Peer-Reviewed Publications
* = Mentored graduate or undergraduate student, ** = Primary advisor

In preparation/under review/in revision:
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Ulses**, A.G., Frissell**, Gilbert-Janizek*, S., Young, A., Lustig-Yaeger, J.,  Robinson, T., Olson, S., Alei, E., Arney, G., Hagee, C., Harman, C., Hinkel, N., Lafleche, E., Latouf, N., Mandell, A., Moussa, M. M., Parenteau, N., Ranjan, S., Russell, B., Schwieterman, E. W., Sousa-Silva, C., Tokadjian, A., Wogan, N. (2026). Wavelength Requirements for Life Defection via Reflected Light Spectroscopy of Rocky Exoplanets. In revision at Astrobiology. 

  • Ih, J., Kempton, E. M. R., Diamond-Lowe, H., Krissansen-Totton, J., Mansfield, M. W., Xue, Q., Wogan, N., Nixon, M. C., Hord, B. J. (2026). Do Rocky Planets around M Stars Have Atmospheres? A Statistical Approach to the Cosmic Shoreline. arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08253. 

  • Benneke, B., Roy, P.-A., Coulombe, L.-P., Radica, M., Ahrer, E.-M., Piaulet, C., Krissansen-Totton J., Schlichting, H. E., Hu, R., Yang, J., Christie, D., Thorngren, D., Young, E. D., Pelletier, S., Knutson, H. A., Miguel, Y., Evans-Soma, T. M., Dorn, C., Gagnebin, A., Fortney, J. J., Komacek, T., MacDonald, R., Raul, E., Cloutier, R., Acuna, L., Lafrenière, D., Cadieux, C., Doyon, R., Welbanks, L., Allart, R. (2026). JWST Reveals CH4, CO2, and H2O in a Metal-rich Miscible Atmosphere on a 2.2 R⊕ Sub-Neptune. In revision at ApJ.
 
Published/in press:
  • Gilbert-Janizek*, S., Lustig-Yaeger, J., and Krissansen-Totton, J. (2026). The effect of spectral resolution on biosignature detection via reflected observations of the Earth. In press ApJ.

  • Wogan, N., Batalha, N., Krissansen-Totton, J., Zahnle, K., Meadows, V., Young, A. V., Sneed, E. L., Schwieterman, E. (2026). Toward Inferring the Surface Fluxes of Biogenic Gases on Rocky Exoplanets from Telescope Spectra. In press ApJ.

  • White-Gianella**, H., Krissansen-Totton, J. (2026). Carbon Cycle Imbalances on Arid Terrestrial Planets with Implications for Venus. The Planetary Sciences Journal. 7, 79. DOI:10.3847/PSJ/ae4faa

  • Ulses**, A. G., Krissansen-Totton, J., Robinson, T., Meadows, V., Catling, C., Fortney, J. (2025). Detecting land with reflected light spectroscopy to rule out waterworld O2 biosignature false positives. The Astrophysical Journal, 990, 48. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/adec69

  • Lichtenberg, T., Schaefer, L., Krissansen-Totton, J., Miguel, Y., Sergeev, D. E., Baumeister, P., Cmiel, J., Janssen, L. J., Nguyen, T. G., Miyazaki, Y., Nicholls, H., Papesh**, A., Pelissard, H., Peng, B., Perez, J., Postolec, E., Sastre, M., Salvador, A., Spreeuw, H., Zorzi, A., Fauchez, T. J., Hamano, K., Leconte, J., Maurice, M., Noack, L., Soucasse, L. (2026). Coupled atmospHere Interior modeL Intercomparison (CHILI) Protocol Version 1.0: A CUISINES Intercomparison Project of Magma Ocean Models. In press at PSJ.

