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  1. Cole, J.E., Thompson, D.M., Dyez, K.A., Tripp, C.J., Tudhope, A.W., Lofverstrom, M., Stevenson, S., Okun, J.M., Lawman, A.E., Conroy, J.L., Jimenez, G., Edwards, R.L. Recent intensification of eastern Pacific ENSO is unprecedented across the last millennium. In review at Science
  2. 1Wyman-Feravich, D.A., Conroy, J.L. 1Lusk, S., He, R., Ingalls, M. Anomalously cool clumped isotope temperatures in tropical lagoon carbonates. In review at The Depositional Record
  3. 1Wallin, A.M., Conroy, J.L. Ford, T., Atkins, J., Karamperidou, C. Recent wind stilling and variability in Illinois. In review at Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology
  4. 1Murray, N.K., Conroy, J.L., Colin, P., Cobb. K.M., Noone, D.C. 2025. The temporal seawater δ18O response to hydroclimate in the Western Pacific Warm Pool. Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113366
  5. Conroy, J.L., Karamperidou, C.K., Grimley, D.A. 2025. Near-surface winds at the southern Laurentide ice margin through the last deglaciation. Quaternary Research doi:10.1017/qua.2024.62  
  6. Bailey, A., Noone, D., Dee, S., Nusbaumer, J., Conroy, J.L., Stevenson, S., Atwood, A. 2025. Toward a process-oriented understanding of water in the climate system: recent insights from stable isotopes. Environmental Research: Climate 4 doi:1088/2752-5295/ada17b
  7. 1Dendy, S.N., Guenthner, W.R., Grimley, D.A., Conroy, J.L. Quantifying Pleistocene loess provenance in midcontinental North America using a mixing model: implications for glacial lobe evolution along the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet. Geosphere https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02770.1
  8. Grimley, D.A., Loope, H., Jacobs, P., Nash, A., 1Dendy, S., Conroy, J.L. 2024. Updated chronology for Peoria Silt (loess) accumulation in Illinois and western Indiana from radiocarbon dating of terrestrial gastropod shells. Quaternary Research 1-19. doi:10.1017/qua.2024.15
  9. Konecky, B.L., McKay, N.P., Falster, G.M., Stevenson, S.L., Fischer, M.J., Atwood, A.R., Thompson, D.M., Jones, M.D.,  Tyler, J.J.,  DeLong, K.L., Martrat, B., Thomas, E.K., Conroy, J.L., Dee, S.G., Jonkers, L., Churakova, O.V., Kern, Z., Opel, T, Porter, T.J., Sayani, H.R., Skrzypek, G., and Iso2k Project Members. 2023. Temperature-driven changes in the global water cycle during the past two millennia, Nature Geoscience 16, 997-1004. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01291-3
  10. 1Murray, N.K., Muñoz, A.R., Conroy, J.L., Machine learning solutions to regional surface ocean δ18O – salinity relationships for paleoclimatic reconstruction. Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography. 38, e2023PA004612. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004612
  11. 1Murray, N. K., Conroy, J.L., 2O’Brien, K., Grimm, E.C., Donovan, J.J. 2023. Holocene relationships between climate, waterfowl, and lacustrine nutrient cycling at Kettle Lake, North Dakota, USA, The Holocene 33(9). https://doi.org/10.1177/095968362311764
  12. 1Chen, M., Conroy, J.L., Sanford, R., 1Wyman, D.A., Chee-Sanford, J.C., Connor, L.M. 2023. Tropical lacustrine sediment microbial community response to an extreme El Niño event, Scientific Reports 13, 6868. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-33280-2
  13. Dee, S. G., A. Bailey, L Conroy, A. Atwood, S. Stevenson, J. Nusbaumer, and D. Noone. 2023. Water isotopes, climate variability, and the hydrological cycle: recent advances and new frontiers. Environmental Research: Climate 2. Doi:10.1088/2752-5295/accbe1.
