Publications

Ricketts, M., 2025. Echoes of Tourism: Exploring the Ecological Effects of Habituation in Alpine Wildlife. Food, Energy, and Water (FEW) FMN, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/ZWEC-WS97

Ricketts, M., Mackie, M., Kornfeld, M., Surovell, T., Minkley, T., Kelly, R., Shuman, B., and Ward, N., 2025. Variable microbial taxa importance in buried sediments at three archaeology sites in Wyoming. In prep.

Ricketts, M., 2022. Go Down in History: Variable Microbial Responses to Past and Present Environmental Conditions in Archaeological Soils. University of Wyoming.

Ricketts, M., Mackie, M., Kornfeld, M., Surovell, T., Kelly, R., and Ward, N., 2021. Structure of Fungal and Bacterial Communities in Archaeological Soils Could Inform Regional Biomarker Analysis and Paleoclimate Reconstruction. American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Ricketts, M., Ward, N., Mackie, M. and Surovell, T., 2021. Evaluating potential time signatures within extant microbial communities in stratified soils at the La Prele Mammoth site. Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Ricketts, M., Ward, N., Mackie, M., and Surovell, T., 2020. Microbial community structure within stratified soils at the La Prele Mammoth site. Society for American Archaeology Conference, Austin, TX

Ricketts, M., Ward, N., and Surovell, T., 2019. Analysis of microbial community structure in archaeological soils from the La Prele mammoth site. NSF-EPSCoR Annual Meeting, Columbia, SC

Ricketts, M., and Ward, N., 2019. DNA-based determination of microbial community structure in soils from the La Prele Mammoth site. Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Albuquerque, NM

Ricketts, M., Bayless, C., Black, M., and Pedulla, M., 2017. Structural differences between tape measure proteins of unique Actinobacteriophage clusters and two novel Montana Mycobacteriophages. SEA-Phages National Meeting, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Sterling, VA

Apple, M. E., Ricketts, M. K., Martin, A. C., & Moritz, D. J. (2022). Distance from Retreating Snowfields Influences Alpine Plant Functional Traits at Glacier National Park, Montana. In Mountain Landscapes in Transition (pp. 331-348). Springer, Cham.

Apple, M.E., Ricketts, M., and Martin, A., 2019. Plant and microbial functional types at the snowfields and periglacial patterned ground of Glacier National Park. Journal of Geographical Sciences, 29(7): 1127-1141.

Ward, N., and Ricketts, M., 2019. Genetic analysis of microbial community structure in soils from the Hell Gap Witness Block. Society For American Archaeology Conference, Albuquerque, NM

Apple, M.E. and Ricketts, M., 2019. What drives the variation of plant functional traits on periglacial patterned ground and along elevational gradients? International Mountain Conference, Innsbruck, Austria

Apple, M.E., Ricketts, M., and Carlson, L., 2015. Rhizomes and Roots of Rare Arctic-Alpine Snowfield Plants on the Edges of Retreating Snowfields at Glacier National Park, Montana. Microscopy and Microanalysis 21(S3): 709-710.