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Peter D. Ward is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions spanning various subfields including Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics.

The scientist's main research topics comprise Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and fisheries research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geological and Geophysical Studies.

Peter D. Ward has published several recent papers, reflecting the scope of their research interests. These include:

  • Mercury evidence from southern Pangea terrestrial sections for end-Permian global volcanic effects, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Completing the loop of the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous true polar wander event, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Three new species of Nautilus Linnaeus, 1758 (Mollusca, Cephalopoda) from the Coral Sea and South Pacific, 2023, ZooKeys
  • Dissecting 20 million years of deep-water forearc sediment routing using an integrated basin-wide Bayesian chronostratigraphic framework, 2024, Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Morphological disparity in extant and extinct sepiid phragmocones: morphological adaptions for phragmocone strength compared to those related to cameral liquid emptying hypotheses, 2022, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Their frequent co-authors include Gregory J. Barord, Job Veloso, Neil H. Landman, David J. Combosch, and Gonzalo Giribet. The collaboration network reflects a focus on related fields and enhances interdisciplinary approaches in their work.

Frequent publication venues demonstrate the range of their contributions and interdisciplinary engagement. These venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • ZooKeys
  • Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

In addition to journal articles, Peter D. Ward has also contributed to book literature. One publication is noted:

  • Die große Flut; Was auf uns zukommt, wenn das Eis schmilzt, published in 2021 by oekom verlag

Best Publications

  • Oxygen and Evolution

    Robert A. Berner;John M. VandenBrooks;Peter D. Ward

  • Altered river morphology in south africa related to the permian-triassic extinction

    Peter D. Ward;David R. Montgomery;Roger Smith

  • Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Peter D. Ward;Jennifer Botha;Roger Buick;Michiel O. De Kock

  • Extensive dissolution of live pteropods in the Southern Ocean

    N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;N. Bednarsek;G. A. Tarling;D. C. E. Bakker;S. Fielding

  • Sudden productivity collapse associated with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary mass extinction.

    P. D. Ward;J. W. Haggart;E. S. Carter;D. Wilbur

  • South Georgia, antarctica: a productive, cold water, pelagic ecosystem

    A. Atkinson;M. J. Whitehouse;J. Priddle;G. C. Cripps

  • Pteropods in Southern Ocean ecosystems

    B.P.V. Hunt;E.A. Pakhomov;E.A. Pakhomov;G.W. Hosie;V. Siegel

  • Hypoxia, Global Warming, and Terrestrial Late Permian Extinctions

    Raymond B. Huey;Peter D. Ward

  • Intercontinental Dispersal of Bacteria and Archaea by Transpacific Winds

    David J. Smith;Hilkka J. Timonen;Daniel A. Jaffe;Dale W. Griffin

  • Vertebrate extinction across Permian–Triassic boundary in Karoo Basin, South Africa

    Gregory J. Retallack;Roger M.H. Smith;Peter D. Ward

  • Pattern of vertebrate extinctions across an event bed at the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa

    Roger M.H. Smith;Peter D. Ward

  • Rapid warming of the ocean around South Georgia, Southern Ocean, during the 20th century: Forcings, characteristics and implications for lower trophic levels

    M.J. Whitehouse;M.P. Meredith;P. Rothery;A. Atkinson

  • Isotopic evidence bearing on Late Triassic extinction events, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, and implications for the duration and cause of the Triassic/Jurassic mass extinction

    Peter D. Ward;Geoffrey H. Garrison;James W. Haggart;David A. Kring

  • Sudden and Gradual Molluscan Extinctions in the Latest Cretaceous of Western European Tethys

    Charles R. Marshall;Peter D. Ward

  • Confirmation of Romer's Gap as a low oxygen interval constraining the timing of initial arthropod and vertebrate terrestrialization

    Peter Ward;Conrad C. Labandeira;Michel Laurin;Robert A. Berner

  • Timing of mammal-like reptile extinctions across the Permian-Triassic boundary in South Africa

    Kenneth G. MacLeod;Roger M. H. Smith;Paul L. Koch;Peter D. Ward

  • Extinction patterns, δ18 O trends, and magnetostratigraphy from a southern high-latitude Cretaceous–Paleogene section: Links with Deccan volcanism

    Thomas S. Tobin;Peter D. Ward;Eric J. Steig;Eduardo B. Olivero

  • An extended organic carbon-isotope record across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

    Kenneth H. Williford;Peter D. Ward;Geoffrey H. Garrison;Roger Buick

  • Maastrichtian Ammonites from the Biscay Region (France, Spain)

    Peter D. Ward;W. James Kennedy

  • Septal complexity in ammonoid cephalopods increased mechanical risk and limited depth

    Thomas L. Daniel;Brian S. Helmuth;W. Bruce Saunders;Peter D. Ward

  • KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016

    Angus Atkinson;Simeon L Hill;Evgeny A Pakhomov;Volker Siegel

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth G. MacLeod
Kenneth G. MacLeod University of Missouri
Joseph L. Kirschvink
Joseph L. Kirschvink California Institute of Technology
Kenneth H. Williford
Kenneth H. Williford Blue Marble Space Institute of Science
Ross N. Mitchell
Ross N. Mitchell Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jeffrey F. Mount
Jeffrey F. Mount University of California, Davis
Robert A. Berner
Robert A. Berner Yale University
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Roger Buick
Roger Buick University of Washington
Brian T. Huber
Brian T. Huber National Museum of Natural History
William J. Showers
William J. Showers North Carolina State University

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