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  1. Collins, A., Schaller, M.F., Barton, R., Miller, M., Wagner, S. (2026) Substantial export of shale-derived particulate black carbon in the Hudson River indicated by compound-specific stable carbon isotopes (New York, United States) Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. doi:10.1002/esp.70340

  2. Collins, A., Gifford, S., Schaller, M.F., Stubbins, A., Wagner, S., Ryan, K.S. (2026) Evaluating drivers of environmental change in a lake sediment core: Insights from spectroscopic metrics of water extractable organic matter and stable carbon isotopes. Applied Geochemistry. doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2026.106768

  3. Hudgins, M.N.,* Park, J.G.*, Ryan, A.M.,* Rogers, J.A. and Schaller, M.F., (2026). Assessing the plausibility of direct constraints on ancient atmospheric pCO2 from fluid inclusions in halite: A theoretical and experimental approach. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 419: 49-63. doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2026.02.039

  4. Park, J.G.* and Schaller, M.F., (2026). A First Principles Critique of the Back Calculation Method: Understanding and Assessing the Alteration of Atmospheric Gases Trapped in Ancient Fluid Inclusions. Chemical Geology, 2026 Pages 123574. doi:/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2026.123574

  5. Park, J.G.*, Hudgins, M.N.*, Fralick, P.W., Shelley, J.T., Schaller, M.F † (Dec. 22, 2025). Breathing life into the Boring Billion: direct constraints from 1.4 Ga fluid inclusions reveal a fair climate and oxygenated atmosphere. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi/10.1073/pnas.2513030122 – (Featured on the journal cover)

  6. Schaller, M. F., M. K. Fung, J. D. Wright, M. E. Katz, B. D. Turrin, C. C. Swisher and D. V. Kent (2026). Independent verification of Paleocene-Eocene microtektites. EES Open Archive, v. 2026, 0217

  7. Dyar, M.D., Breitenfeld, L.B., Lane, M.D., Glotch, T., Clark, R., Pearson, N., Sklute, E.C., McCanta, M.C., Hendrix, A.J., Weller, B.* and Schaller, M.F., 2025. Spectroscopy of the Hamburg Meteorite, Michigan H4. The Planetary Science Journal,6(10), p.240. 10: 240. doi 10.3847/PSJ/ae0a4f

  8. Park, J.G.*, and Schaller, M.F.†, (2025), Constraints on Earth's atmospheric evolution from a gas-aqueous partition of fluid inclusion volatiles. Gondwana Research, 10.1016/j.gr.2024.12.003

  9. Miller, M., Collins, A., Barton, R., Schaller, M., Wagner, S. (2025) Production of The Aluminum Nitric-acid Keg (TANK) for mitigating explosions during the oxidation of black carbon into benzenepolycarboxylic acid (BPCA) molecular markers. protocols.iodx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.eq2lynz4qvx9/v1

  10. Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E., Wang, H., Schaller, M.F., Et-Touhami, M. (2024) Correlation of sub-centennial-scale pulses of initial Central Atlantic Magmatic Province lavas and the end-Triassic extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2415486121

  11. Hudgins, M.N.*, Knobbe, T.K.*, Hubbard, J.*, Steele, A., Park*, J.G., Schaller, M.F. (2024) In situ quantification of carbonate species concentrations, pH, and pCO2 in calcite fluid inclusions using confocal Raman spectroscopy. Applied Spectroscopydoi.org/10.1177/0003702824127519 - Featured on the journal cover!

  12. The Cenozoic pCO2 Consortium (2024) Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2. Science doi:10.1126/science.adi5177

  13. Robinson, M.M., Miller, K.G., Babila, T.L., Bralower, T.J., Browning, J.V., Cramwinckel, M.J., Doubrawa, M., Foster, G.L., Fung, M.K., Kinney, S., Makarova, M., McLaughlin, P.P., Pearson, P.N., Röhl, U., Schaller, M.F., Self-Trail, J.M., Sluijs, A., Westerhold, T., Wright, J.D., Zachos, J.C. (2024) Paleogene Earth Perturbations U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain (PEP-US): Coring transects of hyperthermals to understand past carbon injections and ecosystem responses. Scientific Drillingdoi.org/10.5194/sd-33-47-2024

  14. Farmer, J.R., Keller, K., Poirier, R.K., Dwyer, G.S., Schaller, M.F., Coxall, H., O'Regan, M., Cronin, T.M. (2023) The oxygen isotopic composition of intermediate-to-deep Arctic seawater since 600 ka. PANGEA doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.958539

  15. Farmer, J.R., Keller, K., Poirier, R.K., Dwyer, G.S., Schaller, M.F., Coxall, H., O'Regan, M., Cronin, T.M. (2023) A 600 kyr reconstruction of deep Arctic seawater δ18O from benthic foraminiferal δ18O and ostracode Mg∕ Ca paleothermometry. Climate of the Pastdoi.org/10.5194/cp-19-555-2023

