Publications
Reverse chronological order: Italics indicate grad student or postdoct advisee; underlining indicates undergraduate advisee. For the most complete list see our Google Scholar page.
[50] Tremblay, J., Douglas, P.M.J., Halperin, C. T., von Sperber, C., Hélie, J.F., and Gauthier, L. (2025) Assessing nutrient inputs, sediment organic matter sources, and the potential for cyanobacteria in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala: A glimpse at sustainable water management practice. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 67
[49] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Douglas, P.M.J., Asomaning, J., Reid, E., Romanic, D., Vogel, F., Ars, S., Gillespie, L., Huang, Y., Four Years of Mobile Monitoring Show that Urban Waste is the Primary Source of Large Methane Emissions Hotspots in Montreal, Canada. Environmental Research Communications, v. 7.
[48] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Mahmoudi, N., and Douglas, P.M.J. Large variability in the radiocarbon signature of greenhouse gases from incubations of thermokarst lake sediments linked to methane production rates and CH4:CO2 ratios. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, v. 130.
[47] Zhang, M., Yan, D. Douglas, P.M.J.. Liang, W., Wang, J., Ni, D., and Yun, S. Lacustrine shallow biogenic gas production linked to climatically forced increase in organic matter burial following the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 363.
[46] Spiller, A., Kallenbach, C., Burnett, M. S., Olefeldt, D., Schulze, C., Maranger, R., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2025) Gradual drying of permafrost peat decreases carbon dioxide production in drier peat plateaus but not in wetter fens and bogs. SOIL, v. 11.
[45] Leroy, M., Burnett, M. S., Laurion, I., Douglas, P.M.J., Kallenbach, C.M., and Comte, J. (2025) Terrestrial-aquatic connectivity structures microbial communities during the formation of thermokarst lakes. ISME Communications, v. 5.
[44] Wang, Y., Ahad, J.M.E., Mucci, A.O., Gélinas, Y., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2025) Large burial flux of modern organic carbon in the St. Lawrence estuarine system indicates a substantial atmospheric carbon sink. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 652.
[43] Mirzaei, Y., Douglas, P. M.J., & Gélinas, Y. (2025). Isotopic and molecular analyses of n-alkanes in a temporal study of coastal sediment contributions to organic carbon degradation induced by algal bloom and terrestrial runoff. Science of the Total Environment, v. 958.
[42] Jautzy, J.J., Campbell, C., Desiage, P.A., Douglas, P.M.J., Fosu, B.R., Larmagnat, S., & Savard, M. M. (2024). Diapiric controls on deep-biosphere oases: Take with a grain of salt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [comment], v. 121(37)
[41] Tremblay, J., Halperin, C., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) Mercury contamination in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 59.
[40] Dyer-Hawes, Q., Romanic, D., Huang, Y., Gyakum, J. and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) Analysis of urban wind conditions and wildfire smoke dispersion for downtown Montréal using computational fluid dynamics. Building and Environment, v. 266.
[39] Wang, Y., Gélinas, Y., de Vernal, A., Mucci, A., Allan, E., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) High rates of organic carbon burial along the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advances. Communications Earth and Environment, v. 5.
[38] Sharma, B., Moore, T., Knorr, K.-H., Teickner, H., Douglas, P.M.J., and Roulet, N. (2024) Horticultural additives influences peat biogeochemistry and increases short-term CO2 fluxes from peat. Plant and Soil.
[37] Prėskienis, V., Laurion, I., Fortier, D., Douglas, P.M.J., and Rautio, M. (2024) Permafrost degradation and soil erosion as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions from tundra ponds. Environmental Research Letters, v. 19, no. 1 014072.
[36] Gibson, D.K., Obrist-Farner, J., Birkett, B.A, Curtis, J.H., Berke, M.A., Douglas, P.M.J., Rice, P.M., and Maurer, J. (2024) The influence of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperatures and the North Atlantic Subtropical High during the Maya Droughts. The Holocene, v. 34, p. 212-223.
[35] Bogue, R., Stix, J., Douglas, P.M.J., and Fisher, J. (2023) Satellite detection of plant responses to volcanic carbon dioxide emissions in the Tern Lake Thermal Area, Yellowstone caldera, USA. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, e2023GC010938.
[34] Parker, W.G., Ahad, J., Obrist-Farner, J., Keenan, B., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2023) Distinct modes of aged soil carbon export in a large tropical lake basin identified using bulk and compound-specific radiocarbon analyses of fluvial and lacustrine sediment. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v. 128, e2023JG007515.
