CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Mark Brenner

Department of Geological Sciences

University of Florida

Gainesville, Florida 32611

Phone: 352-392-2231

FAX: 352-392-9294

e-mail: brenner@ufl.edu

 

Education:

 

Ph.D.: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1983

M.S.: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1978

B.A.: Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, 1973

 

Employment:

 

Department of Geological Sciences, UF, 2000-present.  Assistant Professor & Director, Land Use and Environmental Change Institute (LUECI).

Affiliate Faculty, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2000-present.

Affiliate Faculty, School of Natural Resources and Environment, 1999-present.

Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF, 1996-2000.  Research Assistant Professor.

Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, UF, 1990-1995. Assistant-In Paleolimnology.

Florida Museum of Natural History, UF, 1989-1990. Research Associate.

Soil Science Department, UF, 1988-1989. Research Associate.

Florida State Museum, UF, 1983-1988. Post-Doctoral Research Associate.

 

Dissertation (supervised by Edward S. Deevey):

 

Brenner, M. 1983. Paleolimnology of the Maya region. Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. Florida, Gainesville. 249 pp.

 

Thesis (supervised by Edward S. Deevey):

 

Brenner, M. 1978. Paleolimnological assessment of human disturbance in the drainage basins of three northern Guatemalan lakes. M.S. thesis, Univ. Florida, Gainesville. 128 pp.

 

 

Publications:

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., M. Brenner, W.F. Kenney, T.J. Whitmore, and C.M. Taylor. 2004. Recent eutrophication in the southern basin of Lake Petén Itzá, Guatemala: human impact on a large tropical lake. Hydrobiologia 511:161-172.

 

Hodell, D.A., R.L. Quinn, M. Brenner, and G. Kamenov.  2004.  Spatial variation of strontium isotopes (87Sr/86Sr) in the Maya region: a tool for tracking ancient human migration.  Journal of Archaeological Science 31:585-601.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and W.F. Kenney.  2004.  Inputs of dissolved and particulate 226Ra to lakes and implications for 210Pb dating recent sediments.  Journal of Paleolimnology 32:53-66.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2003.  Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change in the Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. P. 45-75, In A. Gómez-Pompa, M.F. Allen, S.L. Fedick, and J.J. Jiménez-Osornio (eds.), The Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface.  Haworth Press, Inc., New York.

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J. H. Curtis, and T. P. Guilderson. 2002. A 4000-year lacustrine record of environmental change in the southern Maya lowlands, Peten, Guatemala. Quaternary Research 57:183-190.

 

Kenney, W., M. N. Waters, C.L. Schelske, and M. Brenner.  2002.  Sediment records of phosphorus-driven shifts to phytoplankton dominance in shallow Florida lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:367-377.

 

Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J. H. Curtis.  2002. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands: long-term perspectives on interactions among climate, environment, and humans.  Ancient Mesoamerica 13:141-157.

 

Popenoe de Hatch, E. Ponciano, T. Barrientos Q., M. Brenner, and C. Ortloff.  2002.  Climate and technological innovation at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala. Ancient Mesoamerica 13:103-114.

 

Brenner, M., Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, and J. H. Curtis.  2002.  Paleoclima de la región Maya: síntesis del conocimiento basado en registros paleolimnológicos. Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya 10 (Tomo 1):248-261.  Universidad Autónoma de Campeche.

 

Riedinger, M.A., M. Steinitz-Kannan, W.M. Last , and M. Brenner.  2002.  A ~6100 14C yr record of El Niño activity from the Galápagos Islands. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:1-7.

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P. Guilderson. 2002. Influence of vegetation change on watershed hydrology: implications for paleoclimatic interpretation of lacustrine d18O records. Journal of Paleolimnology 27:117-131.

 

Brenner, M., M. F. Rosenmeier, D. A. Hodell, J. H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2002. Limnología y paleolimnología de Petén, Guatemala. Revista Universidad del Valle de Guatemala 12:2-9.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M. Rosenmeier, M.W. Binford, and M.B. Abbott. 2001. Abrupt climate change and pre-Columbian cultural collapse. Pp. 87-103, In V. Markraf (ed.), Interhemispheric Climate Linkages. Academic Press.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J. H. Curtis, and T. P. Guilderson. 2001. Solar forcing of drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. Science 292:1367-1370.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and L.W. Keenan. 2001. Historical rates of sediment and nutrient accumulation in marshes of the Upper St. Johns River Basin, Florida, USA. Journal of Paleolimnology 26:241-257. 

 

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Climate change in the circum-Caribbean (late Pleistocene-to-Present) and implications for regional biogeography.  Pp. 35-54, In C.A. Woods and F.E. Sergile (eds.), Biogeography of the West Indies. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

 

Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, M.W. Binford, and D.A. Hodell. 2001. Historia ecológica de la región Maya.  Pp. 245-247, In, R. Primack, R. Rozzi, P. Feinsinger, R. Dirzo, and F. Massardo, Fundamentos de Conservación Biológica: Perspectivas latinoamericanas.  Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Climate change in the northern American tropics since the last ice age: implications for environment and culture. P. 13-38, In D.L. Lentz (ed.), Imperfect Balance: Landscape transformations in the Precolumbian Americas. Columbia University Press, N.Y.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, Song X., Long R., D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 2000. Sediment records from Qilu Hu and Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China: late Pleistocene to Present. P. 619-624, In E. H. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. R. Kelts (eds.), Lake Basins Through Space and Time, American Association of PetroleumGeologists Studies in Geology 46.

 

Brenner, M., J.S. Smoak, M.S. Allen, C.L. Schelske, and D.A. Leeper. 2000. Biological accumulation of 226Ra in a groundwater-augmented Florida lake. Limnology and Oceanography 45:710-715.

 

Kolata, A.L., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, J.W. Janusek, and C. Ortloff. 2000. Environmental thresholds and the empirical reality of state collapse: a response to Erickson (1999). Antiquity 74:424-426.