  14. Conroy, J.L., 1Murray, N. K., 2Patterson, G.S., Schore, A.I.G., 2Ikuru, I., Cole, J.E., Chillagana, D., Echeverria, F. Equatorial Undercurrent influence on seawater d18O values in the Galápagos. Geophysical Research Letters. 50, e2022GL102074. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL102074
  15. Thompson, D.M., Conroy, J.L., Stevenson, S., DeLong, K., Konecky, B., Dassié, E. 2022. Salinity information in coral δ18O Geophysical Research Letters doi:10.1029/2021GL096153
  16. 1Chen, M., Conroy, J.L., Geyman, E.C., Sanford, R., Chee-Sanford, J.C., Connor, L.M., Stable carbon isotope values of syndepositional carbonate spherules and micrite record spatial and temporal changes in photosynthesis intensity, Geobiology, 20(5):667-689
  17. Bush, M.B, Conrad, S., Restrepo, A., Thompson, D.M., Lofverstrom, M., Conroy, J.L. Human-induced ecological cascades: extinction, restoration, and rewilding in the Galápagos highlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(24): e2203752119
  18. 1Dendy, S.N., Guenthner, W.R., Grimley, D.A., Conroy, J.L., Counts, R.C. 2021. Detrital zircon geochronology and provenance of Pleistocene loess and contributing glacial sources, Midcontinental USA, Quaternary Science Reviews 273(6): 107201 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107201
  19. 1Wyman, D.A., Conroy, J.L., Osburn, M.R., Atwood, A.R. 2021. Coeval drying across the central tropical Pacific over the last millennium, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004311
  20. 1Chen, M., Conroy, J.L., Sanford, R.S., Chee-Sanford, J.C., Connor, L.M. 2021. Interpreting lacustrine bulk sediment d15N values using metagenomics in a tropical hypersaline lake system, Journal of Paleolimology, 65(1): 151-168.
  21. 1Wyman, D.A., Conroy, J.L., and Karamperidou C. 2020.The tropical Pacific ENSO-mean state relationship in climate models over the last millennium. Journal of Climate, 33(17):7539-7551 https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0673.1
  22. Konecky, B.L., McKay, N.P., Churakova (Sidorova), O.V., Comas-Bru, L., Dassié, E.P., DeLong, K.L., Falster, G.M., Fischer, M.J., Jones, M.D., Jonkers, L., Kaufman, D.S., Leduc, G., Managave, S.R., Martrat, B., Opel, T., Orsi, A. J., Partin, J.W., Sayani, H.R., Thomas, E.K., Thompson, D.M., Tyler, J.J., Abram, N.J., Atwood, A.R., Conroy, J.L., Kern, Z., Porter, T.J., Stevenson, S.L., von Gunten, L., and the Iso2k Project Members. 2020. The Iso2k Database: A global compilation of paleo-δ18O and δ2H records to aid understanding of Common Era climate, Earth System Science Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-5
  23. Grimley, D.A., Counts, R., Conroy, J.L., Wang, H., 1Dendy, S.N., 1Nield, C. 2020. Last glacial maximum ecology and climate from terrestrial gastropod assemblages in Peoria loess, western Kentucky, Journal of Quaternary Science https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3206
  24. Grothe, P.R., Cobb, K.M., Liguori, G., Di Lorenzo, E., Capotondi, A., Lu, Y., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L., Southon, J.R., Santos, G.M., Deocampo, D.M., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., Chen T., Sayani, H.R., Townsend, K., Hagos, M., O’Conner, G., Thompson, D.M., Toth, L.T., Conroy, J.L., and Moore, A.L. 2020. Enhanced central Pacific El Niño-Southern Oscillation in recent decades. Geophysical Research Letters,doi:10.1029/2019GL083906
  25. Conroy, J.L., Karamperidou, C., Grimley, D.A., and Guenthner, W.R. 2019. Westerly winds across eastern and mid-continental North America during the Last Glacial Maximum: A new data-model assessment, Quaternary Science Reviews, 220:14-29.
