Site Locations
1989 - D. Brandsma, S. P. Lund and T. L. Henyey. Paleomagnetism of late Quaternary marine sediments from Santa Catalina basin, California continental borderland. Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 94, p. 547-564, 1989. PDF
1996 - L. Benson, J. Burdett, M. Kashgarian, S. P. Lund, F. Phillips, and R. Rye, Climatic and hydrologic oscillations in the Owens Lake basin and adjacent Sierra Nevada, California, Science, v. 274, p. 746-749, 1996. PDF
1996 - S. P. Lund, M. Newton, O. K. Davis, J. P. Bradbury, and D. E. Hammond, Late Quaternary stratigraphy of Owens Lake, California, U.S.G.S. Circular 1119, p. 47-52, 1996. PDF
1997 - L. Benson, J. Burdett, S. P. Lund, M. Kashgarian, and S. Mensing, Evidence for nearly synchronous northern hemispheric climate change during the last glaciation, Nature, 388, 263-265, 1997. PDF
1998 - L. Benson, S. P. Lund, J. Burdett, M. Kashgarian, T. Rose, J. Smoot, and M. Schwartz, Correlation of Late-Pleistocene lake-level oscillations in Mono Lake, California with North Atlantic climate events, Quaternary Research, 49, p 1-10, 1998. PDF
1998 - L. Benson, H. May, R. Antweller, T. Brinton, M. Kashgarian, J. Smoot, and S. Lund, A glacial history of the Sierra Nevada: 52,500 to 12,500 14C yr BP, Quaternary Res., 50, 113-127, 1998. PDF
2000 - J. P. Smoot, R. J. Litwin, J. L. Bischoff, and S. P. Lund, Sedimentary record of the 1872 earthquake and 'tsunami' at Owens, Lake, southeast California, Sedimentary Geology, v. 135, p. 241-254, 2000. PDF
2000 - H.-C. Li, J. L. Bischoff, T.-L. Ku, S. P. Lund, and L. D. Stott, Climatic variability in eastern central California during the last 1000 years: geochemical and isotopic records of Owens Lake sediments, Quaternary Research, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 189-197, 2000. PDF
2002 -L. Benson, M. Kashgarian, R. Rye, S. Lund, F. Paillet, J. smoot, C. Kester, S. Mensing, D. Meko, S. Lunstrom, Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting Northern California and Nevada, Quaternary Science Reviews, p. 659-682, 2002. PDF
2003 - L. Benson, S. Lund, R. Negrini, B. Lindsley, and M. Zic, Response of North American Great Basin Lakes to Dansgaard-Oeschger Events, Quat. Sci. Rev., v. 22, 2239-2251, 2003. PDF
2003 - L. Benson, B. Linsley, J. Smoot, S. Mensing, S. Lund, S. Stine, and A. Sarna-Wojcicki, Influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) on the climate of the Sierra Nevada and Nevada, Quat. Res., v.59, 151-159, 2003. PDF
2003 - L. Benson, J. Liddicoat, J. Smoot, A. Sarna-Wojcicki, R. Negrini, and S. Lund, Age of the Mono Lake excursion and associated tephra, Quat. Sci. Rev., v. 22, 135-140, 2003. PDF
2004 - M. Kirby, C. Poulsen, S. Lund, W. Patterson, L. Reidy, and D. Hammond, Arid environment lake-atmosphere interactions over the late Holocene: evidence from magnetic and stable isotope stratigraphy (Lake Elsinore, Southern California), J. of Paleolimnology, v. 31, 275-293, 2004. PDF
2004 - F. Yuan, B. Linsley,, L. Benson, S. Lund, and J. McGeehin, A 1200 year record of hydrologic variability in the Sierra Nevada from sediments in Walker Lake, Nevada, Geochem. Geophys. Geosys., v. 5 #3, doi:10.1029/2003GC000652, 2004. PDF
2004 - S. Mensing, L. Benson, M. Kashgarian, and S. Lund, A Holocene record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, Quat. Res., v. 62, 29-38, 2004. PDF
2005 - M. Kirby, S. Lund, and C. Poulsen, Hydrologic variability and the onset of modern Niño-Southern Oscillation: A 19,250 Calendar Year Record From Lake Elsinore, southern California, Journal of Quaternary Science, 239-254, 2005. PDF
2006 - F. Yuan, R. Lindsley, L. Benson, S. Lund, J. McGeehin, and S. Lowe, Late Holocene lake-level fluctuations in Walker Lake, Nevada, USA, Paleogeog., Paleoclim. Paleoecol., 240, 497-507, 2006. PDF
2006 - M. Kirby, S. P. Lund, and B. Bird, Mid-Wisconsin sediment record from Baldwin Lake reveals hemispheric climate dynamics (Southern CA, USA), Paleogeog., Paleoclim., Paleoecol., 241, 267-283, 2006. PDF
2007 - M. Kirby, Steve Lund, M. Anderson, and B. Bird, Insolation forcing of Holocene climate change in Southern California: a sediment study from Lake Elsinore, J. Paleolimn. DOI 10.1007/s10933-006-9085-7, 2007. PDF
2009 - J. Paces, L. Neymark, J. Whelan, J. Wooden, B. Marshall, Z. Peterman, and S. Lund, Impacts of Quaternary climate change on unsaturated-zone flow through Yucca Mountain, Nevada, derived from U-series ages, growth Rates and Cathodoluminenscence in subsurface secondary opal, Scientific Investigations Report 07-xx, U.S. Geological Survey (2009).
