Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Dixit Y., Human-environment interactions during the mid-late Holocene and the Anthropocene-lessons from NW Indian plains and Bengal Delta. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 515, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP515-2020-122

  2. Dixit Y., Toucanne S., Tripati A., Lora J., Fontanier C., Bonnin, L., Jouet G, 2020 Enhanced western Mediterranean rainfall during past interglacials driven by North Atlantic pressure changes. Quaternary International, v. 553, p. 1-13. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.08.017

  3. Dixit Y., 2020 Regional Character of the “Global Monsoon”: Paleoclimate Insights from Northwest Indian Lacustrine Sediments Oceanography, Special Issue on Paleoceanography: Lessons for a Changing World. June 2020 Issue.

  4. Pasquier V., Toucanne S., Sansjofre P., Dixit Y., Revillon S., Mokeddem Z., Rabineau M., 2019 Organic matter isotopes reveals enhanced rainfall activity in North-Western Mediterranean borderland during warm substages of the last 200 kyr. Quaternary Science Reviews, v. 205, p. 182-192.

  5. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., A. Giesche, Tandon, S.K., Gasquez, F., Curtis, J., Petrie, C.A., Saini, H.S., Mujtaba, S.A.I., Singh, R.N., Petrie, C.A., 2018 Intensified summer monsoon and the urbanization of Indus Civilization in northwest India. Scientific Reports, v. 8(1), 4225.
    Special highlight: “From the lab: How adequate rainfall helped Indus Valley Civilisation flourish” – The Indian Express

  6. RN Singh, CA Petrie, A Alam, J. Bates, Alessandro Ceccarelli, S Chakraborty, S Chakradhari, A Chowdhary, Yama Dixit, Charles Andrew Ivey French, A Gieshe, Adam S Green, LM Green, Penny J Jones, A Suryanarayan, MC Ustunkaya, JR Walker., 2018 Living in the Hinterland I: Survey and Excavations at Lohari Ragho 2015–2017. Puratattva, v. 48, p. 130-141.

  7. Petrie, C.A., Singh, R.N., Bates, J., Dixit, Y., French, C.A.I., Hodell, D.A., Jones, P.J., Lancelotti, C., Lynam, F., Neogi, S., Pandey, A.K., Parikh, D., Pawar, V., Redhouse, D.I., Singh, D.P., 2017 Adaptation to variable environments, resilience to climate change: investigating Land, Water and Settlement in Indus northwest India. Current Anthropology, v.58, p. 1-30.

  8. Dixit, Y., Tandon, S.K., 2016, Hydroclimatic variability on the Indian subcontinent in the past millennium: Review and assessment, Earth-Science Reviews, v.161, p.1-15.

  9. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Sinha, R., Petrie, C.A., 2015, Oxygen isotope analysis of single ostracod valves record seasonal lake water variability in paleolake Riwasa (India), Journal of Paleolimnology, v.53, p.35–45.

  10. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2014, Abrupt weakening of the summer monsoon in northwest India ~4100 yr ago. Geology, v. 42, p. 339-342.
    Special media highlights in: Nature University of Cambridge research news The Independent New Scientist The Times of India Science Daily Science Daily Eurekalert!-Science news (AAAS) Business Standard

  11. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Sinha, R., Petrie, C.A., 2014, Abrupt weakening of the Indian summer monsoon at 8.2 kyr B.P. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 391, p. 16-23.

  12. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., and Petrie, C.A., 2011, A climatic record from Paleolake Riwasa, Haryana, India. Manviki, v. 1(2), p. 35-43.


Selected Conference Presentations

  1. Dixit Y., Chua S., Yan YT, Switzer, AD, High-resolution sedimentary records of Holocene hydroclimate variability in the Maritime Continent. AGU 2021 Fall Meeting.

  2. Dixit Y., Chua S., Yan YT, Switzer, AD, Evidence of 8.2-ka event in Southeast Asia inferred from marginal marine sediments off Kallang River Basin, Singapore, EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU21-13902

  3. Dixit Y., Liu Y., Hu Z., Wang X., Exploring the application of Barium isotope systematics as a productivity proxy in Southeast Asian seawater and sediments. 13th International Conference on Paleoceanography, September 2019 Sydney, Australia.

  4. Dix J., Dixit Y., Doss W., Dill R., Chang F., Tripati A., Constraining the outflow of the Amazon River for the past ~40ka using Ba/Ca. GSA Annual Meeting, October 2017 Seattle, Washington, USA.

  5. Dixit Y., Toucanne S., Fontainier C., Jouet G., Bonnin, L., Tripati A., North Mediterranean hydroclimate influences on sapropel deposition. Goldschmidt conference, August 2017 Paris, France.

  6. Defliese W., Dixit Y., Retallack G., Lalonde S., Tripati A., Constraints on Paleoenvironments and Surface Temperatures in the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic and Implications for Metazoan Evolution, August 2017 Paris, France.

  7. Dixit Y., Toucanne S., Fontainier C., Jouet G., Bonnin, L., Tripati A., Rainfall Variability in the North-Central Mediterranean during MIS7 and MIS5: New insights for sapropel deposition. PAGES meeting, May 2017 Zaragoza, Spain.

  8. Dixit Y., Toucanne S., Fontainier C., Jouet G., Bonnin, L., Tripati A., A multi-proxy approach to reconstruct climate variability in the western Mediterranean across the penultimate and last glacial period. AGU 2016 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

  9. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2015, Holocene paleoenvironmental history of the Thar Desert using gypsum deposits in paleolake Karsandi, Rajasthan. XIX INQUA Congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  10. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2015, Seasonal climate variability inferred from oxygen isotopes of single ostracod valves. XIX INQUA Congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan.

  11. Hodell, D.A., Dixit, Y, Petrie, C.A., 2012, Abrupt climate change and the decline of Indus urbanism, AGU 2012 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

  12. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2012, Holocene monsoon variability inferred from palaeolake sediments in NW India. EGU 2012 General Assembly, Vienna.

  13. Dixit, Y, Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2011, A Holocene climate record from palaeolakes in NW India, AGU 2011 Fall Meeting, San Francisco.

  14. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2011, Holocene Palaeoclimate History of the Plains of NW India Inferred from Palaeolake Riwasa, AGU Chapman Conference on Climates, Past Landscapes, and Civilizations in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  15. Dixit, Y., Hodell, D.A., Petrie, C.A., 2010, Paleoclimate record from lake Riwasa, Haryana, India: a stable isotopic study, European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art conference 2010, Vienna.