Selected Articles
(For full list of 260 papers, surf to: Publications)
1962 - 1969
1962 Kennett, J.P. The Kapitean Stage (Upper Miocene) at Cape Foulwind, West Coast. N.Z.J. Geol. Geophys. 5(4): 620-625.
1964 Haskell, T., Kennett, J.P. and W. Prebble. Basement and Sedimentary Geology of the Darwin Glacier Area. Antarctic Geology, Edited by R.J. Adie, pp. 348-351. North Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam.
1964 Kennett, J.P. A Pleistocene Anticline at Gladstone, Wairarapa. N.Z.J. Geol. Geophys. 7: 561-572.
1965 Haskell, T., Kennett, J.P., Prebble, W., Smith, G. and I. Willis. The Geology of the Middle and Lower Taylor Valley of South Victoria Land, Antarctica. Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 2(12): 169-186.
1965 Haskell, T., Kennett, J.P. and W. Prebble. Geology of the Brown Hills and Darwin Mountains, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Trans. Roy. Soc. N.Z. 2(15): 231-248.
1966 Kennett, J.P. Foraminiferal Evidence of a Shallow Calcium Carbonate Solution Boundary, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Science 153(3732): 191-193.
1967 Kennett, J.P. Recognition and Correlation of the Kapitean Stage (Upper Miocene, New Zealand). N.Z.J. Geol. Geophys. 10: 1051-1063.
1968 Kennett, J.P. Ecology and Distribution of Ross Sea Foraminifera, Antarctica. N.Z. Dep. Scient. Ind. Res. Bull. 186: 48 pages.
1968 Kennett, J. Globorotalia truncatulinoides as a Paleo-oceaographic Index. Science 159: 1461-1463.
1968 Kennett, J.P. Paleo-oceanographic Aspects of the Foraminiferal Zonation in the Upper Miocene-Lower Pliocene of New Zealand. Committee Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy Proc. IV Session. Giornale di Geologia Annali Del Museo Geologico de Bologna 35: 143-156.
1969 Kennett, J.P. Distribution of Planktonic Foraminifera in Surface Sediments Southeast of New Zealand. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils. Ed. P. Bronnimann and H.H. Renz, Vol. 2: 307-322.
1970 - 1979
1970 Kennett, J.P. Pleistocene Paleoclimates and Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy in Subantarctic Deep-Sea Cores. Deep-Sea Res. 17: 125-140.
1970 Margolis, S. and J.P. Kennett. Antarctic Glaciation during the Tertiary Recorded in Sub-Antarctic Deep-Sea Cores. Science 170: 1085-1087.
1971 Kennett, J.P., Watkins, N. and P. Vella. Paleomagnetic Chronology of Pliocene-Early Pleistocene Climates and the Plio-Pleistocene Boundary in New Zealand. Science 171: 276-279.
1971 Watkins, N. and J.P. Kennett. Antarctic Bottom Water: Major Change in Velocity during the Late Cenozoic between Australia and Antarctica. Science 173:813-818.
1972 Kennett, J.P. and P. Huddleston. Late Pleistocene Paleoclimatology, Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Tephrochronology, Western Gulf of Mexico. Quat. Res. 2: 38-69.
1972 Kennett, J.P. and P. Huddlestun. Abrupt Climatic Change at 90,000 Yr BP: Faunal Evidence from Gulf of Mexico Cores. Quat. Res. 2(3): 384-395.
1972 Kennett, J.P., Burns, R., Andrews, J., Churkin Jr, M., Davies, T., Dumitrica, P., Edwards, A., Galehouse, J.P., Packham, G., and G. van der Lingen. Australian-Antarctic Continental Drift, Paleocirculation Changes and Oligocene Deep-Sea Erosion. Nature Phys. Sci. 239(91):51-55.
1973 Kennett, J.P. and C. Brunner. Antarctic Late Cenozoic Glaciation: Evidence for Initiation of Ice-Rafting and Inferred Increased Bottom-Water Activity. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 84: 2043-2052.
1973 Kennett, J.P. Middle and Late Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Southwest Pacific - DSDP Leg 21. In: Burns, R.E., Andrews, J.E., et al., Initial Reports of the Deep-Sea Drilling Project, Vol. XXI, Washington, (U.S. Government Printing Office): 575-639.
