Publications

Peer-Reviewed

2024

• Laurence A. Coogan & Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein. Regulation of the carbon cycle on geologic timescales. Treatise on Geochemistry. v. 3. 10.1016/B978-0-323-99762-1.00060-7.

• Livia Manser, Tyler Kukla, & Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein. Stable isotope evidence for long-term stability of large-scale hydroclimate in the Neogene North American Great Plains. Climate of the Past. v. 20. 1039-1065. 10.5194/cp-20-1039-2024

• Aaron Bufe, Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein, & Niels Hovius. CO2 drawdown from weathering is maximized at moderate erosion rates. Science. v. 383. 1075-1080. 10.1126/science.adk0957. 

  • See also CSU Source story, KUNR radio broadcast, and Eos article about this study. 

• Ellie Driscoll, Michael R. Needham, Patrick W. Keys, & Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein. Cenozoic stable isotope constraints on the Eurasian continental interior hydroclimate response to high CO2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 630. 118623. 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118623. 

2023

• Tyler Kukla, Daniel E. Ibarra, Kimberly V. Lau, & Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein. All Aboard! Earth System investigations with the CH2O-CHOO-TRAIN v1.0. Geoscientic Model Development. v. 16. 5515-5538. 10.5194/gmd-16-5515-2023. pdf. 

• The Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) Consortium. Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science. v. 382 (1136). 10.1126/science.adi5177. 

  • See also CSU Source story about this study. 

2022

• Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Katherina Methner, Tyler Kukla, Andreas Mulch, Tina Lüdecke, Jens Fiebig, Anne Meltzer, Karl W. Wegmann, Peter Zeitler, & C. Page Chamberlain. Clumped isotope constraints on warming and precipitation seasonality in Mongolia following Altai uplift. American Journal of Science. v. 322: 28-54. 10.2475/01.2022.02. pdf. Supplemental Material.

• Tyler Kukla, Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein, Elizabeth Driscoll, Daniel E. Ibarra, & C. Page Chamberlain. The PATCH Lab V1.0: A database and workspace for Cenozoic terrestrial paleoclimate and environment reconstruction. American Journal of Science. v. 322: 1124-1158. 10.2475/10.2022.02. pdf.

• Friedhelm von Blanckenburg, Julien Bouchez, Jane K. Willenbring, Daniel E. Ibarra, & Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein. There is no Neogene denudation conundrum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. v. 119 (35): e2202387119. 10.1073/pnas.2202387119. 

  • This letter is a comment on Neogene continental denudation and the beryllium conundrum by Li et al. (published 2021). There is a corresponding reply by Li et al. to our letter, available here.  

• Sarah Fleischmann, Vincenzo Picotti, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Miriam Cobianchi, & Stefano M. Bernasconi. Effects of the Pliensbachian–Toarcian Boundary Event on carbonate productivity of a Tethyan platform and slope. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. v. 37: e2021PA004392. 10.1029/2021PA004392. pdf. 

• Tyler Kukla, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Daniel E. Ibarra, Matthew J. Winnick, Caroline A. E. Strömberg, & C. Page Chamberlain. Drier winters drove Cenozoic open habitat expansion in North America. AGU Advances. v. 3: e2021AV000566. 10.1029/2021AV000566. pdf. 

  • • See press coverage of this study in Discover Magazine.

    • See also editor highlight by S. Trumbore.

2021

• Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Daniel E. Ibarra, Shuang Zhang, Noah J. Planavsky, & Friedhelm von Blanckenburg. Isotope mass-balance constraints preclude that mafic weathering drove Neogene cooling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. v. 118 (30): e2026345118. 10.1073/pnas.2026345118. Code. 

  1. 1. • This letter is a comment on Emergence of the Southeast Asian islands as a driver for Neogene cooling by Park et al. (published in 2020). There is a corresponding reply by Park et al. to our letter, available here. 

• Erica D. Erlanger, Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein, Aaron Bufe, Vincenzo Picotti, & Sean Willett. Controls on Physical and Chemical Denudation in a Mixed Carbonate‐Siliciclastic Orogen. Journal of Geophysical Research--Earth Surface. v. 126: e2021JF006064. 10.1029/2021jf006064.

  1. 1. • See a nice summary of this paper by co-author Aaron Bufe here.

