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CURRICULUM VITAE- last updated 11/17/09

EDUCATION
B.S., Cum Laude, Geology/Biology; Youngstown State University, 8/85
M.S., Geology, University of Michigan, 5/92
Ph.D., Geology, University of Michigan, 12/95 for a dissertation entitled “Stable isotopic record of climatic and environmental change in continental settings”

CURRENT FUNDING

Jim Buckee Research Fund ($100,000). Postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, and undergraduate research assistant support. 2008. W.P. Patterson and C. Holmden, PIs

Talisman Energy Inc. Research Support Program ($300,000). Postdoctoral fellow, graduate student, and undergraduate research assistant support. 2007-2009. W.P. Patterson and C. Holmden, PIs

European Science Foundation – EUROCORES (492,473 €/$715,415). Northern Narratives: Social and Geographical Accounts from Norway, Iceland, and Canada. PD- Olgilvie, A., Patterson, W.P., Jonsdottir, I., Einarsson, N. 2006-2009

SSHRC ($181,970). Northern Narratives: Social and Geographical Accounts from Norway, Iceland, and Canada. PD W.P. Patterson. 2006-2009.

Keck Geology Consortium-NSF ($60,600USD) Rise and demise of a Holocene coral reef complex, the Dominican Republic: the coral-climate connection. PIs L. Greer, W.P. Patterson, A. Curran. 2005

NSF-OPP-0326776 ($312,000USD). Warm Times, Cold Times: Quantitative Reconstructions of Near-Shore Environments Over the Last 2000 Years in Vestfirdir, NW Iceland: Natural Changes and Human Responses. J. Andrews, W.P. Patterson, A. Jennings, and A. Olgivie. 2003-2006

University of Saskatchewan ($5,000). University of Saskatchewan Presidential Grant for international student field research in the Dominican Republic. W.P. Patterson, 2005

University of Saskatchewan ($20,000). Vice President for Research Grant for proposal development. W.P. Patterson, 2005

University of Saskatchewan ($15,500). University of Saskatchewan Presidential Grant for an international field course in Mexico. W.P. Patterson, 2004

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)- ($24,000USD) Effect of El Nino on Pacific Rockfish populations. W.P. Patterson, 8/04-6/05

Canadian Foundation for Innovation New Opportunities Grant ($161,000CAN). Development of micromilling facilities at the University of Saskatchewan. W.P. Patterson, 2003

University of Saskatchewan ($5,000). University of Saskatchewan Presidential Grant for international student field research in Ireland. W.P. Patterson, 2003

NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) ($82,400CAN). High-resolution Holocene climate variability from Western Europe: evidence from stable isotope values of lacustrine carbonate and micromilled molluscs. W.P. Patterson, 2003

NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) ($24,447CAN). U-series spikes for dating stable isotope time-series records of Holocene climate change in speleothems and marl lakes. W.P. Patterson, 2003

Keck Geology Consortium-NSF ($17,000USD) Holocene climate change in western Ireland: evidence from stable isotope values of carbonate sediment recovered from marl lakes. Co-PIs W.P. Patterson and A.M. Martini. 2003

Start-up Funds University of Saskatchewan ($60,000CAN). W.P. Patterson, 2002

Keck Geology Consortium-NSF ($54,000USD) Holocene climate change in western Ireland: evidence from stable isotope values of carbonate sediment recovered from marl lakes. Co-PIs W.P. Patterson and A.M. Martini. 2002

Concerted Action of Research (National Funding Program of Belgium) ($1,327,470USD) City and suburbia at Sagalassos, Turkey (700 BC to 100 AD). Co-PI’s M. Waelkens, E. Paulissen, P. Muchez, W. Van Neer, and W.P. Patterson, 2002-2005

Great Lakes Fisheries Trust ($532,567USD) Fisheries Habitat: Thermal Habitat Constraints on Alewife Alosa pseudoharengus Recruitment and Production in Lake Michigan. 2001-2004

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)- ($13,000USD) Stable oxygen-18 analysis of sablefish and rockfish otoliths. 1/01-1/02

Great Lakes Research Consortium ($6,000USD) Identification of naturally produced lake trout. PIs T. Shaner, R. O'Gorman, and W.P. Patterson. 2001-2002

Great Lakes Fisheries Commission ($14,500USD) Determination of the level of chinook salmon wild production in Lake Ontario from 1991-2000. Co-PIs W.P. Patterson and Thomas Stewart.

Great Lakes Research Consortium- Application of Otolith Microchemistry to In-Situ Assessment of Thermal History and Metabolic Processes in Great Lakes Fishes ($18,060USD). 2000

Great Lakes Research Consortium- Natural History of Lake Ontario Primary Productivity ($17,900USD). 5/00-9/01

James Cook University of North Queensland ($10,000USD) validation of fish ages based on presumed annuli in otoliths of marine herbivorous fish from New Zealand and sub-Antarctic islands. Co-PIs J.H. Choat and W.P. Patterson. *Isotope laboratory component $10,000. 4/00-1/01

GLS635-02 ($928,543USD [$595,103 SG + $333,440 matching]) Factors affecting early survival and management of Lake Ontario salmonine populations. Start date 2/00

NSF-EAR-9909151 ($120,000USD) Technician support: Radiogenic Isotope, Stable Isotope, and XRF laboratories at Syracuse University 12/99

SG-98073 ($213,441USD) Population dynamics of naturally spawning salmonines in Lake Ontario

NSF-EAR-9528422 ($150,000USD) Technician support: Radiogenic Isotope, Stable Isotope, and XRF laboratories at Syracuse University 6/96

Proposals pending

PUBLISHED ARTICLES-(reverse chronological order) *student author, †postdoctoral fellow

Patterson, W.P., Dietrich, K.A.*, Holmden, C., and Andrews, J.T. 2010. Two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality and implications for Norse colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0902522107.

Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, M.A., Bird, B.W., Ivanovici, L., Monarrez, P., Nielsen, S. 2010. A 10,000 Year Record of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) forced Hydrologic Variability in Southern California (Lake Elsinore, CA). Journal of Paleolimnology (in press).

Wan, Y.†, Jones, P.D., Holem, R.R., Khim, J.S., Chang, H., Kay, D.P., Roark, S.A., Newsted, J.L., Patterson, W.P., and Giesy, J.P. 2010. Bioaccumulation of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in fishes from the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers, Michigan, USA. Science of the Total Environment (in press).

Szpak, P., Gröcke, D.R., Debruyne, R., MacPhee, R.D., Guthrie, R.D., Froese, D., Zazula, G.D., Patterson, W.P., and Poinar, H.N. 2010. Regional Differences in Bone Collagen δ13C and δ15N of Pleistocene Mammoths: Implications for Paleoecology of the Mammoth Steppe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 286, p. 88-96.

Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B.M., Holmden, C., Brasseur, J.M.*, Mc Kenzie, S.M.* and Manchester, C.W.* 2009. High-frequency late Glacial to mid-Holocene climate variability: Evidence from oxygen and carbon isotope values of marl lakes in Canada, Ireland and the United States. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 73, no. 13, p. 1001.

Lachniet, M.S., Johnson, L., Asmerom, Y., Burns, S.J., Polyak, V., Patterson, W.P., Burta, L., and Azouz, A. 2009. Late Quaternary moisture export across Central America and to Greenland: evidence for tropical rainfall variability from Costa Rican stalagmites. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 28, nos. 27-28, p. 3348-3360.

Patterson, W.P. 2009. Айсберг и саги: 2 тысячелетия изменения климата в североатлантическом и своего влияния на норманнские населения. Север к югу диалог между культур и цивилизациями.

Lachniet, M.S. and Patterson, W.P. 2009. Oxygen isotope values of precipitation and surface waters in northern Central America (Belize and Guatemala) are dominated by temperature and amount effects. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 284, p. 435–446, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.05.010..

LaPorte*, D.F., Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P., Loxton, J.D., Melchin, M.J., Mitchell, C., and Finney, S.C. 2009. Carbon and Nitrogen cycling during the Hirnantian glaciation:  implications for epeiric sea isotopic gradients, productivity and calcite dust deposition. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, v. 276, p. 182-195.

Zazzo, A., Patterson, W.P., and Prokopiuk, T.C. 2009. Comment on "Implications of diagenesis for the isotopic analysis of Upper Miocene large mammalian herbivore tooth enamel from Chad" by L. Jacques, N. Ogle, I. Moussa, R. Kalin, P. Vignaud, M. Brunet and H. Bocherens. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 266, p. 200-210.

Laporte, D.F.*, Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P., Prokopiuk, T.C., and Eglington, B.M. 2009. Oxygen isotope analysis of phosphate: improved precision using TC/EA CF-IRMS. Journal of Mass Spectrometry, v. 44, no. 6, p. 879-890.

