiemstra. 1998. A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya lowlands of Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Paleolimnology, 19: 139-159.

Binford, M.W., A.L. Kolata, M. Brenner, J. Janusek, M.T. Seddon, M. Abbott, and J.H. Curtis. 1997. Climate variation and the rise and fall of an Andean civilization. Quaternary Research, 47: 235-248.

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, Jiang Z., J.H. Curtis, A.M. Moore, D.R. Engstrom, and Wu Y. 1997. Water quality and sediment geochemistry in lakes of Yunnan Province, southern China. Environmental Geology, 32: 45-55.

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, and M. Brenner. 1996. Climate variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the last 3500 years, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Quaternary Research. 46: 37-47.

Islebe, G.A., H. Hooghiemstra, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 1996. A Holocene vegetation history of lowland Guatemala. The Holocene 6: 265-271.

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.R. Piperno, and B.H. Dahlin. 1996. A record of long- and short-term climate variation from Northwest Yucatan: Cenote San Jose Chulchaca. In: The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. S.L. Fedick, editor. University of Utah Press. 30-50.

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.H. Dahlin, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: an interdisciplinary palaeolimnological approach. The Holocene 6: 273-287.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical ecology of a hypereutrophic Florida lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 11: 255-271.

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 1995. Possible role of climate on the collapse of Classic Maya Civilization. Nature, 375: 391-394.

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1994. Orbital and internal forcing of climate on the Yucatan Peninsula for the past ca. 36 ka. Palaeo, Palaeo, Palaeo, 109: 193-210.

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, A. Higuera-Gundy, D.A. Hodell, G.A. Jones, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1993. Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Volume I: 377-380.

Curtis, J.H. and D.A. Hodell. 1993. An isotopic and trace element study of ostracods from Lake Miragoane, Haiti: a 10,500 year record of paleosalinity and paleotemperature changes in the Caribbean. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records. Geophysical Monograph 78. AGU. 135-152.

Leyden B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1993. Late Pleistocene climate in the Central American lowlands. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records. Geophysical Monograph 78. AGU. 165-178.

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, G.A. Jones, A. Higuera-Gundy, M. Brenner, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1991. Caribbean climate change from 10,500 radiocarbon yrs BP to present: Evidence from a high-resolution lacustrine 18O record. Nature, 352: 790-793.

Reports

Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, and J.H. Curtis. 2010. Recent Sediment Accumulation in Padgett Creek, Middle St. Johns River Basin. Financial Project ID No. 241084-2-32-07241084-2-62-07 for the Florida Department of Transportation, Deland, Florida 32724. 20 p. + tables, figures, & appendices.

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, T.J. Whitmore, A. Zimmerman, W.F. Kenney, and M. Riedinger-Whitmore. 2009. Sediment accumulation rate and past water quality in Lochloosa Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 57 p. + tables, figures, & appendix.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, A. Zimmerman, and W. Kenney. 2009. Sediment Accumulation Rate and Past Water Quality in Lochloosa Lake. Final report to St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 278 p.

Brenner, M., J.H Curtis, W.F. Kenney, and T.J. Whitmore. 2004. Sedimentation in Davis Lake (Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes). Final report to the Citrus County Aquatics Services, Lecanto, FL., and Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 73pp.

Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2004. Effects of Groundwater Agumentation on 226-Ra Activity in Surface Sediments and Biota of Florida Lakes. Final report to Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 44pp.

Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2004. Effect of groundwater augmentation on 226Ra activity in surface sediments and biota of Florida lakes. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 44 p.

Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, B. Shumate, and B. DeArmond. 2003. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final report to St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 78 p.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H Curtis, and W.F. Kenney. 2002. Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. Final Report for South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL. 42 p.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2002. Lake Hancock: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Past Trophic State Conditions. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 31 p. + tables, figures and appendices.

Abstracts Presented and Invited Seminars

Obrist-Farner, J., J.H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney and E. Hernandez. Recent Eutrophication and Heavy Metal Contamination in Lake Izabal, Guatemala: Preliminary Study of a Short Sediment Core

Obrist-Farner, J., A. Eckert, E. Lodolo, N. Wattrus, Jason Curtis, and R. Bartole. Stratigraphic Architecture and Structural and Sedimentological Evolution of an Asymmetric Pull-Apart Basin, Lake Izabal, Guatemala. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 6 doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM¬320604

Hernandez, E., J. Obrist-Farner, and J.H. Curtis. Inferred Environmental Changes from Geochemical and Isotopic Analysis: Preliminary Study of a Sediment Core from Lake Izabal, Guatemala. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 50, No. 4 doi: 10.1130/abs/2018NC¬313278

