Publications.
Bontognali TRR, Fischer WW, Foellmi KB (2013) Siliciclastic associated banded iron formation from the 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa, Precambrian Research, 226, 116-124. pdf
Bergmann KD, Grotzinger JP, Fischer WW (2013) Biological influences on carbonate seafloor precipitation, Palaios, in press.
Finnegan S, Fike DA, Jones DS, Fischer WW (2012) A temperature-dependent positive feedback on the magnitude of carbon isotope excursions, Geoscience Canada, 139, 122-131. pdf
Bontognali TRR, Sessions AL, Allwood AC, Fischer WW, Grotzinger JP, Summons RE, Eiler JM (2012) Sulfur isotopes of organic matter preserved in 3.45 Gyr-old stromatolites reveal microbial metabolism, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 15146-15151. pdf+si
Rohrssen M, Love GD, Fischer WW, Finnegan S, Fike DA (2012) Lipid biomarkers record fundamental changes in the microbial community structure of tropical seas during the Late Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation, Geology, doi: 10.1130/G33671.1. pdf
Halevy I, Peters SE, Fischer WW (2012) Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle, Science, 337, 331-334. pdf | sm | data | perspective
Lamb MP, Fischer WW, Raub TD, Perron JT, Myrow P (2012) Origin of giant wave ripples in Snowball Earth cap carbonate, Geology, 40, 827-830. pdf | dr | scripts
Chakrabarti R, Knoll AH, Jacobsen SB, Fischer WW (2012) Si isotope variability in Proterozoic cherts, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 91, 187-201. pdf
Johnston DT, Fischer WW (2012) Stable isotope geobiology, in AH Knoll, DE Canfield, and KO Konhauser (editors), Fundamentals of Geobiology, First Edition, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-1-4051-8752-7. pdf | figure 14.8
Wilson JP, Grotzinger JP, Fischer WW, Hand KP, Jensen S, Knoll AH, Abelson J, Metz JM, McLoughlin N, Cohen P, Tice MM (2012) Deep-water incised valley deposits at the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary in southern Namibia contain abundant Treptichnus pedum, Palaios, 27, 252-273. pdf
Finnegan S, Peters SE, Heim NA, Fischer WW (2012) Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 6829-6834. pdf+si | data | collections
Halevy I, Fischer WW, Eiler JM (2011) Carbonates in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 formed at 18 [+/-] 4 degrees C in a near-surface aqueous environment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108, 16895-16899. pdf | si
Knoll AH, Fischer WW (2011) Skeletons and ocean chemistry: the long view, in JP Gattuso, and L Hansson (editors), Ocean Acidification, Oxford University Press, ISBN: 978-0199591091. pdf
Jones DS, Fike DA, Finnegan S, Fischer WW, Schrag DP, McCay D (2011) Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic seal-level change across Anticosti Island (Quebec, Canada), Geological Society of America Bulletin, 123, 1645-1664. pdf
Finnegan S, Peters S, Fischer WW (2011) Late Ordovician-Early Silurian selective extinction patterns in Laurentia and their relationship to climate change, In: JC Gutiérrez-Marco, I Rábano, D García-Bellido (editors), Ordovician of the World, Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 14, Instituto Geologico y Minero de España, Madrid, ISBN 978-84-7840-857-3, 155-159. pdf
Bergmann KD, Zentmyer RA, Fischer WW (2011) The stratigraphic expression of a large negative
carbon isotope excursion from the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Death Valley, Precambrian
Research, 188, 45-56. pdf | figure S1 | table S1
Wilson JP, Fischer W (2011) Geochemical support for a climbing habit within the Paleozoic seed fern genus Medullosa, International Journal of Plant Sciences, 172, 586-598. pdf
Grotzinger JP, Fike DA, Fischer WW (2011) Enigmatic origin of the largest known carbon isotope
excursion in Earth’s history, Nature Geoscience, 4, 285-292. pdf
Finnegan S, Bergmann K, Eiler JM, Jones DS, Fike DA, Eisenman I, Hughes NC, Tripati AK, Fischer WW (2011) The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation, Science, 331, 903-906. pdf | som
Wilson JP, Fischer WW (2011) Hydraulics of Asteroxylon mackei, an early Devonian vascular plant, and the early evolution of water transport tissue in terrestrial plants, Geobiology, 9, 121-130. pdf
Hurowitz JA, Fischer WW, Tosca NJ, Milliken RE (2010) Origin of acidic surface waters and the evolution of atmospheric chemistry on early Mars, Nature Geoscience, 3, 323-326. pdf | si
Wilson JP, Fischer WW, Johnston DT, Knoll AH, Grotzinger JP, Walter MR, McNaughton NJ, Simon M, Abelson J, Schrag DP, Summons R, Allwood A, Andres M, Gammon C, Garvin J, Rashby S, Schweizer M, Watters WA (2010) Geobiology of the Late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia, Precambrian Research, 179, 135-149. pdf
Pruss SB, Finnegan S, Fischer WW, Knoll AH (2010) Carbonates in skeleton-poor seas: new insights from Cambrian and Ordovician strata of Laurentia, Palaios, 25, 73-84. pdf
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 cyclases., 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