Lennox, B.*, Spooner, I., Jull, T., Patterson, W.P. 2009. Post-glacial climate change and its effect on a shallow dimictic lake in Nova Scotia, Canada: A chemostratigraphic and lithostratigraphic investigation. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-009-9310-2.

Dufour, E.†, Höök, T.O.†, Patterson, W.P., and Rutherford, E.S., 2008. High-resolution isotope analysis of young alewife otoliths: assessment of temporal resolution and reconstruction of habitat occupancy and thermal history. Journal of Fish Biology, v. 73, no. 10, p. 2434-2451.

Tibert, N.E., Patterson, W.P., Diefendorf, A.F.*, Stanton, C.*, and Martini, A. 2008. Late Glacial and early Holocene atmospheric temperature change in western Ireland: Evidence from limnic Ostracode paleoecology and stable isotope values. Stratigraphy, v. 4, no. 4, p. 353-361.

Cosford, J.*, Qing, H., Yuan, D., Zhang, M, Holmden. C., Patterson, W.P., and Hai, C. 2008. Millennial-Scale Variability in the Asian Monsoon: evidence from oxygen isotope records from stalagmites in southeastern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 266, p. 3–12.

Dodd, J.P.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., and Brasseur, J.M.* 2008. Robotic micromilling of tree-ring cellulose: a new tool for obtaining sub-seasonal environmental isotope records. Chemical Geology, V. 252 p. 21–30.

Immenhauser, A., Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2008. Interpreting the carbon isotope record of ancient epeiric seas: lessons from the Recent, in B.R. Pratt and C. Holmden (eds.), Dynamics of Epeiric Seas, Geological Association of Canada, Special Paper 48, p. 67-98.

Key, M.M., Jr., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Miller, K.E.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2008. A stable isotope test for the origin of fossil brown bodies in trepostome bryozoans from the Ordovician of Estonia. In: J. E. Winston, M. M. Key, Jr., and S. J. Hageman (eds.). 14th International Bryozoology Association Conference Volume. Special Publication Series of the Virginia Museum of Natural History Press; Martinsville, p. 75-84.

Bekker, A., Beukes, N.J., Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P., Fabien Kenig, Bruce Eglington, 2007. Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22-2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 270, p. 278-291.

Medley, P.*, Tibert, N.E., Patterson, W.P., Curran, H.A., Colin, J.-P., Mezquita, F., and Greer, L. 2007. Paleohydrology of Middle Holocene lagoonal & lacustrine deposits in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: pore morphometrics and isotope geochemistry of ostracoda. Micropaleontology, v. 53, no. 5, pp. 409-419.

Wurster, C.M.†, Patterson, W.P., McFarlane, D.A., Wassenaar, L.I., Hobson. K.A., Athfield, N.B., and Bird, M.I. 2007. A long-term climate record from stable carbon and hydrogen isotopes of bat guano in the Grand Canyon, USA, reveals Younger Dryas and 8.2 ka events. Geology, v. 36; no. 9; p. 683–688; doi: 10.1130/G24938A.

Walter, L.M., Ku, T.C.W., Muehlenbachs, K., Patterson, W.P. , and Bonnell, L. 2007. Controls on the δ13C of dissolved inorganic carbon in marine pore waters:  an instructive example from biogenic carbonate sediments of the South Florida Platform. Deep Sea Research II Special Publication, v. 54, p. 1163-1200.  

Schaner, T., Patterson, W.P., Lantry, B.F., and O'Gorman, R. 2007. Distinguishing wild vs. stocked lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) in Lake Ontario: evidence from carbon and oxygen stable isotope values of otoliths." Journal of Great Lakes Research, v. 33 no. 4, p. 912-916. .

Emslie, S.D. and Patterson, W.P. 2007. Major shift in Adélie Penguin eggshell isotope values in Antarctica: evidence for diet change ~300 years ago. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, v. 104, no. 28, p. 11666-11669.

Mitchell, C.E., Sheets, H.D., Belscher, K.*, Finney, S.C., Holmden, C., Laporte, D.*, Melchin, M.J., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. Species abundance changes during mass extinction and the inverse Signor-Lipps effect: apparently abrupt graptolite mass extinction as an artifact of sampling. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 46 (Suppl.) (2007), pp. 340–346.

Cosford, J.*, Qing, H., Yuan, D., Zhang, M, Holmden. C., Patterson, W.P., and Hai, C. 2008. Millennial-Scale Variability in the Asian Monsoon: evidence from oxygen isotope records from stalagmites in southeastern China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 266, p. 3–12.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., and Mullins, H.T. 2007. Carbon isotopes of marl and organic lake sediment record terrestrial landscape change during the late glacial and early Holocene (16,800 to 5,540 cal yr BP): a multiproxy study of lacustrine sediments at Loch Inchiquin, western Ireland. Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-007-9099-9.

Lachniet, M.S., Patterson, W.P., Burns, S., Asmerom, Y., and Polyak, V. 2007. Caribbean and Pacific moisture sources on the Isthmus of Panama revealed from surface water and stalagmite δ18O gradients. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, L01708, doi:10.1029/2006GL028469.

Dufour, E.†, Holmden, C., Van Neer, W., Zazzo, A.†, Patterson, W.P., Degryse, P., Keppens, E. 2007. Oxygen and strontium isotopes as provenance indicators of fish at archaeological sites: a case study from Sagalassos, SW Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 34, p. 1226-1239.

Nonogaki, H.*, Nelson, J., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. Dietary histories of herbivorous Loricariid catfishes: evidence from δ13C values of otoliths. Environmental Biology of Fishes, v. 78, no. 1, p. 13-21. DOI 10.1007/s10641-006-9074-8.

Zazzo, A.†, Smith, G.R., Patterson, W.P., and Dufour, E.† 2006. Life history reconstruction of modern and fossil sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) by oxygen isotopic analysis of otoliths, vertebrae, and teeth: Implication for paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters,v. 249, issue 3-4, p. 200-215.

Zazzo, A.†, Balasse, M., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. The reconstruction of mammal individual history: refining high-resolution isotope record in bovine tooth dentine. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 33, 1177-1187.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., Tibert, N., Martini, A.M. 2006. Evidence for High Frequency Late Glacial to mid-Holocene (16,800 to 5,500 calendar years BP) Climate Variability from Oxygen Isotope Values of Lough Inchiquin, Ireland. Quaternary Research, v. 65, 78-86.

Lachniet, M.†, and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Use of correlation and stepwise regression to evaluate climatic controls on the stable isotope values of Panamanian surface waters. Journal of Hydrology, v. 324, p. 115-140.

Holmden, C., Braun W.K., Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B.M., Whittaker S, and Prokopiuk, T.C. 2006. Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy of Frasnian Sequences in Western Canada. Summary of Investigations, Saskatchewan Energy and Mines, CD ROM (in press).

Key, M.M. Jr. Wyse Jackson, P.N., Patterson, W.P. and Moore, M.D.* 2005 Stable isotope evidence for diagenesis of the Ordovician Courtown and Tramore Limestones, South-eastern Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 23, 25–38.

Patterson, W.P. and Smith, G.R. 2005. Uses of fishes in analysis of paleolimnology in Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Zoological Indicators. Smol, J.P., Birks, H.J.B., and Last, W.M., (editors) Paleolimnology, Special vol. 4, ch. 9, 2nd Ed., p. 173-187.

Lachniet, M.S., Asmerom, Y., Burns, S.J., Patterson, W.P., Polyak, V.J., Seltzer, G.O. Tropical response to the 8200 yr B.P. cold event? Speleothem isotopes indicate a weakened early Holocene monsoon in Costa Rica: Reply published online: May 2005, DOI 10.1130/0091-7613(2005) 31<e81:R>2.0.CO;2.

Dufour, E.†, Patterson, W.P., Höök, T.O., and Rutherford, E.S. 2005. Early life history of Lake Michigan alewives (Alosa pseudoharengus) inferred from intra-otolith stable isotope ratios. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 62, p. 2362-2370.

Zazzo, A.†, Balasse, M., and Patterson, W.P. 2005. High-resolution δ13C intra-tooth profiles in bovine enamel: Implications for mineralization pattern and isotopic attenuation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 69, no. 14, p. 3631–3642.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2005. Survey of stable isotope values in Irish surface waters: implications for meteorology and paleoclimate. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 34, p. 257-269.

McFadden, M.A.*, Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., Anderson, W.T. 2005. Multi-proxy approach to long-term and abrupt Holocene climate-change: Evidence from eastern Lake Ontario. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 33, p. 1-21.

