Education

Ph.D. Yale University, 1981
B.S. Yale College, 1976

Research Interests

I am a biologist interested in evolution and ecology. I study fossils because they provide a long-term record of evolutionary, ecological and environmental change. If properly interpreted that record can say much about process as well as history. I use fossil plants to reconstruct past climates and local environments, and I also study the composition and diversity of floras through time as they respond to changing conditions. My research has focused on the Cretaceous and early Cenozoic - a period of globally warm climate when flowering plants were emerging as the dominant form of terrestrial life. My research is based largely on field work and collections made by me or under my direction. I collect data on the morphology and taxonomy of fossil and analyze them through statistical characterization of trends in morphology, composition or diversity of floras, and comparison of floral change with indicators of environmental change. I also make climatic interpretations based on fossil plants for comparison with paleoclimatic estimates derived from computer simulations.

I have a long-running project examining climatic and floral change across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary, a time of global climatic warming. The project has been directed at quantifying temperature and precipitation change and also change in floral composition and diversity over about 5 million years spanning the boundary. Much of my field work has been in western North America because there are abundant fossils, the stratigraphic and temporal context of the fossils has been established (by me and many others), and study of these areas is interdisciplinary. I have also worked on this project in Pakistan and Argentina.

In a second long-term project I am studying the abundance and diversity of angiosperms in the Late Cretaceous. Angiosperms are the youngest major group of terrestrial organisms, which raises the question: how did they achieve such high diversity and abundance over a relatively brief geological interval (~100 - 60 million years ago)? I have been examining exceptionally preserved, in situ, fossil floras from the Cretaceous in order to establish the relative contribution of angiosperms to vegetational biomass and overall plant diversity in different types of environments. I am using these data to understand the ecological dimensions of this major evolutionary radiation.

I am also a member of a large team of paleobotanists who are adding data (mostly from the literature) on fossil plant assemblages to a web-accessible database maintained at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. In the long run this database will allow us to better quantify changes in the diversity and composition of terrestrial floras across the whole history of life on land. By comparing results compiled from the literature with more detailed studies like the ones I am doing in the Cretaceous and Cenozoic, I hope we will also reach a better understanding of the biases and limitations of the published fossil record.

Why is this research important?
Like any scientific research, my work is important to different constituencies for different reasons.
Humans are adding CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which will change global climate. Climatologists estimate the rate and magnitude of future climate change using general circulation models (GCMs). How accurate are GCMs? Strictly, their predictions can only be tested by waiting to see how climate changes in the decades and centuries ahead, but some idea of their accuracy can be gained by comparing "postdictions" for past times against climate reconstructions for those past times based on fossil plants. Thus my paleoclimate reconstructions based on fossil plants are important to climatologists, and, to the extent that they reveal strengths and weaknesses in GCMs, to policy makers and the public as well.

I have an academic interest in floral change during past periods of global climate, but this work may have practical significance if it reveals the rates and mechanisms by which plants respond to climate change, since these processes are important in predicting the effect of future anthropogenic climate change on natural populations.

Finally, I think there is intrinsic importance to learning about the history of the earth and the organisms that inhabit it. This knowledge can bring about in all of us a greater appreciation for the complexity of nature, it gives us context for our own existence, and it reveals the uniqueness of our current situation - in which we hold a degree of stewardship over the planet.

Research Assistants, Current and Former Post-doctoral Fellows, and Students

Post-Doctoral:

• 2006-2007 Caroline Stromberg (University of California, Berkeley)
• 2004-2006 Steffen Kiel (web link) (Freie Universität, Berlin)
• 2004-2006 Francesca Smith (University of Chicago)
• 2003-2006 Forest Gahn (University of Michigan)
• 2004-2005 Ross Secord (University of Michigan)
• 2002-2003 Guy Harrington (University of Sheffield)
• 2001-2004 Hallie Sims (University of Chicago)
• 2000-2001 Carlos Jaramillo (University of Florida)
• 1999-2000 Henry Fricke (University of Michigan)
• 1997-1998 John Alroy (University of Chicago)
• 1994-1998 Sian Davies-Vollum (Oxford University)
• 1995-1997 Lisa Boucher (University of Kansas)
• 1994-1995 Fleur Tiver (University of Adelaide)
• 1992-1993 David Greenwood (University of Adelaide)
• 1988-1989 Martin Farley (Pennsylvania State University)
• 1987-1989 Robyn Burnham (University of Washington)
• 1986-1988 Susan Mazer (University of California, Davis)

