Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., The University of Rhode Island 1978
  • M.S., The University of Rhode Island 1973
  • B.A., The University of Rhode Island 1971
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  Previous Appointments & Affiliations

  • Professor with Tenure, Earth and Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment 1997 - 2013
  • Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation, Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment 2010 - 2013
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Nicholas School, Earth and Ocean Sciences Division, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 2009 - 2012
  • Director, Undergraduate Studies, Earth and Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment 2006 - 2009
  • Professor, Marine Science and Conservation, Nicholas School of the Environment 2001 - 2004
  • Interim Chair, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Earth and Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment 2001
  • Interim Chair, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 2000
  • Senior Associate Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University 1998 - 2000
  • Professor with Tenure, Geology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1996
  • Chair, Geology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1996
  • Chair, Geology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1990 - 1992
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Geology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1987 - 1991
  • Associate Professor, Geology, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1984 - 1987
• Recognition
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  Awards & Honors

  • AAAS Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science, The. 2007
• Expertise
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  Global Scholarship

  • Research

    • Norway (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Collaborative Research: Calibration of a New Approach to Reconstruct Ancient Bottom Water Oxygen Levels awarded by  National Science Foundation 2011 - 2015
  • Ship's Scientific Support Equipment: R/V Cape Hatteras 2009 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2009 - 2013
  • R/V Cape Hatteras - RAPID Grant for ADCP 150 kHz awarded by  National Science Foundation 2012 - 2013
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2011 - 2012
  • Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Changes in Climate Extremes and Variability awarded by  National Science Foundation 2006 - 2012
  • Technician awarded by  National Science Foundation 2009 - 2012
  • OCE - Ship Operations awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2012
  • Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras/ CY 2010 awarded by Office of Naval Research 2010 - 2011
  • Ship Rental/R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command 2010 - 2011
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation R/V Cate Hatteras 2010 Rapid Response awarded by  National Science Foundation 2010 - 2011
  • Reducing Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections by Quantifying Human Contributions to 20th Century Climate Change awarded by Department of Energy 2006 - 2011
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation, R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2010 - 2011
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V CAPE HATTERAS June 2009 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2009 - 2010
  • USGS Ship Time CY 2010 awarded by US Geological Survey 2010
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2009 - 2010
  • Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment awarded by  National Science Foundation 2008 - 2010
  • University of Hawaii Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment 2008 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2008 - 2010
  • Ship Operations: R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2010
  • Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras, CY 2008 awarded by Office of Naval Research 2004 - 2009
  • R/V Cape Hatteras Shipboard Scientific Equipment - 2007 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2007 - 2009
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation R/V CapeHatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2007 - 2009
  • R/V Cape Hatteras Oceanographic Instrumentation 2008 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2008 - 2009
  • A Proposal to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission for the 2009 Cooperative Winter Tagging Cruise awarded by National Marine Fisheries Service 2008 - 2009
  • Technical Support: R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2006 - 2009
  • Development of Environmental Proxies for Coastal Environments awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2008
  • Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment awarded by  National Science Foundation 2006 - 2008
  • Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras, CY 2006 awarded by Office of Naval Research 2004 - 2007
  • R/V Cape Hatteras Ship Scientific Support Equipment awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2007
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2007
  • Marine Technician Support - RV Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2003 - 2007
  • Ship Operations - RV Cape Hatteras, Year 3 of 5 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2007
  • Vessel Operations, R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2007
  • Vessel Operations, R/V Cape Hatteras (supplement) awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2007
  • Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Cape Hatteras 2004 awarded by  National Science Foundation 2004 - 2006
  • Oceanographic Instrumentation: R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2005 - 2006
  • A Request for Funds for Services on R/V Cape Hatteras CY2005 (Supplement) awarded by Office of Naval Research 2005
  • A Proposal for Additional Navy Ship Time on R/V Cape Hatteras CY2004 awarded by Office of Naval Research 2004 - 2005
  • Ship Support on R/V Cape Hatteras CY 2004 awarded by Office of Naval Research 2004
  • A Mid-Life Refit of the R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2002 - 2004