Wurster, C.M.*, Patterson, W.P., Stewart, D.J., Stewart, T.J., and Bowlby, J.N. 2005. Thermal histories, stress, and metabolic rates of chinook salmon in Lake Ontario: evidence from intra-otolith δ18O and δ13C values and energetics modeling. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, v. 62, p. 700-713.

Key, M.M., Jr., P.N. Wyse Jackson, E. Håkansson, W.P. Patterson, and M.D. Moore*. 2005. Gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland: testing the algal symbiosis hypothesis using δ13C and δ18O values, in H. Moyano, J. Cancino, and P. N. Wyse Jackson (eds.). Bryozoan Studies 2004. Balkema Publishers; Lisse, The Netherlands, p. 141-151.

Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T. and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Relationship between atmospheric circulation and winter precipitation δ18O in central New York State. Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L22209.

Smith, A.M., C.S. Nelson, M.M. Key, Jr., and W.P. Patterson. 2004. Skeletons from seawater: stable isotopes in New Zealand bryozoan carbonate. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, v. 47, p. 809-821.

Lachniet, M.S.†, Asmerom, Y., Burns, S.J., Patterson, W.P., Polyak, V.J., Seltzer, G.O. 2004. A tropical early Holocene dry event and decadal scale variability in the Central American Monsoon from speleothem calcite. Geology, v. 32, no. 11, p. 957-960.

McFadden, M.A.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, W.T. 2004. Paleoproductivity of eastern Lake Ontario over the past 10,000 years. Limnol. Oceanogr. v. 49, p. 1570-1581.

Guiles-Ellis, K.*, Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Deglacial to middle Holocene (16,600 to 6000 cal years B.P.) climate change in the northeastern United States inferred from multi-proxy stable isotope data, Seneca Lake, New York. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 31, p. 343-361.

Wurster, C.M.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2003. Late Holocene metabolic rate changes of freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens): evidence from high-resolution sagittal otolith stable isotope ratios of carbon. Paleobiology, v. 29, no. 4, p. 492-505.

Burnett, A.W., Kirby, M.E., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2003. Increasing Great Lake effect snowfall during the 20th century as a regional response to global warming. Journal of Climate, v. 16, p. 3535-3542. Journal of Science article highlighting this paper.

Ivany, L.C., Lohmann, K.C., and Patterson, W.P. 2003. Eocene through Oligocene temperature history of the US Gulf Coastal plain inferred from δ18O of fossil otoliths for From Greenhouse to Icehouse: the Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition, Geological Society of America Special Paper, Prothero, D., Ivany, L., and Nesbitt, E., eds., Columbia University Press, 376p.

Lajewski, C.K.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., and Callinan, C.W. 2003. Historic calcite record from the Finger Lakes: Impact of acid rain on a buffered terrain. GSA Bulletin (v. 115, p. 373-384). Editor’s choice Science (www.sciencemag.org/content/vol299/issue5612/twil.shtml). Science PDF.

Joukadar, Z.*, W.P. Patterson, T.N. Todd, G.R. Smith. 2002. Oxygen isotopic studies of the life history of Coregonus artedii in the St. Maries River, Laurentian Great Lakes, pp. 453-461, in T.N. Todd and G. Fleischer (eds.) Biology and Management of Coregonid Fishes—1999. Arch. Hydrobiol., Spec. Issues Advances Limnol. Vol. 57.

Anderson W.T., McFadden M.A.*, Mullins H.T., Patterson W.P. 2002. 10,000 year nitrogen isotope record from Lake Ontario, understanding carbon and nitrogen dynamics from a paleo-perspective. Geochimica et Cosmochimica ACTA, 66 (15A): A21.

Patterson, W.P. and Smith, G.R. 2002. Uses of fishes in analysis of paleolimnology in Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Zoological Indicators. Smol, J.P., Birks, H.J.B., and Last, W.M., (editors). Paleolimnology, Special vol. 4, ch. 9, p. 173-187.

Kirby, M.E.*, Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., and Burnett, A.W. 2002. NE USA Post-Younger Dryas Winter Climate Interval Linked to Circumpolar Vortex Variability and Poleward Heat Transport: Isotopic Evidence From Fayetteville Green Lake, New York. Climate Dynamics, v. 19, 321-330.

Olson, C.*, Limbrug, K., Patterson, W.P., Elfman, M., Kristiansson, P., and Ehrenberg, S. 2002. Reconstruction of Fisheries and Marine Environment - Preliminary Studies of Hard Parts of Codfish (Gadus morhua) from Ajvide, Gotland, Sweden. In Burenhult, G. (ed.) Remote Sensing. Applied techniques for the study of cultural resources and the localization, identification and documentation of sub-surface prehistoric remains in Swedish archaeology. 1984/1997/2002. Volume II: Archaeological investigations, remote sensing case studies and osteo-anthropological studies. Thesis and Papers in North-European Archaeology ch. 13, p. 375-385. Department of Archaeology, Stockholm University, 428p.

Kirby, M.E.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., and Burnett, A.W. 2002. NE USA Late Glacial/Holocene Paleo-atmospheric circulation and precipitation inferred from modern calibrated stable oxygen and carbon isotopes. GSA Bulletin, v. 114, no. 10, 1326-1340.

Lachniet, M.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2002. Linking hydrology and climate of Costa Rica: evidence from stable isotope values of surface water and precipitation. Journal of Hydrology, v. 260, p. 135-150.

Kirby, M.E.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., and Burnett, A.W. 2001. Lacustrine isotopic evidence for multi-decadal natural climate variability related to the circumpolar vortex over the northeast United States during the past millennium. Geology, v. 29, no. 9, p. 807-810.

Wurster, C.M.* and Patterson, W.P. 2001. Late Holocene climate change for the eastern interior United States climate: evidence from high-resolution sagittal otolith stable isotope ratios of oxygen. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 170, no. 1-2, p. 81-100.

Wurster, C.M.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2001. Stable oxygen and carbon isotope values recovered from lacustrine freshwater mollusks: paleoclimatic implications for sub-weekly temperature records. Journal of Paleolimnology, v. 26, p. 205-218.

Mullins, H.T., Lajewski, C.*, Patterson, W.P., and Callinan, C. 2001. A 10,000 year record of calcite precipitation in Cayuga Lake. A Symposium on Environmental Research in the Cayuga Lake Watershed, Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service, NRAES-121, p. 60-77.

McKenzie, J.*, Siegel, D., Patterson, W., and McKenzie, D.J. 2001. A geochemical survey of spring water from the main Ethiopian Rift Valley, southern Ethiopia: implications for well-head protection. Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9, p. 265-272. (DOI 10.1007/s100400100134).

Patterson, W.P. 2000. Diachronic changes in growth rate of North Sea fish species in relation to anthropogenic activities: high resolution stable isotope analyses of otoliths. European Union (EU FAIR Programme Report), Project CT97-3462.

Patterson, W.P. 1999. Oldest isotopically characterized fish otoliths provide insight to Jurassic continental climate of Europe. Geology, v. 27, no. 3, p. 199-202.

Wurster, C.H.*, Patterson, W.P., and Cheatham, M.M. 1999. Advances in computer-based microsampling of biogenic carbonates. Computers in Geosciences, v. 25, issue 10, p. 1155-1162.

Patterson, W.P. 1998. North American continental seasonality during the last millennium: high-resolution analysis of sagittal otoliths. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 138, no. 1-4, p. 271-303.

Drummond, C.N.*, Patterson, W.P., and Walker, J.C.G. 1995. Climate forcing of carbon-oxygen isotopic covariance in temperate region marl lakes. Geology, v. 23, p. 1031-1034.

Patterson, W.P., and Walter, L.M. 1994. Syndepositional diagensis of modern platform carbonates: evidence from isotopic and minor element data, Geology, v. 22, p. 127-130.

Patterson, W.P., and Walter, L.M. 1994. Depletion of 13C in seawater SCO2 on modern carbonate platforms: significance for the carbon isotopic record of carbonates: Geology, v. 22, p. 885-888.

Smith, G.R., and Patterson, W.P. 1994. Mio-Pliocene seasonality on the Snake River Plain: Comparison of faunal and oxygen isotopic evidence, in Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, Special Publication, Geochemistry of Vertebrates: Evidence for Diet and Climate, v. 107, p. 291-302.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R., and Lohmann, K.C. 1993. Continental paleothermometry and seasonality using the isotopic composition of aragonitic otoliths of freshwater fishes, in P. Swart, K.C Lohmann, J. McKenzie and S. Savin (eds.) Amer. Geophys. Union Monogr. Continental Climate Change from Isotopic Indicators, p. 191-202.

Walter, L.M., Bischof, S.A., Patterson, W.P., and Lyons, T.W. 1993. Dissolution and recrystallization in modern shelf carbonates: evidence from pore water and solid phase chemistry: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 344, p. 27-36.