[33] Allan, E., Douglas, P.M.J., de Vernal, A., Gélinas, Y., and Mucci, A. (2023) Palmitic acid is not a proper salinity proxy in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea but reflects the variability in organic matter sources modulated by sea ice coverage. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, e2022GC010837.
[32] Obrist-Farner, J., Eckert, A., Douglas, P.M.J., Perez, L., Correa-Metrio, A., Konecky, B.L., Bauersachs, T., Zimmerman, S., Schiedt, S., Brenner, M., Kutterolf, S., Maurer, J., Flores, O., Burberry, C. M., Noren, A., Myrbo, A., Lachniet, M., Wattrus, N., Gibson, D., and the LIBRE Scientific Team (2023) Planning for the Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor (LIBRE) continental scientific drilling project in Eastern Guatemala. Scientific Drilling, v. 11, p. 1-16.
[31] Birkett, B. A., Obrist-Farner, J., Rice, P.M., Parker, W.G., Douglas, P.M.J., Berke, M.A., Taylor, A.K., Curtis, J.H., and Keenan, B. (2023) Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’. Nature Communications Earth and Environmental Science, v. 4.
[30] Kuhn, M.A., Schmidt, M., Heffernan, L, Knorr, K.H., Estop-Aragonés, C., Broder, T., Stührenberg, J., Riechart, E.C., Gonzalez Moguel, R., Douglas, P.M.J., and Olefeldt, D. (2023) High ebullitive, millennial-aged methane emissions due to thermokarst expansion have only minor influence on methane budget of peatland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, v. 68 p. 498-513.
[29] Douglas, P.M.J., Stratigopoulos, E., Park, S., & Keenan, B. (2022) Spatial differentiation of sediment organic matter isotopic composition and inferred sources in a temperate forest lake catchment. Chemical Geology, v. 603.
[28] Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Gélinas, Y, & Douglas, P.M.J. (2022) Understanding controls on stanols in lake sediments as proxies for palaeopopulations in Mesoamerica. Journal of Paleolimnology v. 67, p. 375-390.
[27] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Vogel, F., Ars, S., Schaefer, H., Turnbull, J.C. & Douglas, P.M.J. (2022) Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v. 22, p. 2121-2133.
[26] Imfeld, A., Ouellet, A., Douglas, P.M.J., Kos, G., & Gélinas, Y. (2022) Complete molecular and stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ2H) of sedimentary n-alkanes in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf, Quebec, Canada: The importance of even numbered n-alkanes in coastal systems. Organic Geochemistry, v. 164.
[25] Stell, A., Douglas, P. M.J., Rigby, M. & Ganesan, A.L. (2021) The impact of spatially varying wetland source signatures on the atmospheric variability of dD-CH4. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, v. 379.
[24] Douglas, P. M.J., Stratigopoulos, E., Park, J., & Phan, D. (2021). Geographic variability in freshwater methane hydrogen isotope ratios and its implications for global isotopic source signatures. Biogeosciences, v. 18, p. 3505-3527.
[23] Jautzy, J.J., Douglas, P. M. J., Xie, H., Eiler, J.M., & Clark, I.D. (2021) CH4 isotopic ordering records ultra-slow hydrocarbon biodegradation in the deep subsurface. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 562.
[22] Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Johnston, K., Breckenridge, A., Gélinas, Y, & Douglas, P. M.J. (2021) Molecular evidence for human population change associated with climate events in the Maya Lowlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 258.
[21] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Bass, A.M., Garnett, M.H., Pilote, M., Keenan, B., Matveev, A., & Douglas, P. M.J. (2021) Radiocarbon Data Reveal Contrasting Sources for Carbon Fractions in Thermokarst Lakes and Rivers of Eastern Canada (Nunavik, Quebec). Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v. 126.
[20] Preskienis, V., Laurion, I., Bouchard, F., Douglas, P.M.J., Billett, M.F., Fortier, D., & Xu, X. (2021) Seasonal patterns in greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and ponds on a High Arctic polygonal landscape. Limnology and Oceanography, v. 66, p. S117-S141.