1973 Watkins, N., Vella, P. and J.P. Kennett. Paleomagnetism and the Globorotalia truncatulinoides Datum in the Tasman Sea and Southern Ocean. Nature Phys. Sci. 244:45-47.
1974 Kennett, J.P. and N. Watkins. Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Paleomagnetic Stratigraphy, Paleoclimatology, and Biostratigraphy in New Zealand. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 85: 1385-1398.
1974 Kennett, J.P., Houtz, R., Andrews, P., Edwards, A., Gostin, V., Hajos, M., Hampton, M., Jenkins, D., Margolis, S., Ovenshine, A. and K. Perch-Nielsen. Development of the Circum-Antarctic Current. Science 186: 144-147.
1974 Srinivasan, M. and J.P. Kennett. Secondary Calcification of the Planktonic Foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma as a Climatic Index. Science 186: 630-632.
1975 Shackleton, N. and J.P. Kennett. Late Cenozoic Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Changes at DSDP Site 284: Implications for Glacial History of the Northern Hemisphere and Antarctica. In: Kennett, J.P.P., Houtz, R.E., et al., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Vol XXIX, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Government Printing Office): 801-807.
1975 Shackleton, N. and J.P. Kennett. Paleotemperature history of the Cenozoic and the Initiation of Antarctic Glaciation: Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Analyses in DSDP Sites 277, 279, and 281. In: Kennett, J.P.P., Houtz, R.E., et al., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Vol. XXIX, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Government Printing Office): 743-755.
1975 Kennett, J.P. and N. Shackleton. Laurentide Ice Sheet Meltwater Recorded in Gulf of Mexico Deep Sea Cores. Science 188: 147-150.
1975 Kennett, J.P. and R. Thunell. Global Increase in Quaternary Explosive Volcanism. Science 187: 497-503.
1975 Kennett, J.P. and N. Watkins. Deep-Sea Erosion and Manganese Nodule Development in the Southeast Indian Ocean. Science 188: 1011-1013.
1976 Kennett, J.P. and N. Watkins. Regional Deep-Sea Dynamic Processes Recorded by Late Cenozoic Sediments of the Southeastern Indian Ocean. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 87: 321-339 (and N.D. Watkins).
1976 Kennett, J.P. and N. Shackleton. Oxygen Isotopic Evidence for the Development of the Psychrosphere 38 Myr Ago. Nature 260(5551): 513-515.
1976 Kennett, J.P. Phenotypic Variation in Some Recent and Late Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminifera. In: Hedley and Adams, eds. Foraminifera II, 111-169.
1977 Kennett, J.P. and R. Thunell. On Explosive Cenozoic Volcanism and Climatic Implications. Science 196: 1231-1234.
1977 Kennett, J.P. Cenozoic Evolution of Antarctic Glaciation, the Circum-Antarctic Ocean and their Impact on Global Paleoceanography. Jour. Geophys. Res. 82(27): 3843-3860.
1977 Kennett, J.P., McBirney, A. and R. Thunell. Episodes of Cenozoic Volcanism in the Circum-Pacific Region. Journal Volcan. and Geotherm. Res. 2: 145-163.
1978 Williams, D., Thunell, R. and J.P. Kennett. Periodic Freshwater Flooding and Stagnation of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Late Quaternary. Science 20l: 252-254.
1978 Kennett, J.P. and N. Penrose. Fossil Holocene Seaweed and Attached Calcareous Polychaetes in an Anoxic Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Nature 276(5684): 172-173.
1978 Malmgren, B. and J.P. Kennett. Test Size Variation in Globigerina bulloides in Response to Quaternary Paleoceanographic Changes. Nature 275(5676): 123-124.
1979 Loutit, T. and J.P. Kennett. Application of Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy to Late Miocene Shallow Marine Sediments, New Zealand. Science 204: 1196-1199.
1979 Keigwin, L., Bender, M., and J.P. Kennett. Thermal Structure of the Deep Pacific Ocean in the Early Pliocene. Science 205: 1386-1388.
