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Overview

Albert Matter is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and focuses on research at the intersection of Physics, Astronomy, and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their scholarly work spans a range of subjects including astronomy, atmospheric science, paleontology, anthropology, and instrumentation.

The scientist has contributed notably to topics such as geology and paleoclimatology research, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, astrophysics and star formation studies, as well as marine and environmental studies.

Recent published papers by Albert Matter include:

  • Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia (2022, Science)
  • Moisture and Seasonality Shifts Recorded in Holocene and Pleistocene Speleothems From Southeastern Arabia (2022, Geophysical Research Letters)
  • The accretion burst of the massive young stellar object G323.46−0.08 (2024, Astronomy and Astrophysics)
  • A climatic evaluation of the southern dispersal route during MIS 5e (2022, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Climate-induced speleothem radiocarbon variability on Socotra Island from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Younger Dryas (2020, Climate of the past)

Their collaboration network includes frequent co-authors such as Dominik Fleitmann, S. Robbe-Dubois, J.-C. Augereau, C. Paladini, and P. Stee, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Publication venues where this scientist's work often appears include:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Climate of the past

Albert Matter's research integrates observational data and theoretical frameworks across diverse subfields, including:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Paleontology
  • Anthropology
  • Instrumentation

The breadth of their expertise supports studies ranging from the detailed analysis of speleothems to better understand historical climate variability, to investigating processes in massive young stellar objects, and exploring environmental factors influencing societal changes in ancient times.

Best Publications

  • Holocene forcing of the Indian monsoon recorded in a stalagmite from southern Oman.

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Manfred Mudelsee;Ulrich Neff

  • Holocene ITCZ and Indian monsoon dynamics recorded in stalagmites from Oman and Yemen (Socotra)

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Augusto Mangini;Manfred Mudelsee

  • De glauconiarum origine

    Gilles S. Odin;Albert Matter

  • Strong coherence between solar variability and the monsoon in Oman between 9 and 6 kyr ago

    U. Neff;S. J. Burns;S. J. Burns;A. Mangini;M. Mudelsee

  • Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman

    Joachim E. Amthor;John P. Grotzinger;Stefan Schröder;Samuel A. Bowring

  • Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey

    D. Fleitmann;D. Fleitmann;H. Cheng;S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;R. L. Edwards

  • Turbidites and Varves in Lake Brienz (Switzerland): Deposition of Clastic Detritus by Density Currents

    Michael Sturm;Albert Matter

  • Timing and structure of the 8.2 kyr B.P. event inferred from δ18O records of stalagmites from China, Oman, and Brazil

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;R. Lawrence Edwards;Xianfeng Wang

  • Palaeoclimatic interpretation of high-resolution oxygen isotope profiles derived from annually laminated speleothems from Southern Oman

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Ulrich Neff;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Indian Ocean Climate and an Absolute Chronology over Dansgaard/Oeschger Events 9 to 13

    Stephen J. Burns;Dominik Fleitmann;Albert Matter;Jan Kramers

  • Speleothem evidence from Oman for continental pluvial events during interglacial periods

    Stephen J. Burns;Dominik Fleitmann;Albert Matter;Ulrich Neff

  • Changing moisture sources over the last 330,000 years in Northern Oman from fluid-inclusion evidence in speleothems

    Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Ulrich Neff;Augusto Mangini

  • A 780‐year annually resolved record of Indian Ocean monsoon precipitation from a speleothem from south Oman

    Stephen J. Burns;Dominik Fleitmann;Manfred Mudelsee;Ulrich Neff

  • Speleothem-based paleoclimate record from northern Oman

    Stephen J. Burns;Albert Matter;Norbert Frank;Augusto Mangini

  • Timing diagenesis in the Tartan Reservoir (UK North Sea): constraints from combined cathodoluminescence microscopy and fluid inclusion studies

    S.D. Burley;J. Mullis;Albert Matter

  • Diagenesis and Fluid Evolution of Deeply Buried Permian (Rotliegende) Gas Reservoirs, Northwest Germany

    Reinhard Gaupp;Albert Matter;Jackie Platt;Karl Ramseyer

  • Carbon isotopic record of the Latest Proterozoic from Oman

    S.J. Burns;Albert Matter

  • A high-resolution, absolute-dated deglacial speleothem record of Indian Ocean climate from Socotra Island, Yemen

    Jeremy D. Shakun;Stephen J. Burns;Dominik Fleitmann;Jan Kramers

  • Evidence for a widespread climatic anomaly at around 9.2 ka before present

    Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;Manfred Mudelsee;Stephen J. Burns;Raymond S. Bradley

  • Cool glacial temperatures and changes in moisture source recorded in Oman groundwaters

    Constanze E. Weyhenmeyer;Stephen J. Burns;H. Niklaus Waber;Werner Aeschbach-Hertig

  • Holocene and Pleistocene pluvial periods in Yemen, southern Arabia

    Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;Stephen J. Burns;Marek Pekala;Augusto Mangini

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Stephen J. Burns
Stephen J. Burns University of Massachusetts Amherst
Augusto Mangini
Augusto Mangini Heidelberg University
Karl Ramseyer
Karl Ramseyer University of Bern
Manfred Mudelsee
Manfred Mudelsee University of Potsdam
Frank Preusser
Frank Preusser University of Freiburg
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Jan Kramers
Jan Kramers University of Johannesburg
Fritz Schlunegger
Fritz Schlunegger University of Bern
Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London

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