Publications

In the works

Bokhari Friberg, Y., Anand, P., Romero, O., Littler, K., Robinson, M., Sexton, P., Leng. M., and Murayama, M., accepted March 2025. Influence of Indian Summer Monsoon on Marine Biological Productivity Across the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Foley, K., and Spivey, W., accepted April 2025. The conundrum of Taxonomic Uniformitarianism in Planktic Foraminifera, Palaeontology.

2024

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 2024. What the cliffs near America’s earliest settlements tell us about climate change. Frontiers for Young Minds 12:1-X, doi:103389/frym.2024.1295235.

Robinson, M.M., Miller, K.G., Babila, T.L., Bralower, T.J., Browning, J.V., Cramwinckel, M.J., Doubrawa, M., Foster, G.L., Fung, M.K., Kinney, S., Makarova, M., McLaughlin, P.P., Pearson, P.N., Röhl, U., Schaller, M.F., Self-Trail, J.M., Sluijs, A., Westerhold, T., Wright, J.D., and Zachos, J.C., 2024. Paleogene Earth Perturbations U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain (PEP-US): Coring transects of hyperthermals to understand past carbon injections and ecosystem responses. Scientific Drilling 12:1-19, doi:10.5194/sd-33-47-2024.

Doubrawa, M., Stassen, P., Robinson, M.M., and Speijer, R.P., 2024. Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological dynamics of the US Atlantic Coastal Plain prior to and during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 54:143-171, doi:10.61551/gsjfr.54.2.143.

Sutton, S.R., Culver, S.J., Hayek, L.-A.C. Mallinson, D.J., Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., and Buzas, M.A., 2024. Benthic Foraminiferal Community Changes Across the Miocene Climatic Optimum Identified by SHEBI Analysis (She Analysis for Biozone Identification), Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA. Journal of Foraminiferal Research 54:188-197, doi:10.61551/gsjfr.54.2.188.

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 2025. Planktic foraminifera. In Elias, S. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, 3rd Edition. Vol. 3, p. 628-633. UK: Elsevier.

Cunningham, Kevin J., Westcott, Richard L., Norgard Sean, Robinson Edward, Dowsett, Harry J., Robinson, Marci M., 2024. Vertical columnar seismic structures and seafloor depressions at the Miami Terrace carbonate platform and overlying deep-water carbonates, southeastern Florida, Marine Geology 478, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2024.107413.

Robinson, M.M., Foley, K.M., Spivey, W., Durika, N.J., and Dowsett, H.J., 2024, Piacenzian (Pliocene) foraminiferal faunal census data from Sites DSDP 594, ODP 642, ODP 846, ODP 882, ODP 982, ODP 1073, ODP 1088, and ODP 1146: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P149NDBM.

Gibson, T.G., Sutton, S.R., and Robinson, M.M., 2024, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain foraminifera: Digitized and updated taxonomy of Thomas G Gibson’s census data:  U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P1YQLFJY.

Obrist-Farner, J., Anderson, L., Baker, P., Berke, M., Beverly, E., Brigham-Grette, J., Brown, E., Castañeda, I., Deino, A., Fritz, S., Goldstein, S., Kehrwald, N., Kirby, M., Miller, K., Olsen, P., Park Boush, L., Robinson, M., Russell, J., and Soreghan, G., 2024. The paleoclimate potential of continental scientific drilling, Nature Geoscience,doi:10.1038/s41561-024-01603-1.

2023

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Foley, K., Herbert, T., Hunter, S., Andersson, C., and Spivey, W., 2023. The relative stability of planktic foraminifer thermal preferences over the past 3 million years. Geosciences 13 (3), 71, doi:10.3390/geosciences13030071.

Rush, W., Self-Trail, J.M., Zhang, Y., Sluijs, A., Brinkhuis, H., Zachos, J., Ogg, J.G., and Robinson, M.M., 2023. Assessing environmental change associated with early Eocene hyper thermals in the Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA. Climate of the Past 19: 1677-1698, doi:10.5194/cp-19-1677-2023.

