• 1985-Present Curator: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Lamont Deep-Sea Sample Repository, Palisades, NY.
• 1989-1996 Supervisor of Micropaleontological Reference Center, U.S. East Coast: Ocean Drilling Program, Palisades, NY.
• 1981-1985 Curatorial Aide: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Deep-Sea Sample Repository, Palisades, NY.
• 1975-1981 Secretary to Research Scientists: Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Palisades, NY.
• Administrative Assistant: American Airlines, Legal and Contracts Division, New York, NY.
• Court Recorder, County Clerk's Office: Solano County Court House, Vallejo, CA.

• Invited lecture, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Preservation of Geoscience Data Committee, Denver, CO, June 2009.
• Invited participant, Curators of Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting, Wakula Spring, FL May 2009.
• Panelist, NSF-sponsored workshop: Preservation of Lake Sediment Cores and Associated Data: Benefits of Proper Curation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 2006.
• Host/Convener, Curators of Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting, LDEO, September 2004.
• Panelist, NSF-sponsored workshop: Future of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility, Florida state University, Tallahassee, August 2004.
• Participant, NSF-sponsored workshop: Curation of Terrestrial Scientific Cores, Samples and Collections, University of Texas, Houston, May 2004.
• Develop, design and maintain website: The LDEO Deep-Sea Sample Repository. Site features tools for researchers, teachers and students.
• Participant in Saturday Workshops for Educators transmitted to teachers in other regions, in real time over the web, through a joint venture with the Columbia University Teachers College Institute for Learning Technologies (ILT) (1998-Present)

Mix, A., Conard, B., Broda, J., Carey, S., Firth, J., Janecek, J., Lotti Bond, R., Moore, C., Norris, R., and Schnurrenberger, D. (2003) Curators of Sea Floor and Lakebed Samples Celebrate 25 Years of Service, Eos, v. 84, No. 20, p. 191-192, 20 May 2003.

Bond, G.C., Kromer, B., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Evans, M., Showers, W., Hoffmann, S., Lotti-Bond, R., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G. (2001) Persistent solar influence on North Atlantic climate during the Holocene: Science, v. 294, p. 2130-2136.

Passow, M.J., Ortiz, J.D., Witter, D., Small, C., Visbeck, M., Lerner-Lam, A., Lotti Bond, R., Ander. O.R., Sambrotto, R., Armbruster, J., and Griffin, K. (Preprint) Earth2Class: What Researcher Scientists can share with classroom teachers, In: Proceedings, 10th Symposium on Education, 14-19 January 2001, Albuquerque, New Mexico, AMS, Boston, Mass.

Lotti, Rusty (1999) A core a day keeps "Doc" happy: in Lipsett, L., ed., Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Twelve Perspectives on the First Fifty Years 1949-1999, p. 75-84.

Bond, G.C., Showers, W., Elliot, M., Evans, M., Lotti, R., Hajdas, I., Bonani, G., and Johnson, S. (1999) The North Atlantic’s 1-2 kyr climate rhythm: relation to Heinrich events, Dansgaard/Oeschger cycles and the Little IceAge: Mechanisms of Global Climate Change at Millennial Time Scales, Geophysical Monograph 112, American Geophysical Union, p. 35-57.

Passow, M,J., Witter, D., Ortiz, J., Newton, R., Lotti Bond, R., Small, C., and Visbeck, M. (Preprint) What can classroom teachers learn from research scientists? A Maury Project experience: American Meteorological Society Ninth Symposium on Education, Long Beach, California, January 2000.

Bond, G., W. Showers, M. Cheseby, R. Lotti, P. Almasi, P. deMenocal, P. Priore, H. Cullen, I. Hajdes and G. Bonani (1997) A pervasive millennial-scale climate cycle in the North Atlantic: The Holocene and Late Glacial record, Science, v. 278, p. 1257-1266.

Lotti, R. (1996) Protocol for acquisition, curation and preservation of non-marine cores, in: Terrestrial Aspects of Earth System History, U.S. Global Change Research Program.

Isley, A.E., Hays, J.D., Lotti Bond, R., and Burckle, L.H. (1996) Studies Pertaining to the Investigation of Southern Ocean Sediments, Technical Report LDEO-96-3, Lamont/SIO Consortium for Climate Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Isley, A.E., Lotti, R., Burckle, L.H. and Hays, J.D. (1996) Catalogue of Cores Collected from the Southern Ocean and Curated at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Florida State University, Technical Report LDEO-96-2, Lamont/SIO Consortium for Climate Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bond, G.C. and Lotti, R. (1995) Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic on millennial time-scales during the last glaciation, Science, v. 267, p. 1005-1010.

Lotti, R. (1994) Accession, Curation, and Preservation of a Deep-Sea Sample Collection. In: Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Geoscience Information, Ottawa, Canada, 1990, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2315 (Edited by D. Reade), p. 369-376.

Bond, G.C. and Lotti, R. (1994) Heinrich events - A consequence of sea level rises? AGU Spring Meeting, EOS, v. 75, 54.

