Staff profile

My research focusses on investigating the patterns and processes affecting climate and environmental changes in the past. This work has included the analysis of marine, lake and peat sequences to understand climate changes recorded in the oceans and on land over the most recent periods of Earth history. I’m particularly interested in ocean/ice-sheet and land/ocean interactions across a range of timescales (from decades to millions of years), and how the low and high latitude climate systems might be connected and responsible for global climate change.

In a new set of projects, my research team is tackling new biological (seabird) records of Antarctic sea ice, detailed further below. I usually employ organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies, which allow investigation of past changes in ocean and lake temperature, hydrology, vegetation change, and predator diets. On-going research projects include:

• Reconstructing Antarctic sea ice environments from the last glacial period to the present day (the last ~40,000 years)
• Reconstructing sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day (the last 5 million years).
• Testing new organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies for past environmental change

In 2013 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (£70,000) in recognition of my research profile. I am a member of the NERC Peer Review College, an Editor for the EGU Journal Climate of the Past, a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Quaternary Science, and currently lead an international working group (PlioVAR) seeking to synthesise and integrate globally distributed climate records during the warmth of the Pliocene epoch ~3-5 million years ago.

Reconstructing Antarctic sea ice environments from the last glacial period to the present day (the last ~40,000 years)

This work seeks to better understand how Antarctic sea ice environments have changed through time, with a focus on the expansion and then contraction of sea ice associated with the last glacial cycle. Funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and the Leverhulme Trust, this work uses a novel approach: using the preserved diets of the Antarctic seabird the snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) to reconstruct past prey distributions and sea ice environments. The project team includes 4 PhDs, 3 research associates, and collaborators in the School of Biosciences (Durham University) and the British Antarctic Survey. The work builds on earlier projects examining marine sediment evidence for changing ice sheet / ocean interactions as the Antarctic ice sheet retreated from it’s maximum extent during the last glacial.

Reconstructing sea surface temperatures from the Pliocene to the present day

This work seeks to understand how ocean cooling and circulation change might have affected or responded to the expansion of continental ice-sheets over the last 5 million years (spanning the Pliocene and Quaternary). This has included assessing patterns of ocean temperature change in the North Atlantic, Nordic Seas, North Pacific, equatorial Pacific, Southwest Pacific, the Subantarctic Atlantic and Southeast Atlantic. Using a multi-proxy approach, it has even been possible to evaluate the role played by such environmental changes on deep-sea fauna. In 2013 I sailed to the Gulf of Alaska as part of the international science party of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP, Expedition 341) to recover new sediment sequences which detail ocean-ice sheet-tectonics interactions reaching back into the Miocene. I am also working on new temperature records from the South-east Atlantic from IODP Expedition 361.

Testing new organic geochemistry (biomarker) proxies for past environmental change.

The biomarker approach has been widely applied to reconstruct sea surface temperatures through geological time, but the organic compounds contained with sediments potentially provide a rich history of changes in vegetation, production and degradation of organic matter, and carbon storage and reworking in catchments. Using new archives (e.g. fen peats, high latitude lakes, seabird stomach-oil deposits) and testing calibrations using modern samples (e.g. in the Southern Ocean) we are refining and applying new techniques to gain a more detailed understanding of climate impacts across a range of environments.

Research Interests

• Quaternary Environmental Change
• Palaeoceanography
• Palaeoclimate
• Organic geochemistry (biomarkers)
• Marine ecosystems
• Land-ocean interactions
• Ocean-ice sheet interactions
• Marine sediments

