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Overview

Jens Zinke is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work addresses a variety of topics, with a focus on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Marine and Fisheries Research. Additional research interests include Geological and Geophysical Studies, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

They have collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Jan Zalasiewicz, Colin N. Waters, Martin J. Head, Alejandro Cearreta, and Neil L. Rose.

Their publications appear often in journals such as Scientific Reports, The Anthropocene Review, The Science of The Total Environment, Climate of the Past, and Aquatic Sciences.

Notable recent papers by or involving Jens Zinke include:

  • The Anthropocene: Comparing Its Meaning in Geology (Chronostratigraphy) with Conceptual Approaches Arising in Other Disciplines, 2021, Earth s Future
  • The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch, 2021, Episodes
  • Planetary-scale change to the biosphere signalled by global species translocations can be used to identify the Anthropocene, 2022, Palaeontology
  • Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change, 2023, Conservation Biology
  • Corals reveal ENSO-driven synchrony of climate impacts on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems in northern Borneo, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • On the role of the Agulhas system in ocean circulation and climate

    Lisa M. Beal;Wilhelmus P. M. De Ruijter;Arne Biastoch;Rainer Zahn

  • A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Julien Emile-Geay;Nicholas P. McKay;Darrell S. Kaufman;Lucien Von Gunten

  • Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium

    Raphael Neukom;Raphael Neukom;Joelle Gergis;David J. Karoly;Heinz Wanner

  • Tropical sea surface temperatures for the past four centuries reconstructed from coral archives

    Jessica E. Tierney;Nerilie J. Abram;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Michael N. Evans

  • ENSO and Indian Ocean subtropical dipole variability is recorded in a coral record off southwest Madagascar for the period 1659 to 1995

    Jens Zinke;Wolf-Christian Dullo;G. A. Heiss;Anton Eisenhauer

  • Production-induced Normal Faulting in the Valhall and Ekofisk Oil Fields

    Mark D. Zoback;Jens C. Zinke

  • The Anthropocene: comparing its meaning in geology (chronostratigraphy) with conceptual approaches arising in other disciplines

    Jan Zalasiewicz;Colin N. Waters;Erle C. Ellis;Martin J. Head

  • Human deforestation outweighs future climate change impacts of sedimentation on coral reefs

    Joseph Maina;Joseph Maina;Hans de Moel;Jens Zinke;Joshua Madin

  • Structure-Related and Stress-Induced Shear-Wave Velocity Anisotropy: Observations from Microearthquakes near the Calaveras Fault in Central California

    Jens C. Zinke;Mark D. Zoback

  • Postglacial flooding history of Mayotte Lagoon (Comoro Archipelago, southwest Indian Ocean)

    J Zinke;J.J.G Reijmer;B.A Thomassin;W.-Chr Dullo

  • Corals record long-term Leeuwin current variability including Ningaloo Niño/Niña since 1795

    Jens Zinke;Adam Rountrey;M. Feng;S.-P. Xie

  • Modulation of the Southern Africa precipitation response to the El Niño Southern Oscillation by the subtropical Indian Ocean Dipole

    Andrew Hoell;Chris Funk;Chris Funk;Jens Zinke;Laura Harrison

  • Caribbean coral tracks Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and past hurricane activity

    Steffen Hetzinger;Miriam Pfeiffer;Wolf-Christian Dullo;Noel Keenlyside

  • The Great Acceleration is real and provides a quantitative basis for the proposed Anthropocene Series/Epoch

    Martin J. Head;Will Steffen;David Fagerlind;Colin N. Waters

  • Small theropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic coal mine of Guimarota (Portugal)

    Jens Zinke

  • Mayotte coral reveals hydrological changes in the western Indian Ocean between 1881 and 1994

    Jens Zinke;Miriam Pfeiffer;O. Timm;Wolf-Christian Dullo

  • Three monthly coral Sr/Ca records from the Chagos Archipelago covering the period of 1950–1995 A.D.: reproducibility and implications for quantitative reconstructions of sea surface temperature variations

    Miriam Pfeiffer;Wolf-Christian Dullo;Jens Zinke;C.-Dieter Garbe-Schönberg

  • Wicked Social-Ecological Problems Forcing Unprecedented Change on the Latitudinal Margins of Coral Reefs: the Case of Southwest Madagascar

    J. Henrich Bruggemann;Martine Rodier;Mireille M. M. Guillaume;Serge Andréfouët

  • Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

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  • Petrophysical properties of the 9-km-deep crustal section at KTB

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  • Multi-proxy summer and winter precipitation reconstruction for southern Africa over the last 200 years

    Raphael Neukom;Raphael Neukom;David J. Nash;David J. Nash;Georgina H. Endfield;Stefan W. Grab

  • El Niño–Southern Oscillation diversity and Southern Africa teleconnections during Austral Summer

    Andrew Hoell;Christopher C. Funk;Tamuka Magadzire;Jens Zinke

  • Linking coral river runoff proxies with climate variability, hydrology and land-use in Madagascar catchments

    Joseph Maina;Hans de Moel;Jan E. Vermaat;J. Henrich Bruggemann

  • Coral record of southeast Indian Ocean marine heatwaves with intensified Western Pacific temperature gradient

    Jens Zinke;A. Hoell;A. Hoell;J.M. Lough;J.M. Lough;M. Feng

  • River runoff reconstructions from novel spectral luminescence scanning of massive coral skeletons

    C.A. Grove;R. Nagtegaal;J. Zinke;T. Scheufen

  • Atmosphere–ocean dynamics in the Western Indian Ocean recorded in corals

    Jens Zinke;Miriam Pfeiffer;Oliver Timm;Wolf-Christian Dullo

Frequent Co-Authors

Geert-Jan A. Brummer
Geert-Jan A. Brummer Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
Malcolm T. McCulloch
Malcolm T. McCulloch University of Western Australia
Oliver Timm
Oliver Timm University at Albany, State University of New York
Janice M. Lough
Janice M. Lough Australian Institute of Marine Science
Gareth R. Davies
Gareth R. Davies Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
John J. G. Reijmer
John J. G. Reijmer Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Joseph Maina
Joseph Maina Macquarie University
Raphael Neukom
Raphael Neukom University of Bern
Wonsun Park
Wonsun Park GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

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