[19] Bourque, R. D., Douglas, P.M.J. Larsson, H.C.E., Changes in terrestrial ecosystems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in western Canada inferred from plant wax lipid distributions and isotopic measurements, (2020) Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, in press
[18] Douglas, P.M.J., Gonzalez Moguel, R., Walter Anthony, K. M., Wik, M., Crill, P.M., Dawson, K. S., Smith, D.A., Yanay, E., Lloyd, M.K., Stolper, D.A., Eiler, J. M., & Sessions, A.L., Clumped isotopes link older carbon substrates with slower rates of methanogenesis in northern lakes, (2020) Geophysical Research Letters, v. 47, e2019GL086756
[17] Kang, M., Dong, Y., Liu, Y., Williams, J. P., Douglas, P. M. J., & McKenzie, J. M. Potential increase in oil and gas well leakage due to earthquakes. (2019) Environmental Research Communications, v. 1, 121004.
[16] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Eglinton, T. I., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H., Breckinridge, A., and Johnston, K. A long-term decrease in the persistence of soil carbon caused by ancient Maya land use. (2018) Nature Geoscience v. 11, p. 645-649.
[15] Shaui, Y., Douglas, P. M. J., Zhang, S., Stolper, D. A., Lewan, M., Lawson, M., Ellis, G., Mi, J., He, K., Hu, G., and Eiler, J. M. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium controls on the abundances of clumped isotopologues of methane during thermogenic formation; Implications for the chemistry of pyrolysis and the origin of natural gases. (2018) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta v. 223, p. 159-174.
[14] Shaui, Y., Etiope, G., Zhang, S., Douglas, P. M. J., Huang, L., and Eiler, J. M. Methane clumped isotopes in Songliao Basin (China): New insights into abiotic vs biotic hydrocarbon distribution. (2018) Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 482, p. 213-221.
[13] Stolper, D. A., Lawson, M., Formolo, M. J., Davis, C. L., Douglas, P. M. J., Sessions, A. L., Eiler, J. M. The utility of methane clumped isotopes to constrain the origins of methane in natural gas accumulations (2017) Geological Society of London Special Publications v. 468, p. 23-52.
[12] Douglas, P. M. J., Stolper, D. A., Eiler, J. M., Sessions, A. L., Lawson, M., Shaui, Y., Bishop, A., Podlaha, O. G., Ferreira, A. A., Santos Neto, E. V., Niemann, M., Steen, A. S., Huang, L., Chimiak, L., Valentine, D. L., Fiebig, J., Luhmann, A. J., Seyfried Jr., W. E., Etiope, G., Schoell, M., Inskeep, W. P., Moran, J. J., and Kitchen, N. Clumped isotopes in methane; Progress and potential for a new isotopic tracer (2017) Organic Geochemistry v. 113, p. 262-282.
[11] Douglas, P. M. J., Stolper, D. A., Walter Anthony, K. M., Wik., M., Crill, P., Winterdahl, M., Paull, C., Dallimore, S., Smith, D. A., Sessions, A. L., Eiler, J. M. (2016) Diverse origins of Arctic and Subarctic methane point source emissions identified with multiply-substituted isotopologues: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta v.188, p. 163-188.
[10] Douglas, P. M. J., Demarest, A. A., Brenner, M., Canuto, M. A. Drought Impacts on the Lowland Maya civilization (2016) Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science v. 44, p. 613-645.
[9] Douglas, P. M. J., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H. (2016) Methods and future directions for paleoclimatology in the Maya Lowlands: Global and Planetary Change v. 138, p. 3-24.
[8] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Eglinton, T. I., Brenner, M., Hodell, D. A., Curtis, J. H., and Canuto M. A. (2015) Drought, agricultural adaptation and sociopolitical collapse in the Maya Lowlands: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 112, p. 5607-5612.
[7] Stolper, D. A., Martini, A. M., Clog, M., Douglas, P. M. J., Shusta, S. S., Valentine, D. L., Sessions, A. L., and Eiler, J. M. (2015) Distinguishing and understanding thermogenic and biogenic sources of methane using multiply substituted isotopologues: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 161, p. 219-247.
[6] Coutros, P., and Douglas, P. M. J. (2015) Coring Lake Fati and settlement archaeology of the Middle Niger Lakes Region: African Archaeological Review, v. 32, p. 249-266.
[5] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Eglinton, T. I., Brenner, M., Hodell, D. A., Ma, K. F., Curtis, J. H., and Breckinridge, A. (2014) Pre-aged plant waxes in tropical lake sediments and their influence on molecular paleoclimate proxy records: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 141, p. 346-364.
[4] Sijp, W. P., Djikstra, H. A., Floegel, S., von der Heydt, A. S., Douglas, P. M. J., and Bijl, P.K. (2014) The role of ocean gateways on cooling climate on long time scales: Global and Planetary Change, v. 119, p. 1-22.