  • Wogan, N., Batalha, N., Zahnle, K., Krissansen-Totton, J., Catling, D. C., Wolf, E. T., Robinson, T. D., Meadows, V., Arney, G., Domagal-Goldman, S. (2025). The Open-source Photochem Code: A General Chemical and Climate Model for Interpreting (Exo)Planet Observations. The Planetary Science Journal, 6(11), 256. DOI:10.3847/PSJ/ae0e1c

  • Coulombe, L.P., Benneke, B., Krissansen-Totton, J., L’Heureux, A., Piaulet-Ghorayeb, C., Radica, M., Roy, P.A., Ahrer, E.M., Cadieux, C., Miguel, Y., Schlichting, H. E., Delgado-Mena, E., Monaghan, C., Adamski, H., Raul, E., Cloutier, R., Komacek, T. D., Taylor, J., Gapp, C., Allart, R., Bouchy, F., Canto Martins, B. L., Cook, N. C., Doyon, R., Evans-Soma, T. M., Larue, P., Mascareño, A. S., Wardenie, J. P. (2025). Possible Evidence for the Presence of Volatiles on the Warm Super-Earth TOI-270 b. The Astronomical Journal, 170, 4. DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/adfc6a

  • Thomas*, T., Meadows, V. S., Krissansen-Totton, J., Gialluca, M., Wogan, N., Catling, D. C. (2025). Statistical Geochemical Constraints on Present-day Water Outgassing as a Source of Secondary Atmospheres on the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets. The Planetary Science Journal, 6, 126. DOI:10.3847/PSJ/add261

  • Ahrer, E.-M., Radica, M., Piaulet-Ghorayeb, C., Raul, E., Wiser, L., Welbanks, L., Acuña, L., Allart, R., Coulombe, L.-P., Louca, A., MacDonald, R., Saidel, M., Evans-Soma, T.M., Benneke, B., Christie, D., Beatty, T.G., Cadieux, C., Cloutier, R., Doyon, R., Fortney, J.J., Gagnebin, A., Gapp, C., Innes, H., Knutson, H.A., Komacek, T., Krissansen-Totton, J., Miguel, Y., Pierrehumbert, R., Roy, P.-A. and Schlichting, H.E. (2025). Escaping Helium and a Highly Muted Spectrum Suggest a Metal-Enriched Atmosphere on Sub-Neptune GJ3090b from JWST Transit Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 985(1), L10. DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/add010

  • Young, A., Robinson, T., Krissansen-Totton, J., Schwieterman, E.W., Arney, G., Lindberg, G.E. and Thomas, C. (2025). Modern Earth-like Chemical Disequilibrium Biosignatures are Challenging to constrain through Spectroscopic Retrievals. The Astrophysical Journal 986.2 (2025): 206. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/addbd7

  • Kuang, W., Kopparapu, R., Krissansen-Totton, J., Mills, B. J. (2025). Strong link between Earth’s oxygen level and geomagnetic dipole revealed since the last 540 million years. Science Advances. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.adu8826

  • Catling, C., Krissansen-Totton, J., Robinson, T. (2025). Potential technosignature from anomalously low deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) in planetary water depleted by nuclear fusion technology Technosignatures. The Astrophysical Journal, 979, 137. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad99a9

  • Krissansen-Totton, J., Wogan, N., Thompson, M., Fortney, J. J. (2024). The erosion of large primary atmospheres typically leaves behind substantial secondary atmospheres on temperate rocky planets. Nature Communications 15, 8374. DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-52642-6

  • Luu, C.N., Yu, X., Glein, C.R., Innes, H., Aguichine, A., Krissansen-Totton, J., Moses, J.I., Tsai, S.-M., Zhang, X., Truong, N. and Fortney, J.J. (2024). Volatile-rich Sub-Neptunes as Hydrothermal Worlds: The Case of K2-18 b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 977(2), L51. DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad9eb1

  • Huang, Z., Yu, X., Tsai, S.-M., Moses, J.I., Ohno, K., Krissansen-Totton, J., Zhang, X. and Fortney, J.J. (2024). Probing Cold-to-temperate Exoplanetary Atmospheres: The Role of Water Condensation on Surface Identification with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal, 975(1), 146. DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/ad76ac
 