1980 - 1989
1980 Kennett, J.P. and M. Srinivasan. Surface Ultrastructural Variation in Neogloboquadrina pachyderma (Ehrenberg): Phenotypic Variation and Phylogeny in the Late Cenozoic. Memorial Volume to Dr. Orville L. Bandy, Cushman Foundation No. 19: 134-162, pls. 1-8.
1981 Kennett, J.P. Marine Tephrochronology. In: Emiliani, C. ed., The Sea, Vol. 7: The Oceanic Lithosphere, 1373-1436. John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
1981 Malmgren, B. and J.P. Kennett. Phyletic Gradualism in a Late Cenozoic Planktonic Foraminiferal Lineage: DSDP Site 284: Southwest Pacific. Paleobiology 7: 230-240.
1981 Srinivasan, M and J.P. Kennett. Neogene Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy and Evolution: Equatorial to Subantarctic, South Pacific. CENOP Special Volume, Mar. Micropaleo. 6: 499-533.
1982 Leventer, A., Williams, D. and J.P. Kennett. Dynamics of the Laurentide Ice Sheet During the Late Deglaciation: Evidence from the Gulf of Mexico. Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts. 59: 11-17.
1983 Loutit, T., Pisias, N. and J.P. Kennett. Pacific Miocene Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy using Benthic Foraminifera. Earth and Planet. Sci. Letts. 66: 48-62.
1983 Kennett, J.P., von der Borch, C. and the Leg 90 Staff. Deep-Sea Drilling Project Leg 90 - The South Pacific Cenozoic. Nature 303(5912): 18-19.
1983 Leventer, A., Williams, D. and J.P. Kennett. Relationships between Anoxia, Glacial Meltwater and Microfossil Preservation in the Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico. Marine Geology 53: 23-40.
1983 Wei, K.-Y. and J.P. Kennett. Nonconstant Extinction Rates of Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera. Nature 305(5931): 218-220.
1984 Muerdter, D., Kennett, J.P., and R. Thunell. Late Quaternary Sapropel Sediments in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Faunal Variations and Chronology. Quat. Res. 21: 385-403.
1985 Hodell, D., Williams, D. and J.P. Kennett. Late Pliocene Reorganization of Deep Vertical Water-Mass Structure in the Western South Atlantic: Faunal and Isotopic Evidence. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 96: 495-503.
1985 Savin, S., Abel, L., Barrera, E., Hodell, D., Kennett, J.P., Murphy, E., Keller, G., Killingley, J. and Vincent, J. The Evolution of Miocene Surface and Near-Surface Marine Temperatures: Oxygen Isotopic Evidence. Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 163: 49-82.
1985 Kennett, J.P., Keller, G., and M. Srinivasan. Miocene Planktonic Foraminiferal Biogeography and Paleoceanographic Development of the Indo-Pacific Region. Geol. Soc. Am. Mem. 163: 197-236.
1985 Kennett, J.P., Elmstrom, K., and N. Penrose. The Last Deglaciation in Orca Basin, Gulf of Mexico: High-Resolution Planktonic Foraminiferal Changes. Paleo. Paleo. Paleo. 50: 189-216.
1985 Kennett, J.P., von der Borch, C. and Leg 90 Staff. Palaeotectonic Implications of Increased Late Eocene -Early Oligocene Volcanism from South Pacific DSDP Sites. Nature 316: 507-511.
1985 Murphy, M. and J.P. Kennett. Development of Latitudinal Thermal Gradients during the Oligocene: Oxygen-Isotope Evidence from the Southwest Pacific. In: Kennett, J.P.P., von der Borch, C., et al., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Vol. 90, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Government Printing Office): 1347-1360.
1985 Kennett, J.P. and C. von der Borch. Southwest Pacific Cenozoic Paleoceanography. In: Kennett, J.P., von der Borch, C., et al., Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Vol. 90, Washington, D.C. (U.S. Government Printing Office): 1493-1517.
1986 Hodell, D., Elmstrom, K., and J.P, Kennett. Latest Miocene Benthic d18O Changes, Global Ice Volume, Sea Level and the "Messinian salinity crisis". Nature 320(6061): 411-414 .