Pre-Doctoral

• 2000- Mandela Lyon, Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania (primary thesis advisor)
• 1998 Carrie Morrill, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz (M.S. thesis committee)
• 1994-1998 Peter Wilf, Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania (primary thesis advisor)
• 1987-89 Kirk Johnson, Dept. of Geology, Yale University (external member, Ph.D. committee)
• 1985-1987 Martin Farley, Ph.D., Dept. of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University (external member, Ph.D. committee)

Summer Interns

• 2006 Shannon Loomis, University of Chicago
• 2005 Elizabeth Lovelock, University of Pennsylvania
• 2004 Anthony Alvarez, University of California Santa Barbara
• 2002 Ellen Currano, University of Chicago
• 2001 David Blackburn, University of Chicago
• 2000 Courtenay Shinn, University of Chicago
• 1999 Noel Heim, University of Chicago
• 1999 Jessie Scott, Wellesley College
• 1998 Josh Chamot, College of William & Mary
• 1988-1996 (23 students from various colleges)

Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology and BEES (Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics) Group, University of Maryland College Park
• Courtesy Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainseville
• Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan
• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Geobiology Group, University of Pennsylvania

Volunteer Positions

• 2006-2008 Editorial Board, Palaios
• 2006-2008 Editorial Board, Palaeoworld
• 2001-2004 Editorial Board, Evolutionary Ecology Research
• 1999-2003 Editorial Board, Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics
• 1995-2001 Co-Editor, Paleobiology, and member of Paleontological Society Council
• 1996-1997 President, Paleontological Society of Washington, D.C.
• 1996-1997 Chair, NMNH Public Programs Committee
• 1995-1997 Paleontological Society Committee for the Geobiology of Critical Intervals
• 1994-1996 Organizing and Program Committees, North American Paleontological Convention VI
• 1994-1995 Chairman, Senate of Scientists, National Museum of Natural History
• 1994 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution Congress of Scholars
• 1994-1995 Environmental Geoscience Advisory Committee, American Geological Institute
• 1993-1994 Treasurer, Senate of Scientists, National Museum of Natural History
• 1990-1993 Co-director, National Museum of Natural History Research Training Program

Symposia/Meetings Organized

• Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene. June 2006. Scientific Committee Member. Bilbao, Spain.
• Causes and Effects of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and Other Paleogene Hyperthermal Events. October 2005. Organized by Scott Wing. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City
• A Global View of Paleogene Floras. March 2004. Organized by Peter Wilf, Kirk Johnson, and Scott Wing. Seventh International Organization of Paleobotany Conference, Bariloche, Argentina.
• Disruptions in Ancient Land Ecosystems: Lessons from the Fossil Record. February 2003. Organized by A.K. Behrensmeyer and S. L. Wing. AAAS Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
• Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene. July 2001. Organized by Scott Wing, Philip Gingerich & Amanda Ash. Sponsored by NSF and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
• Globally Warm Climates of the Early Cenozoic: Evidence, Causes and Biotic Consequences. October 1999. Organized by Scott Wing and Lisa Sloan. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Pardee Symposium.
• Fifth International Organization of Paleobotany Meeting. Vegetation, Climate, and Phytogeography during the Eocene "Greenhouse" Interval. June 1996. Organized by Scott Wing and R. J. Burnham.
• North American Paleontological Convention VI. Model Results and Paleontological Inferences for Greenhouse Intervals in Earth History. June 1996. Organized by Brian Huber, Ken MacLeod & Scott Wing.
• Long-term and short-term views of community stability: implications for evolution. July 1990. Organized by W. A. DiMichele and Scott Wing. 4th Int. Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology.
• Global Change in Earth History, March 1990. National Museum of Natural History Briefing for Congress and Federal Agencies. Organized by Scott Wing. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Office of External Affairs.
• First International Symposium on the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems - The Current Status of Terrestrial Paleoecology. May 1987. Organized by A. K. Behrensmeyer, Scott Wing, W.A. DiMichele and R. Potts. Sponsored by the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program, Smithsonian Institution.
• Short Course on Paleoecological Methods. August 1987. Organized by W.A. DiMichele and Scott Wing. Sponsored by the Paleobotanical Section of the Botanical Society of America.
• Conference and workshop on peat forming environments. January 1987. Organized by Scott Wing and W.A. DiMichele. Cosponsored by the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program and Utah International.

