Jason H. Curtis Department of Geological Sciences Education
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Positions
2009-Present Senior Associate-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida (state-funded, non-tenure accruing faculty position responsible for management of the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Lab)
2004-2009 Associate-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida
1998-2004 Assistant-In Geochemistry, Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Florida
1997-1998 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
1989-1997 Research and Teaching Assistantships, Dept. of Geology and Dept. of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Univ. of Florida
1987-1989 Assistant, Light Stable Isotope Lab., Dept. of Geology, Univ. of Michigan
Current job description
The main job duty for the manager of the Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer laboratory in the Department of Geological Sciences is to oversee the operation, maintenance, and repair of the equipment in the lab, to finance the lab, and to supervise and instruct faculty, graduate students, and visitors carrying out analytical work in the lab. Additional job duties include research and service to the department and university. The position does not allow Principle Investigator status.
Dissertation (supervised by David A. Hodell)
Climatic Variation in the Circum-Caribbean during the Holocene. University of Florida, Gainesville. 149 pp. 1997.
Thesis (supervised by David A. Hodell)
Natural Variability of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Climates in the Caribbean from Isotopic and Trace Element Analysis of Lake Sediments (10,500 years bp to present). University of Florida, Gainesville. 79 pp. 1992.
Publications
Mueller, A.D., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J. Escobar, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.P. Guilderson, S. Kutterolf, M.L. Plötze . Late Quaternary Palaeoenvironment of Northern Guatemala: Evidence from Deep Drill Cores and Seismic Stratigraphy of Lake Petén Itzá. In revision for Sedimentology.
Escobar, J., J.H. Curtis M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.A. Holmes. Isotope measurements of single ostracod valves and gastropod shells for climate reconstruction: evaluation of within-sample variability and determination of optimum sample size Journal of Paleolimnology, DOI 10.1007/s10933-009-9377-9
Escobar, J., D.G. Buck, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and N. Hoyos. Thermal stratification, mixing, and heat budgets of Florida lakes. In Press. Fundamental and Applied Limnology
Hodell, D.A., E.K. Minth, Ja.H. Curtis, I.R. Hall, J.E.T. Channell, C. Xuan. Surface and Deep Water Hydrography on Gardar Drift (Iceland Basin) during the Last Interglacial Period. In press, Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Martin, J.B., J.M. Bernhard, J. Curtis, A.E. Rathburn. Combined carbon isotopic and cellular ultrastructural studies of individual foraminifera, , Submitted to Paleoceanography
Mueller, A.D., G. Islebe, M.B. Hillesheim, D. Grzesik, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and K. Venz-Curtis. 2009. Climate drying and associated forest decline in the lowlands of northern Guatemala during the late Holocene. Quaternary Research, 71. 133-141.
Sierro F.J., N. Andersen, M.A. Bassetti, S. Berné, M. Canals, J.H. Curtis, B. Dennielou, J.A. Flores, J. Frigola, B. Gonzalez-Mora, J.O. Grimalt, D.A. Hodell, G.l Jouet, M. Pérez-Folgado, and R. Schneider. 2009. Phase relationship between sea level and abrupt climate change. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1-15, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.07.019.
Hodell, D. A., J. E. T. Channell, J. H. Curtis, O. E. Romero, and U. Röhl. 2008. Onset of “Hudson Strait” Heinrich events in the eastern North Atlantic at the end of the middle Pleistocene transition (~640 ka)?, Paleoceanography, 23, PA4218, doi:10.1029/2008PA001591.
Hodell, D. A. and J. H. Curtis. 2008. Oxygen and carbon isotopes of detrital carbonate in North Atlantic Heinrich Events, Marine Geology, 256, 30-35, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.09.010
Hodell, D.A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, A. Gilli, D.A. Grzesik, T.J. Guilderson, A.D. Müller, M. Bush, A. Correa-Metrio, J. Escobar, and S. Kutterolf. 2008. An 85-ka Record of Climate Change in Lowland Central America. Quaternary Science Reviews, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.008
Escobar, J., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and W.F. Kenney. 2008. Thecamoebians as bioindicators in Florida lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology. DOI 10.1007/s10933-008-9195-5.