Haywood, A.M., Burton, L.E., Dolan, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Fletcher,T.L., Foley, K.M., Hill, D.J., Hunter, S.J., Robinson, M.M., and Tindall, J.C., 2023, Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (PlioMIP3) Data Distribution: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P937UZV5.

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Foley, K.M., Hunter, S.J., Dolan, A.M., and Tindall, J.C., 2023. Early Pliocene (Zanclean) stratigraphic framework for PRISM5/PlioMIP3 time slices. Stratigraphy 20: 225-231, doi:10.29041/strat.20.3.02.

Robinson, M.M., and Dowsett, H.J., 2023, Pliocene Planktic Foraminiferal Census Data from the Northeast Indian Ocean and Southeast Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P9PZJMDM.

Robinson, M.M., 2023. Palaeoclimate: Plankton reveal past climate. Nature Geoscience 16: 1074-1075, doi:10.1038/s41561-023-01343-8.

Haywood, A., Tindall, J., Burton, L., Chandler, M., Dolan, A., Dowsett, H., Feng, R., Fletcher, T., Foley, K., Hill, D., Hunter, S., Otto-Bliesner, B., Lunt, D., Robinson, M., and Salzmann, U., 2023. Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project Phase 3 (PlioMIP3) - Science plan and experimental design. Global and Planetary Change 232: 104316, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104316.

2022

Tian, S.Y., Yasuhara, M., Robinson, M.M., and Huang, H.-H. M., 2022. Ostracod eye size: A taxonomy-free indicator of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum sea level. Marine Micropaleontology, 174: 101994, doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.101994.

Dowsett, Harry J., Robinson, Marci M., Foley, Kevin M., and Herbert, Timothy D., 2022. Alkenone and foraminifer abundance data from Miocene and Pliocene Atlantic Coastal Plain sediments: U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, doi:10.5066/P9G3AFRZ. 

Henry, E., Lawrence, K., Robinson, M., and Peterson, L., 2022. A comparison of orbital-resolution, late Pleistocene, alkenone and foraminiferal assemblage-based sea surface temperature reconstructions from the Southwest Pacific. Quaternary Science Reviews 277, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107345. 

Babila, T.L., Penman, D.E., Standish, C.D., Doubrawa, M., Bralower, T.J., Robinson, M.M., Self-Trail, J.M., Speijer, R.P., Stassen, P., Foster, G.L., and Zachos, J.C., 2022. Surface ocean warming and acidification driven by rapid carbon release precedes Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science Advances 8 (11), eabg1025, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abg1025..

Aubry, M-P, Miller, K.G., Turco, E., Flores Villajero, J.A., Gladenkov,, A., Grunert, P., Hilgen, F, Nishi, H., Holbourn, A., Krijgsman, W., Lirer, F., Piller, W.E., Quillévéré, F., Raffi, I., Robinson, M.M., Rook, L., Tian, J., Triantaphyllou, M., and Vallejo, F., 2022. Ratification of Neogene Subseries as Formal Units in International Chronostratigraphy. Episodes v. 45, p. 445-453, doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2022/022008.

Doubrawa, M., Stassen, P., Robinson, M., Babila, T., Zachos, J., and Speijer, R., 2022. Shelf ecosystems along the US Atlantic Coastal Plain prior to and during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: insights in the stratigraphic architecture. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37, doi:10.1029/2022PA004475.

Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., and Herbert, T.D., 2022. Very high Middle Miocene surface productivity on the U.S. mid-Atlantic shelf amid glacioeustatic sea level variability. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 606: 111249, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111249. 

Li, M., Bralower, T.J., Kump, L.R., Self-Trail, J.M., Zachos, J.C., Rush, W.D., and Robinson, M.M., 2022. Astrochronology of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-022-33390-x.

2021

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., and Foley, K.M., 2021, Estimating Piacenzian sea surface temperature using an alkenone-calibrated transfer function: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2021–5051, 16 p., doi:10.3133/sir20215051.

