Working Papers
R. E. Kopp and B. K. Mignone (2011). The U.S. government’s social cost of carbon estimates after their first year: Pathways for improvement. Economics Discussion Paper, No. 2011-16.
R. E. Kopp, A. Golub, N. O. Keohane and C. Onda (2011). The influence of the specification of climate change damages on the social cost of carbon. Economics Discussion Paper, No. 2011-22.
Journal articles
C. A. Katsman, A. Sterl, J. J. Beersma, H. W. van den Brink, J. A. Church, W. Hazeleger, R. E. Kopp, D. Kroon, J. Kwadijk, R. Lammersen, J. Lowe, M. Oppenheimer, H.-P. Plag, J. Ridley, H. von Storch, D. G. Vaughan, P. Vellinga, L. L. A. Vermeersen, R. S. W. van de Wal, and R. Weisse (2011). Exploring high-end scenarios for local sea level rise to develop flood protection strategies for a low-lying delta – the Netherlands as an example. Climatic Change 109:617-645, doi:10.1007/s10584-011-0037-5. [Journal link]
C. Kousky, R. E. Kopp and R. M. Cooke (2011). Risk premia and the social cost of carbon: a review. Economics 5: 2011-21, doi: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2011-21. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, J. X. Mitrovica, S. M. Griffies, J. Yin, C. C. Hay and R. J. Stouffer (2010). The impact of Greenland melt on regional sea level: a partially coupled analysis of dynamic and static equilibrium effects in idealized water-hosing experiments. Climatic Change 103:619-625, doi:10.1007/s10584-010-9935-1. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp and D. L. Mauzerall (2010). Assessing the climatic benefits of black carbon mitigation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 107: 11703-11708, doi:10.1073/pnas.0909605107. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, F. J. Simons, J. X. Mitrovica, A. C. Maloof, and M. Oppenheimer (2009). Probabilistic assessment of sea level during the last interglacial stage. Nature 462: 863-867, doi:10.1038/nature08686. [Data for figure 4a-b] [Supplemental: Database | Code] [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, D. S. Powars, L. V. Godfrey, N. L. Swanson-Hysell, A. C. Maloof, and H. Vali (2009). An Appalachian Amazon? Magnetofossil evidence for the development of a tropical river-like system in the mid-Atlantic U.S. during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Paleoceanography 24: PA4211, doi:10.1029/2009PA001783. [Journal link]
D. Morrow, R. E. Kopp, and M. Oppenheimer (2009). Toward ethical norms and institutions for climate engineering research. Environ. Res. Lett. 4: 045106, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/045106. [Journal link]
J. L. Kirschvink and R. E. Kopp (2008). Palaeoproterozoic ice houses and the evolution of oxygen-mediating enzymes: the case for a late origin of photosystem II. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 363: 2755-2765, doi:10.1098/rstb.2008.0024. [Journal link]
J. L. Kirschvink, R. E. Kopp, T. D. Raub, C. T. Baumgartner, and J. W. Holt (2008). Rapid, precise, and high-sensitivity acquisition of paleomagnetic and rock magnetic data: Development of a low-noise automatic sample changing system for superconducting rock magnetometers. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 9, Q05Y01, doi:10.1029/2007GC001856. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp and J. L. Kirschvink (2008). The identification and biogeochemical interpretation of fossil magnetotactic bacteria. Earth Sci. Rev. 86: 42-61, doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2007.08.001. [Journal link]
D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, R. E. Kopp, J-L. Guerquin-Kern, T-D. Wu, I. Rouiller, A. V. Smirnov, S. K. Sears, U. Leucken, R. Hesse, J. L. Kirschvink, and H. Vali (2008). Gigantism in Unique Biogenic Magnetite at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 105: 17648-17653, doi:10.1073/pnas.0803634105. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, T. D. Raub, D. Schumann, H. Vali, A. V. Smirnov, and J. L. Kirschvink (2007). Magnetofossil Spike During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Ferromagnetic Resonance, Rock Magnetic, and Electron Microscopy Evidence from Ancora, New Jersey, USA. Paleoceanography 22: PA4103, doi:10.1029/2007PA001473. [Journal link]
A. C. Maloof, R. E. Kopp, J. P. Grotzinger, D. A. Fike, T. Bosak, H. Vali, P. M. Poussart, B. P. Weiss, and J. L. Kirschvink (2007). Sedimentary iron cycling and the origin and preservation of magnetization in platform carbonate muds, Andros Island, Bahamas. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 259: 581-598, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.021. [Journal link]