Frigola1, J., A. Moreno, I. Cacho, M. Canals, F.J. Sierro, J.A. Flores, J.O. Grimalt, D.A. Hodell and J.H. Curtis. 2007 Holocene climate variability in the Western Mediterranean region from a deep water sediment record. Paleoceanography, V22, PA2209, doi:10.1029/2006PA001307.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, et al. 2007. Proyecto Paleoambiental Lago Petén-Itzá. Petén Itzá 48:24-26. (in Spanish).
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2007. Climate and cultural history of the northeastern Yucatan Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Climatic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-006-9177-4.
Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, K.V. Kolasa, W.F. Kenney, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, and J.H. Curtis. 2006 Inadvertent alkalization of a Florida lake caused by increased nutrient and solute loading to its watershed. Journal of Paleolimnology, 36: 353-370.
Brenner, M. T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Riedinger-Whitmore, B. DeArmond, D.A. Leeper. W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2006. Geochemical and biological consequences of groundwater augmentation in lakes of west-central Florida (USA). Journal of Paleolimnology 36:371-383.
DeArmond, B.S. M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, D.A. Leeper, J. M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, B.C. Shumate, and D.G. Buck. 2006. Radium-226 accumulation in sediments of a groundwater-augmented lake near Tampa, Florida, USA. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29: 1275-1279.
Weng C., M.B. Bush, J.H. Curtis, A.L. Kolata, T.D. Dillehay, and M. Binford. 2006. Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes. Quaternary Research: 66, 87-96.
Brenner, M. D.A. Hodell, J. H. Curtis, W.F. Kenney, B. Gu, and B.W. Leyden, 2006. Mechanisms for organic matter and phosphorus burial in sediments of a shallow, subtropical, macrophyte-dominated lake. Journal of Paleolimnology, 35: 129-148.
Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, and M. Pagani. 2005. Physical and chemical properties of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol., 29: 725-731.
Riedinger-Whitmore, M.A., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, A. Moore, J.M. Smoak, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 2005. Cyanobacterial proliferation is a recent response to eutrophication in many Florida lakes: a paleolimnological assessment. Lake and Reservoir Management, 21. 423-435.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2005. Terminal Classic drought in the northern Maya Lowlands inferred from multiple sediment cores in Lake Chichancanab (Mexico). Quaternary Science Reviews, 24: 1413-1427.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, R. Medina-Gonzalez, M.F. Rosenmeier, T.P. Guilderson, E.I. Chan-Can, and A. Albornaz-Pat. 2005. Climate change on the Yucatan Peninsula during the Little Ice Age. Quaternary Research 63:109-121.
Hillesheim, M.B., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, D.G. Buck, T.P. Guilderson, M.F. Rosenmeier, and D.W. Schnurrenberger, 2005. Lowland neotropical climate change during the late deglacial and early Holocene. Journal of Quaternary Science, 20(4): 363-376.
Sierro, F.J., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, J.A. Flores, I. Reguera, E. Colmenero-Hidalgo, M.A. Barcena, J. Grimalt, and M. Canals. 2005 Impact of iceberg melting during Heinrich events on Mediterranean thermohaline circulation. Paleoceanography,Paleoceanography, 20:2, PA2019, 10.1029/2004PA001051.
Martrat, B., J.O. Grimalt, C. Lopez-Martinez, I. Cacho, F.J. Sierro, J.A. Flores, R. Zahn, M. Canals, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2004. Abrupt temperature changes in the Western Mediterranean over the last 250,000 years. Science, 306: 1762-1765.
Channell, J.E.T., J.H. Curtis, and B.P. Flower. 2004. The Matuyama-Brunhes boundary interval (500-900 ka) in North Atlantic drift sediments. Geophysical Journal International, 158: 489-505.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2003. Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. Pp. 45-76, In A. Gomez-Pompa and S. Fedick (eds.), Lowland Maya Area, Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. Haworth Press.
Hodell, D.A., C.D. Charles, J.H. Curtis, P.G. Mortyn., U.S. Ninnemann, and K.A. Venz. 2003. Data report: Oxygen isotope stratigraphy of ODP Leg 177 Sites 1088, 1090, 1093, and 1094, In: Gersonde, R., Hodell, D.A., and Blum, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the ODP, Scientific Results, Volume 177.
