Selected Papers
Diatoms and cosmogenic isotopes as tracers of past deglacial events
Sjunneskog, C.M., Scherer, R.P., Aldahan, A. and Possnert, G. 10Be in glacial marine sediment of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, a potential tracer of depositional environment and sediment chronology. NIMB (Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B. In Press.
Sjunneskog, C.S., and Scherer, R.P. 2005. Mixed diatom assemblages in Ross Sea (Antarctica) glacigenic facies. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 218(3-4), 287-300.
Scherer, R.P., 2003. Quaternary interglacials and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. In: A. Droxler, R. Poore, and Burckle, L. (eds.), Earth's Climate and Orbital Eccentricity: The Marine Isotope Stage 11 Question. AGU Geophysical Monograph # 137 Washington, D.C., 103-112.
Scherer, R.P., Aldahan, A., Tulaczyk, S., Kamb., B., Engelhardt, H., and Possnert, G., 1998. Pleistocene collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Science. 281(373), 82-85.
Scherer, R.P., Aldahan, A., and Possnert, G., 1997. Cosmogenic 10Be in sediments beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet: Hypotheses and assumptions. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 1997 Annual Review. 32(5)31-32. Scherer, R.P., 1994. A speculative stratigraphic model for the Ross Embayment, West Antarctica. Antarctic Jour. of the U.S. 29(5)9-11.P> Scherer, R.P., 1993. There is direct evidence for a late Quaternary collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Jour. Of Glaciology 39(133):716-722.
Scherer, R.P., 1991. Quaternary and Tertiary microfossils from beneath Ice Stream B: Evidence for a dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet history. Global and Planetary Change, 4(4)395-412.
Harwood, D.M., Scherer, R.P. and Webb, P.-N., 1989. Multiple Miocene marine productivity events in West Antarctica as recorded in upper Miocene sediments beneath the Ross Ice Shelf (Site J-9). Marine Micropaleontology. 5:91-115.
Scherer, R.P., Harwood, D.M., Ishman, S.E. and Webb, P.-N., 1988. Micropaleontological analysis of sediments from the Crary Ice Rise, Ross Ice Shelf. Antarctic Jour. of the U.S. 1988 Review, 23:34-36.
Marine diatom biostratigraphy and taxonomy
Olney, M, Scherer, R., Bohaty, S., and Harwood, D. Oligocene-early Miocene Antarctic nearshore diatom biostratigraphy. Deep Sea Research. In Press.
Olney, M, Bohaty, S., Scherer, R., and Harwood, D., Tertiary Synedropsis species in Antarctica. Diatom Research. In Press.
Olney, M, Scherer, R., Bohaty, S., and Harwood, D., 2005. Eocene-Oligocene Paleoecology and the Diatom Genus Kisseleviella Sheshukova-Poretskaya from the Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica. Marine Micropaleontology, 58: 56-72.
Wilson, G., Lavelle, M., McIntosh, W., Roberts, A., Harwood, D., Villa, G., Bohaty, S., Fielding, C., Florindo, F., Naish, T., Sagnotti, S., Scherer, R., Verosub, K., Watkins, D., 2002. Integrated chronostratigraphic calibration of the Oligocene-Miocene boundary at 24.0 ± 0.1 Ma from the CRP-2A drill core, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Geology, 30 (11), 1043-1046.
Naish, T., Woolfe, K., Wilson, G, Atkins, C, Barrett, P., Bohaty, S., Bucker, C., Claps, M., Davey, F., Dunbar, G., Dunn, A., Fielding, C., Florindo, F., Hannah, M., Harwood, D., Watkins, D., Henrys, S., Krissek, L., Lavelle, M., van der Meer, J., McIntosh, W., Niessen, F., Passchier, S., Powell, R., Roberts, A., Sagnotti, S., Scherer, R., Strong, C., Talarico, F., Verosub, K., Webb, P., and Wonik, T., 2001. Orbitally induced oscillations in the East Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Oligocene/Miocene boundary. Nature, 413, 719-723.
Scherer, R.P, Bohaty, S, and Harwood, D. M., 2000. Oligocene and lower Miocene siliceous microfossil biostratigraphy of Cape Roberts Project, Core CRP-2/2a, Victoria Land Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica. Terra Antartica, 7(4), 417-442.
