Publications
In Review/Revision
[4] Zhang, D., Wang, G., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Cheng, F., Shen, T., Ji, J., and Zhang, M. A westerly dominated Early Cretaceous eolian system in the Hami Basin, NW China. Geological Society of America Bulletin.
[3] Zhang, W., Wu, J., Zhou, J., Abell, J. T., and Pan, B. Geochemical evidence reveals the role of glacier activity on the formation of a dammed paleolake in the southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters.
[2] Abell, J. T., Hawkings, J. R., Shoenfelt-Troein, E. M., Pavia, F. J., Osman, M. B., and Winckler, G. Spatial and temporal variability of marine sediment solid-phase iron speciation in the North Pacific Ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
[1] Sandoval-Castellanos, E., Hare A. J., Lin, A. T., Dimopoulos, E. D., Daly, K. G., Wiechmann, I., Mullin, V. E., Mattiangeli, V., Lükhen, G., Zinovieva, N. A., Zidarov, P., Benecke, N., Cakirlar, C., Scheu, A., Stoddart, S., Orton, D., Bulatović, J., Mashkour, M., Sauer E, W., Horwitz, L. K., Horejs, B., Atici, L., Özkaya, V., Mullville, J., Pearson, M. P., Mainland, I., Card, N., Brown, L., Sharples, N., Griffiths, D., Allen, D., Arbuckle, B., Burger, J., Geörg, C., Abell, J. T., Duru, G., Mentzer, S. M., Munro, N. D., Uzdurum, M., Gülçur, S., Buitenhuis, H., Stiner, M. C., Pöllath, N., Özbaşaran, M., Krebs, S., Frantz, L., Medugorac, I., Bradley, D. G., and Peters, J. Ancient sheep mitogenomes from Neolithic Anatolia and Europe reveal dramatic demographic fluctuations over the last 12,000 years. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2023
[20] Pavia, F. J., Abell, J. T., Middleton, J. L., Leal, A., Vivancos, S. M., Fleisher, M. Q., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F. (2023). Discrepant Mass Accumulation Rates of Sediments in the South Pacific Ocean from 230Th and 3He Measurements. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.019
[19] Stubbins, B., Leier, A. L., Barbeau, D. L. Jr., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Nie, J., Zárate, M. A., and Fidler, M. K. (2023). Global climate forcing on the late Miocene establishment of the Pampean aeolian system in South America. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42537-3
[18] Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., Pullen, A., Kinsley, C. W., Kapp, P., Middleton, J. M., Pavia, F. J., McGee, D., Ford, H. L., and Raymo, M. E. (Accepted). Evaluating the drivers of Quaternary dust fluxes to the western North Pacific: East Asian dustiness and Northern Hemisphere gustiness. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004571
[17] Abell, J. T. and Winckler, G. (2023). Long‐Term Variability in Pliocene North Pacific Ocean Export Production and Its Implications for Ocean Circulation in a Warmer World. AGU Advances. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022AV000853
[16] Zhao, Y., Fan, N., Nie, J., Abell, J. T., An, Y., Jin, Z., Wang, C., Zhang, J., Liu, X., and Nie, R. (2023). From desiccation to re-integration of the Yellow River since the last glaciation. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103632
[15] Zhang, W., Zhang, E., Liu, E., Abell, J. T., Sun, W., Ni, Z., Chen, R., Cai, Y., Liu, E., and Meng, X. (2023). Mongolian dust activity over the last 25 Kyr predominantly driven by the East Asian Winter Monsoon: Insights from the geochemistry of Lake Tuofengling sediments. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103633
[14] McClymont, E. L., Ho S.-L., Ford H. L., Bailey I., Berke M. A., Bolton C. T., De Schepper S., Grant G. R., Groeneveld J., Inglis G. N., Karas C., Patterson M. O., Swann G. E. A., Thirumalai K., White S. M., Alonso-Garcia M., Anand P., Hoogakker B. A. A., Littler K., Petrick B. F., Rosebrobakken B., Abell J. T., Crocker A. J., de Graaf F., Feakins S. J., Hargreaves J. C., Jones C. L., Markowska M., Ratnayake A.S., Stepanek C., and Tangunan D. (2023). Climate evolution through the onset and intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation. Reviews of Geophysics. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022RG000793
[13] Lambert, J. E., Linsley, B. K., Abell. J. T., Bova, S. C., Winckler, G., Rosenthal, Y., Weiss, T. L., and Huang, W. (2023). Obliquity-driven subtropical forcing of the thermocline after 240 ka in the southern sector of the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2023.111578