Research Grants

• 2020: European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (as PI) "ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a novel biological archive (ANTSIE)" (total award: €1,999,929)
• 2020: Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Award (as PI) “Unlocking evidence for Antarctic sea-ice evolution from a novel biological archive” (total award £998,204)
• 2017: NERC (as Co-I) “Carbon export by erosion of the biosphere: the role of earthquake-triggered landslides” (total award: £401,020, PI: R.G. Hilton, Durham University) 
• 2016: NERC (as Co-I) "Assessing the role of oceanic forcing in West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum" (total award: £460,165, PI: J. Smith, British Antarctic Survey)
• 2016: NERC-Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Award (as PI) "The response of the Agulhas Leakage system to Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution" (total award: £25,000)
• 2013: Research Council of Norway Standard Grant (as Co-I) “Ocean Controls on high-latitude Climate sensitivity - a Pliocene case study” (total award: NOK 9,000 (~£1m), PI: B. Risebrobakken, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research)
• 2013: NERC-IODP Directed Award (as sole investigator) “Southern Alaska margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 341)” (total award ~£9,000)
• 2013: NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Award (as P.I.) "Reconstruction of Plio-Pleistocene South West Pacific Intermediate Water Circulation" (£8500 in kind)
• 2012: NERC (as P.I.) "Reconstructing intermediate water temperature response to Pliocene - Pleistocene climates" (total award: £246,000)
• 2010: Academy of Finland (as Co-I) "Biomarkers: a new potential method to study highly humified peat components" (total award: €239,000, PI: M. Valiranta, University of Helsinki)
• 2010: NERC Isotope Geosciences Facilities Award (as P.I.) "Evolving sea surface temperatures in the south-east Atlantic through the Pliocene and Pleistocene" (£11,000 in kind)
• 2007: NERC New Investigators Award (as sole investigator) "The millennial-scale response of the tropical Pacific to changing climate boundary conditions" (£60,000)
• 2003: NERC Organic Mass Spectrometry Facility Award (as Co-I) "High precision U^K₃₇' and δ¹³C_alkenone analyses" (£46,800 in kind, PI: J.M. Lloyd, Durham University)

• Catchments and Rivers
• Hazards and Surface Change
• Sea Level, Ice and Climate

• Reconstructing Intermediate Water Temperature Response to Pliocene - Pleistocene Climates

• IODP Leg 341 Alaskan Margin
• PAGES-PlioVAR working group
• Reconstructing Intermediate Water Temperatures

• 2020: ANTSIE: ANTarctic Sea Ice Evolution from a Novel Biological Archive(£1178227.00 from Interreg (ERDF) Europe)
• 2017: Carbon export by erosion of the biosphere: the role of earthquake triggered landslides(£401021.00 from Natural Environmental Research Council)
• 2017: The response of the Agulhas Leakage system to Pliocene-Pleistocene climate evolution (IODP expedition 361)(£20049.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2016: Assessing the role of oceanic forcing in West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum(£205872.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2014: Philip Leverhulme Prize(£70000.00 from The Leverhulme Trust)
• 2013: Ocean Controls of high-lattitude climate sensitivity(£47534.52 from Uni Research AS)
• 2013: Southern Alaska margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 341)(£7888.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2013: Southern Alaskan Margin - Rapid Response Award(£2191.00 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)
• 2012: Reconstructing Intermediate Water Temperature Response to Pliocene-Pleistocene Climates(£213220.32 from NERC - Natural Environment Research Council)

Chapter in book

• Rosell-Melé, A. & McClymont, E.L. (2007). Biomarkers as palaeoceanographic proxies. In Proxies in Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography. Hillaire-Marcel, C. & de Vernal, A. Amsterdam Oxford: Elsevier. 441-490.

