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Dr. Laurel B. Childress

Publications

Bahlburg, H., Childress, L.B., Cowan, E.A., Forwick, M., Moy, C.M., Müller, J., Ribeiro, F., and Ridgway, K.D., 2013. The provenance of clasts deposited on the Surveyor Fan, Gulf of Alaska: first results of IODP Expedition 341. Presented at the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9–13 December 2013. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/T23D-2626.html

Blair, N., Leithold, L., Brulet, B., Childress, L., Canuel, E., Brackley, H., Trustrum, N., Page, M., and Carter, L., 2009. The source to sink evolution of particulate organic carbon in the Waipaoa sedimentary system. Presented at the MARGINS S2S Synthesis and Integration Workshop, Gisborne, NZ.

Blair, N., Thompson, C., Childress, L., and Leithold, L., 2013. The fate of small active margin river POC in the marine environment. Presented at the Goldschmidt Conference, Florence, Italy.

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Thompson, C.E., Lloyd, K.H., and Childress, L.B., 2008. What does control the composition of POC exported from rivers? Presented at the American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL.

Blair, N.E., Fournillier, K., Leithold, E.L., and Childress, L.B., 2010. Resolving organic carbon of differing diagenetic/catagenetic states in riverine and marine sediments. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(11):A95.

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Childress, L.B., and Fournillier, K., 2011. The role of watershed storage on exported riverine organic carbon signatures. Presented at the International Symposium on Soil Organic Matter, Leuven, Belgium.

Blair, N.E., Childress, L.B., and Leithold, E.L., 2012. A conceptual watershed model describing the riverine export of particulate organic radiocarbon. Presented at the Radiocarbon Conference, Paris, France.

Blair, N.E., Childress, L.B., Fournillier, K., and Leithold, E.L., 2013. The burial of organic carbon over the last 10 kyr by the Waipaoa River, New Zealand sedimentary system. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9–13 December 2013. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/OS53C-1717.html

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Thompson, C.E., Childress, L.B. and Fournillier, K.F., 2014. The fate of Soil OC in the marine environment: examples from the rapidly eroding landscapes of two New Zealand north island rivers. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/B13E-0243.html

Blair, N.E., Leithold, E.L., Brackley, H., Trustrum, N., Page, M., and Childress, L., 2010. Terrestrial sources and export of particulate organic carbon in the Waipaoa sedimentary system: problems, progress and processes. Marine Geology, 270(1):108–118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.016

Carbotte, S.M., Canales, J.P., Carton, H.D., Nedimovic, M.R., Han, S., Marjanovic, M., Gibson, J.C., Janiszewski, H.A., Horning, G., Delescluse, M., Watremez, L., Farkas, A., Gorriz, B.B., Bornstein, G., Childress, L.B., and Parker, B., 2012. Evolution and hydration of the Juan de Fuca crust and uppermost mantle: a plate-scale seismic investigation from ridge to trench. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 3–7 December 2012. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2012/FM/T13H-01.html

Childress, L., and the Expedition 368X Scientists, 2019. Expedition 368X Preliminary Report: South China Sea Rifted Margin: International Ocean Discovery Program https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.368X.2019

Childress, L.B., and Stoddard, E., 2003. Mapping and analysis of a diabase dike in the North Carolina Piedmont in an honors physical geology class. Presented at the Geological Society of America Joint Annual Meeting.

Childress, L.B., Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., and Brulet, B.R., 2008. Use of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes to study Late Pleistocene to Holocene environmental change in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union, 89(53):OS11B-1135. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2008/FM/OS11B-1135.html

Childress, L.B., Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., and Brulet, B.R., 2009. Use of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes to study Late Pleistocene to Holocene environmental change in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand. Presented at the MARGINS S2S Synthesis and Integration Workshop, Gisborne, NZ.

Childress, L.B., Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., and Brulet, B.R., 2010. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as proxies for Late Pleistocene to Holocene environmental change in the Waipaoa Sedimentary System, New Zealand. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 74(11):A175.

Childress, L.B., Blair, N.E., and Leithold, E.L., 2010. Tracing organic carbon from the terrestrial to marine environment via coupled stable carbon isotope and lignin analyses. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13–17 December 2010. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2010/FM/EP53C-0635.html

Childress, L.B., and Ridgway, K.D., 2014. Glacial and tectonic influence on terrestrial organic carbon delivery to high latitude deep marine systems: IODP Site U1417, Surveyor Fan, Gulf of Alaska. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP23D-05.html

Childress, L.B., Blair, N.E., Orpin, A., and Fournillier, K., 2015. Tracking small mountainous river derived terrestrial organic carbon across the active margin marine environment. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 14–18 December 2015. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2015/FM/OS23E-04.html

Childress, L.B., 2015. Sedimentary organic carbon: active margin inputs and fluxes. Presented at the Deep Carbon Observatory Thematic Institute on "Carbon, from the Mantle to the Surface", Berkeley, CA.