Culver, S.J., Sutton, S.R., Mallinson, D.J., Buzas, M.A., Robinson, M.M., and Dowsett, H.J., 2021. Miocene neritic benthic foraminiferal community dynamics, Calvert Cliffs, Maryland, USA: species pool, patterns and processes. PALAIOS, 2021, v. 36, 247–259, doi:10.2110/palo.2020.069.

Sutton, S., Robinson, M., Culver, S., Mallinson, D., Buzas, M. and Dowsett, H., 2021. Microfossils from Calvert Cliffs Give Us Clues to the Future Warmer Climate. The Ecphora: the Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club, 36 (3): 2-4, calvertmarinemuseum.com/204/The-Ecphora-Newsletter. 

Tian, S.Y., Yasuhara, M., Huang, H.-H. M., Condamine, F.L., and Robinson, M.M., 2021. Shallow marine extinction and ecosystem perturbation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: warming, deoxygenation, and habitat compression. Global and Planetary Change 207:103649, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103649. 

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Foley, K.M., and Herbert, T.D., 2021. The Yorktown Formation: Improved Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Paleoclimate Interpretations from the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain. Geosciences 11, 486, doi:10.3390/geosciences11120486. 

2020

Todd, C.L., Schmidt, D.N., Robinson, M.M., and De Schepper, S., 2020. Planktic foraminiferal test size and weight response to the late Pliocene environment, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, doi:10.1029/2019PA003738.

2019

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Foley, K.M., Herbert, T.D., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., and Spivey, W., 2019, The mid-Piacenzian of the North Atlantic Ocean: Stratigraphy, v. 16, no. 3, p. 119-144, doi:10.29041/strat.16.3.119-144

Livsey, C.M., Babila, T., Robinson, M.M., and Bralower, T., 2019, The planktonic foraminiferal response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Marine Micropaleontology 146: 39-50, doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2018.12.001.

Robinson, M., Foley, K., Dowsett, H. and Spivey, W., 2019, A global planktic foraminifer census data set for the Pliocene ocean, addendum. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleosearch/study/19281

Robinson, M.M., and Spivey, W.E., 2019, Environmental and geomorphological changes on the eastern North American continental shelf across the Paleocene‐Eocene boundary. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34, doi:10.1029/2018PA003357.

Robinson, M.M., 2019, Paleocene-Eocene foraminifer census data from South Dover Bridge and Mattawoman Creek-Billingsley Road coreholes: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P94HDUEE.

2018 

Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., and Stoll, D.K., 2018, Sea surface temperature estimates for the mid-Piacenzian Indian Ocean—Ocean Drilling Program sites 709, 716, 722, 754, 757, 758, and 763. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017–1158, 14p., doi:10.3133/ofr20171158.

Robinson, M.M., 2018, Planktic foraminifer census data for ODP Sites 907, 909 and 911: U.S. Geological Survey data release, doi:10.5066/P9OFDVZ6.

Robinson, M.M., and Dowsett, H.J., 2018. Data report: late Pliocene planktonic foraminifer assemblages from IODP Holes U1443B, U1443C, and U1445A. In Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, Indian Monsoon Rainfall. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 353: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program), doi:10.14379/iodp.proc.353.201.2018.

Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., Foley, K.M., and Riesselman, C.R., 2018, PRISM Marine Sites: The History of PRISM Sea Surface Temperature Estimation: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 2018-1148, 49p., doi:10.3133/ofr20181148.

Bralower, T., Kump, L., Self-Trail, J., Robinson, M., Lyons, S., Babila, T., Ballaron, E., Freeman, K., Hajek, E., Rush, W., and Zachos, J., 2018. Evidence for shelf acidification during the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33:1408-1426, doi:10.1029/2018PA003382.

Bolton, C.T., Bailey, I., Friedrich, O., Tachikawa, K., Garidel-Thoron, T., Vidal, L., Sonzogni, C., Marino, G., Rohling, E.J., Robinson, M.M., Ermini, M., Koch, M., Cooper, M.J., and Wilson, P.A., 2018. North Atlantic mid-latitude surface-circulation changes through the Plio-Pleistocene intensification of northern hemisphere glaciation.Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33: 1186-1205, doi:10.1029/2018PA003412.

