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Frank Bassinot is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences with a particular focus on atmospheric science, ecology, oceanography, earth-surface processes, and environmental chemistry.

Their research primarily revolves around geology and paleoclimatology, isotope analysis in ecology, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geological formations and processes, geological and geophysical studies, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, as well as marine and environmental studies.

Recent publications by Frank Bassinot include:

  • Pacific warm pool subsurface heat sequestration modulated Walker circulation and ENSO activity during the Holocene, 2020, Science Advances
  • Cosmogenic 10Be production records reveal dynamics of geomagnetic dipole moment (GDM) over the Laschamp excursion (20-60 ka), 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Climate-Driven Weathering Shifts Between Highlands and Floodplains, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Precession and obliquity forcing of the South African monsoon revealed by sub-tropical fires, 2023, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Dynamics of primary productivity in the northeastern Bay of Bengal over the last 26,900 years, 2020, Climate of the past

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Bassinot include:

  • Jan Backman
  • Jean-Pierre Valet
  • Timothy D. Herbert
  • Christophe Colin
  • Nicholas J Shackleton

Some of the primary publication venues for Bassinot's work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

Frank Bassinot has contributed to book publications as well, including one titled Livre Blanc - Paléoclimats et Paléoenvironnements published in 2024 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • The astronomical theory of climate and the age of the Brunhes-Matuyama magnetic reversal

    Franck C. Bassinot;Laurent D. Labeyrie;Edith Vincent;Xavier Quidelleur

  • Insolation Cycles as a Major Control of Equatorial Indian Ocean Primary Production

    Luc Beaufort;Yves Lancelot;Yves Lancelot;Pierre Camberlin;Pierre Camberlin;Olivia Cayre;Olivia Cayre

  • Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages In The Mediterranean Sea And Black Sea

    Giuseppe Siani;Martine Paterne;Maurice Arnold;Edouard Bard

  • Reconstructing sea surface temperature and salinity using δ 18 O and alkenone records

    Frauke Rostek;Frauke Rostek;Götz Ruhlandt;Franck C. Bassinot;Peter J. Muller

  • Stable sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific warm pool over the past 1.75 million years

    Thibault de Garidel-Thoron-de Garidel-Thoron;Y. Rosenthal;F. Bassinot;Luc Beaufort

  • Erosional history of the eastern Tibetan Plateau since 190 kyr ago: clay mineralogical and geochemical investigations from the southwestern South China Sea

    Zhifei Liu;Christophe Colin;Alain Trentesaux;Dominique Blamart

  • Coarse fraction fluctuations in pelagic carbonate sediments from the tropical Indian Ocean: A 1500‐kyr record of carbonate dissolution

    Franck C. Bassinot;Luc Beaufort;Edith Vincent;Laurent D. Labeyrie

  • Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in planktonic foraminifera: Proxies for upper water column temperature reconstruction

    Caroline Cléroux;Elsa Cortijo;Pallavi Anand;Laurent Labeyrie

  • Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives

    Aline Govin;E Capron;P C Tzedakis;S Verheyden

  • Surface and subsurface seawater temperature reconstruction using Mg/Ca microanalysis of planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber, Globigerinoides sacculifer, and Pulleniatina obliquiloculata

    Aleksey Sadekov;Aleksey Sadekov;Stephen M. Eggins;Patrick De Deckker;Ulysses Ninnemann

  • Salinity bias on the foraminifera Mg/Ca thermometry: Correction procedure and implications for past ocean hydrographic reconstructions

    Elise Mathien-Blard;Franck Bassinot

  • Updated calibration of the clumped isotope thermometer in planktonic and benthic foraminifera

    Marion Peral;Mathieu Daëron;Dominique Blamart;Franck Bassinot

  • An unusual mid-Pleistocene monsoon period over Africa and Asia

    M. Rossignol-Strick;M. Paterne;F. C. Bassinot;K.-C. Emeis

  • Low‐latitude hydrological cycle and rapid climate changes during the last deglaciation

    Camille Levi;Laurent Labeyrie;Franck Bassinot;François Guichard

  • Asymmetrical saw-tooth pattern of the geomagnetic field intensity from equatorial sediments in the Pacific and Indian Oceans

    Laure Meynadier;Jean-Pierre Valet;Franck C. Bassinot;Nicholas J. Shackleton

  • Authigenic 10Be/9Be ratio signatures of the cosmogenic nuclide production linked to geomagnetic dipole moment variation since the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary

    Quentin Simon;Quentin Simon;Nicolas Thouveny;Didier L. Bourlès;Jean-Pierre Valet

  • Duration and dynamics of the best orbital analogue to the present interglacial

    Biagio Giaccio;Eleonora Regattieri;Giovanni Zanchetta;Sebastien Nomade

  • Geomagnetic, cosmogenic and climatic changes across the last geomagnetic reversal from Equatorial Indian Ocean sediments

    Jean-Pierre Valet;Franck Bassinot;Alexandra Bouilloux;Didier Bourlès

  • Climatic control of sediment transport from the Himalayas to the proximal NE Bengal Fan during the last glacial-interglacial cycle

    Ronan Joussain;Ronan Joussain;Christophe Colin;Zhifei Liu;Laure Meynadier

  • Distant origin of circulation changes in the Indian Ocean during the last deglaciation

    C. Waelbroeck;C Levi;Jean-Claude Duplessy;Laurent Labeyrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Elisabeth Michel
Elisabeth Michel Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Laurent Labeyrie
Laurent Labeyrie University of Southern Brittany
Luc Beaufort
Luc Beaufort Aix-Marseille University
Nicolas Thouveny
Nicolas Thouveny Aix-Marseille University
Jan-Berend W Stuut
Jan-Berend W Stuut Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Patrick De Deckker
Patrick De Deckker Australian National University
Jean-Pierre Valet
Jean-Pierre Valet Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Christophe Colin
Christophe Colin University of Paris-Saclay
Didier Bourlès
Didier Bourlès Aix-Marseille University
Zhimin Jian
Zhimin Jian Tongji University

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