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Jón Eiríksson

Jón Eiríksson

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Earth Science

D-Index
40
Citations
5417
World Ranking
5895
National Ranking
14

Overview

Jón Eiríksson is affiliated with the University of Iceland in Iceland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The main focus areas of Jón Eiríksson's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and fisheries research

Jón Eiríksson has authored and co-authored several research papers published in reputable scientific venues. Among the recent papers are:

  • Diatom-reconstructed summer sea-surface temperatures and climatic events off North Iceland during the last deglaciation and Holocene (2022), published in Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Trends and centennial-scale variability of surface water temperatures in the North Atlantic during the Holocene (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • The Marine Realm Around Iceland: A Review of Biological Research (2021), published in Topics in geobiology
  • A Review of the Research History of the Tjörnes Sequence, North Iceland (2021), published in Topics in geobiology
  • Issue Information (2022), published in Boreas

Jón Eiríksson frequently collaborates with other researchers. The most common co-authors include Leifur A. Símonarson, Karen Luise Knudsen, Hui Jiang, Andrés I. Guðmundsson, and Nicolaj K. Larsen.

The scientist's work has been published in venues such as Topics in Geobiology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Quaternary Science Reviews, Boreas, and Geological Society London Special Publications.

Among book publications, Jón Eiríksson contributed to works published by Springer Nature, including a book titled "Pacific - Atlantic Mollusc Migration" released in 2021.

Best Publications

  • The tephrochronology of Iceland and the North Atlantic region during the Middle and Late Quaternary: a review

    Haflidi Haflidason;Jon Eiriksson;Shirley Van Kreveld

  • Late‐glacial and Holocene palaeoceanography of the North Icelandic shelf

    Jón Eiríksson;Karen Luise Knudsen;Haflidi Haflidason;Peter Henriksen

  • surface changes in the north Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last millennium

    Alan D. Wanamaker;Paul G. Butler;James D. Scourse;Jan Heinemeier

  • Decadal variability of sea surface temperatures off North Iceland over the last 2000 years

    Marie Alexandrine Sicre;Jérémy Jacob;Ullah Ezat;Sonia Rousse

  • Very Long-Lived Mollusks Confirm 17th Century AD Tephra-Based Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages for North Icelandic Shelf Waters

    Alan D Wanamaker;Jan Heinemeier;James D Scourse;Christopher A Richardson

  • Marine reservoir age variability and water mass distribution in the Iceland Sea

    Jón Eiríksson;Gudrún Larsen;Karen Luise Knudsen;Jan Heinemeier

  • Evidence for solar forcing of sea-surface temperature on the North Icelandic Shelf during the late Holocene

    Hui Jiang;Jón Eiríksson;Michael Schulz;Karen-Luise Knudsen

  • Late Quaternary terrestrial tephrochronology of Iceland—frequency of explosive eruptions, type and volume of tephra deposits

    Gudrún Larsen;Jón Eiríksson

  • Rapid sea-level rise in the North Atlantic Ocean since the first half of the nineteenth century

    W. Roland Gehrels;William A. Marshall;Maria J. Gehrels;Gudrún Larsen

  • Deglacial and Holocene conditions in northernmost Baffin Bay: sediments, foraminifera, diatoms and stable isotopes

    Karen Luise Knudsen;Bjørg Stabell;Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz;Jón Eiríksson

  • Chronology of late Holocene climatic events in the northern North Atlantic based on AMS 14C dates and tephra markers from the volcano Hekla, Iceland

    Jón Eiríksson;Karen Luise Knudsen;Haflidi Haflidason;Jan Heinemeier

  • Correlation of late Holocene terrestrial and marine tephra markers, north Iceland: implications for reservoir age changes

    Gudrun Larsen;Jón Eiríksson;Karen Luise Knudsen;Jan Heinemeier

  • Diatom surface sediment assemblages around Iceland and their relationships to oceanic environmental variables

    H Jiang;M.-S Seidenkrantz;K.L Knudsen;J Eirı́ksson

  • MODERN DISTRIBUTION OF BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA ON THE NORTH ICELANDIC SHELF AND SLOPE

    Frank Rytter;Karen Luise Knudsen;Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz;Jón Eiríksson

  • Sea surface temperature variability in the subpolar Atlantic over the last two millennia

    Marie-Alexandrine Sicre;Ian R. Hall;Juliette Mignot;Myriam Khodri

  • Variability of the North Atlantic Current during the last 2000 years based on shelf bottom water and sea surface temperatures along an open ocean/shallow marine transect in western Europe

    Jón Eiríksson;Helga Bára Bartels-Jónsdóttir;Alix G. Cage;Esther Ruth Gudmundsdóttir

  • Environmental changes off North Iceland during the deglaciation and the Holocene: foraminifera, diatoms and stable isotopes

    K. L. Knudsen;H. Jiang;H. Jiang;Eystein Jansen;J. Eiríksson

  • Annually resolved North Atlantic marine climate over the last millennium.

    David J. Reynolds;J.D. Scourse;P.R. Halloran;A. Nederbragt

  • Growth of an Intermittent Ice Sheet in Iceland during the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene

    Áslaug Geirsdóttir;Jón Eiríksson

  • Solar forcing of Holocene summer sea-surface temperatures in the northern North Atlantic

    Hui Jiang;Raimund Muscheler;Svante Björck;Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Luise Knudsen
Karen Luise Knudsen Aarhus University
Jan Heinemeier
Jan Heinemeier Aarhus University
Gudrún Larsen
Gudrún Larsen University of Iceland
Marie-Alexandrine Sicre
Marie-Alexandrine Sicre Sorbonne University
James D. Scourse
James D. Scourse University of Exeter
Alan D. Wanamaker
Alan D. Wanamaker Iowa State University
Áslaug Geirsdóttir
Áslaug Geirsdóttir University of Iceland
Eystein Jansen
Eystein Jansen University of Bergen
Christopher A. Richardson
Christopher A. Richardson Bangor University

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