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Anne de Vernal is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research contributions primarily focus on topics related to Earth and Planetary Sciences with a significant emphasis on Environmental Science. The scientist's work covers several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, and Geology.

The core themes of Anne de Vernal's research encompass Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Geological Studies and Exploration, Marine and Environmental Studies, and Climate Change and Permafrost.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anne de Vernal include Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Ruediger Stein, Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz, Bianca Fréchette, and Lukas Jonkers. These partnerships reflect ongoing research networks within the fields associated with paleoclimate and environmental studies.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Quaternary Science Reviews, Marine Micropaleontology, Scientific Data, and Quaternary Research. These journals and platforms illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of their research, spanning data curation, earth science reviews, and paleoenvironmental analyses.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Anne de Vernal include:

  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies (2020) in Earth-Science Reviews
  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records (2020) in Scientific Data
  • Past abrupt changes, tipping points and cascading impacts in the Earth system (2021) in Nature Geoscience
  • Large-scale features of Last Interglacial climate: results from evaluating the lig127k simulations for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6)-Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project (PMIP4) (2021) in Climate of the Past
  • The archaeology of climate change: The case for cultural diversity (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 data points

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Kara Bogus

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Distribution of recent dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from the North Atlantic Ocean and adjacent seas in relation to sea-surface parameters

    A. Rochon;A. de Vernal;J.-L. Turon;Jens Matthießen

  • Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea‐surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas: the new ‘n = 677’ data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction

    Anne de Vernal;Maryse Henry;Jens Matthiessen;Peta J. Mudie

  • Reconstructed changes in Arctic sea ice over the past 1,450 years

    Christophe Kinnard;Christian M. Zdanowicz;David A. Fisher;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Reconstruction of sea-surface conditions at middle to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages

    A. de Vernal;F. Eynaud;M. Henry;C. Hillaire-Marcel

  • Pollen-based climate reconstruction techniques for late Quaternary studies

    Manuel Chevalier;Basil A. S. Davis;Oliver Heiri;Heikki Seppä

  • Natural Variability of Greenland Climate, Vegetation, and Ice Volume During the Past Million Years

    Anne de Vernal;Claude Hillaire-Marcel

  • Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland.

    Jason P. Briner;Nicholas P. McKay;Yarrow Axford;Ole Bennike

  • Absence of deep-water formation in the Labrador Sea during the last interglacial period

    C. Hillaire-Marcel;A. de Vernal;G. Bilodeau;A. J. Weaver

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Palaeoclimate constraints on the impact of 2 °C anthropogenic warming and beyond

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Katrin J Meissner;Alan C Mix;Nerilie J Abram

  • Proxies in late cenozoic paleoceanography

    Claude Hillaire-Marcel;Anne De Vernal

  • Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from the northeastern Pacific Ocean (43-25°N) in relation to sea-surface temperature, salinity, productivity and coastal upwelling

    Vera Pospelova;Anne de Vernal;Thomas F. Pedersen

  • Isotope stratigraphy, sedimentation rates, deep circulation, and carbonate events in the Labrador Sea during the last ~ 200 ka

    C. Hillaire-Marcel;A. de Vernal;G. Bilodeau;G. Wu

  • Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: Palynological tracers of sea-surface conditions in middle to high latitude marine environments

    Anne De Vernal;André Rochon;Jean-Louis Turon;Jens Matthiessen

  • Sea-ice cover, sea-surface salinity and halo-/thermocline structure of the northwest North Atlantic: modern versus full glacial conditions

    Anne de Vernal;Claude Hillaire-Marcel

  • Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Koen Verhoeven;Thomas Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Sea-surface conditions in northernmost Baffin Bay during the Holocene: palynological evidence

    Elisabeth Levac;Anne De Vernal;Weston Blake

  • Dinocyst-based reconstructions of sea ice cover concentration during the Holocene in the Arctic Ocean, the northern North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas

    Anne de Vernal;Claude Hillaire-Marcel;André Rochon;Bianca Fréchette

  • Last Glacial Maximum temperatures over the North Atlantic, Europe and western Siberia: a comparison between PMIP models, MARGO sea-surface temperatures and pollen-based reconstructions

    M. Kageyama;A. Laîné;Ayako Abe-Ouchi;P. Braconnot

Frequent Co-Authors

Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Claude Hillaire-Marcel University of Quebec at Montreal
André Rochon
André Rochon Université du Québec à Rimouski
Peta J. Mudie
Peta J. Mudie Geological Survey of Canada
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Vera Pospelova
Vera Pospelova University of Victoria
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Jean-Louis Turon
Jean-Louis Turon University of Bordeaux
Martin J. Head
Martin J. Head Brock University
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University

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