Selected Publications from MCL
- Tips for Successful Asynchronous Teaching: Creating Engaging Content (Part 1), will be published in Times Higher Education (THE), Campus in the week of March 17, 2025; link to article coming soon, THE is a weekly journal with global reach (readership)
- Tips for Successful Asynchronous Teaching: Supporting students (Part 2), will be published in Times Higher Education (THE), Campus in the week of March 17, 2025; link to article coming soon.
- Advice for College First Years from a Quarter-Century Professor, published in The Teaching Professor on March 10, 2025. The Teaching Professor is a weekly journal with international reach (readership) - pdf of article
- Of Sound Mind and Memory: An Unexpected Way to Engage Students in General Education Courses published in The Teaching Professor on February 12, 2024 - pdf of article.
- Studer, A., Mekik, F., Ren, H., Hain, M., Oleynik, S., Martinez-Garcia, A., Haug, G and Sigman, D. 2021. Foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotope evidence for similar rates of water column denitrification in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the last ice age and the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. DOI: 10.1029/2020PA004063
- Hayes, C. T., Costa, K. M., Calvo, E., Chase, Z., Demina, L., Dutay, J-C., German, C. R., Heimbürger-Boavida, L. E., Jaccard, S.L., Jacobel, A., Kohfeld, K. E., Kravchishina, M. D., Lippold, J., Mekik, F., Missiaen, L., Pavia, F. J., Paytan, A., Pedrosa-Pamies, R., Petrova, M. V., Rahman, S., Robinson, L. F., Roy-Barman, M., Sanchez-Vidal, A., Shiller, A., Tagliabue, A., Tessin, A. C., van Hulten, M., Zhang, J. 2021. The Composition and Flux of Sediments in the Global Ocean. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI: 10.1029/2020GB006769
- Mekik, F. and Winkelstern, I., 2020. Field testing the fidelity of δ18O and δ13C in reconstructing upper ocean hydrography. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003880.
- Costa, K. M., Hayes, C. M., Anderson, R. F., Pavia, F. J., Bausch, A., Deng, F., Dutay, J-C., Geibert, W., Heinze, C., Henderson, G., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Hoffmann, S., Jaccard, S. L., Jacobel, A., Kienast, S.S., Kipp, L., Lerner, P., Lippold, J., Lund, D., Marcantonio, F., McGee, D., McManus, Jerry F., Mekik, F., Middleton, J. L., Missiaen, L., Not, C., Pichat, S., Robinson, L., Rowland, G. H., Roy-Barman, M., Tagliabue, A., Torfstein, A., Winckler, G., Zhou, Y., 2020. 230Th normalization: New insights on an essential tool for quantifying sedimentary fluxes in the modern and Quaternary ocean, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003820.
- Rongstad, B., Marchitto, T., Marks, G., Koutavas, T., Mekik, F., and Ravelo, A., 2019. Investigating ENSO-related temperature variability in equatorial Pacific core-tops using Mg/Ca in individual planktic foraminifera, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003774.
- Mekik, A. F., 2018. Do proxies agree? δ18O, δ13C and Mg/Ca from tests of Neogloboquadrina dutertrei in the eastern equatorial Pacific, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.03.005
- Mekik, A. F. and Anderson, R., 2018. Is the core top modern? Observations from the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Quaternary Science Reviews. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.01.020
- Mekik, F. A., 2014. Radiocarbon dating of planktonic foraminifer shells: A cautionary tale, Paleoceanography, Vol. 29, doi:10.1002/2013PA002532.
- Mekik, F. A. 2012. Earth Systems. Series Editor, Nature Education Knowledge Project. http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/earth-systems-40378443
- Mekik, A. F., R. Anderson, P. Loubere, R. François, and M. Richaud. 2012. The Mystery of the Missing Deglacial Carbonate Preservation Maximum, Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 39, p. 60-72. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.01.024.
- Mekik, A. F., N. Noll,* and M. Russo*, 2010. Progress Toward a Multi-Basin Calibration for Quantifying Deep Sea Calcite Preservation in the Tropical/Subtropical World Ocean, Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.024.
- Meric, E., N. Avsar, F. Mekik, B. Yokes, I. Barut,D. Ozcan, S. Fikret, F. Yucesoy-Eryilmaz, M. Eryilmaz, F. Dincer, and E. Kam, 2009. Abnormal tests formations observed in the benthic foraminifers from recent sediments of Alibey and Maden Islands (Ayvalik – Balikesir). Turkiye Jeoloji Bulteni, 52/1, 31-84, ZOOR14509059662.
- Mekik, A. F. and L. Raterink*, 2008. Effects of surface ocean conditions on the quantification of deep sea calcite dissolution in the tropical Pacific, Paleoceanography, 23, PA1216, doi:10.1029/2007PA001433.
- Mekik, A. F., R. François, and M. Soon, 2007. A novel approach to dissolution correction of Mg/Ca paleo-thermometry in the tropical Pacific, Paleoceanography, 22, PA3217, doi:10.1029/2007PA001504.
- Mekik, A. F., P. Loubere and M. Richaud, 2007. Rain Ratio Variation in the Tropical Ocean: Tests with Surface Sediments in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific. Deep Sea Research II, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.01.010.
- Mekik A. F., and R. François, 2006. Tracing deep sea carbonate dissolution: Agreement between the G. menardii fragmentation index and elemental ratios (Mg/Ca and Mg/Sr) in planktonic foraminifers. Paleoceanography, 21, PA4219, doi:10.1029/2006PA001296.
- Loubere, P., A. F. Mekik, R. François, and S. Pichat, 2004. Export fluxes of calcite in the eastern equatorial Pacific from the Last Glacial Maximum to present, Paleoceanography, 19, doi.10.1029/2003PA000986.
- Loubere, P., Z. Liu, M. Richaud, and F. Mekik, 2003. Oceanic conditions in the eastern equatorial Pacific during the onset of ENSO in the Holocene, Quaternary Research, 60, 142-148.
- Mekik, A. F., P. Loubere, and D. Archer, 2002. Organic carbon flux and organic carbon to calcite flux ratio recorded in deep sea carbonates: demonstration and a new proxy, Global Biogeochemical Cycles. vol. 16, doi.10/1029/2001GB001634.
- Carter, E., P. Whalen and F. Mekik, 2002. (editors) Micropaleontology of Radiolarians, Proceedings of INTERRAD IX, Micropaleontology, vol. 48, Supplement No. 1.
- Mekik, A. F., 2000. Early Cretaceous Pantanelliidae (Radiolaria) from Northwest Turkey, Micropaleontology, Vol. 46, no.1: 1-30.
- Mekik, A. F. and Loubere, P., 1999. Hypothetical experiments with quantitative paleo-estimation: extrapolation and the no-analog problem. Marine Micropaleontology, vol. 36/4: 225-248.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8398(99)00004-3
- Mekik, A. F., Ling, H.Y., Özkan-Altiner, S. and Altiner, D., 1999. Preliminary radiolarian biostratigraphy across the Jurassic-Cretaceous Boundary from northwestern Turkey. In De Wever P. & Caulet J.-P. (eds), InterRadIII, Paris/Bierville 8,13 September 1997, Geodiversitas, 21 (4): 715-738.