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Joachim Schönfeld is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, focusing primarily on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work is prominently situated at the intersection of multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Ecology, Earth-Surface Processes, and Paleontology.

Their research encompasses a variety of topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Geological formations and processes, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Joachim Schönfeld include:

  • "Denitrification in foraminifera has an ancient origin and is complemented by associated bacteria," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Bottom-water deoxygenation at the Peruvian margin during the last deglaciation recorded by benthic foraminifera," 2020, Biogeosciences
  • "A hidden sedimentary phosphate pool inside benthic foraminifera from the Peruvian upwelling region might nucleate phosphogenesis," 2020, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Recent benthic foraminiferal distribution in the Elbe Estuary (North Sea, Germany): A response to environmental stressors," 2021, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • "Benthic foraminifera and pore water carbonate chemistry on a tidal flat and salt marsh at Ria Formosa, Algarve, Portugal," 2022, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science

Frequent publication venues for Schönfeld include:

  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Biogeosciences
  • Journal of Micropalaeontology
  • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Notable frequent co-authors working with Joachim Schönfeld are:

  • Nicolaas Glock
  • Sarina Schmidt
  • Tanita Wein
  • Julia Weißenbach
  • Tal Dagan

The research conducted by Schönfeld addresses complex environmental and geological phenomena, often focused on benthic foraminifera and their roles within marine ecosystems and geochemical cycles. Their work contributes to understanding sedimentary processes, paleoenvironmental conditions, and microbial influences in marine settings.

Best Publications

  • Variability of the western Mediterranean Sea surface temperature during the last 25,000 years and its connection with the Northern Hemisphere climatic changes

    Isabel Cacho;Joan O. Grimalt;Miquel Canals;Laura Sbaffi

  • The FOBIMO (FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring) initiative—Towards a standardised protocol for soft-bottom benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies

    Joachim Schönfeld;Elisabeth Alve;Emmanuelle Geslin;Frans Jorissen

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores over the last 40 thousand years

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C. Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

  • Millennial-scale oceanic climate variability off the Western Iberian margin during the last two glacial periods

    Lúcia de Abreu;Nicholas J Shackleton;Joachim Schönfeld;Michael Hall

  • Mediterranean outflow strengthening during northern hemisphere coolings: A salt source for the glacial Atlantic?

    Antje H.L. Voelker;S.M. Lebreiro;J. Schönfeld;I. Cacho

  • Thermohaline instability in the North Atlantic during meltwater events: Stable isotope and ice-rafted detritus records from Core SO75-26KL, Portuguese Margin

    Rainer Zahn;Joachim Schönfeld;Hermann-Rudolf Kudrass;Myong-Ho Park

  • Late Glacial to Holocene history of the Mediterranean Outflow. Evidence from benthic foraminiferal assemblages and stable isotopes at the Portuguese margin

    Joachim Schönfeld;Rainer Zahn

  • Position of the Polar Front along the western Iberian margin during key cold episodes of the last 45 ka

    Frédérique Eynaud;Lucia de Abreu;Antje H. L. Voelker;Joachim Schönfeld

  • High-resolution stratigraphy of the Mediterranean outflow contourite system in the Gulf of Cadiz during the late Pleistocene: The impact of Heinrich events

    E. Llave;Joachim Schönfeld;F.J. Hernández-Molina;T. Mulder

  • Recent benthic foraminiferal assemblages in deep high-energy environments from the Gulf of Cadiz (Spain)

    Joachim Schönfeld

  • The impact of the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW) on benthic foraminiferal assemblages and surface sediments at the southern Portuguese continental margin

    Joachim Schönfeld

  • A new benthic foraminiferal proxy for near-bottom current velocities in the Gulf of Cadiz, northeastern Atlantic Ocean

    Joachim Schönfeld

  • Foram-AMBI: A sensitivity index based on benthic foraminiferal faunas from North-East Atlantic and Arctic fjords, continental shelves and slopes

    Elisabeth Alve;Sergei Korsun;Joachim Schönfeld;Noortje Dijkstra

  • Ocean surface water response to short-term climate changes revealed by coccolithophores from the Gulf of Cadiz (NE Atlantic) and Alboran Sea (W Mediterranean)

    Elena Colmenero-Hidalgo;José Abel Flores;Francisco Javier Sierro;M.ª Ángeles Bárcena

  • Combined Marine Proxy and Pollen Analyses Reveal Rapid Iberian Vegetation Response to North Atlantic Millennial-Scale Climate Oscillations

    Katherine H. Roucoux;Nicholas J. Shackleton;Lucia de Abreu;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Contourites of the Gulf of Cadiz: A high-resolution record of the paleocirculation of the Mediterranean outflow water during the last 50,000 years

    S. Toucanne;T. Mulder;Joachim Schönfeld;V. Hanquiez

  • BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA AND PORE-WATER OXYGEN PROFILES: A RE-ASSESSMENT OF SPECIES BOUNDARY CONDITIONS AT THE WESTERN IBERIAN MARGIN

    Joachim Schönfeld

  • Humans rather than climate the primary cause of Pleistocene megafaunal extinction in Australia.

    Sander van der Kaars;Sander van der Kaars;Gifford H. Miller;Gifford H. Miller;Chris S. M. Turney;Ellyn J. Cook

  • Surface and deep water response to rapid climate changes at the Western Iberian Margin

    Joachim Schönfeld;Rainer Zahn;Lúcia de Abreu

  • Campanian – Maastrichtian carbon isotope stratigraphy: shelf-ocean correlation between the European shelf sea and the tropical Pacific Ocean

    Silke Voigt;Oliver Friedrich;Richard D. Norris;Joachim Schönfeld

  • Impact of interrelated and interdependent ecological controls on benthic foraminifera: an example from the Gulf of Guinea

    Alexander Volker Altenbach;Gerhard Friedrich Lutze;Ralf Schiebel;Joachim Schönfeld

  • A Novel Eukaryotic Denitrification Pathway in Foraminifera.

    Christian Woehle;Alexandra-Sophie Roy;Nicolaas Glock;Tanita Wein

  • Implications for sedimentation changes on the Iberian margin over the last two glacial/interglacial transitions from (230Thexcess)0 systematics

    J. Thomson;S. Nixon;C.P. Summerhayes;J. Schönfeld

  • Consistently dated Atlantic sediment cores

    Claire Waelbroeck;Bryan C Lougheed;Natalia Vázquez Riveiros;Lise Missiaen

Frequent Co-Authors

Antje H L Voelker
Antje H L Voelker Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Frédérique Eynaud
Frédérique Eynaud University of Bordeaux
Samuel Toucanne
Samuel Toucanne French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Filipa Naughton
Filipa Naughton Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Bruno Malaizé
Bruno Malaizé University of Bordeaux
Stéphanie Desprat
Stéphanie Desprat University of Bordeaux
Carsten Rühlemann
Carsten Rühlemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Anders E. Carlson
Anders E. Carlson Oregon State University

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