Publications

*students and post-docs

Gabriela A. Farfan, Amy Apprill, Anne Cohen, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Jeffrey E. Post, Rhian G. Waller,Colleen M. Hansel. Crystallographic and chemical signatures in coral skeletal aragonite. Nature Communications,under review

*Rivera Hanny, Cohen L. Anne, Baums Iliana, Thompson Janelle. Extreme reefs yield thermally tolerant corals that maintain bleaching resistance in new habitats. Under revision

C. Reid, S. J. Lentz, T. M. DeCarlo, A. L. Cohen, and K. A. Davis. Physical processes determine spatial structure in water temperature and residence time on a wide reef flat. JGR Oceans, under review

Weifu Guo, Rohit Bokade, Anne L Cohen, Nathaniel R Mollica, Muriel Leung, and Russell E Brainard. Ocean Acidification has Impacted Coral Growth on Indo-Pacific Reefs, Geophysical research Letters, under revision.

J. Lentz, Anne L. Cohen, Kathryn E. F. Shamberger, Hannah Barkley. Observations and a Model of Net Calcification Declines in Palau’s Largest Coral Reef Lagoon between 1992 and 2015, JGR Oceans in press

Doo S, Kaeloha A, Andersson AJ, Cohen A, Hicks TL, et al. (2020) The challenges of detecting and attributing ocean acidification impacts on marine ecosystems. ICES J. Mar. Sci. doi: 10.1093/icesjms/fsaa094

Davis, K. A., Arthur, R. S., Reid, E. C., Rogers, J. S., Fringer, O. B., DeCarlo, T. M., & Cohen, A. L. ( 2020). Fate of internal waves on a shallow shelf. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 125, e2019JC015377. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015377

* Sims, Z.C., Cohen, A.L., Luu, V.H. et al. (2020) Uptake of groundwater nitrogen by a near shore coral reef community on Bermuda. Coral Reefs 39: 215. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01879-5

Vargas-Angel, Bernardo & Huntington, Brittany & Brainard, Russell & Venegas, Roberto & Oliver, Thomas & Barkley, Hannah & Cohen, Anne. (2019). El Niño-associated catastrophic coral mortality at Jarvis Island, central Equatorial Pacific. Coral Reefs. 10.1007/s00338-019-01838-0.

*Rodriguez, L. G., Cohen, A. L., Ramirez, W. , Oppo, D. W., Pourmand, A. , Edwards, R. L., Alpert, A. E. and Mollica, N. (2019), Mid‐Holocene, Coral‐Based Sea Surface Temperatures in the Western Tropical Atlantic. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34: 1234-1245. doi:1029/2019PA003571

*Nathaniel R. Mollica, Anne L. Cohen, Celina Scott-Beuchler, Elizabeth Drenkard, Hanny E. Rivera, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Randi D. Rotjan, Andrew Solow, Russell E. Brainard, George Lohmann, Charles Young, Hannah C. Barkley, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Alice Alpert, Jessica Carilli, Kathryn Pietro. Coral Reefs (2019). Skeletal records of bleaching reveal different thermal thresholds of Pacific coral reef assemblages. Coral Reefs. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01803.

Reid, E. C., DeCarlo, T. M., Cohen, A. L., Wong, G. T., Lentz, S. J., Safaie, A. , Hall, A. and Davis, K. A. (2019), Internal waves influence the thermal and nutrient environment on a shallow coral reef. Limnol Oceanogr. doi:1002/lno.11162

*Barkley, Hannah C., Anne L. Cohen, Russell E. Brainard, Nathaniel R. Mollica, Hanny E. Rivera, Elizabeth J. Drenkard, Charles W. Young, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, Pat Lohmann, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Alice E. Alpert, Kevin C. Lino, Thomas A. Oliver, Victoria H. Luu (2018). Repeat bleaching of a central Pacific coral reef over the past six decades (1960–2016) Nature Communications Biology volume1, Article number: 177

*Wang, Xingchen Tony, Anne L. Cohen, Victoria Luu, Haojia Ren, Zhan Su, Gerald H. Haug, Daniel M. Sigman (2018) Natural forcing of the North Atlantic nitrogen cycle in the Anthropocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2018, 115 (42) 10606-10611; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801049115

