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Isla S. Castañeda is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, and geophysics among other subfields. Their research spans multiple specialized topics where they have published numerous papers over the years.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broader fields, their subfields of study cover:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Geophysics
  • Ecology
  • Ocean Engineering

Castañeda's primary research topics encompass a range of geological and environmental phenomena, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geological formations and processes

Their recent published papers highlight several key areas of research:

  • Retracted: Plio-Pleistocene Indonesian Throughflow Variability Drove Eastern Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Development of an in situ branched GDGT calibration in Lake 578, southern Greenland, 2020, Organic Geochemistry
  • Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Increased Cuticle Waxes by Overexpression of WSD1 Improves Osmotic Stress Tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana and Camelina sativa, 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Prolonged drying trend coincident with the demise of Norse settlement in southern Greenland, 2022, Science Advances

Castañeda has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Jeffrey M. Salacup
  • Jeroen Groeneveld
  • David De Vleeschouwer
  • Jorijntje Henderiks
  • Beth A. Christensen

The scientist's works have appeared predominantly in specialized venues such as:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Climate of the past

Best Publications

  • East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

    Christopher A. Scholz;Thomas C. Johnson;Andrew S. Cohen;John W. King

  • A review of molecular organic proxies for examining modern and ancient lacustrine environments

    Isla S. Castañeda;Stefan Schouten

  • Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa

    Isla S. Castañeda;Stefan Mulitza;Enno Schefuß;Raquel A. Lopes dos Santos

  • Large temperature variability in the southern African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Lindsay A. Powers;Thomas C. Johnson;Josef P. Werne;Isla S. Castañeda

  • Millennial-scale sea surface temperature changes in the eastern Mediterranean (Nile River Delta region) over the last 27,000 years

    Isla S. Castañeda;Enno Schefuß;Jürgen Pätzold;Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

  • Glacial-interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic

    Raquel A. Lopes dos Santos;Matthias Prange;Isla S. Castañeda;Enno Schefuß

  • Wet and arid phases in the southeast African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Isla S. Castañeda;Josef P. Werne;Thomas C. Johnson

  • Late Quaternary vegetation history of southeast Africa: The molecular isotopic record from Lake Malawi

    Isla S. Castañeda;Josef P. Werne;Thomas C. Johnson;Timothy R. Filley

  • Indonesian throughflow drove Australian climate from humid pliocene to arid pleistocene

    Beth A. Christensen;Willem Renema;Jorijntje Henderiks;David De Vleeschouwer

  • An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures

    Stefan Schouten;Ellen C Hopmans;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Ann Pearson

  • High-latitude obliquity as a dominant forcing in the Agulhas current system

    T. Caley;J.-H. Kim;B. Malaizé;J. Giraudeau

  • Timing and Pacing of Indonesian Throughflow Restriction and Its Connection to Late Pliocene Climate Shifts

    Gerald Auer;David De Vleeschouwer;Rebecca A. Smith;Kara Bogus;Kara Bogus

  • Hydroclimate variability in the Nile River Basin during the past 28,000 years

    Isla S Castañeda;Stefan Schouten;Jürgen Pätzold;Friedrich Lucassen

  • Glacial-interglacial vegetation dynamics in South Eastern Africa coupled to sea surface temperature variations in the Western Indian Ocean

    Lydie M Dupont;Thibaut Caley;Jung-Hyun Kim;Isla S Castañeda

  • Temporal changes in Holocene δ18O records from the northwest and central North Iceland Shelf

    Isla S. Castañeda;L. Micaela Smith;Gréta Björk Kristjánsdóttir;John T. Andrews

  • Organic geochemical records from Lake Malawi (East Africa) of the last 700 years, part II: Biomarker evidence for recent changes in primary productivity

    Isla S. Castañeda;Josef P. Werne;Thomas C. Johnson;Lindsay A. Powers

  • Temperature reconstructions for SW and N Iceland waters over the last 10 cal ka based on δ18O records from planktic and benthic Foraminifera

    L. Micaela Smith;John. T. Andrews;Isla S. Castañeda;Gréta B. Kristjánsdóttir

  • Orbital controls on eastern African hydroclimate in the Pleistocene

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  • Plio–Pleistocene Indonesian Throughflow variability drove Eastern Indian Ocean sea surface temperatures

    Rebecca A. Smith;Isla S. Castañeda;Jeroen Groeneveld;David De Vleeschouwer

  • A 900-year New England temperature reconstruction from in situ seasonally produced branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs)

    Daniel R. Miller;M. Helen Habicht;Benjamin A. Keisling;Isla S. Castañeda

  • Oligocene‐Miocene Great Lakes in the India‐Asia Collision Zone

    Peter G. DeCelles;Isla S. Castañeda;Barbara Carrapa;Juan Liu

  • A Wetter Arctic Coincident With Hemispheric Warming 8,000 Years Ago

    E. K. Thomas;E. K. Thomas;I. S. Castañeda;N. P. McKay;J. P. Briner

  • Impacts of climate and vegetation change on carbon accumulation in a south-central Alaskan peatland assessed with novel organic geochemical techniques:

    Jonathan E. Nichols;Dorothy M. Peteet;Dorothy M. Peteet;Christopher M. Moy;Isla S. Castaneda

Frequent Co-Authors

Julie Brigham-Grette
Julie Brigham-Grette University of Massachusetts Amherst
David De Vleeschouwer
David De Vleeschouwer Münster University of Applied Sciences
Stefan Schouten
Stefan Schouten Utrecht University
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Raymond S. Bradley
Raymond S. Bradley University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jürgen Pätzold
Jürgen Pätzold University of Bremen
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen
Stefan Mulitza
Stefan Mulitza University of Bremen
Thomas C. Johnson
Thomas C. Johnson University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen

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