Patterson, W.P. 1992. Syndepositional dissolution and recrystallization of shallow marine carbonates: evidence from isotopic and elemental data, MS thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105-1063, 56p.

Andrey Bekker, Nicolas J. Beukes, Chris Holmden, William P. Patterson, Fabien Kenig, Bruce Eglington, 2007. Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi (2.22-2.1 Ga) carbon isotope excursion. Submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters (in review).

Dietrich, K.*, Patterson, W.P., and Holmden, C. 2007. Sea Ice and sagas: stable isotope evidence for two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality on the north Icelandic shelf. Submitted to Science (in review).

Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P. , Holmden, C., Burnett, A.W., Diefendorf, A.F., and Deegan, R. 2007. A new perspective on the Younger Dryas climate reversal from western Ireland (in review).

Wurster, C.M.*, Patterson, W.P. , McFarlane, D.A., Wassenaar, L.I., Hobson. K.A., Athfield, N.B., and Bird, M.I. 2007. A long-term climate record from stable carbon and hydrogen isotopes of bat guano in the Grand Canyon, USA, reveals Younger Dryas and 8.2 ka events (in review).

Csank, A.Z.*, Patterson, W.P. , Basinger, J.F., Eglington, B.R. 2008. Early Pliocene Climate Variability in the Canadian High-Arctic. Submitted to Earth and Planetary Science Letters (in revision).

Dodd, J.P.* and Patterson, W.P. 2008. Survey of oxygen and hydrogen isotope values in Tasmanian precipitation and surface waters. Submitted to Journal of Hydrology (in review).

Frappier, A., White, E.C.*, Patterson, W.P., Clyde, W.C. 2008. Collapse of Mayan civilization: evidence from stable isotope values of speleothem carbonate from Belize.

Patterson, W.P., Thorrold, S., van Neer, and Wurster, C.M.* 2008. Fishing practices in 15th century Belgium: evidence from stable isotope values of Plaice otoliths.

Van Neer, W., Ervynck, A., Patterson, W.P., 2008. Seasonality in 15th century historic otoliths.

Van Neer, W., Ervynck, A., and Patterson, W.P. 2008. Description of the commercial fishes and fisheries of Northern Europe from 1200 to 1850AD.

Patterson, W.P. 2008. Stable isotope hydrology of the Finger Lakes region of Central New York Stake: implications for paleoclimate records obtained from marl.

Patterson, W.P., Wurster, C.M.*, Rose, M., Bowman, A.* 2008. Influence of climate on the Minoan culture: evidence from isotope values of Bronze-age fish otoliths.

TeWinkel, L. M. and Patterson, W.P. 2008. Thermal history of bloaters in Lake Michigan using oxygen isotope analysis of otolith calcium carbonate.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R., and Coburn, J.C.* 2008. Regional climate variation of the Mio-Pliocene western North American interior: stable oxygen isotope evidence from fish-bone phosphate.

Patterson, W.P. 2009. Climate change in the North Atlantic. BOREAS Final Conference. Rovaneimi, Finland, 28-31 October, 2009. Invited.

Patterson, W.P. 2009. A new record of climate variability from Northern Labrador revealed from isotope chemistry of tree rings. BOREAS Final Conference. Rovaneimi, Finland, 28-31 October, 2009. Invited.

Ogilvie, A.E.J., Patterson, W.P., Einarsson, Níels, Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg, Nordli, Øyvind and Demarée, G.R. 2008. Narrating the North: Social and Geographical Accounts from Norway, Iceland and Canada. BOREAS Final Conference. Rovaneimi, Finland, 28-31 October, 2009. Invited.

Patterson, W.P. 2009. Frontiers in isotope chemistry. Global Long Term Human Ecodynamics Conference. Eagle Hill ME, October 14-18. Invited.

Ogilvie, A.E.J., Patterson, W.P., Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg, Einarsson, Níels and Nordli, Øyvind, 2008. NORSAGA – A Project for IPY. Tipping Points – The Arctic and Global Change. ARCUS Annual Meeting and Arctic Forum, Washington, D.C. 13-15 May, 2008.

W.P. Patterson, B.M. Eglington, C. Holmden, S.M. Mc Kenzie and C.W. Manchester. 2009. High-frequency late Glacial to mid-Holocene climate variability: evidence from oxygen and carbon isotope values of marl lakes in Canada, Ireland and the United States. V.M. Goldschmidt annual meeting, Davos, Switzerland.

Matthew E. Kirby, Steve P. Lund, William P. Patterson, Michael A. Anderson, Broxton W. Bird, Luissa Ivanovici, Pedro Monarrez, and Shauna Nielsen. Holocene Multi-Decadal-to-Centennial Scale Hydrologic Variability in Southern California (Lake Elsinore, CA). Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM, Houston TX.

Mitchell, C.E., Belscher, K., Melchin, M.J., Loxton, J., Sheets, H.D., Štorch, P., Finney, S.C., Holmden, C., LaPorte, D., Patterson, W.P. 2008. Ecological Reorganization of Graptolite Communities during the Hirnantian Mass Extinction. Joint Meeting of The Geological Society of America, Soil Science Society of America, American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM, Houston TX.

Brasseur, J.M., Patterson, W.P., and Eglington, B.M. 2008. Calibration of meteorological conditions with tree ring chemistry: high-resolution stable isotope evidence from robotically micromilled cellulose. GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec.

Patterson, W.P. 2008. Sea Ice and sagas: stable isotope evidence for two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality on the north Icelandic shelf (Invited). GAC-MAC Annual Meeting, Quebec City, Quebec.

Patterson, W.P. 2008. Seasonality and life history in a Jurassic ecosystem: isotopic evidence from the Great Estuarine Group of Scotland  (Invited). European Geological Union, Annual Meeting, Vienna Austria.

Patterson, W.P. 2008. Sea Ice and sagas: stable isotope evidence for two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality on the north Icelandic shelf  (Invited). Swiss Federal Research Institute, Birmensdorf Switzerland

Blotzer, L.B., Abbott, M.B., Bird, B.W., Finney, B.P., Ortiz, J.D., Patterson, W.P., and Anderson, L. 2008. A 4,000-yr lake record of drought variability from Scout Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada. 38th Annual Arctic Science Workshop, Boulder CO.

Greer, L., Jackson, J., Curran, A., Patterson, W.P., Guilderson, T., Teneva, L., Rhea, E., Shultis, J.  2007. Is Acropora cervicornis a canary in the global warming coal mine?  Lessons from the mid-Holocene Dominican Republic. International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Teneva, L., Greer, L., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. High-resolution Acropora cervicornis d18O: implications for early Holocene Caribbean temperatures and position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone. International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Patterson, W.P., Dietrich, K.A., and Holmden, C. 2007. Sea Ice and sagas: stable isotope evidence for two millennia of North Atlantic seasonality on the north Icelandic shelf  (Invited). Arctic Natural Climate Change Workshop, Tromsø Norway.

Csank, A.Z., Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B., Basinger, J.F., Rybczynski, N. 2007. Climate variability in a Pliocene boreal forest: evidence from tree-rings of sub-fossil wood. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lachniet, M.S., Asmerom, Y., Johnson, L., Burns, S. Polyak, V., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. Central American rainfall variations since 100 ka and moisture delivery to Greenland. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Brasseur, J.M., Patterson, W.P., and Eglington, B.M. 2007. Calibration of meteorological conditions with tree ring chemistry: high-resolution stable isotope evidence from robotically micromilled cellulose. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Johnson, L.*, Asmerom, Y., Lachniet, M., Burns, S., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. A Speleothem Record of Tropical Moisture Transport. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Bekker, A., Beukes, N., Kenig, F., Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P. and Eglington, B.M. 2007. Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi carbon isotope excursion. Goldschmidt Conference, Köln Germany.

Gagnon, M.J., Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Eglington, B.M., Prokopiuk, T. and Dufour, K. 2007. Spatial evidence of climate change using Saskatchewan surface waters, tree ring cellulose and duck populations. Assoc. Canadian Universities for Northern Studies Student Conference, Univ. Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Goulet, J., Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Eglington, B. and Prokopiuk, T. 2007. High-resolution carbon and oxygen isotope analysis of marine and freshwater Devonian bivalve fossils to detemine paleoclimate and paleoenvironment. Assoc. Canadian Universities for Northern Studies Student Conference, Univ. Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada.

White, J., Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B.M. and Prokopiuk, T. 2007. Climate dynamics in Newfoundland and Labrador: stable isotope evidence from surface waters and tree ring cellulose. Assoc. Canadian Universities for Northern Studies Student Conference, Univ. Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Ogilvie, A.E.J., Barlow, L.K., Jennings, A.E., Kristjánsdóttir, G.B., and Patterson, W.P. 2007. The weather for the wedding: variations in climate in Southern Greenland ca. AD 985-1500. The Hvalsey Conference, Qaqortoq, Brattahlíð and Garðar Greenland.