*Drenkard, E. J., Cohen, A. L., McCorkle, D. C., de Putron, S. J., Starczak, V. R., & Repeta, D. J. (2018). Juveniles of the Atlantic coral, Favia fragum (Esper, 1797) do not invest energy to maintain calcification under ocean acidification. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2018.07.007

*Mollica, N.R., Weifu Guo, Anne L. Cohen, Kuo-Fang Huang, Gavin L. Foster, Andy Solow (2018), Ocean Acidification Impedes Coral Calcification by Reducing Skeletal Density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 2018, 201712806; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712806115

Prouty, N. G., Cohen, A., Yates, K. K., Storlazzi, C. D., Swarzenski, P. W., & White, D. (2017). Vulnerability of coral reefs to bioerosion from land-based sources of pollution. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JC013264

*Shamberger K., Lentz, S., Cohen A., (2017) Low and Variable Ecosystem Calcification in a Coral Reef Lagoon under Natural Acidification. Limnology and Oceanography, doi:10.1002/lno.10662

Russell E. Brainard, Thomas Oliver, Michael J. McPhaden, Anne Cohen, Roberto Venegas, Adel Heenan, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, Randi Rotjan, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Elizabeth Flint, Susan A. Hunter (2017) Ecological Impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño in the Central Equatorial Pacific, BAMS DOI:10.1175/BAMS-D-17-0128.1

Pan, Xiaoju, George T. F. Wong, Thomas M DeCarlo; Jen-Hua Tai, Anne L. Cohen. (2017) Validation of satellite nighttime sea surface temperature in the shallow waters at the Dongsha Atoll . Terrestrial, Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (TAO), DOI: 3319/TAO.2017.03.30.01

Gonneea, M., Cohen, A.L., DeCarlo T.M. and Charette, M. Relationship between water and aragonite barium concentrations in aquaria reared juvenile corals. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.04.006

Ren Haojia, Yi-Chi Chen, Xingchen T. Wang, George T.F. Wong, Anne Cohen, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Mira A. Weigand, Horng-Sheng Mii, and Daniel M. Sigman (2017).  21st Century Rise in Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition on a Remote Coral Reef, Science https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal38699)

*DeCarlo T.M. and Cohen A.L. (2017) The origin of density banding in Porites coral skeletons. Coral Reefs, doi:10.1007/s00338-017-1566-9

*DeCarlo, T.M., Cohen, A.L. et al., (2017) Mass coral mortality under local amplification of 2 °C ocean warming. Scientific Reports, 7, 44586; doi: 10.1038/srep44586 (2017)

*Alpert, A. E., L. Cohen, D. W. Oppo, T. M. DeCarlo, G. A. Gaetani, E. A. Hernandez-Delgado, A. Winter, and M. E. Gonneea (2017), 20^th century warming of the tropical Atlantic captured by Sr-U paleothermometry, Paleoceanography, 32, doi:10.1002/2016PA002976.

*DeCarlo, T. M., L. Cohen, G. T. F. Wong, F.-K. Shiah, S. J. Lentz, K. A. Davis, K. E. F. Shamberger, and P. Lohmann (2017), Community production modulates coral reef pH and the sensitivity of ecosystem calcification to ocean acidification, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JC012326.

Barkley Hannah C., Anne L. Cohen, Daniel C. McCorkle, Yimnang Golbuu (2017), Mechanisms and thresholds for pH tolerance in Palau corals, Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 489, doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2017.01.003.

*Barkley H.C. and Cohen, A.L. (2016) Skeletal records of community-level bleaching in Porites corals on Palau, Coral Reefs, 10.1007/s00338-016-1483-3

*DeCarlo, T. M., G. A. Gaetani, L. Cohen, G. L. Foster, A. E. Alpert, and J. A. Stewart (2016), Coral Sr-U thermometry, Paleoceanography, 31, doi:10.1002/2015PA002908.

