Publications.
Higgins JA, Fischer WW, Schrag DP (2009) Oxygenation of the ocean and sediments: Consequences for the seafloor carbonate factory, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 25-33. pdf
Milliken RE, Fischer WW, Hurowitz JA (2009) Missing salts on early Mars, Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L11202, doi:10.1029/2009GL038558. pdf
Fischer WW, Schroeder S, Lacassie JP, Beukes NJ, Goldberg T, Strauss H, Horstmann UE, Schrag DP, Knoll AH (2009) Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa. Precambrian Research, 169, 15-27. pdf
Fischer WW, Knoll AH (2009) An iron shuttle for deep-water silica in Late Archean and Early Paleoproterozoic iron formation, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121, 222-235. pdf
Fischer WW (2008) Life before the rise of oxygen. Nature, 455, 1051-1052. pdf
Pruss SB, Corsetti FA, Fischer WW (2008) Seafloor-precipitated carbonate fans in the Neoproterozoic Rainstorm Member, Johnnie Formation, Death Valley Region, US, Sedimentary Geology, 207, 34-40. pdf
Fischer WW, Pearson AP (2007) Hypotheses for the origin and early evolution of triterpenoid cyclase., Geobiology, 5, 19-34. pdf
Pearson AP, Flood Page SR, Jorgenson TL, Fischer WW, Higgins MB (2007) Novel hopanoid cyclases from the environment. Environmental Microbiology, 9, 2175-2188. pdf
Knoll AH, Bambach RK, Payne JL, Pruss S, Fischer WW (2007) Paleophysiology and the end-Permian mass extinction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 256, 295-313. pdf
Fischer WW, Summons RE, Pearson AP (2005) Targeted genomic detection of biosynthetic pathways: anaerobic production of hopanoid biomarkers by a common sedimentary microbe. Geobiology, 3, 33-40. pdf
Knoll AH, Carr M, Clark B, Des Marais DJ, Farmer JD, Fischer WW, Grotzinger JP, McLennan SM, Malin M, Schroder C, Squyres S, Tosca N, Wdowiak T (2005) An astrobiological perspective on Meridiani Planum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 240, 179-189. pdf
Myrow, PM, Pope M, Goodge JW, and Fischer, W (2002) Depositional history of pre-Devonian strata and timing of Ross Orogenic tectonism in the central Transantarctic Mountains. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 114, 1070-1088. pdf
Myrow, PM, Fischer, W, and Goodge, JW (2002) Wave-modified turbidites: combined-flow shoreline and shelf deposits, Cambrian, Central Transantarctic Mountains. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 72, 641-656. pdf