Kravchenko, I.I., R.F. Kelly, F.E. Dunnam, H.A. Van Rinsvelt, J.H. Curtis, and P.E. De Oliveira. 2003. PIXE studies of a sediment core from Lake Maicuru, Para, Brazil. Pp. 419-423, AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 680, Proceedings of The 17th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry.
Brenner, M., D. A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. F. Rosenmeier, F. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2002. Limnología y paleolimnología de Petén, Guatemala. Revista, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 12: 2-9.
Brenner, M., M.F. Rosenmeier, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2002. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands: long-term perspectives on interactions among, climate, environment, and humans. Ancient Mesoamerica, 13: 141-157.
Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2002. Paleoclima de la región Maya: síntesis del conocimiento basado en registros paleolimnológicos. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 10: 248-261. Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.
Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. Influence of vegetation change on watershed hydrology: implications for paleoclimatic interpretation of lacustrine d18O records. Journal of Paleolimnology, 27: 117-131.
Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. A 4000 year record of climate change and human disturbance from the southern Maya lowlands, Peten, Guatemala. Quaternary Research, 57: 183-190.
Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene-to-Present) and implications for regional biogeography. Pp. 35-54, In C.A. Woods and F.E. Sergile, Biogeography of the West Indies: Patterns and Perspectives, 2nd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, M.E. Sierro, and M.E. Raymo. 2001 Correlation of Late Miocene-to-Early Pliocene sequences between the Mediterranean and north Atlantic. Paleoceanography 16: 164-178.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T. Guilderson. 2001. Solar Forcing of Drought Frequency in the Maya Lowlands. Science, 292: 1367-1370.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Rosenmeier, M.W. Binford, and M.B. Abbott. 2001. Abrupt climate change and precolumbian cultural collapse. In: Interhemispheric Climate Linkages, V. Markraf, editor. Academic Press. 87-103.
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, Song X., Long R., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Sediment Records from Qilu Hu and Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China: Late Pleistocene to Present. In: Lake Basins Through Space and Time, AAPG Studies in Geology 46. E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts, editors. 619-624.
Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, R.M. Medina-Gonzalez, and B.H. Dahlin. 2000. Un registro de 8,000 años del paleoclima del noroeste de Yucatan, Mexico. Revista de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, 213: 52-65.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Climate change in the northern American tropics and subtropics since the last Ice Age: Implications for environment and culture. In: Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas, D.L. Lentz, editor. Columbia University Press, N.Y. 13-38.
Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 1999. Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12,600 yr BP to present. The Holocene, 9: 609-619.
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Stable isotopes (d13C & d15N) of sedimented organic matter as indicators of historic lake trophic state. Journal of Paleolimnology, 22: 205-221.
Higuera-Gundy, A., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1999. A 10,300 14C-year record of climate and vegetation change in Haiti. Quaternary Research., 52: 159-170.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, S.L. Kanfoush, J.H. Curtis, J.S. Stoner, Song X., Wu Y., and T.J. Whitmore. 1999. Paleoclimate of southwestern China for the past 50,000 yr inferred from lake sediments. Quaternary Research, 52: 369-380.
Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, R.A. Balser, G.A. Islebe, and H. Hooghiemstra. 1998. A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya lowlands of Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Paleolimnology, 19: 139-159.
Binford, M.W., A.L. Kolata, M. Brenner, J. Janusek, M.T. Seddon, M. Abbott, and J.H. Curtis. 1997. Climate variation and the rise and fall of an Andean civilization. Quaternary Research, 47: 235-248.
Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, Jiang Z., J.H. Curtis, A.M. Moore, D.R. Engstrom, and Wu Y. 1997. Water quality and sediment geochemistry in lakes of Yunnan Province, southern China Environmental Geology, 32: 45-55.
Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, and M. Brenner. 1996. Climate variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the last 3500 years, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Quaternary Research. 46: 37-47.
Islebe, G.A., H. Hooghiemstra, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 1996. A Holocene vegetation history of lowland Guatemala. The Holocene 6: 265-271.
Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.R. Piperno, and B.H. Dahlin. 1996. A record of long- and short-term climate variation from Northwest Yucatan: Cenote San Jose Chulchaca. In: The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. S.L. Fedick, editor. University of Utah Press. 30-50.
Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.H. Dahlin, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: an interdisciplinary palaeolimnological approach. The Holocene 6: 273-287.
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical ecology of a hypereutrophic Florida lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 11: 255-271.
Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 1995. Possible role of climate on the collapse of Classic Maya Civilization. Nature, 375: 391-394.
Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1994. Orbital and internal forcing of climate on the Yucatan Peninsula for the past ca. 36 ka. Palaeo, Palaeo, Palaeo, 109: 193-210.
Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, A. Higuera-Gundy, D.A. Hodell, G.A. Jones, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1993. Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Volume I: 377-380.
Curtis, J.H. and D.A. Hodell. 1993. An isotopic and trace element study of ostracods from Lake Miragoane, Haiti: a 10,500 year record of paleosalinity and paleotemperature changes in the Caribbean. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records. Geophysical Monograph 78. AGU. 135-152.
Leyden B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1993. Late Pleistocene climate in the Central American lowlands. Climate Change in Continental Isotopic Records. Geophysical Monograph 78. AGU. 165-178.
Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, G.A. Jones, A. Higuera-Gundy, M. Brenner, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1991. Caribbean climate change from 10,500 radiocarbon yrs BP to present: Evidence from a high-resolution lacustrine 18O record. Nature, 352: 790-793.
Bush, M.B., A. Correa-Metrio, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, A.D. Mueller, J.H. Curtis, D. Grzesik, C. Burton, and A. Gilli. In revision. The Last Glacial Maximum in lowland Central America. In: F. Vimeux, F. Sylvestre, and M. Khodri (Eds.), Past Climate Variability from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene in South America and Surrounding Regions. Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER) Series. Springer, Dordrecht, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York.
Reports
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, A. Zimmerman, and W. Kenney. 2009. Sediment Accumulation Rate and Past Water Quality in Lochloosa Lake. Final report to St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 278 p.
Brenner, M., J.H Curtis, W.F. Kenney, and T.J. Whitmore. 2004 Sedimentation in Davis Lake (Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes). Final report to the Citrus County Aquatics Services, Lecanto, FL., and Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 73pp.
Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2004. Effects of Groundwater Agumentation on 226-Ra Activity in Surface Sediments and Biota of Florida Lakes. Final report to Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 44pp.
Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, B. DeArmond, J.H. Curtis, and B. Shumate. 2004. Effect of groundwater augmentation on 226Ra activity in surface sediments and biota of Florida lakes. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 44 p.
Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, B. Shumate, and B. DeArmond. 2003. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final report to St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 78 p.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H Curtis, and W.F. Kenney. 2002. Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. Final Report for South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL. 42 p.
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 2002. Lake Hancock: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Past Trophic State Conditions. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 31 p. + tables, figures and appendices.
Abstracts Presented and Invited Seminars
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and E. Endsley. 2008. Cenotes and caves of the Maya region: natural archives of paleoenvironmental information. Presented at the Tulane University Maya Symposium on “Sacred Cenotes, Hidden Caverns: Rituals, Beliefs, and Everyday Activities Related to Caves and Cenotes Among the Maya.” Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 15-17 February, 2008.
Hodell, D, Channell, J, Curtis, J, Romero, O, Romero, O, and Roehl, U., 2007, Millennial-scale climate variability in the North Atlantic beyond the last glacial cycle inferred from IODP Site U1308 (re-occupation of DSDP Site 609). Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA,, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP44B-04.
Hodell, D, Anselmetti, F, Ariztegui, D, Brenner, M, Curtis, J, Escobar, J, Gilli, A, Grzesik, D, Guilderson, T, and Mueller, A., 2007, An 85-ka Record of Climate Change in Lowland Central America. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U22B-05.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2007. Holocene climate change in Florida. Presented at the USF/FAU Climate Change Conference, Tampa, Florida, 8-11 May, 2007.