[3] Douglas, P. M. J., Affek, H. P, Ivany, L. C., Houben, A. J. P., Sijp, W. P., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., and Pagani, M. (2014) Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 111, p. 6582-6587.
[2] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Brenner, M., Hodell, D. A., and Curtis, J. H. (2012) Aridity and vegetation composition are important determinants of leaf-wax dD values in southeastern Mexico and Central America: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 97, p. 24-45.
[1] Keating-Bitonti, C. R., Ivany, L. C., Affek, H. P., Douglas, P. M. J., and Samson, S. D. (2011) Warm, not super-hot, temperatures in the early Eocene subtropics: Geology, v. 39, p.771-774.
[50] Tremblay, J., Douglas, P.M.J., Halperin, C. T., von Sperber, C., Hélie, J.F., and Gauthier, L. (2025) Assessing nutrient inputs, sediment organic matter sources, and the potential for cyanobacteria in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala: A glimpse at sustainable water management practice. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 67
[49] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Douglas, P.M.J., Asomaning, J., Reid, E., Romanic, D., Vogel, F., Ars, S., Gillespie, L., Huang, Y., Four Years of Mobile Monitoring Show that Urban Waste is the Primary Source of Large Methane Emissions Hotspots in Montreal, Canada. Environmental Research Communications, v. 7.
[48] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Mahmoudi, N., and Douglas, P.M.J. Large variability in the radiocarbon signature of greenhouse gases from incubations of thermokarst lake sediments linked to methane production rates and CH4:CO2 ratios. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, v. 130.
[47] Zhang, M., Yan, D. Douglas, P.M.J.. Liang, W., Wang, J., Ni, D., and Yun, S. Lacustrine shallow biogenic gas production linked to climatically forced increase in organic matter burial following the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 363.
[46] Spiller, A., Kallenbach, C., Burnett, M. S., Olefeldt, D., Schulze, C., Maranger, R., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2025) Gradual drying of permafrost peat decreases carbon dioxide production in drier peat plateaus but not in wetter fens and bogs. SOIL, v. 11.
[45] Leroy, M., Burnett, M. S., Laurion, I., Douglas, P.M.J., Kallenbach, C.M., and Comte, J. (2025) Terrestrial-aquatic connectivity structures microbial communities during the formation of thermokarst lakes. ISME Communications, v. 5.
[44] Wang, Y., Ahad, J.M.E., Mucci, A.O., Gélinas, Y., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2025) Large burial flux of modern organic carbon in the St. Lawrence estuarine system indicates a substantial atmospheric carbon sink. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 652.
[43] Mirzaei, Y., Douglas, P. M.J., & Gélinas, Y. (2025). Isotopic and molecular analyses of n-alkanes in a temporal study of coastal sediment contributions to organic carbon degradation induced by algal bloom and terrestrial runoff. Science of the Total Environment, v. 958.
[42] Jautzy, J.J., Campbell, C., Desiage, P.A., Douglas, P.M.J., Fosu, B.R., Larmagnat, S., & Savard, M. M. (2024). Diapiric controls on deep-biosphere oases: Take with a grain of salt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [comment], v. 121(37)
[41] Tremblay, J., Halperin, C., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) Mercury contamination in ancient water reservoirs at the Maya city of Ucanal, Guatemala. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, v. 59.
[40] Dyer-Hawes, Q., Romanic, D., Huang, Y., Gyakum, J. and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) Analysis of urban wind conditions and wildfire smoke dispersion for downtown Montréal using computational fluid dynamics. Building and Environment, v. 266.
[39] Wang, Y., Gélinas, Y., de Vernal, A., Mucci, A., Allan, E., Seidenkrantz, M.-S., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2024) High rates of organic carbon burial along the southwest Greenland margin induced by Neoglacial advances. Communications Earth and Environment, v. 5.
[38] Sharma, B., Moore, T., Knorr, K.-H., Teickner, H., Douglas, P.M.J., and Roulet, N. (2024) Horticultural additives influences peat biogeochemistry and increases short-term CO2 fluxes from peat. Plant and Soil.
[37] Prėskienis, V., Laurion, I., Fortier, D., Douglas, P.M.J., and Rautio, M. (2024) Permafrost degradation and soil erosion as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions from tundra ponds. Environmental Research Letters, v. 19, no. 1 014072.
