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2023

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Citations
29271
World Ranking
575
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Earth Sciences
  • 2008 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Gerald H. Haug is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany. Their research contributions span Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

The scientist has produced numerous publications addressing topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Archaeology and Ancient Environmental Studies, and Marine Biology and Ecology Research.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Alfredo Martínez-García, Daniel M. Sigman, Ralf Schiebel, Hubert Vonhof, and Ulrike Weis.

Publications by Gerald H. Haug appear regularly in the following venues:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Science
  • Nature

Notable recent papers include:

  • Model Calculations of Aerosol Transmission and Infection Risk of COVID-19 in Indoor Environments, 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • The Southern Ocean during the ice ages: A review of the Antarctic surface isolation hypothesis, with comparison to the North Pacific, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Southern Ocean upwelling, Earth's obliquity, and glacial-interglacial atmospheric CO 2 change, 2020, Science
  • Enhanced ocean oxygenation during Cenozoic warm periods, 2022, Nature
  • Nitrogen isotopic constraints on nutrient transport to the upper ocean, 2021, Nature Geoscience

Gerald H. Haug has authored a book titled "Neugewählte Mitglieder 2019," published in 2021 by Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina e. V.

The scientist has been recognized with several honors, including membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2012 for Earth Sciences and membership of Academia Europaea since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene

    Gerald H. Haug;Konrad A. Hughen;Daniel M. Sigman;Larry C. Peterson

  • Migrations and dynamics of the intertropical convergence zone

    Tapio Schneider;Tobias Bischoff;Gerald H. Haug

  • Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilization

    Gerald H. Haug;Detlef Günther;Larry C. Peterson;Daniel Mikhail Sigman

  • Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation

    Gerald H. Haug;Ralf Tiedemann

  • Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon

    Gergana Yancheva;Norbert R. Nowaczyk;Jens Mingram;Peter Dulski

  • Rapid changes in the hydrologic cycle of the tropical Atlantic during the last glacial.

    Larry C. Peterson;Gerald H. Haug;Konrad A. Hughen;Ursula Röhl

  • The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO 2 concentration

    Daniel M. Sigman;Mathis P. Hain;Mathis P. Hain;Gerald H. Haug;Gerald H. Haug

  • The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium

    Kerstin S. Treydte;Gerhard H. Schleser;Gerhard Helle;David C. Frank

  • Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

    Douglas J. Kennett;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Valorie V. Aquino;Yemane Asmerom

  • Decline of surface temperature and salinity in the western tropical Pacific Ocean in the Holocene epoch

    Lowell Stott;Kevin Cannariato;Robert Thunell;Gerald H. Haug

  • Iron Fertilization of the Subantarctic Ocean During the Last Ice Age

    Alfredo Martínez-García;Daniel M. Sigman;Haojia Ren;Robert F. Anderson

  • Reference Values Following ISO Guidelines for Frequently Requested Rock Reference Materials

    Klaus Peter Jochum;Ulrike Weis;Beate Schwager;Brigitte Stoll

  • Links between tropical rainfall and North Atlantic climate during the last glacial period

    Gaudenz Deplazes;Andreas Lückge;Larry C. Peterson;Axel Timmermann

  • North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago

    Gerald H. Haug;Andrey Ganopolski;Daniel Mikhail Sigman;Antoni Rosell-Mele

  • Southern Ocean dust-climate coupling over the past four million years

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Samuel L. Jaccard;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert

  • Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance

    Gerald H. Haug;Ralf Tiedemann;Rainer Zahn;A. Christina Ravelo

  • Strong influence of water vapor source dynamics on stable isotopes in precipitation observed in Southern Meghalaya, NE India

    Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Jess F. Adkins;Hanno Meyer;Norbert Marwan

  • Rapid oceanic and atmospheric changes during the Younger Dryas cold period

    Jostein Bakke;Jostein Bakke;Øyvind Lie;Einar Heegaard;Einar Heegaard;Trond Dokken

  • An abrupt wind shift in western Europe at the onset of the Younger Dryas cold period

    Achim Brauer;Gerald H. Haug;Peter Dulski;Daniel Mikhail Sigman

  • Variability in the mean latitude of the Atlantic Intertropical Convergence Zone as recorded by riverine input of sediments to the Cariaco Basin (Venezuela)

    Larry C. Peterson;Gerald H. Haug

  • Southern Ocean dust-climate couplings over the last 4,000,000 years

    A. Martínez-García;A. Rosell-Mélé;Samuel Jaccard;W. Geibert

  • Climate and the collapse of Maya civilization

    Larry C. Peterson;Gerald H. Haug

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Sigman
Daniel M. Sigman Princeton University
Alfredo Martínez-García
Alfredo Martínez-García Max Planck Society
Samuel L. Jaccard
Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne
Larry C. Peterson
Larry C. Peterson University of Miami
Ralf Tiedemann
Ralf Tiedemann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Ruediger Stein
Ruediger Stein University of Bremen
Antoni Rosell-Melé
Antoni Rosell-Melé Autonomous University of Barcelona
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Birgit Plessen
Birgit Plessen University of Potsdam

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