Publications

For a mostly up to date list of publications, please see Casey’s Google Scholar profile.

30. Saenger, C. P., Schauer, A. J., Heitmann, E. O., Huntington, K. W., Steig, E. J. 2021. How 17O excess in clumped isotope reference-frame materials and ETH standards affects reconstructed temperature. Chemical Geology doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120059.

29. Sanchez, S. C., Hakim, G. J., Saenger, C. P. 2020. Climate model teleconnection patterns govern the tropical Pacific response to early 19th century volcanism in coral-based data assimilation reconstructions. Journal of Climate doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-20-0549.1.

28. Norton, E. L., Siedlecki S. A., Kaplan, I. C., Hermann, A. J., Fisher, J. L., Morgan, C. A., Officer, S., Saenger, C., Alin, S. R., Newton, J. A., Bednarsek, N., Feely, R. A. 2020. The importance of environmental exposure history in forecasting Dungeness crab megalopae occurrence using J-SCOPE, a high-resolution model for the US Pacific Northwest. Frontiers in Marine Science doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00102

27. Bednaršek, N. Feely, R. A., Beck, W. M., Alin, S. R., Siedlecki, S. A., Calosi, P., Norton, E. L., Saenger, C., Štrus, J., Greeley, D., Nezlin, N. P., Roethler, M., Spicer, J. I. 2020. Exoskeleton dissolution with mechanoreceptor damage in larval Dungeness crab related to severity of present-day ocean acidification vertical gradients. Science of the Total Environment doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136610

26. Saenger, C., and Evans, M.N. 2019. Calibration and validation of environmental controls on planktic foraminifera Mg/Ca using global core-top data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003507

25. Petersen, S.V., Defliese, W.F., Saenger, C., Daëron, M., Huntington, K.W., John, C.M., Kelson, JR, Bernasconi, SM, Coleman, AS, Kluge, T, Olack, GA, Schauer, AJ, Bajnai, D., Bonifacie, M., Breitenbach, SFM, Fiebig, J, Fernandez, AB, Henkes, GA, Hodell, D, Katz, A, Kele, S, Lohmann, KC, Passey, BH, Peral, MY, Petrizzo, DA, Rosenheim, BE, Tripati, A, Venturelli, R, Young, ED, Winkelstern, IZ. 2019. Effects of improved 17O correction on interlaboratory agreement in clumped isotope calibrations, estimates of mineral‐specific offsets, and temperature dependence of acid digestion fractionation. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. doi: doi.org/10.1029/2018GC008127

24. Saenger, C., Gabitov, R., Farmer, J., Watkins, J. and Stone, R. 2017. Linear correlations in bamboo coral d13C and d18O sampled by SIMS and micromill: evaluating paleoceanographic potential and biomineralization mechanisms using d11B and ∆47 variability. Chemical Geology (invited contribution): doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.02.014

23. Kelson, J., Schauer, A. J., Huntington, K. W., Saenger, C., Lechler, A. 2017. Towards a universal carbonate clumped isotope calibration: diverse synthesis and preparatory methods suggest a single temperature relationship. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2016.10.010

22. Emile-Geay, J. McKay, N. P., Kaufman, Von Gunten, Wang, Anchukaitis, Abram, Addison, Curran, Evans, Henley, Hao, Martrat, McGregor, Neukom, Pederson, Stenni, Thirumalai, Werner, Xu, Divine, Dixon, Gergis, Mundo, Nakatsuka, Phipps, Routson, Steig, Tierney, Tyler, Allen, Bertler Björklund, Chase, Chen, Cook, de Jong, DeLong, Dixon, Ekaykin, Ersek, Filipsson, Francus, Freund, Frezzotti, Gaire, Gajewski, Ge, Goosse, Gornostaeva, Grosjean, Horiuchi, Hormes, Husum, Isaksson, Kandasamy, Kawamura Kilbourne, Koç, Leduc, Linderholm, Lorrey, Mikhalenko, Mortyn, Motoyama, Moy, Mulvaney, Munz, Nash, Oerter, Opel, Orsi, Ovchinnikov, Porter, Roop, Saenger, C., Sano, Sauchyn, Saunders, Seidenkrantz, Severi, Shao, Sicre, Sigl, Sinclair, St George, St Jacques, Thamban, Kuwar Thapa, Thomas, Turney, Uemura, Viau, Vladimirova, Wahl, White, Yu, Zinke. 2017. A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era. Scientific Data doi: 10.1038/sdata.2017.88

21. Schauer, A. J., Kelson, J., Saenger, C., Huntington, K. W. 2016. Choice of 17O correction affects clumped isotope (Δ47) values of CO2 measured with mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. doi: 10.1002/rcm.7743

20. Abram, N. J., McGregor, H. M., Tierney, J. E., Evans, M. N., McKay, N. P., Kaufman, D. S. Thirumalai, K., Martrat, B., Goosse, H., Phipps, S. J., Steig, E. J., Kilbourne, K. H., Saenger, C. P., Zinke, J., Leduc, G., Addison, J. A., Mortyn, P. G., Seidenkrantz, M., Sicre, M-A., Selvaraj, K., Filipsson, H. L., Neukom, R., Gergis, J., Curran, M. A. J., von Gunten, L. 2016. Early onset of industrial-era warming across the oceans and continents. Nature, doi: 10.1038/nature19082

19. Saenger, C and Watkins, J. 2016. A refined method for calculating paleotemperature from linear correlations in bamboo coral carbon and oxygen isotopes. Paleoceanography. doi: 10.1002/2016PA002931

18. Saenger, C and Erez, J. 2016. A non-traditional stable isotope perspective on coral calcification. In: Goffredo, S. and Dubinsky, Z. (eds), The Cnidaria, past, present and future. The world of Medusa and her sisters. Springer.

