Dr Anna Joy Drury

My research interests span palaeoceanography, geochemistry and stratigraphy, with a strong focus on understanding Cenozoic climate evolution and dynamics. My research combines high-resolution multi-proxy sedimentological and geochemical records with stratigraphy, astrochronology and core image processing techniques on deep sea sediments. I have expertise in XRF core scanning, stable isotope and trace element analyses on foraminifera and bulk sediment, as well as scanning electron microscopy.

Marine archives recovered by IODP and its predecessors underpin my research. I was part of the Expedition Science Party on IODP Expeditions 363 (Western Pacific Warm Pool; 2016) and 378 (South Pacific Paleogene Climate; 2020). My research involves collating, integrating and visualising extensive datasets. To assist with this, I helped develop Code for Ocean Drilling Data (CODD) to facilitate analysis of ocean drilling data and the creation of composite core images. I also worked on the Earthsequencing Image Database, which enables rapid access to the IODP core image archive.

Research Interests

Palaeoceanography, geochemistry, foraminifera, (cyclo)stratigraphy, astrochronology

Scientific Peer-Reviewed Publications

Gastaldello, M.E., Agnini, C., Westerhold, T., Drury, A.J., Sutherlands, R., Drake, M., Lam, A., Dickens, G., Dallanave, E., Burns, S., Alegret, L., ‘The Late Miocene-Early Pliocene Biogenic Bloom: An integrated study in the Tasman Sea’, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38, e2022PA004565
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004565 
Kim, J.-E., Westerhold, T., Alegret, L., Drury, A.J., Röhl, U., Griffith, E. M., 2022 ‘Precessional pacing of tropical ocean carbon export during the Late Cretaceous’, Climate of the Past, 18, 2631–264
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-2631-2022 
Wilkens, R.H., Drury, A.J., Westerhold, T., Röhl, U., 2022 ‘Data Report: Depths of U1553 Off-Splice Data Adjusted to the U1553 Splice’, Proceedings of the IODP, Vol. 378
Publication (includes Open Access Data): https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.378.202.2022 
Drury, A.J., Westerhold, T., Wilkens, R.H., Röhl, U., 2022 ‘Data report: splice adjustment for Site U1553’, Proceedings of the IODP, Vol. 378  
Publication (includes Open Access Data): https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.378.201.2022 
Drury, A.J., Westerhold, T., Ravelo, A.-C., Kulhanek, D.K., Mountain, G., Holbourn, A.E., Rosenthal, Y., Wilkens, R.H., Röhl, U., 2021b ‘Composite depth scale and splice revision for IODP Site U1488 using XRF core scanning data and composite core images’, Proceedings of the IODP, Vol. 363 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.363.205.2021 
Open Access Data: http://publications.iodp.org/proceedings/363/205/SUPP_MAT/index.html  
Drury, A.J., Liebrand, D., Westerhold, T., Beddow, H., Hodell, D., Rolfs, N., Wilkens, R.H., Lyle, M., Bell, D.B., Kroon, D., Pälike, H., Lourens, L.J., 2021a, ‘Climate, cryosphere and carbon cycle controls on Southeast Atlantic orbital-scale carbonate deposition since the Oligocene (30-0 Ma)’, Climate of the Past, 17, 2091–2117
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2091-2021 
Open Access Data: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.919489 
Associated Media: https://youtu.be/G30Eo0twx9s; https://www.cyclostratigraphy.org/podcast
Christensen, B. A., De Vleeschouwer, D., Henderiks, J., Groeneveld, J., Auer, G., Drury, A.J., Karatsolis, B.T., Lyu, J., Betzler, C., Eberli, G.P., Kroon, D., 2021, ‘Late Miocene onset of Tasman Leakage and Southern Hemisphere Supergyre ushers in near-modern circulation’, Geophysical Research Letters, 48, e2021GL095036 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL095036 
De Vleeschouwer, D., Drury, A.J., Vahlenkamp, M., Rochholz, F., Liebrand, D., Pälike, H., 2020, ‘High-latitude biomes and rock weathering mediate climate-carbon cycle feedbacks on eccentricity timescales’, Nature Communications, 11, 5013 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18733-w 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.918140 
Westerhold, T., Marwan, N., Drury, A.J., Liebrand, D., Agnini, C., Anagnostou, E., Barnet, J., Bohaty, S., Vleeschouwer, D., Florindo, F., Frederichs, T., Hodell, D., Holbourn, A., Kroon, D., Laurentano, V., Littler, K., Lourens, L., Lyle, M., Pälike, H., Röhl, U., Tian, J., Wilkens, R., Wilson, P., Zachos, J., ‘An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 Million Years’, 2020, Science, 369, 1383-1387 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba6853 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.917503 
Tanner, T., Hernández-Almeida, I., Drury, A.J., Guitián, J., Stoll, H., 2020, 'Decreasing atmospheric CO2 during the Late Miocene Cooling’, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 35, e2020PA003925 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003925 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.924529 
Sinnesael, M., De Vleeschouwer, D., Zeeden, C., Batenburg, S.J., da Silva, A.-C., de  Winter, N.J., Dinarès-Turell, J., Drury, A.J., Gambacorta, G., Hilgen, F.J., Hinnov, L., Hudson, A., Kemp, D., Lantink, M., Laurin, J., Li, M., Liebrand, D., Ma, C., Meyers, S.R., Monkenbusch, J., Montanari, A., Nohl, T., Pälike, H., Pass, D., Ruhl, M., Thibault, N., Vahlenkamp, M., Valero, L., Wouters, S., Wu, H., Claeys, P., ‘The Cyclostratigraphy Inter-comparison Project (CIP): a consistency test for cyclostratigraphy and astrochronology’, 2019, Earth Science Reviews, 199, 102,965-102,968 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.102965 
Open Access Data: https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/zz94z6k4gr/1 