 

Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, R. M. Medina-Gonzalez, and B.H. Dahlin. 2000. Un registro de 8,000 años del paleoclima del noroeste de Yucatan, Mexico. Revista de la Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan 213:52-65.

 

Brenner, M., L. Keenan, S.J. Miller, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment and nutrient accumulation in shallow lakes of the upper St. Johns River Basin, Florida. Wetlands Ecology and Management 6:221-240.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.A. Lasi, J. E. Cable, P. H. Cable, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. A multi-proxy trophic state reconstruction for shallow Orange Lake, Florida, USA: possible influence of aquatic macrophytes on limnetic nutrient concentrations. Journal of Paleolimnology 21:215-233.

 

Higuera-Gundy, A., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1999. A 10,300 14C-year record of climate and vegetation change from Haiti. Quaternary Research 52:159-170.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. 1999. Stable isotope (d13C and d15N) signatures of sedimented organic matter as indicators of historic lake trophic state. Journal of Paleolimnology 22:205-221.

 

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, and D. A. Hodell. 1999. Climate change in the Lake Valencia Basin, Venezuela, ~12,600 yr BP to present. The Holocene 9:609-619.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, S.L. Kanfoush, J.H. Curtis, J.S. Stoner, Song X., Wu Y., and T.J. Whitmore. 1999. Paleoclimate of southwestern China for the past 50,000 yr inferred from lake sediment records. Quaternary Research 52:369-380.

 

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, D. A. Hodell, R. A. Balser, G. A. Islebe, and H. Hooghiemstra. 1998. A multi-proxy study of Holocene environmental change in the Maya Lowlands of Peten, Guatemala. Journal of Paleolimnology 19:139-159.

 

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, and B.H. Dahlin. 1998. Cultural and climatic history of Cobá, a lowland Maya City in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Quaternary Research 49: 111-122.

 

M. Steinitz-Kannan, M.A. Riedinger, W.M. Last, M. Brenner, and M.C. Miller. 1998. Un registró de 6000 años de manifestaciones intensas del fenómeno de El Niño en sedimentos de lagunas de las Islas Galápagos. Bull. Inst. fr. études andines 27:581-592.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and T.J. Whitmore. 1997. Radium-226 stratigraphy in Florida lake sediments as an indicator of human disturbance. Verh. Internat. Verein. Limnol. 26: 809-813.

 

Steinitz-Kannan, M., M. A. Riedinger, W. Last, M. Brenner and M. C. Miller. 1997. Un registro de 6000 años de manifestaciones intensas del fenómeno de El Niño en sedimentos de lagunas de las islas Galápagos. P. 79-88, In Cadier E. and Galarrage R. (Eds.), Seminario Internacional "Consecuencias Climáticas e Hidrológicas del Evento El Niño a Escala Regional y Local". Memorias Técnicas. ORSTOM/ INAMHI.

 

Abbott, M.B., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, and K.R. Kelts. 1997. A 3500 14C yr high-resolution record of water-level changes in Lake Titicaca, Bolivia/Peru. Quaternary Research 47:169-180.

 

Binford, M.W., A.L. Kolata, M. Brenner, J. Janusek, M.T. Seddon, M. B. Abbott, and J.H. Curtis. 1997. Climate variation and the rise and fall of an Andean civilization. Quaternary Research 47:235-148.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, Jiang Z., J.H. Curtis, A.M. Moore, D.R. Engstrom, and Wu Y. 1997. Water quality and sediment geochemistry in lakes of Yunnan Province, southern China. Environmental Geology 32:45-55.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and C.L. Schelske. 1996. Highly variable sediment distribution in shallow, wind-stressed lakes: a case for sediment mapping surveys in paleolimnological studies. Journal of Paleolimnology 15:207-221.

 

Islebe, G., H. Hooghiemstra, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell. 1996. A Holocene vegetation history from lowland Guatemala. The Holocene 6:265-271.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.H. Dahlin, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: an interdisciplinary, palaeolimnological approach. The Holocene 6:273-287.

 

Gu, B., C.L. Schelske, and M. Brenner. 1996. Relationships between sediment and plankton isotope ratios (d13C and d15N) and primary productivity in Florida lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:875-883.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, and C.L. Schelske. 1996. Paleolimnological evaluation of historical trophic state conditions in hypereutrophic Lake Thonotosassa, Florida, USA. Hydrobiologia 331:143-152.

 

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, and M. Brenner. 1996. Climate variability on the Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) during the past 3500 years, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Quaternary Research 46:37-47.

 

Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and B.W. Leyden. 1996. Paleoecology and Tiwanaku Ecosystems. P. 89-108, In A. Kolata (ed.), Tiwanaku and its Hinterland: Archaeological and Paleoecological Investigations in the Lake Titicaca Basin of Bolivia. Smithsonian Institution Press.

 

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.R. Piperno, and B.H. Dahlin. 1996. A record of long- and short-term climatic variation from northwest Yucatan: Cenote San Jose Chulchaca. P. 30-50, In S.L. Fedick (ed.), The Managed Mosaic: Ancient Maya Agriculture and Resource Use. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

 

Brenner, M. 1995. Comment: A call for paleolimnology studies in the tropics. Journal of Paleolimnology 13:89-92.

 

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, and M. Brenner. 1995. Possible role of climate in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization. Nature 375:391-394.

 

Brenner, M., R. Medina Gonzalez, and C. Zetina Moguel. 1995. Water resources of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico: special concerns and management priorities. Land and Water, November/December: 18-20.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical ecology of a hypereutrophic Florida lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 11:255-271.

 

Brenner, M. 1994. Lakes Salpeten and Quexil, Peten, Guatemala, Central America. Pp. 377-380, In E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts (eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and Song X. 1994. Environmental implications of the late Quaternary diatom history from Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences 17:525-538.