A. Kobayashi, J. L. Kirschvink, C. Z. Nash, R. E. Kopp, D. A. Sauer, L. E. Bertani, W. F. Voorhout, and T. Taguchi (2006). Experimental observation of magnetosome chain collapse in magnetotactic bacteria: Sedimentological, paleontological, and evolutionary implications. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 245: 538-550, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.041. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, C. Z. Nash, A. Kobayashi, B. P. Weiss, D. A. Bazylinski, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy for assessment of magnetic anisotropy and magnetostatic interactions: A case study of mutant magnetotactic bacteria. J. Geophys. Res. B 111, B12S25, doi:10.1029/2006JB004529. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, B. P. Weiss, A. C. Maloof, H. Vali, C. Z. Nash, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Chains, clumps, and strings: magnetofossil taphonomy with ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 247: 10-25, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2006.05.001. [Journal link]
M. Liang, H. Hartman, R. E. Kopp, J. L. Kirschvink, and Y. L. Yung (2006). Production of hydrogen peroxide in the atmosphere of a Snowball Earth and the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 103: 18896-18899, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608839103. [Journal link]
Y. Suzuki, R. E. Kopp, et al (2006). Sclerite formation in the hydrothermal-vent "scaly-foot" gastropod -- possible control of iron sulfide biomineralization by the animal. Earth Planet. Sci. Let. 242: 39-50, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2005.11.029. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp, J. L. Kirschvink, I. A, Hilburn, and C. Z. Nash (2005). The Paleoproterozoic Snowball Earth: A climate disaster triggered by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102: 11131-11136, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504878102. [Journal link]
B. P. Weiss, S. S. Kim, J. L. Kirschvink, R. E. Kopp, M. Sankaran, A. Kobayashi, and A. Komeili (2004). Ferromagnetic resonance and low-temperature magnetic tests for biogenic magnetite. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 224: 73-89, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2004.04.024. [Journal link]
B. P. Weiss, S. S. Kim, J. L. Kirschvink, R. E. Kopp, M. Sankaran, A. Kobayashi, and A. Komeili (2004). Magnetic tests for magnetosome chains in Martian meteorite ALH84001. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 101: 8281-4, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402292101. [Journal link]
R. E. Kopp and M. Humayun (2003). Kinetic model of carbonate dissolution in Martian meteorite ALH84001. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67, 3247-3256, doi:10.1016/S0016-7037(02)01114-6. [Journal link]
Reports, book chapters, and theses
D. R. Morrow, R. E. Kopp and M. Oppenheimer (forthcoming). Political legitimacy in decisions about experiments in solar radiation management. In: Geoengineering the Climate: Law, Ethics, and Policy Considerations. (W. C. G. Burns and A. Strauss, eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Contributing author to: Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, United States Government (2010). Appendix 15a. Social cost of carbon for regulatory impact analysis under Executive Order 12866. In: Final Rule Technical Support Document (TSD): Energy Efficiency Program for Commercial and Industrial Equipment: Small Electric Motors, U.S. Department of Energy.
K. L. Bice, A. G. Eil, B. Habib, P. L. Heijmans, R. E. Kopp, J. P. Nogues, F. L. Norcross, M. Sweitzer-Hamilton, A. Whitworth and D. L. Mauzerall (2009). Black Carbon: A Review and Policy Recommendations. Princeton, NJ: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
C. Katsman, J. Church, R. Kopp, D. Kroon, M. Oppenheimer, H.-P. Plag, S. Rahmstorf, J. Ridley, H. von Storch, D. Vaugh, and R. van der Wal (2008). High-end projection for local sea level rise along the Dutch coast in 2100 and 2200. In: Exploring high-end climate change scenarios for flood protection of the Netherlands: an international scientific assessment, P. Vellinga, C. A. Katsman, A. Sterl, and J. J. Beersma, eds. Wageningen, the Netherlands: KNMI and Wageningen UR (Alterra, Earth System Science and Climate Change Group). [published in Dutch]
R. E. Kopp (2007). The identification and interpretation of microbial biogeomagnetism. Ph.D. thesis in Geobiology (J. L. Kirschvink, advisor). Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. 190 pp.
R. E. Kopp (2002). Evidence for Antarctic alteration of Martian meteorite ALH84001. Senior thesis (M. Humayun, advisor). Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 37 pp.
Journal volumes
Guest co-editor (with R. Tol and S. Waldhoff), Economics special issue (forthcoming). The Social Cost of Carbon.
Guest co-editor (with A. Marten and K. Caradamone), Climatic Change special issue (forthcoming). Improving the Assessment and Valuation of Climate Change Impacts for Policy and Regulatory Analysis.
Popular publications
Geology reader for S. Darksyde and M. Sumner (2006). Kosmos: You are Here . YearlyKos.org. Electronic book.