[36] Gibson, D.K., Obrist-Farner, J., Birkett, B.A, Curtis, J.H., Berke, M.A., Douglas, P.M.J., Rice, P.M., and Maurer, J. (2024) The influence of tropical Atlantic sea-surface temperatures and the North Atlantic Subtropical High during the Maya Droughts. The Holocene, v. 34, p. 212-223.
[35] Bogue, R., Stix, J., Douglas, P.M.J., and Fisher, J. (2023) Satellite detection of plant responses to volcanic carbon dioxide emissions in the Tern Lake Thermal Area, Yellowstone caldera, USA. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, e2023GC010938.
[34] Parker, W.G., Ahad, J., Obrist-Farner, J., Keenan, B., and Douglas, P.M.J. (2023) Distinct modes of aged soil carbon export in a large tropical lake basin identified using bulk and compound-specific radiocarbon analyses of fluvial and lacustrine sediment. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v. 128, e2023JG007515.
[33] Allan, E., Douglas, P.M.J., de Vernal, A., Gélinas, Y., and Mucci, A. (2023) Palmitic acid is not a proper salinity proxy in Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea but reflects the variability in organic matter sources modulated by sea ice coverage. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, v. 24, e2022GC010837.
[32] Obrist-Farner, J., Eckert, A., Douglas, P.M.J., Perez, L., Correa-Metrio, A., Konecky, B.L., Bauersachs, T., Zimmerman, S., Schiedt, S., Brenner, M., Kutterolf, S., Maurer, J., Flores, O., Burberry, C. M., Noren, A., Myrbo, A., Lachniet, M., Wattrus, N., Gibson, D., and the LIBRE Scientific Team (2023) Planning for the Lake Izabal Basin Research Endeavor (LIBRE) continental scientific drilling project in Eastern Guatemala. Scientific Drilling, v. 11, p. 1-16.
[31] Birkett, B. A., Obrist-Farner, J., Rice, P.M., Parker, W.G., Douglas, P.M.J., Berke, M.A., Taylor, A.K., Curtis, J.H., and Keenan, B. (2023) Preclassic environmental degradation of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala, by the early Maya of Nixtun-Ch’ich’. Nature Communications Earth and Environmental Science, v. 4.
[30] Kuhn, M.A., Schmidt, M., Heffernan, L, Knorr, K.H., Estop-Aragonés, C., Broder, T., Stührenberg, J., Riechart, E.C., Gonzalez Moguel, R., Douglas, P.M.J., and Olefeldt, D. (2023) High ebullitive, millennial-aged methane emissions due to thermokarst expansion have only minor influence on methane budget of peatland lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, v. 68 p. 498-513.
[29] Douglas, P.M.J., Stratigopoulos, E., Park, S., & Keenan, B. (2022) Spatial differentiation of sediment organic matter isotopic composition and inferred sources in a temperate forest lake catchment. Chemical Geology, v. 603.
[28] Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Gélinas, Y, & Douglas, P.M.J. (2022) Understanding controls on stanols in lake sediments as proxies for palaeopopulations in Mesoamerica. Journal of Paleolimnology v. 67, p. 375-390.
[27] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Vogel, F., Ars, S., Schaefer, H., Turnbull, J.C. & Douglas, P.M.J. (2022) Using carbon-14 and carbon-13 measurements for source attribution of atmospheric methane in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v. 22, p. 2121-2133.
[26] Imfeld, A., Ouellet, A., Douglas, P.M.J., Kos, G., & Gélinas, Y. (2022) Complete molecular and stable isotope analysis (δ13C, δ2H) of sedimentary n-alkanes in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf, Quebec, Canada: The importance of even numbered n-alkanes in coastal systems. Organic Geochemistry, v. 164.
[25] Stell, A., Douglas, P. M.J., Rigby, M. & Ganesan, A.L. (2021) The impact of spatially varying wetland source signatures on the atmospheric variability of dD-CH4. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, v. 379.
[24] Douglas, P. M.J., Stratigopoulos, E., Park, J., & Phan, D. (2021). Geographic variability in freshwater methane hydrogen isotope ratios and its implications for global isotopic source signatures. Biogeosciences, v. 18, p. 3505-3527.
[23] Jautzy, J.J., Douglas, P. M. J., Xie, H., Eiler, J.M., & Clark, I.D. (2021) CH4 isotopic ordering records ultra-slow hydrocarbon biodegradation in the deep subsurface. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 562.