17. Kaufman, D., Axford, Y. Henderson, A., McKay, N. Oswald, W., Saenger, C., Anderson, R. S., Bailey, H., Clegg, B., Gajewski, K, Hu, F., Jones, M., Massa, C., Routson, C., Werner, A., Wooller, M., Yu, Z. 2015. Holocene climate changes in eastern Beringia (NW North America) — A systematic review of multi-proxy evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.021

16. Tierney, J.E., Abram, N.J., Anchukaitis, K.J., Evans, M.N., Giry, C., Kilbourne, K.H., Saenger, C. P., Wu, H. C., Zinke, J., 2015. Tropical sea-surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives. Paleoceanography 30, 3. doi:10.1002/2014PA002717

15. Sundqvist, H.S., Kaufman, D.S., McKay, N.P., Balascio, N.L., Briner, J.P., Cwynar, L.C., Sejrup, H.P., Seppä, H., Subetto, D.A., Andrews, J.T., Axford, Y., Bakke, J., Birks, H.J.B., Brooks, S.J., de Vernal, A., Jennings, A.E., Ljungqvist, F.C., Rühland, K.M., Saenger, C., Smol, J.P., Viau, A.E., 2014. Arctic Holocene proxy climate database; new approaches to assessing geochronological accuracy and encoding climate variables. Climate of the Past Discussions 10, 1–63. doi:10.5194/cpd-10-1-2014

14. Saenger, C. and Wang, Z. 2014. Magnesium isotope fractionation in biogenic and abiogenic carbonates: Implications for paleoenvironmental proxies. Quaternary Science Reviews. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.01.014 (invited review)

13. Saenger, C., Wang, Z., Gaetani, G., Cohen, A. L., and Lough, J. 2013. The influence of temperature and precipitation kinetics on magnesium isotope variability in Porites and Astrangia corals. Chemical Geology. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.09.017


12. Saenger, C., Affek, H., Thiagarajan, N., Felis, T., Lough, J. and Holcomb, M. 2012. Carbonate clumped 
isotopes in shallow-water corals: Temperature dependence and vital effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.09.035


11. Saenger, C., Came, R.E., Oppo, D. W., Keigwin, L.D., Cohen, A. L., 2011, Regional climate variability in the western subtropical North Atlantic during the past two millennia. Paleoceanography. doi:10.1029/2010PA002038

10. Smittenberg, R. H., Saenger, C., Dawson, M., Sachs, J. P., 2011, Compound-specific D/H ratios of the marine lakes of Palau as proxies for West Pacific Warm Pool hydrologic variability. Quaternary Science Reviews. 30, 921-933, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.01.012

9. Cronin, T. M., Hayo, K., Thunell, R. C., Dwyer, G. S., Saenger, C., Willard, D.A., 2010. The Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age in Chesapeake Bay and the North Atlantic Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 297, 299-310, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.08.009

8. Saenger, C., Chang, P. Ji, L. Oppo, D. W., Cohen, A. 2009: Tropical Atlantic climate response to low- latitude and extratropical sea-surface temperature: a Little Ice Age perspective. Geophysical Research Letters. v. 36 L11703, doi:10.1029/2009GL038677

7. Saenger, C., Cohen, A. C., Oppo, D. W. Halley, R. B. and Carilli, J. E.: 2009. Surface temperature trends and variability in the low-latitude North Atlantic since 1552. Nature Geoscience. 2, 492-495, doi: 10.1038/NGEO552.

6. Saenger, C., Cohen, A. C., Oppo, D. W., Hubbard, D. H. 2008. Interpreting sea surface temperature from strontium/calcium ratios in Montastrea corals: Link with growth rate and implications for proxy reconstructions. Paleoceanography 23 doi:10.1029/2007PA001572

5. Saenger, C., Cronin, T.M., Willard, D., Halka, J., Kerhin, R. 2008, Increased terrestrial to ocean sediment fluxes in the northern Chesapeake Bay with twentieth century land alteration. Estuaries and Coasts doi:10.1007/s12237-008-9048-5

4. Saenger, C., Miller, M, Smittenberg, R. H., Sachs, J., 2006, A physico-chemical survey of inland lakes and saline ponds: Christmas (Kiritimati) and Washington (Teraina) Islands, Republic of Kiribati. Saline Systems 2 (8) doi:10.1186/1746-1448-2-8

3. Saenger, C., Cronin, T., Thunell, R., Vann, C., 2006, Modeling River Discharge and Precipitation from Estuarine Salinity in the Northern Chesapeake Bay: Application to Holocene Paleoclimate. The Holocene, v. 16 (4) p. 467-477

2. Cronin, T. M., Thunell, R., Dwyer, G. S., Saenger, C., Mann, M., Vann, C., Seal, R. R., 2005. Multiproxy evidence of Holocene climate variability from estuarine sediments, Eastern North America. Paleoceanography, v. 20, PA 4006, doi: 10.1029/2005PA001145

1. Cronin, T., Sanford, L., Langland, M., Willard, D., and Saenger, C., 2003. Estuarine sediment transport, deposition, and sedimentation. In Langland, M. and Cronin, T. (eds) A summary report of sediment processes in Chesapeake Bay and watershed. USGS Publication Water Resources Investigation 03- 4123, p. 61-79.