[12] Li, M., Nie, J., Li, Z., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Zhang, H., McMechen, C. A., and Pan, B. (2023). A middle Pleistocene to Holocene perspective on sediment sources for the Tengger Desert, China. Catena. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2023.107119
2022
[11] Pullen, A., Barbeau, D. L. Jr., Leier, A. L., Abell, J. T., Ward, M., Bruner, A., and Fidler, M. K. (2022). A westerly wind dominated Puna Plateau during deposition of upper Pleistocene loessic sediments in the subtropical Andes, South America: Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31118-5
[10] Zhang, D., Wang, G., Abell, J. T., Pullen, A., Winckler, G., Schaefer, J., and Shen, T. (2022). Climatically and geomorphologically controlled wind erosion since the late Pleistocene in the Hami Basin, Eastern Asia: Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL097495
2021
[9] Liu, C., Nie, J., Li, Z., Qiao, Q., Abell, J. T., Wang, F., and Xiao, W. (2021). Eccentricity forcing of monsoonal systems over the past 3 million years: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2107055118
[8] Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., Anderson, R. F., and Herbert, T. D. (2021). Poleward and weakened westerlies during Pliocene warmth. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03062-1
2020
[7] Abell, J. T., Rahimi, S., Pullen, A., Lebo, Z., Zhang, D., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Ridge, S., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. (2020). A quantitative model-based assessment of stony desert landscape evolution in the Hami Basin, China: Implications for Plio-Pleistocene dust production in Eastern Asia. Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090064
[6] Zhang, D., Wang, G., Pullen, A., Abell, J. T., Ji, J., and Shen, T. (2020). Landscape evolution and development of eolian-modified unconsolidated gravel surfaces and yardangs in the Hami Basin, China. Geomorphology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107355
[5] Abell, J. T., Pullen, A., Lebo, Z., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Metcalf, A., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. (2020). A wind-albedo-wind feedback driven by landscape evolution: Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13661-w
2019
[4] Abell, J. T., Quade, J., Duru, G., Mentzer, S. M., Stiner, M. C., Uzdurum, M., and Özbaşaran, M. (2019). Urine salts elucidate Early Neolithic animal management at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0038
2018
[3] Pelletier, J. D., Kapp, P. A., Abell, J., Field, J. P., Williams, Z. C., & Dorsey, R. J. (2018). Controls on yardang development and morphology I. Field observations and measurements at Ocotillo Wells, California. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JF004461
2016
[2] Licht, A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abels, H., Lai, Z., Guo, Z., Abell, J., and Giesler, N. (2016). Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation shown by Paleogene dust provenance. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12390
[1] Licht, A., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abell, J., and Giesler, N. (2016). Eolian cannibalism: reworked loess and fluvial sediment as the main sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau. GSA Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31375.1
Presentations and Invited Talks
†Invited, ‡Mentee, *Presenting Author (if not first author)
2023
Pullen, A., Leier, A., Barbeau, D. L., Fidler, M. K., Abell, J. T., Stubbins, B., and Kroeger, E. D. L. Unlocking the provenance of the Upper Miocene to Holocene southern South American loess record through U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology. AGU Fall Meeting.
Tulinsky, G., Winckler, G., Abell, J. T., Middleton, J. L., Schwartz, R., Fleisher, M. Q., Lembke-Jene, L., and Tiedemann, R. Did the Westerlies Move and Strengthen Over the Last Glacial Cycle? AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T., Gilmore, L., and Tierney, J. E. What can the organic geochemistry of Tasman Sea sediments tell us about the Southern Hemisphere westerlies over the last ~150 ky? AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T. †, Winckler, G., and Thirumalai, K. Investigating the drivers of subarctic North Pacific Ocean export productivity and deep ocean oxygenation across the Pliocene and earliest Pleistocene. AGU Fall Meeting.
