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Overview

Aldo Shemesh is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their research spans primarily across the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions in various subfields such as Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Inorganic Chemistry, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work addresses multiple topics, including:

  • Radioactive contamination and transfer
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Radioactive element chemistry and processing
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Nuclear Materials and Properties
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems

They have published in a range of scientific venues, with repeated publications in:

  • ACS Omega
  • Journal of Nuclear Materials
  • Global Change Biology
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Chemical Geology

Significant recent publications authored or co-authored by Aldo Shemesh include:

  • Minimum requirements for publishing hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur stable-isotope delta results (IUPAC Technical Report), 2022, Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • Urbanization comprehensively impairs biological rhythms in coral holobionts, 2022, Global Change Biology
  • Triple oxygen isotope systematics of diagenetic recrystallization of diatom opal-A to opal-CT to microquartz in deep sea sediments, 2021, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Spatial and temporal variability in Mediterranean climate over the last millennium from vermetid isotope records and CMIP5/PMIP3 models, 2020, Global and Planetary Change
  • Oxygen Isotopic Composition of U3O8 Synthesized From U Metal, Uranyl Nitrate Hydrate, and UO3 as a Signature for Nuclear Forensics, 2022, ACS Omega

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors including Ruth Yam, Maor Assulin, Eyal Elish, Anastasia Yanchilina, and Michal Brandis.

Best Publications

  • Crystallinity and diagenesis of sedimentary apatites

    Aldo Shemesh

  • Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic.

    Feng Sheng Hu;Darrell Kaufman;Sumiko Yoneji;David Nelson

  • Silicon-isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change

    C. L. De La Rocha;C. L. De La Rocha;M. A. Brzezinski;M. J. DeNiro;A. Shemesh

  • Carbon-14 in methane sources and in atmospheric methane: the contribution from fossil carbon.

    M. Wahlen;N. Tanaka;R. Henry;B. Deck

  • Isotope composition of air moisture over the Mediterranean Sea: an index of the air–sea interaction pattern

    J. R. Gat;B. Klein;Y. Kushnir;W. Roether

  • Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites, II. Phosphorite rocks

    Aldo Shemesh;Yehoshua Kolodny;Boaz Luz

  • Abrupt Cooling of Antarctic Surface Waters and Sea Ice Expansion in the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P.

    David A. Hodell;Sharon L. Kanfoush;Aldo Shemesh;Xavier Crosta

  • Physiological and isotopic responses of scleractinian corals to ocean acidification

    Shani Krief;Erica J. Hendy;Maoz Fine;Ruth Yam

  • The Stable Isotope Composition of Waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

    Joel R. Gat;Aldo Shemesh;Eli Tziperman;Arthur Hecht

  • Fractionation of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in evaporating water

    Boaz Luz;Eugeni Barkan;Ruth Yam;Aldo Shemesh

  • Oxygen Isotopes in Biogenic Silica: Global Changes in Ocean Temperature and Isotopic Composition

    A. Shemesh;C. D. Charles;R. G. Fairbanks

  • Isotope geochemistry of oxygen and carbon in phosphate and carbonate of phosphorite francolite

    Aldo Shemesh;Yehoshua Kolodny;Boaz Luz

  • Dissolution and preservation of Antarctic diatoms and the effect on sediment thanatocoenoses

    A. Shemesh;L. H. Burckle;P. N. Froelich

  • High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period.

    Patrick Rioual;Valérie Andrieu-Ponel;Miri Rietti-Shati;Richard W. Battarbee

  • Late Pleistocene oxygen isotope records of biogenic silica from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean

    A. Shemesh;L. H. Burckle;J. D. Hays

  • Holocene climatic change in Swedish Lapland inferred from an oxygen-isotope record of lacustrine biogenic silica

    Aldo Shemesh;Gunhild Rosqvist;Miri Rietti-Shati;Lena Rubensdotter

  • Sequence of events during the last deglaciation in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores

    A. Shemesh;D. Hodell;X. Crosta;S. Kanfoush;S. Kanfoush

  • Isotopic evidence for reduced productivity in the glacial Southern Ocean

    A. Shemesh;S. A. Macko;C. D. Charles;G. H. Rau

  • Diatom oxygen isotopes in pro-glacial lake sediments from northern Sweden: a 5000 year record of atmospheric circulation

    G. Rosqvist;C. Jonsson;R. Yam;W. Karlén

  • The geologic history of seawater oxygen isotopes from marine iron oxides.

    Nir Galili;Aldo Shemesh;Ruth Yam;Irena Brailovsky

  • Carbon and nitrogen utilization in two species of Red Sea corals along a depth gradient: Insights from stable isotope analysis of total organic material and lipids

    Ada Alamaru;Yossi Loya;Eran Brokovich;Ruth Yam

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Abelmann
Andrea Abelmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Xavier Crosta
Xavier Crosta University of Bordeaux
Lloyd H. Burckle
Lloyd H. Burckle Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Anders Meibom
Anders Meibom École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Rainer Gersonde
Rainer Gersonde Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Yossi Loya
Yossi Loya Tel Aviv University
Oren Levy
Oren Levy Bar-Ilan University
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Fred J. Longstaffe
Fred J. Longstaffe University of Western Ontario
Zachary D. Sharp
Zachary D. Sharp University of New Mexico

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