  • Piaulet-Ghorayeb, C., Benneke, B., Radica, M., Raul, E., Coulombe, L.-P., Ahrer, E.-M., Kubyshkina, D., Howard, W.S., Krissansen-Totton, J., MacDonald, R.J., Roy, P.-A., Louca, A., Christie, D., Fournier-Tondreau, M., Allart, R., Miguel, Y., Schlichting, H.E., Welbanks, L., Cadieux, C., Dorn, C., Evans-Soma, T.M., Fortney, J.J., Pierrehumbert, R., Lafrenière, D., Acuña, L., Komacek, T., Innes, H., Beatty, T.G., Cloutier, R., Doyon, R., Gagnebin, A., Gapp, C. and Knutson, H.A. (2024). JWST/NIRISS Reveals the Water-rich “Steam World” Atmosphere of GJ 9827 d. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 974(1), L10. DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad6f00
 
  • de Wit, J., Doyon, R., Rackham, B.V., Lim, O., Ducrot, E., Kreidberg, L., Benneke, B., Ribas, I., Berardo, D., Niraula, P., Iyer, A., Shapiro, A., Kostogryz, N., Witzke, V., Gillon, M., Agol, E., Meadows, V., Burgasser, A.J., Owen, J.E., Fortney, J.J., Selsis, F., Bello-Arufe, A., de Beurs, Z., Bolmont, E., Cowan, N., Dong, C., Drake, J.J., Garcia, L., Greene, T., Haworth, T., Hu, R., Kane, S.R., Kervella, P., Koll, D., Krissansen-Totton, J., Lagage, P.-O., Lichtenberg, T., Lustig-Yaeger, J., Lingam, M., Turbet, M., Seager, S., Barkaoui, K., Bell, T.J., Burdanov, A., Cadieux, C., Charnay, B., Cloutier, R., Cook, N.J., Correia, A.C.M., Dang, L., Daylan, T., Delrez, L., Edwards, B., Fauchez, T.J., Flagg, L., Fraschetti, F., Haqq-Misra, J., Huang, Z., Iro, N., Jayawardhana, R., Jehin, E., Jin, M., Kite, E., Kitzmann, D., Kral, Q., Lafrenière, D., Libert, A.-S., Liu, B., Mohanty, S., Morris, B.M., Murray, C.A., Piaulet, C., Pozuelos, F.J., Radica, M., Ranjan, S., Rathcke, A., Roy, P.-A., Schwieterman, E.W., Turner, J.D., Triaud, A. and Way, M.J. (2024). A roadmap for the atmospheric characterization of terrestrial exoplanets with JWST. Nature Astronomy, 8, 810–818. DOI:10.1038/s41550-024-02298-5
 
  • Wogan, N., Batalha, N. E., Zahnle, K., Krissansen-Totton, J., Tsai, S. M., Hu, R. (2024). JWST observations of K2-18b can be explained by a gas-rich mini-Neptune with no habitable surface. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 963 (1), L7. DOI:10.3847/2041-8213/ad2616
 
  • Young, A. V., Robinson, T., Krissansen-Totton, J., Schwieterman, E.W., Wogan, N.F., Way, M.J., Sohl, L.E., Arney, G.N., Reinhard, C.T., Line, M.R., Catling, D.C. and Windsor, J.D. (2024). Inferring chemical disequilibrium biosignatures for Proterozoic Earth-like exoplanets. Nature Astronomy, 8, 101–110. DOI:10.1038/s41550-023-02145-z
 
  • Hall*, S., Krissansen-Totton, J., Robinson, T., Arnaud, S., Fortney, J. (2023). Constraining Background N2 Inventories on Directly Imaged Terrestrial Exoplanets to rule out O2 False Positives. The Astronomical Journal, 166, 6. DOI:10.3847/1538-3881/ad03e9
 
  • 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., Lammer, H., O’Rourke, J.G., Persson, M., Plesa, A.-C., Salvador, A., Scherf, M. and Zolotov, M.Y. (2022). Long-Term Atmosphere Interior Evolution of Venus. Space Science Reviews Volume 218, 56. DOI:10.1007/s11214-022-00924-0
 
  • 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. DOI:10.3847/0004-637X/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. DOI:10.1089/ast.2015.1327
 
  • 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. DOI:10.2475/04.2015.01
 
  • 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. DOI:10.1089/ast.2014.1204
 
  • Krissansen-Totton, J., and R. Davies (2013). Investigation of cosmic ray–cloud connections using MISR, Geophys. Res. Lett., 40, 5240–5245. DOI:10.1002/grl.50996

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