# Wang, X. T., M. Sigman, A. L. Cohen, D. J. Sinclair, R. M. Sherrell, K. M. Cobb,D. V. Erler, J. Stolarski, M. V. Kitahara, H. Ren. (2016) Influence of open ocean nitrogen supply on the skeletal δ 15 N of modern shallow-water scleractinian corals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 125-132. (2016) doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.032

Peter J. Edmunds, Steeve Comeau, Coulson Lantz, Andreas Andersson, Cherie Briggs, Anne Cohen, Jean-Pierre Gattuso, John M. Grady, Kevin Gross, Maggie Johnson, Erik B. Muller, Justin B Ries, Sylvie Tambutté, Eric Tambutté, Alex Venn, and Robert C. Carpenter (2016) Integrating the Effects of Ocean Acidification across Functional Scales on Tropical Coral Reefs BioScience, April 6, doi:10.1093/biosci/biw023

Karnauskas, B., A. L. Cohen, and J. M. Gove (2016) Mitigation of Coral Reef Warming Across the Central Pacific by the Equatorial Undercurrent: A Past and Future Divide. Nature Sci. Rep. 6, 21213; doi: 10.1038/srep21213 (2016)

*Alpert, A, Anne L. Cohen, Delia W. Oppo, Jamison M. Gove, and Charles W. Young (2016). Comparison of equatorial Pacific sea surface variability and trends with Sr/Ca records from multiple corals, Paleoceanography, 6 FEB 2016 | DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002897.

Karnauskas, B., A. L. Cohen, and E. J. Drenkard, (2015) Comment on “Equatorial Pacific coral geochemical records show recent weakening of the Walker Circulation” by J.Carilli et al. Paleoceanography, 30(5), 570–574, doi: 10.1002/2014PA002753.

Alin, S.R., R.E. Brainard, N.N. Price, J.A. Newton, Cohen, W.T. Peterson, E.H. DeCarlo, E.H. Shadwick, S. Noakes, and N. Bednaršek. (2015). Characterizing the natural system: Toward sustained, integrated coastal ocean acidification observing networks to facilitate resource management and decision support. Oceanography 28(2):92–107, http://dx.doi.org/​10.5670/oceanog.2015.34.

*Barkley, H.C., Cohen, A.L., Golbuu, Y., Starczak, V.R., Shamberger, K.E.F., and DeCarlo, T.M.  (2015) Changes in coral reef communities across a natural gradient in ocean acidification, Science Advances, 2015;1:e1500328

*DeCarlo T.M, Gaetani G.A., Holcomb M.C. and Cohen A.L. (2015) Experimental determination of factors controlling U/Ca of aragonite precipitated from seawater: implications for interpreting coral skeleton, Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta 162:151–165

*DeCarlo, T.M., L. Cohen, H. C. Barkley, Q. Cobban, C. Young, K. E. Shamberger, R. E. Brainard, Y. Golbuu. (2015) Coral macrobioerosion is accelerated by ocean acidification and nutrients. Geology, 2015; 43 (1): 7 DOI: 10.1130/G36147.1

#Wang, X. T., M. Sigman, A. L. Cohen, D. J. Sinclair, R. M. Sherrell, M. A. Weigand, D. V. Erler, H. Ren. Isotopic composition of skeleton-bound organic nitrogen in reef-building symbiotic corals: A new method and proxy evaluation at Bermuda. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 148, 179-190, (2015). doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2014.09.017

*Shamberger, K. E. F., L. Cohen, Y. Golbuu, D. C. McCorkle,  S. J. Lentz,  and H. C. Barkley (2014), Diverse coral communities in naturally acidified waters of a Western  Pacific Reef, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, doi:10.1002/2013GL058489.

#White, M.M., L.S. Mullineaux, D.C. McCorkle and A.L. Cohen (2014) Elevated pCO₂ during fertilization of the bay scallop Argopecten irradians reduces larval survival but not subsequent shell size, Marine Ecology Progress Series 498:173-186. doi:10.3354/meps10621

Gabitov, R. I., A. K. Schmitt, M. Rosner, K. D. McKeegan, G. A. Gaetani, A. L. Cohen, E. B. Watson, and T. M. Harrison (2011), In situ δ⁷Li, Li/Ca, and Mg/Ca analyses of synthetic aragonites, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q03001, doi:10.1029/2010GC003322.