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Publications

Schankler, D. M., B. H. Tiffney, and Wing, S.L. 1978. A guide to the age of mammals. Discovery, supplement 2: 1-47.

Wing, S. L. 1980. Fossil floras and plant-bearing beds of the central Bighorn Basin, in, Gingerich, P.D. (ed.) Early Cenozoic paleontology and stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 24: 119-125.

Bown, T. M., M. J. Kraus, S. L. Wing, B. H. Tiffney, J.G. Fleagle, E. L. Simons, and C. F. Vondra. 1982. The Fayum primate forest revisited. Journal of Human Evolution 11: 603-632.

Wing, S. L. 1984. Impressions of fallen leaves. Earth Science 37: 16-17.

Wing, S. L. 1984. A new basis for recognizing the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in western interior North America. Science 226: 439-441.

Wing, S. L. and L. J. Hickey. 1984. The Platycarya perplex and the evolution of the Juglandaceae. American Journal of Botany 71: 388-411.

Wing, S. L. 1984. Relation of paleovegetation to geometry and cyclicity of some fluvial carbonaceous deposits. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 54: 52-66.

Wing, S. L. and T. M. Bown. 1985. Fine scale reconstruction of late Paleocene-early Eocene paleogeography in the Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming, in, Flores, R.M., and S.S. Kaplan (eds.) Cenozoic Paleogeography of West-Central United States. pp. 93-105.

Brunet, M., Y. Coppens, D. Pilbeam, S. Djallo, A. K. Behrensmeyer, A. Brillanceau, W. Downs, M. Duperon, G. Ekodeck, L. Flynn, E. Heintz, J. Hell, Y. Jehenne, L. Martin, C. Mosser, M. Salard-Cheboldaeff, S. Wenz, and Wing, S.L. 1986. Les formations sedimentaires continentales du Cretace et du Cenozoique camerounais: premiers resultats d'une prospection paleontologique. Compte Rendu Acad. Sc. Paris t. 303, Serie II, no. 5: 425-428.

Wing, S. L. 1987. Eocene and Oligocene flora and vegetation of the northern Rocky Mountains, in C. Miller (ed.) Origin of the northern Rocky Mountain flora. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74: 748-784.

Wing, S. L. and B. H. Tiffney. 1987. Interactions of angiosperms and herbivorous tetrapods through time. in, Friis, E. M., W. G. Chaloner and P. R. Crane (eds.) The Biological Consequences of Angiosperm Origins. Cambridge University Press, England, pp. 203-224.

Wing, S. L. and B. H. Tiffney. 1987. The reciprocal interaction of angiosperm evolution and tetrapod herbivory. Review of Paleobotany and Palynology 50: 179-210.

Wing, S. L. 1988. Depositional environments of plant bearing sediments. in, DiMichele, W. A., and S. L. Wing (eds.) Methods and applications of plant paleoecology: notes for a short course. Paleontological Society of America Special Publication 2: 1-9.

