Publications

Sean M. Newby, Jeremy D. Owens, Shane D. Schoepfer, and Thomas J. Algeo. 2021. Transient ocean oxygenation at end-Permian mass extinction onset shown by thallium isotopes. Nature Geoscience Volume 14, Pages 678-683. (PDF)

Lei Xiang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Dong-Xun Yuan, Quan-Feng Zheng, and Hua Zhang. 2021. Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Penglaitan section, South China. Palaeoworld. In press. (PDF)

Úna C. Farrell, Rifaat Samawi, Savitha Anjanappa, Roman Klykov, Oyeleye O. Adeboye, Heda Agic, Anne‐Sofie C. Ahm et al. 2021. The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project. Geobiology (DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12462). (PDF)

Alex G. Lipp, Oliver Shorttle, Erik Sperling, J.J. Brocks, Devon Cole, P. W. Crockford, Lucas Del Mouro, et al.2021. The composition and weathering of the continents over geologic time. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, Volume 7, Pages 21-26. (PDF)

Shane D. Schoepfer and Charles M. Henderson. 2020. Paleogeographic implications of open marine anoxia in the Permian-Triassic Slide Mountain Ocean. SEPM Special Publication: Late Paleozoic Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of Western Pangea. In press.

Lei Xiang, Hua Zhang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Chang-qun Cao, Quan-feng Zheng, Dong-xun Yuan, Yao-feng Cai, Shu-zhong Shen. 2020. Oceanic redox evolution around the end-Permian mass extinction at Meishan, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 544, 109626. (PDF)

Lei Xiang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Hua Zhang, Zhen-wu Chen, Chang-qun Cao, and Shu-zhong Shen. 2020. Deep-water dissolved iron cycling and reservoir size across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Chemical Geology, Volume 541, 119575. (PDF)

Zhong-Qiang Chen, Thomas J Algeo, Shane D Schoepfer. 2019. The Permian–Triassic transition in the eastern Paleo-Tethys and adjacent regions: Environmental and biotic changes in ocean and on land. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,Volume 519, Pages 1-7. (PDF)

Shu-zhong Shen, Jahandar Ramezani, Chang-qun Cao, Jun Chen, Douglas H. Erwin, Lei Xiang, Hua Zhang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Charles M. Henderson, Quan-feng Zheng, Samuel A. Bowring, Yue Wang, Xiang-dong Wang, Dong-xun Yuan, Yi-chun Zhang, Lin Mu, Jun Wang, Ya-sheng Wu. 2018. A sudden end-Permian mass extinction in South China. Geological Society of America Bulletin,Volume 131, Pages 205-223. (PDF)

Lei Xiang, Hua Zhang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Chang-qun Cao, Shu-zhong Shen. 2018. Evolution of primary producers and productivity across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Precambrian Research, Volume 313, Pages 68-77. (PDF)

Zhong-Qiang Chen, Thomas J. Algeo, Yadong Sun, Shane D. Schoepfer. 2017. The Paleozoic-Mesozoic transition in South China: Oceanic environments and life from Late Permian to Late Triassic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 486, Pages 1-5. (PDF)

Shane D. Schoepfer, Thomas S. Tobin, James D. Witts, Robert J. Newton. 2017. Intermittent euxinia in the high-latitude James Ross Basin during the latest Cretaceous and earliest Paleocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 477, Pages 40-54. (PDF)

Amanda L. Godbold, Shane D. Schoepfer, Charles M. Henderson. 2017. Precarious Ephemeral Refugia during the Earliest Triassic. Geology, Volume 45 (7), Pages 607-610. (PDF)

Lei Xiang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Shu-zhong Shen, Chang-qun Cao, Hua Zhang. 2016. Evolution of oceanic uranium and molybdenum reservoir size around the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition at western Zhejiang, South China. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 464, Pages 84-94. (PDF)

Guijie Zhang, Xiaolin Zhang, Dongping Hu, Dandan Li, Thomas J. Algeo, James Farquhar, Charles M Henderson, Liping Qin, Megan Shen, Danielle Shen, Shane Schoepfer, Kefan Chen, Yanan Shen. 2016. Redox chemistry changes in the Panthalassic Ocean linked to the end-Permian mass extinction and delayed Early Triassic biotic recovery. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 114(8), Pages 1806-1810. (PDF)

Hanlie Hong, Qian Fang, Lulu Zhao, Shane Schoepfer, Chaowen Wang, Nina Gong, Zhaohui Li, Zhong-Qiang Chen. 2016. Weathering and alteration of volcanic ashes in various depositional settings during the Permian-Triassic transition in South China: Mineralogical, elemental, and isotopic approaches. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. In Press. (PDF)