1986 Wei, K.-Y. and J.P. Kennett. Taxonomic Evolution of Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera and Paleoceanographic Relations. Paleoceanography 1(1): 67-84.
1986 Kennett, J.P. and D. Hodell. Major Events in Neogene Oxygen Isotopic Records. Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Wetenskap 82: 497-498.
1987 Barker, P., Kennett, J.P. and ODL Leg 113 Scientific Party. Glacial History of Antarctica. Nature 328(6126): 115-116.
1988 Wei, K.-Y. and J.P. Kennett. Phyletic Gradualism and Punctuated Equilibrium in the Late Neogene Planktonic Foraminiferal Clade Globoconella. Paleobiology 14(4): 345-363.
1988 Stanley, S., Wetmore, K., and J.P. Kennett. Macroevolutionary Differences Between the Two Major Clades of Neogene Planktonic Foraminifera. Paleobiology 14 (3): 235-249.
1989 Stott, L. and J.P. Kennett. New Constraints on Early Tertiary Palaeoproductivity from Carbon Isotopes in Foraminifera. Nature 342(6429): 526-529.
1989 Broecker, W., J.P. Kennett, Flower, B., Teller, J., Trumbore S., Bonani, G. and W. Wolf. Routing of Meltwater from the Laurentide Ice-Sheet During the Younger Dryas Cold Episode. Nature 341:318-321.
1990 - 1999
1990 Stott, L., Kennett, J.P., Shackleton, N. and R. Corfield. The Evolution of Antarctic Surface Waters During the Paleogene Inferences from the Stable Isotopic Composition of Planktonic Foraminifers, ODP Leg 113. Proceedings of the Ocean Program, Scientific Results 113B: 849-863.
1990 Kennett, D.M. and J.P. Kennett. Bolboforma Daniels and Spiegler, from Eocene and Lower Oligocene Sediments, Maud Rise, Antarctica. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 113B: 667-673.
1990 Kennett, J.P. and L. Stott. Proteus and Proto-Oceanus: Ancestral Paleogene Oceans as Revealed from Antarctic Stable Isotopic Results; ODP Leg 113. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 113B: 865-880.
1990 Stott, L. and J.P. Kennett. The Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Signature of the Cretaceous/Paleogene Boundary in the Antarctic: Stable Isotopic Results from ODP Leg 113. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 113B: 829-848.
1990 Kennett, J.P. and P. Barker. Latest Cretaceous to Cenozoic Climate and Oceanographic Developments in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica: an Ocean-Drilling Perspective. In: Barker, P.F., Kennett, J.P.P., et al., Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 113: 937-960.
1990 Kennett, J.P. The Younger Dryas Cooling Event: An Introduction. Paleoceanography 5(6): 891-895.
1991 Kennett, J.P. and L. Stott. Abrupt deep-sea warming, Paleoceanographic Changes and Benthic Extinctions at the End of the Palaeocene. Nature 353: 225-229.
1992 Robert, C. and J.P. Kennett. Paleocene and Eocene Kaolinite Distribution in the South Atlantic and Southern Ocean: Antarctic Climatic and Paleoceanographic Implications. Marine Geology 103: 99-110.
1993 Gasperi, J. and J.P. Kennett. Vertical Thermal Structure Evolution of Miocene Surface Waters: Western Equatorial Pacific DSDP Site 289. Marine Micropaleontology 22: 235-254.
1993 Montanari , A., Michel, H. and J.P. Kennett. Iridium Anomalies of Late Eocene Age at Massignano (Italy), and in ODP Site 689B (Maud Rise, Antarctica). Palaios 8: 420-437.
1993 Flower, B. and J.P. Kennett. Relations Between Monterey Formation Deposition and Middle Miocene Global Cooling: Naples Beach Section, California. Geology 21: 877-880.
1993 Kennett, J.P. and D. Hodell. Evidence for Relative Climatic Stability of Antarctica During the Early Pliocene: A Marine Perspective. Geografiska Annaler 75: 205-220.
1994 Kennett, J.P., Baldauf, J., Behl, R., et al. Santa Barbara Basin. In: Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Reports of the Ocean Drilling Program, Vol. 146 (Part 2), Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX, 81 pages.