Childress, L.B., and Jacobsen, S.D., 2017. High-pressure high-temperature Raman spectroscopy of kerogen: relevance to subducted organic carbon. American Mineralogist, 102(2):391–403. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2017-5719

Childress, L.B.a.B., N.E., The Active Margin Carbon Cycle. Presented at the GeoPRISMS Planning Workshop for the New Zealand Primary Site.

Childress, L.B.a.B., N.E., 2013. The subduction margin carbon cycle: a preliminary assessment of the distribution patterns of multicycle carbon. Presented at the Planning Workshop for the New Zealand Primary Site.

Clementi, V.J., Rosenthal, Y., Bova, S.C., Thomas, E.K., Wright, J.D., Mortlock, R.A., Cowling, O.C., Godfrey, L.V., Childress, L.B., Aiello, I.W., Avila, A., Biggs, W., Charles, C.D., Cheung, A.H., deLong, K., Dove, I.A., Du, X., Estes, E.R., Fuentes, U., García-Lasanta, C., Goldstein, S.L., Golub, A., Hagemann, J.R., Hatfield, R.G., Haynes, L.L., Hess, A.V., Irvali, N., Kiro, Y., Monteagudo, M.M., Lambert, J.E., Li, C., Longo, W.M., McGrath, S., Riechelson, H., Robinson, R.S., Sarao, J., Sproson, A.D., Taylor, S., Yokoyama, Y., Yu, S.M., and the Expedition 379T Scientists, 2022. Deep submarine infiltration of altered geothermal groundwater on the south Chilean Margin. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1):218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00541-3

Cruz, A., McNichol, A., Gagnon, A., Burton, J., Childress, L. B., Elder, K., Lardie Gaylord, M., Gospodinova, K., Hlavenka, J., Kurz, M., Longworth, B., Roberts, M., Trowbridge, N., Walther, T., and Xu, L., 2017. Advances in sample preparation at the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Facility. Presented at the International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry.

Guizan Silva, C., Baker, P.A., Estes, E.R., and Childress, L.B., 201, 2019. Expedition 387 Scientific Prospectus: Amazon Margin. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.387.2019

Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C.L., Berbel, G.B.B., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Drab, L., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Shulan, G., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L.J., März, C., Matsuzaki, K.M., McClymont, E.L., Moy, C., Müller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ribeiro, F.R., Ridgway, K.D., Romero, O.E., Slagle, A.L., Stoner, J.S., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Walczak, M.D., Worthington, L.L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R., and Swartz, J.M., 2015. Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(49):15042–15047. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1512549112

Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 341 Scientists, 2014. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 341: College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program). https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.proc.341.2014

Jaeger, J.M., and Gulick, S.P.S., 2014. Gulf of Alaska cryosphere and paleoceanography in the Neogene: IODP Expedition 341 Southern Alaska. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP23D-03.html

Knutz, P., Jennings, A., and Childress, L.B., 2022. Expedition 400 Scientific Prospectus: NW Greenland Glaciated Margin. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.400.2022

Kuehl, S.A., Alexander, C.R., Blair, N.E., Harris, C.K., Marsaglia, K.M., Ogston, A.S., Orpin, A.R., Roering, J.J., Bever, A.J., Bilderback, E.L., Carter, L., Cerovski-Darriau, C., Childress, L.B., Reide Corbett, D., Hale, R.P., Leithold, E.L., Litchfield, N., Moriarty, J.M., Page, M.J., Pierce, L.E.R., Upton, P., and Walsh, J.P., 2016. A source-to-sink perspective of the Waipaoa River margin. Earth-Science Reviews, 153:301–334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.10.001

Leithold, E., Childress, L., Brulet, B., and Blair, N., 2009. Deciphering the biogeochemical signals of Holocene environmental change preserved in sediment fractions on the Waipaoa margin, New Zealand. Presented at the MARGINS S2S Synthesis and Integration Workshop, Gisborne, NZ.

Leithold, E., Blair, N., Childress, L., and Brulet, B., 2010. Long-term controls on the composition of particulate carbon buried offshore from the Waipaoa River, North Island, New Zealand. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 13–17 December 2010.

Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., Childress, L.B., Brulet, B., and Thompson, C.E., 2008. Signals of landscape destabilization on continental margins – comparisons of organic geochemical records from the Eel and Waipaoa shelves. Presented at the American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Orlando, FL.

Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., Brulet, B., Childress, L., Almquist, K., and Hunt, C., 2010. Picking apart the organic geochemical stratigraphic record on continental margins - an approach to deciphering the signals of terrestrial environmental change. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 42(5):527.

