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2026

Utter, B., 2026. Theodore Burr and the Bridging of Early America: The Man, Fellow Bridge Builders, and Their Forgotten Timber Spans by Ronald G. Knapp and Terry E. Miller (review) . New York History 106doi:10.1353/nyh.2025.a983877

Hart, J., Dotzel, K.M., Winchell-Sweeney, S., 2026. Extending Maize Isotopic Evidence for Pre-contact Indigenous Agronomy to the Middle Connecticut River Valley, Connecticut, USA. Journal of Field Archaeology 51, 112-123. doi:10.1080/00934690.2025.2577501

Valley, J., Blum, T., Kitajima, K., Shimizu, K., Spicuzza, M., Gonzalez, J., Kita, N., A., Bauer, Sobolev, S., Jain, C., Cavosie, A., Sobolev, A., 2026. Contemporaneous mobile- and stagnant-lid tectonics on the Hadean Earth.. Nature 650, 636–641. doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10066-2

Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2026. Middle Cambrian (Drumian) trilobites and agnostid arthropods from the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian New Brunswick: bracketing the green–black facies boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 63, 1-19. doi:10.1139/cjes-2024-0154

Kaishian, P., Schmidt, R., Kiviat, E., 2026. Laboulbenia variabilis Thaxt. (Fungi: Ascomycota): A New Vouchered Species Record for New York from the Carabid Beetle Oodes amaroides Dejean. Northeastern Naturalist 32, N82-N85. doi:10.1656/045.032.0409

LaGreca, S., Phillips, L., Medeiros, I., Allen, J., Lendemer, J., 2026. Updates and Additions to the Lichen Checklist of Mount Mitchell State Park, North Carolina, with Conservation Proposals for Five Rare Species. Castenea 90, 89-108. doi:10.2179/0008-7475.90.2.89

, 2026. Clinton's Ditch: The Birth of the Erie Canal 1825, in: Dearstein, B. (Ed.), Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social ChangeSUNY Press, Albany. pp. 49-68.

Torres-Cruz, T., Kaishian, P., Sformo, T., Hopson, W., Gómez-Zapata, P., Aime, C., 2026. New records of willow rust caused by Melampsora laricis-epitea in Alaska, USA and on Salix atrocinerea in Spain. Plant Health Progress doi:https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-10-25-0237-BR

Howland, J., Boggess, L., Lendemer, J., 2026. Karinomyces (Pilocarpaceae), a new genus for the Appalachian endemic Schadonia saulskelleyana. The Bryologist 129, 004–022 . doi:10.1639/0007-2745-129.1.004

, 2026. The Stonewall Uprising and the Fight for Gay Rights, 1969, in: Dearstein, B. (Ed.), Revolutionary New York: 250 Years of Social ChangeSUNY Press, Albany. pp. 229-242.

Lendemer, J., Mayrhofer, H., Morse, C., Scott, P., 2026. Studies in Lichens and Lichenicolous Fungi–No. 24: First reports of Thelenella vezdae from North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 25, 38-44.

Witherspoon, C., Lendemer, J., 2026. Noteworthy Records of Three Usnea Species from the New York Adirondacks. Evansia 42, 69-81. doi:10.1639/0747-9859-42.4.69

Ore, M., Butcher, B., Akresh, M., Kirchman, J., Ralston, J., Ruhkl, P., Toews, B., Lovette, I., Walsh, J., 2026. Signals of corresponding genetic diversity loss in four warbler species exhibiting regional or range-wide declines. BMC Biology 25, 5. doi:10.1186/s12915-025-02478-3

Schmidt, R., Sinnott, D., Wright, J., 2026. First Record of Pink Wormfish, Microdesmus longipinnis (Pisces: Microdesmidae) in the Hudson River Estuary. Northeastern Naturalist 32, N86-N88. doi:10.1656/045.032.0410

2025

Bicknell, R.D.C., Goodman, A., Laibl, L., Amati, L., 2025. Novel evidence for the youngest Naraoia and a reassessment of naraoiid paleobiogeography. Fossil Record 28, 115–124. doi:10.3897/fr.28.150343

