Below is a listing of some of the publications that have been accepted. Please check back occasionally to see additional titles! Let me know if you are interested in a particular paper and I would be happy to send a PDF if I have one!
Shapiro, R.S., 2022, Microbes in modern and ancient hydrocarbon seeps in Kaim, A., J.K. Cochran, N.H. Landman, eds., Ancient Hydrocarbon Seeps: Springer Nature Switzerland Topics in Geobiology 50, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05623-9_4, 113-122.
Gulbranson, E.L., Rasbury, E.T., Ludvigson, G.A., Möller, A.; Henkes, G., Suarez, M.B., Northrup, P., Tappero, R.V., Maxson, J.A., Shapiro, R.S. et al., 2022, U–Pb Geochronology and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Terrestrial Carbonates, Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: Implications for Synchronicity of Terrestrial and Marine Carbon Isotope Excursions. Geosciences 2022, 12, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/ geosciences12090346
Medina Ferrer, F., Rosen, M. R., Feyhl-Buska, J., Russell, V. V., Sønderholm, F., Loyd, S., Shapiro, R., Stamps, B. W., Petryshyn, V., Demirel-Floyd, C., Bailey, J. V., Johnson, H. A., Spear, J. R., & Corsetti, F. A., 2022, Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds. Geobiology, 20, 79–97.
Shapiro, R. S. and Dehler, C. A., 2022, Geobiology of “Snowball Earth” deposits of Antelope Island in Milligan, M., Nielsen, P, Biek, B., and Inkenbrandt, P, eds., Utah GeoSites, Utah Geological Association, Publication 47.
Himmler, T., Smrzka, D., Zwicker, J., Kasten, S., Shapiro, R.S., Bohrmann, G, and Peckmann, J., 2018, Stromatolites below the photic zone in the northern Arabian Sea formed by calcifying chemotrophic microbial mats. Geology, v. 46, p. 339-342.
Sanchez, D. F., Simionovici, A. S., Lemelle, L., Cuartero, V., Mathon, O., Pascarelli, S., Bonnin, A., Shapiro, R., Konhauser, K., Grolimund, D., and Bleuet, P., 2017, 2D/3D microanalysis by energy dispersive X-ray absorption spectroscopy tomography. Nature Scientific Reports 7: 16453; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-16345-x.
Kraus, E. A., Beeler, S. R., Mors, R. A., Floyd, J. G., GeoBiology 2016, Stamps, B. W., Nunn, H. S., Stevenson, B. S., Johnson, H. A., Shapiro, R. S., Loyd, S. J., Spear, J. R., and Corsetti, F. A., 2018, Microscale biosignatures and abiotic mineral authigenesis in Little Hot Creek, California. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:997. 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00997
Shapiro, R. S., 2016, Camelid record of Mesquite Lake, California: impact of earliest Holocene climate change in Reynolds, R. E., ed., Going LOCO investigations along the Lower Colorado River, 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, p 41-47.
Shapiro, R. S, 2016, Astrobiology: Mainstream Enough for College Classrooms? Astrobiology, v. 16, 377-378.
Petrash, D. A., Robbins, L. J., Shapiro, R. S., Mojzsis, S. J., and Konhauser, K. O., 2016, Chemical and textural overprinting of ancient stromatolites: Timing, processes, and implications for their use as paleoenvironmental proxies. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 145-160.
Simkins, L.M., DeWitt, R., Simms, A. R., Briggs, S., and Shapiro, R. S., 2016, Investigation of optically stimulated luminescence behavior of quartz from crystalline rock surfaces: A look forward. Quaternary Geochronology, v. 36, September 2016, Pages 161-173
Shapiro, R. S. and Konhauser, K.O., 2014, Hematite-coated microfossils: Ecological fingerprint or taphonomic oddity of the Paleoproterozoic? Geobiology, v. 13, p. 209-224.
Shapiro, R. S., 2014, Iron formation in the Silurian Hills: Relevance to the Evolving Picture of the Neoproterozoic in Greene, T.J., Shapiro, R.S., and Dehler, C., Continental Extension Old and New at the Edge of the Mojave: Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology).
Siering, P. L., Wolfe, G. V., Wilson, M. S., Yip, A. N., Carey, C. M., Wardman, C. D., Shapiro, R. S., Stedman, K. M., Kyle, J., Yuan, T., Van Nostrand, J. D., He, Z., Zhou, J., 2013, Microbial biogeochemistry of Boiling Springs Lake: a physically dynamic, oligotrophic, low-pH geothermal ecosystem. Geobiology, v. 11, p. 356-376.