 

Brenner, M., J.H. Curtis, A. Higuera-Gundy, D.A. Hodell, G.A. Jones, M.W. Binford, and K.T. Dorsey. 1994. Lake Miragoane, Haiti (Caribbean). Pp. 403-405, In E. Gierlowski-Kordesch and K. Kelts (eds.), Global Geological Record of Lake Basins, Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, D.R. Engstrom, and Song X. 1994. Accelerated soil erosion in watersheds of Yunnan Province, China. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 49:67-72. (Selected for Honorable Mention Award by the Soil and Water Conservation Society).

 

Brenner, M., A.J. Peplow, and C.L. Schelske. 1994. Disequilibrium between 226Ra and supported 210Pb in a sediment core from a shallow Florida lake. Limnology and Oceanography 39:1222-1227.

 

Schelske, C.L., A. Peplow, M. Brenner, and C.N. Spencer. 1994. Low-background gamma counting: applications for 210Pb dating of sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology 10:115-128.

 

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1994. Orbital and internal forcing of climate on the Yucatan Peninsula for the past ca. 36 ka. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 109:193-210.

 

Song, X., Wu, Y., Jiang, Z., Long, R., Li, B., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, D.R. Engstrom, and A. Moore. 1994. Paleolimnological studies on the limestone district in central Yunnan, China. Yunnan Science and Technology Publishing, Kunming, PRC. 114 p, 10 plates.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.S. Flannery, and M.W. Binford. 1993. Paleolimnological methods for defining target conditions in lake restoration: Florida case studies. Lake and Reservoir Management 7:209-217.

 

Leyden, B.W., M. Brenner, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis. 1993. Late Pleistocene climate in the Central American lowlands. American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 78:165-178.

 

Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and D.R. Engstrom. 1992. Temporal sedimentation patterns in the nearshore littoral of Lago Huiñaimarca. Pp. 27-36, In C. Dejoux and A. Iltis (eds.), Lake Titicaca: A Synthesis of Limnological Knowledge. Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Hague. Spanish - Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and D.R. Engstrom. 1991. Patrones de sedimentación temporal en la zona litoral del Huiñaimarca. Pp. 47-58, In C. Dejoux and A. Iltis (eds.) El Lago Titicaca: síntesis del conocimiento limnológico actual. ORSTOM, Paris.

 

Fisher, M.M., M. Brenner, and K.R. Reddy. 1992. A simple, inexpensive piston corer for collecting undisturbed sediment/water interface profiles. Journal of Paleolimnology 7:157-161.

 

Long R., Li B., M. Brenner, and Song. X. 1991. A study of late Pleistocene to Holocene vegetation in Jilu lake area of central Yunnan. Yunnan Geology 10:105-118.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, B.E. Rood, K.E. Japy. 1991. Deoxygenation of a Florida lake during winter mixing. Limnology and Oceanography 36:577-585.

 

Brenner, M., K. Dorsey, Song X., Wang Z., Long R., M.W. Binford, T.J. Whitmore, and A.M. Moore. 1991. Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China. Hydrobiologia 214:333-340.

 

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, G.A. Jones, A. Higuera-Gundy, M. Brenner, M. W. Binford, and K. Dorsey. 1991. Reconstruction of Caribbean climate change over the past 10,500 years. Nature 352:790-793.

 

Brenner, M., M.W. Binford and E.S. Deevey. 1990. Lakes. Pp. 364-391, In R.L. Myers and J.J. Ewel (eds.), Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando.

 

Brenner, M., B.W. Leyden, and M.W. Binford. 1990. Recent sedimentary histories of shallow lakes in the Guatemalan savannas. Journal of Paleolimnology 4:239-252.

 

Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1989. Resultados de estudios del primer año de la limnología en los ecosistemas de Tiwanaku. Pp. 213-236, In A.L. Kolata (ed.), Arqueología de Lukurmata, Vol. II. Instituto Nacional de Arqueología y Producciones Puma Punku. La Paz, Bolivia.

 

Brenner M., and M.W. Binford. 1988. Relationships between concentrations of sedimentary variables and trophic state in Florida lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 45:294-300.

 

Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1988. Reply to comment by Benoit and Hemond. Limnology and Oceanography 33:304-310.

 

Brenner, M. and M.W. Binford. 1988. A sedimentary record of human disturbance from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. Journal of Paleolimnology 1:85-97.

 

Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, A.M. Moore, M.W. Binford, K.T. Dorsey, Song X., Wang Z., and Hu Z. 1988. Paleolimnology and limnology of Qilu Hu, Tonghai County, Yunnan -preliminary results. Journal of Yunnan University 10 (supplement): 57-62.

 

Moore, A.M., M. Brenner, M.W. Binford, E.S. Deevey, and Ou X. 1988. Field notes on a paleolimnological expedition to five lakes on the Yunnan plateau. Journal of Yunnan University 10 (supplement): 28-36.

 

Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, T.J. Whitmore, A. Higuera-Gundy, E.S. Deevey and B.W. Leyden. 1987. Ecosystems, paleoecology and human disturbance in subtropical and tropical America. Quaternary Science Reviews 6:115-128.

 

Binford, M.W. and M. Brenner. 1986. Dilution of 210Pb by organic sedimentation in lakes of different trophic states, and application to studies of sediment-water interactions. Limnology and Oceanography 31:584-595.

 

Deevey, E.S., M.W. Binford, M. Brenner, and T.J. Whitmore. 1986. Sedimentary records of accelerated nutrient loading in Florida lakes. Hydrobiologia 143:49-53.

 

Brenner, M. and M.W. Binford. 1986. Material transfer from water to sediment in Florida lakes. Hydrobiologia 143:55-61.

 

Brenner, M. 1983. Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake District, Guatemala II. Mayan population density and sediment and nutrient loading of Lake Quexil. Hydrobiologia 103:205-210.