Lyle, M., Drury, A.J., Tian, J., Wilkens, R., Westerhold, T., 2019, ‘Late Miocene to Holocene High Resolution Eastern Equatorial Pacific Carbonate Records: Stratigraphy linked by dissolution and paleoproductivity’, Climate of the Past, 15, 1715-1739 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-1715-2019 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.904489 
Stuut, J.-B.W., De Decker, P., Saavedra-Pellitero, M., Bassinot, F., Drury, A.J., Walczak, M., Nagashima, K., Murayama, M., 2019, ‘A 5.3-million-year history of monsoonal precipitation in northwestern Australia’, Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 6946–6954 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GL083035 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890879 
Littler, K., Westerhold, T., Drury, A.J., Liebrand, D., Lisieki, L., Pälike, H., 2019 ‘Astronomical Time Keeping of Earth History: An Invaluable Contribution of Scientific Ocean Drilling’, Oceanography, 32 (1), 72-76
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2019.122 
Drury, A.J., Lee, G., Gray, W., Lyle, M., Westerhold, T., Shevenell, A., John, C., 2018a, ‘Deciphering the state of the late Miocene-early Pliocene equatorial Pacific’, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33, 246-263 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/2017PA003245 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.885041 
Drury, A.J., Westerhold, T.W., Röhl, U., Hodell, D.A., 2018b, “Reinforcing the North Atlantic Backbone: revising and extending the composite splice at ODP 982”, Climate of the Past, 14, 321–338 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-321-2018  
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.884300 
Benson, A., Hoffman, D., Bella, P., Drury, A.J., Hercman, H., Atkinson, T., 2018, ‘Building robust age- depth models for speleothems: a test using coeval twin stalagmites’, Quaternary Geochronology, 43, 83-90
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2017.10.004   
Pearson, P.N. and Expedition 363 Scientists (including Drury, A.J.), 2018, ‘A deep-sea agglutinated foraminifer tube constructed with planktonic foraminifer shells of a single species’, Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37, 97-104 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-97-2018 
Drury, A.J., Westerhold, T., Frederichs, T., Tian, J., Wilkens, R.H., Channell, J.E.T., Evans, H., John, C.M., Lyle, M., Röhl, U., 2017, ‘Late Miocene climate and time scale reconciliation: accurate orbital calibration from a deep-sea perspective’ Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 475 (C), 254–266 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.07.038 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.872722 
Wilkens, R.H., Westerhold, T. Drury, A.J., Lyle, M., Gorgas, T., Tian, J., 2017, ‘Revisiting Ceara Rise, eq. Atlantic Ocean: isotope stratigraphy of ODP Leg 154’, Climates of the Past, 13, 779-793 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-779-2017 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870873 
Drury, A.J. and John, C.M., 2016, ‘Exploring the potential of clumped isotope thermometry on coccolith-rich sediments as a sea surface temperature proxy’, G-cubed., 17, 4092-4104
Publication: https://doi:10.1002/2016GC006459 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.865019 
Drury, A.J., John, C.M., Shevenell, A.E., 2016, ‘Evaluating climatic response to external radiative forcing in the late Miocene to early Pliocene: new perspectives from Eastern Equatorial Pacific (IODP U1338) and North Atlantic (ODP 982) locations’, Paleoceanography, 31, 167-184 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002881 
Open Access Data: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.856679 
Drury, A.J., Lee, G.P., Pennock, G.M., John, C.M., 2014, ‘Data report: late Miocene to early Pliocene coccolithophore and foraminiferal preservation at Site U1338 from scanning electron microscopy’, in Palike, H., Lyle, M., Nishi, H., Raffi, I., Gamage, K., Klaus, A. and Exp. 320/321 Scientists 320/321 (Eds.), p. 1-14, Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results 
Publication: https://doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.320321.218.2014 
Weber, S., Drury, A.J., Toonen, W., van Weele, M., 2010, ‘Glacial wetland distribution and methane emissions estimated from PMIP2 climate simulations’, Journal of Int. Environmental Sciences, 7, 119-124
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1080/19438151003621375 
Weber S.L., Drury A.J., Toonen, W.H.J., van Weele, M., 2010, ‘Wetland methane emissions during the last Glacial Maximum estimated from PMIP2 simulations: climate, vegetation and geometric controls’, Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, D06111
Publication: https://doi.org/10.1029/2009JD012110 

Other Publications (e.g., Book Chapters) 

Thomas, D.J., Röhl, U., Childress, L.B., and Expedition 378 Scientists (including A.J. Drury), 2022, ‘South Pacific Paleogene Climate’, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Vol. 378 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.378.2022 
Thomas, D.J., Röhl, U., Childress, L.B., and Expedition 378 Scientists (including A.J. Drury), 2020, ‘Expedition 378 Preliminary Report: South Pacific Paleogene Climate’, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Vol. 378
Publication: https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.378.2020 
Rosenthal Y, Holbourn A., Kulhanek D., and Expedition 363 Scientists (including A.J. Drury), 2018, ‘Western Pacific Warm Pool’, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Vol. 363 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.363.2018 
Rosenthal Y, Holbourn A., Kulhanek D., and Expedition 363 Scientists (including A.J. Drury), 2017, ‘Expedition 363 Preliminary Report: Western Pacific Warm Pool’, Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, Vol. 363 
Publication: https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.363.2017