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Birgit Plessen is affiliated with the University of Potsdam in Germany and conducts research primarily within the broad domain of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extends into several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The research topics covered by Birgit Plessen place a strong emphasis on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, as well as Tree-ring climate responses. Additional topics in their portfolio include Marine and environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena.

Birgit Plessen frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Achim Brauer, Markus J. Schwab, Rik Tjallingii, Sylvia Pinkerneil, and Steffen Mischke.

The scientist has published articles in several venues, with multiple contributions to Communications Earth & Environment, Boreas, Scientific Reports, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Earth system science data.

Some recent papers authored by or involving Birgit Plessen include:

  • Advances in understanding calcite varve formation: new insights from a dual lake monitoring approach in the southern Baltic lowlands, 2021, Boreas
  • VARDA (VARved sediments DAtabase) - providing and connecting proxy data from annually laminated lake sediments, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Precipitation dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau during the Late Quaternary - Hydroclimatic sedimentary proxies versus lake level variability, 2021, Global and Planetary Change
  • Recurring summer and winter droughts from 4.2-3.97 thousand years ago in north India, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment
  • New insights into lake responses to rapid climate change: the Younger Dryas in Lake Gościąż, central Poland, 2020, Boreas

Best Publications

  • Prolonged monsoon droughts and links to Indo-Pacific warm pool: A Holocene record from Lonar Lake, central India

    Sushma Prasad;A Anoop;N Riedel;S Sarkar

  • Foraminiferal Isotope Evidence of Reduced Nitrogen Fixation in the Ice Age Atlantic Ocean

    Haojia Ren;Daniel M. Sigman;Anna Nele Meckler;Birgit Plessen

  • New high-resolution age data from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

    Ulf Linnemann;Maria Ovtcharova;Urs Schaltegger;Andreas Gärtner

  • Dynamics of the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion from Black Sea sediments

    N.R. Nowaczyk;H.W. Arz;U. Frank;J. Kind

  • Coupled nitrification‐denitrification in sediment of the eastern Bering Sea shelf leads to 15N enrichment of fixed N in shelf waters

    J. Granger;M. G. Prokopenko;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;C. W. Mordy

  • A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Dirk Verschuren;Jort Ossebaar;Jord Blokker

  • Evidence from diatom-bound nitrogen isotopes for subarctic Pacific stratification during the last ice age and a link to North Pacific denitrification changes

    Brigitte G. Brunelle;Daniel M. Sigman;Mea S. Cook;Lloyd D. Keigwin

  • Orbital and solar forcing of shifts in Mid- to Late Holocene flood intensity from varved sediments of pre-alpine Lake Ammersee (southern Germany)

    Markus Czymzik;Achim Brauer;Peter Dulski;Birgit Plessen

  • Ostracods and stable isotopes of a late glacial and Holocene lake record from the NE Tibetan Plateau

    Steffen Mischke;Bernhard Aichner;Bernhard Diekmann;Ulrike Herzschuh

  • Biomarker and stable carbon isotope analyses of sedimentary organic matter from Lake Tswaing: evidence for deglacial wetness and early Holocene drought from South Africa

    I. Kristen;H. Wilkes;A. Vieth;K.-G. Zink

  • Climatic imprint of the mid-latitude Westerlies in the Central Tian Shan of Kyrgyzstan and teleconnections to North Atlantic climate variability during the last 6000 years:

    Stefan Lauterbach;Roman Witt;Birgit Plessen;Peter Dulski

  • Eemian and Late Glacial/Holocene palaeoenvironmental records from permafrost sequences at the Dmitry Laptev Strait (NE Siberia, Russia)

    Sebastian Wetterich;Lutz Schirrmeister;Andrei A. Andreev;Michael Pudenz

  • Glacial/interglacial changes in nutrient supply and stratification in the western subarctic North Pacific since the penultimate glacial maximum

    Brigitte G. Brunelle;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Samuel L. Jaccard;Lloyd D. Keigwin

  • Precipitation evolution of Central Asia during the last 5000 years

    Christian Wolff;Birgit Plessen;Alexey S. Dudashvilli;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach

  • Chemistry and isotopic composition of Rotliegend and Upper Carboniferous formation waters from the North German Basin

    Volker Lüders;Birgit Plessen;Rolf L. Romer;Stephan M. Weise

  • Multi‐proxy evidence for early to mid‐Holocene environmental and climatic changes in northeastern Poland

    Stefan Lauterbach;Achim Brauer;Nils Andersen;Dan L. Danielopol

  • A 450 year record of spring‐summer flood layers in annually laminated sediments from Lake Ammersee (southern Germany)

    Markus Czymzik;Peter Dulski;Birgit Plessen;Ulrich von Grafenstein

  • High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa

    Maarten Blaauw;Bas van Geel;Iris Kristen;Birgit Plessen

  • Vegetation and environmental dynamics in the southern Black Sea region since 18 kyr BP derived from the marine core 22-GC3

    Lyudmila S. Shumilovskikh;Pavel Tarasov;Helge W. Arz;Dominik Fleitmann

  • North Atlantic control on precipitation pattern in the eastern Mediterranean/Black Sea region during the last glacial

    Olga Kwiecien;Helge W. Arz;Frank Lamy;Birgit Plessen

Frequent Co-Authors

Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Peter Dulski
Peter Dulski University of Potsdam
Rik Tjallingii
Rik Tjallingii Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Gerald H. Haug
Gerald H. Haug Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
Steffen Mischke
Steffen Mischke University of Iceland
Sabine Wulf
Sabine Wulf University of Portsmouth
Ulrike Herzschuh
Ulrike Herzschuh University of Potsdam
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach
Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach Northumbria University
Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Norbert R Nowaczyk
Norbert R Nowaczyk University of Potsdam

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