  • Marine Technician Support - RV Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2000 - 2003
  • An Assessment of Norwegian Fjords for High Resolution Climatic Records awarded by  National Science Foundation 2001 - 2003
  • Technician Support, R/V Cape Hatteras awarded by  National Science Foundation 2000 - 2002
  • Live Benthic Foraminifera on the Ontong Java Plateau awarded by  National Science Foundation 1997 - 2000
  • Seasonality of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1999
  • Seasonality of Deep Sea Benthic Foraminifera: Supplement Request awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1998
  • Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer awarded by Office of Science & Technology Infrastructure 1996 - 1997
  • Collaborative Research: Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Proxies awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1997
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Proxies awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1997
  • Southern Ocean Paleaproductivity: The Eocene-Oligocene Record awarded by  National Science Foundation 1993 - 1996
  • Paleoceanographic Implications of Deep Sea Benthic Foraminiteeral Culture awarded by  National Science Foundation 1993 - 1995
  • Paleoceanographic Implications of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera Culture awarded by  National Science Foundation 1993 - 1994
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Tracers awarded by  National Science Foundation 1991 - 1993
  • Pore Water Geochemistry of Paleochemical Tracers awarded by  National Science Foundation 1991 - 1992
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychospheric Environments: A Comparison of Western Pacific Basins awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
  • Morphotype and Carbon Isotopic Analysis of Holocene Benthic Foraminifera from the Northwest African Margin awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychospheric Environments: A Comparison of Western Pacific Basins awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1992
  • Morphotype and Carbon Isotopic Analyses of Holocene Benthic Foraminifera from the Northwest African Margin awarded by  National Science Foundation 1990 - 1991
  • Sedimentation in Thermospheric and Psychrospheric Basins: A Comparison of the Sulu and South China Seas awarded by  National Science Foundation 1988 - 1990
  • Microhabitation of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera and Paleoceanographic Applications awarded by  National Science Foundation 1988 - 1989
  • Research Experience for Undergraduates, #OCE-8614162 awarded by  National Science Foundation 1987 - 1988
  • Ecology of Benthonic Foraminifera awarded by  National Science Foundation 1984 - 1987
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Academic Articles

    • Corliss, B. H., C. W. Brown, X. Sun, and W. J. Showers. “Deep-sea benthic diversity linked to seasonality of pelagic productivity.” Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 56, no. 5 (May 1, 2009): 835–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.12.009.
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    • Healey, S. L., R. C. Thunell, and B. H. Corliss. “The Mg/Ca-temperature relationship of benthic foraminiferal calcite: New core-top calibrations in the.” Earth and Planetary Science Letters 272 (2008): 523–30.
    • Cohen, A. L., G. A. Gaetani, T. Lundälv, B. H. Corliss, and R. Y. George. “Compositional variability in a cold-water scleractinian, Lophelia pertusa: New insights into "vital effects".” Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7, no. 12 (December 1, 2006). https://doi.org/10.1029/2006GC001354.
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    • Corliss, B. H., X. Sun, C. W. Brown, and W. J. Showers. “Influence of seasonal primary productivity on δ¹³C of North Atlantic deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 53, no. 4 (April 1, 2006): 740–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2006.01.006.
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    • Sun, X., B. H. Corliss, C. W. Brown, and W. J. Showers. “The effect of primary productivity and seasonality on the distribution of deep-sea benthic foraminifera in the North Atlantic.” Deep Sea Research I 53 (2006): 28–47.
    • Ciampaglio, C. N., G. A. Wray, and B. H. Corliss. “A toothy tale of evolution: Convergence in tooth morphology among marine Mesozoic-Cenozoic sharks, reptiles, and mammals.” The Sedimentary Record, December 2005, 4–8.
    • Corliss, B. H., D. C. McCorkle, and D. M. Higdon. “A time series study of the carbon isotopic composition of deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Paleoceanography 17, no. 3 (2002): 8–1.
    • Corliss, B. H., D. C. McCorkle, and D. M. Higdon. “A time series study of the carbon istopic composition of deep sea benthic foraminifera.” Paleoceanography 17, no. 3 (2002): 10.
    • McCorkle, D. C., B. H. Corliss, and C. A. Farnham. “Vertical distributions and stable isotopic compositions of live (stained) benthic foraminifera from the North Carolina and California continental margins.” Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 44, no. 6 (June 1, 1997): 983–1024. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00004-6.
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    • Bornmalm, L., B. H. Corliss, and K. Tedesco. “Laboratory observations of rates and patterns of movement of continental margin benthic foraminifera.” Marine Micropaleontology 29, no. 3–4 (February 1, 1997): 175–84. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-8398(96)00013-8.
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    • Rathburn, A. E., B. H. Corliss, K. D. Tappa, and K. C. Lohmann. “Comparisons of the ecology and stable isotopic compositions of living (stained) benthic foraminifera from the Sulu and South China Seas.” Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 43, no. 10 (October 1, 1996): 1617–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0967-0637(96)00071-4.
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    • Silva, K. A., B. H. Corliss, A. E. Rathburn, and R. C. Thunell. “Seasonality of living benthic foraminifera from the San Pedro Basin, California Borderland.” Journal of Foraminiferal Research 26, no. 1 (January 1, 1996): 71–93. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.26.1.71.