Journal Article

• Sánchez Montes, M.L., Romero, O.E., Cowan, A.E., Müller, J., Moy, C.M., LLoyd, J.M. & McClymont, E.L. (2022). Plio-Pleistocene ocean circulation changes in the GOA and its impacts on the carbon and nitrogen cycles and the CIS development. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37(7): e2021PA004341.
• Davies, Althea, Harrault, Loïc, Milek, Karen, McClymont, Erin, Dallimer, Martin, Hamilton, Alistair & Warburton, Jeff (2022). A multiproxy approach to long-term herbivore grazing dynamics in peatlands based on pollen, coprophilous fungi and faecal biomarkers. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 598: 111032.
• McClymont, Erin L., Bentley, Michael J., Hodgson, Dominic A., Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., Wardley, Thomas, West, Martin D., Croudace, Ian W., Berg, Sonja, Gröcke, Darren R., Kuhn, Gerhard, Jamieson, Stewart S. R., Sime, Louise & Phillips, Richard A. (2022). Summer sea-ice variability on the Antarctic margin during the last glacial period reconstructed from snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) stomach-oil deposits. Climate of the Past 18(2): 381-403.
• Romero, Oscar E., LeVay, Leah J., McClymont, Erin L., Müller, Juliane & Cowan, Ellen A. (2022). Orbital and Suborbital‐Scale Variations of Productivity and Sea Surface Conditions in the Gulf of Alaska During the Past 54,000 Years: Impact of Iron Fertilization by Icebergs and Meltwater. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 37(1): e2021PA004385.
• Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., McClymont, Erin L., Bale, N.J., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Muller, J., Abrahamsen, E.P., Allen, C., Bickert, T., Hillenbrand, C.D., Mawbey, E., Peck, V., Svalova, A. & Smith, J.A. (2021). Archaeal Intact Polar Lipids in Polar Waters: A Comparison Between the Amundsen and Scotia Seas. Biogeosciences 18(11): 3485-3504.
• Lear, C.H., Anand, P., Blenkinsop, T., Foster, G., Gagen, M., Hoogakker, B., Larter, R., Lunt, D., McCave, N., McClymont, E.L., Pancost, R., Rickaby, R., Schultz, D., Summerhayes, C., Williams, C. & Zalasiewicz, J. (2021). Geological Society Scientific Statement: What the Geological Record Tells Us About Our Present and Future Climate. Journal of the Geological Society 178(1).
• McClymont, E.L., Ford, H., Ho, S.-L., Tindall, J., Haywood, A.M., Alonso-Garcia, M., Bailey, I., Berke, M. A., Littler, K., Patterson, M., Petrick, B., Peterse, F., Ravelo, A. C., Risebrobakken, B., Schepper, S. De, Swann, G. E. A., Thirumalai, K., Tierney, J. E., Weijst, C. van der, White, S., Abe-Ouchi, A., Baatsen, M.L.J., Brady, E.C., Chan, W.-L., Chandan, D., Feng, R., Guo, C., von der Heydt, A.S., Hunter, S., Li, X., Lohmann, G., Nisancioglu, K.H., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Peltier, W.R., Stepanek, C. & Zhang, Z. (2020). Lessons from a high CO2 world: an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago. Climate of the Past 16(4): 1599-1615.
• Wang, J., Howarth, J.D., McClymont, E.L., Densmore, A.L., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Groecke, D.R., West, M.D., Harvey, E., Frith, N.V., Garnett, M.H. & Hilton, R.G. (2020). Long-term patterns of hillslope erosion by earthquake-induced landslides shape mountain landscapes. Science Advances 6(23): eaaz6446.
• Mawbey, Elaine M., Hendry, Katharine H., Greaves, Mervyn J., Hillenbrand, Claus-Dieter, Kuhn, Gerhard, Spencer-Jones, Charlotte L., McClymont, Erin L., Vadman, Kara J., Shevenell, Amelia E., Jernas, Patrycja E. & Smith, James A. (2020). Mg/Ca-Temperature Calibration of Polar Benthic foraminifera species for reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 283: 54-66.
• Sánchez-Montes, M.L., McClymont, E.L., Lloyd, J.M., Müller, J., Cowan, E.A., Zorzi, C. & de Vernal, A. (2020). Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures. Climate of the Past 16(1): 299-313.