[22] Keenan, B., Imfeld, A., Johnston, K., Breckenridge, A., Gélinas, Y, & Douglas, P. M.J. (2021) Molecular evidence for human population change associated with climate events in the Maya Lowlands. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 258.
[21] Gonzalez Moguel, R., Bass, A.M., Garnett, M.H., Pilote, M., Keenan, B., Matveev, A., & Douglas, P. M.J. (2021) Radiocarbon Data Reveal Contrasting Sources for Carbon Fractions in Thermokarst Lakes and Rivers of Eastern Canada (Nunavik, Quebec). Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, v. 126.
[20] Preskienis, V., Laurion, I., Bouchard, F., Douglas, P.M.J., Billett, M.F., Fortier, D., & Xu, X. (2021) Seasonal patterns in greenhouse gas emissions from lakes and ponds on a High Arctic polygonal landscape. Limnology and Oceanography, v. 66, p. S117-S141.
[19] Bourque, R. D., Douglas, P.M.J. Larsson, H.C.E., Changes in terrestrial ecosystems across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in western Canada inferred from plant wax lipid distributions and isotopic measurements, (2020) Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, in press
[18] Douglas, P.M.J., Gonzalez Moguel, R., Walter Anthony, K. M., Wik, M., Crill, P.M., Dawson, K. S., Smith, D.A., Yanay, E., Lloyd, M.K., Stolper, D.A., Eiler, J. M., & Sessions, A.L., Clumped isotopes link older carbon substrates with slower rates of methanogenesis in northern lakes, (2020) Geophysical Research Letters, v. 47, e2019GL086756
[17] Kang, M., Dong, Y., Liu, Y., Williams, J. P., Douglas, P. M. J., & McKenzie, J. M. Potential increase in oil and gas well leakage due to earthquakes. (2019) Environmental Research Communications, v. 1, 121004.
[16] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Eglinton, T. I., Brenner, M., Curtis, J. H., Breckinridge, A., and Johnston, K. A long-term decrease in the persistence of soil carbon caused by ancient Maya land use. (2018) Nature Geoscience v. 11, p. 645-649.
[15] Shaui, Y., Douglas, P. M. J., Zhang, S., Stolper, D. A., Lewan, M., Lawson, M., Ellis, G., Mi, J., He, K., Hu, G., and Eiler, J. M. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium controls on the abundances of clumped isotopologues of methane during thermogenic formation; Implications for the chemistry of pyrolysis and the origin of natural gases. (2018) Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta v. 223, p. 159-174.
[14] Shaui, Y., Etiope, G., Zhang, S., Douglas, P. M. J., Huang, L., and Eiler, J. M. Methane clumped isotopes in Songliao Basin (China): New insights into abiotic vs biotic hydrocarbon distribution. (2018) Earth and Planetary Science Letters v. 482, p. 213-221.
[13] Stolper, D. A., Lawson, M., Formolo, M. J., Davis, C. L., Douglas, P. M. J., Sessions, A. L., Eiler, J. M. The utility of methane clumped isotopes to constrain the origins of methane in natural gas accumulations (2017) Geological Society of London Special Publications v. 468, p. 23-52.
[12] Douglas, P. M. J., Stolper, D. A., Eiler, J. M., Sessions, A. L., Lawson, M., Shaui, Y., Bishop, A., Podlaha, O. G., Ferreira, A. A., Santos Neto, E. V., Niemann, M., Steen, A. S., Huang, L., Chimiak, L., Valentine, D. L., Fiebig, J., Luhmann, A. J., Seyfried Jr., W. E., Etiope, G., Schoell, M., Inskeep, W. P., Moran, J. J., and Kitchen, N. Clumped isotopes in methane; Progress and potential for a new isotopic tracer (2017) Organic Geochemistry v. 113, p. 262-282.
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[3] Douglas, P. M. J., Affek, H. P, Ivany, L. C., Houben, A. J. P., Sijp, W. P., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., and Pagani, M. (2014) Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 111, p. 6582-6587.
[2] Douglas, P. M. J., Pagani, M., Brenner, M., Hodell, D. A., and Curtis, J. H. (2012) Aridity and vegetation composition are important determinants of leaf-wax dD values in southeastern Mexico and Central America: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 97, p. 24-45.
[1] Keating-Bitonti, C. R., Ivany, L. C., Affek, H. P., Douglas, P. M. J., and Samson, S. D. (2011) Warm, not super-hot, temperatures in the early Eocene subtropics: Geology, v. 39, p.771-774.