Patterson, W.P. 2007. Two Millennia of Seasonal temperature Variation at Vestfjirdir Iceland: stable isotope evidence from bivalves, and implications for Viking populations. Stable Isotopes in Archaeological Midden Shells: High-Resolution Paleoclimatic & Paleoenvironmental Archives, Hamilton, ON.

Patterson, W.P. 2007. Seasonal temperature reconstructions at Vestfjirdir Iceland over the last 2400 years: stable isotope evidence from bivalves, and implications for Viking populations. The Geological Society of Canada, CIM, Saskatoon, SK.

Key, M.M., Jr., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Miller, K.E.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2007. A stable isotopic test for the origin of fossil brown bodies in trepostome bryozoans from the Ordovician of Estonia, 14th International Bryozoology Conference, Boone North Carolina.

Bekker, A., Beukes, N.J., Kenig, F., Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B.M., 2007. Fractionation between inorganic and organic carbon during the Lomagundi carbon isotope excursion. V.M. Goldschmidt Conference on Geochemistry, Köln Germany.

Patterson, W.P., Brasseur, J.M.*, Eglington, B.M., and Prokopiuk, T.C., 2007. Use of robotics in deriving high-resolution climate/environmental information from tree ring cellulose. Workshop for tree ring chemistry, GeoForschungszentrum und Forschungszentrum Jülich, Potsdam Germany.

Gonyo, A.W.*, Tibert, N.E., Jones, J.G., and Patterson, W.P., 2007. Lake level changes in a Middle-to-Late Holocene lake bog deposit in Western Ireland. GSA Abstracts with Programs, Northeastern meeting, NH.

Laporte, D.F.*, Holmden, C., Patterson, W.P., Mitchell, C.E., Finney, S.C., Melchin, M., Fowler, M., 2006. Hirnantian Shelf to Basin Gradient in Seawater δ13C Values: Evidence from the Nevada Carbonate Platform During the SeaLevel Lowstand. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lachniet, M.S., Patterson, W.P., Burns, S., Asmerom, Y., and Polyak, V. 2006. Surface water and stalagmite δ18O gradients reveal Caribbean and Pacific moisture sources on the Isthmus of Panama. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Patterson, W.P., Dodd, J.P., Brasseur, J.M.*, and Eglington, B.M. 2006. The use of robotics in deriving high-resolution climate/environmental information from tree ring cellulose. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Teneva, L.T.*, Greer, L., Dewet, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Isotope variability in early Holocene Acropora cervicornus from the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Taylor, A.*, Martini, A., Greer, L., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. High resolution stable isotope profiles of Holocene bivalve shells from the Dominican Republic. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Medley, P.R.*, Tibert, N., Patterson, W.P., Curran, H.A., Colin, Jean-Paul, and Greer, L. 2006. Paleosalinity history of a Holocene lagoon in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: pore morphometrics and isotope geochemistry of ostracoda. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Greer, L., Jackson, J.E.*, Guilderson, T.P., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P., Mortlock, R.A., Dyck, K.*, Teneva, L.T.*, Taggart, J.R.*, and Taylor, A.* 2006. How vulnerable is Acropora cervicornus coral to climate change? Lessons from the Mid-Holocene. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Mitchell, C.E., Belscher, K., Finney, S.C., Holmden, C., Laporte, D.*, Melchin, M.J., Sheets, H.D., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Species turnover dynamics during the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) mass extinction: new graptolite and carbon isotopic data from Vinini Creek, Nevada (USA). GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Anderson, M.A., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, W.T., Bird, B.W., Broxton, W., and Schmidt, J.R. 2006. Establishing a baseline of past hydrologic variability in Southern California for better water management practice. Establishing a baseline of past hydrologic variability in Southern California for better water management practice. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., and Mullins, H.T. 2006. Millennial scale terrestrial landscape evolution inferred from carbon isotope records of a marl lake in western Ireland. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Medley, P.R.*, Tibert, N., Patterson, W.P., Curran, H.A., Colin, Jean-Paul, and Greer, L. 2006. Paleohydrology of middle Holocene lagoonal & lacustrine deposits in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: pore morphometrics and isotope geochemistry of ostracoda. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Jackson, J.E.*, Greer, L., Guilderson, T.P., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P., Mortlock, R.A., Dyck K.*, and Teneva, L.T.* 2006. High resolution dating and taphonomy of an Acropora cervicornus reef reveal Mid-Holocene reef architecture. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Key, M.M. Jr., Miller, K.E.*, Patterson, W.P., and Novosel, M. 2006. The role of submarine groundwater discharge in maintaining unique submarine spring benthic ecosystems in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Jackson, J.E.*, Greer, L., Guilderson, T.P., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P., Mortlock, R.A., Dyck, K., and Teneva, L.T. 2006. Can an Acropora cervicornis reef reveal Mid Holocene reef architecture? GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Miller, K.E.*, Key, M.M. Jr., Patterson, W.P., Novosel, M., and Cocito, S. 2006. Seasonal isotope profiling to determine growth rates in an extant giant bryozoan from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia. GSA Abstracts with Programs, v. 38, no. 7, Philadelphia PA.

Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Anderson, M.A., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, W.T., Bird, B.W., and Schmidt, J.R. 2006. Establishing a baseline of past hydrologic variability in Southern California for better water management practice. Managing Drought and Water Scarcity in Vulnerable Environments: Creating a Roadmap for Change in the United States (18–20 September 2006), Boulder CO.

Cosford, J.*, Qing, H, Zhang, M., Yuan, D., Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Millennial-Scale changes in the Asian Monsoon: evidence from oxygen isotope records from stalagmites in eastern China.   Geological Society of London and the Palaeontological Association. Lyell Meeting 2006 - Millennial Scale Events. London, England.

Cosford, J.*, Qing, H, Zhang, M., Yuan, D., Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Millennial-Scale changes in the Asian Monsoon: evidence from oxygen isotope records from stalagmites in eastern China. GAC-MAC, Montreal Canada.

Steinfurth, A.*, Patterson, W.P., and Emslie, S.D. 2006. The diet of the Galapagos Penguin. 24th International Ornithology Congress, Hamburg Germany.

Patterson, W.P., Brasseur, J.*, Dodd, J.P.*, Miller, J.D.*, Eglington, B.M., and Holmden, C. 2006. The use of robotics in deriving high resolution climate/environmental information from tree ring cellulose. 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology, Beijing China.

Brasseur, J.*, Patterson, W.P., and Eglington, B.M. 2006. Calibration of meteorological conditions with tree ring chemistry: high-resolution stable isotope evidence from robotically micromilled cellulose. 7th International Conference on Dendrochronology, Beijing China.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Mullins, H.T. 2006. Carbon isotopes of lake sediments influenced by bedrock and terrestrial vegetation during the late Glacial and Early Holocene: A multiproxy study of lacustrine sediments at Lough Inchiquin, western Ireland. 38 th Annual Graduate Student Colloquium. Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, PA .

Medley, P.*, Tibert, N., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Paleosalinity history of a Holocene lagoon in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: pore morphometrics and isotope geochemistry of ostracoda. Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology, Amherst MA.

Dyck, K.*, Patterson, W.P., and Greer, L. 2006. High-resolution carbon and oxygen isotope and taphonomy records from Dominican Acropora cervicornus and implications for Mid-Holocene climate. Annual Keck Research Symposium in Geology, Amherst MA.

Brasseur, J.*, Patterson, W.P., and Eglington, B.M. 2006. Correlation of meteorological conditions with stable isotope values of tree ring cellulose. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Teneva, L.T.*, Greer, L., Dewet, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. Isotope variability in Early-Holocene Acropora cervicornis from the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic. Geol. Soc. Amer., 41st annual Northeastern section meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Medley, P.R. *, Tibert, N.E., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P. , and Greer, L. 2006. Paleosalinity history of a Holocene lagoon in the Enriquillo Valley, Dominican Republic: pore morphometrics of ostracoda. Geol. Soc. Amer., 41st annual Northeastern section meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Miller, K.E. *, Key, M.M. Jr., Patterson, W.P. , Novosel, M., and Cocito, S. 2006. Seasonal isotope profiling to determine growth rates in an extant giant bryozoan from the Adriatic Sea, Croatia. Geol. Soc. Amer., 41st annual Northeastern section meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Taylor, A.*, Martini, A., Greer, L., and Patterson, W.P. 2006. High resolution stable isotope profiles of Holocene bivalve shells from the Dominican Republic. Geol. Soc. Amer., 41st annual Northeastern section meeting, Harrisburg, PA.

