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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Portugal Leader Award

Overview

Antje H L Voelker is affiliated with the Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera in Portugal. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions in subfields including Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, and Ocean Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of main research topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition, 2020, Science
  • Dansgaard-Oeschger and Heinrich event temperature anomalies in the North Atlantic set by sea ice, frontal position and thermocline structure, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Repeated Near-Collapse of the Pliocene Sea Surface Temperature Gradient in the North Atlantic, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Untangling the origin of the newcomer Phorcus sauciatus (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in a remote Atlantic archipelago, 2021, Marine Biology
  • Range expansion of tropical shallow-water marine molluscs in the NE Atlantic during the last interglacial (MIS 5e): Causes, consequences and utility of ecostratigraphic indicators for the Macaronesian archipelagos, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Francisco Javier Sierro, David A Hodell, José-Abel Flores, Bárbara Balestra, and Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian.

Publication venues where their work appears often include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Quaternary Science Reviews, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

Best Publications

  • Global distribution of centennial-scale records for Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3: a database

    Antje H.L. Voelker

  • Correlation of marine 14C ages from the nordic seas with the GISP2 isotope record : Implications for 14C calibration beyond 25 ka BP

    Antje H. L. Voelker;Michael Sarnthein;Pieter M. Grootes;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Potential links between surging ice sheets, circulation changes, and the Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles in the Irminger Sea, 60-18 kyr

    S van Kreveld;M Sarnthein;H Erlenkeuser;P Grootes

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017

    Reiner Schlitzer;Robert F. Anderson;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Maeve Lohan

  • Mediterranean outflow strengthening during northern hemisphere coolings: A salt source for the glacial Atlantic?

    Antje H.L. Voelker;S.M. Lebreiro;J. Schönfeld;I. Cacho

  • Position of the Polar Front along the western Iberian margin during key cold episodes of the last 45 ka

    Frédérique Eynaud;Lucia de Abreu;Antje H. L. Voelker;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Radiocarbon levels in the Iceland Sea from 25-53 kyr and their link to the Earth's magnetic field intensity.

    Antje H L Voelker;Pieter M Grootes;Marie-Josee Nadeau;Michael Sarnthein

  • Rapid climatic variations during marine isotopic stage 3: magnetic analysis of sediments from Nordic Seas and North Atlantic

    C. Kissel;C. Laj;L. Labeyrie;T. Dokken

  • Onset of Mediterranean outflow into the North Atlantic

    F. Javier Hernández-Molina;Dorrik A. V. Stow;Carlos A. Alvarez-Zarikian;Gary Acton

  • A reference time scale for Site U1385 (Shackleton Site) on the SW Iberian Margin

    D. Hodell;L. Lourens;S. Crowhurst;T. Konijnendijk

  • Temperature and productivity changes off the western Iberian margin during the last 150 ky

    E. Salgueiro;Antje H. L. Voelker;L. de Abreu;Fatima Abrantes

  • A Review of Abrupt Climate Change Events in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean (Iberian Margin): Latitudinal, Longitudinal, and Vertical Gradients

    Antje H. L. Voelker;Lucia de Abreu

  • Factors controlling the depth habitat of planktonic foraminifera in the subtropical eastern North Atlantic

    Andreia Rebotim;Antje H. L. Voelker;Lukas Jonkers;Joanna J. Waniek

  • Iberian Margin sea surface temperature during MIS 15 to 9 (580-300 ka): Glacial suborbital variability versus interglacial stability

    Teresa Rodrigues;Antje H. L. Voelker;J. O. Grimalt;Fatima Abrantes

  • Variations in mid-latitude North Atlantic surface water properties during the mid-Brunhes (MIS 9–14) and their implications for the thermohaline circulation

    Antje H. L. Voelker;T. Rodrigues;K. Billups;Delia W. Oppo

  • The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014

    Edward Mawji;Reiner Schlitzer;Elena Masferrer Dodas;Cyril Abadie

  • Variability of surface water characteristics and Heinrich-like events in the Pleistocene midlatitude North Atlantic Ocean: Biomarker and XRD records from IODP Site U1313 (MIS 16-9)

    Ruediger Stein;Jens Hefter;Jens Grützner;Antje H. L. Voelker

  • Deciphering bottom current velocity and paleoclimate signals from contourite deposits in the Gulf of Cádiz during the last 140 kyr: An inorganic geochemical approach

    André Bahr;Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo;Nada Kolasinac;Patrick Grunert

  • Climate variability across the last deglaciation in NW Iberia and its margin

    F. Naughton;M.F. Sanchez Goñi;T. Rodrigues;E. Salgueiro

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

Frequent Co-Authors

Fatima F Abrantes
Fatima F Abrantes Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Joachim Schönfeld
Joachim Schönfeld GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Bruno Malaizé
Bruno Malaizé University of Bordeaux
Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Simon J A Jung
Simon J A Jung University of Edinburgh
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux

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