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  1. Distal cryptotephra records in the Falkland Islands refine South American tephrochronology

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  2. Past fire severity and intensity identified in SE Australian sediments using boron isotopes and FTIR spectroscopy

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  3. Westerly wind shifts drove Southern Hemisphere mid-latitude peat growth since the last glacial

    Article • Nature Geoscience, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  4. Coexistence, Extinction and Survival—The Evolutionary History of Bison Species in Western Eurasia

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2025, Wiley

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  5. Using Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy to produce high-resolution centennial records of past high-intensity fires from organic-rich sediment deposits

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, January 2025, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  6. Assessing changes in high-intensity fire events in south-eastern Australia using Fourier Transform Infra-red (FITR) spectroscopy

    Article • International Journal of Wildland Fire, September 2024, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  7. Long-term mercury accumulation and climate reconstruction of an Australian alpine lake during the late Quaternary

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  8. Evidence for a floristically diverse rainforest on the Falkland archipelago in the remote South Atlantic during the mid- to late Cenozoic

    Article • Antarctic Science, August 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  9. Holocene climate and catchment change inferred from the geochemistry of Lashmars Lagoon, Kangaroo Island (Karti/Karta), southern Australia

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  10. Mid-Holocene intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds and implications for regional climate dynamics

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  11. Boron isotopes and FTIR spectroscopy to identify past high severity fires

    Article • CATENA, March 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  12. THE ACCURACY AND PRECISION OF SMALL-SIZED MODERN WOOD SAMPLES ANALYZED AT THE CHRONOS 14CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY

    Article • Radiocarbon, February 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  13. Growth rates and ages of some key tree species from subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands

    Article • New Zealand Journal of Ecology, November 2022, New Zealand Ecological Society

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  14. Phases of peatland carbon accumulation in the southern mid-latitudes

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  15. Late Holocene climate anomaly concurrent with fire activity and ecosystem shifts in the eastern Australian Highlands

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  16. Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

    Article • Science, November 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  17. Response to Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

    Article • Science, November 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  18. Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss during the last deglaciation

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Nicholas R Golledge, Dr Zoe Thomas

  19. Climate reconstruction from paired oxygen-isotope analyses of chironomid larval head capsules and endogenic carbonate (Hawes Water, UK) - Potential and problems

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  20. Distal ash fall from the mid-Holocene eruption of Mount Hudson (H2) discovered in the Falkland Islands: New possibilities for Southern Hemisphere archive synchronisation

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  21. RADIOCARBON PROTOCOLS AND FIRST INTERCOMPARISON RESULTS FROM THE CHRONOS 14CARBON-CYCLE FACILITY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

    Article • Radiocarbon, May 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  22. Global temperature and hydroclimate in warmer climates of the past and future: the Last Interglacial versus greenhouse scenarios

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  23. Redating the Global Abrupt Sea-Level Rise during Meltwater Pulse-1A and Implications for Global Ice Mass Loss

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  24. Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss during the last deglaciation

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  25. A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago

    Article • Science, February 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Paolo Sebastianelli, Dr Zoe Thomas

  26. A global mean sea surface temperature dataset for the Last Interglacial (129–116 ka) and contribution of thermal expansion to sea level change

    Article • Earth System Science Data, December 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  27. Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal

    Article • Nature Geoscience, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Michael I Bird, Dr Nicholas R Golledge, Dr Zoe Thomas

  28. Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Michael I Bird, Dr Nicholas R Golledge, Dr Zoe Thomas

  29. Robust expression of ENSO throughout the Last Interglacial

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  30. Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Nicholas R Golledge, Dr Zoe Thomas

  31. A global mean sea-surface temperature dataset for the Last Interglacial (129–116 kyr) and contribution of thermal expansion to sea-level change

    Article • January 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  32. Supplementary material to "A global mean sea-surface temperature dataset for the Last Interglacial (129–116 kyr) and contribution of thermal expansion to sea-level change"

    Article • January 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  33. PaCTS 1.0: A Crowdsourced Reporting Standard for Paleoclimate Data

    Article • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, October 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    matthew huber, Dr Fabien Arnaud, Dr Zoe Thomas