Patterson, W.P. , Dietrich, K.A.*, Holmden, C., Andrews, J.T. 2006. Subseasonal temperature variation in near-shore environments over the last 2000 years in Vestfirdir, NW Iceland: evidence from high-resolution stable isotope analyses of molluscs. American Geophysical Union, 13th annual Ocean Sciences meeting, Honolulu, HI.

Dodd, J.P.*, Patterson, W.P., and Holmden, C.E. 2005. Reconstructing meteorological conditions from tree-ring cellulose at sub-annual resolution using a multi-isotope approach. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, M.A., and Bird, B.W. 2005. Evidence for Multi-scale environmental change during the Holocene in southern California (Lake Elsinore). Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Jackson, J.E.*, Greer, L., Guilderson, T.P., Patterson, W.P., and Mortlock, R.A. 2005. High resolution dating and characterization of Acropora cervicornis growth in the Enriquillo Valley, 9.45-6.06 ka (U/Th). Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Doss, W.C.*, Greer, L., Curran, H.A., Patterson, W.P., and Mortlock, R.A. 2005. Large tufa-coated serpulid mounds signal an abrupt Mid-Holocene transition from marine to restricted hyposaline conditions, Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Immenhauser, A. 2005. Interpreting the carbon isotope record of ancient epeiric seas: lessons from the recent. Geol. Soc. Amer., Earth System Processes 2 meeting, Calgary, AB.

Csank, A.Z.*, Patterson, W.P., Basinger, J.F. 2005. Climate variability in the early Pliocene Canadian High Arctic: evidence from subseasonal δ18O, δD, and δ13C values of fossil wood. Geol. Soc. Amer., Earth System Processes 2 meeting, Calgary, AB.

Dietrich, K.A.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Andrews, J.T., Ogilvie, A., and Jennings, A. 2005. Quantitative reconstructions of near-shore environments over the last 2000 years in Vestfirdir, NW Iceland: evidence from high-resolution stable isotope analyses of mollusks. Geol. Soc. Amer., Earth System Processes 2 meeting, Calgary, AB.

Dodd, J.P.*, Patterson, W.P., and Holmden, C. 2005. Calibration of carbon and oxygen isotope values of modern tree-ring cellulose from Saskatchewan with meteorological records. Geol. Soc. Amer., Earth System Processes 2 meeting, Calgary, AB.

Stanton, C.L.T.*, Tibert, N.E., and Patterson, W.P. 2005. Limnocytheridae and Candonidae ostracode paleoecology of Lough Corrib, Western Ireland: a Holocene North Atlantic climate record. GSA abstracts with programs, v. 37, No. 1. Geol. Soc. Amer., NE Section annual meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Samson, T.M.*, Key, M.M. Jr., Wyse Jackson, P.N., and Patterson, W.P. 2005. Implications of sampling strategy on C and O isotope chemostratigraphy: a test from the Ordovician of Estonia. GSA abstracts with programs, v. 37, No. 1. Geol. Soc. Amer., NE Section annual meeting, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Evans, K.R.*, Patterson, W.P., Emslie, S.D. 2005. Major shift in Adélie Penguin eggshell isotope values in Antarctica: evidence for diet change ~300 years ago. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Dietrich, K.A.*, Patterson, W.P., and Diefendorf, A.F.* 2005. Stable isotopes in modern surface waters of Iceland: a proxy for atmospheric circulation. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Glemser, C.*, Dodd, J.P.*, Patterson, W.P. 2005. Rise and fall of the Mayan Empire: evidence of drought from stable isotope values of Punta Laguna, Central Yucatán, Mexico. Winner, Best Undergraduate Student Presentation. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Csank, A.Z.*, Patterson, W.P., and Basinger, J.F. 2005. A new high-resolution stable isotope record from Pliocene wood, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Canada. Runner-up, Best Graduate Student Presentation. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., and Holmden, C. 2005. Stable isotopes in modern Irish surface waters: a basis for paleoclimate investigations of Ireland. Winner, Best Graduate Student Presentation. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Ogilvie, P.*, Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C. 2005. Early to mid Holocene climate variability in western Ireland: stable isotope evidence from Lough Golluan. Western Inter-University Geosciences Conference, Saskatoon, SK.

Patterson, W.P., Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Kirby, M.E. 2004. A new model for interpretation of carbon isotope values of lacustrine carbonate: influence of summer moisture. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Relationship Between Atmospheric Circulation and Winter Precipitation δ18O in Central New York State. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lachniet, M.S., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Stable isotope values of rainfall and surface waters from Panama and Costa Rica. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Dicus, C.M.*, Dickens, G., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Formation of carbonate concretions in deep-sea sediment below the CCD and above an active gas hydrate. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Emslie, S.D. and Patterson, W.P.  2004.Major shift in Adélie Penguin eggshell isotope values in Antarctica: evidence for diet change ~300 years ago. 5th International Penguin Conference in Ushuaia, Argentina.

Patterson, W.P., Emslie, S.D., and Evans, K.R.* 2004. Major shift in Adélie penguin eggshell isotope values in Antarctica: evidence for diet change ~200 years ago. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Czank, A.*, Patterson, W.P., and Basinger, J.F. 2004. A new high-resolution stable isotope record from Pliocene wood, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut Canada. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Olgilvie, P.*, Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., and Mullins, H.T. 2004. Multiproxy study of Late Pleistocene/Holocene climate variability at Lough Gallaun, Western Ireland from stable isotopes of Lacustrine marl and organic sediment. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Bekker, A., Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Chemostratigraphy of Early Paleoproterozoic carbonates of South Africa. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5.Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Tibert, N.E., Patterson, W.P., Odegaard, L., Tanko, S., Ludvigson, G., and Colin, J-P. 2004. A multidisciplinary proxy for Cenomanian-Turonian (Late Cretaceous) brackish seawater: normal pore Morphometrics and oxygen isotope signatures of the ostracode Fossocytheridea. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5.Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Dietrich, K.A.*, Diefendorf, A.F.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2004. A survey of stable isotopes in modern surface waters of Iceland. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Zazzo, A., Balasse, M., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Enamel mineralization and the reconstruction of paleoenvironments: new evidence from high-resolution δ13C profiles in experimental bovid enamel. GSA Abstracts with Programs Vol. 36, No. 5. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Emslie, S.D. and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Major shift in Adélie Penguin eggshell isotope values in Antarctica: evidence for diet change ~300 years ago. American Ornithological Union, annual meeting.

Patterson, W.P. 2004. High-Resolution Stable Isotope Records from Otoliths: Past, Present and Future. Third International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research & Application, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Patterson, W.P. 2004. Derivation of high-resolution life history records from fish otoliths: applications for the study of thermal preference, migration, and natal origin. Third International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research & Application, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2004. Atmospheric circulation and the oxygen isotopic composition of winter precipitation in Central New York. Assoc. Amer. Geographers, annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Patterson, W.P., Dietrich, K., Andrews, J.T., Jennings, A., Olgilvie, A. 2004. Quantitative reconstructions of near-shore environments over the last 2000 years in Vestfirdir, NW Iceland: evidence from high-resolution stable isotope analyses of mollusks. 34th Annual International Arctic Workshop, Boulder CO.

Key, M.M.Jr., Wyse Jackson, P.N., Håkansson, E., Patterson, W.P., Moore, M.D.* 2004. C and O isotopic test of the algal symbiosis hypothesis for gigantism in Permian trepostomes from Greenland. Boletin de la Sociedad de Biologia de Concepción, Chile. 74: 74.

Dufour, E., Patterson, W.P., Höök, T.O., and Rutherford, E.S. 2003. Application of stable isotope geochemistry for reconstructing thermal history and natal origin of Lake Michigan alewife. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Barta, N.C., Saltzman, M.R., Bergström, S.M., Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2003. The Late Middle Ordovician (Chatfieldian) Guttenburg carbon isotope excursion (GICE): a useful tool for correlation from New York to Manitoulin, Ontario and central Kentucky. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Diefendorf, A.F.*, Patterson, W.P., Mullins, H.T., Martini, A.M., and O'Connell, M. 2003. High-resolution Holocene climate variability at Lough Inchiquin, western Ireland: evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotope values of lacustrine sediment. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Saltzman, M., Young, S.*, Bergstrom, S.M.*, Holmden, C., and Patterson, W.P. 2003. Age and significance of the sequence boundary at the base of the Eureka Quartzite in central Nevada. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Key, M.M.Jr. Wyse Jackson, P.N., Häkansson, E., Patterson, W.P., and Moore, D.M.* 2003. Gigantism in Permian Trepostomes from Greenland: stable isotope evidence of the algal symbiosis hypothesis. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Dufour, E.J.†, Patterson, W.P., Van Neer, W. 2003. High-resolution profiles of late Paleolithic fish otoliths: Reconstruction of seasonality of capture and paleoenvironmental conditions in Upper Egypt. American Chemical Society, Geochemistry Division, annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Patterson, W.P., Kirby, M.E.†, Mullins, H.T., Burnett, A.W. 2003. Holocene records of atmospheric circulation, solar variability, seasonal precipitation and humidity from lacustrine sediment: evidence from stable isotope values of carbonate. Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada, annual meeting. Vancouver, BC.

