Paleoclimate and geochemical cycles

The Caldeira lab conducts research to understand changes to Earth's ancient climate and geochemical cycles and their implications for the future.

• 2009: The role of terrestrial plants in limiting atmospheric CO2 decline over the past 24 million years (Pagani et al., Nature)
• 2008: A Dynamic Marine Calcium Cycle During the Past 28 Million Years (Griffith et al., Science)
• 2008: Close mass balance of long-term carbon fluxes from ice-core CO2 and ocean chemistry records (Zeebe and Caldeira, Nature Geoscience)
• 2008: Cyanobacterial Emergence at 2.8 Gya and Greenhouse Feedbacks (Schwartzman et al., Astrobiology)
• 2006: An ancient carbon mystery (Pagani et al., Science)
• 2005: Major perturbation of ocean chemistry and a "Strangelove Ocean" after the end-Permian mass extinction (Rampino and Caldeira, Terra Nova)
• 2003: Carbonate deposition, climate stability, and Neoproterozoic ice ages (Ridgwell et al., Science)
• 1999: Seawater pH and atmospheric carbon dioxide (Caldeira and Berner, Science)
• 1999: Was the Himalayan orogen a climatically significant coupled source and sink for atmospheric CO2 during the Cenozoic? (Kerrick and Caldeira, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)
• 1998: The need for mass balance and feedback in the geochemical carbon cycle: Reply (Bickle, Geology)
• 1997: The need for mass balance and feedback in the geochemical carbon cycle (Berner and Caldeira, Geology)
• 1995: Convective hydrothermal CO2 emissions from high heat flow regions (Kerrick et al., Chemical Geology)
• 1994: The Goldilocks problem: climatic evolution and long-term habitability of terrestrial planets (Rampino and Caldeira, Annual Review)
• 1994: Post-125 Ma carbon storage associated with continent-continent collision — comment (Kerrick et al., Geology)
• 1993: Aftermath of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction -- possible biogeochemical stabilization of the carbon cycle and climate (Caldeira and Rampino, Paleooceanography)
• 1992: Antipodal hotspots on the Earth (Rampino and Caldeira, GRL)
• 1992: Susceptibility of the early Earth to irreversible glaciation caused by CO2 clouds (Caldeira and Kasting, Nature)
• 1991: The mid-Cretaceous super plume, carbon dioxide, and global warming (Caldeira and Rampino, GRL)
• 1990: Carbon dioxide emissions from Deccan volcanism and a K/T boundary greenhouse effect (Caldeira and Rampino, GRL)