• Naafs, B.D.A., Inglis, G.N., Blewett, J., McClymont, E.L., Lauretano, V., Xie, S., Evershed, R.P. & Pancost, R.D. (2019). The potential of biomarker proxies to trace climate, vegetation, and biogeochemical processes in peat: A review. Global and Planetary Change 179: 57-79.
• Berg, S., Melles, M., Hermichen, W. D., McClymont, E.L., Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A. & Kuhn, G. (2019). Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20(1): 260-276.
• Frith, N., Hilton, R.G., Howarth, J.D., Gröcke, D.R., Fitzsimons, S.J., Croissant, T., Wang, J., McClymont, E.L., Dahl, J. & Densmore, A.L. (2018). Carbon export from mountain forests enhanced by earthquake-triggered landslides over millennia. Nature Geoscience 11(10): 772-776.
• Barlow, N.L.M., McClymont, E.L., Whitehouse, P.L., Stokes, C.R., Jamieson, S.S.R., Woodroffe, S.A., Bentley, M.J., Callard, S.L., Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D.J.A., Horrocks, J.R., Lloyd, J.M., Long, A.J., Margold, M., Roberts, D.H. & Sanchez-Montes, M.L. (2018). Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial. Nature Geoscience 11: 627-634.
• Caley, T., Extier, T., Collins, J.A., Schefuß, E., Dupont, L., Malaizé, B., Rossignol, L., Souron, A., McClymont, E.L., Jimenez-Espejo, F.J., García-Comas, C., Eynaud, F., Martinez, P., Roche, D.M., Jorry, S.J., Charlier, K., Wary, M., Gourves, P., Billy, I. & Giraudeau, J. (2018). A two-million-year-long hydroclimatic context for hominin evolution in southeastern Africa. Nature 560(7716): 76-79.
• Fischer, H., Meissner, K.J., Mix, A.C., Abram, N.J., Austermann, J., Brovkin, V., Capron, E., Colombaroli, D., Daniau, A-L., Dyez, K.A., Felis, T., Finkelstein, S.A., Jaccard, S.L., McClymont, E.L., Rovere, A., Sutter, J., Wolff, E.W., Affolter, S., Bakker, P., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Barbante, C., Caley, T., Carlson, A.E., Churakova, O., Cortese, G., Cumming, B.F., Davis, B.A.S., de Vernal, A., Emile-Geay, J., Fritz, S.C., Gierz, P., Gottschalk, J., Holloway, M.D., Joos, F., Kucera, M., Loutre, M-F., Lunt, D.J., Marcisz, K., Marlon, J.R., Martinez, P., Masson-Delmotte, V., Nehrbass-Ahles, C., Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Raible, C.C., Risebrobakken, B., Sánchez Goñi, M.F., Saleem Arrigo, J., Sarnthein, M., Sjolte, J., Stocker, T.F., Velasquez Alvárez, P.A., Tinner, W., Valdes, P.J., Vogel, H., Wanner, H., Yan, Q., Yu, Z., Ziegler, M. & Zhou, L. (2018). Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond. Nature Geoscience 11: 474-485.
• Petrick, B., McClymont, E.L., Littler, K., Rosell-Melé, A., Clarkson, M.O., Maslin, M., Röhl, U., Shevenell, A.E. & Pancost, R.D. (2018). Oceanographic and climatic evolution of the southeastern subtropical Atlantic over the last 3.5 Ma. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 492: 12-21.
• Müller, Juliane, Romero, Oscar, Cowan, Ellen A., McClymont, Erin L., Forwick, Matthias, Asahi, Hirofumi, März, Christian, Moy, Christopher M., Suto, Itsuki, Mix, Alan & Stoner, Joseph (2018). Cordilleran ice-sheet growth fueled primary productivity in the Gulf of Alaska, northeast Pacific Ocean. Geology 46(4): 307-310.
• Inglis, Gordon N., Naafs, B. David. A., Zheng, Yanhong, McClymont, Erin L., Evershed, Richard P. & Pancost, Richard D. (2018). Distributions of geohopanoids in peat: Implications for the use of hopanoid-based proxies in natural archives. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 224: 249-261.
• Bachem, Paul E., Risebrobakken, Bjørg, De Schepper, Stijn & McClymont, Erin L. (2017). Highly variable Pliocene sea surface conditions in the Norwegian Sea. Climate of the Past 13(9): 1153-1168.
• Rogerson, M., Mercedes-Martin, R., Brasier, A.T., McGill, R.A.R., Prior, T.J., Vonhof, H., Fellows, S.M., Reijmer, J.J.G., McClymont, E.L., Billing, I., Matthews, A. & Pedley, M. (2017). Are spherulitic lacustrine carbonates an expression of large-scale mineral carbonation? A case study from the East Kirkton Limestone, Scotland. Gondwana Research 48: 101-109.
