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Peter M. Sheehan is affiliated with the Milwaukee Public Museum in the United States and conducts research primarily in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences with a focus on oceanographic and atmospheric phenomena.

Their research work spans several subfields including oceanography, atmospheric science, global and planetary change, paleontology, and geology. The range of topics covered includes:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine and fisheries research

Peter M. Sheehan has published extensively with 26 publications categorized broadly under Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work often appears in several notable scientific journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Ocean science
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Journal of Climate

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter M. Sheehan include:

  • Injection of Oxygenated Persian Gulf Water Into the Southern Bay of Bengal (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • Turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate and associated fluxes in the western tropical Atlantic estimated from ocean glider observations (2023, Ocean science)
  • On the Influence of the Bay of Bengal's Sea Surface Temperature Gradients on Rainfall of the South Asian Monsoon (2023, Journal of Climate)

Peter M. Sheehan has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Karen J. Heywood
  • Benjamin G. M. Webber
  • Alejandra Sanchez-Franks
  • Adrian J. Matthews
  • P. N. Vinayachandran

Best Publications

  • The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction

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  • A weathering hypothesis for glaciation at high atmospheric pCO2 during the Late Ordovician

    L.R Kump;M.A Arthur;M.E Patzkowsky;M.T Gibbs

  • Onshore-offshore patterns in the evolution of phanerozoic shelf communities.

    David Jablonski;J. John Sepkoski;David J. Bottjer;Peter M. Sheehan

  • A new ecological-severity ranking of major Phanerozoic biodiversity crises

    George R. McGhee;Matthew E. Clapham;Peter M. Sheehan;David J. Bottjer

  • Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: ecological and taxonomic severities are decoupled

    George R. McGhee;Peter M. Sheehan;David J. Bottjer;Mary L. Droser

  • Diversification, Faunal Change, and Community Replacement during the Ordovician Radiations

    J. John Sepkoski;Peter M. Sheehan

  • Decoupling of taxonomic and ecologic severity of Phanerozoic marine mass extinctions

    Mary L. Droser;David J. Bottjer;Peter M. Sheehan;George R. McGhee

  • Understanding the great ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE): influences of paleogeography, paleoclimate, or paleoecology

    Thomas Servais;David A.T. Harper;Axel Munnecke;Alan W. Owen

  • Detritus feeding as a buffer to extinction at the end of the Cretaceous

    Peter M. Sheehan;Thor A. Hansen

  • Evaluating the ecological architecture of major events in the Phanerozoic history of marine invertebrate life

    Mary L. Droser;David J. Bottjer;Peter M. Sheehan

  • Microbialite resurgence after the Late Ordovician extinction

    Peter M. Sheehan;Mark T. Harris

  • Major extinctions of land-dwelling vertebrates at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, eastern Montana

    Peter M. Sheehan;David E. Fastovsky

  • Ecological ranking of Phanerozoic biodiversity crises: The Serpukhovian (early Carboniferous) crisis had a greater ecological impact than the end-Ordovician

    George R. McGhee;Peter M. Sheehan;David J. Bottjer;Mary L. Droser

  • The Extinction of the Dinosaurs in North America

    David E. Fastovsky;Peter M. Sheehan

  • Sudden extinction of the dinosaurs: latest Cretaceous, upper Great Plains, USA.

    Peter M. Sheehan;David E. Fastovsky;Raymond G. Hoffmann;Claudia B. Berghaus

  • Reefs are not so different—They follow the evolutionary pattern of level-bottom communities

    Peter M. Sheehan

  • A new look at Ecologic Evolutionary Units (EEUs)

    Peter M. Sheehan

  • The relation of Late Ordovician glaciation to the Ordovician‐Silurian changeover in North American brachiopod faunas

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  • Shape of Mesozoic dinosaur richness

    David E. Fastovsky;Yifan Huang;Jason Hsu;Jamie Martin-McNaughton

  • Taphonomy and suggested structure of the dinosaurian assemblage of the Hell Creek Formation (Maastrichtian), eastern Montana and western North Dakota

    Paul D. White;David E. Fastovsky;Peter M. Sheehan

  • Upper Ordovician sequences of western Estonia

    Mark T Harris;Peter M Sheehan;Leho Ainsaar;Linda Hints

  • Biotic selectivity during the K/T and Late Ordovician extinction events

    Peter M. Sheehan;Patricia J. Coorough;David E. Fastovsky

  • Terminal Ordovician extinction: Geochemical analysis of the Ordovician/Silurian boundary, Anticosti Island, Quebec

    C. J. Orth;J. S. Gilmore;L R. Quintana;P. M. Sheehan

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Bottjer
David J. Bottjer University of Southern California
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University
Raymond G. Hoffmann
Raymond G. Hoffmann Medical College of Wisconsin
John M. Pandolfi
John M. Pandolfi University of Queensland
J. John Sepkoski
J. John Sepkoski University of Chicago
Mary L. Droser
Mary L. Droser University of California, Riverside
Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Anna K. Behrensmeyer
Anna K. Behrensmeyer National Museum of Natural History
Owen B. Toon
Owen B. Toon University of Colorado Boulder

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