  26. 1Schmitt, S.J., Conroy, J.L., Flynn, T., Sanford, R., 1Higley, M.C., and Fouke, B.W. 2019. Salinity, microbe, and carbonate mineral relationships in brackish to hypersaline lake sediments: a case study from the tropical Pacific coral atoll of Kiritimati. The Depositional Record, doi: 10.1002/dep2.71
  27. 1Higley, M.C., and Conroy, J.L. 2019. The hydrological response of surface water on Kiritimati Island, Kiribati to recent climate variability. Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.13465
  28. Curry, B.B., 1Bruegger, A.R., Conroy, J.L. High stands and overflow history of glacial Lake Chicago and downstream impacts on Gulf of Mexico d18O values. Geology 46 (7) doi:10.1130/G40170.1
  29. Schaetzl R.J., Bettis E.A., Crouvi O., Fitzsimmons K.E., Grimley D.A., Hambach U., Lehmkuhl F., Marković S.B., Mason J.A., Owczarek P., Roberts H.M., Rousseau D.-D., Stevens T., Vandenberghe J., Zárate M., Veres D., Yang S., Zech M., Conroy J.L., Dave A.K., Faust D., Hao Q., Obreht I., Prud’homme C., Smalley I., Tripaldi A., Zeeden C., Zech, R. 2018. Approaches and challenges to the study of loess—Introduction to the LoessFest Special Issue. Quaternary Research, 89, 563-618. doi:10.1017/qua.2018.15
  30. 1Higley M.C., Conroy, J.L., 1Schmitt, S. 2018. Last millennium hydroclimate shifts in the central tropical Pacific. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, doi: 10.1002/2017PA003233
  31. 1Martin, N.J., Conroy, J.L, Noone, D., Cobb, K.M., Konecky, B., and Rea, S. 2018. Seasonal and ENSO influences on the stable isotopic composition of Galápagos precipitation. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, doi:1002/2017JD027380
  32. 1Nash, T.A., Conroy, J.L., Grimley, D.A., Guenthner, W.R., Curry, B.B. 2018. Episodic deposition of Illinois Valley Peoria Silt in association with Lake Michigan Lobe fluctuations during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Research, doi:10.1017/qua.2017.66
  33. Thompson, D.M., Conroy, J.L., Collins, A., Hlohowskyj, S., Overpeck, J.T., Riedinger-Whitmore, M., Cole, J.E., Bush, M.B., Whitney, H., Corley, T.L., Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2017. Tropical Pacific climate variability over the last 6000 years revealed from Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galápagos. Paleoceanography doi:10.1002/2017PA003089
  34. Conroy, J.L., Thompson, D.M., Cobb, K.M., Noone, D., and Rea, S. 2017. Spatiotemporal variability in the salinity-oxygen isotope relationship of seawater across the tropical Pacific Ocean. Paleoceanography, doi:1002/2016PA003073
  35. Conroy, J.L., Hudson, A.M., Overpeck, J.T., Liu, K.-B., Wang, L., and Cole, J.E. 2017. The primacy of multidecadal to centennial variability over late-Holocene forced change of the Asian Monsoon on the southern Tibetan Plateau. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. doi:1016/j.epsl.2016.10.044
  36. Karamperidou, C., Jin, F.F., and Conroy, J.L. 2017. The Importance of ENSO Nonlinearities in Tropical Pacific Response to External Forcing. Climate Dynamics. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-3475-y
  37. Conroy, J.L., Noone, D., Cobb, K. M., Moerman, J.W., and Konecky, B.L. 2016. Paired stable isotopologues in precipitation and vapor: A case study of the amount effect within western tropical Pacific storms. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi:1002/2015JD023844
  38. Conroy, J.L., Collins, A., Overpeck, J.T., Bush, M.B., Cole, J.E., and Anderson, D.J. 2015. A 400-year isotopic record of seabird response to eastern tropical Pacific productivity. Geo: Geography and Environment. doi:10.1002/geo2.11.