• Naafs, B.D.A., Inglis, G.N., Zheng, Y., Amesbury, M.J., Biester, H., Bindler, R., Blewett, J., Burrows, M.A., del Castillo Torres, D., Chambers, F.M., Cohen, A.D., Evershed, R.P., Feakins, S.J., Gallego-Sala, A., Gandois, L., Gray, D.M., Hatcher, P.G., Honorio Coronado, E.N., Hughes, P.D.M., Huguet, A., Kononen, M., Laggoun-Defarge, F., Lahteenoja, O., Marchant, R., McClymont, E., Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Ponton, C., Pourmand, A., Rizzuti, A.M., Rochefort, L., Schellekens, J., De Vleeschouwer, F. & Pancost, R.D. (2017). Introducing global peat-specific temperature and pH calibrations based on brGDGT bacterial lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 208: 285-301.
• Risebrobakken, B., Andersson, C., De Schepper, S. & McClymont, E.L. (2016). Low-frequency Pliocene climate variability in the eastern Nordic Seas. Paleoceanography 31(9): 1154-1175.
• McClymont, E.L., Elmore, A.C., Kender, S., Leng, M.J., Greaves, M. & Elderfield, H. (2016). Pliocene-Pleistocene evolution of sea surface and intermediate water temperatures from the southwest Pacific. Paleoceanography 31(6): 895-913.
• Kender, S., McClymont, E.L., Elmore, A.C., Emanuel, D., Leng, M.J. & Elderfield, H. (2016). Mid Pleistocene foraminiferal mass extinction coupled with phytoplankton evolution. Nature Communications 7: 11970.
• Reisinger, R.R., Gröcke, D.R., Lübcker, E.L., McClymont, E.L., Hoelzel, A.R. & Nico de Bruyn, P.J. (2016). Variation in the diet of killer whales Orcinus orca at Marion Island, Southern Ocean. Marine Ecology Progress Series 549: 263-274.
• Bachem, P.E., Risebrobakken, B. & McClymont, E.L. (2016). Sea surface temperature variability in the Norwegian Sea during the late Pliocene linked to subpolar gyre strength and radiative forcing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 446: 113-122.
• Talbot, H.M., McClymont, E.L., Inglis, G.N., Evershed, R.P. & Pancost, R.D. (2016). Origin and preservation of bacteriohopanepolyol signatures in Sphagnum peat from Bissendorfer Moor (Germany). Organic Geochemistry 97: 95-110.
• Tye, G.J., Sherriff, J., Candy, I., Coxon, P., Palmer, A., McClymont, E.L. & Schreve, D.C. (2016). The δ18O stratigraphy of the Hoxnian lacustrine sequence at Marks Tey, Essex, UK: implications for the climatic structure of MIS 11 in Britain. Journal of Quaternary Science 31(2): 75-92.
• Gulick, S.P.S., Jaeger, J.M., Mix, A.C., Asahi, H., Bahlburg, H., Belanger, C., Berbel, G.B., Childress, L., Cowan, E., Davies, M.H., Drab, L., Dottori, F., Forwick, M., Fukumura, A., Ge, S., Gupta, S., Kioka, A., Konno, S., LeVay, L., März, C., Matsuzaki, A., McClymont, E.L., Moy, C., Müller, J., Nakamura, A., Ojima, T., Ridgway, K., Romero, O., Slagle, A., Stoner, J., St-Onge, G., Suto, I., Worthington, L., Bailey, I., Enkelmann, E., Reece, R. & Swartz, J. (2015). Mid-Pleistocene climate transition drives net mass loss from rapidly uplifting St. Elias Mountains, Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(49): 15042-15047.
• Elmore, A.C., McClymont, E.L., Elderfield, H., Kender, S., Cook, M.R., Leng, M.J., Greaves, M. & Misra, S. (2015). Antarctic Intermediate Water properties since 400 ka recorded in infaunal (Uvigerina peregrina) and epifaunal (Planulina wuellerstorfi) benthic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 428: 193-203.
• Petrick, B.F., McClymont, E.L., Marret, F. & van der Meer, M.T.J. (2015). Changing surface water conditions for the last 500 ka in the Southeast Atlantic: Implications for variable influences of Agulhas leakage and Benguela upwelling. Paleoceanography 30(9): 1153-1167.
• Peck, V.L., Allen, C.S., Kender, S., McClymont, E.L. & Hodgson, D. (2015). Oceanographic variability on the West Antarctic Peninsula during the Holocene and the influence of upper circumpolar deep water. Quaternary Science Reviews 119: 54-65.
• Ronkainen, T., Väliranta, M., McClymont, E.L., Biasi, C., Salonen, S., Fontana, S. & Tuittila, E.-S. (2015). A combined biogeochemical and paleobotanical approach to study permafrost environments and past dynamics. Journal of Quaternary Science 30(3): 189-200.