McKenley, H. ‡, Thirumalai, K., and Abell, J. T. Can Stable Isotopes of Individual Benthic Foraminifera Capture Deepwater Current Variability? AGU Fall Meeting.
Middleton, J. L., Abell, J. T., and Winckler, G. Plio-Pleistocene Dust Fluxes to the Western Equatorial Pacific Constrained via Helium Isotopes and Sedimentary 10Be. Goldschmidt.
2022
Abell, J. T., and Winckler, G. Pliocene Variability of North Pacific Overturning Circulation: Reevaluating North Pacific Productivity and Redox Conditions from ~2.5-6 Ma. 14th International Conference on Paleoceanography.
Abell, J. T., and Osman, M. B. Were Winds Weird in a Warmer World? A Data-Model Comparison of the Pliocene Westerlies. The warm Pliocene: Bridging the geological data and modelling communities, Galileo Conference.
Abell, J. T.† Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Geoarchaeology Seminar. Urinating in the Neolithic: Geochemistry at the Aceramic Neolithic Site of Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey.
Abell, J. T.† California Institute of Technology, Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar. A "dusty" perspective on East Asian land-atmosphere interactions across the Plio-Pleistocene.
Abell, J. T.†, Quade, J., Stiner, M., Mentzer, S., and Özbaşaran, M. Urinating in the Neolithic: Geochemistry at the Aceramic Neolithic Site of Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. SAA Annual Meeting.
Abell, J. T.† University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Sciences Seminar. A "dusty" perspective on East Asian land-atmosphere interactions across the Plio-Pleistocene.
2021
Alejos, A.‡, Winckler, G., Abell, J. T., Middleton, J. L., Ravelo, A. C., Santos, B., DeLong, K. A., Riesselman, C. R., Malinverno, E., Saavedra, M., and IODP Expedition 383 Scientists. High-resolution records of dust and productivity from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean across Termination III. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T.† Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry Seminar. Earth, Wind, and Water: Plio-Pleistocene Climate Evolution of the North Pacific and East Asia.
Abell, J. T.† Binghamton University, SUNY, Geology Department Seminar. From Dust to Dust, or Dirt to Dirt: Applications of Sediment Geochemistry and Modeling from the Pliocene to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
2020
Abell, J. T.†, Rahimi, S., Pullen, A., Lebo, Z., Zhang, D., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Ridge, S., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. A modeling perspective on Pleistocene landscape evolution and dust production in the Hami Basin, China. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., Anderson, R. F., and Herbert, T. D. Characterization of dust and productivity fluxes in the North Pacific indicate shifts in the westerly winds during the Pliocene. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., Anderson, R. F., Herbert, T. D. Reconstructing the intensity and location of Northern Hemisphere westerlies during the Plio-Pleistocene using marine sediments. EGU General Assembly.
Abell, J. T,† Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Biology and Paleo-Environment Seminar. Urinating in the Neolithic: Early Animal Domestication and a New Approach to Estimating Site Use Intensity.
Abell, J. T.† Clemson University, Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences Seminar. From Dust to Dust, or Dirt to Dirt: Applications of Sediment Geochemistry and Modeling from the Pliocene to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
2019
Pullen, A., Abell, J. T.*, Lebo, Z., Kapp, P., Gloege, L., Metcalf, A., Nie, J., and Winckler, G. When geology and climate collide: evolving landscapes and the wind-albedo wind feedback. AGU Fall Meeting.
Pavia, F. J., Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F. Reconstruction of Modern Dust Deposition in the South Pacific from Water Column and Sedimentary Methods. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., Anderson, R. F. East Asian Dust Fluxes and Paleoproductivity in the North Pacific during the Plio-Pleistocene. AGU Fall Meeting.
