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Detailed Climate History Time Series

• Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., Flower, B.P., Quinn, T.M., and Hollander, D.J., 2009, Regionally coherent Little Ice Age cooling in the Atlantic Warm Pool: Geophysical Research Letters: Geology, v. 36, p. L21703, doi:10.1029/2009GL040445 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009GL040445].

• Poore, R.Z., DeLong, K.L., Richey, J.N., and Quinn, T.M., 2009, Evidence of multidecadal climate variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation from a Gulf of Mexico sea-surface temperature-proxy record: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 29, doi:10.1007/s00367-009-0154-6 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00367-009-0154-6].

• Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., Flower, B.P., and Quinn, T.M., 2007, 1400 yr multiproxy record of climate variability from the northern Gulf of Mexico: Geology, v. 35, p. 423-426 [http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/35/5/423].

• Poore, R.Z., Pavich, M.J., and Grissino-Mayer, H.D., 2005, Record of the North American southwest monsoon from Gulf of Mexico sediment cores: Geology, v. 33, no. 3, p. 209-212, dio:10.1130/G21040.1 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G21040.1].

• Poore, R.Z., Quinn, T.M., and Verardo, S., 2004, Century-scale movement of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone linked to solar variability: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 31, L12214, doi:10.1029/2004GL019940 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2004GL019940]

• Poore, R.Z., Dowsett, H.J., Verardo, S., and Quinn, T.M., 2003, Millennial- to century-scale variability in Gulf of Mexico Holocene climate records: Paleoceanography, v. 18, no. 2, 1048, doi:10.1029/2002PA000868 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2002PA000868].

• Poore, R.Z., Darling, J., Dowsett, H.J., and Wright, L., 2001, Variations in River Flow to the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Paleoenvironmental Studies of Gulf of Mexico Marine Sediments - U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2187 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b2187/].

• Poore, R.Z., Dowsett, H.J., 2001, Pleistocene reduction of polar ice caps: Evidence from Cariaco Basin marine sediment: Geology, v. 29, p. 71-74 [http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/1/71-a].

• Poore, R.Z., Wright, L.M., 1999, Holocene continental flood events in marine sediments of the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 99-566 [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr99566].

Paleo-Hypoxia

• Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., Swarzenski, P.W., Senn, D.B., and DiMarco, S.F., 2009, The 20th-century development and expansion of Louisiana shelf hypoxia, Gulf of Mexico: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 29, p. 405-414, doi:10.1007/s00367-009-0158-2 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00367-009-0158-2].

• Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2008, The last 1000 years of natural and anthropogenic low-oxygen bottom-water on the Louisiana shelf, Gulf of Mexico: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 66, p. 291-303 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2007.10.005].

• Osterman, L.E., Campbell, P.L., Swarzenski, P.W., and Ricardo, J.P., 2007, Biological, Physical, and Chemical Data From Gulf of Mexico Gravity and Box Core MRD05-04: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2007-1024 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1024/].

• Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., and Swarzenski, P.W., 2006, Gulf of Mexico dead zone-the last 150 years: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2006-3005, 2 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2006/3005/].

• Osterman, L.E., Pavich, K., and Caplan, J., 2004, Benthic Foraminiferal Census Data from Gulf of Mexico Cores (Texas and Louisiana Continental Shelf): U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2004-1209 [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1209/].

• Osterman, L.E., Erlandsen, M., and Castenson, E.D. 2001, Benthic foraminiferal census data from surface sediment samples, western Gulf of Mexico (Louisiana and Texas continental shelf and slope): U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report [http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/ofr/ofr01182].

Modern Calibration Study

• Spear, J.W., and Poore, R.Z., 2011, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008–2009: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011–1002, 17 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2011/1002/]

• Spear, J.W., and Poore, R.Z., 2010, Gulf of Mexico climate-history calibration study: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010–3044, 2 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2010/3044/].

• Tedesco, K.A., Spear, J.W., Tappa, E., and Poore, R.Z., 2009, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009–1293, 19 p. [http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1293/].