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Selected Recent Publications by Lab Members

Wahl, D., R. Byrne, T. Schreiner, and R. Hansen.  2006.  Holocene vegetation change in the northern Peten and its implications for Maya prehistory.  Quaternary Research 65:  380-389

Bloom, K.J., and E. B. Watson.  2006. The Arbuckle-Hershey Chamisal (Adenostoma fasciculatum):  a significant anomaly in California plant geography.  Madroño 53: 277-279.

Byrne, R., and L. Reidy.  2005. Recent sedimentation rates at Watsonville Slough, Santa Cruz County, California. Final Report Submitted by Roger Byrne and Liam Reidy, (UC Berkeley) to The Watershed Institute, California State University, Monterey Bay, California. 26 pp.

Hecker, S., D. Pantositi, D.P. Schwartz, J.C. Hamilton, L.M. Reidy, and T.J. Powers. 2005.  The most recent large earthquake on the Rodgers Creek Fault, San Francisco Bay Area. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 95: 844-860.

Conaway, C.H., E.B. Watson, J.R. Flanders, and A.R. Flegal. 2004.  Mercury deposition  in a tidal marsh downstream of the historic New Almaden mining district, California. Marine Chemistry. 90:  175-184.

Watson, E.B. 2004.  Changes in elevation, accretion, and tidal marsh plant assemblages in a South San Francisco Bay tidal marsh. Estuaries 27:  684-698.

Kirby, M.E., C.J. Poulsen, S.P. Lund, W.P. Patterson, L. Reidy, and D.E. Hammond. 2003. Late Holocene lake level dynamics inferred from magnetic susceptibility and stable oxygen isotope date: Lake Elsinore, Southern California, U.S.A. Journal of Paleolimnology 31:  275-293.

Conserva, M.E., and R. Byrne.  2002. Late Holocene vegetation change in the Sierra Madre Oriental of central Mexico. Quaternary Research 58: 122-129.

Lienkaemper, J.J., T.E. Dawson, S.F. Personius, G.G. Seitz, L.M. Reidy, and D.P. Schwartz. 2002.  A record of large earthquakes on the Southern Hayward fault for the past 500 years. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 92: 2637-2658.

Lienkaemper, J.J., T.E. Dawson, S.F. Personius, G.G. Seitz, L.M. Reidy, and D.P. Schwartz. 2002. Logs and data from trenches across the Hayward fault at Tyson's Lagoon (Tule Pond), Fremont, Alameda County, California.  U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-2386.

Byrne, R, B.L. Ingram, S. Starratt, F. Malamud-Roam, J.N. Collins, and M.E. Conrad. 2001.  Carbon-isotope, diatom, and pollen evidence for Late Holocene salinity change in a brackish marsh in the San Francisco Estuary.  Quaternary Research. 55:  66-76

Starratt, S.W.  2001.  Diatoms as Indicators of Freshwater Flow Variation in Central California. p. 129-144 in G. James West and Lauren D. Buffaloe, editors. Proceedings of the 18th Annual Pacific Climate Workshop. State of California, Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, California.

Mensing, S., and R. Byrne.  2000.  Invasion of Mediterranean Weeds into California before 1769. Fremontia 27: 6-9

Lienkaemper, J.J., D.P Schwartz, K.I. Kelson, W.R. Lettis, G.D. Simpson, J.R. Southon, J.A. Wanket, and P.L. Williams.  1999.  Timing of paleoearthquakes on the northern Hayward Fault--preliminary evidence in El Cerrito, California.  United States Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-318. 34 pp.

Mensing, S.A., J. Michaelsen, and R. Byrne.  1999.  A 560-year record of Santa Ana fires reconstructed from charcoal deposited in the Santa Barbara Basin, California. Quaternary Research 51: 295-305.

Bicknell, S.H. and E.M. Mackey.  1998.  Mysterious nativity of California sea fig.  Fremontia 26:3-11.

Byrne, R.  1998 Areal Variation in Woodland Food Plant Potential around Crawford Lake, pp., 121-138 in Iroquoian Peoples of the Land of Rocks and Water, A.D. 1000-1650: A Study in Settlement Archaeology. Vol 1. William D. Finlayson (ed.). London Museum of Archaeology, London, Ontario, Canada.

Byrne, R., and W. Finlayson.  1998 Iroquoian Agriculture and Forest Clearance at Crawford Lake, Ontario, pp., 94-107 in Iroquoian Peoples of the Land of Rocks and Water, A.D. 1000-1650: A Study in Settlement Archaeology. Vol 1. William D. Finlayson (ed.). London Museum of Archaeology, London , Ontario, Canada.

Byrne, R., and C. Turton. 1998. Experimental Pollen Studies in the Crawford Lake Region, pp. 91-94 in Iroquoian Peoples of the Land of Rocks and Water, A.D. 1000-1650: A Study in Settlement Archaeology. Vol 1. William D. Finlayson (ed.). London Museum of Archaeology, London , Ontario, Canada.

Goman, M., and R. Byrne. 1998. A 5000-year record of agriculture and tropical forest clearance in the Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico. Holocene 8:83-89.

Ingram, B.L., P. De Deckker, A.R. Chivas, M.E. Conrad, and R. Byrne.  1998 Stable isotopes, Sr/Ca, and Mg/Ca in biogenic carbonates from Petaluma Marsh, northern California, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 62:3229-3237.

Mensing, S., and R. Byrne.  1998. Pre-mission invasion of Erodium cicutarium in California. Journal of Biogeography24:757-762.