Tierney J.E, Oppo D.W, Rosenthal Y., Russell J.M, Linsley B.K.  2010.  Coordinated hydrological regimes in the Indo-Pacific region during the past two millennia. Paleoceanography. 25

Tierney J.E, Russell J.M, Huang Y.S.  2010.  A molecular perspective on Late Quaternary climate and vegetation change in the Lake Tanganyika basin, East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(5-6):787-800.

Tierney J.E, Russell J.M.  2007.  Abrupt climate change in southeast tropical Africa influenced by Indian monsoon variability and ITCZ migration. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(15)

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C.  2007.  Little Ice Age drought in equatorial Africa: Intertropical Convergence Zone migrations and El Nino-Southern Oscillation variability RID C-1423-2010. Geology. 35(1):21-24.

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C.  2007.  Little Ice Age drought in quatorial Africa: ITCZ migrations and ENSO variability. geology. 35:21-24.

Russell J.M, Verschuren D., Eggermont H..  2007.  Spatial complexity of 'Little Ice Age' climate in East Africa: sedimentary records from two crater lake basins in western Uganda. Holocene. 17(2):183-193.

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C.  2005.  An equatorial harmonic of the high latitude 1500-year cycle. Geophysical Research Letters. 32

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C.  2005.  A high-resolution geochemical record from Lake Edward, Uganda Congo and the timing and causes of tropical African drought during the late Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 24(12-13):1375-1389.

Brooks K., Scholz C.A, King J.W, Peck J., Overpeck J.T, Russell J.M, Amoako P.YO.  2005.  Late-Quaternary lowstands of lake Bosumtwi, Ghana: evidence from high-resolution seismic-reflection and sediment-core data. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 216(3-4):235-249.

Beuning K.RM, Russell J.M.  2004.  Vegetation and sedimentation in the Lake Edward Basin, Uganda-Congo during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. Journal of Paleolimnology. 32(1):1-18.

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C, Talbot M.R.  2003.  A 725 yr cycle in the climate of central Africa during the late Holocene. Geology. 31(8):677-680.

Russell J.M, Johnson T.C, Kelts K.R, Laerdal T., Talbot M.R.  2002.  An 11,000 year lithostratigraphic and paleohydrologic record from equatorial Africa: Lake Edward, Uganda-Congo. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 193:25-49.

Laerdal T., Talbot M.R, Russell J.M.  2002.  Late Quaternary sedimentation and climate in the Lake Edward and George area, Uganda-Congo. The East African Great Lakes: Limnology, Palaeolimnology, and Biodiversity. :429-470.

Beuning K.RM, Kelts K.R, Russell J.M, Wolfe B.B.  2002.  Reassessment of Lake Victoria?Upper Nile River paleohydrology from oxygen isotope records of lake-sediment cellulose. Geology. 30(6):559-562.