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Hildegard Westphal is affiliated with the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology in Germany. Their research broadly spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions to specialized subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Geology.

Westphal's main research topics include:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses

The scientist has published extensively in a variety of venues, with the most frequent publication platforms being:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Coral Reefs
  • Scientific Reports
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jody M. Webster
  • Ryuji Asami
  • Thomas Felis
  • Ed C. Hathorne
  • Yūsuke Yokoyama

Selected recent papers by Westphal include:

  • Response of large benthic foraminifera to climate and local changes: Implications for future carbonate production, 2021, Sedimentology
  • Thermal stress reduces pocilloporid coral resilience to ocean acidification by impairing control over calcifying fluid chemistry, 2021, Science Advances
  • Scleractinian corals incorporate microplastic particles: identification from a laboratory study, 2021, Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Divergent Proteomic Responses Offer Insights into Resistant Physiological Responses of a Reef-Foraminifera to Climate Change Scenarios, 2021, Oceans
  • Impacts of Warming and Acidification on Coral Calcification Linked to Photosymbiont Loss and Deregulation of Calcifying Fluid pH, 2022, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Best Publications

  • Questioning carbonate diagenetic paradigms: evidence from the Neogene of the Bahamas

    L.A Melim;H Westphal;P.K Swart;G.P Eberli

  • Environmental factors influencing skeletal grain sediment associations: a critical review of Miocene examples from the western Mediterranean

    Luis Pomar;Marco Brandano;Hildegard Westphal

  • NMR measurements in carbonate rocks: Problems and an approach to a solution

    Hildegard Westphal;Iris Surholt;Christian Kiesl;Holger F. Thern

  • Origin of Dolomite in the Arab-D Reservoir from the Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia: Evidence from Petrographic and Geochemical Constraints

    Peter K. Swart;David L. Cantrell;Hildegard Westphal;C. Robertson Handford

  • Microspar development during early marine burial diagenesis : A comparison of Pliocene carbonates from the Bahamas with Silurian limestones from Gotland (Sweden)

    Axel Munnecke;Hildegard Westphal;John J. G. Reijmer;Christian Samtleben

  • Sub-wavebase cross-bedded grainstones on a distally steepened carbonate ramp, Upper Miocene, Menorca, Spain

    Luis Pomar;Antonio Obrador;Hildegard Westphal

  • Reservoir characterization of the Mississippian Madison Formation, Wind River basin, Wyoming

    Hildegard Westphal;Gregor P. Eberli;Langhorne B. Smith;G. Michael Grammer

  • Limestone–marl alternations as environmental archives and the role of early diagenesis: a critical review

    Hildegard Westphal

  • An assessment of the suitability of individual rhythmic carbonate successions for astrochronological application

    Hildegard Westphal;Frederik J Hilgen;Axel Munnecke

  • Geology and Production Significance of Dolomite, Arab-D Reservoir, Ghawar Field, Saudi Arabia

    David L. Cantrell;Peter K. Swart;Robertson C. Handford;Christopher G. Kendall

  • Differential Diagenesis of Rhythmic Limestone Alternations Supported by Palynological Evidence

    Hildegard Westphal;Martin J. Head;Axel Munnecke

  • Heterozoan carbonates in subtropical to tropical settings in the present and past

    Hildegard Westphal;Jochen Halfar;André Freiwald

  • Response of large benthic foraminifera to climate and local changes: Implications for future carbonate production

    Gita R. Narayan;Claire E. Reymond;Marleen Stuhr;Steve Doo

  • Palynology and paleoenvironments of a Pliocene carbonate platform; the Clino Core, Bahamas

    Martin J. Head;Hildegard Westphal

  • Post-glacial microbialite formation in coral reefs of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans

    Katrin Heindel;Katrin Heindel;Daniel Birgel;Benjamin Brunner;Volker Thiel

  • FORMATION OF DEGLACIAL MICROBIALITES IN CORAL REEFS OFF TAHITI (IODP 310) INVOLVING SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIA

    Katrin Heindel;Daniel Birgel;Jörn Ludwig Peckmann;Henning Kuhnert

  • Assessing Long-Term Changes in the Beach Width of Reef Islands Based on Temporally Fragmented Remote Sensing Data

    Thomas Mann;Hildegard Westphal

  • The mineralogical composition of precursor sediments of calcareous rhythmites: a new approach

    A. Munnecke;H. Westphal;M. Elrick;J. J. G. Reijmer

  • Limestone-marl alternations: A warm-water phenomenon?

    Hildegard Westphal;Axel Munnecke

  • Controlling Parameters on Facies Geometries of the Bahamas, an Isolated Carbonate Platform Environment

    Kelly L. Bergman;Kelly L. Bergman;Hildegard Westphal;Xavier Janson;Anthony Poiriez

Frequent Co-Authors

Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Jörn Peckmann
Jörn Peckmann Universität Hamburg
Daniel Birgel
Daniel Birgel Universität Hamburg
Michal Kucera
Michal Kucera University of Bremen
Pamela Hallock
Pamela Hallock University of South Florida
Nereo Preto
Nereo Preto University of Padua
Albert Sickmann
Albert Sickmann Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Yasufumi Iryu
Yasufumi Iryu Tohoku University
Justin B. Ries
Justin B. Ries Northeastern University
Jody M. Webster
Jody M. Webster University of Sydney

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