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    • Goldstein, S. T., and B. H. Corliss. “Deposit feeding in selected deep-sea and shallow-water benthic foraminifera.” Deep Sea Research Part I 41, no. 2 (January 1, 1994): 229–41. https://doi.org/10.1016/0967-0637(94)90001-9.
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    • Rathburn, A. E., and B. H. Corliss. “The ecology of living (stained) deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the Sulu Sea.” Paleoceanography 9, no. 1 (1994): 87–150.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Marine micropaleontology and Global Change Research.” Palaios 8, no. 1 (1993): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.2307/3515217.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and T. C. E. van Weering. “Living (stained) benthic foraminifera within surficial sediments of the Skagerrak.” Marine Geology 111, no. 3–4 (January 1, 1993): 323–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(93)90138-L.
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    • Corliss, B., and K. A. Silva. “Rapid growth of deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Geology 21, no. 11 (1993): 991–94.
    • Corliss, B., and K. A. Silva. “Rapid growth of deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Geology 21, no. 11 (1993): 991–94. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0991:RGODSB>2.3.CO.
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    • Corliss, B., and K. A. Silva. “Rapid growth of deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Geology 21, no. 11 (1993): 991–94. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0991:RGODSB>2.3.CO;2.
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    • Hunt, A. S., and B. H. Corliss. “Distribution and microhabitats of living (stained) benthic foraminifera from the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.” Marine Micropaleontology 20, no. 3–4 (January 1, 1993): 321–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-8398(93)90041-U.
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    • Rosoff, D. B., and B. H. Corliss. “An analysis of recent deep-sea benthic foraminiferal morphotypes from the Norwegian and Greenland seas.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 91, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1992): 13–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(92)90028-4.
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    • Corliss, B. H. “Morphology and microhabitat preferences of benthic foraminifera from the northwest Atlantic Ocean.” Marine Micropaleontology 17, no. 3–4 (January 1, 1991): 195–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-8398(91)90014-W.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and E. Fois. “Morphotype analysis of deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the northwest Gulf of Mexico.” Palaios 5, no. 6 (January 1, 1990): 589–605. https://doi.org/10.2307/3514864.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and S. Emerson. “Distribution of rose bengal stained deep-sea benthic foraminifera from the Nova Scotian continental margin and Gulf of Maine.” Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers 37, no. 3 (January 1, 1990): 381–400. https://doi.org/10.1016/0198-0149(90)90015-N.
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    • McCorkle, D. C., L. D. Keigwin, B. H. Corliss, and S. R. Emerson. “The influence of microhabitats on the carbon isotopic composition of deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Paleoceanography 5, no. 2 (1990): 161–85.
    • Nolet, G. J., and B. H. Corliss. “Benthic foraminiferal evidence for reduced deep-water circulation during sapropel deposition in the eastern Mediterranean.” Marine Geology 94, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1990): 109–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(90)90106-T.
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    • Keffer, T., D. G. Martinson, and B. H. Corliss. “The position of the gulf stream during quaternary glaciations.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 241, no. 4864 (July 1988): 440–42. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.241.4864.440.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and C. Chen. “Morphotype patterns of Norwegian Sea deep-sea benthic foraminifera and ecological implications.” Geology 16, no. 8 (January 1, 1988): 716–19. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(1988)016<0716:MPONSD>2.3.CO;2.
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    • Braatz, B. V., and B. H. Corliss. “Calcium carbonate undersaturation of bottom waters in the South Australian Basin during the last 3.2 million years.” Journal of Foraminiferal Research 17, no. 3 (1987): 257–71.
    • Corliss, B. H. “RECENT ADVANCES IN BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL ECOLOGY: IMPLICATIONS FOR OIL EXPLORATION.” Oceans Conference Record (Ieee), 1987, 935-.
    • Corliss, B. H., D. G. Martinson, and T. Keffer. “Late Quaternary deep-ocean circulation.” Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, no. 9 (December 1, 1986): 1106–21. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97&lt;1106:LQDC&gt;2.0.CO;2.
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    • Corliss, B. H., D. G. Martinson, and T. Keffer. “Late Quaternary deep-ocean circulation.” Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, no. 9 (January 1, 1986): 1106–21. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<1106:LQDC>2.0.CO;2.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and L. D. Keigwin. “Eocene-Oligocene paleoceanography.” Mesozoic and Cenozoic Oceans, January 1, 1986, 101–18. https://doi.org/10.1029/gd015p0101.