  16. Fung, M.K.*, Katz, M.E., Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Schaller, M.F. (2023) Exploring early Eocene hyperthermals on the New Jersey paleoshelf (ODP 174AX). Journal of Foraminiferal Researchhttps://doi.org/10.61551/gsjfr.53.4.378

  17. Olsen, P., Sha, J., Fang, Y., Chang, C., Whiteside, J.H., Kinney, S., Sues, H.D., Kent, D., Schaller, M.F., Vajda, V. (2022) Arctic ice and the ecological rise of the dinosaurs. Science Advancesdoi:10.1126/sciadv.abo6342

  18. Swinton, M.W.*, Myer, P.K.*, Schaller, M.F., Pettitt, E.A.*, Farrell, J.L.,Nierzwicki-Bauer, S.A. (2022) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes explain methylmercury concentrations in stream food webs of Lake George, New York (USA). Ecotoxicologydoi.org/10.1007/s10646-022-02548-0

  19. Rasmussen, C., Irmis, R.B., Mundil, R., Schaller, M.F., Geissman, J., Parker, W.G., Lepre, C.J., Olsen, P.E. (2022) A geochronological-constrained stable isotope record of the Upper Triassic Sonsela Member (Chinle Formation) at Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona, USA): Testing for paleoenvironmental linkages with biotic change and the Manicouagan impact. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecologydoi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.11106

  20. Goranov, A.I.*, Schaller, M.F., Long, J.A. Jr, Podgorski, D.C., Wagner S., (2021) Characterization of asphaltenes and petroleum using benzenepolycarboxylic acids (BPCAs) and compound-specific stable carbon isotopes. Energy & Fuels doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.1c02374 + Supporting Information

  21. Poirier, R.K*, Gaetano, M.Q, Acevedo K., Schaller M.F., Raymo M.E., Kozdon R. (2021) Quantifying diagenesis, contributing factors, and resulting isotopic bias in benthic foraminifera using the foraminiferal preservation index: Implications for geochemical proxy records. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatologydoi.org/10.1029/2020PA004110

  22. Pettitt, E.A.*, Schaller, M.F. (2020) A new calibration technique for quantitative gas analyses of fluid inclusions using a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometrydoi.org/10.1002/rcm.8855

  23. Pettitt, E.A.*, Cherniak, D.J., Schaller, M.F., Watson, E.B. (2020) Diffusive retention of carbon and nitrogen in a microcrystalline quartz-dominated chert: Implications for reconstructing Earth's ancient atmosphere. Chemical Geologydoi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2020.119572

  24. Cherniak, D.J., Schaller, M.F., Watson, E.B., (2020) Nitrogen diffusion in calcite. In Carbon in Earth’s Interior, Geophysical Monograph 249, First Edition. Eds. C.E. Manning, J.-F. Lin, W.L. Mao. doi:10.1002/9781119508229.ch10

  25. Kornecki, K.*, Schuller, M., Katz, M., Relyea, R., McCarthy, F., Schaller, M.F., Gillikin, D., Stager, J.C., Eichler, L., Boylen, C., Nierzwicki-Bauer, S. (2020) The canary in the coal mine: Testate amoebae record anthropogenic impacts in oligotrophic Lake George, NY sediments. Journal of Foraminiferal Research doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.50.2.128

  26. Schaller, M.F., Turrin, B.D., Fung, M.K., Katz, M.E., Swisher, C.C. (2019) Initial 40Ar‐39Ar ages of the Paleocene‐Eocene boundary impact spherules. Geophysical Research Lettersdoi.org/10.1029/2019GL082473

  27. Cronin, T.M., Keller, K.K., Farmer, J.R., Schaller, M.F., O’Regan, M., Poirier, R., Coxall, H., Dwyer, G.S., Bauch, H., Kindstedt, I., Jakobsson, M., Marzen, R., Santin, E. (2019) Interglacial paleoclimate in the Arctic. Paleoceonography and Paleoclimatology doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003708

  28. Watson, E.B., Cherniak, D.J., Drexler, M., Hervig, R.L., Schaller, M.F. (2019) Nitrogen diffusion in silicate minerals, with implications for nitrogen transport and cycling in the lithosphere. Chemical Geologydoi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.04.006

  29. Muttoni G., Nicora, A., Balini, M., Katz, M., Schaller, M.F., Kent, D., Maron, M., Meco, S., Rettori, R., Doda, V., Nazaj, S. (2019) A candidate GSSP for the base of the Anisian from Kçira, Albania. Albertiana 45, 39–49.