Lauterman, F.M., T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, N. Rose, H. Yang, J.H. Curtis, C. Leonard, D. Franklin, Z.L. Rivera-Reed, D. E. Evans, and K. Alvarado. Paleolimnological assessment of Lakes on the Kissimmee Chain, South Florida USA. North American Lake Management Society Symposium, October 30-November 2, 2018, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Bernhard, J.M, V. Le Roux, J.B. Martin, J.H. Curtis, and G. Panieri. Fake news? Benthic foraminifera record gas hydrate methane emissions. Forams 2018. June 17-22, 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Scholz, S.R., S.V. Petersen, J. Escobar, C. Jaramillo, A. Hendy, W.D. Allmon, F. Moreno, J.H. Curtis, B.M. Anderson, N. Hoyos, J.C. Restrepo, and N. Perez. Isotope schlerochronology and tropical seasonality during the Mid Miocene Climatic Optimum. Goldschmidt 2018 Goldschmidt Abstracts, 2018 2273.

Summerfield, C., E. Screaton, M. Brenner, J.M. Jaeger, J.H. Curtis and W. Kenney. Role of Lakebed Sediments in Lake-Groundwater Exchange in Lake Lochloosa, Central Florida. American Geophysical Union Annual meeting Washington D.C. Dec 10-14, 2018.

Rubio, K., L. Pérez, A. Correa, L. Pérez, F. Franco, F. Charqueño, M. Brenner, M. Blaauw, W. Kenney, F. Romero, A. Vázquez, A. Schwalb, C. Mayr, P. Hoelzmann, and J. Curtis. Late Holocene environmental history of karst Lakes Nahá and Metzabok, Lacandon Forest, Chiapas, Mexico. Presented at the joint International Paleolimnological Association (IPA) – International Limnogeology Association (IAL) Symposium in Stockholm, Sweden, 18-21 June 2018.

Shields, M.R., T.S. Bianchi, A. Kolker, W. Kenney, D.C. Mohrig, T. Osborne, and J.H. Curtis. Factors controlling storage, sources, and diagenetic state of organic carbon in a prograding subaerial delta: Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana. AGU Annual meeting Washington D.C. Dec 10-14, 2018.

Serna, Y., J.H. Escobar, J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, M.I. Velez, J.P. Smol, C. Grooms, J. Beltran, J.A. Jaramillo, and J.O. Rangel. Geochemical, Pollen, and Diatom­Based Reconstruction of Holocene Environmental Conditions in Colombian Coastal Lagoons, Annual meeting 2016, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7. doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-281892, Denver, Colorado, Sept 27, 2016.

Escobar, J.H., A.J.W. Hendy, C. Jaramillo, J.H. Curtis, F. Moreno, and W.D. Allmon. Isotope Sclerochronology of Miocene Molluscs from the Guajira Peninsula, Colombia. Annual meeting 2016, Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 48, No. 7. doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-281892, Denver, Colorado, Sept 27, 2016.

Cohuo, S., L. Macario-González, L. Pérez, F. Sylvestre, C. Pailles, J. Curtis, S. Kutterolf, M. Wojewódka, K. Szeroczyńska, E. Zawisza, A. Schwalb. Ultrastructure and aquatic community response to Heinrich Stadials (HS5a-HS1) in the continental northern Neotropics. Abstract to be presented at the 2017 Annual ICDP/IODP meeting, March 2017.

Macario, L., S. Cohuo, F. Anselmetti, D. Schmid, L. Pérez, S. Kutterolf, J. Curtis, A. Schwalb. Environmental history of the last 400,000 years in the northern Neotropical region based on Lake Petén Itzá sediments. Abstract to be presented at the 2017 Annual ICDP/IODP meeting, March 2017.

Cohuo. S., L. Macario, F. Sylvestre, C. Pailles, S. Kutterolf, L. Pérez, J. Curtis, and A. Schwalb. Reconstructing the climatic ultrastructure and aquatic biotic communities response to Heinrich stadials in the continental northern Neotropics. Abstract presented at the 2016 Annual AGU meeting, Vienna, Austria. Geophysical Research Abstracts
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Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, T.J. Whitmore, M. Riedinger-Whitmore, M. Waters, G. Kamenov, J. Curtis, J. Escobar. Recent human impacts on shallow lakes in Florida (USA): a paleolimnological perspective. Abstract presented at the IX International Shallow Lakes Conference, Merida (Mexico). February 19-24, 2017.