2017

Dowsett, H.J., Foley, K.M., Robinson, M.M., and Herbert, T.D., 2017, PRISM late Pliocene (Piacenzian) alkenone - derived SST data. U.S. Geological Survey Data Release, doi:10.5066/F7959G1S.

Self-Trail, J.M., Robinson, M.M., Bralower, T.J., Sessa, J.A., Hajek, E.A., Kump, L.R., Trampush, S.M., Willard, D.A., Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., and Wandless, G.A., 2017, Shallow marine response to global climate change during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Salisbury Embayment, USA. Paleoceanography 32: 710-728, doi:10.1002/2017PA003096.

2016

Robinson, M.M., 2016, Sand Ridge. In: Michael J. Kennish (ed.) Encyclopedia of Estuaries: 536-537. Netherlands: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-94-017-8801-4.

Dowsett, H., Dolan, A., Rowley, D., Moucha, R., Forte, A., Mitrovica, J., Pound, M., Salzmann, U., Robinson, M., Chandler, M., Foley, K., and Haywood, A., 2016, The PRISM4 (mid-Piacenzian) palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Climate of the Past, 12: 1-20, doi:10.5194/cp-12-1-2016.

Robinson, M.M., Bartol, M., Bolton, C.T., Ding, X., Gariboldi, K., Romero, O.E., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, 2016, Biostratigraphic Summary. In Clemens, S.C., Khunt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, Indian Monsoon Rainfall. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 353: College Station, TX (International Ocean Discovery Program), doi:10.14379/iodp.proc.353.109.2016.

Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, 2016, Indian monsoon rainfall. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, v. 353.

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., and Foley, K.M., 2016 (2017), A simple rubric for Stratigraphic Fidelity (ß) of Pliocene paleoenvironmental time-series. Stratigraphy 13(4): 303-305. 

2015 

Clemens, S.C., Kuhnt, W., LeVay, L.J., and the Expedition 353 Scientists, 2015, Indian monsoon rainfall. International Ocean Discovery Program Preliminary Report, v. 353, doi:10.14379/​iodp.pr.353.2015.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M. and Foley, K., 2015, A global planktic foraminifer census data set for the Pliocene ocean. Scientific Data 2:150076, doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.76.

Foley, K., Robinson, M., Dowsett, H.J., Poore, R.Z., Stoll, D., Polanco, E., Wiggs, L., Caballero, R., Verardo, S., Strother, S., West, S., Lutz, B., and Brown, S., 2015, A global planktic foraminifer census data set for the Pliocene ocean, at NOAA Study Page: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo-search/study/19281. 

2014 

Robinson, M.M., Self-Trail, J.M., Wandless, G.A., Willard, D.A, 2014, A Paleocene Pre-Onset Carbon Isotope Excursion Recorded in the Shallow marine Environment of Southern Maryland (USA), in G.R. Dickens and V. Luciani (EDS), Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2014, Rendiconti Online, Societe Geologica Italiana, v. 31, p. 185-186.

Self-Trail, J.M., Robinson, M.M., Willard, D.A., Bralower, T.J., Edwards, L.E., Powars, D.S., Wandless, G.A., Freeman, K.H., and Denis, E., 2014, Comparison between two middle to outer neritic PETM sections:  South Dover Bridge and Mattawoman Creek Billingsley Road cores, Mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA, in G.R. Dickens and V. Luciani (EDS), Climatic and Biotic Events of the Paleogene 2014, Rendiconti Online, Societe Geologica Italiana, v. 31, p. 195-196.

2013

Dowsett, H.J., Foley, K.M., Stoll, D.K., Chandler, M.A., Sohl, L.E., Bentsen, M., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Bragg, F.J., Chan, W.-L., Contoux, C., Dolan, A.M., Haywood, A.M., Jonas, J.A., Jost, A., Kamae, Y., Lohmann, G., Lunt, D. J., Nisancioglu, K.H., Abe-Ouchi, A., Ramstein, G., Riesselman, C.R., Robinson, M.M., Rosenbloom, N.A., Salzmann, U., Stepanek, C., Strother, S.L., Ueda, H., Yan, Q., and Zhang, Z., 2013, Sea surface temperature of the mid-Piacenzian ocean: a data-model comparison: Scientific Reports, v. 3, doi:10.1038/srep02013.