 

Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, and M.W. Binford. 1983. Paleolimnology of the Peten Lake District, Guatemala III. Late Pleistocene and Gamblian environments of the Maya area. Hydrobiologia 103:211-216.

 

Deevey, E.S., M. Brenner, M.S. Flannery, and G.H. Yezdani. 1980. Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab, Peten, Guatemala: Limnology and hydrology. Archiv für Hydrobiologie Supplement 57:419-460.

 

Deevey, E.S., G.B. Deevey, and M. Brenner. 1980. Structure of zooplankton communities in the Peten lake district, Guatemala. Pp. 669-678, In W.C. Kerfoot (ed.), Evolution and ecology of zooplankton communities. Univ. Press New England, Hanover, NH, 793 p.

 

Deevey, E.S., D.S. Rice, P.M. Rice, H.H. Vaughan, M. Brenner, and M.S. Flannery. 1979. Mayan urbanism: Impact on a tropical karst environment. Science 206:298-306.

 

 

Miscellaneous Publications:

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Paleolimnological evaluation of historical trophic state conditions in hypereutrophic Lake Thonotosassa. Florida Lake Management Society Combined Annual Proceedings 1994 & 1995 Conferences. P. 92-109.

 

Brenner, M. 1990. Edward S. Deevey, 1914-1988. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 78:383-385.

 

Rice, P.M., and M. Brenner. 1989. Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., 1914-1988. Society for Archaeological Sciences Bulletin 12:2.

 

Livingstone, D.A., and M. Brenner. 1989. Resolution of Respect: Edward S. Deevey, 1914-1988. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 70:137-140.

 

Brenner, M., and P.M. Rice. 1989. Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., December 3, 1914-November 29, 1988. Radiocarbon 31:iv-viii.

 

Book Reviews:

 

Brenner, M. 1991. Review of S.-O. Ryding and W. Rast (eds.), The Control of Eutrophication of Lakes and Reservoirs, The Parthenon Publishing Group, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ. 314 p. Journal of Environmental Quality 20:498.

 

Reports:

 

Brenner, M., W.F. Kenney, J.H. Curtis, B. Shumate, and B. DeArmond.  2003.  Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in lakes Poinsett and Winder of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, Florida.  78 p.

 

Brenner, M., M.S. Allen, and J.M. Smoak.  2002.  Radium-226 in sediments and biota of groundwater-augmented lakes.  Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 12 p. + tables.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner.  2002.  Paleolimnological characterization of pre-disturbance water quality conditions in EPA-defined Florida Lake Regions.  Final Report for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.  29 p. + tables & appendices.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H Curtis, and W.F. Kenney.  2002.  Investigation of long-term stability and phosphorus accretion by an aquatic system with a long history of submerged aquatic vegetation dominance. Final Report for South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, FL.  42 p.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, and D.A. Hodell.  2002.  Lake Hancock: A Multi-Proxy Reconstruction of Past Trophic State Conditions.  Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 31 p. + tables, figures and appendices.

 

Hornsby, A., C. Arnold, R. Aalberg, M. Brenner, J. Capece, R. Carriker, L. Christenberry, W.D. Graham, W.T. Haller, F.J. Mazzotti, L.R. Parsons, and W. Seaman, Jr. 1999. Water Resources (Quantity and Quality). P. 57-67, In Florida FIRST Base Papers, Focusing IFAS Resources on Solutions for Tomorrow. University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, FL.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1999. Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Water Quality in Lake Persimmon, Highlands County, Florida. Final Report for Highlands County Board of County Commissioners, Highlands Soil and Water Conservation District, Sebring, FL, and Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 59 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historical sediment and nutrient accumulation rates and past water quality in Newnans Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 85 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historical trophic state conditions in the Hillsborough Reservoir. Final report for City of Tampa Water Dept. Engineering Division, Tampa, FL, and the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Historic Ecology of Lakes in the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 71 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1998. Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Water Quality for Lakes Dosson, Halfmoon and Round in Hillsborough County, Florida. Final Report for Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL. 158 p.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1997. Historic water quality assessment of Little Lake Jackson, Highlands County, Florida. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.

 

Brenner, M. 1996. Site selection: selecting lakes and coring sites within lakes. P. 2-1 to 2-4, In, D. Porcella (EPRI Project Manager), Protocol for estimating historic atmospheric mercury deposition. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Final Report TR-106768 3297.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1996. Historical sediment and nutrient accumulation rates and past water quality in Orange Lake. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 121 p.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1996. Sedimentary analyses and historical assessment. Section IX, In, Lake Mariana Diagnostic/Feasibility Study. Southwest Florida Water Management District, Polk County Water Resources Division.

 

Brenner, M. 1996. Bulk sedimentation and nutrient accumulation rates in lakes of the Upper St. Johns River Basin. Final Report for St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 110 p.

 

Brenner, M., and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Historical sedimentation and nutrient storage rates in the Blue Cypress Marsh Conservation Area. Final Report. Special Publication SJ95-SP3, St. Johns River Water Management District, Palatka, FL. 177 p.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1995. Historic water quality assessment of selected lakes in the Winter Haven chain of lakes. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District, Brooksville, FL.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and A.J. Peplow. 1994. Historical sedimentation and nutrient storage rates in the Blue Cypress Marsh Conservation Area, Part I. Final Report prepared for the St. Johns River Water Management District. 

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1994. Assessment of historical changes in water quality and sedimentation rates in Lake Thonotosassa. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 78 p.

 

Whitmore, T.J., and M. Brenner. 1993. Sedimentary analyses and historical assessment of Lake Marianna, Polk Co., Florida. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 100 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Lake Parker Sediments and Historical Ecology. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 49 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Lake Hollingsworth Sediments and Historical Ecology. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 53 p.

 

Brenner, M. and T.J. Whitmore. 1992. Clear Lake sediment mapping and analysis. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 46 p.