Echeverría-Galindo, P.G., F. Charqueño, L. Pérez, S. Lozano, A. Correa-Metrio, I. Sigala, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, S. Cohuo, L. Macario, and A. Schwalb. 2016. Paleoenvironmental reconstruction from karst lake in the northern Neotropics inferred from multiple aquatic bioindicators. Poster presented at the XXXIII International Society of Limnology (SIL) Congress in Torino, Italy, 13 July-5 August 2016.

Echeverría-Galindo, P.G., L. Pérez, S. Lozano, A. Correa-Metrio, I. Sigala, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, S. Cohuo, L. Macario, A. Schwalb. Reconstrucción Paleoambiental del Lago Kárstico Petén Itzá nn el Norte de Los Neotrópicos Inferido a Partir de Múltiples Bioindicadores Acuáticos. Abstract presented at Reunión Anual de la Unión Geofísica Mexicana, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, October 30 –November 4, 2016.

Arnold, T., A. Diefendorf, M. Brenner, K. Freeman, and J.H. Curtis. 2015 AGU Fall Meeting. Carbon and hydrogen isotope composition of plant biomarkers from lake sediments as proxies for precipitation changes across Heinrich Events in the subtropics

Lohse, J.C., V.C. Smith, J. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 2014. A record of late Holocene volcanic activity from highland Guatemala. Presented at the 79th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, 23-27 April 2014. (invited)

Velez M.I., J. Escobar, M. Brenner, O. Rangel, A. Betancourt, J.A. Jaramillo, J.H. Curtis and J.L. Moreno. Middle to late Holocene relative sea level rise, climate variability and environmental change along the Colombian Caribbean. Presented at LOTRED-SA 3rd symposium: Climate change and human impact in Central and South America over the last 2000 years: Observations and models, Medellin, Colombia, 9-12 July 2014. (invited)

Kenney, W.F., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.G. Buck and M. Brenner. 2014. Using sediment core data to establish lake management targets for phosphorus loading. Presented at the Florida Lake Management Society’s 25th Annual Technical Symposium, Stuart, Florida, 16-19 June 2014. (invited)

Sickman J.O., A.M. Heard, N.L. Rose, D.M. Bennett, D.M. Lucero, J.M. Melack and J.H. Curtis. Changes in High Elevation Lake Ecosystems of the Sierra Nevada during the 20th Century: Combining Long-term Monitoring with Paleolimnology, Presented at Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2014.

Velez Caicedo, M., J. Escobar, A. Correa-Metrio and J. St-Jacques, J. Curtis, A Millennial Length High-Resolution Pollen, Charcoal, Diatom and Stable Isotope Record from Laguna San Carlos, Panama, Presented at Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, December 15-19, 2014.

Macario, L., S. Cohuo, L. Pérez, S. Kutterolf, J. Curtis, A. Schwalb. First evidence of neotropical glacial/interglacial (220-85 ka BP) climate change based on freshwater ostracodes and geochemical indicators from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, presented at ICDP/IODP Kolloquium in Bonn, March 2-4, 2015.

Siegel, P.E., J.G. Jones, D.M. Pearsall, N.P. Dunning, P. Farrell, N.A. Duncan, J.H. Curtis, and S.K. Singh, 2014, Paleoecological Evidence for Early Human Colonization of the Pre-Columbian Caribbean. Paper presented in the session “World Ethnobiology: Papers in Honor of Deborah M. Pearsall,” organized by Peter E. Siegel. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin. Apr 23-27, 2014.

Shields, M., T.S. Bianchi, R. Twilley, and J. Curtis. 2014. Characterization and stabilization of organic carbon in sediments and soils of a young prograding delta: The Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana. Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium, Atlanta. (poster).

Cui, X., T.S. Bianchi, C. Savage, and J. Curtis. 2014. Comparisons of lipids with other proxies in tracing terrestrial organic matter in sediments: a case study in Fiordland, New Zealand. Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium, Atlanta. (poster).

Zhang, X., T.S. Bianchi, M. Allison. And J. Curtis 2014. Historical reconstruction of organic carbon inputs to sediments in the Colville River Delta, Alaska: The application of biomarker proxies. Annual Southeastern Biogeochemistry Symposium, Atlanta. (poster).

Douglas P., M. Pagani, T. Eglinton, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, D. Hodell and A. Breckenridge. 2013. A large reduction in the residence time of plant waxes in tropical forest soils due to ancient Maya land use. Presented at the Goldschmidt Conference, Florence, Italy, 25-30 August 2013.

