Publications
As lead-author
Manuscripts in preparation
1. Amarathunga, U., Lacerra, M., Martínez-García, A., Sigman, D.M., Non-temperature controls on Arabian Sea denitrification over the last glacial cycle, in preparation for Nature Geoscience.
Manuscripts under review
2. Amarathunga, U., Brocks, J.J., Meijer, P.T., Hope, J.M., Zachariasse, W.J., Hennekam, R., van der Hoeven, I., Roehl, U., Rule, S., Troitzsch, U., Haberle, S., Sluijs, A., Grant, K.M., Roberts, A.P., Garcia-Castellanos, D., McC. Hogg, A., Reichart, G.J., and Rohling, E.J. Transient oxygenation of the Mediterranean after the Zanclean megaflood, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.
1. Amarathunga, U., Hutchinson, D.K., Byrne, M. P., Suc, J-P., Sigman, D.M., and Rohling, E.J. Mid-Pliocene insights into the temperature dependence of hydroclimate, Nature.
Published manuscripts
4. Amarathunga, U. and Hutchinson, D.K. An extended pan-North African humid period within the warm Pliocene. Nature Geoscience (Research Briefing). 17, 596–597 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01481-7
3. Amarathunga, U., Rohling, E.J., Grant, K.M., Francke, A., Latimer, J., Klaebe, R.M., Heslop, D., Roberts, A.P. and Hutchinson, D.K. Mid-Pliocene glaciation preceded by a 0.5 million-year North African humid period. Nature Geoscience. 17, 660–666 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01472-8
2. Amarathunga, U., Hogg, A., Rohling, E., Roberts, A., Grant, K., & Heslop, D. et al. Sill- controlled salinity contrasts followed post-Messinian flooding of the Mediterranean. Nature Geoscience, 15, 720–725 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00998-z
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Received Harry Elderfiled Award for the best student paper at AGU 2023.
1. Amarathunga, U., Diyabalanage, S., Bandara, U., & Chandrajith, R. Environmental factors controlling arsenic mobilization from sandy shallow coastal aquifer sediments in the Mannar Island, Sri Lanka. Applied Geochemistry, 100, 152-159 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2018.11.011
As co-author
Manuscripts under review
1. Xu, X., Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the Expedition 401 Scientists. X-ray fluorescence scanning of sediment cores, IODP Expedition 401 Site U1610A, Gulf of Cádiz, Atlantic. International Ocean Discovery Program.
Published manuscripts
6. Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the Expedition 401 Scientists. Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange. Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program, 401 (2025). International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.proc.401.2025
5. Flecker, R., Ducassou, E., Williams, T., and the Expedition 401 Scientists. Expedition 401 Preliminary Report, Mediterranean–Atlantic Gateway Exchange (2024). International Ocean Discovery Program. https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.401.2024
4. Krijgsman, W., Rohling, E.J., Palcu, D.V., Raad, F., Amarathunga, U., Flecker, R., Florindo, F., Roberts, A.P., Sierro, F.J., and Aloisi, G. Causes and consequences of the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Nature Reviews Earth and Environment. 5, 335–350 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00533-1
3. Heslop, D., Amarathunga, U., and Rohling, E.J. Estimating Plio-Pleistocene North African monsoon runoff into the Mediterranean Sea and temperature impacts. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. 38, e2023PA004677 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1029/2023PA004677
2. Husdell, M., Amarathunga, U., Blanckensee, S., Creac’h, L., Herweynen, D. et al. Research voyage to Cape Darnley, East Antarctica on the RV'investigator'. Quarternary Australasia, 40(1), 9–11 (2023). https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.163288006353048
1. Grant, K.M., Amarathunga, U., Amies, J., Hu, P., Qian, Y., & Penny, T. et al. Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago. Communications Earth & Environment, 3, 11 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00339-9