Landing, E., Schmitz, M.D., Westrop, S.R., Geyer, G., 2025. U-Pb volcanic zircon dates from New Brunswick constrain the Middle Cambrian Drumian Stage and trans-Avalonian green–black boundary. Geological Magazine 162, e25. doi:10.1017/S0016756825100137

Eastham, L.C., Feranec, R., 2025. Examining potential drivers of variation in the carbonate-collagen stable carbon isotope offset of modern and Late Pleistocene ungulates from C3-dominant ecosystems. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 674, 113014. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113014

Cardinal, J.S., Loughmiller-Cardinal, J., 2025. The Foundations of Culture and Social Information. Heritage 8, 386. doi:10.3390/heritage8090386

Hodkinson, B.P., Lendemer, J., 2025. Next-generation sequencing reveals sterile crustose lichen phylogeny. Microsphere 4, 1028–1039. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/4/6/1

Gonzalez, J., Mazzucchelli, M., Thomas, J., Angel, R., Darling, R., Atchinson, K., Gilio, M., Alvaro, M., 2025. Elastic thermobarometry of natural and experimental quartz inclusions in garnet (QuiG) under tension. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 180, 70.

Hart, J., Birch, J., Gates-St-Pierre, C., Dermarker, S., 2025. Smoking Pipes as Indicators of Sociopolitical Changes in Huron-Wendat Social Networks. American Antiquity 90, 467–486. doi:10.1017/aaq.2025.1

Evankow, A., Howland, J., Lendemer, J., Munshi-South, J., 2025. Urban lichens as an emerging model for urban evolution.. American Journal of Botany 112, e70140. doi:10.1002/ajb2.70140

Adrian, J.D., Westrop, J., Landing, E., Karim, T.S., Losso, S.R., Ng, R.Y., Bradley, A.B., Perez-Peris, F., 2025. Trilobite biostratigraphy of the upper Skullrockian Stage (Lower Ordovician; lower Tremadocian) on the northern Laurentian margin, western United States. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 397–432.

McCain, C., Manzitto-Tripp, E., Vagle, G., Lendemer, J., 2025. The importance of tree diversity and other abiotic and biotic drivers of lichen species richness in a threatened and mountainous biodiversity hotspot. The Bryologist 128, 522-540. doi:10.1639/0007-2745-128.3.522

Geyer, G., Landing, E., 2025. Lower Cambrian (Stage 3–4) of NW Africa: West Gondwanan bio- and lithostratigraphy of Stage 4 in the Moroccan Atlas ranges, with evaluation of global Stage 4. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften doi:10.1127/zdgg/2025/0478

Landing, E., 2025. Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by J.J. Álvaro and A. Mills, Sedimentology (71, 1245–1269). Sedimentology doi:10.1111/sed.13253

Utter, B., 2025. A Few Important Words Written in Stone: Erie Canal Marble Capstone from the Lockport Flight. New York History 106, 121-127. doi:10.1353/nyh.2025.a969504

Malinky, J.M., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Oliver, N., 2025. Hyoliths from the Manuels River Formation, middle Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, upper Wuliuan–Drumian) of Avalonian southeastern Newfoundland. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften doi:10.1127/zdgg/2025/0470

Gonzalez, J., Kitajima, K., Blum, T.B., Shimizu, K., Almeev, R.R., Nachlas, W.O., Kamo, S.L., Sobolev, A.V., Holtz, F., Spicuzza, M.J., Bonamici, C., Valley, J.W., 2025. The effects of experimental heating and alteration on melt inclusions in magmatic zircon.

Saul, Gwendolyn, 2025. Museums and Policy. Practicing Anthropology , 1 - 2. doi:10.1080/08884552.2025.2458552

Kaishian, P., 2025. Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature. Spiegel & Grau, New York.

Hart, J., 2025. The effects of charring on sunflower (Helianthus annuus L) achenes and kernels: Taphonomic and behavioral implications. PLOS ONE 20, e0326159. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0326159

Adams, M., McCabe, T., 2025. Nomenclatorial novelties of the genus Leucania Ochsenheimer, 1816 that occur in Central America (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) . SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 50, 217–231. doi:10.57065/shilap.1047

Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2025. Revision of Middle Cambrian trilobites and agnostids from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, reveals a Guzhangian faunal interval in the Avalonian cover sequence. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2025-0020

Huygh, J., Alego, T., Sageman, B., Arts, M., Ver Straeten, C., Over, D., Gerord, J., Sablon, L., Crucifix, M., Da Silva, A.-C., 2025. Astronomical control on marine anoxia during the Kellwasser Crisis and Rhinestreet Event (Appalachian Basin, New York, USA). Global and Planetary Change , 105216.

