Robert M. McKay

Research interests

Publications

• Retreat of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Interglaciation and Implications for Future Change

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2021 · 10.1029/2021gl094513

• The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future

  Reviews of Geophysics · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2019rg000663

• The amplitude and origin of sea-level variability during the Pliocene epoch

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1619-z

• Antarctic ice-sheet sensitivity to obliquity forcing enhanced through ocean connections

  Nature Geoscience · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-018-0284-4

• Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene

  Nature Communications · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02609-7

• Ice loss from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet during late Pleistocene interglacials

  Nature · 2018 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0501-8

• East Antarctic ice sheet most vulnerable to Weddell Sea warming

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2017 · 10.1002/2016gl072422

• Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO 2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113

• Antarctic marine ice-sheet retreat in the Ross Sea during the early Holocene

  Geology · 2015 · 10.1130/g37315.1

• Orbital forcing of the East Antarctic ice sheet during the Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

  Nature Geoscience · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2273

• A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.06.025

• Dynamic behaviour of the East Antarctic ice sheet during Pliocene warmth

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1889

• Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220872110

• Ross Sea paleo-ice sheet drainage and deglacial history during and since the LGM

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.020

• Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.07.024

• Glaciology and geological signature of the Last Glacial Maximum Antarctic ice sheet

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.08.011

• Pleistocene variability of Antarctic Ice Sheet extent in the Ross Embayment

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2012 · 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.012

• Chronostratigraphic framework for the IODP Expedition 318 cores from the Wilkes Land Margin: Constraints for paleoceanographic reconstruction

  Paleoceanography · 2012 · 10.1029/2012pa002308

• Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112248109

• The stratigraphic signature of the late Cenozoic Antarctic Ice Sheets in the Ross Embayment

  Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1130/b26540.1

• Obliquity-paced Pliocene West Antarctic ice sheet oscillations

  Nature · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07867

• High-resolution sequence stratigraphy of lower Paleozoic sheet sandstones in central North America: The role of special conditions of cratonic interiors in development of stratal architecture

  Geological Society of America Bulletin · 2007 · 10.1130/b26117.1

• Retreat history of the Ross Ice Sheet (Shelf) since the Last Glacial Maximum from deep-basin sediment cores around Ross Island

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2007 · 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.08.015

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