McCartan, L., B. H. Tiffney, J. A. Wolfe, T. A. Ager, S. L. Wing, L. A. Sirkin, L. W. Ward, and J. Brooks. 1990. Late Tertiary flora from upland gravel deposits of the southern Maryland Coastal Plain. Geology 18: 311-314.

Wing, S. L., T. M. Bown, and J. D. Obradovich. 1991. Early Eocene biotic and climatic change in interior western North America. Geology 19: 1189-1192.

Wing, S. L. 1992. High resolution leaf X-radiography in systematics and paleobotany. American Journal of Botany 79: 1320-1324.

Burnham, R. J., Wing, S. L., and Parker, G. G. 1992. Reflection of temperate forest composition and structure in the litter: implications for the fossil record. Paleobiology 18: 34-53.

Wing, S. L., H. D. Sues, R. Potts, W. A. DiMichele, and A. K. Behrensmeyer. 1992. Evolutionary paleoecology. in, Behrensmeyer, A. K., J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H. D. Sues, and S. L. Wing (eds.) Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 1-14.

Wing, S. L., W. A. DiMichele, T. L. Phillips, R. Taggart, B.H. Tiffney, and S. J. Mazer. 1992. Ecological characterization of fossil plants. in, Behrensmeyer, A. K., J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H. D. Sues, and S. L. Wing (eds.) Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 139-180.

Wing, S. L., H. D. Sues, B.H. Tiffney, R. Stucky, D. B. Weishampel, R.A. Spicer, D. Jablonski, C. Badgley, M.V.H. Wilson, and W. L. Kovach. 1992. Mesozoic and early Cenozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. in, Behrensmeyer, A. K., J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H. D. Sues, and S. L. Wing (eds.) Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 327-416.

Wing, S. L., L.J. Hickey, and C.C. Swisher. 1993. Implications of an exceptional fossil flora for Late Cretaceous vegetation. Nature 363: 342-344.

Wing, S. L., and Greenwood, D. R. 1993. Fossils and fossil climate: the case for equable continental interiors in the Eocene. in, Allen, J. R. L., Hoskins, B. J., Sellwood, B. W. & Spicer, R. A. (eds.), Palaeoclimates and their modelling with special reference to the Mesozoic Era. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B. Biological Sciences 341: 243-252.

Bown, T. M., Rose, K. D., Simons, E. L., and Wing, S. L. 1994. Distribution and stratigraphic correlation of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene fossil mammal and plant localities of the Fort Union, Willwood, and Tatman Formations, southern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1540:1-269

Wing, S. L., Hasiotis, S. T., and Bown, T. M. 1994. First ichnofossils of flank-buttressed trees (late Eocene), Fayum Depression, Egypt. Ichnos 3:1-6.

Wing, S. L., Alroy, J., and Hickey, L. J. 1995. Plant and mammal diversity in the Paleocene to early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 115: 117-156.

Greenwood, D. R., and Wing, S. L. 1995. Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients. Geology 23:1044-1048.

Wing, S. L., and DiMichele, W. A. 1995. Conflict between local and global changes in plant diversity through geological time. Palaios 10: 551-564.

Wing, S. L. 1996. Global warming and plant species richness - a case study of the Paleocene/Eocene boundary. in, Reaka-Kudla, M., D. Wilson, and E. O. Wilson (eds.) Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting our Natural Resources. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, pp. 163-185.

Wing, S. L. 1998. Tertiary vegetational history of North America as a context for mammalian evolution. in, Janis, C., L. Jacobs and K. Scott (eds.) Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume I: Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate-like Mammals. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, pp. 37-65.

Davies-Vollum, S. K., and Wing, S. L. 1998. Sedimentological, taphonomic, and climatic aspects of Eocene swamp deposits (Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming). Palaios 13:28-40.

Wilf, P., Wing, S. L., Greenwood, D. R., and Greenwood, C. L. 1998. Using fossil leaves as paleo-rain gauges - an Eocene example. Geology 26:203-206.

Wing, S. L., and Boucher, L. D. 1998. Ecological aspects of the Cretaceous flowering plant radiation. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Science 26:379-421.