Mays, J.L., Brenner, M., Bush, M.B., Correa, A., Curtis, J.H., and Hodell, D.A. (2007), Bulk and Compound-Specific Isotope Analysis of Long-Chain, n-alkanes From a 85-kyr Core From Lake Peten Itza, Guatemala. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP43B-1269
Sierro, F J, Andersen, N, Bassetti, M A, Berne, S, Canals, M, Curtis, J H, Dennielou, B, Flores, J A, Frigola, J, Gonzalez-Mora, B, Grimalt, J O, Hodell, D A, Jouet, G, Perez-Folgado, M, and Schneider, R, 2007, Millennial Climate Oscillations and Global sea Level Changes. Evidence of Rapid Flooding Events in the Western Mediterranean Continental Margin. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP53B-04
Endsley, E A, Gallup, C D, Hodell, D A, Curtis, J H, Brenner, M, Gentry, C L, Edwards, R L, Cheng, H., 2007, Late Holocene Droughts Recorded in Speleothems From the Maya Lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-08
Gamble, V C, Gallup, C D, Hodell, D, Anselmetti, F, Brenner, M, Ariztegui, D., 2007, Preliminary U-Th Dating of Endogenic Gypsum From Lake Petén-Itzá, Guatemala, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-03
Hodell, D A, Brown, E T, Anselmetti, F, Ariztegui, D, Brenner, M, Curtis, J H, Gilli, A, Grzesik, D, Mueller, A D., 2007, Climate Change during the Last Deglaciation in the lowlands of Central America, Presented at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union, Acapulco, Mexico, Eos Trans. AGU, 88(23), Jt. Assem. Suppl., Abstract PP43C-04
Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. and PISDP scientific party. 2007. An ~85-kyr climate record from the lowland Neotropics (Guatemala): The Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2007.
Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A., 2007, ~85-kyr of climate history from the lowland Neotropics unraveled by the Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the 4th International Limnogeology Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2007.
Grudem, E.K., Hodell, D.A., and Curtis, J.H. 2006. Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy of the Last Interglacial Period at North Atlantic Site U1304 (IODP Expedition 303), Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP23C-1776.
Gentry, C.L., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, C. Gallup, and E. Endsley. 2006. Speleothem paleoclimatology of the Last Glacial Maximum and Deglaciation in Yucatan, Mexico. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU,87(52), December 2006. Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP53A-08.
Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J. Curtis, A. Gilli, A. Mueller, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2006. Paleoclimate of northern Guatemala during the Last Glacial Cycle. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 11-15 December 2006. Eos Trans. AGU,87(52). Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP22A-02.
McKenzie, J. & Ploetze, M. 2007. Reconstruction of Late Quaternary environmental changes in the neotropics: first results from the Lake Petén Itzá Drilling Project (Guatemala). Presented at the Annual SwissSed Meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland, 27 January 2007.
Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. and PISDP scientific party. 2007. An ~85-kyr climate record from the lowland Neotropics (Guatemala): The Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 17 April 2007.
Anselmetti, F., Hodell, D., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J., Gilli, A., Grzesik, D., Kutterolf, S., Mueller, A. , 2007, ~85-kyr of climate history from the lowland Neotropics unraveled by the Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the 4th International Limnogeology Congress, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2007.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2007. Overview of the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. Presented at the “Mexico Climate Change Workshop,” Merida, Mexico, 8-10 January 2007.
Hodell, D.A., F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and members of the Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project. 2006. Preliminary results of the Lake Peten-Itza Scientific Drilling Project (PISDP). Presented at the 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, MN, 25-29 June, 2006. Abstracts:80.
Ariztegui, D., Anselmetti, F. S., Hodell, D. A., Brenner, M. & the Scientific Drilling Party. 2006. Reconstructing Late Quaternary environmental change in the lowland Neotropic – The Lake Petén-Itza Drilling Project (January-March 2006). Terra Nostra. Presented at the ICDP PASADO Workshop, Rio Gallegos, Argentina, 15-19 March 2006. p. 54.
Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, W.M. Last, and D.A. Hodell. 2006. A 2300-year record of Holocene climate variability from Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the 10th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Duluth, MN, 25-29 June, 2006. Abstracts:10.