  34. Redating the earliest evidence of the mid-Holocene relative sea-level highstand in Australia and implications for global sea-level rise

    Article • PLOS One, July 2019, PLOS

    Dr Zoe Thomas, Associate Professor Brian G Jones

  35. INVESTIGATING SUBANTARCTIC 14C AGES OF DIFFERENT PEAT COMPONENTS: SITE AND SAMPLE SELECTION FOR DEVELOPING ROBUST AGE MODELS IN DYNAMIC LANDSCAPES

    Article • Radiocarbon, June 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  36. Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

    Article • Climate of the Past, March 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas, Dr Nicholas R Golledge

  37. Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene

    Article • Climate of the Past, November 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  38. Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene

    Article • October 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  39. Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene

    Article • October 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  40. Can we detect ecosystem critical transitions and signals of changing resilience from paleo-ecological records?

    Article • Ecosphere, October 2018, Wiley

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  41. Extending the observational record to provide new insights into invasive alien species in a coastal dune environment of New Zealand

    Article • Applied Geography, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  42. Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, May 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  43. Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands

    Article • May 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  44. A New Daily Observational Record from Grytviken, South Georgia: Exploring Twentieth-Century Extremes in the South Atlantic

    Article • Journal of Climate, March 2018, American Meteorological Society

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  45. Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, March 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  46. Global Peak in Atmospheric Radiocarbon Provides a Potential Definition for the Onset of the Anthropocene Epoch in 1965

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  47. Growth response of an invasive alien species to climate variations on subantarctic Campbell Island

    Article • January 2018, New Zealand Ecological Society

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  48. Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zoe Thomas, Dr Nicholas R Golledge

  49. A 60 000-year record of environmental change for the Wet Tropics of north-eastern Australia based on the ODP 820 marine core

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, August 2017, Wiley

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  50. Antarctic climate and ice-sheet configuration during the early Pliocene interglacial at 4.23 Ma

    Article • Climate of the Past, July 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas, Dr Nicholas R Golledge

  51. Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperature reconstruction

    Article • Climate of the Past, March 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  52. Reconstructing atmospheric circulation over southern New Zealand: Establishment of modern westerly airflow 5500 years ago and implications for Southern Hemisphere Holocene climate change

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, March 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  53. Antarctic climate and ice sheet configuration during a peak-warmth Early Pliocene interglacial

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, December 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  54. Changes in El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) chronozone revealed by New Zealand tree-rings

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  55. Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, November 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  56. Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction

    Article • November 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  57. Using natural archives to detect climate and environmental tipping points in the Earth System

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  58. Anomalous mid-twentieth century atmospheric circulation change over the South Atlantic compared to the last 6000 years

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, June 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  59. High-precision dating and correlation of ice, marine and terrestrial sequences spanning Heinrich Event 3: Testing mechanisms of interhemispheric change using New Zealand ancient kauri (Agathis australis)

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  60. Extreme wet conditions coincident with Bronze Age abandonment of upland areas in Britain

    Article • Anthropocene, March 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  61. A 250-year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years

    Article • Climate of the Past, February 2016, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  62. Multidecadal variations in Southern Hemisphere atmospheric14C: Evidence against a Southern Ocean sink at the end of the Little Ice Age CO2anomaly

    Article • Global Biogeochemical Cycles, February 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  63. Intensification of Southern Hemisphere westerly winds 2000-1000 years ago: evidence from the subantarctic Campbell and Auckland Islands (52-50°S)

    Article • Journal of Quaternary Science, January 2016, Wiley

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  64. Obliquity-driven expansion of North Atlantic sea ice during the last glacial

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2015, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Barry W. Brook, Dr Zoe Thomas

  65. Early warnings and missed alarms for abrupt monsoon transitions

    Article • Climate of the Past, December 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  66. A 250 year periodicity in Southern Hemisphere westerly winds over the last 2600 years

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, June 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  67. A reply to ‘A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England: missing data’ (Tooley 2015)

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, April 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  68. Early warnings and missed alarms for abrupt monsoon transitions

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, April 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  69. A meta-database of Holocene sediment cores for England

    Article • Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Zoe Thomas

  70. Sand ramps in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa: Evidence of periglacial aeolian activity during the last glacial

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Zoe Thomas