Garzione, C. N., Weber, T. S., Lauderdale, J. M., Nie, J., Pullen, A., An, Z., Abell., J. T., Winckler, G., Anderson, R. F., Herbert, T., Lu, H., and Molnar, P. H. Asian Tectonics, the Fe Hypothesis for the North Pacific, and Late Cenozoic Cooling. AGU Fall Meeting
Abell, J. T., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F., East Asian Dust Fluxes and Paleoproductivity in the North Pacific during the Plio-Pleistocene. PIRE Dust Workshop.
2018
Abell, J. T.† RV SONNE Scientific Cruise Meeting. The North Pacific from Pliocene to Present: A story of windblown sediment, stardust, and paleoclimate reconstructions.
2017
Abell, J., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F., Do Changes in Dust Flux to the North Pacific Correspond to Major Climate Shifts in the Pliocene?. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J.† Asikli Hoyuk Summer Field Campaign. Urinating in the Neolithic: Geochemical Evidence for Early Animal Domestication in Turkey.
Abell, J., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F., Reconstructing Dust Flux and Export Productivity in the North Pacific to Understand Pliocene Climate Change. PIRE Dust Workshop.
Abell, J., Winckler, G., and Anderson, R. F., Reconstructing Dust Flux and Export Productivity in the North Pacific to Understand Pliocene Climate Change. Lamont-Doherty First-Year Colloquium.
2016
Abell, J., Quade, J., Stiner, M., Mentzer, S., and Osbasaran, M., Evidence of urine in a Neolithic tell in relation to animal domestication. University of Arizona GeoDaze Symposium.
Abell, J., Russell, J., and Goodman, P., Observationally-Based Data/Model Metrics from the Southern Ocean Climate Model Atlas. University of Arizona GeoDaze Symposium.
Licht, A., Dupont-Nivet, G., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abels, H., Abell, J., and Gielser, N., Resilience of the Asian atmospheric circulation to paleogeographic and climatic changes. EGU General Assembly.
Licht, A., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abell, J., and Giesler, N., Reworked loess and Yellow River sediment as the main sources of the Chinese Loess Plateau. EGU General Assembly.
2015
Abell, J., Russell, J., and Goodman, P., Observationally-Based Data/Model Metrics from the Southern Ocean Climate Model Atlas. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J., Quade, J., Stiner, M., Mentzer, S., and Osbasaran, M., Evidence of urine in a Neolithic tell in relation to animal domestication. GSA Annual Meeting.
Licht, A., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abell, J., and Giesler, N., Sources of the Quaternary Chinese Loess Plateau strata based on U-Pb detrital zircon ages: implications for atmospheric circulation and internal recycling of the Loess Plateau. The Batsheva de Rothschild Seminar on Dust, Loess, and Soils in Deserts and Desert Margins.
Abell, J., Kapp, P., Pullen, A., and Licht, A., Geochronology Study of the Loess Plateau for Comparative Statistical Analyses and its Effects on Asian Paleoclimate. 3rd Annual Doug Shakel Memorial Student Poster Event.
Abell, J., Kapp, P., Pullen, A., and Licht, A., Geochronology Study of the Loess Plateau for Comparative Statistical Analyses and its Effects on Asian Paleoclimate. University of Arizona GeoDaze Symposium.
Licht, A., Kapp, P., Pullen, A., Abell, J., Abels, H., and Dupont-Nivet, G., Tracking the provenance of the dust deposits on the Chinese Loess Plateau through U-Pb dating of aeolian zircons: insights from large-n geochronological datasets. EGU General Assembly.
Abell, J., Kapp, P., Geochronology of zircons in Loess Plateau, Ordos Basin, and central sand deserts for comparative statistical analyses. University of Arizona Honor’s Research Exposition.
2014
Licht, A., Adriens, R., Pullen, A., Kapp, P., Abels, H., van Cappelle, M., Abell, J., Vanderbenghe, J., and Dupont-Nivet, G., Asian Winter monsoons in the Eocene? Evidence from the Aeolian dust series of the Xining basin. AGU Fall Meeting.
Abell, J., Bowers, J., Carroll, J., Lunn, E., Valachovic, J., and Kapp, P., Wind over rock: Quantifying the structure and geometrics of ‘yardangs’. University of Arizona GeoDaze Symposium.