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Eelco J. Rohling

Eelco J. Rohling

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Earth Science
Netherlands
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
94
Citations
33219
World Ranking
197
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2017 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • 2008 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eelco J. Rohling is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a research focus within the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with over 100 publications in this area. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Chemistry.

The main topics covered in Rohling's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Climate variability and models

Several frequent co-authors have contributed significantly alongside Rohling in research publications:

  • Andrew P. Roberts (25 papers)
  • David Heslop (21 papers)
  • Katharine Grant (18 papers)
  • Fabio Florindo (11 papers)
  • Laura Rodríguez-Sanz (11 papers)

The primary venues where Rohling publishes include:

  • Communications Earth & Environment (7 publications)
  • Reviews of Geophysics (6 publications)
  • Nature Geoscience (6 publications)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (6 publications)
  • Quaternary Research (5 publications)

Recent publications by Rohling reflect a focus on paleoclimate and environmental reconstructions:

  • "Sea level and deep-sea temperature reconstructions suggest quasi-stable states and critical transitions over the past 40 million years," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Mineral-enriched biochar delivers enhanced nutrient recovery and carbon dioxide removal," 2022, Communications Earth & Environment

Other significant recent papers associated with Rohling's research area, though authored by collaborators, indicate the interdisciplinary scope of the scientific network:

  • "An Assessment of Earth's Climate Sensitivity Using Multiple Lines of Evidence," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "The Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to a Changing Climate: Past, Present, and Future," 2020, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "Possible obliquity-forced warmth in southern Asia during the last glacial stage," 2020, Science Bulletin

Awards marking the career include being named a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union in 2017 and election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Sea-level fluctuations during the last glacial cycle

    M. Siddall;E. J. Rohling;A. Almogi-Labin;Ch. Hemleben

  • An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence

    S C Sherwood;M J Webb;J D Annan;K C Armour

  • Assessing "dangerous climate change": required reduction of carbon emissions to protect young people, future generations and nature.

    James E. Hansen;Pushker A. Kharecha;Pushker A. Kharecha;Makiko H. Sato;Valerie Masson-Delmotte

  • Centennial-scale climate cooling with a sudden cold event around 8,200 years ago

    Eelco J. Rohling;Heiko Pälike

  • Magnitudes of sea-level lowstands of the past 500,000 years

    E.J. Rohling;M. Fenton;F.J. Jorissen;P. Bertrand

  • Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years

    Eelco Rohling;Gavin L Foster;Katharine Grant;Gianluca Marino

  • Rapid coupling between ice volume and polar temperature over the past 150,000 years

    Katharine Grant;Eelco Rohling;Eelco Rohling;M Bar-Matthews;A Ayalon

  • Escape of methane gas from the seabed along the West Spitsbergen continental margin

    Graham K. Westbrook;Kate E. Thatcher;Eelco J. Rohling;Alexander M. Piotrowski

  • Antarctic temperature and global sea level closely coupled over the past five glacial cycles

    Eelco J. Rohling;K Grant;M Bolshaw;Andrew Roberts

  • Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels

    Eelco J. Rohling

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • High rates of sea-level rise during the last interglacial period

    Eelco Rohling;Katharine Grant;Ch Hemleben;M. Siddall

  • Mediterranean climate and oceanography, and the periodic development of anoxic events (sapropels)

    E.J. Rohling;E.J. Rohling;G. Marino;K.M. Grant

  • Sea-level variability over five glacial cycles

    K. M. Grant;E. J. Rohling;E. J. Rohling;C. Bronk Ramsey;H. Cheng;H. Cheng

  • Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records

    Miguel A. Martínez-Botí;Gavin L Foster;Tom B. Chalk;Eelco J Rohling

  • Three million years of monsoon variability over the northern Sahara

    J. C. Larrasoaña;A. P. Roberts;E. J. Rohling;M. Winklhofer

  • Holocene atmosphere-ocean interactions: records from Greenland and the Aegean Sea

    E. J. Rohling;P. A. Mayewski;R. H. Abu-Zied;J. S. L. Casford

  • A Cenozoic record of the equatorial Pacific carbonate compensation depth

    Heiko Pälike;Mitchell W. Lyle;Hiroshi Nishi;Isabella Raffi

  • LATE QUATERNARY CHANGES IN MEDITERRANEAN INTERMEDIATE WATER DENSITY AND FORMATION RATE

    Eelco J. Rohling;Winifried W. C. Gieskes

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E.J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H.A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • POSTGLACIAL CONNECTION OF THE BLACK SEA TO THE MEDITERRANEAN AND ITS RELATION TO THE TIMING OF SAPROPEL FORMATION

    Gregory F. Lane-Serff;Eelco J. Rohling;Harry L. Bryden;Henry Charnock

  • A New Method for Reconstructing Sea-Level and Deep-Sea-Temperature Variability over the Past 5.3 Million Years

    Eelco Rohling

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Roberts
Andrew P. Roberts Australian National University
Gianluca Marino
Gianluca Marino Universidade de Vigo
Gavin L. Foster
Gavin L. Foster University of Southampton
Frans Jorissen
Frans Jorissen University of Angers
Willem-Jan Zachariasse
Willem-Jan Zachariasse Utrecht University
Jimin Yu
Jimin Yu Australian National University
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
David Heslop
David Heslop Australian National University
Michal Kucera
Michal Kucera University of Bremen
Derek Vance
Derek Vance ETH Zurich

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