Ghostwriter for J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Red Earth, White Earth, Green Earth, Black Earth. Engineering & Science No. 4: 10-20.
R. E. Kopp and J. L. Kirschvink (2004). The world's worst climate disaster. In: Miracle Planet II: The Evolution of Our World . Tokyo: NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). [published in Japanese]
Selected presentations and abstracts
(Invited talks are indicated by a *)
* R. E. Kopp (2011). Searching for the geographic fingerprints of past and future sea level change amid uncertainty. Princeton University Department of Geosciences Solid Earth Brown Bag, Princeton, NJ, October 2011.
* R. E. Kopp (2011). Searching for the geographic fingerprints of past and future sea level change amid uncertainty. PALSEA Workshop, Cambridge, MA, August 2011.
* R. E. Kopp (2011). Macroeconomic rebound, Jevons’ paradox, and economic development. Carnegie Mellon University Center for Environmental Decision Making Workshop on “Energy Efficiency and the Rebound Effect,” Washington, DC, June 2011.
* R. E. Kopp (2011). Incorporating Deep Time and the Long Now into policy and regulatory analysis: Lessons from a social cost of carbon assessment. University of Chicago Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, May 2011.
* R. E. Kopp, J. X. Mitrovica, S. M. Griffies, J. Yin, C. C. Hay and R. J. Stouffer (2010). Dynamic and static equilibrium sea level effects of Greenland Ice Sheet melt: An assessment of partially-coupled idealized water hosing experiments. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2010.
* R. E. Kopp, F. J. Simons, J. X. Mitrovica, A. C. Maloof and M. Oppenheimer (2010). Last Interglacial Sea Level: A Bayesian approach to integrating geological data and physical models. PALSEA Workshop, Bristol, UK, September 2010.
* R. E. Kopp (2010). Department of Energy Office of Policy & International Affairs and Climate Change Technology Program impacts activities and needs. Energy Modeling Forum Workshop on Climate Change Impacts and Integrated Assessment, Snowmass, CO, July 2010.
* R. E. Kopp (2010). New approaches in domestic and international climate policy. Princeton Environmental Institute Energy Group seminar, Princeton, NJ, April 2010.
* R. E. Kopp (2010). Probabilistic assessment of local and global sea level during the Last Interglacial stage. Harvard ClimaTea seminar, Cambridge, MA, March 2010.
R. E. Kopp, D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, D. S. Powars, L. V. Godfrey, N. L. Swanson-Hysell, A. C. Maloof, and H. Vali (2009). An Appalachian Amazon? Magnetofossil evidence for the development of a tropical river-like system in the mid-Atlantic U.S. during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.
D. S. Powars, L. E. Edwards, R. E. Kopp, J. Self-Trail, and A. Schultz (2009). The PETM in the mid-Atlantic Coastal Plain: A widespread record of unique climate signatures in shallow-shelf Marlboro Clay. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.
T. D. Raub and R. E. Kopp (2009). Global paleogeographic uncertainty at the PETM. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2009.
R. E. Kopp, F. J. Simons, Jerry X. Mitrovica, A. C. Maloof, and M. Oppenheimer (2009). Local and global sea level during the Last Interglacial: A probabilistic assessment. AGU Chapman Conference on Abrupt Climate Change, Columbus, OH, June 2009.
R. E. Kopp, F. J. Simons, A. C. Maloof, D. Kroon, S. Jung, and M. Oppenheimer (2009). Hazard and Rates of Sea Level Rise: What can we learn from the Last Interglacial? Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges & Decisions. Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2009.
R. E. Kopp, F. J. Simons, A. C. Maloof, and M. Oppenheimer (2008). Local and global sea level during the Last Interglacial: A Gaussian process approach. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2008.
* R. E. Kopp, D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, J. L. Kirschvink, and H. Vali (2008). Magnetic microbes and the transformation of the iron cycle under severe global warming in the initial Eocene. Twelfth International Symposium on Microbial Ecology, Cairns, Australia. August 2008.
R. E. Kopp, D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, J. L. Kirschvink, and H. Vali (2008). A magnetofossil lagerstätte: the North American Atlantic Coastal Plain during severe global warming in the initial Eocene. Workshop on Magnetotactic Bacteria, Balatonfüred, Hungary, July 2008.
R. E. Kopp and J. L. Kirschvink (2008). The identification of magnetofossils, from the Neogene to the Precambrian. Workshop on Magnetotactic Bacteria, Balatonfüred, Hungary, July 2008.
* R. E. Kopp (2008). A magnetic mystery: the transformation of the iron cycle under severe global warming in the initial Eocene. Lafayette College Geology department seminar, Easton, PA, February 2008.