• Yuan Gao, Daniel E. Ibarra, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Jiquan Chan, Tyler Kukla, Katharina Methner, Youfeng Gao, He Huang, Zhipeng Lin, Laiming Zhang, Dangpeng Xi, Huaichun Wu, Alan R. Carroll, Stephan A. Graham, C. Page Chamberlain, & Changshan Wang. Terrestrial climate in mid-latitude East Asia from the latest Cretaceous to the earliest Paleogene: A multiproxy record from the Songliao Basin in northeastern China. Earth-Science Reviews. v. 216: 103572. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103572.

• Aaron Bufe, Niels Hovius, Robert Emberson, Jeremy K. C. Rugenstein, Albert Galy, Hima J. Hassenruck-Gudipati, & Jui-Ming Chang. Co-variation of silicate, carbonate and sulfide weathering drives CO2 release with erosion. Nature Geoscience. v. 14: 211-216. 10.1038/s41561-021-00714-3.

• Philipp de Vrese, Tobias Stacke, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Jason Goodman, & Victor Brovkin. Snowfall-albedo feedbacks could have led to deglaciation of snowball Earth starting from mid-latitudes. Communications Earth & Environment. v. 2 (91). 10.1038/s43247-021-00160-4. pdf.

• Tyler Kukla, Daniel E. Ibarra, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Jared T. Gooley, Casey E. Mullins, Samuel Kramer, Danielle Y. Moragne, & C. Page Chamberlain. High-Resolution Stable Isotope Paleotopography of the John Day Region, Oregon, United States. Frontiers in Earth Science. v. 9: 635181. 10.3389/feart.2021.635181. pdf. 

2020

• Malwina San Jose, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Domenico Cosentino, Claudio Faccenna, Maria Giuditta Fellin, Massimiliano Ghinassi, & Ivan Martini. Stable isotope evidence for rapid uplift of the central Apennines since the late Pliocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 544: 116376. 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116376.

• Joep van Dijk. Alvaro Fernandez, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Simon R. Passey, & Tim White. Spatial pattern of super-greenhouse warmth controlled by elevated specific humidity. Nature Geoscience. v. 13: 739-744. 10.1038/s41561-020-00648-2.

• Donald Penman, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Daniel E. Ibarra, & Matthew J. Winnick. Silicate weathering as a feedback and forcing in Earth's climate and carbon cycle. Earth Science Reviews. v. 209: 103298. 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103298.

• Alexis Licht, Guillaume Dupont-Nivet, Niels Meijer, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Andrew Schauer, Jens Fiebig, Andreas Mulch, Carina Hoorn, Natasha Barbolini, & Z. Guo. Decline of soil respiration in northeastern Tibet through the transition into the Oligocene icehouse. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. v. 560: 110016. 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110016.

• Xin Wang, Barbara Carrapa, Yuchen Sun, David L. Dettman, James B. Chapman, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Mark T. Clementz, Peter G. DeCelles, Mi Wang, Jie Chen, Jay Quade, Fei Wang, Zaijun Li, Ilhomjon Oimuhammadzoda, Mustafo Gadoev, Gerrit Lohmann, Xu Zhang, & Fahu Chen. The role of the westerlies and orography in Asian hydroclimate since the late Oligocene. Geology. v. 48: 10.1130/G47400.1. pdf.

• Louis Honegger, Thierry Adatte, Jorge E. Spangenberg, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Miquel Poyatos-Moré, Cai Puigdefabregas, Emmanuelle Chanvry, Julian Clark, Andrea Fildani, Eric Verrechia, Kalin Kouzmanov, Matthieu Harlaux, & Sébastien Castelltort. Alluvial record of an early Eocene hyperthermal, Castissent Formation, the Pyrenees, Spain. Climate of the Past. v. 16: 227-243. 10.5194/cp-16-227-2020. pdf.

• Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein.What goes down must come up. Nature Geoscience. v. 13: 5-7. 10.1038/s41561-019-0514-4.

2019

• Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Daniel E. Ibarra, & Friedhelm von Blanckenburg. Neogene cooling driven by land surface reactivity rather than increased weathering fluxes. Nature. v. 571: 99-102. 10.1038/s41586-019-1332-y. Code.

  • See ETH press release by Peter Rüegg: Deutsch or English

• Richard F. Ott, Sean F. Gallen, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Susan Ivy‐Ochs, David Helman, Charalampos Fassoulas, Christof Vockenhuber, Marcus Christl, & Sean D. Willett. Chemical Versus Mechanical Denudation in Meta‐Clastic and Carbonate Bedrock Catchments on Crete, Greece, and Mechanisms for Steep and High Carbonate Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. v. 124. 10.1029/2019JF005142.

