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Winter, Amos

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Professor, Department of Marine Sciences , College of Arts and Sciences

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academic article
- Changes in Extreme Temperature and Precipitation in the Caribbean Region . International Journal in Climatology. 2014
- Poleward expansion of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi . Journal of Plankton Research . 1-10. 2013
- A transitional Emiliania huxleyi morphotype . Journal of Nannoplankton Research . 32:71-74. 2012
- Environmental controls on Emiliania huxleyi morphotypes in the Benguela coastal upwelling system (SE Atlantic) . Marine Ecology: Progress Series. 448:51-66. 2012
- Evidence for 800 Years of North Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability from a Puerto Rican Speloethem. EPSL. 308:23-28. 2011
- 13C Suess effect in scleractinian corals mirror changes in the anthropogenic CO2 inventory of the surface oceans . Geophysical Research Letters. 37. 2010
- Coral windows onto seasonal climate variability in the northern Caribbean since 1479 . Geochemistry . 11. 2010
- Lunar banding in the scleractinian coral Montastraea faveolata: fine-scale structure and influence of temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research . 115:1-12. 2010
- Is Recent Major Hurricane Activity Normal?. Nature . 2009
- Warming of an Elevated Layer over the Caribbean. Climate Change. 2009
- A record of recent change in terrestrial sedimentation in a coral-reef environment, La Parguera, Puerto Rico: A response to coastal development?. Marine Pollution Bulletin . 56:1177-1183. 2008
- Empirical probability models to predict Puerto Rico monthly rainfall process . Monthly Weather Review. 135:877-890. 2007
- Low Atlantic Hurricane Activity during the 1970s and 1980s Compared to the Past 270 Years. Nature . 447. 2007
- Low Atlantic Hurricane Activity in the 1970s and 1980s Compared to the Past 270 Years. Nature . 447:698-701. 2007
- Sub-Regional Precipitation Climate of the Caribbean and Relationships with ENSO and NAO. Journal of Geophysical Research . 112. 2007
- Coefficient of Variation (CV) of Sea Surface Temperature (SST) as an Indicator of Bleaching in Caribbean Corals . Marine Biology. 149:134-137. 2006
- Sr/Ca-Sea surface temperature calibration in the branching Caribbean coral Acropora palmate. Geophysical Research Letters. 3. 2006
- Urban Heat Island Effect Analysis for San Juan, Puerto Rico . Journal of Atmospheric Environment . 40:1731-1741. 2006
- Fidelity of 18O as a proxy for sea surface temperature: Influence of variable coral growth rates on the coral Porites lutea from Hainan Island, China . Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems. 6. 2005
- Records of cosmogenic radionuclides, 10Be, 26Al and 36Cl in corals: first studies on coral erosion rates and potential of dating very old corals . Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta . 69:5717-5728. 2005
- Re-evaluation of pan evaporation coefficients at seven locations in Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture . 88:109-122. 2004
- Experimental evidence for the species character of C. leptoporus morphotypes. Journal of Paleontology. 77:825-830. 2003
- Orbital control of low latitude seasonality during the Eemian . Geophysical Research Letters. 30:10-14. 2003
- A centennialâscale variability of subtropical North Atlantic surface hydrography during the late Holocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology . 183:25-41. 2002
- Evaluation of accuracy in coral isotope records for environmental proxy: A comparative study of skeletal elements, sampling resolution, and different colonies in the coral Montastrea faveolata from Puerto Rico . Coral Reefs . 21:169-178. 2002
- Vertical and horizontal distribution of coccolithophores in the Caribbean Sea. Geo Marine Letters. 22:150-161. 2002
- Vertical and horizontal distribution of coccolithophores in the Caribbean Sea. Geo Marine Letters. 22:150-161. 2002
- Changes in the concentrations of 17 amino acids in a scleractinian coral over the last 250 years and their potential utility for age determination . Organic Geochemistry . 32:623-632. 2001
- Pretreatment of coral aragonite for trace elemental analysis: Implications of coral thermometers . Geochemical Journal. 35:265-269. 2001
- Seasonal changes in sea surface temperature and salinity during the Little Ice Age in the Caribbean Sea deduced from Mg/Ca and O 18/O 16 ratios in corals. Marine Geology . 173:21-35. 2001
- Assemblages of coccolithophorids and other living microplankton off the coast of Puerto Rico during January May 1995 . Marine Micropaleontology. 39:113-130. 2000
- Introduction. Nannoplankton ecology and palaeoecology . Marine Micropaleontology. 39:7-92. 2000
- Tropical sea surface temperatures: two to three degrees cooler than present during the Little Ice Age. Geophysical Research Letters. 27:3365-3368. 2000
- Climatic Zonation in Puerto Rico Based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis and an Artificial Neural Network . Journal in Climate. 12:977-985. 1999
- Subtropical coccolithophores in the Weddell Sea . Deep Sea Research. 46:439-449. 1999
- El Nino Southern Oscillation and North Atlantic Oscillation control of the Puerto Rico climate. Journal in Climate. 11:2713-2717. 1998
