Selected Publications

Ricketts, M., Mackie, M., Surovell, T., and Ward, N., 2022. The influence of past and present environmental conditions on extant bacteria in buried soils at the La Prele mammoth site. Under review at ISME Communications.

Ricketts, M., Mackie, M., Kornfeld, M., Surovell, T., Kelly, R., Shuman, B., and Ward, N., 2022. 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. Ph.D. Dissertation Submitted to the University of Wyoming Program in Ecology.

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. SAA 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

Lai, M., Ricketts, M., Ward, N.L., and Robinson, T., 2022. Sources of spurious correlations in microbiome data. Under review at Nature Methods.

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