1994 Robert, C. and J.P. Kennett. Antarctic Subtropical Humid Episode at the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary: Clay Mineral Evidence. Geology 22: 211-214.
1995 Kennett, J.P. and D. Hodell. Stability or Instability of Antarctic Ice Sheets During Warm Climates of the Pliocene? GSA Today 5(1): 1, 10-13, 22.
1995 Kennett, J.P. and L. Stott. Terminal Paleocene Mass Extinction in the Deep Sea: Association with Global Warming. In: The Effects of Past Global Change Life. Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council. National Academy Press, 1995, pp. 94-107.
1995 Kennett, J.P. Latest Quaternary Benthic Oxygen and Carbon Stratigraphy: Hole 893A, Santa Barbara Basin, California. Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 146(Part 2): 3-18.
1995 Kennett, J.P. and L. Ingram. A 20,000-Year-Record of Ocean Circulation and Climate Change from the Santa Barbara Basin. Nature 377: 510-513.
1996 Behl, R. and J.P. Kennett. Brief Interstadial Events in the Santa Barbara Basin, NE Pacific, During the Past 60 kyr. Nature 379: 243-246.
1996 Schneider, C. and J.P. Kennett. Isotopic Evidence for Interspecies Habitat Differences During Evolution of the Neogene Planktonic Foraminiferal Clade, Globoconella. Paleobiology 22: 282-303.
1997 Robert, C. and J.P. Kennett. Antarctic continental weathering changes during Eocene-Oligocene cryosphere expansion: Clay mineral and oxygen isotope evidence. Geology 25: 587-590.
1998 Brown, P. and J.P. Kennett. Megaflood erosion and meltwater plumbing changes during last North American deglaciation recorded in Gulf of Mexico sediments. Geology 26: 599-602.
1998 Kim, J.-M. and J.P. Kennett. Paleoenvironmental changes associated with the Holocene marine transgression, Yellow Sea (Hwanghae). Marine Micropaleontology 34: 71-89.
1999 Cannariato, K., Kennett, J.P. and R. Behl. Biotic response to late Quaternary rapid climate switches in Santa Barbara Basin: Ecological and evolutionary implications. Geology 27:63-66.
1999 Hendy, I. and J.P. Kennett. Latest Quaternary North Pacific surface-water responses imply atmosphere-driven climate instability. Geology 27(4): 291-294.
1999 Brown, P., Kennett, J.P. and J. Teller. Megaflood erosion and meltwater plumbing changes during last North American deglaciation recorded in Gulf of Mexico Sediments: Comment and Reply. Geology 27: 479-480.
1999 Schneider, C. and J.P. Kennett. Segregation and speciation in the Neogene planktonic foraminiferal clade, Globoconella. Paleobiology 25: 383-395.
1999 Cannariato, K. and J.P. Kennett. Climatically related millennial-scale fluctuations in strength of California Margin oxygen-minimum zone during the past 60 k.y. Geology 27: 975-978.
1999 Weinheimer, A., Kennett, J.P. and D. Cayan. Recent increase in surface-water stability during warming off California as recorded in marine sediments. Geology 27: 1019-1022.
2000 - 2009
2000 Hendy, I. and J.P. Kennett. Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles and the California Current System: Planktonic foraminiferal response to rapid climate change in Santa Barbara Basin, ODP hole 893A. Paleoceanography 15(1): 30-42.
2000 Kennett, J.P. and B. Fackler-Adams. Relationship of clathrate Instability to sediment deformation in the upper Neogene of California. Geology 28(3):25-218.
2000 Kennett, J.P., Cannariato, K., Hendy, I. and R. Behl. Carbon isotopic evidence for methane hydrate instability during Quaternary interstadials. Science 288:128-133.
2000 Kennett, D.J. and J.P. Kennett. Competitive and cooperative responses to climatic instability in coastal southern California. American Antiquity 65(2): 379-395.
2000 Kucera, M. and J.P. Kennett. Biochronology and evolutionary implications of Late Neogene California margin planktonic foraminiferal events. Marine Micropaleontology 40: 67-81.