 

Brenner, M., M.M. Fisher and K.R. Reddy. 1991. Sediment Mapping and Characterization. In, Lake Maggiore Environmental Assessment Phase II. Final Report prepared by CH2M Hill for the City of St. Petersburg. 41 p + appendix.

 

Brenner, M., and T.J. Whitmore. 1991. Lake Seminole sediment characterization and analysis. Final report prepared for the Southwest Florida Water Management District. 73 p.

 

Brenner, M., and T.J. Whitmore. 1991. Collection and analysis of a sediment core taken from Lake Lucerne. Phase I report to the United States Geological Survey (Tampa Office). 19 p.

 

Reddy, K.R. et al. 1989. Lake Okeechobee phosphorus dynamics study. Biogeochemical processes in sediments. Annual Report prepared for the South Florida Water Management District, West Palm Beach, Florida. 154 p. + appendix.

 

Reddy, K.R., D.A. Graetz, M. Brenner, M.M. Fisher, D. Ivanoff, O. Olila, and C.D. Pollman. 1988. Internal nutrient budget for Lake Apopka. Task 1. Physio-chemical properties of Lake Apopka sediments. Prepared for the St. Johns Water Management District, Palatka, Florida. 125 p.

 

Binford, M.W., M. Brenner, and B.W. Leyden. 1988. Paleolimnology of Tiwanaku Ecosystems: results of second-year studies. Report to Dr. Alan Kolata (University of Illinois at Chicago) for consulting done under NSF Project BNS-8607541. 33 p. + appendix.

 

Binford, M.W., and Mark Brenner. 1987. Results of first-year studies of the limnology of Tiwanaku ecosystems. Report to Dr. Alan Kolata (University of Illinois at Chicago) for consulting done under NSF project BNS-8607541. 25 p. + appendix.

 

Deevey, E.S. and M. Brenner. 1978. Sedimentary history of Spanish Pond. Appendix E, In, L.D. Harris (ed.), El Pantano de los Españoles. 10 p. U.S. Natl. Park Serv. CX 5000041666.

 

 

Abstracts and Papers Presented:

 

Brenner, M.  2004.  Temporal correlation between climate change and the collapse of pre-Columbian cultures: mere coincidence or causal connection?  Presented at the Environmental Science and Policy Seminar Series, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL, 15 February, 2004.  (invited).

 

Brenner, M.  2004.  Water quality – describing what’s up down there. Presented at University of Florida IFAS Aquatic Weed Control Short Course, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 3-7 May, 2004.  (invited).

 

Anselmetti, F. S., D. Ariztegui, M. Brenner, A. Gilli, D. Hodell, and J. A. McKenzie.  2003. 

Seismic stratigraphy of Lago Petén-Itza, Guatemala: Imaging a continental climate archive spanning several glacial-interglacial cycles?  Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Brenner, M.  2003.  Long-term interactions among climate, environment, and human societies in Mesoamerica. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.  (invited plenary address).

 

Curtis, J.H., M. Brenner, D. A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, and M. Popenoe de Hatch.  2003.  Lake Amatitlán: a high-resolution archive of late Holocene environmental conditions in the Guatemalan highlands. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Hillesheim, M.B., D. A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, D.W. Schnurrenberger F.S., Anselmetti, F. S, and D. Ariztegui.  2003.  Sediment cores from Lago Petén-Itza, Guatemala: a site survey for GLAD800 drilling. Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Kenney, W.F., C.L. Schelske, B.C. Shumate, and M. Brenner.  2003.  Multiple paleolimnological proxies provide a consistent signal of the shift from macrophyte dominance to phytoplankton dominance in Lake Apopka, Florida, USA.  Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Last, W.M., N.A. Bryxina, K. Baxter, M. Riedinger, and M. Brenner.  2003.  Mineralogy, geochemistry and event stratigraphy of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galápagos Islands.  Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, and T.P. Guilderson.  2003.  Climate and hydrology of Lake Salpeten, Guatemala inferred from an isotope model Presented at the 3rd International Congress on Limnogeology, Tucson AZ, 29 March-2 April, 2003.

 

Brenner, M.  2003.  Origin and limnology of Florida lakes.  2003.  Presented at University of Florida IFAS Aquatic Weed Control Short Course, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 19-22 May, 2003.  (invited).

 

Kenney, W.F., C.L. Schelske, B.C. Shumate, and M. Brenner.  Sediment records of the recent development of phytoplankton dominance in shallow Florida lakes.  Presented at the 9th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Espoo, Finland, 24-28 August, 2003.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and W.F. Kenney.  2003.  Groundwater pumping irradiates Florida (USA) landscapes and confounds 210Pb dating of recent lake sediments. Presented at the 9th International Paleolimnology Symposium, Espoo, Finland, 24-28

August, 2003.

 

Hodell, D.A., Brenner, M., Curtis, J.H., Medina-Gonzalez, R.M., Rosenmeier, M.F., and Guilderson, T.P.  2002. The Little Ice Age in Mesoamerica. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, Eos Trans. AGU, 83(47), Fall Meeting Supl., Abstract PP61B-10.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Rosenmeier, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, F. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, J. McKenzie, and T. Guilderson. 2001. Human-climate-environment interactions in the Maya lowlands. 21st Symposium in Plant Biology: Lowland Maya Area, Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface. University of California, Riverside, 18-20 January, 2001. (invited).

 

Brenner, M. 2001. Interactions among climate, environment, and humans on the Yucatan Peninsula. Presented at the Ohio State University Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Program on "Humans and climate: a historical examination of adaptive responses to drought and aridification." Ohio State University, Columbus, 1-2 May, 2001. (invited).

 

Brenner, M.  2001.  Bioacumulacion de radio: complicaciones de una medida de remediacion.  Presented (in Spanish) at the Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 16 July, 2001.  (invited).

