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Overview

Lowell D. Stott is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing specifically on subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, and Anthropology.

Their work covers several main topics, notably:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "Twentieth Century Black Carbon and Dust Deposition on South Cascade Glacier, Washington State, USA, as Reconstructed From a 158-m-Long Ice Core," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • "A global synthesis of high-resolution stable isotope data from benthic foraminifera of the last deglaciation," 2023, Scientific Data
  • "ASSESSING THE STRATIGRAPHIC INTEGRITY OF PLANKTIC AND BENTHIC 14C RECORDS IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC FOR Δ14C RECONSTRUCTIONS AT THE LAST GLACIAL TERMINATION," 2020, Radiocarbon
  • "Evaluating the Glacial-Deglacial Carbon Respiration and Ventilation Change Hypothesis as a Mechanism for Changing Atmospheric CO2," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "The atmospheric bridge communicated the δ 13 C decline during the last deglaciation to the global upper ocean," 2021, Climate of the Past

Frequent coauthors in their collaborations include:

  • Juan Muglia
  • Stefan Mulitza
  • Janne Repschläger
  • Andreas Schmittner
  • Lester Lembke-Jene

The scientist has published numerous times in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • Radiocarbon
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Abrupt deep-sea warming, palaeoceanographic changes and benthic extinctions at the end of the Palaeocene

    J. P. Kennett;L. D. Stott

  • Evolution of Early Cenozoic marine temperatures

    James C. Zachos;Lowell D. Stott;Kyger C. Lohmann

  • Super ENSO and Global Climate Oscillations at Millennial Time Scales

    Lowell Stott;Christopher Poulsen;Steve Lund;Robert Thunell

  • Climate change patterns in Amazonia and biodiversity

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Ashish Sinha;Francisco W. Cruz;Xianfeng Wang;Xianfeng Wang

  • Decline of surface temperature and salinity in the western tropical Pacific Ocean in the Holocene epoch

    Lowell Stott;Kevin Cannariato;Robert Thunell;Gerald H. Haug

  • Magnitude and timing of temperature change in the Indo-Pacific warm pool during deglaciation

    Katherine Visser;Robert Thunell;Lowell Stott

  • Cenozoic marine sedimentation and ice-volume variation on the East Antarctic craton

    P. N. Webb;D. M. Harwood;B. C. McKelvey;J. H. Mercer

  • Collapse of the California Current During Glacial Maxima Linked to Climate Change on Land

    T. D. Herbert;J. D. Schuffert;D. Andreasen;L. Heusser

  • An Abrupt Shift in the Indian Monsoon 4000 Years Ago

    M. Berkelhammer;A. Sinha;L. Stott;H. Cheng

  • A 900‐year (600 to 1500 A.D.) record of the Indian summer monsoon precipitation from the core monsoon zone of India

    Ashish Sinha;Kevin G. Cannariato;Lowell D. Stott;Hai Cheng

  • Variability of Southwest Indian summer monsoon precipitation during the Bølling-Ållerød

    Ashish Sinha;Kevin G. Cannariato;Lowell D. Stott;Hong Chun Li

  • Southern Hemisphere and deep-sea warming led deglacial atmospheric CO2 rise and tropical warming.

    Lowell Stott;Lowell Stott;Lowell Stott;Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Axel Timmermann;Robert Thunell;Robert Thunell;Robert Thunell

  • The leading mode of Indian Summer Monsoon precipitation variability during the last millennium

    Ashish Sinha;Max Berkelhammer;Lowell Stott;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Tropical Pacific - mid-latitude teleconnections in medieval times

    Nicholas E. Graham;Nicholas E. Graham;Malcolm K. Hughes;Caspar M. Ammann;Kim M. Cobb

  • Proteus and Proto-Oceanus: Ancestral Paleogene Oceans as Revealed from Antarctic Stable Isotopic Results; ODP Leg 113

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  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • 48. THE EVOLUTION OF ANTARCTIC SURFACE WATERS DURING THE PALEOGENE: INFERENCES FROM THE STABLE ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERS, ODP LEG 113 1

    Lowell D. Stott;James P. Kennett;Nicholas J. Shackleton;Richard M. Corfield

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of calibration standards for foraminiferal Mg/Ca thermometry

    M. Greaves;N. Caillon;H. Rebaubier;G. Bartoli

  • A global context for megadroughts in monsoon Asia during the past millennium

    Ashish Sinha;Lowell Stott;Max Berkelhammer;Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng

  • Climate and hydrographic variability in the Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool during the last millennium

    Alicia Newton;Robert Thunell;Lowell Stott

  • Magnitude and Timing of Temperature Change in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool During Deglaciation

    R. Thunell;K. Visser;L. Stott

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert C. Thunell
Robert C. Thunell University of South Carolina
James P. Kennett
James P. Kennett University of California, Santa Barbara
Ashish Sinha
Ashish Sinha California State University, Dominguez Hills
Max Berkelhammer
Max Berkelhammer University of Illinois at Chicago
Kei Yoshimura
Kei Yoshimura University of Tokyo
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Douglas E. Hammond
Douglas E. Hammond University of Southern California
R. Lawrence Edwards
R. Lawrence Edwards University of Minnesota
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Margit Schwikowski
Margit Schwikowski Paul Scherrer Institute

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