2000 Kennett, J.P., Rozo-Vera, G. and M. Castillo. Latest Neogene planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the California Margin. ODP Sci. Res. 167: 41-62.
2002 Hendy, Kennett, J.P., Roark, E. and B. Ingram. Apparent synchroneity of submillennial scale climate events between Greenland and Santa Barbara Basin, California from 30 to 10 Ka. Trins Volume, J. P. Kennett and M. Sarnthein, eds. Quat. Sci. Review 21(10): 1167-1184.
2002 Kucera, M. and J.P. Kennett. Causes and consequences of a middle Pleistocene origin of the modern planktonic foraminifer Neogloboquadrina pachyderma sinistral. Geology 30(6): 539-542.
2002 Pak, D. and J.P. Kennett. A foraminiferal isotopic proxy for upper water mass stratification. J Foraminiferal Research, 32(3): 319-327.
2002 Sarnthein, M., Kennett, J.P., et al. Decadal-to-millennial-scale climate variability – chronology and mechanisms: summary and recommendations. Quat. Sci. Reviews 21(10): 1121-1128.
2002 Kennett, J.P. and L. Peterson. Rapid climate change: Ocean responses to earth system instability in the late Quaternary. Legacy of Ocean Drilling Program. JOIDES Journal Spec. Issue 28(1): 5-9.
2002 Shevenell, A. and J.P. Kennett. Antarctic Holocene climate change: A Benthic Foraminifer Stable isotopic record from Palmer Deep. Paleoceanography 17, 10.1029/2000PA000596.
2003 Hendy, I. and J.P. Kennett. Tropical forcing of North Pacific intermediate water distribution during Late Quaternary rapid climate change? Quaternary Science Reviews 22: 673-689.
2003 Hill, T., Kennett, J.P. and H. Spero. Foraminifera as indicators of methane-rich environments: A study of modern methane seeps in Santa Barbara Channel, California. Marine Micropaleontology 49: 123-128.
2004 Hill, T., Kennett, J.P. and H. Spero. High-resolution records of methane hydrate dissociation: ODP Site 893, Santa Barbara Basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 223: 127-140.
2004 Shevenell, A., Kennett, J.P. and D. Lea. Middle Miocene Southern Ocean Cooling and Antarctic Cryosphere Expansion. Science 305: 1766-1770.
2004 Hill, T., Kennett, J.P. and D. Valentine. Isotopic evidence for the incorporation of methane-derived carbon into foraminifera from modern methane seeps, Hydrate Ridge, Northeast Pacific. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68: 4619-4627.
2004 Kennett, J.P. and N. Exon. Paleoceanographic Evolution of the Tasmanian Seaway and its Climatic Implications. In: The Cenozoic Southern Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Climate Change Between Australia and Antarctica, Geophysical Monograph Series 151 (AGU), pp. 345-367, edited by Neville Exon, James P. Kennett and Mitchell Malone.
2004 Pak, D., Lea, D. and J.P. Kennett. Seasonal and interannual variation in Santa Barbara Basin water temperatures observed in sediment trap foraminiferal Mg/Ca. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 5(12): Q12008, doi: 10.1029/2004GC000760.
2004 Shevenell, A. and J.P. Kennett. Paleoceanographic Change During the Middle Miocene Climate Revolution: An Antarctic Stable Isotope Perspective. In: The Cenozoic Southern Ocean: Tectonics, Sedimentation, and Climate Change Between Australia and Antarctica, Geophysical Monograph Series 151 (AGU), p. 235-251, edited by Neville Exon, James P. Kennett and Mitchell Malone.
2005 Cannariato, K. and J.P. Kennett. Structure of the penultimate deglaciation along the California margin and implications for Milankovitch theory. Geology 33(2): 157-160.
2005 Luyendyk, B., Kennett, J. and J. Clark. Hypothesis for increased atmospheric methane input from hydrocarbon seeps on exposed continental shelves during glacial low sea level. Marine and Petroleum Geology 22(4): 591-596.
2005 Wilson, K., Hayward, B., Sabaa, A., Scott, G. and J. Kennett. A one-million-year history of a north-south segment of the Subtropical Front, east of New Zealand. Paleoceanography 20(2): PA2004, doi:1029/2004PA001080.
