Publications - Dan Sinclair

Sinclair, D. J., (in press). RBME Coral Temperature Reconstruction: An Evaluation, Modifications, and Recommendations. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Wang, X.T, Sigman, D.M., Cohen, A.L., Sinclair, D. J., Sherrell, R.M., Weigand, M.A., Erler, D.V., & Ren, H. (2015). Isotopic composition of skeleton-bound organic nitrogen in reef-building symbiotic corals: A new method and proxy evaluation at Bermuda. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 148, 179–190.

Douarin, M., Sinclair, D. J., Elliot, M., Henry, L-A., Long, D., Mitchison, F., & Roberts, J.M. (2014). Changes in fossil assemblage in sediment cores from Mingulay Reef Complex (NE Atlantic): implications for coral reef build-up. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 99, 286-296.

Maupin, C.R., Partin, J.W., Shen C.-C., Quinn, T.M., Lin, K., Taylor, F.W., Banner, J.L., Thirumala, K. & Sinclair, D. J. (2014). Persistent decadal-scale rainfall variability in the tropical South Pacific Convergence Zone through the past six centuries. Climate of the Past, 10, 1319-1332.

LaVigne, M., Nurhati, I.S., Cobb, K.M., McGregor, H.V., Sinclair, D. J., Sherrell, R.M. (2013). Systematic ENSO-driven nutrient variability recorded by central equatorial Pacific corals. Geophysical Research Letters, 40(15), 3956-3961.

Hathorne, E., et al. Sinclair, D. J., et al. (2013). Inter-laboratory study for coral Sr/Ca and other element/Ca ratio measurements. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 14(9), 3730-3750.

Partin, J.W., Quinn, T. M., Shen, C.-C., Emile-Geay, J., Taylor, F.W., Maupin, C.R., Lin, K., Jackson, C.S., Banner, J.L., Sinclair, D. J., & Huh, C.-A. (2013). Multidecadal Rainfall Variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone as revealed by stalagmite geochemistry. Geology, 41(11), 1143-1146.

Galbraith, E.D., Kienast, M., et al. Sinclair, D. J., et al. (2013). The acceleration of oceanic denitrification during deglacial warming. Nature Geoscience, 6, 579–584.

Douarin, M., Elliot, M., Noble, S.R., Sinclair, D. J., Henry, L-A, Long, D., Moreton, S., & Roberts, J. M. (2013). Growth of North-East Atlantic Cold-Water Coral reefs and mounds during the Holocene: A High Resolution U-Series and 14C Chronology. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 375, 176–187.

Robinson, R.S., Kienast, M., …, Sinclair, D. J., …, & Yang, J.-Y. (2012). A review of nitrogen isotopic alteration in marine sediments. Paleoceanography, 27(4), PA4203.

Sinclair, D. J., Taylor, F. Banner, J. Jenson, J. Mylroie, J. Goddard, E. Quinn, T., & Partin J. (2012). Magnesium and trontium systematics in tropical speleothems from Western Pacific. Chemical Geology, 294-295, 1-17.

Partin, J. W., Jenson, J. W., Banner, J. L., Quinn, T. M., Taylor, F. W., Sinclair, D. J., …, & Taboroši, D. (2012). Relationship between modern rainfall variability, cave dripwater and stalagmite geochemistry in guam. USA.G-Cubed, 13(3), Q03013.

Sinclair, D. J., Allard, G., Williams, B., Ghaleb, B., Ross, S., Risk, M. (2011). Reproducibility of trace element profiles in a specimen of the deep-water bamboo Coral Keratoisis spp. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(18), 5101-5121.

Sinclair, D. J. (2011). Two mathematical models of Mg and Sr partitioning into solution during incongruent calcite dissolution: Implications for dripwater and speleothem studies. Chemical Geology 283(3-4), 119-133.

Roberts, J. M., Davies, A., Henry, L.M., Duineveld, M., Lavaleye, M., Dodds, L., …, Sinclair, D. J., …, & van Haren, H. (2009). The Mingulay reef complex, northeast Atlantic: an interdisciplinary study of cold-water coral habitat, hydrography and biodiversity. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 397, 139-151.

Williams, B., Risk, M. J., Stone, R., & Sinclair, D. J. (2007). Oceanic changes in the Gulf of Alaska recorded in deep-water gorgonians. Marine Ecology Progress Series 335, 85-94.

Sinclair, D. J., Williams B., & Risk M. (2006). A biological origin for climate signals in corals - Trace element "Vital Effects" - a ubiquitous feature of Scleractinian coral skeletons. Geophysical Research Letters 37(17), L17707.

Sinclair, D. J. & Risk, M. (2006). A numerical model of trace-element coprecipitation in a physicochemical calcification system: Application to coral biomineralization and trace-element ‘vital effects’. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70(15), 3855-3868.

Sinclair, D. J. (2005). Correlated trace element 'vital effects' in tropical corals: A new tool for probing biomineralization chemistry. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69(13), 3265-3284.

Sinclair, D. J. (2005). Non river-flood barium signals in the skeletons of corals from coastal Queensland, Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 237(3-4), 354-369.

Pons-Branchu, E., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Deschamps, P., Ghalem, B., & Sinclair, D. J. (2005). Early diagenesis impact on precise U-series dating of deep-sea corals: Example of a 100-200 years old Lophelia Pertusa sample from the northeast Atlantic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 69(20), 4865-4879.

Sinclair, D. J., Sherwood, O. A., Risk, M. J., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Tubrett, M., Sylvester, P., McCulloch, M. T., & Kinsley, L. P. J. (2005). Testing the reproducibility of Mg/Ca profiles in the deep-water coral Primnoa resedaeformis: putting the proxy through its paces. In A. Freiwald, J.M. Roberts (Ed.), Cold Water Corals and Ecosystems: Selected Papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals (pp. 1039-1060). New York, USA: Springer.

Sherwood, O. A., Heikoop, J. M., Sinclair, D. J., Scott, D. B., Risk, M. J., Shearer, C., & Azetsu-Scott, K. (2005). Skeletal Mg/Ca in Primnoa resedaeformis: relationship to temperature? In A. Freiwald, J.M. Roberts (Ed.), Cold Water Corals and Ecosystems: Selected Papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Deep Sea Corals (pp. 1061-1079). New York, USA: Springer

Linklater, C. M., Sinclair, D. J., & Brown, P. L. (2005). Coupled chemistry and transport modelling of sulphidic waste rock dumps at the Aitik mine site, Sweden. Applied Geochemistry 20(2), 275-293.

Sinclair, D. J. (2004). Interactive comment on “The environment recording unit in coral skeletons: structural and chemical evidences of a biochemically driven stepping-growth process in coral fibres” by J. P. Cuif and Y. Dauphin. Biogeosciences Discussions, 1, S265-S272.

Sinclair, D. J. & McCulloch, M. T. (2004). Corals record low mobile barium concentrations in the Burdekin River during the 1974 flood: Evidence for limited Ba supply to rivers? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 214(1-2), 155-174.

Fallon, S. J., McCulloch, M. T., van Woesik, R., & Sinclair, D. J. (1999). Corals at their latitudinal limits: laser ablation trace element systematics in Porites from Shirigai Bay, Japan. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172(3-4), 221-238.

Sinclair, D. J., Kinsley, L. P. J., & McCulloch, M. T. (1998). High resolution analysis of trace elements in corals by laser-ablation ICP-MS. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 62(11), 1889 - 1901.