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• Battle, M., M. Bender, T. Sowers, P. Tans, J. Butler, J. Elkins, J. Ellis, T. Conway, N. Zhang, P. Lang and A. Clarke (1996) Histories of atmospheric gases from the firn at South Pole, Nature, 383, 231-235.
• Bender, M., T. Sowers and E. Brook (1997) Gases in ice cores, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 94, 8343-8349.
• Severinghaus, J., T. Sowers, E. Brook, R. Alley, and M. Bender (1998) Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice, Nature, 391, 141-146.
• Bender, M. L., M. Battle, and R. F. Keeling (1998) The O₂ balance of the atmosphere: a tool for studying the fate of fossil fuel CO₂, Annual Reviews of Energy and Environmental Science, 23, 207-223.
• Steig, E. J., E. J. Brook, J. W. C. White, C. M. Sucher, M. L. Bender, S. J. Lehman, D. L. Morse, E. D. Waddington, and G. D. Clow (1998) Synchronous climate changes in Antarctica and the North Atlantic, Science, 282, 92-95. Download
• Bender, M. and M. Battle (1999) Carbon cycle studies based on the distribution of O₂ in air, Tellus, 51B, 165-169.
• Bender, M., J. Orchardo, M.-L. Dickson, R. Barber, and S. Lindley (1999) In vitro O₂ fluxes compared with 14C production and other rate terms during the JGOFS Equatorial Pacific experiment, Deep-Sea Research, 46, 637-654. Download
• Petit, J. R., J. Jouzel, D. Raynaud, N. I. Barkov, J.-M. Barnola, I Basile, M. Bender, J. Chappellaz, M. Davis, G. Delaygue, V. M. Kotlyakov, M. Legrand, V. Y. Lipenkov, C. Lorius, L. Pepin, C. Ritz, E. Saltzman, and M. Stievenard (1999) Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica, Nature, 399, 429-436. Download
• Butler, J. H., M. Battle, M. L. Bender, S. A. Montzka, A. D. Clarke, E. S. Saltzman, C. M. Sucher, J. P. Severinghaus, and J. W. Elkins (1999) A record of atmospheric halocarbons during the twentieth century from polar firn air, Nature, 399, 749-755. Download
• Luz, B., E. Barkan, M. L. Bender, M. H. Thiemens, and K. A. Boering (1999) Triple isotope composition of atmospheric oxygen as a tracer of biosphere productivity, Nature, 400, 547-551. Download
• Bender, M. L., B. Malaize, J. Orchardo, T. Sowers, and J. Jouzel (1999) High precision correlations of Greenland and Antarctica over the last 100 kyr, pp. 149-164 in Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millenial Timescales, Geophysical Monograph 112, P. Clark, R. Webb and L. Keigwin, Eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington.
• Brook, E. J., S.Harder, J. Severinghaus, and M.Bender (1999) Atmospheric methane and millennial-scale climate change, pp. 165-175 in Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Timescales, Geophysical Monograph 112, P. Clark, R. Webb and L. Keigwin, Eds., American Geophysical Union, Washington.
• Battle, M., M. L. Bender, P. P. Tans, J. W. C. White, J. T. Ellis, T. Conway, R. J. Francey (2000) Global carbon sinks and their variability inferred from atmospheric O₂ and d13C, Science, 287, 2467-2470. Download
• Bender, M. L., M.-L. Dickson, and J. Orchardo (2000) Net and gross production in the Ross Sea as determined by incubation experiments and dissolved O₂ studies, Deep Sea Research Part Ii: Topical Studies In Oceanography , 47, 3141-3158.
• Keller, K. R. D. Slater, M. Bender and R. M. Key (2002) Possible biological or physical explanations for decadal scale trends in North Pacific nutrient concentrations and oxygen utilization, Deep-Sea Research Part II - Topical Studies in Oceanography, 49, 345-362. Download
• Blunier, T., B. Barnett, M. L. Bender and M. B. Hendricks (2002) Biological oxygen productivity during the last 60,000 years from triple oxygen isotope measurements, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 16 (3), art. No. 1029, July-August. Download
• Bender, M. L. (2002) Orbital tuning chronology for the Vostok climate record supported by trapped gas composition, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 204, 275-289. Download
• Bender, M. L. (2003) Climate-biosphere interactions on glacial-interglacial timescales, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, in press. Download
• Battle, M., M. Bender, M. Hendricks, D. T. Ho, R. Mika, G. McKinley, S. Fan, T. Blaine, and R. Keeling (2003) Measurements and models of the atmospheric Ar/N₂ ratio, Geophysical Research Letters, 30 (15), 1786, doi:10.1029/2003GL017411. Download
• Hendricks, Melissa B., Michael L. Bender and Bruce A. Barnett (2004) Net and gross O₂ production in the southern ocean from measurements of biological O₂ saturation and its triple isotope composition, Deep-Sea Research Part I, 51, 1541-1561. Download
• Brook, E. J., J. W. C. White, Annie S. M. Schilla, Michael L. Bender, Bruce Barnett, Jeffery P. Severinghaus, Kedrick C. Taylor, Richard B. Alley, Eric J. Steig (2005) Timing of millennial-scale change at Siple Dome, West Antarctica, during the last glacial period, Quaternary Science Reviews, 24, 1333-1343. Download
• Bender, M. L., D. T. Ho, M. B. Hendricks, R Mika, M. O. Battle, P. P. Tans, T. J. Conway, B. Sturtevant, and N. Cassar (2005) Atmospheric O₂/N₂ changes, 1993-2002: Implications for the partitioning of fossil fuel CO₂ sequestration, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 19, GB4017, doi:10.1029/2004GB002410. Download
• Hendricks, Melissa B., Michael L. Bender, Bruce A. Barnett, Peter Strutton, and Francisco Chavez (2005) The triple oxygen isotope composition of dissolved O₂ in the equatorial Pacific: a tracer of mixing and biological production, Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, 110, C12021, doi:10.1029/2004JC002735. Download
• Suwa, Makoto, Josepth C. von Fischer, Michael L. Bender, Amaelle Landais, and Edward J. Brook (2005) Chronology reconstruction for the disturbed bottom section of the GISP2 and the GRIP ice cores: implications for Termination II in Greenland, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JD006032. Download
• Kaiser, Jan, Matthew K. Reuer, Bruce Barnett, and Michael L. Bender (2005) Marine productivity estimates from continuous oxygen/argon ratio measurements by shipboard membrane inlet mass spectrometry, Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023459. Download
• Battle, Mark, Sara Mikaloff Fletcher, Michael L. Bender, Ralph F. Keeling, Andrew C. Manning, Nicolas Gruber, Pieter P. Tans, Melissa B. Hendricks, David T. Ho, Caroline Simons, Robert Mika, and Bill Paplawsky (2006) Atmospheric potential oxygen: New Observations and their implications for some atmospheric and oceanic models of the global oxygen and carbon dioxide cycles, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 20, doi:10.1029/2005GB002534. Download
• Bender, M. L., G. Floch, J. Chappellaz, M. Suwa, J._M. Barnola, T. Blunier, G. Dreyfus, J. Jouzel, and F. Parrenin (2006) Gas age-ice age differences and the chronology of the Vostok ice core, 0-100 ka, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 111, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006488. Download
• Reuer, Matthew K., Bruce A. Barnett, Michael L. Bender, Paul G. Falkowski, and Melissa B. Hendricks (2005) New estimates of Southern Ocean biological production rates from O₂/Ar ratios and the triple isotope composition of O₂, Deep Sea Research, in press.