Waters, D.P., Struwe, L., Lendemer, J., 2025. The lichens and allied fungi of Wickecheoke Creek Preserve, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, USA: A baseline pre–Hurricane Ida. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society doi:https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-24-00049.1

Blazquez-Orta, R, Rodríguez, L., Gonzalez, M.M., Estaca-Gomez, V., De Gaspar, I., Feranec, R., Carretero, J.M., Arsuaga, J.L., García, N., 2025. Dogs from the past: Exploring morphology in mandibles from Iberian archaeological sites using 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57, 104660. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104660

Taché, K., Tremblay, R., Lucquin, A., Admiraal, M., Hart, J., Craig, O., 2025. Farmers with a Taste for Fish: New Insights into Iroquoian Foodways at the Dawson Site. American Antiquity 90, 157-173. doi:10.1017/aaq.2024.51

Landing, E., Schmitz, M., Westrop, S., Geyer, G., 2025. New Middle Cambrian (Drumian) U-Pb age of Cape Breton Island volcanism and Cambrian–lowest Ordovician stratigraphic reevaluation confirm the Bourinot belt (southern “Bras d’Or terrane”) is Avalonian. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2025-0044

Lothrop, J., Hewitt, J.B., Winchell-Sweeney, S., Hubbell, R., 2025. Dunraven: An Ice Age encampment in the Catskill Mountains of New York. The Bulletin: Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 139, 78-97.

Kirchman, J., Feranec, R., Butera, J., vonHoldt, B., 2025. A Remarkable Specimen Record of an Apparently Wild Gray Wolf (Canis lupus) from Upstate New York. Northeastern Naturalist 38, 455-471. doi:10.1656/045.032.0310

Hollocher, K., Forgeng, H., Stack, K., Morgan, E., Lott, E., Denny, A., 2025. Origin of big garnet amphibolites at Gore Mountain and other localities, Adirondack Mountains, New York State, USA: Whole-rock geochemical constraints. Geosphere doi:10.1130/GES02812.1

Farrell, T.P., Cothren, H.R., Sundberg, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Dehler, C.M., Landing, E., Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Hagadorn, J.W., 2025. Revising the late Cambrian time scale and the duration of the SPICE event using a novel Bayesian age modeling approach. Geological Society of America Bulletin doi:10.1130/B37919.1

Westrop, S.R., Amati, L., Vargas-Parra, E.E., 2025. Upper Ordovician (Sandbian–Katian) species of the trilobite Calyptaulax Cooper 1930 (Pterygometopidae) from the central United States and Canada. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 221–250.

Landing, E., 2025. The Bakken Model: Deposition of Organic-Rich Mudstones and Petroleum Source Rocks as Shallow-Marine Facies Through the Phanerozoic . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, 895. doi:10.3390/jmse13050895

Quinn, K., Lemak, J., 2025. Margery Ryerson: Art is Contagious. New York State Museum CircularThe University of the State of New York, Albany.

Pegan, T.M., Kimmitt, A., Benz, B., Weeks, B.C., Aubry, Y., Burg, T.M., Hudon, J., Jones, A.W., Kirchman, J., Ruegg, K.C., Winger, B.M., 2025. Long-distance seasonal migration to the tropics promotes genetic diversity but not gene flow in boreal birds. Nature Ecology & Evolution doi:10.1038/s41559-025-02699-3

Bicknell, R.D.C., Smith, P.M., Amati, L., Hopkins, M.J., 2025. Abnormal trilobites from the Silurian and Devonian of Europe. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 70, 205–212. doi:10.4202/app.01229.2024

2024

Quinn, K., 2024. The Historic Woodstock Art Colony: The Arthur A. Anderson Collection. Excelsior EditionsSUNY Press, Albany, New York.

Noble, A., 2024. Henry Johnson: Ballad of a Forgotten Hero by Rachel Lynett (review). New York History 104, 210 - 213. doi:10.1353/nyh.2024.a934344