Martrat, B., Grimalt, J.O., Sierro, F., Flores, J., Frigola, J., Canals, M., Curtis, J.H., and Hodell, D.A. 2006. The Iberian Margin over the past 115,500 Years: Subtropical versus Polar Latitudes, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract PP13A-1578.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, and B.W. Leyden. 2005. Cambios climáticos en la región del Caribe durante los ~36,000 años pasados: implicaciones para la distribución de humedales y fauna acuática. Presented at the V Simposio Internacional de Humedales, Cienaga de Zapata, Matanzas, Cuba, 6-10 October, 2005. Invited (Spanish).
Riedinger-Whitmore, M. T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, C.L. Schelske, J.M. Smoak, and J.H. Curtis. Threshold responses of cyanobacteria to eutrophication: paleolimnological evidence of alternative stable states in Florida lakes. Presented at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-25 February, 2005.
Buck, D.G., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. A late Holocene record of climate variability from hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the Aquatic Sciences Meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Salt Lake City, Utah, 20-25 February, 2005.
Anselmetti, F. S., D.A. Hodell, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, G. Haug, M. B. Hillesheim, and J.A. McKenzie. 2004. The Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) drilling project: tracking late Quaternary environmental change in the lowland Neotropics. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).
Hillesheim, M.B., D.A. Hodell, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and B.W. Leyden. 2004. Lowland Neotropical climate change during the late deglacial and early Holocene. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. A comparison of speleothem and lake sediment core d18O records from north-central Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December, 2004. EOS Trans. AGU 85 (47).
Anselmetti, F. S., D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, T. Guilderson, D.A. Hodell, and M.F. Rosenmeier. 2004. Enhanced soil erosion rates in the southern Maya Lowlands: the Lago Salpeten record, Guatemala. Presented at the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.
Hodell, D.A., F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J. Hall, G. Haug, M.B. Hillesheim, and J.A. McKenzie. 2004. The Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) drilling project: tracking environmental change in the Neotropics over multiple glacial-interglacial cycles. Presented at the 32nd International Geological Congress, Florence, Italy, 20-28 August, 2004.
Buck, D., Brenner, M., Hodell, D.A., Curtis, J.H., Martin, J.B., and Pagani, M. 2004. Chemical and physical characteristics of hypersaline Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic. Presented at the 29th Congress of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), August 8-14, 2004, Lahti, Finland.
DeArmond, B.S., Brenner, M., Kenney, W.F., Leeper, D.A., Smoak, J.M., Curtis, J.H., and Buck, D. 2004. Radium-226 accumulation in a groundwater-augmented lake near Tampa Fl, USA. Presented at the 29th Congress of the Societas Internationalis Limnologiae (SIL), August 8-14, 2004, Lahti, Finland.
Curtis, J.H.. 2004. Lake Peten Itza (Guatemala) Drilling Project. Presented at the ICDP-Bosumtwi Training Course, Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, September 13-17, 2004.
Curtis, J.H.. 2003. Holocene history of the Peten Region from sediment core studies from Lake Peten-Itza, Peten, Guatemala. Presented at the Workshop for Scientific Drilling in Lake Peten-Itza. Flores, Department of Peten, Guatemala, August 10-16, 2003.
Curtis, J.H., Brenner, M. Hodell, D.A., Leyden, B.W., and de Hatch, M.P. 2003. Lake Amatitlan: a high-resolution archive of late Holocene environmental conditions in the Guatemalan highlands. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003
Hillesheim, M.B., Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Schnurrenberger, D.W., Anselmetti, F.S., and Ariztegui, D. 2003. Sediment cores from Lago Peten-Itza, Guatemala: a site survey for GLAD800 drilling. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003
Rosenmeier, M.F. Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Martin, J.B. and Guilderson, T.P. 2003. Climate and hydrology of Lake Salpeten, Guatemala Inferred from an isotopic model. Presented at the 3rd International Limnogeology Congress Tucson, Arizona, March 29-April 2, 2003
Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and M.W. Binford. Little Ice Age recorded in sediments from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia EOS, AGU, Program and Abstracts. 118. Fall 1993.
Curtis, J.H. and D.A. Hodell. An isotopic and trace element study of ostracodes from Lake Miragoane, Haiti: A 10.3 kyr record of paleosalinity and paleotemperature changes in the Caribbean. EOS, AGU, Program and Abstracts. 154. Spring 1992.
Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, G.A Jones, and M. Brenner. Caribbean climate change from 10.9 kyr BP to present from a high resolution 18O record from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Abstract from AGU CIIC Chapman Conference, 1991.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T.P. Guilderson. Drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting. 2000.
Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P Guilderson. A 3500 Year Record of Climate Change and Human Disturbance From the Southern Maya Lowlands. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, Fall meeting. 2000.
Anselmetti, F.S., D. Ariztegui, J.A. McKenzie, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and M.F. Rosenmeier. 1999. High-resolution seismic survey of the Petén Lake District, northern Guatemala: implications for human disturbance and Maya cultural evolution. Presented at the Commission of Oceanography and Limnology (COL/KOL) Annual Symposium, “Looking into the Sediment Subsurface of Lakes,” Switzerland, 7-8 October. 1999.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, and M.B. Abbott. Environmental determinism revisited: Climatic limits on cultural development. Presented at the Pole-Equator-Pole conference on paleoclimates of the Americas, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 1999. Limnología en El Petén: problemas y perspectivas. Presented (in Spanish) at the conference “Nuevas Perspectivas de Desarrollo Sostenible en Peten,” organized by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Guatemala, and the Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP), Flores, Guatemala, 2-4 December, 1999.
Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Late Holocene climatic variability in Central America: Evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Presented at the Pole-Equator-Pole conference on paleoclimates of the Americas, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, M.B. Abbott, R. Sanchez, P. Sheets, D. Liverman, and L. Nuñez. Human dimensions of global change in the Americas: a synthesis of PEP 1 presentations. Poster presented at the 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting, London, England, 20-23 April, 1998. (invited). 1998.
Rosenmeier, M.F., J.B. Martin, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Controls of chemical and isotopic composition of lake water, Peten, Guatemala and implications for Holocene climatic variability in Central America. Abstracts with Programs, 1998 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 30 (7), p. 309. 1998.
Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Early to middle Holocene climatic variability in Central America: evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 79 (45), p. 476. 1998
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. The stable isotope signature of sedimented organic matter as an indicator of historical trophic state conditions. Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Palaeolimnology, 28 Aug-2 Sept, 1997, Riedlingen, Germany. 1997.
Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and B.H. Dahlin. 1994 Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of Yucatan Peninsula. Presented at the 13th International Diatom Symposium, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 1-7 September, 1994.
Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and M.W. Binford. 1993. A high-resolution paleoclimate record from Lago Huiñaimarca (Lago Titicaca Menor), Bolivia. Presented at the VIth International Palaeolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 19-21, 1993.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2000. Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. Presented at the 65th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA, 5-9 April, 2000. (invited).
Riedinger, M., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and A.M. Moore. 2000. Sedimented algal pigment profiles from Florida lakes: algal community responses to eutrophication. Presented at the 20th Meeting of the North American Lakes Management Society, Miami, FL, 8-10 November, 2000.
Hodell, D.A., M. Rosenmeier, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J. McKenzie, and T. Guilderson. 2001. Human-climate-environment interactions in the Maya lowlands. 21st Symposium in Plant Biology: Lowland Maya Area, Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. University of California, Riverside, 18-20 January, 2001. (invited).
Grants and Contracts
Krigbaum, J., J. Bloch, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, D. Jones, B.MacFadden, and R. Secord. Development of an In Situ Laser System for Isotope Microsampling of Archaeological,Paleontological and Geological Materials. UF Research Opportunity Incentive Seed Fund. $86,643. 2008-2009.
Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and A. Zimmerman. Sediment Accumulation Rate and Past Water Quality in Lochloosa Lake, St. Johns River Water Management District, $200,000. 2006-2008.
Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., and Curtis, J.H.. Speleothem Paleoclimatology of the Maya Lowlands. National Geographic Society. $26,414. 2006-2007.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H., Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. Collaborative Research: Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Project, Guatemala: a Terrestrial Archive of Northern Neotropical Climate and Environmental Change for the Last Climate Cycle. National Science Foundation – Earth System History. $298,904. 2005-2007.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H., Curtis, and C.D. Gallup. 2004. Collaborative Research: Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Project, Guatemala: a Terrestrial Archive of Northern Neotropical Climate and Environmental Change for the Last Climate Cycle. National Science Foundation – Earth System History. $650,000. Funding went directly from NSF to Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC). 2005-2007.
Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Gallup, C.D. Speleothem paleoclimate records from the Yucatan Peninsula. Declined by National Science Foundation. $328,086. 2005-2007.
Hodell, D.A., Anselmetti, F.S., Ariztegui, D., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Hall, J., Haug, G., and McKenzie, J. Lake Peten-Itza (Guatemala) Drilling Project. International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP), Potsdam, Germany. $500,000. Funding went directly from ICDP to Drilling, Observation and Sampling of the Earths Continental Crust (DOSECC). 2004-2006.
Brenner, M., and J.H. Curtis. Sedimentation in Davis Lake (Tsala Apopka Chain of Lakes), Citrus County Aquatic Services, $40,500. 2003-2004.
Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL. $65,875. 2001-2002.
Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. Lake Hancock: A multi-proxy reconstruction of past trophic state conditions. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. $56,000. 2001-2002.
Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and J. Jaeger. Ecology and paleoecology of groundwater-augmented Florida lakes. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. $161,875. 2001-2004.
Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. Collaborative research: climate change in the lowland neotropics during the last glacial-to-interglacial cycle: a site survey proposal for GLAD800 drilling. National Science Foundation. $140,551. 2001-2003.
Brenner, M., and J.H. Curtis. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in Lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. $49,000. 2001-2003.
Brenner, M. and J.H. Curtis. (not funded). Characterization of Sediments from Fox Lake, Brevard County, Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Eustis, FL. $19,832.
Field Experience
2009 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2008 California, Sierra Nevadas, Lake coring
2008 Guatemala, Lake coring and surface sediment collection
2008 Grenada, Lake coring
2008 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2007 Caribbean (Trinidad, Barbados, Marie Galante, St. Croix), lake coring and reconnaissance for future lake coring
2007 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2006 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2006 Mexico (Yucatan), collected cave speleological material
2006 Guatemala, GLAD800 drilling Lake Peten Itza
2005 Greece, Lake coring
2005 Brazil, Lake coring
2005 Mexico (Yucatan), collected cave speleological material
2005 Florida, Lake coring and limnology
2004 Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, Familiarization of the GLAD800 lake drilling rig
2004 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring, water chemistry and collection, bathometric survey of Lake Chichancanab, collected cave speleological material
2003 Cambodia, Coring Lake Tonle Sap and the main artificial reservoir at Angor Wat
2003 Haiti, Reconnaissance for future lake coring of Etang Sumatre
2003 Dominican Republic, Lake, river, and spring sampling, sediment sampling
2002 Florida, Lake Coring (Davis Lake)
2002 Greece (Crete), Lake coring
2002 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
2002 Everglades, Florida, Lake coring
2001 Greece (Crete), Lake coring
2001 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
2001 Dominican Republic, Lake coring
2000 Peru, Lake coring
2000 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
2000 Guatemala (Highlands), Lake coring
1999 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring and seismic survey
1998 Brazil (Para), Lake coring
1998 Brazil (Para), Reconnaissance for future lake coring
1998 Panama, Lake coring
1998 Florida, Lake coring
1997 Brazil (Parana, Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Sao Paulo, Rondonia, Rio Grande do Norte), Lake coring, lake survey
1997 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
1997 Panama, Lake coring
1996 Southern Ocean, ODP site survey cruise, TN057, Piston coring
1995 Lower Great Lakes, Box coring
1995 Panama (Darien), Lake coring
1994 China (Yunnan), Lake coring and lake survey
1994 Venezuela, Coring Lake Valencia
1994 Panama (Darien), Lake coring
1993 Bolivia, Coring Lake Titicaca
1993 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
1993 Guatemala (Peten), Lake coring
1993 Lower Great Lakes, Setting sediment traps and box coring
1992 Bolivia, Coring Lake Titicaca
1992 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake coring
1991 Gulf of Mexico, Dredging
1990 Mexico (Yucatan), Lake survey