Shane D. Schoepfer, Thomas J. Algeo, Peter D. Ward, Kenneth H. Williford, James W. Haggart. 2016. Testing the limits in a greenhouse ocean: Did low nitrogen availability limit marine productivity during the end-Triassic mass extinction? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 451, Pages 138-148. (PDF)

Lei Xiang, Shane D. Schoepfer, Hua Zhang, Dong-xun Yuan, Chang-qun Cao, Quan-feng Zheng, Charles M. Henderson, Shu-zhong Shen. 2015. Oceanic redox evolution across the end-Permian mass extinction at Shangsi, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volume 448, Pages 59-71. (PDF)

Gregory J. Barord, Fredrick Dooley, Andrew Dunstan, Anthony Ilano, Karen N. Keister, Heike Neumeister, Thomas Preuss, Shane Schoepfer, Peter D. Ward. 2014. Comparative Population Assessments of Nautilus sp. in the Philippines, Australia, Fiji, and American Samoa Using Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems. PLoS ONE 9(6): e100799. (LINK)

Shane D. Schoepfer, Charles M. Henderson, Geoffrey H. Garrison, Julien Foriel, Peter D. Ward, David Selby, James C. Hower, Thomas J. Algeo, Yanan Shen. 2013. Termination of a continent-margin upwelling system at the Permian–Triassic boundary (Opal Creek, Alberta, Canada). Global and Planetary Change, Volume 105, Pages 21-35. (PDF)

Shane D. Schoepfer, Charles M. Henderson, Geoffrey H. Garrison, Peter D. Ward. 2012. Cessation of a productive coastal upwelling system in the Panthalassic Ocean at the Permian–Triassic Boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Volumes 313–314, Pages 181-188. (PDF)

Andres Aslan, Karl Karlstrom, William C. Hood, Rex D. Cole, Thomas W. Oesleby, Charles Betton, M. Magdalena Sandoval, Andy Darling, Sam Kelley, Adam Hudson, Bryan Kaproth, Shane Schoepfer, Mary Benage, Rachel Landman. 2008. River incision histories of the Black Canyon of The Gunnison and Unaweep Canyon: Interplay between late Cenozoic tectonism, climate change, and drainage integration in the western Rocky Mountains, in Raynolds, R.G., ed., Roaming the Rocky Mountains and Environs: Geological Field Trips: Geological Society of America Field Guide 10, Pages 175–202. (PDF)

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Conference Abstracts:

Precursors: Environmental Disturbance in the Panthalassic Realm Prior To The TJB – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2018 Annual Meeting – Indianapolis

Did Nitrogen Limitation Control Primary Productivity During Greenhouse Climates? – How Can We Tell? – Invited Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2017 Annual Meeting – Seattle

Porcupine Creek – a Permian-Triassic Boundary Section from the Enigmatic Cache Creek Terrane, British Columbia – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2016 Annual Meeting – Denver

Open Ocean Nitrogen Limitation Preceded the End-Triassic Mass Extinction: Evidence from Haida Gwaii, British Columbia – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2015 Annual Meeting – Baltimore

Marine Environmental Responses to Volcanism in the latest Changhsingian: Evidence from Penglaitan, Guangxi – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2014 Annual Meeting – Vancouver

Nitrogen Limitation and Productivity in the Permian-Triassic Greenhouse Ocean – Poster Presentation: American Geophysical Union 2014 Fall Meeting – San Francisco

Gradients in Nutrient Distribution and Productivity in Northeast Panthalassa across the PTB – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2012 Annual Meeting – Charlotte

Increasing Nitrogen Limitation at the P/Tr Boundary: A Pan-Oceanic Phenomenon? – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting – Minneapolis

Extreme Nitrogen Limitation Corresponds with Marine Extinctions During the Triassic-Jurassic Transition – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2011 Annual Meeting – Minneapolis

Termination of a Productive Upwelling System in Eastern Panthalassa at the P/T Boundary: Evidence from Opal Creek, AB – Oral Presentation: Geological Society of America 2010 Annual Meeting – Denver 

Examination of Gunnison River influences on Cactus Park Lake Beds using Heavy Mineral and Geochemical Analyses – Poster Presentation: American Geophysical Union 2008 Fall Meeting – San Francisco

Quaternary Abandonment and Sedimentary Fill History of Cactus Park and Unaweep Canyon, Uncompahgre Plateau, Colorado – Poster Presentation: Geological Society of America 2007 Annual Meeting – Philadelphia