Publications

Cleveland Stout, R., Pico, T., Huybers, P., Mitrovica, J.X., Austermann, J., Imprint of relative sea-level histories on Last Interglacial coral preservation , Geophysical Journal International, 2024


Kodama, S.T., Pico, T., Finnegan, N.J., Lapôtre, M.G.A, Willenbring, J.K., Glacial isostatic adjustment modulates lateral migration rate and morphology of the Red River (North Dakota, USA and Manitoba, Canada), GRL, 2023


Rovere, A.*, Pico, T.*, Richards, F., O'Leary, M., Mitrovica, J., Goodwin, I., Austermann, J., Latychev, K., The influence of reef isostasy, dynamic topography, and glacial isostatic adjustment on the Last Interglacial sea-level record of Northeastern Australia , Communications Earth & Environment, 2023
*authors contributed equally


Patterson, E.W., Johnson, K.R., Griffiths, M.L., Kinsley, C.W., McGee, D., Du, X., Pico, T., Wolf, A, Ersek, V., Mortlock, R.A., Yamoah, K.A., Bui, T., Xuan, M.T., Đỗ-Trọng, Q., Vo, T.V., Dinh,T.H., Glacial changes in sea level modulated millennia-scale variability of the Southeast Asian autumn monsoon, PNAS, 2023


Farmer, J.*, Pico, T.*, Underwood, O.M, Cleveland-Stout, R., Granger, J., Cronin, T.M., Fripiat, F., Martínez-García, A., Haug, G.H., Sigman, D.M., The Bering Strait was flooded 10,000 years before the Last Glacial Maximum, PNAS, 2023. Covered in UCSC News, Princeton Research News, Forbes, National Geographic en Español. EOS. and ARCUS,
*authors contributed equally


Pico, T., Toward New and Independent Constraints on Global Mean Sea-Level Highstands During the Last Glaciation (Marine Isotope Stage 3, 5a, and 5c), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2022


Austermann, J., Wickert, A., Pico, T., Kingslake, J., Callaghan, K.L., Creel, R.C., Glacial isostatic adjustment shapes proglacial lakes over glacial cycles, Geophysical Research Letters, 2022


Pico, T., Lamb, M.P., David, S.R., Larsen, I.J, Mix, A., Lehnigk, K., Glacial isostatic adjustment directed incision of the Channeled Scabland by ice-age megafloods , PNAS, 2022, (highlighted in UCSC News and Courthouse News )


de Gelder, G., Husson, L., Pastier, A.-M., Fernández-Blanco, D., Pico, T., Chauveau, D., Authemayou, C., Pedoja, K., High interstadial sea levels over the past 420ka from Huon terraces (Papua New Guinea) , Communications Earth & Environment, 2022


Dalton, A.S., Pico, T., Gowan, E., Clague, J.J., Forman, S.L., McMartin, I., Sarala, P., Helmens, K.F. The marine 18O record overestimates continental ice volume during Marine Isotope Stage 3 , Global & Planetary Change, 2022


Borreggine, M., Powell, E., Pico, T., Mitrovica, J.X., Meadow, R., Tryon, C., Not a Bathtub: A Consideration of Sea-Level Physics for Archaeological Models of Human Migration , Journal of Archaeological Science, 2022


Pico, T., Willenbring, J., Dalton, A.S., Hemming, S., Was there a glacial outburst flood in the Torngat Mountains during Marine Isotope Stage 3?, ( Preprint , Climate of the Past)


T. Pico, D. McGee, J.X. Mitrovica, J. Russell, Recent constraints on MIS 3 sea level support role of shelf exposure as a control on Indo-Pacific hydroclimate AGU Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 2020


T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, A.C. Mix, Sea-level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event , Science Advances, 2020.


Pico, T., Robel, A., Powell, E., Mix, A., Mitrovica, J., Leveraging the rapid retreat of Amundsen Gulf Ice Stream 13,000 yrs ago to reveal insight into North American deglaciation , Geophysical Research Letters, 2019.


T. Pico, Towards an assessment of the impact of sediment loading on Last Interglacial sea-level markers , Geophysical Journal International, 2019.


S. Coulson, T. Pico, J. Austermann, R. Moucha, J.X. Mitrovica, "The Role of Isostatic Adjustment and Gravitational Effects on the Dynamics of the Messinian Salinity Crisis'", Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 2019.


T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J.T. Perron, K.L. Ferrier, J. Braun, Influence of glacial isostatic adjustment on river evolution along the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast , Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 2019.


Dalton, A. S., Finkelstein, S. A., Forman, S. L., Barnett, P. J., Pico, T. and Mitrovica, J. X., Was the Laurentide Ice Sheet significantly reduced during Marine Isotope Stage 3 ? , Geology, 47(2), pp. 111–114. 2019.


A. Carlson, L. Tarasov, T. Pico, Rapid Laurentide ice-sheet advance towards southern last glacial maximum limit during marine isotope stage 3 , Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018.


T. Pico, L. Birch, J. Weisenberg, J.X. Mitrovica, Refining the evolution of the Laurentide Ice Sheet from MIS 3 to the Last Glacial Maximum: A data-based approach combining glacio-isostatic simulations with a simplified dynamic ice model , Quaternary Science Reviews, 2018.


T. Pico, J.X. Mitrovica, J. Braun, K.L. Ferrier, Glacial isostatic adjustment deflects path of the ancestral Hudson River , Geology, 2018 (highlighted in Harvard Gazette )


K.L. Ferrier, Q. Li, T. Pico, J. Austermann. The influence of water storage in marine sediment on sea-level change , Geophysical Research Letters, 2018.


K.L. Ferrier, J. Austermann, J.X. Mitrovica, T. Pico, Incorporating sediment compaction into a gravitationally self-consistent model for ice age sea-level change , Geophysical Journal International, 2017.


T. Pico, J.R. Creveling, J.X. Mitrovica, Sea level records from the U.S. mid-Atlantic constrain Laurentide Ice Sheet Extent during Marine Isotope Stage 3 , Nature Communications, 2017.


J.R. Creveling, J.X. Mitrovica, P. Clark, C. Waelbroeck, T. Pico, Globally Distributed Geological Records Bound MIS 5a and MIS 5c Peak Global Mean Sea Level , Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017.


T. Pico, J. Mitrovica, K. Ferrier, J. Braun, Global ice volume during MIS 3 inferred from a sea-level analysis of sedimentary core records in the Yellow River Delta , Quaternary Science Reviews, 2016.


(Patent) H.A. Stone, J. Nunes, E. Um, T. Pico: “Novel Droplet-Embedded Microfibers, and Methods and Devices for Preparing and Using Same U.S. Patent Application No. 14/680,710, filed 2015.


E. Um , J. Nunes , T. Pico, and H. A. Stone, “Multicompartment microfibers: fabrication and selective dissolution of composite droplet-in-fiber structures,” J. Mater. Chem. B 2 (45), 7866-7871, 2014.

Social Issues in Geoscience

T. Pico, Performing geology: risk and conquest in the origin stories of a field science , Catalyst: feminism, theory, technoscience, Fall 2023,


T. Pico and G. Lester., "The Colonial History of Geology in the United States" , Insurrect!, 2021


T. Pico, P. Bierman, K. Doyle, S. Richardson, First authorship gender gap in the geosciences , AGU Earth & Space Sciences,2020


T. Pico, "The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell" , Scientific American, 2019