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Frank Lamy is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily centers on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions spanning related subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main areas of study encompass several specific topics including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Astro and Planetary Science
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Frank Lamy are:

  • "Five million years of Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength variability," 2024, Nature
  • "Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Antarctic Circumpolar Current Dynamics at the Pacific Entrance to the Drake Passage Over the Past 1.3 Million Years," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "A circumpolar dust conveyor in the glacial Southern Ocean," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Regional patterns and temporal evolution of ocean iron fertilization and CO2 drawdown during the last glacial termination," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Helge W. Arz
  • Lester Lembke-Jene
  • Gisela Winckler
  • Joseph S. Stoner
  • Oliver Esper

Publication venues frequently featuring Frank Lamy's work are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Climate of the past

Frank Lamy has also contributed to book publications, including one titled "Volume 383: Dynamics of the Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current (DYNAPACC)" published in 2021 as part of the Proceedings of the International Ocean Discovery Program. Expedition reports.

Best Publications

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

    Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln;Ursula Röhl;Gerold Wefer

  • Holocene changes in the position and intensity of the southern westerly wind belt

    Frank Lamy;Rolf Kilian;Helge W. Arz;Jean-Pierre Francois

  • Mediterranean Moisture Source for an Early-Holocene Humid Period in the Northern Red Sea

    Helge W Arz;Frank Lamy;Jürgen Pätzold;Peter J Müller

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

    Frank Lamy;Jérome Kaiser;Ulysses Ninnemann;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Coherent high- and low-latitude control of the northwest African hydrological balance

    Rik Tjallingii;Rik Tjallingii;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen;Jan Berend W Stuut;Jens Fohlmeister

  • 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

  • Increased Dust Deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean During Glacial Periods

    Frank Lamy;Rainer Gersonde;Gisela Winckler;Gisela Winckler;Oliver Esper

  • A review of Glacial and Holocene paleoclimate records from southernmost Patagonia (49–55°S)

    Rolf Kilian;Frank Lamy

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

    Jérome Kaiser;Frank Lamy;Dierk Hebbeln

  • A Pronounced Dry Event Recorded Around 4.2 ka in Brine Sediments from the Northern Red Sea

    Helge W. Arz;Frank Lamy;Jürgen Pätzold

  • Late glacial to Holocene climate and sedimentation history in the NW Black Sea

    André Bahr;Frank Lamy;Helge W Arz;Holger Kuhlmann

  • Dominant Northern Hemisphere climate control over millennial-scale glacial sea-level variability

    Helge W Arz;Frank Lamy;Andrey Ganopolski;Norbert R Nowaczyk

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

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

  • 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

  • Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (southwestern Africa) and Atacama (northern Chile) coastal deserts during the last 120,000 yr

    Jan Berend W Stuut;Frank Lamy

  • Multicentennial-scale hydrological changes in the Black Sea and northern Red Sea during the Holocene and the Arctic/North Atlantic Oscillation

    Frank Lamy;Helge Wolfgang Arz;Gérard C. Bond;André Bahr

  • Carbon isotope records reveal precise timing of enhanced Southern Ocean upwelling during the last deglaciation.

    Giuseppe Siani;Elisabeth Michel;Ricardo De Pol-Holz;Tim DeVries

  • Late glacial to Holocene paleoenvironmental evolution of the Black Sea, reconstructed with stable oxygen isotope records obtained on ostracod shells

    André Bahr;Helge W. Arz;Frank Lamy;Gerold Wefer

  • 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

  • Dust fluxes and iron fertilization in Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climates

    Fabrice Lambert;Fabrice Lambert;Alessandro Tagliabue;Gary Shaffer;Gary Shaffer;Frank Lamy

  • Antarctic Zone nutrient conditions during the last two glacial cycles

    Anja S. Studer;Anja S. Studer;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Alfredo Martínez-García;Verena Benz

Frequent Co-Authors

Helge W Arz
Helge W Arz Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Dierk Hebbeln
Dierk Hebbeln University of Bremen
Ralf Tiedemann
Ralf Tiedemann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Rainer Gersonde
Rainer Gersonde Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Lukas Wacker
Lukas Wacker ETH Zurich
Carina B. Lange
Carina B. Lange University of Concepción
Peter Köhler
Peter Köhler Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Brent Alloway
Brent Alloway University of Auckland

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