Saenger, C.S, Z.A. Wang, G.A. Gaetani, A.L. Cohen, J.M. Lough (2013) The influence of Temperature and Vital Effects on Magnesium isotope variability in Porites and Astrangia corals, Chemical Geology 360-361, 105-117

*Drenkard, E., Cohen, A.L., McCorkle D.C., de Putron S.J., Zicht, A., Starzcak, V. (2013) The Impact of Heterotrophic Feeding on the Coral Calcification Response to Ocean Acidification. Coral Reefs, DOI 10.1007/s00338-013-1021-5

*Holcomb, M., Cohen, A.L., McCorkle, D.C. (2013) An evaluation of staining techniques for marking daily growth in scleractinian corals. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 440(126 – 131)

Wang, Zhengrong, Glenn Gaetani, Chao Liu, Anne Cohen. (2013) Oxygen isotope fractionation between aragonite and seawater: Developing a novel kinetic oxygen isotope fractionation model, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Volume 117, 15 September 2013, Pages 232-251, ISSN 0016-7037, 10.1016/j.gca.2013.04.025.

Wang, Z; Hu, P; Gaetani, G; Liu, C; Saenger, C; Cohen, A; Hart, S. (2013) Experimental calibration of Mg isotope fractionation between aragonite and seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 102 p. 113-123

#Kaplan MB, Mooney TA, McCorkle DC, Cohen AL (2013) Adverse Effects of Ocean Acidification on Early Development of Squid (Doryteuthis pealeii). PLoS ONE 8(5): e63714. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0063714

#White MM, McCorkle DC, Mullineaux LS, Cohen AL (2013) Early Exposure of Bay Scallops (Argopecten irradians) to High CO₂ Causes a Decrease in Larval Shell Growth. PLoS ONE 8(4): e61065. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061065

#Derse-Crook, E., Cohen, A.L., Rebolledo-Vieyra, M., Hernandez, L., Paytan., A. (2013) Reduced calcification and lack of acclimatization by coral colonies growing in areas of persistent natural acidification. PNAS, 110(27), 11044-11049. doi/10.1073/pnas.1301589110.

*Vásquez-Bedoya, L. F., L. Cohen, D. W. Oppo, and P. Blanchon (2012), Corals record persistent multidecadal SST variability in the Atlantic Warm Pool since 1775AD, Paleoceanography, doi:10.1029/2012PA002313.

*Holcomb, M., Cohen, A. L., and McCorkle, D. C. (2012) ,An investigation of the calcification response of the scleractinian coral Astrangia poculata to elevated pCO₂ and the effects of nutrients, zooxanthellae and gender, Biogeosciences, 9, 29-39, doi:10.5194/bg-9-29-2012.

Karnauskas, K.B. and Cohen, A.L. (2012), Equatorial refuge amid tropical warming. Nature Climate Change, 2012; DOI: 1038/nclimate1499

#Bednaršek, N, Tarling, GA, Bakker, DCE, Fielding, S, Cohen, A, Kuzirian, A, McCorkle, D, Lézé, B and Montagna, R (2012), Description and quantification of pteropod shell dissolution: a sensitive bioindicator of ocean acidification. Global Change Biology, 18 (7). pp. 2378-2388. ISSN 13541013

De Putron S., McCorkle D.C., Cohen A.L. and Dillon, A. (2011). The impact of seawater saturation state and bicarbonate ion concentration on coral calcification, Coral Reefs, 30(2) 321-328, DOI: 1007/s00338-010-0697-z.

Pandolfi, J.M., Connolly, S.R., Marshall, D.J., Cohen A.L, (2011), Projecting coral reef futures under global warming and ocean acidification, Science, DOI:1126/science.1204794

#Sayani H., Cobb K., Cohen A.L. , Crawford E., Nurhati I., Rose R., Zaunbrecher L (2011), Effects of Diagenesis on Paleoclimate Reconstructions from Modern and Young Fossil Corals, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75 (21) 6361-6373

Gaetani G.A., Cohen A.L., Wang Z.A. and Cruisius, J. (2011), A Rayleigh-based, multi-element approach to coral paleothermometry, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(7) 1920-1932.

*Gabitov, R.I., Schmitt, A.K., Rosner, M., McKeegan, K.D., Gaetani, G.A., Cohen, A.L., Watson, E.B., and Harrison T.M. (2011), In situ δ7Li, Li/Ca, and Mg/Ca analyses of synthetic aragonites, Geophys. Geosyst., 12, Q03001, doi:10.1029/2010GC003322.