2010 - Kirby, M., S. Lund, W. Patterson, M. Anderson, B. Bird, L. Ivanovici, P. Monarrez, and S. Nielson, A Holocene Record of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)-Related Hydrologic Variability in Southern California (Lake Elsinore, CA), Journal of Paleolimnology, doi: 10.1007/s10933-010-9454-0, 2010. PDF
2010 - Paces, J., L. Neymark, J. Whalen, J. Wooden, S. Lund, and B. Marshall, Limited hydrologic response to Pleistocene climate change in deep vadose zones – Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 300, 287-298, 2010. PDF
2011 - Benson, L. S. Lund, J. Smoot, D. Rhode, R. Spenser, K. Verosub, L. Louderback, C. Johnson, and R. Rye, The rise and fall of Lake Bonneville between 45-10.5 ka, Quaternary Int., 235, 57-69, 2011. PDF
2012 - Reheis, M., J. Bright, S. Lund, D. Miller, G. Skipp, and R. Fleck, A half-million year record of paleoclimate from the Lake Manix core, Mojave Desert, California, USGS-drill core, Palaeoclim., Paleogeog, Palaeoecol., 365-366, 11-37, 2012. PDF
2013 - Benson, L., J. Smoot, S. Lund, S. Mensing, F. Foit, and R. Rye, Insights from a synthesis of old and new climate-proxy data from the western Lahontan Basin for the period 48 to 11.5 cal ka, Quaternary Int., 310, 62-82 2013. PDF
2014 - Negrini, R., et al., Nongeocentric axial dipole field behavior during the Mono Lake excursion, J. Geophys. Res. 2014. PDF
2016 - Lund, S., and E. Platzman, Paleomagnetic chronostratigraphy of late Holocene Zaca Lake, California, Holocene, 26(5), 814-821, 2016. PDF
2017 - Lund, S., L. Benson, R. Negrini, J. Liddicoat, and S. Mensing, A full-vector paleomagnetic secular variation record (PSV) from Pyramid Lake (Nevada) from 47-17 ka: Evidence for the successive Mono Lake and Laschamp Excursions, Eath Planet. Sci. Lett., 458, 120-129, 2017. PDF
2018 - Platzman, E., and S. Lund, High-resolution environmental magnetic study of a Holocene sedimentary record from Zaca Lake, California, Holocene, 29, 17-25, 2018. PDF
2019 - Lund, S., and L. Benson, A comparison of Western Great Basin paleoclimate records for the last 3000 years: evidence for multidecadal to millennial-scale droughts, Geological Society of America Special Volume 536, From saline to freshwater: the diversity of western lakes in space and time, 2019. PDF
2021 - Lund, S., L. Benson, and R. Negrini, Timing of Sierra Nevadan Stadial/Interstadial Variations from 15-56 ka, Quat. Int., 583, 31-38, 2021. PDF
2022 - Lund, S., Larry Benson, and Ellen Platzman, A Comparison of Late Holocene Hydrologic Variability in California: Regionality of Multi-Decadal to Centennial-scale Droughts, Holocene PDF