 

Brenner, M.  2001.  Long-term perspectives on climate, environment and humans in the Maya Lowlands.  Presented at Department of Geology Colloquium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 28 September, 2001.  (invited).

 

Brenner, M.  2001.  Aplicaciones de la paleolimnologia.  Presented (in Spanish) at the Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, 12 November, 2001.  (invited).

 

Brenner, M., M.F. Rosenmeier, D.A. Hodell, and J.H. Curtis.  2001.  Paleoclima de la región Maya: síntesis del conocimiento basado en registros paleolimnológicos.  Presented (in Spanish) at the XI Encuentro Internacional: Los Investigadores de la Cultura Maya.  Universidad Autónoma de Campeche, Campeche, Mexico, 13-16 November, 2001. (invited).

 

Hodell, D.A., J.H. Curtis, M. Brenner, M.F. Rosenmeier, G. Haug, and T. Guilderson.  2001.  Holocene centennial climate variability in the caribbean.  Presented at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America, Boston, MA, 5-8 November, 2001.

 

Brenner, M., J.M. Smoak, W. Kenney, T.J. Whitmore, M.S. Allen, C.L. Schelske, and D.A. Leeper. 2000. Environmental implications of high radium-226 activities in Florida lakes. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Florida Lake Management Society (FLMS 2000), Duck Key, Florida, 22-25 May, 2000.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 2000. Paleolimnological approaches for inferring past climate change inthe Maya region: recent advances and methodological limitations. Presented at the 65th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA, 5-9 April, 2000. (invited).

 

Brenner, M. Long-term perspectives on climate, environment, and culture on the Yucatán Peninsula. 2000. Presented at the 8th International Symposium on Paleolimnology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 20-24 August, 2000. (invited keynote address).

 

Last, W., S. Pooler, R. Belsham, M. Riedinger, M. Brenner, and M. Steinitz-Kannan. 2000. Paleohydrology and paleochemistry of salt lakes of the Galapagos Islands. Presented at the 8th International Symposium on Paleolimnology, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 20-24 August, 2000.

 

Anselmetti, F., D. Ariztegui, M. Rosenmeier, D. Hodell, M. Brenner, T. Guilderson, and J. McKenzie. 2000. Quantifying human-mediated changes in erosion rate and lacustrine sedimentation in the Maya Lowlands. Presented at the Geological Society of America Meeting in Reno, Nevada, 13-16 November, 2000.

 

Leeper, D.A., M.H. Kelly, M. Brenner, J.M. Smoak, W. Kenney, T.J. Whitmore, M.S. Allen, C.L. Schelske, C.M. Teaf, and B.J. Tuovila. 2000. Radium-226 in central Florida lakes: bioaccumulation and environmental risks. Presented at the 20th Meeting of the North American Lakes Management Society, Miami, FL, 8-10 November, 2000.

 

Riedinger, M., T.J. Whitmore, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and A.M. Moore. 2000. Sedimented algal pigment profiles from Florida lakes: algal community responses to eutrophication. Presented at the 20th Meeting of the North American Lakes Management Society, Miami, FL, 8-10 November, 2000.

 

Abbott, M, R. Aravena, M. Binford, M. Brenner, D. Rodbell, G. Seltzer, A. Wolfe, and B. Wolfe. 2000. The late Holocene moisture balance of the Bolivian/Peruvian Altiplano: a comparison of the timing of climatic and cultural changes. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December, 2000.

 

Hodell, D.A., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and T.P. Guilderson. 2000. Drought frequency in the Maya lowlands. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December, 2000.

 

Smoak, J. M., M. Brenner, M.S. Allen, D.A. Leeper, C.M. Teaf, and B.J. Tuovila. 2000. Elevated Radium-226 in Florida lakes. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December, 2000.

 

Rosenmeier, M., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, J.B. Martin, F.S. Anselmetti, D. Ariztegui, and T.P. Guilderson. 2000. A 3500 year record of climate change and human disturbance from the southern Maya lowlands, Peten, Guatemala. Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 15-19 December, 2000.

 

Cable, J.E., Smoak, J.M., C.L. Schelske, and M. Brenner. 1999. Beryllium-7 as an indicator of lake sediment mixing. . Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1-5 February, 1999.

 

Brenner, M. 1999. Cambios climaticos y las culturas precolombinas. Presented (in Spanish) at the conference "Perspectivas historicas y etnograficas sobre humanos y el ambiente," Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 8-11 March, 1999. (invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1999. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands and Andean Altiplano: insights into past climate, environment, and culture. Presented at the Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 8 April, 1999. (invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1999. Paleolimnology of the Maya Lowlands and Andean Altiplano: insights into past climate, environment, and culture. Presented at the Department of Biology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 9 April, 1999. 

 

Anselmetti, F.S., D. Ariztegui, J.A. McKenzie, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, and M.F. Rosenmeier. 1999. High-resolution seismic survey of the Petén Lake District, northern Guatemala: implications for human disturbance and Maya cultural evolution. Presented at the Commission of Oceanography and Limnology (COL/KOL) Annual Symposium, "Looking into the Sediment Subsurface of Lakes," Switzerland, 7-8 October, 1999.

 

Huang, Y., M. Moreland, M. Brenner, and K. Freeman. 1999. Influence of aridity and atmospheric CO2 concentration on the distribution of C3 and C4 plants - evidence from molecular and carbon isotopic studies of lake sediment cores from Mesoamerica. To be presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, J.H. Curtis, M.F. Rosenmeier, F.S. Anselmetti, and D. Ariztegui. 1999. Limnología en El Petén: problemas y perspectivas. Presented (in Spanish) at the conference "Nuevas Perspectivas de Desarrollo Sostenible en Peten," organized by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) Guatemala, and the Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas (CONAP), Flores, Guatemala, 2-4 December, 1999. (invited).

