• 230Th Normalization: New Insights on an Essential Tool for Quantifying Sedimentary Fluxes in the Modern and Quaternary Ocean 

      Costa, Kassandra M.; Hayes, Christopher T.; Anderson, Robert F.; Pavia, Frank J.; Bausch, Alexandra; Deng, Feifei; Dutay, Jean-Claude; Geibert, Walter; Heinze, Christoph; Henderson, Gideon M.; Hillaire-Marcel, Claude; Hoffmann, Sharon; Jaccard, Samuel L.; Jacobel, Allison W.; Kienast, Stephanie S.; Kipp, Lauren; Lerner, Paul; Lippold, Jörg; Lund, David; Marcantonio, Franco; McGee, David; McManus, Jerry F.; Mekik, Figen; Middleton, Jennifer L.; Missiaen, Lise; Not, Christelle; Pichat, Sylvain; Robinson, Laura F.; Rowland, George H.; Roy‐Barman, Matthieu; Tagliabue, Alessandro; Torfstein, Adi; Winckler, Gisela; Zhou, Yuxin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-01)
      230Th normalization is a valuable paleoceanographic tool for reconstructing high‐resolution sediment fluxes during the late Pleistocene (last ~500,000 years). As its application has expanded to ever more diverse marine ...
    • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and δ13C Variability During the Last Interglacial 

      Kessler, Augustin; Bouttes, Nathaelle; Roche, Didier M.; Ninnemann, Ulysses Silas; Galaasen, Eirik Vinje; Tjiputra, Jerry (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is thought to be relatively vigorous and stable during Interglacial periods on multimillennial (equilibrium) timescales. However, recent proxy (δ13C benthic) reconstructions ...
    • Coupled Mg/Ca and Clumped Isotope Measurements Indicate Lack of Substantial Mixed Layer Cooling in the Western Pacific Warm Pool During the Last ∼5 Million Years 

      Meinicke, Niklas; Reimi, Maja A.; Ravelo, A.C.; Meckler, Anna Nele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (IPWP) plays a crucial role in influencing climate dynamics both in the tropics and globally. Yet, there is an ongoing controversy concerning the evolution of surface temperatures in the IPWP ...
    • Dynamics of Spontaneous (Multi) Centennial‐Scale Variations of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Strength During the Last Interglacial 

      Kessler, Augustin; Bouttes, Nathaelle; Roche, Didier M.; Ninnemann, Ulysses S; Tjiputra, Jerry (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Recent reconstructions of bottom water δ13C during the last interglacial (LIG) suggest short-lived variability in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Spontaneous (multi) centennial-scale variability of ...
    • Evidence of a South Asian Proto-Monsoon During the Oligocene-Miocene Transition 

      Beasley, C.; Kender, S.; Giosan, L.; Bolton, C.T.; Anand, P.; Leng, M.J.; Nilsson-Kerr, Katrina; Ullmann, Clemens V.; Hesselbo, Stephen P.; Littler, Kate (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The geological history of the South Asian monsoon (SAM) before the Pleistocene is not well-constrained, primarily due to a lack of available continuous sediment archives. Previous studies have noted an intensification of ...
    • High resolution benthic Mg/Ca temperature record of the intermediate water in the Denmark Strait across D-O stadial-interstadial cycles 

      Sessford, Evangeline; Tisserand, Amandine Aline; Risebrobakken, Bjørg; Andersson, Carin; Dokken, Trond Martin; Jansen, Eystein (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)
      Dansgaard‐Oeschger (D‐O) climate instabilities that took place during Marine Isotope Stage 3 are connected to changes in ocean circulation patterns and sea ice cover. Here we explore in detail the configuration of the water ...
    • Insolation and Glacial Meltwater Influence on Sea‐Ice and Circulation Variability in the Northeastern Labrador Sea During the Last Glacial Period 

      Griem, Lisa; Voelker, Antje H.L.; Berben, Sarah Miche Patricia; Dokken, Trond Martin; Jansen, Eystein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The variable amounts of ice rafted debris (IRD) and foraminifers in North Atlantic sediments are related to the abrupt, millennial‐scale alteration from Greenland stadials to interstadials during the last glacial period ...
    • The Miocene: The Future of the Past 

      Steinthorsdottir, Margret; Coxall, Helen; De Boer, Agatha; Huber, Matthew; Barbolini, Natasha; Bradshaw, C.; Burls, N.; Feakins, Sarah; Gasson, E; Henderiks, Jorijntje; Holbourn, Ann E; Kiel, Steffen; Kohn, M; Knorr, Gregor; Kürschner, Wolfram Michael; Lear, Caroline H.; Liebrand, Diederik; Lunt, Daniel J; Mörs, Thomas; Pearson, Paul; Pound, Matthew J.; Stoll, Heather; Stromberg, C (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern conditions, and many flora and fauna evolved into the ...
    • PaCTS 1.0: a crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data 