* R. E. Kopp (2008). Tracing biological magnetism in sediments: from modern bacteria to ancient global warming. MIT Chemical Oceanography and Biogeochemistry seminar, Cambridge, MA, February 2008.
* R. E. Kopp (2008). Tracing biological magnetism in sediments: from modern bacteria to ancient global warming. Rutgers University Earth & Planetary Sciences department seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, February 2008.
R. E. Kopp and J. L. Kirschvink (2007). A scoring scheme for evaluating magnetofossil identifications. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
S. M. Tikoo, R. E. Kopp, A. V. Smirnov, T. D. Raub, D. Schumann, H. Vali, and J. L. Kirschivnk (2007). Testing the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum Magnetofossil Spike Hypothesis. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
D. Schumann, T. D. Raub, R. E. Kopp, S. M. Tikoo, S. K. Sears, U. Leucken, I. Rouiller, A. V. Smirnov, J. L. Kirschvink, and H. Vali (2007). Possible Eukaryotic Magnetite in the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary Clay, Ancora, New Jersey. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December 2007.
R. E. Kopp, T. D. Raub, D. Schumann, H. Vali, A. V. Smirnov, and J. L. Kirschvink (2007). Magnetofossil spike during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Ferromagnetic resonance, rock magnetic, and electron microscopy evidence from the Atlantic Coastal Plain of New Jersey. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, Paper 183-11, October 2007.
* R. E. Kopp, A. C. Maloof, B. P. Weiss, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Assessing the source of magnetization in sediments with rock magnetism and ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Paper No. 164-6, October 2006.
A. C. Maloof, R. E. Kopp, J. P. Grotzinger, B. P. Weiss, H. Vali, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). The origin and preservation of magnetization in platformal carbonate muds, Andros Island, Bahamas. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Paper No. 164-7, October 2006
* R. E. Kopp (2006). Developing tools for unlocking Earth history from a magnetotactic bacterium’s perspective. University of Johannesburg Geology department seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa, September 2006.
* R. E. Kopp, C. Z. Nash, B. P. Weiss, A. C. Maloof, A. Kobayashi, H. Vali, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Identifying magnetotactic bacteria and their fossils with ferromagnetic resonance. Goldschmidt Conference, Melbourne, Australia, Abstract No. 206.00, August 2006.
* R. E. Kopp, C. Z. Nash, B. P. Weiss, A. C. Maloof, A. Kobayashi, H. Vali, and J. L. Kirschvink (2006). Identifying magnetotactic bacteria and their fossils with ferromagnetic resonance. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Riverside, CA, April 2006.
R. E. Kopp, B. P. Weiss, J. L. Kirschvink, C. Z. Nash, and A. C. Maloof (2006). Fossil magnetotactic bacteria: an iron biosignature. Astrobiology Science Conference, Washington, DC, Astrobiology 6(1), Abstract 20, March 2006.
R. E. Kopp, J. L. Kirschvink, B. P. Weiss, and A. C. Maloof (2005). Identification of magnetosome chains by ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B24A-03, December 2005.
A. C. Maloof, J. P. Grotzinger, R. E. Kopp, B. P. Weiss, H. Vali, and J. L. Kirschvink (2005). On the origin of magnetization in platformal carbonate muds. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract B24A-07, December 2005
J. L. Kirschvnk and R. E. Kopp (2005). A Paleoproterozoic origin of oxygenic photosynthesis as a trigger for the Makganyene Snowball Earth. Earth System Processes 2, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Paper No. 11-7, August 2005.
R. E. Kopp, J. L. Kirschvink, and B. P. Weiss (2005). Magnetofossils as a novel tracer of ancient microbial communities and environments. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Los Angeles, CA, April 2005
R. E. Kopp, C. Z. Nash, J. L. Kirschvink, and J. R. Leadbetter (2004). A possible magnetite/maghemite battery in the magnetotactic bacteria. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract GP34A-06, December 2004.
* R. E. Kopp, B. P. Weiss, S. S. Kim, and J. L. Kirschvink (2004). Ferromagnetic resonance spectroscopy in the hunt for magnetofossils. Institute for Rock Magnetism Santa Fe 6, Santa Fe, NM, June 2004.
R. E. Kopp, C. Z. Nash, and J. L. Kirschvink (2004). Magnetosome batteries, magnetofossils, and the evolution of the planetary redox state. Southern California Geobiology Symposium, Pasadena, CA, February 2004
* R. E. Kopp, J. L. Kirschvink, D. K. Newman, C. Z. Nash, and I. A. Hilburn (2003). Bacterial Bolsheviks: PS II and the evolution of the oxygenic revolution. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Eos Trans. AGU 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract U52B-07, December 2003.
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