Patterson, W.P., Wurster, C.M.*, Dufour, E., Smith, G.R., and Hartman, C.M.* 2003. Fish as environmental indicators: evidence from stable isotope values. Geological Association of Canada and Mineralogical Association of Canada, annual meeting. Vancouver, BC.

Conroy, J.L.*, Patterson, W.P., and Wilson, M.A. 2003. A high resolution Holocene paleoclimate record from Western Ireland: Evidence from population, biometric and stable isotope values of freshwater mollusks. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting: Northeastern Section, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2003. Atmospheric Circulation and the Isotopic Composition of Meteoric Precipitation Over the Northeastern United States. Central New York Association of Professional Geologists annual meeting, Syracuse, NY.

Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2002. Atmospheric circulation and the oxygen isotopic composition of meteoric precipitation over the Northeastern United States. Amer. Geophys. Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Kirby, M.E.†, Lund, S., Poulsen, C., Patterson, W.P., and Burnett, A.W. 2002. On the use of historic atmosphere-lake-level relationships for reconstructing stable oxygen isotope-based paleohydrology in Southern CA. Amer. Geophys. Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lachniet, M.†, Patterson, W.P., Burns, S.J., Seltzer, G.O., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V., Piperno, D. 2002. Holocene History of the Central American Monsoon from speleothem proxy records. Amer. Geophys. Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Kirby, M.E., Anderson, W.T., Burnett, A.W., Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 2002. A proposed link between atmospheric circulation and stable oxygen isotope values from tree-ring cellulose, Fayetteville Green Lake, New York. Amer. Geophys. Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Stringer, G., Patterson, W.P., and Strickland, C. 2002. Seasonality and paleotemperatures of Louisiana Archaic sites. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Abstracts with Programs, Bulletin 45, p. 38.

Patterson, W.P., Kirby, M.E., Anderson, W.T., and Mullins, H.T. 2002. A new model for the interpretation of carbon isotope records of lacustrine calcite: influence of seasonal precipitation and humidity. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Dufour, E., Patterson, W.P., and Van Neer, W. 2002. Seasonality of Paleolithic fisheries in Upper Egypt revealed by high-resolution isotopic analysis of otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Key, M.M.Jr., Moore, M.D.*, Patterson, W.P., and Jackson, P.W.N. 2002. A stable isotope test for diagenesis comparing brachiopods, bryozoans, and cements in the Ordovician Duncannon Group, Southeastern Ireland. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Kirby, M.E., Lund, S.P., Poulsen, C.P., Patterson, W.P., and Hartman, C*. 2002. Evidence for high amplitude, high frequency Holocene paleohydrological change from a southern Californian lacustrine site (Lake Elsinore, Riverside County). Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

McFadden, M.A.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., Anderson, W.T., and Stewart, D.J. 2002. Paleoproductivity and paleoclimatology of eastern Lake Ontario over the last 11,200 cal years. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Lachniet, M., Asmerom, Y., Burns, S., Patterson, W.P., Seltzer, G., Wurster, C.*, Piperno, D. 2002. Paleoclimate records from Central American cave calcite (speleothem) deposits: results and progress. Tropical Forests: Past, Present, Future, An International conference of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama City, Panama.

Patterson, W.P., Bergstedt, R.A., and Wurster, C.M.* 2002. Derivation of high-resolution life history records from fish otoliths: applications for the study of migration, thermal preference and natal origin. American society of limnology and oceanography meeting, Victoria BC.

Wurster, C.M.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2002. Secular variation in metabolism of freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens): evidence from stable carbon isotope values. American society of limnology and oceanography meeting, Victoria BC.

Dufour, E.†, and Patterson, W.P. 2002. Dynamics of Alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus) Recruitment Variability in Lake Michigan. American society of limnology and oceanography meeting, Victoria BC.

McFadden, M.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., Stewart, D.J., Anderson, W.T. 2002. Lake Ontario primary productivity over the last 12,000 years: evidence from stable isotope analyses. Great Lake Research Consortium annual meeting, Syracuse NY.

Hartman, C.M.*, Patterson, W.P., Holmden, C., Hudson, J.H., and Wakefield, M.K. 2001. Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopes of aragonitic fossils from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland: evidence for seasonality of temperature, rainfall, and evaporation. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Wurster, C.M.*, and Patterson, W.P. 2001. Late Holocene metabolic rate of freshwater fish: evidence from stable carbon isotope values of freshwater drum otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Boston, MA.

McKenzie, J.M.*, Siegel, D.I., Patterson, W.P., and McKenzie, D.J. 2001. Springs as a domestic water source in southern Ethiopia: water quality and providence. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Patterson, W.P., Kirby, M.E.*, and Mullins, H.T. 2000. A 1,500-year record of subdecadal climate variability derived from Eastern North American lake sediment: evidence from stable isotope values of calcite. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Reno, NV.

Hourigan, G.Q.*, Patterson, W.P., Wurster, C.M.*, and Van Neer, W. 2000. Stable isotope values of Medieval Plaice otoliths from Raversijde Belgium provide evidence for climate and seasonality of fishing during the 15th century. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Reno, NV.

Wurster, C.M.* and Patterson, W.P. 2000. Seasonal variation in stable oxygen and carbon isotope values recovered from modern lacustrine freshwater molluscs: Paleoclimatological implications for sub-weekly temperature records. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Reno, NV.

Kirby, M.E.*, Patterson, W.P., and Mullins, H.T. 2000. Highest-resolution NE USA oxygen isotope record reveals rapid Late-Glacial/Holocene climate change, Fayetteville Green Lake, New York. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Reno, NV.

Lachniet, M.*, Seltzer, G., Patterson, W., Asmerom, Y., Polyak, V.J., Moy, C. 2000. Stable isotope evidence from a Costa Rican speleothem for variation in the Central American Monsoon. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Lesniak*, K.A., Siegel, D.I., Stute, M., and Patterson, W.P. 2000. The origin of solutes and source of carbon dioxide gas in Saratoga Springs water.

Kirby, M.E.*, Mullins, H.T., Patterson, W.P., and Burnett, A.W. A possible solar-terrestrial climate connection involving the circumpolar vortex and stable isotope values in varves, Fayetteville Green Lake, NY. Assoc. Amer. Geographers, 2000 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.

Mullins, H.T., Lejewski, C.*, Patterson, W.P., and Callinan, C. A 10,000 year record of calcite precipitation in Cayuga Lake. Symposium on the status of Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, NY.

Patterson, W.P. and Mullins, H.T.1999. Holocene climate variability in NE USA: high-resolution evidence from δ13C and δ18O values of lacustrine calcite. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Ivany, L.C.†, and Patterson, W.P. 1999. Paleogene temperature records inferred from microsampling and isotopic analysis of Gulf Coastal Plain fish otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Kirby, M.E.*, Mullins, H.T., and Patterson, W.P. 1999. A 22-year periodicity of stable isotope values in varves from Fayetteville Green Lake, N.Y.: evidence for a solar-terrestrial climate connection. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Wurster, C.M.* and Patterson, W.P. 1999. Mid-Holocene to Present Eastern Interior United States Climate: Evidence from Stable Isotope Ratios of Sagittal Otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Hendry, J., Hudson, J.D., Patterson, W.P., Wakefield, M.I., and Andrews, J. 1998. A review of stable oxygen and carbon isotope data from the Middle Jurassic of the UK: implications for climatic and paleoenvironmental characterization. BSRG Middle Jurassic workshop,UK.

Wurster, C.H.*, Patterson, W.P., and Cheatham, M.M. 1998. Advances in micromilling techniques: a new apparatus for acquiring high-resolution oxygen and carbon stable isotope values and major/minor elemental ratios from accretionary carbonate. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Patterson, W.P. 1998. High-resolution records of temperature and behavioral history derived from otolith microchemistry. Invited lecture, Early Life History Section of the American Fisheries Society, Ann Arbor, MI.

Wurster, C.H.*, and Patterson, W.P. 1998. Advances in computer-based microsampling of biogenic carbonates. Second International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research and Application, Bergen, Norway.

Patterson, W.P. 1998. Life-history and paleoclimate: high-resolution records stored in otoliths. Second International Symposium on Fish Otolith Research and Application, Bergen, Norway.