• Schellekens, J., Bindler, R., Martínez-Cortizas, A., McClymont, E.L., Abbott, G.D., Biester, H., Pontevedra-Pombal, X. & Buurman, P. (2015). Preferential degradation of polyphenols from Sphagnum - 4-isopropenylphenol as a proxy for past hydrological conditions in Sphagnum-dominated peat. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 150: 74-89.
• Petrick, B., McClymont, E.L., Felder, S., Rueda, G., Leng, M.J. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2015). Late Pliocene upwelling in the Southern Benguela region. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 429: 62-71.
• Roberts, J., McCace, I.N., McClymont, E., Kender, S., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Matano, R., Hodell, D.A. & Peck, V.L. (2017). Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 474: 397-408.
• Rosell-Melé, A., Martínez-Garcia, A. & McClymont, E.L. (2014). Persistent warmth across the Benguela upwelling system during the Pliocene epoch. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 386: 10-20.
• Ronkainen, T., McClymont, E.L., Tuitilla, E.-S. & Väliranta, M. (2014). Plant macrofossil and biomarker evidence of fen-bog transition and associated changes in vegetation. The Holocene 24(7): 828-841.
• McClymont, E.L., Sosdian, S.M., Rosell-Melé, A. & Rosenthal, Y. (2013). Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Earth-Science Reviews 123: 173-193.
• Candy, I. & McClymont, E.L. (2013). Interglacial intensity in the North Atlantic over the last 800,000 years: investigating the complexity of the mid-Brunhes Event (MBE). Journal of Quaternary Science 28(4): 343-348.
• Sadekov, A.Y., Ganeshram, R., Pichevin, L., Berdin, R., McClymont, E.L., Elderfield, H. & Tudhope, A.W. (2013). Palaeoclimate reconstructions reveal a strong link between El Niño-Southern Oscillation and Tropical Pacific mean state. Nature Communications 4(11): 2692.
• Fietz, S., Huguet, C., Bendle, J.A., Escala, M., Gallacher, C., Herfort, L., Jamieson, R., Martínez-Garcia, A., McClymont, E.L., Peck, V.L., Prahl, F.G., Rossi, S., Rueda, G., Sanson-Barrera, A. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2012). Co-variation of crenarchaeol and branched GDGTs in globally-distributed marine and freshwater sedimentary archives. Global and Planetary Change 92-93: 275–285.
• Pichevin, L.E., Ganeshram, R.S.S., Reynolds, B., Prahl, F.G., Pedersen, T.F.F., Thunell, R.C. & McClymont, E.L. (2012). Silicic acid biogeochemistry in the Gulf of California: Insights from sedimentary Si isotopes. Paleoceanography 27(2): PA2201.
• McClymont, E.L., Ganeshram, R.S.S., Pichevin, L.E., Talbot, H.M., van Dongen, B.E., Thunell, R.C., Haywood, A.M., Singarayer, J.S.S. & Valdes, P.J. (2012). Sea-surface temperature records of Termination 1 in the Gulf of California: challenges for seasonal and inter-annual analogues of tropical Pacific climate change. Paleoceanography 27(2): PA2202.
• Rosell-Melé, A., Balestra, B., Kornilova, O., McClymont, E.L., Russell, M., Monechi, S., Troelstra, S. & Ziveri, P. (2011). Alkenones and coccoliths in ice-rafted debris during the Last Glacial Maximum in the North Atlantic: implications for the use of UK37' as a sea surface temperature proxy. Journal of Quaternary Science 26(6): 657-664.
• McClymont, E.L., Bingham, E.M., Nott, C.J., Chambers, F.M., Pancost, R.D. & Evershed, R.P. (2011). Pyrolysis GC/MS as a rapid screening tool for determination of peat-forming plant composition in cores from ombrotrophic peat. Organic Geochemistry 42(11): 1420-1435.
• Pancost, R.D., McClymont, E.L., Bingham, E.M., Roberts, Z., Charman, D.J., Hornibrook, E.R.C., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Lima, K.L.H. & Evershed, R.P. (2011). Archaeol as a methanogen biomarker in ombrotrophic bogs. Organic Geochemistry 42(10): 1279-1287
• Martínez-Garcia, A., Rosell-Melé, A., McClymont, E.L., Gersonde, R. & Haug, G. (2010). Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue. Science 328(5985): 1550-1553.