  39. Conroy, J.L., Thompson, D.M., Collins, A., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., and Bush, M.B. 2014. Climate influences on water and sediment properties of Genovesa Crater Lake, Galápagos Journal of Paleolimnology. doi: 1007/s10933-014-9797-z
  40. Conroy, J.L, Cobb, K.M., Lynch-Stieglitz, J., and Polissar, P.J. 2014. Constraints on the salinity-oxygen isotope relationship in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. Marine Chemistry. 161C 26-33 doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2014.02.001
  41. Abraham, J.P., Baringer, M., Bindoff, N., Boyer, T., Cheng, L.J., Church, J.A., Conroy, J.L., Domingues, C.M., Fasullo, J.T., Gilson, J., Goni, G., Good, S., Gorman, J.M., Gouretski, V., Isjii, M., Johnson, G.C., Kizu, S., Lyman, J.M., MacDonald A., W.J. Minkowycz, Moffitt, S.E., Palmer, M., Piola, A., Reseghetti, F., Trenberth, K.E., Velicogna, I., Wijffels, S.E., Willis, J. 2013. A review of global ocean heat content observations: Implications for climate change. Review of Geophysics. doi: 10.1002/rog.20022
  42. Carolin, S., Cobb, K.M., Adkins, J.F., Clark, B. Conroy, J.L., Lejau, S., Malang, J. and Tuen, A.A. 2013. Varied response of western tropical Pacific hydrology to abrupt climate changes. 340(6140):1564-1566
  43. Conroy, J.L., Cobb, K.M., and D. Noone. 2013. Precipitation isotope variability across the tropical Pacific in the SWING2 model simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres. doi: 1002/jgrd.50412
  44. Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., Liu, K.-B., Wang, L., and Ducea, M.N. 2013. Dust and temperature influences on glaciofluvial sediment deposition in southwestern Tibet during the last millennium. Global and Planetary Change. doi 1016/ j.gloplacha.2013.04.009
  45. Restrepo, A., Colinvaux, P., Bush, M., Correa-Metrio A., Conroy, J., Gardner, M.R., Jaramillo, P., Steinitz-Kannan, M., and Overpeck, J.T. 2012. Impacts of climate variability and human colonization on the vegetation of the Galápagos Islands. Ecology. 93(8):1853-1866.
  46. Conroy, J.L., and Overpeck, J.T. 2011. Regionalization of present-day precipitation across the greater monsoon region of Asia. Journal of Climate. doi:10.1175/2011JCLI4033.1.
  47. Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., and J.E. Cole. 2010. El Niño/Southern Oscillation and changes in the zonal gradient of tropical Pacific sea surface temperature over the last 1200 years. Pages News. 18(1):32-34.
  48. Bush, M.B., Colinvaux, P.A., Steinitz-Kannan, M., Overpeck, J.T., Sachs, J., Cole, J.E., Collins, A., Conroy, J.L., Restrepo A., and Zhang, Z. 2010. Forty years of paleoecology in the Galápagos. Galápagos Research. p. 55-61.
  49. Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., and Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2009. Variable oceanic influences on western North American drought over the last 1200 years. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2009GL039558.
  50. Conroy, J.L., Restrepo, A., Overpeck, J.T., Steinitz-Kannan, M., Cole, J.E., Bush, M.B., and Colinvaux, P.A. 2009. Unprecedented recent warming of surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Nature Geoscience. 2(1):46-50.
  51. Conroy, J.L., Overpeck, J.T., Cole, J.E., Shanahan, T.M., and Steinitz-Kannan, M. 2008. Holocene changes in eastern tropical Pacific climate inferred from a Galápagos lake sediment record. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(11-12): 1166-1180.
  52. Neff, J.C., Ballantyne, A.P., Farmer, G.L., Mahowald, N.M., Conroy, J.L., Landry, C.C., Overpeck, J.T., Painter, T.H., Lawrence, C.R., Reynolds, R. 2008.  Recent increases in eolian dust deposition due to human activity in the western United States. Nature Geoscience. 1(3): 189-195.
  53. Conroy, J. 2003. A high resolution Holocene paleoclimate record from western Ireland: evidence from population, biometric, and stable isotope values of freshwater mollusks. 16th Keck Symposium Volume. p. 95-98.