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Francien Peterse

Francien Peterse

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Earth Science

D-Index
44
Citations
6529
World Ranking
4772
National Ranking
83

Overview

Francien Peterse is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a focused research profile within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The core topics of their research cover:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and Coastal Ecosystems
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological Formations and Processes
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

Frequent co-authors in Francien Peterse's publications include:

  • Appy Sluijs
  • Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
  • Peter K. Bijl
  • A.J. Baxter
  • Dirk Verschuren

Peterse's papers are commonly published in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Climate of the past
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Biogeosciences

Among the recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Francien Peterse are:

  • "Lessons from a high-CO 2 world: an ocean view from ∼ 3 million years ago" (2020), published in Climate of the past
  • "The influence of soil chemistry on branched tetraether lipids in mid- and high latitude soils: Implications for brGDGT-based paleothermometry" (2021), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Massive and rapid predominantly volcanic CO 2 emission during the end-Permian mass extinction" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum" (2020), published in Geology
  • "Late Paleocene-early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge" (2020), published in Climate of the past

Best Publications

  • Revised calibration of the MBT–CBT paleotemperature proxy based on branched tetraether membrane lipids in surface soils

    F. Peterse;J. van der Meer;S. Schouten;J.W.H. Weijers

  • Constraints on the application of the MBT/CBT palaeothermometer at high latitude environments (Svalbard, Norway).

    Francien Peterse;Jung-Hyun Kim;Stefan Schouten;Dorthe Klitgaard Kristensen

  • Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation

    Francien Peterse;Maarten A. Prins;Christiaan J. Beets;Simon R. Troelstra

  • Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene

    Margot J Cramwinckel;Matthew Huber;Ilja J Kocken;Claudia Agnini

  • Soil organic matter chemistry in allophanic soils: a pyrolysis-GC/MS study of a Costa Rican Andosol catena

    P. Buurman;F. Peterse;G. Almendros Martin

  • BayMBT : A Bayesian calibration model for branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils and peats

    Emily Dearing Crampton-Flood;Jessica E. Tierney;Francien Peterse;Frédérique M.S.A. Kirkels

  • Molecular records of continental air temperature and monsoon precipitation variability in East Asia spanning the past 130,000 years

    Francien Peterse;Alfredo Martínez-García;Bin Zhou;Christiaan J. Beets

  • Earthworms act as biochemical reactors to convert labile plant compounds into stabilized soil microbial necromass

    Gerrit Angst;Carsten W. Mueller;Isabel Prater;Šárka Angst

  • Absence of seasonal patterns in MBT-CBT indices in mid-latitude soils

    Johan W.H. Weijers;Beth Bernhardt;Francien Peterse;Josef P. Werne;Josef P. Werne

  • Influence of soil pH on the abundance and distribution of core and intact polar lipid-derived branched GDGTs in soil

    Francien Peterse;Graeme W. Nicol;Stefan Schouten;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events

    Debra A. Willard;Timme H. Donders;Tammo Reichgelt;David R. Greenwood

  • Lipid biomarker temperature proxy responds to abrupt shift in the bacterial community composition in geothermally heated soils

    Cindy De Jonge;Dajana Radujković;Bjarni D. Sigurdsson;Bjarni D. Sigurdsson;James T. Weedon;James T. Weedon

  • Low-ammonia niche of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in rotating biological contactors of a municipal wastewater treatment plant

    Laura A. Sauder;Francien Peterse;Stefan Schouten;Josh D. Neufeld

  • Sources of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in catchment soils, water column and sediments of Lake Rotsee (Switzerland) – implications for the application of GDGT-based proxies for lakes

    Sebastian Naeher;Sebastian Naeher;Francien Peterse;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Helge Niemann

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Ann Pearson

  • Assessment of soil n-alkane δD and branched tetraether membrane lipid distributions as tools for paleoelevation reconstruction

    F. Peterse;M. T. J. van der Meer;S. Schouten;G. Jia

  • Astronomical age constraints and extinction mechanisms of the Late Triassic Carnian crisis

    Charlotte Sarah Miller;Charlotte Sarah Miller;Francien Peterse;Anne-Christine da Silva;Anne-Christine da Silva;Viktoria Baranyi

  • Lessons from a high CO2 world : an ocean view from ~ 3 million years ago.

    Erin L. McClymont;Heather L. Ford;Sze Ling Ho;Julia C. Tindall

  • The influence of soil chemistry on branched tetraether lipids in mid- and high latitude soils: Implications for brGDGT- based paleothermometry

    C. de Jonge;C. de Jonge;Eiko Kuramae;D. Radujković;J.T. Weedon;J.T. Weedon

  • Identification and distribution of intact polar branched tetraether lipids in peat and soil

    Francien Peterse;Ellen C. Hopmans;Stefan Schouten;Anchélique Mets

  • Revised calibration of the MBT-CBT paleotemperature proxy

    Francien Peterse;Jaap van der Meer;Stefan Schouten;Johan W H Weijers

  • Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during early Eocene transient global warming events.

    D. R. Greenwood;D. A. Willard;T. Donders;T. Reichgelt

Frequent Co-Authors

Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté
J.S. Sinninghe Damsté Utrecht University
Johan W.H. Weijers
Johan W.H. Weijers Shell (Netherlands)
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University

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