Leithold, E.L., Blair, N.E., Childress, L.B., Brulet, B.R., Marden, M., Orpin, A.R., Kuehl, S.A., and Alexander, C.R., 2013. Signals of watershed change preserved in organic carbon buried on the continental margin seaward of the Waipaoa River, New Zealand. Marine Geology, 346:355–365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.10.007

Li, C., Clementi, V.J., Bova, S.C., Rosenthal, Y., Childress, L.B., Wright, J.D., Jian, Z., and the Expedition 379T Scientists, 2022. The sediment green-blue color ratio as a proxy for biogenic silica productivity along the Chilean Margin. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 23(9):e2022GC010350. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010350

Montelli, A., Gulick, S.P.S., Worthington, L.L., Mix, A.C., Zellers, S., and Jaeger, J.M., 2014. Seismic stratigraphy of the Bering Trough, Gulf of Alaska: Late Quaternary history of Bering Glacier dynamics. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP21A-1287.html

Montes, M.L.S., McClymont, E.L., Müller, J., Moy, C., Lloyd, J.M. and the Expedition 341 Scientists, 2014. Climate-ice sheet interactions through the Pliocene-Pleistocene: preliminary results from Expedition 341 (Gulf of Alaska). Presented at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP21A-1283.html

Moy, C.M., Bahlburg, H., Childress, L.B., Cowan, E.A., Forwick, M., Müller, J., Ribeiro, F., Ridgway, K.D., and Mix, A.C., 2013. Spatial and temporal patterns of Pleistocene biogenic sediment accumulation in the Gulf of Alaska. Presented at the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 9–13 December 2013. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2013/FM/T23D-2617.html

Müller, J., Romero, O.E., McClymont, E., Stein, R.H., and Fahl, K., 2014. Palaeoenvironmental conditions in the Gulf of Alaska (NE Pacific) during the Mid Pleistocene Transition. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014.https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP21A-1284.html

Penkrot, M.L., Jaeger, J.M., LeVay, L., St-Onge, G., Mix, A.C., Bahlburg, H., Davies-Walczak, M., and Gulick, S.P.S., 2014. Northern Cordilleran ice sheet dynamics in coastal Alaska from MIS 3 to the Present: initial results. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/PP21A-1285.html

Reis, A., Fichtner, V., Erhardt, A., Roehl, U., Thomas, D.J., and Childress, L.B., 2020. Carbonate recrystallization on the Campbell Plateau: preliminary results from IODP Site 378-U1553. Presented at the 2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Online, 1–17 December 2020. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2020/FM/PP010-0004.html

Röhl, U., Thomas, D.J., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 378 Scientists, 2022. South Pacific Paleogene Climate. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 378: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program). https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.378.2022

Scientists, E., 2014. Southern Alaska margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Preliminary Report, 341. https://doi.org/10.2204/iodp.pr.341.2014

Shipboard Scientific Party, 2011. UNOLS Early Career Chief Scientist Training Cruise Report, Wecoma, W1109C.

St.-Onge, G., Francus, P., Labrie, J., Beauvais, Q., Velle, J.H., Fortin, D., Mix, A.C., Jaeger, J.M., Stoner, J.S., Bahlburg, H., Forwick, M., and Zolitschka, B., 2014. CAT-scan analysis in scientific drilling: effective routine data acquisition and processing of whole cores, split cores and u-channels. Presented at the 2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 15–19 December 2014. https://abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2014/FM/OS53D-1085.html

Thomas, D.J., Röhl, U., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 378 Scientists, 2020. Expedition 378 Preliminary Report: South Pacific Paleogene Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.378.2020

Thomas, D.J., Röhl, U., and Childress, L., 2018. Expedition 378 Scientific Prospectus: South Pacific Paleogene Climate: International Ocean Discovery Program https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.378.2018

Thomas, D.J., Röhl, U., and Childress, L.B., 2019. Expedition 378 Scientific Prospectus Addendum: South Pacific Paleogene Climate: International Ocean Discovery Program https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.sp.378add.2019

Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bohaty, S.M., Childress, L.B., and the Expedition 392 Scientists, 2022. Expedition 392 Preliminary Report: Agulhas Plateau Cretaceous Climate. International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.392.2022

Zindorf, M., Marz, C., Wagner, T., Gulick, S.P.S., Strauss, H., Benowitz, J., Jaeger, J., Schnetger, B., Childress, L., LeVay, L., van der Land, C., and La Rosa, M., 2019. Deep sulfate-methane-transition and sediment diagenesis in the Gulf of Alaska (IODP Site U1417). Marine Geology, 417:105986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.105986

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