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Alfredo Martínez-García

Alfredo Martínez-García

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Earth Science

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45
Citations
6885
World Ranking
4500
National Ranking
316

Overview

Alfredo Martínez-García is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research output encompasses 131 publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and 99 in Environmental Science, with a particular focus on several subfields such as Ecology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist's research addresses a variety of topics including Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, as well as Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Alfredo Martínez-García are:

  • The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific (2020, Quaternary Science Reviews)
  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO 2 change (2020, Science)
  • Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods (2022, Nature)
  • Nitrogen isotopic constraints on nutrient transport to the upper ocean (2021, Nature Geoscience)
  • Arctic Ocean stratification set by sea level and freshwater inputs since the last ice age (2021, Nature Geoscience)

Frequent co-authors in Martínez-García's collaborations include:

  • Daniel M. Sigman
  • Gerald H. Haug
  • Alexandra Auderset
  • Hubert Vonhof
  • Alan Foreman

The scientist publishes regularly in several venues, with notable frequency at:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Science
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

    Alfredo Martínez-García;Daniel M. Sigman;Haojia Ren;Robert F. Anderson

  • Southern Ocean dust-climate coupling over the past four million years

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Samuel L. Jaccard;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert

  • Causes of ice age intensification across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

    Thomas B. Chalk;Thomas B. Chalk;Mathis P. Hain;Gavin L. Foster;Eelco J. Rohling;Eelco J. Rohling

  • Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Rainer Gersonde

  • Increased Dust Deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean During Glacial Periods

    Frank Lamy;Rainer Gersonde;Gisela Winckler;Gisela Winckler;Oliver Esper

  • Southern Ocean dust-climate couplings over the last 4,000,000 years

    A. Martínez-García;A. Rosell-Mélé;Samuel Jaccard;W. Geibert

  • Two Modes of Change in Southern Ocean Productivity Over the Past Million Years

    S. L. Jaccard;Christopher Tyler Hayes;Christopher Tyler Hayes;A. Martinez-Garcia;D. A. Hodell

  • Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Erin L. McClymont;Rainer Gersonde

  • Covariation of deep Southern Ocean oxygenation and atmospheric CO2 through the last ice age.

    Samuel L. Jaccard;Eric D. Galbraith;Eric D. Galbraith;Eric D. Galbraith;Alfredo Martínez-García;Alfredo Martínez-García;Robert F. Anderson

  • Molecular records of continental air temperature and monsoon precipitation variability in East Asia spanning the past 130,000 years

    Francien Peterse;Alfredo Martínez-García;Bin Zhou;Christiaan J. Beets

  • Strengthening of North American dust sources during the late Pliocene (2.7 Ma)

    B. David A. Naafs;B. David A. Naafs;Jens Hefter;Gary Acton;Gerald H. Haug;Gerald H. Haug

  • Antarctic Zone nutrient conditions during the last two glacial cycles

    Anja S. Studer;Anja S. Studer;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Alfredo Martínez-García;Verena Benz

  • Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods

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  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO2 change

    Xuyuan E. Ai;Xuyuan E. Ai;Anja S. Studer;Daniel M. Sigman;Alfredo Martínez-García

  • The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific

    Daniel M. Sigman;François Fripiat;François Fripiat;Anja S. Studer;Preston C. Kemeny

  • Appraisal of TEX86 and TEX86L thermometries in subpolar and polar regions

    Sze Ling Ho;Gesine Mollenhauer;Susanne Fietz;Susanne Fietz;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia

  • The residence time of Southern Ocean surface waters and the 100,000-year ice age cycle.

    Adam P Hasenfratz;Adam P Hasenfratz;Samuel L Jaccard;Alfredo Martínez-García;Daniel M Sigman

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Ann Pearson

  • Changes in North Atlantic nitrogen fixation controlled by ocean circulation

    Marietta Straub;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Haojia Ren;Alfredo Martínez-García

  • Deglacial pulses of deep-ocean silicate into the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean

    Anna Nele Meckler;Daniel M Sigman;Kelly A Gibson;Roger Francois

  • Sea surface temperature variability in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean over the past 700 kyr

    Sze Ling Ho;Gesine Mollenhauer;Frank Lamy;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia

  • A stagnation event in the deep South Atlantic during the last interglacial period.

    Christopher T. Hayes;Christopher T. Hayes;Alfredo Martínez-García;Adam P. Hasenfratz;Samuel L. Jaccard

  • Iron fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean during the last ice age

    A. Martinez-Garcia

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald H. Haug
Gerald H. Haug Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Antoni Rosell-Melé
Antoni Rosell-Melé Autonomous University of Barcelona
Samuel L. Jaccard
Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne
Ralf Tiedemann
Ralf Tiedemann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rainer Gersonde
Rainer Gersonde Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
David De Vleeschouwer
David De Vleeschouwer Münster University of Applied Sciences
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University

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