Peer-Reviewed Publications
* = Mentored graduate or undergraduate student.

  • Krissansen-Totton, J. (2023). Implications of atmospheric non-detections for Trappist-1 inner planets on atmospheric retention prospects for outer planets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 951, L39. DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/acdc26
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J. and Fortney, J. J. (2022). Predictions for Observable Atmospheres of Trappist-1 Planets from a Fully Coupled Atmosphere–Interior Evolution Model. The Astrophysical Journal 933 115. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac69cb
 
  • Gillmann, C., Way, M. J., Avice, G., Breur, D., Golabek, G. J., Honing, D., Krissansen-Totton, J. et al. (2022). Long-Term Atmosphere Interior Evolution of Venus. Space Science Reviews Volume 218, 56.
 
  • Thompson*, M., Krissansen-Totton, J., M., Galloway*, Wogan*, N., Telus, M., Fortney, J. J. (2022). The Case and Context for Atmospheric Methane as an Exoplanet Biosignature. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2117933119.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Thompson*, M., Galloway*, M., Fortney, J. J. (2022). Understanding planetary context to enable exoplanet life detection and test the Copernican principle. Nature Astronomy. DOI: 10.1038/s41550-021-01579-7.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Fortney, J. J., Nimmo, F. (2021). Was Venus ever habitable? Constraints from a coupled interior-atmosphere-redox evolution model. The Planetary Science Journal. DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ac2580.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Fortney, J. J., Nimmo, F., Wogan*, N. (2021). Oxygen false positives on habitable zone planets around sun-like stars. AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000294. DOI: 10.1029/2020AV000294.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Galloway*, M., Wogan*, N., Dhaliwal, J., Fortney, J. J. (2021). Waterworlds probably do not experience magmatic outgassing, ApJ, 913.2: 107. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abf560
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Kipp, M., and D. C. Catling (2021). Inverse modeling of carbon isotope record suggests changes in organic burial could explain Great Oxidation Event. Geobiology. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12440.
 
  • Kipp, M., Krissansen-Totton, J., Catling D. C. (2021); High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth's early carbon cycle. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. DOI: 10.1029/2020GB006707.
 
  • Wogan*, N., Krissansen-Totton, J., & Catling, D. C. (2020). Abundant atmospheric methane from volcanism on terrestrial planets is unlikely and strengthens the case for methane as a biosignature, The Planetary Science Journal. 1(58). DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/abb99e
 
  • Taylor, J., Parmentier, V., Irwin, P., Aigrain, S., Lee, G., Krissansen-Totton, J. (2020). Understanding and mitigating biases when studying inhomogeneous emission spectra with JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 493(3). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa552
 
  • Lehmer, O., Catling, D.C., Krissansen-Totton, J. (2020). Atmospheric CO2 on Earth-like Exoplanets around Sun-like Stars: How Carbonate-Silicate Cycle Predictions Modify the Habitable Zone Hypothesis and Allow for its Testing. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19896-2.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J. and D. C. Catling (2020). A coupled carbon-silicon cycle model over Earth history: Reverse weathering as a possible explanation of a warm mid-Proterozoic climate. Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 537: DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116181.
 
  • Kadoya, S., J. Krissansen-Totton, D. C. Catling (2019). Probable cold and alkaline surface environment of the Hadean earth caused by impact ejecta weathering. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21 (1), DOI: 10.1029/2019GC008734
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., R. Garland, P. Irwin & D. C. Catling (2018). Detectability of biosignatures in anoxic atmospheres with the James Webb Space Telescope: A TRAPPIST-1e case study, The Astronomical Journal, 156, 3, DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/aad564.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., G. Arney, D. C Catling (2018). Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, DOI:10.1073/pnas.1721296115.
 
  • Sholes, S., J. Krissansen-Totton, D. C. Catling (2018). A Maximum Subsurface Biomass on Mars from Untapped Free Energy: Carbon Monoxide as an Anti-biosignature, Astrobiology, DOI: 10.1089/ast.2018.1835.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., S. Olson, D. C Catling (2018). Disequilibrium biosignatures over Earth history and implications for detecting exoplanet life, Science Advances, 4, eaao5747. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aao5747.
 
  • Catling, D. C., J. Krissansen-Totton, N. Y. Kiang, D. Crisp, T. D. Robinson, S. DasSarma, A. Rushby, A. Del Genio, W. Bains, S. Domagal-Goldman (2018). Exoplanet biosignatures: A framework for their assessment, Astrobiology, 18, 709-738, 2018. DOI:10.1089/ast.2017.1737
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J. and D. C. Catling (2017). Constraining climate sensitivity and continental versus seafloor weathering using an inverse geological carbon cycle model, Nature Communications, DOI:10.1038/NCOMMS15423.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J. and D. C. Catling (2017), The Search for another Earth and life elsewhere. In What is Life? On Earth and Beyond (Ed. A. Losch), Cambridge Univ. Press. E-print available here.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., E. W. Schwieterman, B. Charnay, G. Arney, T. D. Robinson, V. Meadows, D. C. Catling (2016). Is the Pale Blue Dot unique? Optimized photometric bands for identifying Earth-like exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal 817 (1), 31.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., D. Bergsman, D. C. Catling (2016), On detecting biospheres from chemical thermodynamic disequilibrium in planetary atmospheres, Astrobiology, 16, 39-67.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., R. Buick, D. C. Catling (2015). A statistical analysis of the carbon isotope record from the Archean to Phanerozoic and implications for the rise of oxygen, American Journal of Science, 315 (4), 275-316.
 
  • Misra, A., J. Krissansen-Totton, M. C. Koehler, S. Sholes (2015). Transient sulfate aerosols as a signature of exoplanet volcanism, Astrobiology, 15(6), 462-477.
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., and R. Davies (2013), Investigation of cosmic ray–cloud connections using MISR, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 5240–5245.
 
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