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Gerard J M Versteegh

Gerard J M Versteegh

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Earth Science

D-Index
48
Citations
6830
World Ranking
3896
National Ranking
268

Overview

Gerard J M Versteegh is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bremen in Germany. Their work primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on subfields such as Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

Their research topics include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Versteegh has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Science Advances

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Spatial distribution of small microplastics in the Norwegian Coastal Current," 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Climate change, society, and pandemic disease in Roman Italy between 200 BCE and 600 CE," 2024, Science Advances
  • "Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR) Micro-Fourier Transform Infrared (Micro-FT-IR) Spectroscopy to Enhance Repeatability and Reproducibility of Spectra Derived from Single Specimen Organic-Walled Dinoflagellate Cysts," 2021, Applied Spectroscopy
  • "Dinoflagellate cysts production, excystment and transport in the upwelling off Cape Blanc (NW Africa)," 2022, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • "Better molecular preservation of organic matter in an oxic than in a sulfidic depositional environment: evidence from Thalassiphora pelagica (Dinoflagellata, Eocene) cysts," 2020, Biogeosciences

Frequent co-authors in Versteegh's research include:

  • Karin A F Zonneveld
  • Fangzhu Wu
  • Sebastian Primpke
  • Gunnar Gerdts
  • Andrea Koschinsky

Best Publications

  • Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 data points

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Kara Bogus

  • Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

    K. A. F. Zonneveld;G. J. M. Versteegh;Sabine Kasten;T. I. Eglinton

  • Biomacromolecules of Algae and Plants and their Fossil Analogues

    Jan W. de Leeuw;Gerard J. M. Versteegh;Pim F. van Bergen

  • Preservation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in different oxygen regimes: a 10,000 year natural experiment

    Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Gert J. de Lange

  • Dinoflagellate-based sea surface temperature reconstructions across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

    H Brinkhuis;J.P Bujak;J Smit;G.J.M Versteegh

  • Palaeoproductivity and post-depositional aerobic organic matter decay reflected by dinoflagellate cyst assemblages of the Eastern Mediterranean S1 sapropel

    K.A.F. Zonneveld;G.J.M. Versteegh;G.J. de Lange

  • Potential palaeoenvironmental information of C24 to C36 mid-chain diols, keto-ols and mid-chain hydroxy fatty acids; a critical review

    G.J.M. Versteegh;H.-J. Bosch;J.W. De Leeuw

  • Preservation and organic chemistry of Late Cenozoic organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: A review

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Gerard Jm Versteegh;Monika Kodrans-Nsiah

  • Recognition of cyclic and non-cyclic environmental changes in the Mediterranean Pliocene: A palynological approach

    G.J.M. Versteegh

  • Taraxerol and Rhizophora pollen as proxies for tracking past mangrove ecosystems

    Gerard Jm Versteegh;Enno Schefuß;Lydie M Dupont;Fabienne Marret

  • Postdepositional oxic degradation of alkenones : implications for the measurement of palaeo sea surface temperatures

    Marcel J. L. Hoefs;Gerard J. M. Versteegh;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Jan W. de Leeuw

  • Resistant macromolecules of extant and fossil microalgae

    Gerard J. M. Versteegh;Peter Blokker

  • Use of selective degradation to separate preservation from productivity

    Gerard J.M. Versteegh;Karin A.F. Zonneveld

  • U37K′ values for Isochrysis galbana as a function of culture temperature, light intensity and nutrient concentrations

    Gerard J.M Versteegh;Roel Riegman;Jan W de Leeuw;J.H.F.(Fred) Jansen

  • Core-top calibration of the lipid-based U37K′ and TEX86 temperature proxies on the southern Italian shelf (SW Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Taranto)

    Arne Leider;Kai-Uwe Hinrichs;Gesine Mollenhauer;Gesine Mollenhauer;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • The 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota : Biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversity

    Abderrazak El Albani;Stefan Bengtson;Donald Eugene Canfield;Amelie Riboulleau

  • Palynology, organic geochemistry and carbon isotope analysis of a latest Ordovician through Silurian clastic succession from borehole Tt1, Ghadamis Basin, southern Tunisia, North Africa: Palaeoenvironmental interpretation

    Marco Vecoli;Armelle Riboulleau;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • Solar Forcing of Climate. 2: Evidence from the Past

    Gerard J. M. Versteegh

  • Geographic distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments

    Karin A F Zonneveld;Fabienne Marret;Gerard J M Versteegh;Kara A Bogus

  • An experimental field study to test the stability of lipids used for the TEX86 and UK'37 palaeothermometers

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Carme Huguet;Karin A.F. Zonneveld;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • The onset of major Northern Hemisphere glaciations and their impact on dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from the Singa section, Calabria (southern Italy) and DSDP Holes 607/607A (North Atlantic)

    Gerard J.M. Versteegh

Frequent Co-Authors

Karin A F Zonneveld
Karin A F Zonneveld University of Bremen
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
Kai-Uwe Hinrichs University of Bremen
Gesine Mollenhauer
Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool
Armelle Riboulleau
Armelle Riboulleau University of Lille
Marco Vecoli
Marco Vecoli Saudi Aramco (United States)
Julius S. Lipp
Julius S. Lipp University of Bremen
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Gerhard Fischer
Gerhard Fischer University of Colorado Boulder

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