• Hari Mix, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Sean P. Reilly, Andrea J. Ritch, Matthew J. Winnick, Tyler Kukla, & C. Page Chamberlain. Atmospheric flow deflection in the late Cenozoic Sierra Nevada. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. v. 518: 76-85. 10.1016/j.epsl.2019.04.050

• Svetlana Botsyun, Pierre Sepulchre, Yannick Donnadieu, Camille Risi, Alexis Licht, & Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein. Revised paleoaltimetry data show low Tibetan Plateau elevation during the Eocene. Science v. 363: 946. 10.1126/science.aaq1436

  • See also accompanying Perspectives article by Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen and Lydian Boschman: 10.1126/science.aaw7705

  • See also Comment and Reply in Science to this article

• Daniel E. Ibarra, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Aviv Bachan, Andres Baresch, Kimberly V. Lau, Dana L. Thomas, Jung-Eun Lee, C. Kevin Boyce, & C. Page Chamberlain. Modeling the evolution of land plants and the silicate weathering feedback. American Journal of Science v. 319 (1): 1-43. 10.2475/01.2019.01. pdf.

2018

• Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein and C. Page Chamberlain. The evolution of hydroclimate in Asia over the Cenozoic: A stable-isotope perspective. Earth-Science Reviews, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.09.003. pdf.

• Daniel E. Ibarra, Jessica L. Oster, Matthew J. Winnick, Jeremy K. Caves Rugenstein, Michael Byrne, and C. Page Chamberlain. Warm and cold wet states in the western United States during the Pliocene – Pleistocene. Geology, v. 46. 10.1130/G39962.1. pdf.

• Cin-Ty A. Lee, Jeremy K. Caves, Hehe Jiang, Wenrong Cao, Adrian Lenardic, N. Ryan McKenzie, Oliver Shorttle, Qing-zhu Yin, and Blake Dyer. Deep mantle roots and continental emergence: implications for whole-Earth elemental cycling, long-term climate, and the Cambrian explosion. International Geology Review. v. 60 (4): 431-448 10.1080/00206814.2017.1340853. pdf.

2017

• Jeremy K. Caves, Bolat U. Bayshashov, Aizhan Zhamangara, Annie J. Ritch, Daniel E. Ibarra, Derek J. Sjostrom, Hari T. Mix, Matthew J. Winnick, and C. Page Chamberlain. Late Miocene uplift of the Tian Shan and Altai and reorganization of Central Asia climate. GSA Today, v. 27 (2): 19-26. 10.1130/GSATG305A.1. pdf.

• Daniel E. Ibarra, Seulgi Moon, Jeremy K. Caves, C. Page Chamberlain, and Kate Maher. Concentration-discharge patterns of weathering products from global rivers. Acta Geochimica. v. 36 (3): 405-409. 10.1007/s11631-017-0177-z. pdf.

• Yao Tong, Daniel E. Ibarra, Jeremy K. Caves, Stephan A. Graham, Tapan Mukerji. Constraining basin thermal history and petroleum generation using paleoclimate data in the Piceance Basin, Colorado. Basin Research. v. 29: 542-553. 10.1111/bre.12213. pdf.

2016

• Jeremy K. Caves, Danielle Y. Moragne, Daniel E. Ibarra, Bolat U. Bayshashov, Yuan Gao, Matthew M. Jones, Aizhan Zhamangara, Anastasia V. Arzhannikova, Sergey G. Arzhannikov, C. Page Chamberlain. The Neogene de-greening of Central Asia. Geology; vol. 44 (11): 887-890. 10.1130/G38267.1. pdf. R code used in analysis.

• Jeremy K. Caves, Adam B. Jost, Kimberly V. Lau, and Kate Maher. Cenozoic carbon cycle imbalances and a variable silicate weathering feedback. Earth and Planetary Science Letters; vol. 450: 152-163. 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.035. pdf.

• Daniel E. Ibarra, Jeremy K. Caves, Seulgi Moon, Dana L. Thomas, Jens Hartmann, C. Page Chamberlain, and Kate Maher. Differential weathering of basaltic and granitic catchments from concentration–discharge relationships. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta; vol. 190: 265-293. 10.1016/j.gca.2016.07.006. pdf.

2015

• Matthew J. Winnick and Jeremy K. Caves. Oxygen isotope mass-balance constraints on Pliocene sea level and East Antarctic Ice Sheet stability. Geology; vol. 43 (10): 879-882. 10.1130/G36999.1. pdf. R code used in analysis.

