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Publications: Dr Heather Ford

Zhong Y, Tan N, Abell JT, Sun C, Kaboth-Bahr S, Ford HL, Herbert TD, Pullen A et al. ( 2024 ) . Role of land-ocean interactions in stepwise Northern Hemisphere Glaciation . Nature Communications vol. 15 , ( 1 )
Burton LE, Haywood AM, Tindall JC, Dolan AM, Hill DJ, McClymont EL, Ho SL, Ford HL ( 2024 ) . The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene . Climate of the Past vol. 20 , ( 5 ) 1177 - 1194 .
Abell JT, Winckler G, Pullen A, Kinsley CW, Kapp PA, Middleton JL, Pavia FJ, McGee D et al. ( 2023 ) . Evaluating the Drivers of Quaternary Dust Fluxes to the Western North Pacific: East Asian Dustiness and Northern Hemisphere Gustiness . Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology vol. 38 , ( 9 )
McClymont EL, Ho SL, Ford HL, Bailey I, Berke MA, Bolton CT, De Schepper S, Grant GR et al. ( 2023 ) . Climate Evolution Through the Onset and Intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation . Reviews of Geophysics vol. 61 , ( 3 )
Judd EJ, Tierney JE, Huber BT, Wing SL, Lunt DJ, Ford HL, Inglis GN, McClymont EL et al. ( 2022 ) . The PhanSST global database of Phanerozoic sea surface temperature proxy data . Scientific Data vol. 9 , ( 1 )
Ford HL, Burls NJ, Jacobs P, Jahn A, Caballero-Gill RP, Hodell DA, Fedorov AV ( 2022 ) . Sustained mid-Pliocene warmth led to deep water formation in the North Pacific . Nature Geoscience vol. 15 , ( 8 ) 658 - 663 .
Shankle MG, Burls NJ, Fedorov AV, Thomas MD, Liu W, Penman DE, Ford HL, Jacobs PH et al. ( 2021 ) . Pliocene decoupling of equatorial Pacific temperature and pH gradients . Nature vol. 598 , ( 7881 ) 457 - 461 .
Tierney JE, Poulsen CJ, Montañez IP, Bhattacharya T, Feng R, Ford HL, Hönisch B, Inglis GN et al. ( 2020 ) . Past climates inform our future . Science (New York, N.Y.) vol. 370 , ( 6517 )
McClymont EL, Ford HL, Ling Ho S, Tindall JC, Haywood AM, Alonso-Garcia M, Bailey I, Berke MA et al. ( 2020 ) . Lessons from a high-CO2 world: An ocean view from ∼3 million years ago . Climate of the Past vol. 16 , ( 4 ) 1599 - 1615 .
Ford HL, Chalk TB ( 2020 ) . SIDEBAR. The mid-pleistocene enigma . Oceanography vol. 33 , ( 2 ) 101 - 103 .
Ford HL, Brick C, Azmitia M, Blaufuss K, Dekens P ( 2019 ) . Women from some under-represented minorities are given too few talks at world's largest Earth-science conference . Nature vol. 576 , ( 7785 ) 32 - 35 .
Ford HL, Raymo ME ( 2019 ) . Regional and global signals in seawater δ18O records across the mid-Pleistocene transition . Geology vol. 48 , ( 2 ) 113 - 117 .
Farmer JR, Hönisch B, Haynes LL, Kroon D, Jung S, Ford HL, Raymo ME, Jaume-Seguí M et al. ( 2019 ) . Deep Atlantic Ocean carbon storage and the rise of 100,000-year glacial cycles . Nature Geoscience vol. 12 , ( 5 ) 355 - 360 .
Ford HL, Ravelo AC ( 2019 ) . Estimates of Pliocene Tropical Pacific Temperature Sensitivity to Radiative Greenhouse Gas Forcing . Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology vol. 34 , ( 1 ) 2 - 15 .
FORD HL, McChesney CL, Hertzberg JE, McManus JF ( 2018 ) . A Deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific Thermocline During the Last Glacial Maximum . Geophysical Research Letters
Ford HL, Brick C, Blaufuss K, Dekens PS ( 2018 ) . Gender inequity in speaking opportunities at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting . Nature Communications vol. 9 , ( 1 )
FORD HL, Ravelo AC, Ramirez B, Akers T, Krzeminski O ( 2018 ) . Data report: Mg/Ca values of Globorotalia tumida from early Pliocene to present, Site U1338 . Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program vol. 320/321 , Article 320321-220 , 1 - 5 .
Raymo ME, Kozdon R, Evans D, Lisiecki L, Ford HL ( 2018 ) . The accuracy of mid-Pliocene δ 18 O-based ice volume and sea level reconstructions . Earth-Science Reviews vol. 177 , Article C , 291 - 302 .
Ford HL, Sosdian SM, Rosenthal Y, Raymo ME ( 2016 ) . Gradual and abrupt changes during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition . Quaternary Science Reviews vol. 148 , 222 - 233 .
Lyle M, Pockalny R, Polissar P, Lynch-Stieglitz J, Bova S, Dunlea AG, Ford H, Hertzberg JE et al. ( 2016 ) . Dynamic carbonate sedimentation on the Northern Line Islands Ridge, Palmyra Basin . Marine Geology vol. 379 , Article C , 194 - 207 .
Ford HL, Ravelo AC, Dekens PS, LaRiviere JP, Wara MW ( 2015 ) . The evolution of the equatorial thermocline and the early Pliocene El Padre mean state . Geophysical Research Letters vol. 42 , ( 12 ) 4878 - 4887 .
Lynch‐Stieglitz J, Polissar PJ, Jacobel AW, Hovan SA, Pockalny RA, Lyle M, Murray RW, Ravelo AC et al. ( 2015 ) . Glacial‐interglacial changes in central tropical Pacific surface seawater property gradients . Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology vol. 30 , ( 5 ) 423 - 438 .
Ford HL, Ravelo AC, Polissar PJ ( 2015 ) . Reduced El Niño–Southern Oscillation during the Last Glacial Maximum . Science vol. 347 , ( 6219 ) 255 - 258 .
Ravelo AC, Lawrence KT, Fedorov A, Ford HL ( 2014 ) . Comment on “A 12-million-year temperature history of the tropical Pacific Ocean” . Science vol. 346 , ( 6216 ) 1467 - 1467 .
Ford HL, Ravelo AC, Hovan S ( 2012 ) . A deep Eastern Equatorial Pacific thermocline during the early Pliocene warm period . Earth and Planetary Science Letters vol. 355 , 152 - 161 .
LaRiviere JP, Ravelo AC, Crimmins A, Dekens PS, Ford HL, Lyle M, Wara MW ( 2012 ) . Late Miocene decoupling of oceanic warmth and atmospheric carbon dioxide forcing . Nature vol. 486 , ( 7401 ) 97 - 100 .
Ford HL, Schellenberg SA, Becker BJ, Deutschman DL, Dyck KA, Koch PL ( 2010 ) . Evaluating the skeletal chemistry of Mytilus californianus as a temperature proxy: Effects of microenvironment and ontogeny . Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology vol. 25 , ( 1 )