Shapiro, R. S., 2010, Progressive metamorphic alteration of stromatolite biosignatures: taphonomic implications for astrobiology: Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, LPI Contribution No. 1538, p.5376
Planavsky, N., Rouxel, O., Bekker, A., Shapiro, R., Fralick, P., and Knudsen, A., 2009, Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 286, p. 230-242.
Shapiro, R. S. and Spangler, E., 2009, Bacterial fossil record in whale falls: relation of taphonomy and paleoecology to depositional environment: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 274, p. 196-203.
Shapiro, R. S., Fricke, H., Fox, K., and Maxson, J., 2009, Dinosaur-bearing oncoids from ephemeral lakes of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: PALAIOS, v. 24, p. 51-58.
Greene, T. J., Ketterer, K., and Shapiro, R. S., 2008, Living on the edge: geology and paleontology of the Great Valley Group, in Greene, T. J., ed., Convergent Margin Tectonics in and around Chico, Northern California: National Association of Geoscience Teachers-Far Western Section 2008 Fall Field Conference, p. 31-41.
Brotton, S. J., Shapiro, R., Van der Laan, G., Guo, Jinghua, Per-Anders, G., and Ajello, J. M., 2007, Valence state fossils in Proterozoic stromatolites by L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, G03004, doi:10.1029/2006JG000185.
Shapiro, R. S., 2007, Stromatolites: A 3.5 billion year ichnologic record, in Miller, W., III, ed., Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects: Elsevier, p. 382-390.
Shapiro, R. S. and Awramik, S. M., 2006, Favosamaceria cooperi new group new form: a widely dispersed, time-restricted thrombolite: Journal of Paleontology, v. 80, p. 411-422.
Shapiro, R. S., 2004, Recognition of fossil prokaryotes in Cretaceous methane seep carbonates: relevance to astrobiology: Astrobiology, v. 4, 438-449.
Shapiro, R. S. and Rigby, J. K., 2004, First occurrence of an in situ anthaspidellid sponge in a dendrolite mound (Upper Cambrian of the Great Basin, U.S.A.): Journal of Paleontology , v. 78, 645-650.
Shapiro, R. S., and Rowland, S. M., 2002, Fossil collecting in southern Nevada in Rowland, S. M. and Orndorff, R. L., eds., Geology of the Southern Nevada Region: National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section Spring Field Conference Guidebook, p. 96-99.
Shapiro, R. S., 1998, Paleogene-Early Neogene macrofossils of southwestern Santa Cruz Island in Weigand, P. W., ed., Contributions to the Geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California: Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, MP-45, p. 123-132.
Gulbranson, E.L., Rasbury, E.T., Ludvigson, G.A., Möller, A.; Henkes, G., Suarez, M.B., Northrup, P., Tappero, R.V., Maxson, J.A., Shapiro, R.S. et al., 2022, U–Pb Geochronology and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Terrestrial Carbonates, Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: Implications for Synchronicity of Terrestrial and Marine Carbon Isotope Excursions. Geosciences 2022, 12, 346. https://doi.org/10.3390/ geosciences12090346
Medina Ferrer, F., Rosen, M. R., Feyhl-Buska, J., Russell, V. V., Sønderholm, F., Loyd, S., Shapiro, R., Stamps, B. W., Petryshyn, V., Demirel-Floyd, C., Bailey, J. V., Johnson, H. A., Spear, J. R., & Corsetti, F. A., 2022, Potential role for microbial ureolysis in the rapid formation of carbonate tufa mounds. Geobiology, 20, 79–97.
Shapiro, R. S. and Dehler, C. A., 2022, Geobiology of “Snowball Earth” deposits of Antelope Island in Milligan, M., Nielsen, P, Biek, B., and Inkenbrandt, P, eds., Utah GeoSites, Utah Geological Association, Publication 47.
Himmler, T., Smrzka, D., Zwicker, J., Kasten, S., Shapiro, R.S., Bohrmann, G, and Peckmann, J., 2018, Stromatolites below the photic zone in the northern Arabian Sea formed by calcifying chemotrophic microbial mats. Geology, v. 46, p. 339-342.
Sanchez, D. F., Simionovici, A. S., Lemelle, L., Cuartero, V., Mathon, O., Pascarelli, S., Bonnin, A., Shapiro, R., Konhauser, K., Grolimund, D., and Bleuet, P., 2017, 2D/3D microanalysis by energy dispersive X-ray absorption spectroscopy tomography. Nature Scientific Reports 7: 16453; DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-16345-x.
Kraus, E. A., Beeler, S. R., Mors, R. A., Floyd, J. G., GeoBiology 2016, Stamps, B. W., Nunn, H. S., Stevenson, B. S., Johnson, H. A., Shapiro, R. S., Loyd, S. J., Spear, J. R., and Corsetti, F. A., 2018, Microscale biosignatures and abiotic mineral authigenesis in Little Hot Creek, California. Frontiers in Microbiology 9:997. 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00997
Shapiro, R. S., 2016, Camelid record of Mesquite Lake, California: impact of earliest Holocene climate change in Reynolds, R. E., ed., Going LOCO investigations along the Lower Colorado River, 2016 Desert Symposium Field Guide and Proceedings, p 41-47.