Lotti, R. (1994) Accession, Curation, and Preservation of a Deep-Sea Sample Collection. In: Proceedings, 4th International Conference on Geoscience Information, Ottawa, Canada, 1990, Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2315 (Edited by D. Reade), p. 369-376.

Bond, G.C., Lotti, R., McManus, J., and Broecker, W.S. (1992) Abrupt color changes in isotope stage 5 in North Atlantic deep sea cores: implications for rapid change of climate-driven events. In: NATO ASI Series Vol. I3, Start of a Glacial (Edited by G.J. Kukla and E. Went), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, p. 185-205.

Bond, G. C., Broecker, W.S., McManus, J., and Lotti, R. (1992) The North Atlantic's record of millenial to century-scale climate changes and their link to Greenland ice core climate records. In: The Atlantic Climate Change Program, Proceedings from the principal investigators meeting, 1992, Miami, FL (Edited by J.J. Cione), NOAA, p. 55-61.

Kukla, G., Berger, A., Lotti, R., and Brown, J. (1981) Orbital signature of interglacials, Nature, v. 290, n. 5804, p. 295-300.

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

Invited lecture, American Association of Petroleum Geologists Preservation of Geoscience Data Committee, Denver, CO, June 2009.

Invited participant, Curators of Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting, Wakula Spring, FL May 2009.

Invited participant, Curators of Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting, Estes Park, CO, September 2007.

Invited participant, NSF-sponsored workshop: Preservation of Lake Sediment Cores and Associated Data: Benefits of Proper Curation, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, March 2006.

Host/Convener, Curators of Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples Meeting, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, September 2004.

Panelist, NSF-sponsored workshop: Future of the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility, Florida State University, Tallahassee, August 2004.

Invited participant, NSF-sponsored workshop: Curation of Terrestrial Scientific Cores, Samples and Collections, University of Texas, Houston, May 2004.

Invited participant, Curators' Group, semi-annual meeting, Arlington, Virginia/Washington, DC, 2002.

Invited participant, Curators' Group, sponsored by US National Geophysical Data Center/World Data Center A Marine Geology & Geophysics, Boulder, Colorado, 1996.

Invited participant, Terrestrial Aspects of Earth System History, Portland, Oregon, 1996.

Invited panelist, Information Handling Panel of Ocean Drilling Program/Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, Bremen, Germany, 1994.

Co-Convener, Curators of Marine Geological Samples, Annual Meeting of American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver, Colorado, 1994.

Invited participant in JOI sponsored Micropaleontological Reference Center Curatorial Workshop, Natural History Museum, Basel, Switzerland, 1993

Convener, Curators of Deep-Sea Sample Repositories, Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, Cincinnatti, Ohio, 1992.

Meeting of Curators, Conference on Paleoceanography, Kiel, Germany, 1992.

Invited lecture, GeoInFo IV, 4th International Conference on Geoscience Information, Accession, Curation, and Preservation of a Deep-Sea Sample Collection, Ottowa, Canada, 1990.

Attended Annual Conference of Geoscience Information Society, Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, St. Louis, Missouri, 1989.

Co-Convener, NSF sponsored meeting of Curators of Deep-Sea Sample Repositories, Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, Phoenix, Arizona, 1987.

Invited lecture, Western Connecticut State University, Geotechnical Methods for Deep Sea Cores, 1987.

Invited lecture, Society of Preservation of Natural History Collections, National Museum of Natural History, The Lamont-Doherty Deep-Sea Sample Collection, Washington, D.C., 1986.

Invited participant in Workshop on Computer Applications in Collections Management, Society of Preservation of Natural History Collections, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., 1986.

Invited participant in NOAA sponsored Workshop for Curators of Deep-Sea Sample Repositories, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, 1985.

Invited participant in NSF sponsored Workshop for Curators of Deep-Sea Sample Repositories, Annual Meeting of Geological Society of America, Cincinnatti, Ohio, 1981.

Scientific staff member, shipboard curator of deep-sea material, four weeks at sea, NSF funded research cruise aboard U.S. Research Vessel Knorr: "The Climatic Record of the North Atlantic", port-of-call Reykjavik, Iceland, 1998.

Scientific staff member, shipboard supervisor/archivist of deep-sea material, four weeks at sea, NSF funded research cruise aboard U.S. Research Vessel Maurice Ewing: "The Climatic Record of the North Atlantic", port-of-call Reykjavik, Iceland, 1993.

Invited scientific staff member, three weeks at sea, Academy of Sciences of the USSR/NSF jointly sponsored research cruise aboard Soviet Research Vessel Mstislav Keldysh: "Near Bottom Oceanology, Gorringe Bank", port-of-call Lisbon, Portugal, 1988.

Logistics Co-ordinator for two-months of field research on eight Aegean Islands, total of 30 participants divided over three 20-day segments, National Geographic/NSF/Earth Watch jointly sponsored project: "Ancient Volcanoes of Thera", based on island of Santorini, Greece, 1982.

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