      Khider, Deborah; Emile-Geay, Julien; McKay, Nicholas P.; Gil, Yolanda; Garijo, Daniel; Ratnakar, Varun; Alonso-Garcia, Montserrat; Bertrand, Sebastien; Bothe, Oliver; Brewer, Peter; Bunn, Andrew G.; Chevalier, Manuel; Comas-Bru, Laia; Csank, Adam; Dassié, Emilie; DeLong, Kristine L.; Felis, Thomas; Francus, Pierre; Frappier, Amy; Gray, William R.; Goring, Simon; Jonkers, Lukas; Kahle, Michael; Kaufman, Darrell S.; Kehrwald, Natalie M.; Martrat, Belen; McGregor, Helen V; Richey, Julie; Schmittner, Andreas; Scroxton, Nick; Sutherland, Elaine K.; Thirumalai, Kaustubh; Allen, Kathryn J.; Arnaud, Fabien; Axford, Yarrow; Barrows, Timothy T.; Bazin, Lucie; Pilaar Birch, Suzanne E.; Bradley, Elizabeth; Bregy, Joshua; Capron, Emilie; Cartapanis, Olivier; Chiang, Hong-Wei; Cobb, Kim M.; Debret, Maxime; Dommain, René; Du, Jianghui; Dyez, Kelsey A.; Emerick, Suellyn; Erb, Michael P.; Falster, Georgina; Finsinger, Walter; Fortier, Daniel; Gauthier, Nicholas; George, Steve; Grimm, Eric C.; Hertzberg, Jennifer; Hibbert, Fiona D.; Hillman, Aubrey; Hobbs, William R; Huber, Matthew; Hughes, Anna L.C.; Jaccard, Samuel L.; Ruan, Jiaoyang; Kienast, Markus; Konecky, Bronwen; Le Roux, Gael; Lyubchich, Vyacheslav; Novello, Valdir F.; Olaka, Lydia; Partin, Judson; Pearce, Christof; Phipps, Steven J.; Pignol, Cecile; Piotrowska, Natalia; Poli, Maria-Serena; Prokopenko, Alexander; Schwank, Franciele; Stepanek, Christian; Swann, George E.A.; Telford, Richard; Thomas, Elizabeth R.; Thomas, Zoe; Truebe, Sarah; Von Gunten, Lucien; Waite, Amanda J.; Weitzel, Nils; Wilhelm, Bruno; Williams, John W.; Williams, Joseph J.; Winstrup, Mai; Zhao, Ning; Zhou, Yuxin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09)
      The progress of science is tied to the standardization of measurements, instruments, and data. This is especially true in the Big Data age, where analyzing large data volumes critically hinges on the data being standardized. ...
    • Precessional Cyclicity of Seawater Pb Isotopes in the Late Miocene Mediterranean 

      Modestou, Sevasti Eleni; Gutjahr, Marcus; van der Schee, Marlies; Ellam, Rob; Flecker, Rachel (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-12)
      Astronomical tuning in the Mediterranean region is primarily based on organically‐mediated proxies, such as cyclicity of organic rich layers or changes in foraminiferal assemblages. Both during and post deposition, organic ...
    • Semi‐automatic Ice Rafted Debris quantification with Computed Tomography 

      Cederstrøm, Jan Magne; Bilt, Willem Godert Maria van der; Støren, Eivind Wilhelm Nagel; Rutledal, Sunniva (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Sedimentary ice-rafted debris (IRD) provides critical information about the climate sensitivity and dynamics of ice sheets. In recent decades, high-resolution investigations have revelated ice rafting events in response ...
    • Stable Biological Production in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Across the Plio-Pleistocene Transition (∼3.35–2.0 Ma) 

      Jakob, Kim A.; Ho, Sze Ling; Meckler, Anna Nele; Pross, Jörg; Fiebig, Jens; Keppler, Frank; Friedrich, Oliver (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Upwelling within the Eastern Equatorial Pacific (EEP) Ocean is a key factor for the Earth's climate because it supports >10% of the present-day biological production. The dynamics of upwelling in the EEP across the ...
    • Transient Deep Ocean Cooling in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Ocean at the Eocene-Oligocene Transition 

      Taylor, Victoria Emma; Wilson, P.A.; Bohaty, S.M.; Meckler, Anna Nele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      At the Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT), approximately 34 million years ago, Earth abruptly transitioned to a climate state sufficiently cool for Antarctica to sustain large ice sheets for the first time in tens to hundreds ...
    • Warm Middle Miocene Indian Ocean Bottom Water Temperatures: Comparison of Clumped Isotope and Mg/Ca‐Based Estimates 

      Modestou, Sevasti Eleni; Leutert, Thomas Jan; Bremer, Alvaro Fernandez; Lear, Caroline H.; Meckler, Anna Nele (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      The middle Miocene is an important analogue for potential future warm climates. However, few independent deep ocean temperature records exist, though these are important for climate model validation and estimates of changes ...