• McClymont, E.L., Pendall, E. & Nichols, J. (2010). Stable isotopes and organic geochemistry in peat: Tools to investigate past hydrology, temperature and biogeochemistry. PAGES news 18(1): 15-18.
• Dickson, A.J., Leng, M.J., Maslin, M.A., Sloane, H.J., Green, J., Bendle, J.A., McClymont, E.L. & Pancost, R.D. (2010). Atlantic overturning circulation and Agulhas leakage influences on southEast Atlantic upper ocean hydrography during marine isotope stage 11. Paleoceanography 25: PA3208.
• Bingham, E.M., McClymont, E.L., Väliranta, M., Mauquoy, D., Roberts, Z., Chambers, F.M., Pancost, R.D. & Evershed, R.P. (2010). Conservative composition of n-alkane biomarkers in Sphagnum species: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction in ombrotrophic peat bogs. Organic Geochemistry 41(2): 214-220.
• McClymont, E.L., Mauquoy, D., Yeloff, D., Broekens, P., van Geel, B., Charman, D.J., Pancost, R.D., Chambers, F.P. & Evershed, R.P. (2009). The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow: A reply to the comment of Bjorn Roebroek. Holocene 19(7): 1094-1097.
• Dickson, A.J., Beer, C.J., Demsey, C., Maslin, M., Bendle, J.A., McClymont, E.L. & Pancost, R.D. (2009). Oceanic Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 11 interglacial. Nature Geoscience 2(6): 428-433.
• McClymont, E.L., Mauquoy, D., Yeloff, D., Broekens, P., van Geel, B., Charman, D.J., Pancost, R.D., Chambers, F.P. & Evershed, R.P. (2008). The disappearance of Sphagnum imbricatum from Butterburn Flow, UK. The Holocene 18(6): 991-1002.
• McClymont, E.L., Rosell-Mele, A., Haug, G. & Lloyd, J.M. (2008). Expansion of subarctic water masses in the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans and implications for mid-Pleistocene ice sheet growth. Paleoceanography 23: PA4214.
• McClymont, E.L., Martinez-Garcia, A. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2007). Benefits of freeze-drying sediments for the analysis of total chlorins and alkenone concentrations in marine sediments. Organic Geochemistry 38(6): 1002-1007.
• Charman, D. J., Blundell, A., ACCROTELM Members & (ELM as ACCROTELM Member) (2006). A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 209-221.
• McClymont, E.L., Rosell-Melé, A., Giraudeau, J., Pierre, C. & Lloyd, J.M. (2005). Alkenone and coccolith records of the Mid-Pleistocene in the south-east Atlantic: Implications for the UK37' index and south African climate. Quaternary Science Reviews 24(14-15): 1559-1572.
• McClymont, E.L. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2005). Links between the onset of modern Walker circulation and the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Geology 33(5): 389-392.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• McClymont, Erin L., Haywood, A.M. & Rosell-Melé, A. (2017). Towards a marine synthesis of late Pliocene climate variability. Past Global Changes Magazine 25(2): 117.
• McClymont, E.L., Dekens, P., Dowsett, H., Dupont, L., Haywood, A.M., Rosell-Melé, A. & Salzmann, U. (2015). Pliocene climate variability over glacial-interglacial timescales (PlioVAR) working group. PAGES Magazine 23(2): 82.
• Rosell-Melé, A., McClymont, E.L., Dekens, P.S., Dowsett, H., Haywood, A.M. & Pelejero, C. (2015). Multiproxy approach to reconstruct the Pliocene climate. PAGES Newsletter 23(1): 29.
• McClymont, E.L., Maerz, C. & IODP Expedition 341 Science (2013). Expedition 341 Southern Alaska margin interactions of tectonic, climate and sedimentation. Integrated Ocen Drilling Program UK newsletter 38: 8-11.

Report

• Jaeger, J.M., Gulick, S.P.S., LeVay, L.J. & the Expedition 341 Scientists (2014). The Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Expedition 341, Southern Alaska Margin. Expedition 341 of the riserless drilling platform Victoria, British Columbia (Canada), to Valdez, Alaska (USA) Sites U1417–U1421 29 May–29 July 2013. College Station, TX (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program).
• IODP Expedition 341 Scientists (2014). Southern Alaska Margin: interactions of tectonics, climate, and sedimentation.