  • See also accompanying Research Focus in Geology by G. Balco: 10.1130/focus102015.1. pdf.

• Jeremy K. Caves, Matthew J. Winnick, Stephan A. Graham, Derek J. Sjostrom, Andreas Mulch, and C. Page Chamberlain. Role of the westerlies in Central Asia climate over the Cenozoic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters; vol. 428: 33-43. pdf 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.07.023. pdf.

• Matthew J. Winnick, Jeremy K. Caves, and C. Page Chamberlain. A Mechanistic Analysis of Early Eocene Latitudinal Gradients of Isotopes in Precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters vol. 42: 8216-8224. 10.1002/2015GL064829. pdf.

• Yuan Gao, Daniel E. Ibarra, Chengshan Wang, Jeremy K. Caves, C. Page Chamberlain, Stephan A. Graham, H. Wu. Mid-latitude terrestrial climate of East Asia linked to global climate in the Late Cretaceous. Geology; vol. 43 (4): 287-290. 10.1130/G36427.1. pdf.

  • 1. • See also Comment and Reply in Geology to this article

2014

• Jeremy K. Caves, Derek J. Sjostrom, Hari T. Mix, Matthew J. Winnick, and C. Page Chamberlain. Aridification of Central Asia and Uplift of the Altai and Hangay Mountains, Mongolia: Stable Isotope Evidence. American Journal of Science; vol. 314 (8): 1171-1201. 10.2475/08.2014.01. pdf

• Matthew J. Winnick, C. Page Chamberlain, Jeremy K. Caves, and Jeffrey M. Welker. Quantifying the isotopic 'continental effect'. Earth and Planetary Science Letters; vol. 406: 123-133. 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.005. pdf. R code used in analysis.

  • See also News and Views in Nature by K. Freeman: 10.1038/516041a

2013

• Jeremy K. Caves, Gita S. Bodner, Karen Simms, Larry A. Fisher, and Tahnee Robertson. Integrating Collaboration, Adaptive Management, and Scenario-Planning: Experiences at Las Cienegas National Conservation Area. Ecology and Society; vol. 18 (3). 10.5751/ES-05749-180343. pdf

2012

• Davey I. Kline, Lida Teneva, K. Schneider, T. Miard, A. Chai, M. Marker, K. Headley, Bradley N. Opdyke, Melinda Nash, M. Valetich, Jeremy K. Caves, B. D. Russell, S. D. Connell, B. J. Kirkwood, P. Brewer, E. Peltzer, J. Silverman, Ken Caldeira, Rob B. Dunbar, J. R. Koseff, S. G. Monismith, B. G. Mitchell, S. Dove, and O. Hoegh-Guldberg. A short-term in situ CO2 enrichment experiment on Heron Island (GBR). Scientific Reports; 2. 10.1038/srep00413. pdf. 

2010

• M. R. Morris, B. O. Brouwer, Jeremy K. Caves, M. J. Harner, and J. A. Stanford. Successional changes in soil and hyporheic nitrogen fertility on an alluvial flood plain: implications for riparian vegetation. Aquatic Sciences; vol. 72 (4): 519-532. 10.1007/s00027-010-0153-8. pdf.

Theses

• Jeremy K. Caves. The Cenozoic climatic and tectonic history of Asia. Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, CA. p. 420. Stanford Library Link. pdf.

Non-Peer-Reviewed

• Jeremy K. Caves. (2011) AGU Selects Two Congressional Science Fellows. Eos Transactions 92 (19). pdf.

• Jeremy K. Caves. (2011) AGU Members Press for Continued Federal Support for Basic Research on Capitol Hill. Eos Transactions 92 (18). pdf.

• Jeremy K. Caves. (2011) Members Promote Climate Science on Capitol Hill. Eos Transactions 92 (12). pdf.

• Jeremy K. Caves. (2010) Scenario Planning at Las Cienegas National Conservation Area: Decision Support Tools and Futures Planning. Report prepared for the Bureau of Land Management by the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Tucson, AZ.

• Camila Thorndike, Jeremy K. Caves, Kiry Nelsen, M McCaffrey. (2010) Lessons Learned Report: Governance Structures of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. Report prepared for the US Fish and Wildlife Service by the US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Tucson, AZ.

• W Hockaday, Jeremy K. Caves, C Masiello, K Zygourakis, R Johnson, M Keller. (2008) Biochar for Carbon Capture: Solutions for Hurricane Ike Biomass Debris. Proposal to the City of Houston—Awarded $10,000 as winner of the “Recycle Ike” contest.

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