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Alan E. S. Kemp is affiliated with the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily on engineering, with significant contributions to ocean engineering and oceanography, as well as work in mechanical engineering, atmospheric science, and ecology.

The scientist's work spans several topics, including:

  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Drilling and Well Engineering
  • Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Heavy Metals in Environment

They have published research in various venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Continental Shelf Research

Several papers authored or co-authored by Alan E. S. Kemp include:

  • "Tracing lake pollution, eutrophication and partial recovery from the sediments of Windermere, UK, using geochemistry and sediment microfabrics" (2020) in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Total Water Column Analysis Shows the Importance of a Single Species in Subsurface Chlorophyll Maximum Thin Layers in Stratified Waters" (2022) in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Environmental controls on the interannual variability in chlorophyll and phytoplankton community structure within the seasonal sub surface chlorophyll maximum in the western English channel" (2024) in Continental Shelf Research
  • "Massive Gulf of California diatom blooms mark silica boost from the Southern Ocean and intensification of El Niño and the North American monsoon in the transition to Greenland interstadial 12" (2024) in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Paleosecular geomagnetic variation for the Holocene measured from U-channels 2014-2016" (2020) published by the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

Alan E. S. Kemp collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kay-Christian Emeis
  • Thomas R. Janecek
  • Larry A. Mayer
  • Nicklas G. Pisias
  • Jack G. Baldauf

Best Publications

  • The “Fall dump” — a new perspective on the role of a “shade flora” in the annual cycle of diatom production and export flux

    Alan E.S Kemp;Jennifer Pike;Richard B Pearce;Carina B Lange

  • African monsoon variability during the previous interglacial maximum

    E.-J. Rohling;T.-R. Cane;Steve Cooke;M. Sprovieri

  • The role of mat-forming diatoms in the formation of Mediterranean sapropels

    Alan E. S. Kemp;Richard B. Pearce;Itaru Koizumi;Jennifer Pike;Jennifer Pike

  • Vast Neogene laminated diatom mat deposits from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean

    Alan E. S. Kemp;Jack G. Baldauf

  • Production of giant marine diatoms and their export at oceanic frontal zones : Implications for Si and C flux from stratified oceans

    A.E.S. Kemp;R.B. Pearce;Ivo Grigorov;J. Rance

  • Migration of the Antarctic Polar Front through the mid-Pleistocene transition: evidence and climatic implications

    A.E.S. Kemp;I. Grigorov;Richard B. Pearce;A.C. Naveira Garabato

  • High diatom production and export in stratified waters – A potential negative feedback to global warming

    Alan E.S. Kemp;Tracy A. Villareal

  • Late Cretaceous seasonal ocean variability from the Arctic

    Andrew Davies;Alan E. S. Kemp;Jennifer Pike

  • Preparation and analysis techniques for studies of laminated sediments

    Jennifer Pike;Alan E. S. Kemp

  • Evolution of the Arabian continental margin in the Dibba Zone, Northern Oman Mountains

    A. H. F. Robertson;C. D. Blome;D. W. J. Cooper;A. E. S. Kemp

  • Estimating carbon, silica and diatom export from a naturally fertilised phytoplankton bloom in the Southern Ocean using PELAGRA: a novel drifting sediment trap

    Ian Salter;Richard S. Lampitt;Richard J. Sanders;Alex J. Poulton

  • Diatom resting spore ecology drives enhanced carbon export from a naturally iron-fertilized bloom in the Southern Ocean

    Ian Salter;Ian Salter;Alan E. S. Kemp;C. Mark Moore;Richard S. Lampitt

  • Taking varves to bits: Scanning electron microscopy in the study of laminated sediments and varves

    Jean M. Dean;Alan E. S. Kemp;David Bull;Jennifer Pike

  • Laminated sediments as palaeo-indicators

    Alan E. S. Kemp

  • Early Holocene decadal-scale ocean variability recorded in Gulf of California laminated sediments

    Jennifer Pike;Alan E. S. Kemp

  • Variation in biogenic and detrital fluxes and formation of laminae in late Quaternary sediments from the Peruvian coastal upwelling zone

    I. Brodie;A.E.S. Kemp

  • The case of the diatoms and the muddled mandalas: Time to recognize diatom adaptations to stratified waters

    Alan E.S. Kemp;Tracy A. Villareal

  • Origins and paleoceanographic significance of laminated diatom ooze from the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean

    A. E. S. Kemp;J. G. Baldauf;R. B. Pearce

  • Early Palaeozoic metamorphic history of the Midland Valley, Southern Uplands–Longford-Down massif and the Lake District, British Isles

    G. J. H. Oliver;J. L. Smellie;L. J. Thomas;D. M. Casey

  • Overview of Late Quaternary stratigraphy in Saanich Inlet, British Columbia: results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 169S

    A Blais-Stevens;B.D Bornhold;A.E.S Kemp;J.M Dean

  • Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program. VOLUME 13 8 INITIAL REPORTS PARTI EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC Covering Leg 138 of the cruises of the Drilling Vessel JOIDES Resolution, Balboa, Panama, to San Diego, California, Sites 844-854, 6 May 1991-5 July 1991

    Larry A. Mayer;Nicklas G. Pisias;Thomas R. Janecek;Jack G. Baldauf

Frequent Co-Authors

Jennifer Pike
Jennifer Pike Cardiff University
Jonathan M. Bull
Jonathan M. Bull University of Southampton
Kay-Christian Emeis
Kay-Christian Emeis Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Ian T. Burke
Ian T. Burke University of Leeds
Richard S. Lampitt
Richard S. Lampitt National Oceanography Centre
Eelco J. Rohling
Eelco J. Rohling Utrecht University
Ioanna Bouloubassi
Ioanna Bouloubassi Sorbonne University
Ian W. Croudace
Ian W. Croudace University of Southampton
Tracy A. Villareal
Tracy A. Villareal The University of Texas at Austin

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