- La Parguaera, Puerto Rico Caribbean coral reef, seagrass and mangrove sites. Coastal region and small island papers 3 UNESCO. 347-352. 1998
- Sea Surface temperatures and coral reef bleaching off La Parguera, Puerto Rico (northeastern Caribbean Sea). Coral Reefs . 17:377-382. 1998
- Sea surface temperatures and coral reef bleaching off La Parguera, Puerto Rico (northeastern Caribbean Sea) . Coral Reefs . 17:377-382. 1998
- Unusual coccolithophorid (haptophyta) specimen from Puerto Rico . Journal of Nannoplankton Research . 20:81-83. 1998
- Ciguatera toxins in the food chain revealed by stable isotopes . Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique. 85:510-513. 1992
- Carbon and oxygen isotope time series from an 18 year Caribbean reef coral . Journal of Geophysical Research . 96:16673-16678. 1991
- Quaternary history of the Agulhas Current . Paleoceanography . 5:479-486. 1990
- Paleoceanographic Interpretation of coccoliths and oxygen isotopes from the sediment surface of the southwest Indian Ocean . Marine Micropaleontology. 13:325-351. 1989
- Late Miocene erosion of the Agulhas Moat and the Oligocene position of the Subantarctic surface water . Marine Geology . 80:119-129. 1988
- Coccolithophores: a major component in an upwelling plume off the Cape of southern Africa . Marine Biology . 95:25-30. 1987
- Deep Sea sedimentary environments around southern Africa (SE Atlantic and SW Indian Oceans). Annals of the South African Museum. 9:1-27. 1987
- Distribution of modern coccolithophore assemblages in the area of the Natal Valley (southwest Indian Ocean) . Journal of Micropaleontology . 6:49-56. 1987
- Oceanographic control of Holocene diatom assemblages in laminated sediments near Walvis Bay, southwest Africa . Marine Geology . 76:185-194. 1987
- Tintinnid agglutination of coccol iths: A selective or random process? . Marine Micropaleontology. 10:375-379. 1986
- Distribution of living coccolithophores in the California Current System, Southern California Borderland . Marine Micropaleontology. 9:85-93. 1985
- Salinity tolerance of marine organisms deduced from Red Sea Quaternary Record. Marine Geology . 53:17-22. 1983
- Paleoenvironmental interpretation of Quaternary coccolith assem blages from the Gulf of Aquaba (Elat), Red Sea. Revista Espanola de Micropaleontologia. 14:291-314. 1982
- Post depositional shape modification in Red Sea coccoliths. Micropaleontology . 28:319-323. 1982
- Late quaternary paleoceanography of the Gulf of Aqaba (Elat), Red Sea. Quaternary Research. 14:294-308. 1980
- Distribution of living coccolithophore assemblages in the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba) . Marine Micropaleontology. 4:197-223. 1979
- Living Gephyrocapsa protohuxleyi McIntyre in the Gulf of Elat (Aqaba) . Micropaleontology . 3:295-298. 1978
- Paleoclimate proxy perspective on Caribbean climate since the year 1751: evidence of cooler temperatures and multidecadal variability . Paleoceanography . 23.
book
- Coccolithophores
chapter
- Sea surface temperatures, benthic dinolafellate toxicity and toxin transmission in the ciguatera food web . Harmful Alga, Xunta de Galicia and the intergovernmental oceanographic commission of UNESCO . Ed. Reguera, B. . 1998
- Atlas of Living Coccolithophores . Coccolithophores. Ed. Winter, Amos. Cambridge University Press. 1994
- Biogeography of coccolithophores in oceanic waters . Coccolithophores. Ed. Winter, Amos. Cambridge University Press. 1994
- Paleoceanography of the Gulf of Aqaba during the last 150, 000 years . Palaeoecology of Africa and the surrounding islands . Ed. Coetzee , J. A. . 55-64. 1984
- Coccolith morphology . Coccolithophores. Ed. Winter, Amos. Cambridge University Press.
conference paper
- 8.2 k event in Venezuelan speleothems (Abstract). Southeastern Section 62nd Annual Meeting. 2013
- 8.2ky event associated with high precipitation in the Eastern Caribbean (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2013
- A Widespread Little Ice Age Drought of The 1500's, Centered on The Caribbean (Abstract). GSA Fall Meeting . 2013
- High frequency solar influence revealed in sclerosponge-derived Caribbean sst record (Abstract). Southeastern Section 62nd Annual Meeting. 2013
- Holocene Hydrologic Variability of The Eastern Caribbean Derived from Speleothems of the Recent Two Millennia: A Progress Report (Abstract). GSA Fall Meeting . 2013
- Reconstruction of humid phases in the Caribbean (Abstract). Late Pleistocene Goldschmidt Conference. 2013
- Xibalba, speleothem, and the paleoclimate of the Maya mountains (Abstract). Southeastern Section 62nd Annual Meeting. 2013
- A Guatemalan Speleothem Record Of Climate Of The Past Millennium (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2012
- Climate variability in the Caribbean Area during the last Glacial (Abstract). Daphne Meeting . 2012
- Little Ice Age to modern climate transition of Meso-American climate derived from speleothems (Abstract). Daphne Meeting . 2012
- A Puerto Rico Speleothem and Inferred Drying of the Eastern Caribbean Climate in the Past 800 Years (Abstract). GSA Fall Meeting . 2011
- Interpretacion Paleoclimatica de los Ultimos Ocho Siglos a partir de Estalagmitas en Puerto Rico. 2nd Central American Congress Of Karst And Speleology and 1st Guatemalan Congress Of Karstic Terrains Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. 2011