  30. Fung, M.K., Schaller, M.F., Katz, M.E., Hoff, C.M., Wright, J.D. (2019) Widespread wildfires at the Paleocene Eocene boundary: Evidence from abundant charcoal preserved in the thick Marlboro Clay. Geochemical Perspective Letters doi: 10.7185/geochemlet.1906

  31. Olsen, P.E., Geissman, J.W., Kent, D.V., Gehrels, G.E., Mundil, R., Irmis, R.B., Lepre, C., Rasmussen, C., Giesler, D., Parker, W.G., Zakharova, N., Kürschner, W.M., Miller, C., Baranyi, V., Schaller, M.F., Whiteside, J.H., Schnurrenberger, D., Noren, A., Brady Shannon, K., O'Grady, R., Colbert, M.W., Maisano, J., Edey, D., Kinney, S.T., Molina-Garza, R., Bachman, G.H., Sha, J., and the CPCD Team (2018) Colorado Plateau Coring Project, Phase I (CPCP-I): a continuously cored, globally exportable chronology of Triassic continental environmental change from western North America Scientific Drillingdoi.org/10.5194/sd-24-15-2018

  32. Schaller, M.F., Fung, M.K. (2018) The extraterrestrial impact evidence at the Palaeocene–Eocene boundary and sequence of environmental change on the continental shelf. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciencesdoi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0081 - Invited

  33. Knobbe, T.K.G, Schaller, M.F. (2018) Tight coupling between atmospheric pCO2 and temperature during the Late Triassic. Geologydoi: 10.1130/G39405.1

  34. Tornabene, C.G, Martindale, R.C., Wang, X.T., Schaller, M.F. (2017) Detecting photosymbiosis in fossil scleractinian corals. Scientific Reportsdoi:10.1038/s41598-017-09008-4

  35. Drake, J.L., Schaller, M.F., Mass, T., Godfrey, L., Fu, A., Sherrell, R.M., Rosenthal, Y., Falkowski, P.G. (2017) Molecular and geochemical perspectives on the influence of CO2 on calcification in coral cell cultures. Limnology and Oceanographydoi:10.1002/lno.10617

  36. Schaller, M.F., Fung, M.K., Wright, J.D., Katz, M., Kent, D.V. (2016) Impact ejecta at the Paleocene Eocene boundary. Science doi:10.1126/science.aaf5466

  37. Schaller, M.F. (2015) Paleoceanography: Corrosive circulation. Nature Geosciencedoi:10.1038/ngeo2446

  38. Whiteside, J.H., Lindström, S., Irmis, R., Glasspool, I., Schaller, M.F., Dunlavey, M., Nesbitt, S., Smith, N., Turner, A. (2015) Ecosystem instability during the Late Triassic rise of dinosaurs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesdoi:10.1073/pnas.1505252112

  39. Cermeñoa, P., Falkowski, P.G., Romero, O.E., Schaller, M.F., Vallina, S.M., (2015) Continental erosion and the Cenozoic rise of marine diatoms. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1412883112

  40. Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V., (2015) A 30 Myr record of Late Triassic atmospheric pCO2 variation reflects a fundamental control of the carbon cycle by changes in continental weathering. Geological Society of America Bulletindoi:10.1130/B31107.1

  41. Busch, A., Kampman, N., Hangx, S.J., Snippe, J., Bickle, M., Bertier, P., Chapman, H., Spiers, C.J., Pijnenburg, R., Samuelson, J., Evans, J.P., Maskell, A., Nicholl, J., Pipich, V., Di, Z., Rother, G., Schaller, M.F. (2014) The Green River natural analogue as a field laboratory to study the long-term fate of CO2 in the subsurface. Energy Procedia doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2014.11.304

  42. Wright, J.D., Schaller, M.F. (2014) Reply to Pearson and Nicholas, Stassen et al., and Zeebe et al.: Teasing out the missing piece of the PETM puzzle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesdoi: 10.1073/pnas.1321876111

  43. Kampman, N., Bickle, M.J., Maskell, A., Chapman, H.J., Evans, J.P., Purser, G., Zhou, Z., Schaller, M.F., Gattacceca, J.C., Bertier, P., Chen, F., Turchyn, A.V., Assayag, N., Rochelle, C., Ballentine, C.J., Busch, A. (2014) Drilling and sampling a natural CO2 reservoir: Implications for fluid flow and CO2-fluid–rock reactions during CO2 migration through the overburden. Chemical Geologydoi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.015

  44. Wright, J.D., Schaller, M.F. (2013) Evidence for a rapid release of carbon at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proceedings of the National Academy Of Sciencesdoi.org/10.1073/pnas.1309188110

  45. Kampman, N., Maskell, A., Bickle, M., Schaller, M.F., Evans, J., Busch, A. (2013) Drilling and sampling of a natural CO2 reservoir: Green River, Utah. Scientific Drilling doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.11.015

  46. Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V., Olsen, P.E. (2012) Rapid emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province as a net sink for CO2. Earth and Planetary Science Letters doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.028.

  47. Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V. (2011) Response to Comment on “Atmospheric pCO2 Perturbations Associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province” Science doi:10.1126/science.1209422

  48. Schaller, M.F., Wright, J.D., Kent, D.V. (2011) Atmospheric pCO2 perturbations associated with the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. Science doi:10.1126/science.1199011

  49. Schaller, M.F., Fan, Y. (2009) River basins as groundwater exporters and importers: Implications for water cycle and climate modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheresdoi.org/10.1029/2008JD010636