Dowsett H.J., and Robinson M.M., 2013, Planktic Foraminifera, in Elias S.A. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science, v. 2, p. 825-829, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Stoll, D.K., Foley, K.M., Johnson, A.L.A., Williams, M., and Riesselman, C.R., 2013, The PRISM (Pliocene Palaeoclimate) Reconstruction: Time for a Paradigm Shift, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, v. 371: 20120524, doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0524.

2012

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Haywood, A.M., Hill, D.J., Dolan, A.M., Stoll, D.K., Chan, W.-L., Abe-Ouchi, A., Chandler, M.A., Rosenbloom, N.A., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Bragg, F.J., Lunt, D.J., Foley, K.M., and Riesselman, C.R., 2012, Assessing confidence in Pliocene sea surface temperatures to evaluate predictive models: Nature Climate Change. v. 2, p. 365-371, doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE1455.

Yasuhara, M., Hunt, G., Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., and Stoll, D.K., 2012, Latitudinal species diversity gradient of marine zooplankton for the last three million years: Ecology Letters, doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01828.x.

2011 

Robinson, M.M., Valdes, P.J., Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Hill, D.J., and Jones, S.M., 2011, Bathymetric controls on Pliocene North Atlantic and Arctic sea surface temperature and deepwater production: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2011.01.004.

Dowsett, H.J., Haywood, A.M., Valdes, P.J., Robinson, M.M., Lunt, D.J., Hill, D.J., Stoll, D.K., and Foley, K.M., 2011, Sea surface temperatures of the mid-Piacenzian warm period: A comparison of PRISM3 and HadCM3: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 309, p. 83-91.

Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., Stoll, D.K., Dolan, A.M., Lunt, D.J., Otto-Bliesner, B. and Chandler, M.A., 2011, Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP): experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 2): Geoscientific Model Development, v. 4, p. 571-577.

Robinson, M.M., 2011, Pliocene Climate Lessons: American Scientist, v. 99, p. 228-235.

2010

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Haywood, A., Salzmann, U., Hill, D., Sohl, L., Chandler, M., Williams, M., Foley, K., and Stoll, D., 2010, The PRISM3D Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction: Stratigraphy, v. 7, p. 123-140.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., and Robertson, J., 2010, New Discoveries about the Deep Ocean Could Improve Climate Projections: USGS Sound Waves, v. FY 2010, Issue 122, p. 6-7.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Stoll, D., and Foley, K., 2010, Mid-Piacenzian mean annual sea surface temperature analysis for data-model comparisons: Stratigraphy, v. 7, p. 189-198.

Haywood, A.M., Dowsett, H.J., Otto-Bliesner, B., Chandler, M.A., Dolan, A.M., Hill, D.J., Lunt, D.J., Robinson, M.M., Rosenbloom, N., Salzmann, U., and Sohl, L.E., 2010, Pliocene Model Intercomparison Project (PlioMIP):  Experimental design and boundary conditions (Experiment 1): Geoscientific Model Development, v. 3, p. 227-242.

Robinson, M.M. and Dowsett, H.J., 2010, ePRISM: A case study in multiple proxy and mixed temporal resolution integration: Stratigraphy, v. 7, p. 177-188.

Robinson, M.M., and Dowsett, H.J., 2010, Why Study Paleoclimate?  U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2010-3021, 2p.

Robinson, M., and Robertson, J., 2010, Arctic Could Face Warmer and Ice-Free Conditions: USGS Sound Waves, v. FY 2010, Issue 122, p. 7.

2009 

Dowsett, H.J., Chandler, M.A., and Robinson, M.M., 2009, Surface temperatures of the mid-Pliocene North Atlantic Ocean: Implications for future climate: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, The Pliocene. A Vision of Earth in the late twenty-first century? v. 367, p. 69-84, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0213.