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    • Keigwin, L. D., and B. H. Corliss. “Stable isotopes in late middle Eocene to Oligocene foraminifera.” Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, no. 3 (1986): 335–45. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<335:SIILME>2.0.CO.
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    • Keigwin, L. D., and B. H. Corliss. “Stable isotopes in late middle Eocene to Oligocene foraminifera.” Geological Society of America Bulletin 97, no. 3 (1986): 335–45. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1986)97<335:SIILME>2.0.CO;2.
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    • Thunell, R. C., and B. H. Corliss. “Late eocene-early oligocene carbonate sedimentation in the deep sea.” Developments in Palaeontology and Stratigraphy 9, no. C (January 1, 1986): 363–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0920-5446(08)70140-7.
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    • Thunell, R. C., and B. H. Corliss. “Late Eocene-early Oligocene carbonate sedimentation in the deep sea.” Terminal Eocene Events, 1986, 363–80.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Microhabitats of benthic foraminifera within deep-sea sediments.” Nature 314, no. 6010 (December 1, 1985): 435–38. https://doi.org/10.1038/314435a0.
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    • Corliss, B. H., M. P. Aubry, W. A. Berggren, J. M. Fenner, L. D. Keigwin, and G. Keller. “The Eocene/Oligocene boundary event in the deep sea.” Science 226, no. 4676 (January 1, 1984): 806–10. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.226.4676.806.
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    • Keigwin, L. D., B. H. Corliss, E. R. M. Druffel, and E. P. Laine. “High resolution isotope study of the latest deglaciation based on Bermuda Rise cores.” Quaternary Research 22, no. 3 (1984): 383–86.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Distribution of Holocene deep-sea benthonic foraminifera in the southwest Indian Ocean.” Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers 30, no. 2 (1983): 95–117.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Quaternary circulation of the Antarctic circumpolar current.” Deep Sea Research Part A, Oceanographic Research Papers 30, no. 1 (1983): 47–61.
    • Corliss, B. H., and R. C. Thunell. “Carbonate sedimentation beneath the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the late Quaternary.” Marine Geology 51, no. 3–4 (1983): 293–326.
    • Corliss, B. H., and R. C. Thunell. “Carbonate sedimentation beneath the Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( Indian Ocean).” Antarctic Journal of the United States 18, no. 5 (1983): 141–42.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Linkage of North Atlantic and Southern Ocean deep-water circulation during glacial intervals.” Nature 298, no. 5873 (1982): 458–60. https://doi.org/10.1038/298458a0.
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    • Corliss, B. H., A. S. Hunt, and L. D. K. Jr. “Benthonic foraminiferal faunal and isotopic data for the postglacial evolution of the Champlain Sea.” Quaternary Research 17, no. 3 (1982): 325–38.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Deep-sea benthonic foraminiferal faunal turnover near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary.” Marine Micropaleontology 6, no. 3 (1981): 367–84.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Quaternary paleocirculation of the Antarctic circumpolar current.” Antarctic Journal of the United States 16, no. 5 (1981): 122–24.
    • Corliss, B. H., and J. D. Milliman. “The use of phillipsite in test construction of agglutinated deep- sea benthonic foraminifera.” Sedimentology 28, no. 3 (1981): 401–6.
    • Graham, D. W., B. H. Corliss, M. L. Bender, and L. D. K. Jr. “Carbon and oxygen isotopic disequilibria of recent deep-sea benthic foraminifera.” Marine Micropaleontology 6, no. 5–6 (1981): 483–97.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Recent deep-sea benthonic for aminiferal distributions in the southeast Indian Ocean: Inferred bottom-water routes and ecological implications.” Marine Geology 31, no. 1–2 (1979): 115–38.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Quaternary Antarctic Bottom-Water history: Deep-sea benthonic foraminiferal evidence from the southeast Indian Ocean.” Quaternary Research 12, no. 2 (1979): 271–89.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Response of deep-sea benthonic foraminifera to development of psychrosphere near Eocene/ Oligocene boundary.” Antarctic Journal of the United States 14, no. 5 (1979): 132–34.
    • Corliss, B. H. “Response of deep-sea benthonic Foraminifera to development of the psychrosphere near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary [9].” Nature 282, no. 5734 (1979): 63–65. https://doi.org/10.1038/282063a0.
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    • Corliss, B. H., and C. D. Hollister. “Cenozoic sedimentation in the central North Pacific [11].” Nature 282, no. 5740 (1979): 707–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/282707a0.
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    • Corliss, B. H. “Late pleistocene paleoclimatology: Planktonic foraminiferal analyses of sediment cores from the central North Atlantic.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 18, no. 1 (1975): 45–61.

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