Culver S.J, Farrell K.M, Mallinson D.J, Horton B.P, Willard D.A, Thieler E.R, Riggs S.R, Snyder S.W, Wehmiller J.F, Bernhardt C.E et al..  2008.  Micropaleontologic record of late pliocene and quaternary paleoenvironments in the northern Albemarle embayment, North Carolina, USA. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 264(1-2):54-77.

Willard D.A, Cronin T.M.  2007.  Paleoecology and ecosystem restoration: case studies from Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Everglades. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 5(9):491-498.

Cronin T.M, Vogt P.R, Willard D.A, Thunell R., Halka J., Berke M., Pohlman J..  2007.  Rapid sea level rise and ice sheet response to 8,200-year climate event. Geophysical Research Letters. 34(20)

Willard D.A, Bernhardt C.E, Korejwo D.A, Meyers S.R.  2005.  Impact of millennial-scale Holocene climate variability on eastern North American terrestrial ecosystems: pollen-based climatic reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change. 47(1):17-35.

Willard D.A, Cronin T.M, Verardo S..  2003.  Late-Holocene climate and ecosystem history from Chesapeake Bay sediment cores, USA. Holocene. 13(2):201-214.