Shapiro, R. S, 2016, Astrobiology: Mainstream Enough for College Classrooms? Astrobiology, v. 16, 377-378.
Petrash, D. A., Robbins, L. J., Shapiro, R. S., Mojzsis, S. J., and Konhauser, K. O., 2016, Chemical and textural overprinting of ancient stromatolites: Timing, processes, and implications for their use as paleoenvironmental proxies. Precambrian Research, v. 278, p. 145-160.
Simkins, L.M., DeWitt, R., Simms, A. R., Briggs, S., and Shapiro, R. S., 2016, Investigation of optically stimulated luminescence behavior of quartz from crystalline rock surfaces: A look forward. Quaternary Geochronology, v. 36, September 2016, Pages 161-173
Shapiro, R. S. and Konhauser, K.O., 2014, Hematite-coated microfossils: Ecological fingerprint or taphonomic oddity of the Paleoproterozoic? Geobiology, v. 13, p. 209-224.
Shapiro, R. S., 2014, Iron formation in the Silurian Hills: Relevance to the Evolving Picture of the Neoproterozoic in Greene, T.J., Shapiro, R.S., and Dehler, C., Continental Extension Old and New at the Edge of the Mojave: Pacific Section SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology).
Siering, P. L., Wolfe, G. V., Wilson, M. S., Yip, A. N., Carey, C. M., Wardman, C. D., Shapiro, R. S., Stedman, K. M., Kyle, J., Yuan, T., Van Nostrand, J. D., He, Z., Zhou, J., 2013, Microbial biogeochemistry of Boiling Springs Lake: a physically dynamic, oligotrophic, low-pH geothermal ecosystem. Geobiology, v. 11, p. 356-376.
Shapiro, R. S., 2010, Progressive metamorphic alteration of stromatolite biosignatures: taphonomic implications for astrobiology: Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond, LPI Contribution No. 1538, p.5376
Planavsky, N., Rouxel, O., Bekker, A., Shapiro, R., Fralick, P., and Knudsen, A., 2009, Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 286, p. 230-242.
Shapiro, R. S. and Spangler, E., 2009, Bacterial fossil record in whale falls: relation of taphonomy and paleoecology to depositional environment: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, v. 274, p. 196-203.
Shapiro, R. S., Fricke, H., Fox, K., and Maxson, J., 2009, Dinosaur-bearing oncoids from ephemeral lakes of the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: PALAIOS, v. 24, p. 51-58.
Greene, T. J., Ketterer, K., and Shapiro, R. S., 2008, Living on the edge: geology and paleontology of the Great Valley Group, in Greene, T. J., ed., Convergent Margin Tectonics in and around Chico, Northern California: National Association of Geoscience Teachers-Far Western Section 2008 Fall Field Conference, p. 31-41.
Brotton, S. J., Shapiro, R., Van der Laan, G., Guo, Jinghua, Per-Anders, G., and Ajello, J. M., 2007, Valence state fossils in Proterozoic stromatolites by L-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 112, G03004, doi:10.1029/2006JG000185.
Shapiro, R. S., 2007, Stromatolites: A 3.5 billion year ichnologic record, in Miller, W., III, ed., Trace Fossils: Concepts, Problems, Prospects: Elsevier, p. 382-390.
Shapiro, R. S. and Awramik, S. M., 2006, Favosamaceria cooperi new group new form: a widely dispersed, time-restricted thrombolite: Journal of Paleontology, v. 80, p. 411-422.
Shapiro, R. S., 2004, Recognition of fossil prokaryotes in Cretaceous methane seep carbonates: relevance to astrobiology: Astrobiology, v. 4, 438-449.
Shapiro, R. S. and Rigby, J. K., 2004, First occurrence of an in situ anthaspidellid sponge in a dendrolite mound (Upper Cambrian of the Great Basin, U.S.A.): Journal of Paleontology , v. 78, 645-650.
Shapiro, R. S., and Rowland, S. M., 2002, Fossil collecting in southern Nevada in Rowland, S. M. and Orndorff, R. L., eds., Geology of the Southern Nevada Region: National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Far Western Section Spring Field Conference Guidebook, p. 96-99.
Shapiro, R. S., 1998, Paleogene-Early Neogene macrofossils of southwestern Santa Cruz Island in Weigand, P. W., ed., Contributions to the Geology of the Northern Channel Islands, Southern California: Pacific Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, MP-45, p. 123-132.