*Cantin N.C., Cohen, A.L., Karnauskus K., Tarrant A.M, McCorkle D.C. (2010), Coral growth declines as temperatures rise in the central Red Sea, Science, 2010;329(5989):322-325

Cohen A.L. and Gaetani G.A. (2010), Ion Partitioning and the Geochemistry of Coral Skeletons: Solving the Mystery of the “Vital Effect”. IN: “On partitioning in low temperature aqueous systems: from fundamentals to applications in climate proxies and environmental geochemistry”  Editors: Manolo Prieto and Heather Stoll, European Mineralogical Union, Notes in Mineralogy, Volume 10 Chapter 11, pp 377–397.

*Ries J.B., Cohen A.L. and McCorkle D.C. (2010), The zooxanthellate temperate coral Oculina arbuscula exhibits a nonlinear calcification response to pCO₂-induced ocean acidification. Coral Reefs, DOI 10.1007/s00338-010-0632-3.

*Holcomb M.C., McCorkle D.C., Cohen A.L. (2010), Long-term effects of nutrient and CO₂ enrichment on the temperate coral Astrangia poculata (Ellis and Solander 1786), Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 386 (2010) 27–33

Cohen A.L. and *Holcomb M.C (2009), “Why Corals Care about Ocean Acidification: Uncovering the Mechanism”. IN: The Future of Ocean Biogeochemistry in a High CO₂ World, Editors: Scott Doney, Victoria Fabry, Barney Balch and Richard Feely, Oceanography, 22(4).

*Ries J.B., Cohen A.L. and McCorkle D.C. (2009), Marine calcifiers exhibit mixed responses to CO₂-induced ocean acidification. Geology, no. 12; p. 1131–1134; doi: 10.1130/G30210A.

Cohen A.L., McCorkle D.C., de Putron S., Gaetani G.A., Rose K.A. (2009), Compositional and morphological changes in the skeletons of juvenile corals reared in acidified seawater: insights into the biomineralization response to ocean acidification, Geophys. Geosyst., 10, Q07005, doi:10.1029/2009GC002411.

*Holcomb M.C., Cohen A.L., Gabitov R.I., Hutter J. (2009), Compositional and morphological features of aragonite precipitated experimentally from seawater and biogenically by corals, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta 73: 4166-4179 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2009.04.015

*Saenger C.P., Chang P., Oppo D.W., Cohen A.L. (2009), Tropical Atlantic climate response to low-latitude and extratropical sea-surface temperatures anomalies: a Little Ice Age perspective, Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 36, l11703, doi:10.1029/2009gl038677

*Saenger C.P., Cohen A.L., Oppo D.W., Halley R. and Carilli, J. (2009), Atlantic sea surface temperature trends and variability since 1552, Nature Geoscience, doifinder/10.1038/ngeo552

*Saenger C.P., Cohen A.L., Oppo D.W. and Hubbard D. (2008), Interpreting sea surface temperature from strontium/calcium ratios in Montastrea corals: Link with growth rate and implications for proxy reconstructions, Paleoceanography, Vol. 23, PA3102, doi:10.1029/2007PA001572.

Gabitov RI, Gaetani G.A., Watson EB, Cohen A.L. , Ehrlich HL (2008), Experimental determination of growth rate effect on U6+ and Mg2+ partitioning between aragonite and fluid at elevated U6+ concentration, Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 70, p. 4617-4634.

Cohen, A.L. and Thorrold SR (2007), Recovery of temperature records from slow-growing corals by fine scale sampling of skeletons, Res. Lett., 34, L17706, doi:10.1029/2007GL030967

#Goodkin NF, Hughen KA, Cohen A.L. (2007), Multicoral calibration of Sr/Ca and growth rate to sea surface temperature, Paleoceanography, 22, PA1214, doi:10.1029/2006PA001312.

Cohen A.L., Gaetani G.A., Lundälv T, Corliss BH and George RY (2006), Compositional variability in a cold-water scleractinian, Lophelia pertusa: New insights into “vital effects”, Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q12004, doi:10.1029/2006GC001354.

Gaetani G.A., Cohen A.L. (2006), Element partitioning during precipitation of aragonite from seawater: a framework for understanding paleoproxies, Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70, 4617-4634

#Goodkin N.F., Hughen K.A., Cohen A.L., Smith S.R. (2005), The Little Ice Age at Bermuda from a Growth-Dependent Calibration of Coral Sr/Ca, Paleoceanography, 20, PA4016, doi:10.1029/2005PA001140

*Bond Z.A., Cohen A.L. , Smith S.R., Jenkins W.J.J. (2005), Growth and composition of high-Mg calcite in the skeleton of a Bermudian gorgonian (Plexaurella dichotoma): Potential for paleothermometry, Geophys. Geosyst., 6, Q08010, doi:10.1029/2005GC000911.