Mays, J.L., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, K. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, 7, A.L. Dutton, A.R. Zimmerman, and T.P. Guilderson. 2013. Bulk and compound-specific isotope analysis of long-chain n-alkanes from a 85,000 year sediment core from Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 9-13 December 2013.

Morgan, M., J.C. Lohse, K. Cardona, C. Frederick, M. Brenner and J.H. Curtis. Resultados Preliminares de la Temporada 2011-2012 del Proyecto de Reconocimiento de Sitios Tempranos en la Ladera Occidental de Guatemala. Presented at Simposio Plática 2013, Guatemala, July 22, 2013

M.I. Velez, H. Hooghiemstra, J. Escobar, L. Urrego, O. Rangel, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and C. Jaramillo. Holocene climatic moisture variability from lake-level records in the Central to South American transition zone. Presented at CANQUA (Canadian Quaternary Association Meeting), Edmonton, Canada 1ug 18-22, 2013.

Kamenov, G.D., Kimmerle, E.H., Curtis, J.H., and Norris, D., 2012, Geo-referencing a cold case victim with radiogenic and stable isotopes: Little Miss Panasoffkee case study. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v.44, p.192.

Escobar Jaramillo, J.H., M.I. Velez, J. H. Curtis, M. Brenner, and M. Popenoe de Hatch. Environmental and cultural changes in highland Guatemala inferred from Lake Amatitlan sediments. 2011. XIV Congreso Latinoamericano de Geología, XIII Congreso Colombiano de Geología. Medellín, Colombia, 29 August-2 September 2011. Memorias p. 431.

Douglas, P., M. Pagani, T. Eglinton, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, and D. Hodell. 2011. The process of leaf-wax transport to tropical lake sediments and its significance for inferring past changes in climate and carbon cycling. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-9588-3. Presented at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 03 – 08 April 2011.

Besonen, M. Rosenmeier, M.R., Curtis, J.H., and Weiss, H., Increasing Evidence for a Pronounced, Mid-1st Millennium A.D. Desiccation Event in the Eastern Mediterranean. AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes and Civilizations. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 21-25 March 2011.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, A.D. Mueller, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J. Escobar, A. Gilli, D. Grzesik, and T.P. Guilderson. 2010. Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of the Maya Lowlands. Presented at the 75th Anniversary Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri, 14-18 April 2010. (invited).

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, A.D. Mueller, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J. Escobar, A. Gilli, D. Grzesik, and T.P. Guilderson. 2010. Paleoclima y paleoambiente de las tierras bajas Mayas. Presented at the international congress on “Culturas Americanas y su ambiente: perspectivas desde la zooarqueología, paleobotánica, y etnobiología, Mérida, Yucatán, México, 1-5 November 2010. (In Spanish).

Douglas, P., M. Pagani, T. Eglinton, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2010 Differences between ages of lipids and sediment in tropical lake cores and implications for lipid stable isotope paleoenvironmental proxies. Presented at the Gordon Conference on Organic Geochemistry, Holderness, NH, 1-6 Aug 2010.

David Hodell, D., Turchyn, S., Escobar, J., Curtis, J., Brenner, M. Gilli, A., Bush, M. 2010. Glacial Tropical Temperature Depression in Central America and the Caribbean Revisited. Presented at International Conference on Paleoceanography X, San Diego, Aug 29 – Sept 3, 2010.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M. Riedinger-Whitmore, W.F. Kenney, and J.H. Curtis. 2009. Using Florida lake sediments to infer past water quality and evaluate prospects for lake restoration. Presented at the Lakes Education/Action Drive (LEAD) meeting in Lakeland, Florida, 13 October 2009. (invited).

Gentry, C.L., J.H. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 2009. Does the amount effect exert primary control on δ18O of speleothems from low-latitude caves? Eos Trans., AGU 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP41B-1519.

Douglas, P., M. Pagani, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2009. Compound-specific δD values across a tropical precipitation gradient: implications for low-latitude paleoclimate reconstructions. Eos Trans., AGU 90(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13B-1399.

Day, M.B., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, G.D. Kamenov, T.P. Guilderson, L.C. Peterson, and A.L. Kolata. 2009. Inception of the annual flood pulse in Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia between 5,000 and 3,000 Yr BP. Presented at the 11th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Guadalajara, Mexico, 14-18 December 2009.

