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Dierk Hebbeln is affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions across several related subfields. These include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics with emphasis on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological Formations and Processes, Marine and Fisheries Research, Marine and Coastal Plant Biology, and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics.

Dierk Hebbeln has authored and coauthored multiple publications in prominent scientific journals. Recent notable papers include:

  • Climate-induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia, 2020, Coral Reefs
  • Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Deglacial upslope shift of NE Atlantic intermediate waters controlled slope erosion and cold-water coral mound formation (Porcupine Seabight, Irish margin), 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Interaction of Fire, Vegetation, and Climate in Tropical Ecosystems: A Multiproxy Study Over the Past 22,000 Years, 2020, Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Hebbeln frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Communications Earth & Environment

The scientist collaborates regularly with several frequent coauthors, including Claudia Wienberg, Jürgen Titschack, Covadonga Orejas, André Freiwald, and Jens Weiser.

Best Publications

  • Ocean Margin Systems

    G. Wefer;D. Billett;D. Hebbeln;B.B. Joergensen

  • Holocene rainfall variability in southern Chile: a marine record of latitudinal shifts of the Southern Westerlies

    Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln;Ursula Röhl;Gerold Wefer

  • The white coral community in the Central Mediterranean Sea - Revealed by ROV surveys

    André Freiwald;Lydia Beuck;Andreas Rüggeberg;Marco Taviani

  • Antarctic timing of surface water changes off Chile and Patagonian ice sheet response.

    Frank Lamy;Jérome Kaiser;Ulysses Ninnemann;Dierk Hebbeln

  • FLUCTUATIONS OF THE SVALBARD–BARENTS SEA ICE SHEET DURING THE LAST 150 000 YEARS

    Jan Mangerud;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln;Beathe Heggen

  • High-Resolution Marine Record of Climatic Change in Mid-latitude Chile during the Last 28,000 Years Based on Terrigenous Sediment Parameters

    Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln;Gerold Wefer

  • Moisture supply for northern ice-sheet growth during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Dierk Hebbeln;Trond Dokken;Espen S. Andersen;Morten Hald

  • Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts

    Marie-Claire Fabri;Laura Pedel;L. Beuck;Francois Galgani

  • A 70‐kyr sea surface temperature record off southern Chile (Ocean Drilling Program Site 1233)

    Jérome Kaiser;Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Basin‐wide particulate carbon flux in the Atlantic Ocean: Regional export patterns and potential for atmospheric CO2 sequestration

    Avan N Antia;Wolfgang Koeve;Gerhard Fischer;Thomas Blanz

  • Modulation of the bipolar seesaw in the Southeast Pacific during Termination 1

    Frank Lamy;Jérôme Kaiser;Helge W. Arz;Dierk Hebbeln

  • EFFECTS OF ICE COVERAGE AND ICE-RAFTED MATERIAL ON SEDIMENTATION IN THE FRAM STRAIT

    Dierk Hebbeln;Gerold Wefer

  • The Growth and Decay of the Late Weichselian Ice Sheet in Western Svalbard and Adjacent Areas Based on Provenance Studies of Marine Sediments

    Anders Elverhøi;Espen S. Andersen;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Distribution of planktic foraminifera at the ice margin in the Arctic (Fram Strait)

    Jörn Carstens;Dierk Hebbeln;Gerold Wefer

  • Climate‐induced changes in the suitable habitat of cold‐water corals and commercially important deep‐sea fishes in the North Atlantic

    Telmo Morato;José‐Manuel González‐Irusta;Carlos Dominguez‐Carrió;Chih‐Lin Wei

  • 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

  • Growth and erosion of a cold-water coral covered carbonate mound in the Northeast Atlantic during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

    Boris Dorschel;Dierk Hebbeln;Andres Rüggeberg;Wolf Christian Dullo

  • Hydrodynamics and cold-water coral facies distribution related to recent sedimentary processes at Galway Mound west of Ireland

    B Dorschel;D Hebbeln;Anneleen Foubert;M White

  • Glacial to Holocene swings of the Australian–Indonesian monsoon

    Mahyar Mohtadi;Delia W. Oppo;Stephan Steinke;Jan Berend W Stuut

  • Low-latitude control on seasonal and interannual changes in planktonic foraminiferal flux and shell geochemistry off south Java: A sediment trap study

    Mahyar Mohtadi;Stephan Steinke;Jeroen Groeneveld;Hiske G. Fink

  • Late Quaternary precessional cycles of terrigenous sediment input off the Norte Chico, Chile (27.5°S) and palaeoclimatic implications

    Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln;Gerold Wefer

  • Surface sediment distribution along the Chilean continental slope related to upwelling and productivity

    D. Hebbeln;M. Marchant;T. Freudenthal;G. Wefer

Frequent Co-Authors

Mahyar Mohtadi
Mahyar Mohtadi University of Bremen
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
André Freiwald
André Freiwald University of Bremen
Ricardo De Pol-Holz
Ricardo De Pol-Holz University of Magallanes
Stephan Steinke
Stephan Steinke Xiamen University
Norbert Frank
Norbert Frank Heidelberg University
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Oscar E Romero
Oscar E Romero University of Bremen
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen

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