Manchester, S.R., Dilcher, D. L., and Wing, S. L. 1998. Attached leaves and fruits of myrtaceous affinity from the middle Eocene of Colorado, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 102:153-163.

Wing, S. L. 1998. Late Paleocene - early Eocene floral and climatic change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. in, M.-P. Aubry, W. A. Berggren and S. Lucas (eds.) Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Biotic and Climatic Events. Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 371-391.

Wing, S. L. (as part of the Leaf Architecture Working Group) 1999. Manual of Leaf Architecture – morphological description and categorization of dicotyledonous and net-veined monocotyledonous angiosperms. Privately published, Washington, DC.

Wing, S. L. 2000. Cool, warm, cool, warm – climate oscillation and floral change during the Paleocene-Eocene boundary interval. GFF 122:182-183.

Wing, S. L., Bao, H., and Koch, P. L. 2000. An early Eocene cool period? Evidence for continental cooling during the warmest part of the Cenozoic. in, Huber, B. T., MacCleod, K., and S. L. Wing (eds.) Warm Climates in Earth History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 197-237.

Wing, S. L. 2000. Evolution and expansion of flowering plants. in, Gastaldo, R. A. and DiMichele, W. A. (eds.) Phanerozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems. The Paleontological Society Papers 6:209-231.

Sewall, J. O., Sloan, L. C., Huber, M., and Wing, S. L. 2000. Climate sensitivity to changes in land surface characteristics. Global And Planetary Change (26)4:445-465.

Wing, S. L. 2001. Hot times in the Bighorn Basin. Natural History 110:48-54.

Royer, D. L., Wing, S. L., Beerling, D. J., Jolley, D. W., Koch, P. L., Hickey, L. J., and Berner, R. A. 2001. Paleobotanical evidence for near present day levels of atmospheric CO2 during part of the Tertiary. Science 292:2310-2313.

Wing, S. L. and Harrington, G. J. 2001. Floral response to rapid warming at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary and implications for concurrent faunal change. Paleobiology 27:539-562.

Royer, D. L., Hickey, L. J., and Wing, S. L. 2003. Paleoecology of Ginkgo. Paleobiology 29:84-104.

Wing, S. L., Harrington, G. J., Bowen, G. J., and Koch, P. L. 2003. Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming. in, Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and E. Thomas (eds.) Causes and Consequences of early Paleogene Warm Climates Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 369:425-440.

Koch, P. L., Clyde, W. C., Heppel, R. P., Fogel, M. L., Wing, S. L., and Zachos, J. C. 2003. Isotopic records of carbon cycle and climate change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. in, Wing, S.L., Gingerich, P.D., Schmitz, B., and E. Thomas (eds.) Causes and Consequences of early Paleogene Warm Climates Geol. Soc. America Special Paper 369:49-64.

Wilf, P. D., Cúneo, N. R., Johnson, K. R., Hicks, J. F., Wing, S. L., and Obradovich, J. D. 2003. High plant diversity in Eocene South America: evidence from Patagonia. Science 300: 122-125.

Greenwood, D.R., Wilf, P., Wing, S.L., and Christophel, D.C. 2004. Paleotemperature Estimation Using Leaf-Margin Analysis: Is Australia Different? Palaios 19:129–142.

Barnosky, Anthony D., Koch, Paul L., Feranec, Robert S., Wing, S. L., and Shabel, Alan B. 2004. Assessing the causes of Late Pleistocene extinctions on the continents. Science 306: 70-75.

Fricke, H., and Wing, S.L. 2004. Oxygen isotope and paleobotanical estimates of temperature and d18O – latitudinal gradients over North America during the early Eocene. American Journal of Science 304:612-635.

DiMichele, W.A., Behrensmeyer, A.K., Olszewski, T.D., Labandeira, C.C., Pandolfi, J.M., Wing, S.L., and Bobe, R. 2004. Long-term stasis in ecological assemblages: evidence from the fossil record. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35:285-322.

