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Overview

John Hellstrom is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a research record of 146 publications in this primary field. Their work spans several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Anthropology, and Archaeology.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics focused mainly on geological and paleoclimatological studies. Their main topics of work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Karst Systems and Hydrogeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies

John Hellstrom has contributed to various publication venues, evidencing a consistent output in respected journals with the most frequent venues being:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Climate of the past
  • Science

Among their recent papers are several highly cited works, including:

  • Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period, 2020, Science
  • Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa, 2020, Science
  • Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition, 2020, Science
  • Ubiquitous karst hydrological control on speleothem oxygen isotope variability in a global study, 2022, Communications Earth & Environment
  • Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Hellstrom regularly collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Russell N. Drysdale, Jon Woodhead, Giovanni Zanchetta, Petra Bajo, and Adam Hartland, with collaboration counts ranging from 11 to 31 publications per co-author.

Best Publications

  • Iolite: Freeware for the visualisation and processing of mass spectrometric data

    Chad Paton;John Hellstrom;Bence Paul;Bence Paul;Jon Woodhead

  • Improvements in 230Th dating, 230Th and 234U half-life values, and U–Th isotopic measurements by multi-collector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

    Hai Cheng;Hai Cheng;R. Lawrence Edwards;Chuan Chou Shen;Victor J. Polyak

  • Improved laser ablation U‐Pb zircon geochronology through robust downhole fractionation correction

    Chad Paton;Chad Paton;Jon D. Woodhead;John C. Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt

  • Isotopic and Elemental Imaging of Geological Materials by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry

    Jon D. Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Janet M. Hergt;Alan Greig

  • Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise

    Michael L Griffiths;Russell N Drysdale;Michael Gagan;Jian-xin Zhao

  • Late Holocene drought responsible for the collapse of Old World civilizations is recorded in an Italian cave flowstone

    Russell Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas

  • U–Th dating of speleothems with high initial 230Th using stratigraphical constraint

    John Hellstrom

  • The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

    P.H.G.M. Dirks;P.H.G.M. Dirks;Eric M. Roberts;Eric M. Roberts;Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf;Jan Dirk Kramers

  • Timing and dynamics of the last deglaciation from European and North African δ13C stalagmite profiles—comparison with Chinese and South Hemisphere stalagmites

    D. Genty;D. Genty;D. Blamart;B. Ghaleb;V. Plagnes

  • Rapid and accurate U/Th dating using parallel ion-counting multi-collector ICP-MS

    John Hellstrom

  • Fossil dripwater in stalagmites reveals Holocene temperature and rainfall variation in Amazonia

    M. R. van Breukelen;M. R. van Breukelen;H. B. Vonhof;J. C. Hellstrom;W. C. G. Wester

  • Enhanced rainfall in the Western Mediterranean during deposition of sapropel S1: stalagmite evidence from Corchia cave (Central Italy)

    G Zanchetta;Russell N Drysdale;John Charles Hellstrom;A.E. Fallick

  • Evidence for Obliquity Forcing of Glacial Termination II

    R.N. Drysdale;J. C. Hellstrom;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;G. Zanchetta;A. E. Fallick

  • A Detailed 31,000-Year Record of Climate and Vegetation Change, from the Isotope Geochemistry of Two New Zealand Speleothems

    John Hellstrom;Malcolm McCulloch;John Stone

  • Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo

    Robyn Pickering;Robyn Pickering;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Zubair Jinnah;Darryl J. de Ruiter;Darryl J. de Ruiter

  • Multi-proxy constraints on the climatic significance of trace element records from a New Zealand speleothem

    J Hellstrom;Malcolm McCulloch

  • 500 ka precipitation record from southeastern Australia: Evidence for interglacial relative aridity

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Pyramo C. Marianelli;Kevin C. Moriarty;Rod T. Wells

  • Rapid interhemispheric climate links via the Australasian monsoon during the last deglaciation

    Linda K. Ayliffe;Michael K. Gagan;Jian Xin Zhao;Russell N. Drysdale;Russell N. Drysdale

  • Stalagmite evidence for the onset of the Last Interglacial in southern Europe at 129±1 ka

    Russell N. Drysdale;Giovanni Zanchetta;John C. Hellstrom;Anthony E. Fallick

  • U–Pb geochronology of speleothems by MC-ICPMS

    Jon Woodhead;John Hellstrom;Roland Maas;Russell Drysdale

  • A composite annual-resolution stalagmite record of North Atlantic climate over the last three millennia.

    Andy Baker;John C. Hellstrom;Bryce F. J. Kelly;Gregoire Mariethoz

Frequent Co-Authors

Russell N. Drysdale
Russell N. Drysdale University of Melbourne
Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Ilaria Isola
Ilaria Isola National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Silvia Frisia
Silvia Frisia University of Newcastle Australia
Michael K. Gagan
Michael K. Gagan Australian National University
Linda K. Ayliffe
Linda K. Ayliffe Australian National University
Andrea Borsato
Andrea Borsato University of Newcastle Australia
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Alan Greig
Alan Greig University of Melbourne

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