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and K. Kolasa. 1999. Diversified historic responses of Florida lakes to agriculture and urbanization: implications for lake restoration programs. Presented at the 19th International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society (Water: 21st Century Gold), Reno, Nevada, 1-4 December, 1999.

 

Brenner, M. 1998. Neotropical climate change since the last ice age: ecological and cultural implications. Center for Wetlands, University of Florida, Gainesville, 14 January, 1998.

 

Brenner, M. 1998. Opportunities for field study abroad. Ethnobotany Society Brown Bag Lunch. University of Florida, Gainesville, 26 February, 1998.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, and M.B. Abbott. 1998. Environmental determinism revisited: climatic limits on cultural development. Presented at PEP 1 (Pole-Equator-Pole) Meeting, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998. (invited).

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 1998. Late Holocene climate variability in Central America: evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala, and implications for Maya cultural evolution. Poster presented at PEP 1 (Pole-Equator-Pole) Meeting, Merida, Venezuela, 16-20 March, 1998.

 

Brenner, M., D.A. Hodell, B.W. Leyden, J.H. Curtis, M.W. Binford, A.L. Kolata, M.B. Abbott, R. Sanchez, P. Sheets, D. Liverman, and L. Nuñez. 1998. Human dimensions of global change in the Americas: a synthesis of PEP 1 presentations. Poster presented at the 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting, London, England, 20-23 April, 1998. (invited).

 

Bradbury, J.P., M. Brenner, W. Dean, S. Fritz, and S.E. Metcalfe. 1998. Lacustrine records from the PEP 1 (Palaeoclimate of the Americas) transect. Poster presented at the 1st IGBP PAGES Open Science Meeting, London, England, 20-23 April, 1998.

 

Brenner, M. 1998. Clima y Cultura en Las Americas. Presented (in Spanish) at the 34th anniversary celebration of the Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Trujillo, Peru, 4 May, 1998.

 

Brenner, M. 1998. Climate and culture in Precolumbian America. Presented at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 5-7 September, 1998. (invited).

 

Riedinger, M.A., P. Rockwell, M. Steinitz-Kannan, W.M. Last , and M. Brenner. 1998. Late Holocene diatom records from the Galapagos Islands. Poster presented at the 15th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 5-7 September, 1998.

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., J.B. Martin, D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 1998. Controls of chemical and isotopic composition of lake water, Peten, Guatemala and implications for Holocene climatic variability in Central America. Abstracts with Programs, 1998 Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, 30 (7), p. 309.

 

Rosenmeier, M.F., D.A. Hodell, J.B. Martin, M. Brenner, and J.H. Curtis. 1998. Early to middle Holocene climatic variability in Central America: evidence from lacustrine sediments in the Peten, Guatemala. EOS: Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 79 (45), p. 476.

 

Brenner, M. 1997. Utilidad de paleolimnologia en el manejo y restauracion de lagos en Florida, USA. Presented (in Spanish) at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, June 1997. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1997. Paleolimnologia y arqueologia en la region Maya. Presented (in Spanish) at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, June 1997. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and C.L. Schelske. 1997. The stable isotope signature of sedimented organic matter as an indicator of historical trophic state conditions. Presented at the 7th International Symposium on Palaeolimnology, 28 Aug-2 Sept, 1997, Riedlingen, Germany.

 

Brenner, M., and B.W. Leyden. Vegetation history of the Yucatan Peninsula. Presented (in Spanish) at the II Congreso Internacional de Etnobotanica, 12-17 October, 1997, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.

 

Steinitz-Kannan, M., M. Riedinger, W. Last, M. Brenner, and M. Miller. 1997.  Un registro de 6000 años de manifestaciones intensas del fenomino de El Niño en sedimentos de lagunas de las Islas Galapagos. Presented at the ORSTOM Symposium "Consecuencias climaticas e hidrologicas del evento El Niño a escala regional y local," 26-29 November, 1997, Quito, Ecuador.

 

Brenner, M. 1996. Paleoenvironment of the Maya Lowlands: A story preserved in lake bed sediment. Presented at the University of Georgia Department of Anthropology Colloquium, 23 February, 1996. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1996. El posible papel del clima en el colapso de la Civilizacion Maya durante el periodo clasico. Presented (in Spanish) at the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, June, 1996. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1996. Paleolimnologia de la Peninsula de Yucatan. Presented (in Spanish) at the Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, June 1996. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M. 1996. Holocene climate change in the Neotropics and impacts on human cultural development. Presented at the University of Florida Department of Geography Colloquium series, November 15, 1996. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, and C.L. Schelske. 1995. Paleolimnological evaluation of historical trophic state conditions in hypereutrophic Lake Thonotosassa. Presented at the Sixth Annual Florida Lakes Management Conference, Clearwater, FL, 3-5 May, 1995.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, and T.J. Whitmore. 1995. Radium-226 stratigraphy in Florida lake sediments as an indicator of human disturbance. Presented at the 25th SIL International Congress, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 23-29 July, 1995.

 

Riedinger, M.A., M. Steinitz-Kannan, M. Brenner, and W.M. Last. 1995. Reconstruction of climate change in the eastern equatorial Pacific, 6000 yr B.P. to present: the paleolimnology of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands. Presented at the First International Limno-Geological Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21-25 August, 1995.

 

Riedinger, M.A. and M. Brenner. 1994. Paleolimnological investigations into the recent History of Lake Yambo, Ecuador. Presented at the 13th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Minneapolis, MN, 19-22 June, 1994.

 

Riedinger, M.A., M. Brenner, M. Steinitz-Kannan, W.M. Last, and M.C. Miller. 1994. The paleolimnology of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands: a Holocene record of salinity fluctuations. Presented at the 13th Biennial Meeting of the American Quaternary Association, Minneapolis, MN, 19-22 June, 1994.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, J.H. Curtis, B.W. Leyden, and B.H. Dahlin. 1994 Holocene climatic and human influences on lakes of Yucatan Peninsula. Presented at the 13th International Diatom Symposium, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy, 1-7 September, 1994.