Wing, S.L. 2004. Mass extinctions in plant evolution. Pp. 61-98, in, Taylor, P.D. (ed.) Extinctions in the History of Life. Cambridge University Press.

Wing, S.L. 2005. A paleontological perspective on plant extinction. Pp.43-53, in, Krupnick, G., and Kress, J.W. (eds.) Plant Conservation – A Natural History Approach. University of Chicago Press.

Wing, S.L., Harrington, G.J., Smith, F., Bloch, J.I., and Boyer, D.M. 2005. Transient floral change and rapid global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Science 310: 993-996.

McMillan, M.E., Heller, P.L., and Wing, S.L. 2006. History and causes of post-Laramide relief in the Rocky Mountain orogenic plateau.  Geological Society of America Bulletin 118: 393–405.

Bowen, G.J., Bralower, T.J., Delaney, M.L., Dickens, G.R., Kelly, D.C., Koch, P.L, Kump, L.R., Meng, J., Sloan, L.C., Thomas, E., Wing, S.L., and Zachos, J.C. 2006.  Eocene hyperthermal event offers insight into greenhouse warming.  Eos 87 (17): 165-169.

Edited Volumes

DiMichele, W. A., and Wing, S. L. 1988. Methods and Applications of Plant Paleoecology. Paleontological Society of America Special Publication 2.

Behrensmeyer, A. K., Damuth, J., DiMichele, W. A., Potts, R., Sues, H.-D., and Wing, S. L. 1992. Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Huber, B. T., MacCleod, K., and Wing, S. L. 2000. Warm Climates in Earth History. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England.

Erwin, D. H., and Wing, S. L. 2000. Deep Time – Paleobiology’s Perspective. Paleontological Society, Lawrence, Kansas (distributed by University of Chicago Press).

Wing, S. L., Gingerich, P. D., Schmitz, B., and Thomas, E. 2003. Causes and Consequences of early Paleogene Warm Climates. Geological Society of America Special Paper 369.

Comments and Replies

Wing, S. L. 1984. Review of: Catastrophes and Earth History, the New Uniformitarianism. Earth Sciences History 3: 190-191.

Wing, S. L. 1991. Comment on: "Equable climates in earth history?" an article by L. Cirbus-Sloan and E. Barron. Geology 19: 539-540.

Wing, S. L. 1993. Laws of the kaleidoscope? review of Eocene-Oligocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution (Prothero and Berggren, eds.). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 8: 189-190.

Greenwood, D. R., S. L. Wing, and A. K. Behrensmeyer. 1993. Letter on: Evolution of Atmospheres, Is the Geological Past a Key to the (Near) Future? Science April 16.

Wing, S. L., and J. A. Wolfe 1993. Comment on: "Stable isotope study of fluid inclusions in fluorite from Idaho: Implications for continental climates during the Eocene." an article by R.R. Seal and R.O. Rye. Geology 21: 1051.

Wing, S. L. 1994. Review of: "Flora of the Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene), southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada." by Elisabeth E. McIver, and James F. Basinger. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 80: 341.

Wing, S. L. 1994. Geosciences in review 1993: Paleobotany. Geotimes 39: 18-19.

Wing, S. L. 1994. Paleoclimate, proxies, paradoxes, and predictions. Palaios 9: 121-123.

Wing, S. L. 1995. Geosciences in review 1994: Paleobotany. Geotimes 40: 27-28.

Erwin, D.H., and S. L. Wing. 1996. From the incoming editors. Paleobiology 22:

Wing, S. L., and W. A. DiMichele. 1996. The Republic highlands. Washington Geology 24: 28.

Wing, S. L., and D. R. Greenwood. 1996. Reply to Jordan's comment on: Eocene continental climates and latitudinal temperature gradients. Geology 24: 1054-1055.

Wilf, P., Wing, S. L., Greenwood, D. R., and Greenwood, C. L. 1998. Reply to Wolfe, J.A. and Uemura, K. comment on “Using fossil leaves as paleo-rain gauges - an Eocene example. Geology 27:92.