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Christian J. Bjerrum

Christian J. Bjerrum

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Earth Science

D-Index
31
Citations
6040
World Ranking
8836
National Ranking
92

Overview

Christian J. Bjerrum is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Paleontology, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Mechanics of Materials, and Geophysics.

The scientist's main topics of work cover a broad spectrum of geological and environmental themes. Key areas include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis, and Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods.

Christian J. Bjerrum has published papers in various scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Geobiology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Their recent papers include:

  • "Development of Iron Speciation Reference Materials for Palaeoredox Analysis" (2020, Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research)
  • "The modern phosphorus cycle informs interpretations of Mesoproterozoic Era phosphorus dynamics" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Petrographic carbon in ancient sediments constrains Proterozoic Era atmospheric oxygen levels" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Cold spells in the Nordic Seas during the early Eocene Greenhouse" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion" (2021, Earth and Planetary Science Letters)

Among their frequent co-authors are Stephen P. Hesselbo, James V. Browning, Kenneth G. Miller, Gregory S. Mountain, and Jean-Noël Proust.

Best Publications

  • Massive dissociation of gas hydrate during a Jurassic oceanic anoxic event

    Stephen P. Hesselbo;Darren R. Gröcke;Hugh C. Jenkyns;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides.

    Christian J. Bjerrum;Donald E. Canfield

  • Early anaerobic metabolisms.

    Don E Canfield;Minik T Rosing;Christian Bjerrum

  • Sufficient oxygen for animal respiration 1,400 million years ago

    Shuichang Zhang;Xiaomei Wang;Huajian Wang;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • A sulfidic driver for the end-Ordovician mass extinction

    Emma U. Hammarlund;Emma U. Hammarlund;Emma U. Hammarlund;Tais W. Dahl;David A. T. Harper;David A. T. Harper;David P. G. Bond

  • No climate paradox under the faint early Sun

    Minik T. Rosing;Dennis K. Bird;Norman H. Sleep;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • Quantifying early marine diagenesis in shallow-water carbonate sediments

    Anne Sofie C. Ahm;Christian J. Bjerrum;Clara L. Blättler;Peter K. Swart

  • Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

    CarriAyne Jones;CarriAyne Jones;Suolong Nomosatryo;Sean Andrew Crowe;Sean Andrew Crowe;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • Orbital forcing of climate 1.4 billion years ago

    Shuichang Zhang;Xiaomei Wang;Emma U Hammarlund;Huajian Wang

  • Numerical Paleoceanographic study of the Early Jurassic Transcontinental Laurasian Seaway

    Christian J. Bjerrum;Finn Surlyk;John H. Callomon;Rudy L. Slingerland

  • Towards a quantitative understanding of the late Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

    Christian Jannik Bjerrum;Donald Eugene Canfield

  • A new correlation of Triassic-Jurassic boundary successions in NW Europe, Nevada and Peru, and the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province : A time-line for the end-Triassic mass extinction

    Sofie Lindström;Bas van de Schootbrugge;Katrine H. Hansen;Gunver K. Pedersen

  • Ocean subsurface warming as a mechanism for coupling Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles and ice-rafting events

    Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer;Steffen Malskær Olsen;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • New insights into the burial history of organic carbon on the early Earth

    Christian J. Bjerrum;Donald E. Canfield

  • Tracing euxinia by molybdenum concentrations in sediments using handheld x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (HHXRF)

    Tais Wittchen Dahl;Tais Wittchen Dahl;Micha Ruhl;Emma Hammarlund;Donald Eugene Canfield

  • Tectonic controls on deposition of Middle Jurassic strata in a retroarc foreland basin, Utah‐Idaho trough, western interior, United States

    Christian J. Bjerrum;Rebecca J. Dorsey

  • Modeling organic carbon burial during sea level rise with reference to the Cretaceous

    C. J. Bjerrum;J. Bendtsen;J. J. F. Legarth

  • An early diagenetic deglacial origin for basal Ediacaran “cap dolostones”

    Anne Sofie C. Ahm;Adam C. Maloof;Francis A. Macdonald;Paul F. Hoffman

  • Oxygen, climate and the chemical evolution of a 1400 million year old tropical marine setting

    Xiaomei Wang;Shuichang Zhang;Huajian Wang;Christian J. Bjerrum

  • A Mesoproterozoic iron formation

    Donald E. Canfield;Donald E. Canfield;Shuichang Zhang;Huajian Wang;Xiaomei Wang

  • Arctic black shale formation during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

    Marc Lenniger;Henrik Nøhr-Hansen;Len V. Hills;Christian J. Bjerrum

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Canfield
Donald E. Canfield University of Southern Denmark
Stephen P. Hesselbo
Stephen P. Hesselbo University of Exeter
Shuichang Zhang
Shuichang Zhang China National Petroleum Corporation (China)
Nicolas Thibault
Nicolas Thibault University of Copenhagen
Jean-Noël Proust
Jean-Noël Proust Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Minik T. Rosing
Minik T. Rosing University of Copenhagen
Kenneth G. Miller
Kenneth G. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
John A. Higgins
John A. Higgins Princeton University
Christoph Korte
Christoph Korte University of Copenhagen
Gary Shaffer
Gary Shaffer University of Magallanes

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