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Ian Snowball

Ian Snowball

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Earth Science

D-Index
46
Citations
6481
World Ranking
4316
National Ranking
39

Overview

Ian Snowball is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a total of 54 publications in the former and 37 in the latter.

Their work explores several subfields including Environmental Chemistry, Geophysics, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ocean Engineering. Key topics covered in their research include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies, and Geological formations and processes.

Ian Snowball has contributed frequently to publication venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University, Journal of Soils and Sediments, Boreas, and Environmental Pollution.

Notable recent papers include:

  • A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA, 2022, Nature
  • Is 'deep-water formation' in the Baltic Sea a key to understanding seabed dynamics and ventilation changes over the past 7,000 years?, 2020, Quaternary International
  • Enviromagnetic study of Late Quaternary environmental evolution in Lower Volga loess sequences, Russia, 2020, Quaternary Research
  • Geotechnical site characterization using multichannel analysis of surface waves: A case study of an area prone to quick-clay landslides in southwest Sweden, 2021, Near Surface Geophysics
  • The Arctic Ocean Manganese Cycle, an Overlooked Mechanism in the Anomalous Palaeomagnetic Sedimentary Record, 2020, Frontiers in Earth Science

Ian Snowball has collaborated extensively with a group of frequent co-authors which include Aarno Kotilainen, E. Herrero-Bervera, Outi Hyttinen, Stephen Obrochta, and Jørn Bo Jensen.

Best Publications

  • Solar activity during the last 1000 yr inferred from radionuclide records

    Raimund Muscheler;Fortunat Joos;Jürg Beer;Simon A. Müller

  • Magnetic hysteresis properties of greigite (Fe3S4) and a new occurrence in Holocene sediments from Swedish Lappland

    Ian F. Snowball

  • Sea surface temperatures and ice rafting in the Holocene North Atlantic: climate influences on northern Europe and Greenland

    Matthias Moros;Kay Emeis;Bjørg Risebrobakken;Ian Snowball

  • The occurrence of Greigite in sediments from Loch Lomond

    Ian Snowball;Roy Thompson

  • The mineral magnetic properties of an annually laminated Holocene lake-sediment sequence in northern Sweden

    Ian Snowball;Per Sandgren;Gunilla Petterson

  • A stable chemical remanence in Holocene sediments

    Ian Snowball;Roy Thompson

  • Application of Mineral Magnetic Techniques to Paleolimnology

    Per Sandgren;Ian Snowball

  • Bacterial magnetite and the magnetic properties of sediments in a Swedish lake

    Ian F. Snowball

  • Variations in the geomagnetic dipole moment during the Holocene and the past 50 kyr

    Mads Faurschou Knudsen;Mads Faurschou Knudsen;Peter Riisager;Fabio Donadini;Ian Snowball

  • FENNOSTACK and FENNORPIS: Varve dated Holocene palaeomagnetic secular variation and relative palaeointensity stacks for Fennoscandia

    Ian Snowball;Lovisa Zillén;Antti Ojala;Timo Saarinen

  • Gyroremanent magnetization and the magnetic properties of greigite‐bearing clays in southern Sweden

    Ian F. Snowball

  • Holocene forest dynamics and climate changes in the Abisko area, northern Sweden: the Sonesson model of vegetation history reconsidered and confirmed

    B. E. Berglund;L. Barnekow;D. Hammarlund;P. Sandgren

  • Large spatial variations in coastal 14 C reservoir age – a case study from the Baltic Sea

    Bryan C. Lougheed;Helena L. Filipsson;Ian Snowball;Ian Snowball

  • Geochemical control of magnetite dissolution in subarctic lake sediments and the implications for environmental magnetism

    Ian F. Snowball

  • Bacterial magnetite in Swedish varved lake-sediments: a potential bio-marker of environmental change

    Ian Snowball;Lovisa Zillén;Per Sandgren

  • Geomagnetic field variations in northern Sweden during the Holocene quantified from varved lake sediments and their implications for cosmogenic nuclide production rates

    Ian Snowball;Per Sandgren

  • Calendar year ages of three mid-Holocene tephra layers identified in varved lake sediments in west central Sweden

    Lovisa M Zillén;Stefan Wastegård;Ian F Snowball

  • Palaeomagnetic intensity data: an Achilles heel of solar activity reconstructions

    Ian Snowball;Raimund Muscheler

  • Eemian Lake development, hydrology and climate: a multi-stratigraphic study of the Hollerup site in Denmark

    Svante Björck;Nanna Noe-Nygaard;Julie Wolin;Michael Houmark-Nielsen

  • Geomagnetic field intensity changes in Sweden between 9000 and 450 cal BP: extending the record of "archaeomagnetic jerks" by means of lake sediments and the pseudo-Thellier technique

    Ian Snowball;Per Sandgren

Frequent Co-Authors

Raimund Muscheler
Raimund Muscheler Lund University
Per Sandgren
Per Sandgren Lund University
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Matthias Moros
Matthias Moros Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Alireza Malehmir
Alireza Malehmir Uppsala University
Yusuke Yokoyama
Yusuke Yokoyama University of Tokyo
Antoon Kuijpers
Antoon Kuijpers Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Svante Björck
Svante Björck Lund University
Emilio Herrero-Bervera
Emilio Herrero-Bervera University of Hawaii at Manoa
Roy Thompson
Roy Thompson University of Pittsburgh

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