Multimedia

• BBCP Video — August 1, 2013
  Video that documents the planning, drilling, and sampling phases of the BBCP, providing a sort of road map for the development of other scientific continental drilling projects.
• Washakie Museum and Cultural Center — July 21, 2012
  Video of presentation by Will Clyde at the Washakie Museum providing an overview of the BBCP

Journal Articles

• Scientific Drilling — October, 2013
  Bighorn Basin Coring Project (BBCP): a continental perspective on early Paleogene hyperthermals
  William C. Clyde, Scott L. Wing, Philip D. Gingerich

• American Geophysical Union - EOS — January, 2012
  Coring Project in Bighorn Basin: Drilling Phase Complete
  William C. Clyde, Scott L. Wing, Philip D. Gingerich

• Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences — May 2011
  The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: A Perturbation of Carbon Cycle, Climate, and Biosphere with Implications for the Future
  Vol. 39: 489-516 (Volume publication date May 2011)
  DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040610-133431
  Francesca A. McInerney, and Scott L. Wing

  During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), 56 Mya, thousands of petagrams of carbon were released into the ocean-atmosphere system with attendant changes in the carbon cycle, climate, ocean chemistry, and marine and continental ecosystems. The period of carbon release is thought to have lasted <20 ka, the duration of the whole event was 200 ka, and the global temperature increase was 5–8°C. Terrestrial and marine organisms experienced large shifts in geographic ranges, rapid evolution, and changes in trophic ecology, but few groups suffered major extinctions with the exception of benthic foraminifera. The PETM provides valuable insights into the carbon cycle, climate system, and biotic responses to environmental change that are relevant to long-term future global changes.

News Articles

• Billings Gazette — August 25, 2012
  Guest opinion: Bighorn Basin's geologic past may be key to our future
• Nebraska Star-Herald — January 27, 2012
  Wyoming rocks used for global warming study
• Billings Gazette — January 22, 2012
  Scientists study runaway warming through Wyoming rocks
• Casper Star Tribune — January 1, 2012
  Wyoming rocks could unlock earth's warming cycle
• National Geographic article on the PETM and Bighorn Basin — October 2011
  Hothouse Earth
• UPI.com — July 2011
  Scientists seek ancient climate clues