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Carsten Rühlemann is affiliated with the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Germany. Their research work primarily intersects the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular emphasis on subfields including Geochemistry and Petrology, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Radiological and Ultrasound Technology.

Their research topics include:

  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Radioactivity and Radon Measurements
  • Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
  • Extraction and Separation Processes
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies

Rühlemann has contributed to several recent publications, demonstrating a focus on marine and environmental geosciences:

  • "Mining mineral resources from the seabed: Opportunities and challenges" (2020) published in Marine Policy
  • "Exploration of Polymetallic Nodules and Resource Assessment: A Case Study from the German Contract Area in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Tropical Northeast Pacific" (2021) published in Minerals
  • "Impact of Indian Ocean surface temperature gradient reversals on the Indian Summer Monsoon" (2021) published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "World Atlas of late Quaternary Foraminiferal Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Ratios" (2022) published in Earth system science data
  • "Full radionuclide analysis of polymetallic nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton-Fracture Zone in the NE Pacific" (2024) published in Applied Geochemistry

Rühlemann has coauthored frequently with several researchers including Αnnemiek Vink, Christian Kunze, Holger Hummrich, Thomas Lüttke, and Klaus Flesch.

Their work appears in a range of publication venues such as Marine Policy, Minerals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth system science data, and Applied Geochemistry.

In addition to journal articles, Rühlemann has contributed to book publications, notably to the Maribus eBooks series with the title "World ocean review: Mit den Meeren leben 7. Lebensgarant Ozean - nachhaltig nutzen, wirksam schützen" published in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Global temperature calibration of the alkenone unsaturation index (UK′37) in surface waters and comparison with surface sediments

    Maureen H. Conte;Maureen H. Conte;Marie-Alexandrine Sicre;Carsten Rühlemann;Carsten Rühlemann;John C. Weber;John C. Weber

  • Warming of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and slowdown of thermohaline circulation during the last deglaciation

    Carsten Rühlemann;Stefan Mulitza;Peter J. Müller;Gerold Wefer

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

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

  • North Pacific and North Atlantic sea-surface temperature variability during the Holocene

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Norel Rimbu;Stephan J. Lorenz;Gerrit Lohmann

  • High- and low-latitude climate control on the position of the southern Peru-Chile Current during the Holocene

    Frank Lamy;Carsten Rühlemann;Dierk Hebbeln;Gerold Wefer

  • Early Pliocene increase in thermohaline overturning: A precondition for the development of the modern equatorial Pacific cold tongue

    Silke Steph;Silke Steph;Silke Steph;Ralf Tiedemann;Matthias Prange;Jeroen Groeneveld

  • Coupling of millennial‐scale changes in sea surface temperature and precipitation off northeastern Brazil with high‐latitude climate shifts during the last glacial period

    Andrea Jaeschke;Carsten Rühlemann;Helge W Arz;Gerrit M N Heil

  • Composition, Formation, and Occurrence of Polymetallic Nodules

    T. Kuhn;A. Wegorzewski;C. Rühlemann;A. Vink

  • Impact of depositional and biogeochemical processes on small scale variations in nodule abundance in the Clarion‐Clipperton Fracture Zone

    Konstantin Mewes;José M. Mogollón;José M. Mogollón;Aude Picard;Aude Picard;Carsten Rühlemann

  • Late Quaternary productivity changes in the western equatorial Atlantic: Evidence from 230Th normalized carbonate and organic carbon accumulation rates

    C. Rühlemann;Martin Frank;W. Hale;A. Mangini

  • Intermediate depth warming in the tropical Atlantic related to weakened thermohaline circulation: Combining paleoclimate data and modeling results for the last deglaciation

    Carsten Rühlemann;Carsten Rühlemann;Stefan Mulitza;Gerrit Lohmann;André Paul

  • Organic Carbon and Carbonate as Paleoproductivity Proxies: Examples from High and Low Productivity Areas of the Tropical Atlantic

    C. Rühlemann;P. J. Müller;R. R. Schneider

  • Shifts in the position of the north equatorial current and rapid productivity changes in the western tropical Atlantic during the last glacial

    Annemiek Vink;Carsten Rühlemann;Karin A. F. Zonneveld;Stefan Mulitza

  • Monsoon versus ocean circulation controls on paleoenvironmental conditions off southern Sumatra during the past 300,000 years

    Andreas Lückge;Mahyar Mohtadi;Carsten Rühlemann;Georg Scheeder

  • Barium peaks at glacial terminations in sediments of the equatorial Atlantic Ocean—relicts of deglacial productivity pulses?

    Sabine Kasten;Ralf R. Haese;Matthias Zabel;Carsten Rühlemann

  • Late Quaternary changes of western equatorial Atlantic surface circulation and Amazon lowland climate recorded in Ceará Rise deep sea sediments

    Carsten Rühlemann;Bernhard Diekmann;Stefan Mulitza;Martin Frank

  • Palaeoenvironmental information gained from calcareous dinoflagellates: the late Quaternary eastern and western tropical Atlantic Ocean in comparison

    Christine Höll;Britta Karwath;Carsten Rühlemann;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • Alkenone temperature anomalies in the Brazil‐Malvinas Confluence area caused by lateral advection of suspended particulate material

    Carsten Rühlemann;Martin Butzin

  • Aragonite preservation in late Quaternary sediment cores on the Brazilian Continental Slope: implications for intermediate water circulation

    S. Gerhardt;H. Groth;C. Rühlemann;R. Henrich

  • The South Atlantic Oxygen Isotope Record of Planktic Foraminifera

    Stefan Mulitza;Barbara Donner;Gerhard Fischer;André Paul

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Trond Dokken
Trond Dokken NORCE Research
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz
Jean Lynch-Stieglitz Georgia Institute of Technology
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Gesine Mollenhauer
Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University

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