- Little Ice Age to modern climate transition of Meso-American climate derived from speleothems (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2011
- Seasonally resolved 1000 year speleothem record from the guatemala/belize border (Abstract). ASLO, San Juan, PR. 2011
- Temperature history of the Caribbean mixed layer as derived from sclerosponges (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2011
- Caribean Climate Since 1469. A Coral Perspective On Seasonal, Multidecadal And Centennial Variability (Abstract). GSA Fall Meeting . 2009
- Environmental control on size and genotype of Emiliania huxleyi (Abstract). INA Lyon. 2008
- Implications of coccolithophores expanding to polar waters (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2008
- The scales of coccolithophores; adaptation to climate change (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2008
- Exploring the spatial patterns of changing background climate in the tropical Atlantic and tropical Pacific (Abstract). Workshop of Climate Change. 2007
- Low frequency climate variability in the Caribbean: what proxy reconstructions tell us (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2007
- Multidecadal Oscillations in the Northern Caribbean Salinity Gradient: Connections Between Surface Temperature, Wind Stress, Salinity and Ekman Transport (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2007
- Since Columbus: an AMO climate proxy from a Puerto Rican speleothem (Abstract). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. 2007
- Terrestrial sediment accumulation in a coral reef environment, La Parguera, Puerto Rico, U.S.A (Abstract). Geological Society of America Bulletin . 33-34. 2007
- Caribbean Climate Reconstructions Using Coral Skeletal Geochemistry: Initial Results from Puerto Rico (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2006
- Caribbean Climate Reconstructions Using Coral Skeletal Geochemistry: Initial Results from Puerto Rico (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2006
- Anumerical Study of Urban Growth Effects On Surface Atmospheric Fields Over A Coastal Tropical City (Abstract). AMS Symposium on Planning . 2004
- Numerical Study of Urban Growth Effects on the Surface Atmospheric Fields over a Large Tropical City (Abstract). 84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting . 2004
- Empirical Models to Predict Puerto Rico Monthly Rainfall Process. American Meteorological Society (Abstract). Long Beach 2003. 2003
- Neural networks estimates atmospheric variables in the Caribbean Region (Abstract). 84th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting . 2003
- Chemical-taxonomic identification of phytoplankton in the northeast Caribbean Sea: coccolithophores and the chlorophyll maximum (Abstract). CoccoCo. Ascona, Switzerland. 2002
- Chemical-taxonomic identification of phytoplankton in the northeast Caribbean Sea: coccolithophores and the chlorophyll maximum (Abstract). CoccoCo. Ascona, Switzerland. 2002
- Regional Atmospheric Modeling of Caribbean Climate (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2002
- Evaluation of 20th century decadal climate variability from massive scleractinian pinnacle corals from La Parguera, Puerto Rico, northeast Caribbean Sea (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2001
- Seasonally resolved stable isotope records from a sclerosponge in the northern Caribbean sea (Abstract). Seventh International Conference on Paleoceanography . 2001
- Surface Temperatures in the eastern Caribbean during the 8th Century AD average up to 6 C colder than present (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 2001
- Coccolithophores in the Caribbean Sea (Abstract). International Nannoplankton Association Meeting . 2000
- Density banding of Caribbean sclerosponges and corals - proxies for environmental parameters? (Abstract). European Geophysical Symposium . 2000
- Lunar banding in Montastrea faveolata (Abstract). Transactions American Geophysical Union. 2000
- The North Atlantic Oscillation: Record potential in marine archives? (Abstract). European Geophysical Society . 2000
- Coral based reconstruction of the tropical Atlantic During the Last Interglacial Maximum (Abstract). AGU Meeting Abstracts. 1999
newsletter
- Evidence for 800 Years of North Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability from a Puerto Rican Speleothem 2011

editor of

chapter
- Atlas of Living Coccolithophores . Coccolithophores. Cambridge University Press. 1994
- Biogeography of coccolithophores in oceanic waters . Coccolithophores. Cambridge University Press. 1994
- Coccolith morphology . Coccolithophores. Cambridge University Press.

presentations

presentation
- Holocene Hydrological variability of the Eastern Caribbean derived from speleothem of the recent two millenia , Speaker, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2013
- Reconstruction of humid phases in the Caribbean during the Late Pleistocene , Speaker, Geocycles Workshop Days 2013
- Coccoccolithophores and the Carbon Cycle , Speaker, Carbon and Climate Symposium, Rio Piedras 2009
- The role of coccolithophores on a changing planet, Speaker, AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA 2008