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Overview

Daniel Ariztegui is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland and has a research focus primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their scholarly work encompasses a wide range of topics including geology, paleoclimatology, paleontology, and microbial community ecology.

Among the main topics addressed in their research are:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

They have contributed extensively to subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Frequent co-authors in their published work include Camille Thomas, Montserrat Filella, Hendrik Vogel, Jean-Luc Loizeau, and Nicolás Waldmann, indicating a collaborative research approach within their scientific network.

Daniel Ariztegui's recent papers include:

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: Overview and Recommendations, 2021, published in Quaternary
  • Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments, 2021, published in Nature Communications
  • Vivianite formation in ferruginous sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia, 2020, published in Biogeosciences
  • Paleolimnological record of the Pampean plains (Argentina) as a natural archive of South American hydroclimatic variability since the LGM to the Current Warm Period, 2020, published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Planktonic foraminifera eDNA signature deposited on the seafloor remains preserved after burial in marine sediments, 2020, published in Scientific Reports

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Boreas, Sedimentology, The Science of The Total Environment, and Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências.

Best Publications

  • An 85-ka record of climate change in lowland Central America

    David A. Hodell;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;Mark Brenner

  • Quantification of soil erosion rates related to ancient Maya deforestation

    Flavio S. Anselmetti;David A. Hodell;Daniel Ariztegui;Mark Brenner

  • Lake Sedimentary DNA Research on Past Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity : Overview and Recommendations

    Eric Capo;Charline Giguet-Covex;Alexandra Rouillard;Kevin Nota

  • Palaeoclimate and the Formation of Sapropel S1: Inferences from Late Quaternary Lacustrine and Marine Sequences in the Central Mediterranean Region

    D. Ariztegui;A. Asioli;J.J. Lowe;F. Trincardi

  • Holocene palaeoclimates of southern Patagonia: limnological and environmental history of Lago Cardiel, Argentina:

    Vera Markgraf;J. Platt Bradbury;Antje Schwalb;Stephen J. Burns

  • The 1996 AD delta collapse and large turbidite in Lake Brienz

    Stéphanie Girardclos;Oliver T. Schmidt;Mike Sturm;Daniel Ariztegui

  • Climate drying and associated forest decline in the lowlands of northern Guatemala during the late Holocene.

    Andreas D. Mueller;Gerald A. Islebe;Michael B. Hillesheim;Dustin A. Grzesik

  • Precise radiocarbon dating of Late-Glacial cooling in mid-latitude South America

    Irka Hajdas;Georges Bonani;Patricio I. Moreno;Daniel Ariztegui

  • Hydrological Variability in South America Below the Tropic of Capricorn (Pampas and Patagonia, Argentina) During the Last 13.0 Ka

    Eduardo L. Piovano;Daniel Ariztegui;Francisco Córdoba;Marcela Cioccale

  • Mid-Holocene strengthening of the Southern Westerlies in South America — Sedimentological evidences from Lago Cardiel, Argentina (49°S)

    Adrian Gilli;Daniel Ariztegui;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Judith A. McKenzie

  • Interhemispheric synchrony of Late-glacial climatic instability as recorded in proglacial Lake Mascardi, Argentina

    Daniel Ariztegui;María Martha Bianchi;Julieta Masaferro;Eric Lafargue

  • Sub-millennial scale climatic oscillations in the central Adriatic during the Lateglacial: palaeoceanographic implications

    A. Asioli;F. Trincardi;J.J. Lowe;D. Ariztegui

  • Recent environmental changes in Laguna Mar Chiquita (central Argentina): a sedimentary model for a highly variable saline lake

    Eduardo L. Piovano;Daniel Ariztegui;Sandra Damatto Moreira

  • Environmental history of southern Patagonia unravelled by the seismic stratigraphy of Laguna Potrok Aike

    Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;Marc De Batist;A. Catalina Gebhardt

  • Deciphering the depositional environment of the laminated Crato fossil beds (Early Cretaceous, Araripe Basin, North-eastern Brazil)

    Ulrich Heimhofer;Daniel Ariztegui;Marc Lenniger;Stephen P. Hesselbo

  • A ∼43-ka record of paleoenvironmental change in the Central American lowlands inferred from stable isotopes of lacustrine ostracods

    Jaime Escobar;Jaime Escobar;Jaime Escobar;David A. Hodell;Mark Brenner;Jason H. Curtis

  • Lacustrine organic matter and the Holocene paleoenvironmental record of Lake Albano (central Italy)

    D. Ariztegui;C. Chondrogianni;A. Lami;P. Guilizzoni

  • Impact of climate variability in the western Mediterranean during the last 20,000 years: oceanic and atmospheric responses

    M. Rodrigo-Gámiz;F. Martínez-Ruiz;F.J. Jiménez-Espejo;D. Gallego-Torres;D. Gallego-Torres

  • Late Quaternary climate-induced lake level variations in Lake Peten Itza´, Guatemala, inferred from seismic stratigraphic analysis

    Flavio Anselmetti;D. Ariztegui;D.A. Hodell;M.B. Hillesheim

  • Tracking abrupt climate change in the Southern Hemisphere: a seismic stratigraphic study of Lago Cardiel, Argentina (49°S)

    Adrian Gilli;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;J. Platt Bradbury

  • Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

    Ina Neugebauer;Achim Brauer;Markus J. Schwab;Nicolas D. Waldmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio S. Anselmetti
Flavio S. Anselmetti University of Bern
Adrian Gilli
Adrian Gilli ETH Zurich
Mark Brenner
Mark Brenner University of Florida
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge
Hendrik Vogel
Hendrik Vogel University of Bern
Jason H. Curtis
Jason H. Curtis University of Florida
Vera Markgraf
Vera Markgraf Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
Bernd Zolitschka
Bernd Zolitschka University of Bremen
Antje Schwalb
Antje Schwalb Technische Universität Braunschweig
Emmanuel Chapron
Emmanuel Chapron University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès

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