Cohen A.L. and Hart S.R. (2004), Deglacial sea surface temperatures of the western tropical Pacific: A new look at old coral, Paleoceanography, 19, PA4031, doi:10.1029/2004PA001084.

Cohen A.L. and Reves-Sohn R.A. (2004), Tidal Modulation of Sr/Ca in a Pacific Reef Coral. Geophysical Research Letters. Vol. 31, No. 16, L16310

Cohen A.L., Smith S.R., McCartney M.S., van Etten J. (2004), How Brain Corals Record Climate: An Integration of Skeletal Structure, Growth and Chemistry in Diploria labyrinthiformis on Bermuda. Marine Ecology Progress Series 271:147-158.

Cleveland R.A., Cohen A.L. , Roy R., Singh H., Szabo T. (2004), Imaging Coral II: Using Ultrasound to Image Coral Skeleton, Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications 5(1): 43 – 61

Cohen A.L. and McConnaughey T.A. (2003), A Geochemical Perspective on Coral Mineralization. In: Biomineralization. Dove PM, Weiner S, deYoreo JJ (Eds) Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 54 pp 151-187.

Cohen A.L., *Owens K.E., Layne G.D., Shimizu N. (2002), The Effect of Algal Symbiosis on the Accuracy of Sr/Ca paleotemperatures from Coral. Science, 296 (5566):331-333

Cohen A.L., Layne G.D., Hart S.R., Lobel P.S. (2001), Kinetic control of skeletal Sr/Ca in a symbiotic coral: implications for the paleotemperature proxy. Paleoceanography, 16(1): 20-26

Cohen A.L. and McCartney M.S. (1999), Seasonally-Resolved records of Oceanic Surface Conditions in Brain Corals from Bermuda.  In: Papers on Atlantic Climate Variability, Atlantic Climate Change Program, Office of Global Programs, NOAA

Cohen A.L. and Hart S.R. (1997), The Effect of Colony Topography on Climate Signals in Coral Skeleton. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 61(18):3905-3912

Hart S.R., Cohen A.L., Ramsay P.B. (1997), Microscale analysis of Sr/Ca and Ba/Ca in Porites. IN: Lessios, H. A., Macintyre, I.G. (eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2:1707-1712

Cohen A.L., Lobel P.S., Tomasky G.L. (1997), A Coral Bleaching Event on Johnston Atoll, north-central Pacific. Biological Bulletin, 193:276-279

Ramsay P.J. and Cohen A.L. (1997), Coral paleoclimatology research on the Southeast African Shelf. IN: Lessios, H. A., Macintyre, I.G. (Eds). Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium 2:1731-1734.

Hart S.R. and Cohen A.L. (1996), Sr/Ca in Corals: An Ionprobe Study of Annual Cycles and Microscale Coherence with Other Trace Elements. Geochemica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60:3075-3084.

Cohen A.L. and Tyson P.D. (1995), Holocene Sea Surface Temperatures on the South Coast of Africa: Implications for Terrestrial Climate and Rainfall.  The Holocene, 5(3):304-312

Schumann E.H., Cohen A.L., Jury M.R. (1995), Coastal sea surface temperature variability along the south coast of Africa and the relation to regional climate.  Journal of Marine Research, 53:231-248

Cohen A.L. (1993), Oceanic Records of Climate Change. News and Views from the Fourth International Conference on Paleoceanography. South African Journal of Science, 89:258-259

Cohen A.L., Parkington J.E., Brundrit G.B., van der Merwe N.J. (1992), A Holocene marine climate record in mollusc shells from the southwest African coast. Quaternary Research 38:379-85

Cohen A.L. and Branch G.M. (1992), Geographic changes in the structure and mineralogy of the shell of Patella granularis along the coast of South Africa: implications for palaeotemperature assessments. Paleoecology, Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimatology

Cohen A.L. (1988) Isotopic and mineralogical variation in the shells of recent marine molluscs from the western Cape coast of South Africa. South African Journal of Science,84(11):917-918