Combined stable isotopic and cellular ultrastructural studies of individual foraminifera to assess hydrocarbon-seep foraminiferal disequilibrium with pore water DIC. Bernhard, J.M., J.B. Martin, J. Curtis, A.E. Rathburn. Abstract presented Ocean Sciences Meeting, 2010, Portland, OR.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and E. Endsley. 2008. Cenotes and caves of the Maya region: natural archives of paleoenvironmental information. Presented at the Tulane University Maya Symposium on “Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Rituals, Beliefs, and Everyday Activities Related to Caves and Cenotes Among the Maya.” Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 15-17 February 2008.

Hodell, D, Channell, J, Curtis, J, Romero, O, Romero, O, and Roehl, U., 2007, Millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic beyond the last glacial cycle inferred from IODP Site U1308 (re-occupation of DSDP Site 609). Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP44B-04.

Hodell, D, Anselmetti, F, Ariztegui, D, Brenner, M, Curtis, J, Escobar, J, Gilli, A, Grzesik, D, Guilderson, T, and Mueller, A., 2007, An 85-ka Record of Climate Change in Lowland Central America. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U22B-05.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2007. Holocene climate change in Florida. Presented at the USF/FAU Climate Change Conference, Tampa, Florida, 8-11 May 2007.

Mays, J.L., Brenner, M., Bush, M.B., Correa, A., Curtis, J.H., and Hodell, D.A. (2007), Bulk and Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis of Long-Chain, n-alkanes From a 85-kyr Core From Lake Peten Itza, Guatemala. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP43B-1269

Sierro, F J, Andersen, N, Bassetti, M A, Berne, S, Canals, M, Curtis, J H, Dennielou, B, Flores, J A, Frigola, J, Gonzalez-Mora, B, Grimalt, J O, Hodell, D A, Jouet, G, Perez-Folgado, M, and Schneider, R, 2007, Millennial Climate Oscillations and Global sea Level Changes. Evidence of Rapid Flooding Events in the Western Mediterranean Continental Margin. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP53B-04

Endsley, E A, Gallup, C D, Hodell, D A, Curtis, J H, Brenner, M, Gentry, C L, Edwards, R L, Cheng, H., 2007, Late Holocene Droughts Recorded in Speleothems From the Maya Lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-08

Gamble, V C, Gallup, C, D, Hodell, D, Anselmetti, F, Brenner, M, Ariztegui, D., 2007, Preliminary U-Th Dating of Endogenic Gypsum From Lake Petén-Itzá, Guatemala, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-03

Hodell, D A, Brown, E T, Anselmetti, F, Ariztegui, D, Brenner, M, Curtis, J H, Gilli, A, Grzesik, D, Mueller, A D., 2007, Climate Change during the Last Deglaciation in the lowlands of Central America, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-04

Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. and PISDP scientific party. 2007. An ~85-kyr climate record from the lowland Neotropics (Guatemala): The Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2007.

Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A., 2007, ~85-kyr of climate history from the lowland Neotropics unraveled by the Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the 4th International Limnogeology Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2007.

Grudem, E.K., Hodell, D.A., and Curtis, J.H. 2006. Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy of the Last Interglacial Period at North Atlantic Site U1304 (IODP Expedition 303), Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP23C-1776.

Gentry, C.L., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, C. Gallup, and E. Endsley. 2006. Speleothem paleoclimatology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation in Yucatan, Mexico. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU,87(52), December 2006. Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP53A-08.

Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, A. Gilli, A. Mueller, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2006. Paleoclimate of northern Guatemala during the Last Glacial Cycle. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December 2006. Eos Trans. AGU,87(52). Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP22A-02.

McKenzie, J. & Ploetze, M. 2007. Reconstruction of Late Quaternary environmental changes in the neotropics: first results from the Lake Petén Itzá Drilling Project (Guatemala). Presented at the Annual SwissSed Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, 27 January 2007.

Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. and PISDP scientific party. 2007. An ~85-kyr climate record from the lowland Neotropics (Guatemala): The Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2007.

Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. , 2007, ~85-kyr of climate history from the lowland Neotropics unraveled by the Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the 4th International Limnogeology Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2007.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2007. Overview of the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the “Mexico Climate Change Workshop,” Merida, Mexico, 8-10 January 2007.

Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2006. Preliminary results of the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project (PISDP). Presented at the 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, MN, 25-29 June, 2006. Abstracts:80.

Ariztegui, D., Anselmetti, F. S., Hodell, D. A., Brenner, M. & the Scientific Drilling Party. 2006. Reconstructing Late Quaternary environmental change in the lowland Neotropic – The Lake Petén-Itza Drilling Project (January-March 2006). Terra Nostra. Presented at the ICDP PASADO Workshop, Rio Gallegos, Argentina, 15-19 March 2006. p. 54.

Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, W.M. Last, and D.A. Hodell. 2006. A 2300-year record of Holocene climate variability from Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, MN, 25-29 June, 2006. Abstracts:10.

Martrat, B., Grimalt, J.O., Sierro, F., Flores, J., Frigola, J., Canals, M., Curtis, J.H., and Hodell, D.A. 2006. The Iberian Margin over the past 115,500 Years: Subtropical versus Polar Latitudes, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13A-1578.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, and B.W. Leyden. 2005. Cambios climáticos en la región del Caribe durante los ~36,000 años pasados: implicaciones para la distribución de humedales y fauna acuática. Presented at the V Simposio Internacional de Humedales, Cienaga de Zapata, Matanzas, Cuba, 6-10 October, 2005. Invited (Spanish).

Riedinger-Whitmore, M. T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, C.L. Schelske, J.M. Smoak, and J.H. Curtis. Threshold responses of cyanobacteria to eutrophication: paleolimnological evidence of alternative stable states in Florida lakes. Presented at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-25 February, 2005.

Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. A late Holocene record of climate variability from hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-25 February, 2005.

Anselmetti, F. S., D.A. Hodell, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, G. Haug, M. B. Hillesheim, and J.A. McKenzie. 2004. The Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) drilling project: tracking late Quaternary environmental change in the lowland Neotropics. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).

Hillesheim, M.B., D.A. Hodell, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and B.W. Leyden. 2004. Lowland Neotropical climate change during the late deglacial and early Holocene. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. A comparison of speleothem and lake sediment core 18O records from north-central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).

Anselmetti, F. S., D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, T. Guilderson, D.A. Hodell, and M.F. Rosenmeier. 2004. Enhanced soil erosion rates in the southern Maya Lowlands: the Lago Salpeten record, Guatemala. Presented at the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.

Hodell, D.A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J. Hall, G. Haug, M.B. Hillesheim, and J.A. McKenzie. 2004. The Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) drilling project: tracking environmental change in the Neotropics over multiple glacial-interglacial cycles. Presented at the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.

Buck, D., Brenner, M., Hodell, D.A., Curtis, J.H., Martin, J.B., and Pagani, M. 2004. Chemical and physical characteristics of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the 29th Congress of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), August 8-14, 2004, Lahti, Finland.

DeArmond, B.S., Brenner, M., Kenney, W.F., Leeper, D.A., Smoak, J.M., Curtis, J.H., and Buck, D. 2004. Radium-226 accumulation in a groundwater-augmented lake near Tampa Fl, USA. Presented at the 29th Congress of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), August 8-14, 2004, Lahti, Finland.

Curtis, J.H. 2004. Lake Peten Itza (Guatemala) Drilling Project. Presented at the ICDP-Bosumtwi Training Course, Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, September 13-17, 2004.

Curtis, J.H. 2003. Holocene history of the Peten Region from sediment core studies from Lake Peten-Itza, Peten, Guatemala. Presented at the Workshop for Scientific Drilling in Lake Peten-Itza. Flores, Department of Peten, Guatemala, August 10-16, 2003.

Curtis, J.H., Brenner, M. Hodell, D.A., Leyden, B.W., and de Hatch, M.P. 2003. Lake Amatitlan: a high-resolution archive of late Holocene environmental conditions in the Guatemalan highlands. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003

Hillesheim, M.B., Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Schnurrenberger, D.W., Anselmetti, F.S., and Ariztegui, D. 2003. Sediment cores from Lago Peten-Itza, Guatemala: a site survey for GLAD800 drilling. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003

Rosenmeier, M.F. Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Martin, J.B. and Guilderson, T.P. 2003. Climate and hydrology of Lake Salpeten, Guatemala Inferred from an isotopic model. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and M.W. Binford. Little Ice Age recorded in sediments from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. EOS, AGU, Program and Abstracts. 118. Fall 1993.

Curtis, J.H. and D.A. Hodell. An isotopic and trace element study of ostracodes from Lake Miragoane, Haiti: A 10.3 kyr record of paleosalinity and paleotemperature changes in the Caribbean. EOS, AGU, Program and Abstracts. 154. Spring 1992.

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, G.A Jones, and M. Brenner. Caribbean climate change from 10.9 kyr BP to present from a high resolution 18O record from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Abstract from AGU CIIC Chapman Conference, 1991.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T.P. Guilderson. Drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting. 2000.