Patterson, W.P. 1997. Temperature and salinity profiles of a marginal marine Jurassic environment: evidence from δ13C and δ18O values of fish otolith aragonite. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Salt Lake City, UT.

Patterson, W.P., 1997. Paleohydrology of the Laurentian Great Lakes during the last millennium: evidence from oxygen isotope values of fish otoliths. Invited lecture, New York State Geological Association annual meeting.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R., and Lohmann, K.C. 1996. Paleohydrology of the Laurentian Great Lakes during the last Millennium: Evidence from Oxygen Isotope Values of fish Otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Denver, CO.

Coburn, J.A.*, Patterson, W.P., and Smith, G.R. 1996. Regional climate variation of the Mio-Pliocene western North American interior: stable oxygen isotope evidence from fish-bone phosphate. AGU annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Patterson, W.P., Drummond, C.N., Walker, J.C.G., Lohmann, K.C, and Green, K. 1995. Climatic forcing of carbon-oxygen isotopic covariance in temperate region marl lakes. 1st SEPM Congress on Sedimentary Geology, Linked Earth Systems, St. Petersburg Beach, FL.

Finch, C.*, Patterson, W. and Rose, M. 1995. Fish Remains from Minoan Pseira: assemblage formation, seasonality, and temperature variation of Mediterranean (Gulf of Mirabello) surface water in the Late Bronze age. Madrid, Spain.

Patterson, W.P., Blake, R.E., O’Neil, J.R., and Smith, G.R. 1994. Oxygen isotopic data on ecology and climate of Lake Bonneville, 12,000-14,000 YR BP, using fish-bone phosphate paleothermometry. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Seattle, WA.

Patterson, W.P. 1994. Oxygen isotopic composition of fish otoliths as a record of continental climate. Case National Media Fellowship “Signals of Global Change”, Ann Arbor, MI.

Smith, G.R., Patterson, W.P., and Todd, T.N. 1994. Oxygen isotopes in otolith growth rings as a tool in fish life history studies. American Fisheries Soc., Michigan Chapter, spring meeting, Ann Arbor, MI.

Patterson, W.P., Lohmann, K.C, and Smith, G.R. 1993. Late Holocene continental seasonality: high-resolution analysis of otoliths. Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Patterson, W.P., and Walter, L.M. 1993. Extreme depletion in the carbon isotopic composition of seawater ΣCO2 on Bahamian and Floridian carbonate platforms: mechanisms and significance for ancient epieric seas. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, Boston, MA.

Patterson, W.P., and Smith, G.R. 1993. Oxygen isotopic thermometry based on microsampling of aragonite accretionary rings in fish otoliths. Fish Otolith Research and Application, An International Symposium, Hilton Head, SC.

Smith, G.R. and Patterson, W.P. 1993. Otoliths are recording thermometers in fishes: oxygen isotopes in seasonal growth bands records temperatures. Amer. Soc. Ichth. Herpetol., annual meeting, Austin, TX.

Walter, L.M., Bischof, S.A., Patterson, W.P., and Lyons, T.W. 1993. Dissolution and recrystallization in modern shelf carbonates: evidence from pore water and solid phase chemistry. Royal Soc. Diss. Meeting, London, England.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R., and Lohmann, K.C. 1993. Oxygen isotope paleothermometry utilizing aragonitic otoliths of freshwater fishes. Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH.

Walter, L.M., Bischof, S.A., Patterson, W.P., Lyons, T.W., Murphy, S.F. Role of dissolved sulfide oxidation in dissolution of recent carbonate platform sediments: evidence from pore water C and S systems. Geol. Soc. Amer. annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH.

Smith, G.R., and Patterson, W.P. 1992. Continental paleothermometry and seasonality using isotopic composition of freshwater fish otoliths. Symp. Vert. Paleontol., annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R., and Lohmann, K.C. 1992. Pliocene climate of the Northern Great Basin based on faunal assemblage and stable isotope systematics. American Geophysical Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Drummond, C.N., Smith, G.R., Patterson, W.P., Lohmann, K.C, and Wilkinson, B.H. 1992. Paleontologic and Isotopic Evaluation of Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Climate Change in the Snake River Plain and Western Wyoming. Geol. Soc. Amer., Cordilleran section meeting, Eugene, OR.

Patterson, W.P., and Walter, L.M. 1991. Isotopic and Elemental Exchange Between Carbonates and Marine Pore Water: Field and Experimental Evidence From Platform Sediments. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

Walter, L.M., and Patterson, W.P. 1991. Significant Carbon Isotopic Variation Associated With chemical Evolution of Seawater On Carbonate Platforms: Implications for the Isotopic Record of Carbonates. Geol. Soc. Amer., annual meeting, San Diego, CA.

Patterson, W.P., and Smith, G.R. 1991. Oxygen isotope thermometry in fish aragonite: high resolution seasonality determination. Amer. Geophys. Union, Chap. Conf. Cont. Isotopic Indicators of Climate, Jackson Hole, WY.

Walter, L.M., Patterson, W.P., and Muehlenbachs, K. 1990. Variation in carbon isotopic composition of surface seawater on tropical carbonate platforms: Florida Bay and Atlantic Reef Tract, Florida. Amer. Geophys. Union, annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Walter, L.M., Muehlenbachs, K., Patterson, W.P., and Bonnell, L. 1990. Carbon isotopic equilibration of recent platform carbonate sediments with pore fluids: implications for secular variations in ocean chemistry. V.M. Goldschimdt Conference.

Walter, L.M., Bonnell, L., and Patterson, W.P. 1990. Syndepositional dissolution of shallow marine carbonates. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Mehle, A.L., and Patterson, W.P. 1980. The effect of gamma radiation on the 32P radioisotope ion absorption rate during the germination of Hordeum vulgare. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., annual convention, San Francisco, CA.

Patterson, W.P. 1993. What fish can hear about changing climate. The World & I, Natural Science, At the Edge, Washington Times publ., May 1993, p. 186-193.

Patterson, W.P., Smith, G.R. and Lohmann, K.C. 1992. Getting an earful of climate. SCIENCE, v. 258, p. 1087.

Patterson, W.P. 1995. in Aging by Ricklefs, R.E. and Finch, C.E. Scientific American Library, New York.

Environmental information recovered from otoliths: implications for the study of life history and paleoclimate. Analysis, Interpretation, and Applications of Fish Otoliths and Other Hard Parts: the State-of-the-Art, Cornell/SUNY-ESF 6/01, Syracuse and Shackleton Point NY.

High-resolution life history records of Great Lakes fishes derived from stable isotope values of otoliths: implications for management of fisheries. Cornell University, 3/01, Ithaca NY.

The record of paleoclimate and life history stored in fish otoliths: evidence from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes. Presented at the workshop "Use of stable isotopes as tracers of hydrological, chemical and biological processes in aquatic ecosystems and watersheds". SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 3/01, Syracuse NY.

Climate and Medieval fishing in the North Sea: evidence from the carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of Plaice otoliths from Raversjide, Belgium 2/00, Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research (RIVO-DLO), IJmuiden, The Netherlands.

The record of life history and paleoclimate stored in fish otoliths: high-resolution analyses. Center for Environmental Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 7/99, Lowestoft, England.

The record of life history and paleoclimate stored in fish otoliths: high-resolution analyses. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire de Biogéochimie isotopique, 4/99, Paris France.

North American continental seasonality during the last millennium: high-resolution analyses of sagittal otoliths. Colgate University, 3/99, Hamilton, NY.North American Continental Seasonality during the last millennium: High-Resolution Analysis of Sagittae. Presented at Syracuse University for visiting Skidmore College students and faculty, 5/98, Syracuse NY.

Record of seasonal temperature variation over the last thousand years from fish otoliths (earstones) and historical documents: impact of climate on societies and cultures of the Northern Hemisphere. Earth Week Lecture, 4/98, Syracuse NY.

Northern Hemispherical climate of the last millennium: geochemical proxies and historical records William and Hobart Smith Colleges, 3/98, Geneva NY.

The stable isotope record of paleoclimate and life history stored in fish otoliths. SUNY-Binghamton, 2/98, Binghamton, NY.

Paleohydrology of the Laurentian Great Lakes during the last millennium: evidence from oxygen isotope values of fish otoliths. New York State Geological Association annual meeting, 1997.

Northern Hemispherical climate of the last millennium: geochemical proxies and historical records SUNY-Albany, 1996, Albany NY.

Northern Hemispherical climate of the last millennium: geochemical proxies and historical records Hamilton College, 1996, Clinton NY.

Oxygen isotopic composition of fish otoliths as a record of continental climate. Case National Media Fellowship "Signals of Global Change", 1994, Ann Arbor, MI.

Northern Hemispherical climate of the last millennium: geochemical proxies and historical records University of Cincinnati, 1994, Cincinnati OH.