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Theissen, K.M. and Paces J.B. 2023. Climate-driven mid to late Holocene hydrologic evolution of arid wetlands documented by strontium, uranium, and oxygen isotopes from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Nevada, USA. Quaternary Research, 113, 52-68, DOI: 10.1017/qua.2022.72

Hickson, T.A., Theissen, K.M., and Lamb, M.A. 2022. Microbialites right under our noses: Miocene and modern lakes near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. In, Field Excursions from Las Vegas, Nevada: Guides to the 2022 GSA Cordilleran and Rocky Mountain Joint Section Meeting, GSA Field Guide v.63, DOI: 10.1130/2022.0063(06)

Theissen, K.M., Hickson, T.A., Brundrett, A.L., Horns, S.E., and Lachniet, M.S. 2019. A record of mid- and late Holocene paleohydroclimate from Lower Pahranagat Lake, southern Great Basin. Quaternary Research DOI 10.1017/qua.2019.11 [PDF]

Hickson, T.A., Theissen, K.M., Lamb, M.A., and Frahm, J. 2018. Lower Pahranagat Lake: Modern analogue for extensive carbonate deposition in paleolakes of the Miocene Rainbow Gardens and Horse Spring Formations. Journal of Paleolimnology DOI: 10.1007/s10933-016-9923-1

Ramstack Hobbs, J.M., M.B. Edlund, K.M. Theissen, S.P. Duncanson, and G.R. Houle. 2017. A paleolimnological study in the Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District. Final report submitted to Comfort Lake Forest Lake Watershed District. St.Croix Watershed Research Station, Science Museum of Minnesota, Marine on St. Croix,Minnesota, 55047. http://www.clflwd.org/documents/FinalDRAFTReport_Sept222017.pdf

Ramstack Hobbs, J., Hobbs, W., Edlund, M, Zimmer, K., Theissen, K.M., Hoidal, N., Domine, L., Hanson, M., Herwing, B., and Cotner, J. 2016. The legacy of large regime shifts in shallow lakes. Ecological Applications DOI: 10.1002/eap.1382.


Theissen, K., Thole, J., Hensley, A., Nunez, Y., and Swanson, R., 2025. Paleoenvironmental Histories of Two Northern Icelandic Lakes for the Last Millennium. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 57, No. 6, doi: 10.1130/abs/2025AM-7825

Theissen, K., Urbina, E., Hinz, A., Regan, A. Schrunk, I., and Miko, S., 2024. A geoarchaeological investigation of settlement and land use from a Roman seaside villa, Sveti Klement island, Croatia. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 56, No. 5, doi: 10.1130/abs/2024AM-402525

Theissen, K.M, Hickson, T.A., and Lamb, L.A., 2023. Geoscience research and field methods instruction in the Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge of southern Nevada. GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, 5/17/23 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 4, 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023CD-387626

Poeschl, S., Romfoe, E., Theissen, K.M, Hickson, T.A., and Regan, A. 2023 Towards the calibration of an SEM-EDS system for the analysis of tephra samples at the University of St. Thomas, MN GSA Cordilleran Section Meeting, 5/17/23 Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 4, 2023, doi: 10.1130/abs/2023CD-387581.

Boccignone, L., Theissen, K., Arnold, A., and Tripati, A. 2022. Clumped isotope paleothermometry and paleohydrologic estimates for the Holocene from multiple lacustrine carbonate sources in the Pahranagat Valley, Nevada GSA Cordilleran-Rocky Mtn section meeting.

Edmundson, T. and Theissen, K. 2022. Lake core histories of human impacts on Twin Cities metro area lakes over the last two centuries GSA Cordilleran-Rocky Mtn section meeting.

Lynch, E. and Theissen, K.M. 2020. Bone Lake evaluating past and present ecosystem health. Scholars at the Capitol, St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Capitol Building.

University of St. Thomas Undergraduate Research Award for Faculty, 2017