Harwood, D. M., Bohaty, S., and Scherer, R.P. 1999. Lower Miocene diatom biostratigraphy of the Ross Sea, Antarctica, Cape Roberts Project Core 1. Terra Antartica, 5(3): 499-514.
Bohaty, S., Scherer, R.P., and Harwood, D. M., 1999. Quaternary biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the Victoria Land Basin, Ross Sea, Antarctica, Cape Roberts Project Core 1. Terra Antartica, 5(3): 431-454.
Scherer, R.P., 1998. Occurrences of diatoms, silicoflagellates or ebridians in lower Eocene through lower Miocene sediments of the southeast Greenland margin. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program) 152: 249-253.
Scherer, R.P. 1997. Dickensoniaforma: A new diatom genus in the family Rhaphoneidaceae, with two new fossil species from the Norwegian- Greenland Sea. Diatom Research, 12(1):83-94.
Scherer, R.P. and Koc, N. 1996. Late Paleogene diatom biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the northern Norwegian-Greenland Sea. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 151: 75-100.
Koc, N. and Scherer, R.P. 1996. Neogene diatom biostratigraphy of the Iceland Sea Site 907. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res. College Station TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 151:61-74.
Quantitative approaches to marine and freshwater diatom paleoecology
Warnock, J., Scherer, R., and Loubere, P. A quantitative proxy of diatom dissolution with implications on sediment focussing mechanisms in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Research. In Press.
Sjunneskog, C. and Scherer, R.P., 1997. High-resolution diatom record in bioturbated antarctic sediments. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 1997 Annual Review. 32(5), 34-36.
Scherer, R.P., 1994. A new method for the determination of absolute abundance of diatoms and other silt-sized sedimentary particles. Journal of Paleolimnology, 12(2)171-180.
Scherer, R. P., 1988. Freshwater diatom assemblages and ecology/paleoecology of the Okefenokee swamp-marsh complex of southern Georgia, USA. Diatom Research, 3(1)115-143.
Scherer, R.P., 1987. Paleoenvironmental studies of non-marine diatoms in Quaternary antarctic sediments. Antarctic Jour. of the U.S. 1987 Review, 22:35-37.
Glacial processes
Scherer, R.P., Sjunneskog, C.M., Iverson, N., and Hooyer, T. 2005. Frustules to fragments, diatoms to dust: how degradation of microfossil micro and nanostructures can teach us how ice sheets work. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 5, 96-99.
Scherer, R.P., Sjunneskog, C.M., Iverson, N., and Hooyer, T. 2004. Assessing subglacial processes from diatom fragmentation patterns. Geology. 32(7), 557-560.
Tulaczyk, S., Scherer, R.P., and Clark, C.D., 2000. A ploughing model for the origin of weak tills beneath ice streams: a qualitative treatment. Quaternary International, 86(1), 59-70. (Republished in 2004 in D.J.A. Evans (ed.) Critical Concepts in Geography: Glacial Geomorphology. v. 4)
Tulaczyk, S., Kamb, B., Scherer, R.P. and Engelhardt, H., 1998. Sedimentary processes at the base of a West Antarctic ice stream: Constraints from textural and compositional properties of subglacial debris. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 68(3), 487-496.
Scherer, R.P. and Tulaczyk, S., 1997. Diatoms in subglacial sediments yield clues regarding West Antarctic ice sheet history and ice stream processes. Antarctic Journal of the U.S., 1997 Annual Review, 32(5), 32-33.
Radiolarian biostratigraphy, evolution, and taxonomy
Scherer, R.P., 1991. Miocene radiolarians of the Sulu Sea, ODP Leg 124. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res., 124: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program) pp. 359-368.
Scherer, R.P., 1991. Radiolarians of the Celebes Sea, ODP Leg 124, Sites 767 and 770. Proc. Proc. ODP, Sci. Res., 124: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), pp. 345-358.
Lazarus, D., Scherer, R.P. and Prothero, D., 1985. Evolution of the radiolarian species-complex Pterocanium. Journal of Paleontology, 59(1):183-220.