2006 Kennett, D.J. and J.P. Kennett. Early State Formation in Southern Mesopotamia: Sea Levels, Shorelines and Climate Change. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology: 1, 67-99.
2006 Nicholson, C., Kennett, J., Sorlien, C., Hopkins S., Behl, R., Normark, W., Sliter, R., Hill, T., Pak, D., Schimmelmann, A. and K. Cannariato. Santa Barbara Basin Study Extends Global Climate Record. Eos, Trans. AGU 87(21).
2006 Hill, T., Kennett, J.P., Pak, D., Behl, R., Robert, C. and L. Beaufort. Pre- Bølling warming in Santa Barbara Basin, California: surface and intermediate water records of early deglacial warmth. Quaternary Science Reviews.
2006 Hill, T., Kennett, J.P, Valentine, D., Yang, Z., Reddy, C., Nelson, R., Behl, R., Robert, C. and L. Beaufort. Climatically driven emissions of hydrocarbons from marine sediments during deglaciation. PNAS 103(37): 13570-13574.
2007 Shibahara, A., Ohkushi, K., Kennett, J.P. and K. Ikehara. Late Quaternary changes in intermediate water oxygenation and oxygen minimum zone, northern Japan: A benthic foraminiferal perspective. Paleoceanography 22: PA3213, doi:10.1029/2205PA001234.
2007 Firestone, R., West, A., Kennett, J.P., Becker, L., Bunch, T., et al. Evidence for an extraterrestrial impact 12,900 years ago that contributed to the megafaunal extinctions and the Younger Dryas cooling. PNAS 104(41): 16016-16021. Plus a 20-page supplement.
2007 Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., Erlandson, J. and K. Cannariato. Human responses to Middle Holocene climate change on California’s Channel Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews 26(3-4): 351-367.
2007 Sarnthein, M., Grootes, P., Kennett, J.P. and M.-J. Nadeau. 14C Reservoir Ages Show Deglacial Changes in Ocean Currents and Carbon Cycle. In: Ocean Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts, Geophysical Monograph Series 173 (AGU): 175-196, edited by A. Schmittner, J.C.H. Chiang and S.R. Hemming.
2007 Shevenell, A. and J.P. Kennett. Cenozoic Antarctic cryosphere evolution: Tales from deep-sea sedimentary records. Deep-Sea Research II 54(21-22): 2308-2324, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.018.
2008 Hayward, B., Scott, G., Crundwell, M., Kennett, J.P., et al. The effect of submerged plateaux on Pleistocene gyral circulation and sea-surface temperatures in the Southwest Pacific. Global and Planetary Change 63(4): 309-316, 2008.
2008 Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., et al. Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California’s Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerod-Younger Dryas boundary (13.0-12.9 ka). Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 2530-2545.
2009 Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., West, A., Mercer, C., Que Hee, S., Bement, L., Bunch, T., Sellers, M. and W. Wolbach. Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer. Science 323, p.94.
2009 Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., et al. Shock-synthesized hexagonal diamonds in Younger Dryas boundary sediments. PNAS 106: 12623-12628, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0906374106.
2010 -
2010 Kurbatov, A., Mayewski, P., Steffensen, J., West, A., Kennett, D.J., Kennett, J.P., et al. Discovery of a nanodiamond-rich layer in the Greenland ice sheet. Journal of Glaciology 56: 749-759.
2010 Magana, A., Southon, J., Kennett, J.P., Roark, B., Sarnthein, M. and L. Stott. Resolving the cause of large differences between deglacial benthic foraminifera radiocarbon measurements in Santa Barbara Basin. Paleoceanography 25: PA 4102, doi: 10.1029/2010PA002011 .
2011 Hayward, B., Gregory, M. and J.P. Kennett. An extinct foraminifer endemic to hydrocarbon seeps? Geology 39(6): 603-605.
2011 Anderson, D., Goodyear, A., Kennett, J. and A. West. Multiple lines of evidence for possible Human population decline/settlement reorganization during the early Younger Dryas. Quat. Int. 242(2): 570-583.