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P Guilderson. A 3500 Year Record of Climate Change and Human Disturbance from the Southern Maya Lowlands. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting. 2000.

Anselmetti, F.S., D. Ariztegui, J.A. McKenzie, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and M.F. Rosenmeier. 1999. High-resolution seismic survey of the Petén Lake District, northern Guatemala: implications for human disturbance and Maya cultural evolution. Presented at the Commission of Oceanography and Limnology (COL/KOL) Annual Symposium, “Looking into the Sediment Subsurface of Lakes,” Switzerland, 7-8 October. 1999.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, and M.B. Abbott. Environmental determinism revisited: Climatic limits on cultural development. Presented at the Pole-Equator-Pole conference on paleoclimates of the Americas, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 1999. Limnología en El Petén: problemas y perspectivas. Presented (in Spanish) at the conference “Nuevas Perspectivas de Desarrollo Sostenible en Peten,” organized by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Guatemala, and the Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP), Flores, Guatemala, 2-4 December, 1999.

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Late Holocene climatic variability in Central America: Evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Presented at the Pole-Equator-Pole conference on paleoclimates of the Americas, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, M.B. Abbott, R. Sanchez, P. Sheets, D. Liverman, and L. Nuñez. Human dimensions of global change in the Americas: a synthesis of PEP 1 presentations. Poster presented at the 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting, London, England, 20-23 April, 1998. (invited). 1998.

Rosenmeier, M.F., J.B. Martin, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Controls of chemical and isotopic composition of lake water, Peten, Guatemala and implications for Holocene climatic variability in Central America. Abstracts with Programs, 1998 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 30 (7), p. 309. 1998.

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Early to middle Holocene climatic variability in Central America: evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 79 (45), p. 476. 1998

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. The stable isotope signature of sedimented organic matter as an indicator of historical trophic state conditions. Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Palaeolimnology, 28 Aug-2 Sept, 1997, Riedlingen, Germany. 1997.

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and B.H. Dahlin. 1994. Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of Yucatan Peninsula. Presented at the 13th International Diatom Symposium, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 1-7 September, 1994.

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and M.W. Binford. 1993. A high-resolution paleoclimate record from Lago Huiñaimarca (Lago Titicaca Menor), Bolivia. Presented at the VIth International Palaeolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 19-21, 1993.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2000. Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. Presented at the 65th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA, 5-9 April, 2000. (invited).

Riedinger, M., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and A.M. Moore. 2000. Sedimented algal pigment profiles from Florida lakes: algal community responses to eutrophication. Presented at the 20th Meeting of the North American Lakes Management Society, Miami, FL, 8-10 November, 2000.

Hodell, D.A., M. Rosenmeier, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J. McKenzie, and T. Guilderson. 2001. Human-climate-environment interactions in the Maya lowlands. 21st Symposium in Plant Biology: Lowland Maya Area, Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. University of California, Riverside, 18-20 January, 2001. (invited).

Grants and Contracts

Obrist-Farner, J., A. Eckert, P. Douglas, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, C. Burberry, L. Perez, C. Jaramillo, I. Domaizon, A. Correa-Metrio, N. Wattrus, P. Mann, S. Gao, F. Oboh-Ikuenobe, T. Bhattacharya, S. Zimmerman, E. Lodolo. LIBRE – Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor. International Continental Drilling Program, $52,000. Submitted to fund workshop.

Brenner, M. and J.H. Curtis. Validation of fat threeridge mussel ages through stable oxygen isotope analysis. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. $10,000. 2010.

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, and W.F. Kenney. Sediment distribution in the DeBary Bayou, Middle St. Johns River Basin. Florida Department of Transportation. $13,000. 2009.

Krigbaum, J., J. Bloch, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, D. Jones, B.MacFadden, and R. Secord. Development of an In Situ Laser System for Isotope Microsampling of Archaeological,Paleontological and Geological Materials. UF Research Opportunity Incentive Seed Fund. $86,643. 2008-2009.

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and A. Zimmerman. Sediment Accumulation Rate and Past Water Quality in Lochloosa Lake, St. Johns River Water Management District, $200,000. 2006-2008.

Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., and Curtis, J.H.. Speleothem Paleoclimatology of the Maya Lowlands. National Geographic Society. $26,414. 2006-2007.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H., Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. Collaborative Research: Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Project, Guatemala: a Terrestrial Archive of Northern Neotropical Climate and Environmental Change for the Last Climate Cycle. National Science Foundation – Earth System History. $298,904. 2005-2007.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H., Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. Collaborative Research: Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Project, Guatemala: a Terrestrial Archive of Northern Neotropical Climate and Environmental Change for the Last Climate Cycle. National Science Foundation – Earth System History. $650,000. Funding went directly from NSF to Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC). 2005-2007.

Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Gallup, C.D. Speleothem paleoclimate records from the Yucatan Peninsula. Declined by National Science Foundation. $328,086. 2005-2007.

Hodell, D.A., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Hall, J., Haug, G., and McKenzie, J. Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) Drilling Project. International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), Potsdam, Germany. $500,000. Funding went directly from ICDP to Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC). 2004-2006.

Brenner, M., and J.H. Curtis. Sedimentation in Davis Lake (Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes), Citrus County Aquatic Services, $40,500. 2003-2004.

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL. $65,875. 2001-2002.

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. Lake Hancock: A multi-proxy reconstruction of past trophic state conditions. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. $56,000. 2001-2002.

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and J. Jaeger. Ecology and paleoecology of groundwater-augmented Florida lakes. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. $161,875. 2001-2004.

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Collaborative research: climate change in the lowland neotropics during the last glacial-to-interglacial cycle: a site survey proposal for GLAD800 drilling. National Science Foundation. $140,551. 2001-2003.

Brenner, M., and J.H. Curtis. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in Lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. $49,000. 2001-2003.

Brenner, M. and J.H. Curtis. (not funded). Characterization of Sediments from Fox Lake, Brevard County, Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Eustis, FL. $19,832.

Field Experience
2019 Guatemala, Lake coring
2018 Colombia, Lake coring
2018 Guatemala, Lake sediment sampling
2018 Madagascar, Lake coring
2018 Mexico, Lake coring
2017 Mexico, Lake coring
2017 Colombia, Lake coring
2016 Mexico, Lake coring
2016 Florida, Lake coring
2016 Colombia, Lake coring
2015 Florida, Lake coring
2014 Florida, Lake coring
2013 Mexico, Lake coring
2013 Florida, Lake coring
2012 Guatemala, Lake coring
2012 Florida, Lake coring
2011 Florida, Lake coring
2010 Florida, Lake coring
2009 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2008 California, Sierra Nevadas, Lake coring
2008 Guatemala, Lake coring and surface sediment collection
2008 Grenada, Lake coring
2008 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2007 Caribbean (Trinidad, Barbados, Marie Galante, St. Croix), lake coring and reconnaissance for future lake coring
2007 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2006 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2006 Mexico, collected cave speleological material
2006 Guatemala, GLAD800 drilling Lake Peten Itza
2005 Greece, Lake coring
2005 Brazil, Lake coring
2005 Mexico (Yucatan), collected cave speleological material
2005 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2004 Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, Familiarization of the GLAD800 lake drilling rig
2004 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring, water chemistry and collection, bathometric survey of Lake Chichancanab, collected cave speleological material
2003 Cambodia, Coring Lake Tonle Sap and the main artificial reservoir at Angor Wat
2003 Haiti, Reconnaissance for future lake coring of Etang Sumatre
2003 Dominican Republic, Lake, river, and spring sampling, sediment sampling
2002 Florida, Lake Coring (Davis Lake)
2002 Greece (Crete), Lake coring
2002 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
2002 Everglades, Florida, Lake coring
2001 Greece (Crete), Lake coring
2001 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
2001 Dominican Republic, Lake coring
2000 Peru, Lake coring
2000 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
2000 Guatemala (Highlands), Lake coring
1999 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring and seismic survey
1998 Brazil (Para), Lake coring
1998 Brazil (Para), Reconnaissance for future lake coring
1998 Panama, Lake coring
1998 Florida, Lake coring
1997 Brazil (Parana, Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rondonia, Rio Grande do Norte), Lake coring, lake survey
1997 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
1997 Panama, Lake coring
1996 Southern Ocean, ODP site survey cruise, TN057, Piston coring
1995 Lower Great Lakes, Box coring
1995 Panama (Darien), Lake coring
1994 China (Yunnan), Lake coring and lake survey
1994 Venezuela, Coring Lake Valencia
1994 Panama (Darien), Lake coring
1993 Bolivia, Coring Lake Titicaca
1993 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
1993 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
1993 Lower Great Lakes, Setting sediment traps and box coring
1992 Bolivia, Coring Lake Titicaca
1992 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
1991 Gulf of Mexico, Dredging
1990 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake survey