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Jens Matthiessen is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to Environmental Science. Within these broader fields, Matthiessen has conducted extensive work in Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Geology, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

The main topics covered in their work include Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological Studies and Exploration, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques.

Matthiessen has published in several scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Nature, Communications Earth & Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their recent papers reflect a focus on Arctic Ocean studies and paleoclimatic conditions:

  • Glacial episodes of a freshwater Arctic Ocean covered by a thick ice shelf, 2021, Nature
  • Natural variability of the Arctic Ocean sea ice during the present interglacial, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A revised core-seismic integration in the Molloy Basin (ODP Site 909): Implications for the history of ice rafting and ocean circulation in the Atlantic-Arctic gateway, 2022, Global and Planetary Change
  • Reply to: No freshwater-filled glacial Arctic Ocean, 2022, Nature
  • Omnipresent authigenic calcite distorts Arctic radiocarbon chronology, 2023, Communications Earth & Environment

Matthiessen collaborates regularly with several coauthors. These include Ruediger Stein, Walter Geibert, Jutta E Wollenburg, Matt O'Regan, and Ingrid Stimac.

Best Publications

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • The Cenozoic palaeoenvironment of the Arctic Ocean.

    Kathryn Moran;Jan Backman;Henk Brinkhuis;Steven C. Clemens

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

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

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages as tracers of sea‐surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub‐Arctic seas: the new ‘n = 677’ data base and its application for quantitative palaeoceanographic reconstruction

    Anne de Vernal;Maryse Henry;Jens Matthiessen;Peta J. Mudie

  • Episodic fresh surface waters in the Eocene Arctic Ocean

    Henk Brinkhuis;Stefan Schouten;Margaret E Collinson;Appy Sluijs

  • Reconstruction of sea-surface conditions at middle to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) based on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages

    A. de Vernal;F. Eynaud;M. Henry;C. Hillaire-Marcel

  • Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change

    P. Anderson;O. Bennike;N. Bigelow;J. Brigham-Grette

  • The Plio-Pleistocene glaciation of the Barents Sea-Svalbard region: a new model based on revised chronostratigraphy

    Jochen Knies;Jens Matthiessen;Christoph Vogt;Jan Sverre Laberg

  • A multiproxy reconstruction of the evolution of deep and surface waters in the subarctic Nordic seas over the last 30,000yr

    Henning A. Bauch;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Robert F. Spielhagen;Ulrich Struck

  • Cold marine indicators of the late Quaternary: the new dinoflagellate cyst genus Islandinium and related morphotypes

    Martin J. Head;Rex Harland;Jens Matthiessen

  • Organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts: Palynological tracers of sea-surface conditions in middle to high latitude marine environments

    Anne De Vernal;André Rochon;Jean-Louis Turon;Jens Matthiessen

  • Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Koen Verhoeven;Thomas Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Repeated Pleistocene glaciation of the East Siberian continental margin

    Frank Niessen;Jong Kuk Hong;Anne Hegewald;Jens Matthiessen

  • Distribution patterns of dinoflagellate cysts and other organic-walled microfossils in recent Norwegian-Greenland Sea sediments

    Jens Matthiessen

  • Plankton in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: from living communities to sediment assemblages —an actualistic approach

    C. Samtleben;P. Schäfer;H. Andruleit;A. Baumann

  • Reconstruction of sea-surface temperature, salinity, and sea-ice cover in the northern North Atlantic during the last glacial maximum based on dinocyst assemblages

    Anne de Vernal;Claude Hillaire-Marcel;Jean-Louis Turon;Jens Matthiessen

  • Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean

    Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Michael Schreck;Gregor Knorr

  • Freshwater chlorophycean algae in recent marine sediments of the Beaufort, Laptev and Kara Seas (Arctic Ocean) as indicators of river runoff

    Jens Matthiessen;Martina Kunz-Pirrung;Peta J. Mudie

  • Modem organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in arctic marine environments and their (paleo-) environmental significance

    Jens Matthiessen;Anne de Vernal;Martin Head;Yuri Okolodkov

  • Erratum: Arctic hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum (Nature (2006) 442 (671-675))

    Mark Pagani;Nikolai Pedentchouk;Matthew Huber;Appy Sluijs

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Niessen
Frank Niessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Wilfried Jokat
Wilfried Jokat University of Bremen
Anne de Vernal
Anne de Vernal University of Quebec at Montreal
Michael A. Kaminski
Michael A. Kaminski King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Christoph Vogt
Christoph Vogt University of Bremen
Kirsten Fahl
Kirsten Fahl Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Matt O'Regan
Matt O'Regan Stockholm University
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway

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