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 2009, Mid-Pliocene equatorial Pacific sea surface temperature reconstruction: A multi-proxy perspective: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, The Pliocene. A Vision of Earth in the late twenty-first century? v. 367, p. 109-126, doi:10.1098/rsta.2008.0206.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., and Robertson, J., 2009, Getting warmer?  Prehistoric climate can help forecast future changes: USGS Sound Waves, v. 112, p.1-3.

Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., and Foley, K.M., 2009, Pliocene three-dimensional global ocean temperature reconstruction: Climate of the Past, v. 5, p. 769-783.

Raymo, M.E., Hearty, P. De Conto, R. O’Leary, M., Dowsett, H.J., Robinson, M.M., and Mitrovica, J.X., 2009, PLIOMAX: Pliocene maximum sea level project:  PAGES News, v. 17, p. 58-59.

Robinson, M.M., 2009, New Quantitative Evidence of Extreme Warmth in the Pliocene Arctic: Stratigraphy, v. 6, p. 265-275.

2008

Robinson, M.M., Caballero, R., Pohlman, E., Herbert, T., Peck, V., and Dowsett, H., 2008, Mid-Pliocene planktic foraminifer census data and alkenone unsaturation indices from Ocean Drilling Program Hole 677A: USGS Data Series 353.

Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., and Chandler, M.A., 2008, Pliocene Role in Assessing Future Climate Impacts: Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 89 (49), p. 501-502, doi:10.1029/2008EO490001.

Robinson, M.M., Dowsett, H.J., Dwyer, G.S., and Lawrence, K.T., 2008, Reevaluation of mid-Pliocene North Atlantic sea surface temperatures: Paleoceanography, v. 23, PA3213, doi:10.1029/2008PA001608.

Robinson, M.M., and McBride, R.A., 2008, Anatomy of a shoreface sand ridge revisited using foraminifera:  False Cape Shoals, Virginia/North Carolina inner shelf: Continental Shelf Research, v. 28, p. 2428-2441.

2007

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 2007, Mid-Pliocene Planktic Foraminifer Assemblage of the North Atlantic Ocean: Micropaleontology, v. 53, p. 105-126.

2006 

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 2006, Stratigraphic framework for Pliocene paleoclimate reconstruction: the correlation conundrum: Stratigraphy, 3, 53-64.

Dowsett, H., Robinson, M., Dwyer, G., Chandler, M., and Cronin, T., 2006, PRISM3 DOT1 Atlantic Basin reconstruction: US Geological Survey Data Series 189.

Robinson, M.M., and McBride, R.A., 2006, Benthic foraminifera from a relict flood tidal delta along the Virginia/North Carolina Outer Banks: Micropaleontology, v. 52, p. 67-80.

2003

McBride, R.A., and Robinson, M.M., 2003, Geomorphic evolution and geology of Old Currituck Inlet and its flood tidal delta, Virginia/North Carolina, USA (Part I): Proceedings Coastal Sediments ’03, ASCE Press, 14pp.

Robinson, M.M., and McBride, R.A., 2003, Old Currituck Inlet, Virginia/North Carolina:  Inlet history documented by foraminiferal evidence (Part II): Proceedings Coastal Sediments ’03, ASCE Press, 14pp.

1990s

Dowsett, H.J., and Robinson, M.M., 1998, Application of the Modern Analog Technique (MAT) of sea surface temperature estimation to middle Pliocene North Pacific planktonic foraminifer assemblages: Palaeontologia Electronica 1. http://palaeo-electronica.org/1998_1/dowsett/issue1.htm

Robinson, M.M., 1996, Planktic foraminifer census data from sites V19-257 and RC17-44: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 96-545.

Robinson, M.M., and Dowsett, H.J., 1996, Pliocene planktic foraminifer census data from DSDP Site 592, Southwest Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 96-544.

Robinson, M.M., and Brown, S.L., 1994, Planktic foraminifer census data from Site RC-15-62 and Ocean Drilling Program holes 747A and 751A: U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 94-446.