 

Brenner, M. 1994. Lake Management in the tropics: priorities and special concerns. 1994. Presented at the 14th Annual International Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society, Orlando, FL, 31 October-5 November, 1994.

 

Steinitz-Kannan, M., M. Riedinger, and M. Brenner. 1993. Paleolimnology of Galapagos saline lagoons and history of El Niño events. Presented at Inter-INQUA, Canberra, Australia, April 15-18, 1993.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and C.L. Schelske. 1993. The importance of mapping surveys for paleolimnological studies of shallow, subtropical lakes with variable sediment distribution. Presented at the Sixth International Palaeolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 19-21, 1993.

 

Riedinger, M., M. Steinitz-Kannan and M. Brenner. 1993. A mid-Holocene record of precipitation events from the equatorial Pacific: the palaeolimnology of Bainbridge Crater Lake, Galapagos Islands. Presented at the Sixth International Palaeolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 19-21, 1993.

 

Steinitz-Kannan, M., M. Brenner, and M.A. Riedinger. 1993. History of El Niño events in the Galapagos Islands: the diatom record from El Junco Lake. Presented at the 12th North American Diatom Symposium, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, September 23-25, 1993.

 

Brenner, M., C.L. Schelske, J.H. Curtis, D.A. Hodell, and M.W. Binford. 1993. A high-resolution paleoclimate record from Lago Huiñaimarca (Lago Titicaca Meaner), Bolivia. Presented at the Sixth International Paleolimnology Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 19-21, 1993.

 

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, M. Brenner, and M.W. Binford. 1993. Little Ice Age recorded in sediments from Lake Titicaca, Bolivia. Presented at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

 

Dahlin, B.H., B. Leyden, and M. Brenner. 1992. Lowland Maya environments at the Preclassic/Early Classic transition. Presented at the 57th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA, April 8-12, 1992.

 

Leyden, B. and M. Brenner. 1992. Reforestation of lowland Guatemala after European contact. Presented at the 57th Annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh, PA, April 8-12, 1992.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and C.L. Schelske. 1992. Paleolimnology of Florida lakes: reconstructing human impacts on water quality. Presented at the Seventh Annual LE/AD Florida Lake Management Conference, Winter Haven, FL, May 7-8, 1992. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, M.S. Flannery, and M.W. Binford. 1991. Paleolimnology of Lake Parker: evidence for recent cultural eutrophication. Presented at the Sixth Annual LE/AD Florida Lake Management Conference, Winter Haven, FL, May 16-17, 1991. (Invited).

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and Song X. 1991. Climatic and human influences on lakes of the Yunnan Plateau, PRC: Late Pleistocene to Present. Thirteenth INQUA Congress, Beijing, China, August 2-9, 1991.

 

Brenner, M., T.J. Whitmore, D.R. Engstrom, and Song X. 1991. Paleolimnological assessment of recent human impacts on lakes and watersheds of the Yunnan Plateau, southwest China. Thirteenth INQUA Congress, Beijing, China, August 2-9, 1991.

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, C.L. Schelske and A. Peplow. 1991. Application of Paleolimnological Techniques in Lake Management and Restoration. 11th Annual Symposium of the North American Lake Management Society, Denver, CO, November 11-16, 1991.

 

Curtis, J.H., D.A. Hodell, G.A. Jones and M. Brenner. 1991. Caribbean climate change from 10.9 kyr BP to present: evidence from a high resolution 18O record from Lake Miragoane, Haiti. AGU Chapman Conference on Continental Indicators of Climate Change, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 10-14, 1991.

 

Brenner, M. 1990. Deforestation and reforestation in the Maya Lowlands: a long-term perspective.. Presented at "People, Society and the Biosphere: a Symposium on the Environment in the Americas", The Johns Hopkins University, MD., April 20, 1990. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M. Florida limnology (Part I). Lake Okeechobee internal nutrient loading: characterizing the sediments (Part II). 1990. Presented at the Yunnan Institute of Geological Sciences, Kunming, China, July 6, 1990. (Invited).

 

Whitmore, T.J., M. Brenner, and Song X. Environmental implications of Holocene diatom history in Xingyun Hu, Yunnan Province, China. 1990. Poster presented at the 11th International Symposium on Living and Fossil Diatoms, San Francisco, CA., August 12-17, 1990.

 

Brenner, M. 1990.  The human factor in landscape reduction: long-term records from tropical lake bottoms. 1990. Presented at the Congress, "Las sociedades no-imperiales en los paises visitados por Cristobal Colon durante sus cuatro viajes al Nuevo Mundo", STRI, Panama, August 27-September 1, 1990. (Invited).

 

Brenner, M., K. Dorsey, Song X., Wang Z., Long R., M.W. Binford, and A.M. Moore. 1989. Paleolimnology of Qilu Hu, Yunnan Province, China. Presented at the Fifth International Symposium on Paleolimnology, Cumbria, U.K., September 1-6, 1989.

 

Hodell, D.A., A. Higuera-Gundy, M. Brenner, K. Dorsey, and M.W. Binford. 1989. 18O/16O of ostracods from Lake Miragoane, Haiti, reflect climatic changes during the last Glacial/Interglacial transition. Presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting, San Francisco, CA., December 4-8, 1989.

 

Reddy, K.R., D.A. Graetz, M.M. Fisher, D. Ivanoff, and M. Brenner. 1989. Nutrient storage in Lake Apopka sediments. Presented at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meeting in Fairbanks, Alaska, June 18-22, 1989.

 

Brenner, M., M.W. Binford, and A. Higuera-Gundy. 1988. Paleolimnology of Lake Miragoane, Haiti: the past 1000 years. Presented at the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography meeting in Boulder, CO., 12-16 June, 1988.