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Overview

Kay-Christian Emeis is affiliated with the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research in Germany. Their primary field of study is Engineering, with a focus on Ocean Engineering, publishing extensively in this area.

Their research spans several subfields including Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, Mechanical Engineering, Ecology, and Geochemistry and Petrology. The scientist's work is also centered on key topics such as Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry, and Offshore Engineering and Technologies.

Frequent co-authors working with Kay-Christian Emeis include:

  • Alan E.S. Kemp
  • Thomas R. Janecek
  • Larry A. Mayer
  • Nicklas G. Pisias
  • Jack G. Baldauf

The scientist has published in various venues, most notably contributing to Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) with 49 publications. Other notable publication venues include Biogeosciences, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University, Environmental Pollution, and Limnology and Oceanography.

Recent papers by Kay-Christian Emeis include:

  • "Spatial distribution of microplastics in the tropical Indian Ocean based on laser direct infrared imaging and microwave-assisted matrix digestion" (2022, Environmental Pollution)
  • "What can we learn from amino acids about oceanic organic matter cycling and degradation?" (2022, Biogeosciences)
  • "Macrofauna as a major driver of bentho-pelagic exchange in the southern North Sea" (2021, Limnology and Oceanography)
  • "Signals of Holocene climate transition amplified by anthropogenic land-use changes in the westerly-Indian monsoon realm" (2021, Climate of the Past)
  • "Sediment trap-derived particulate matter fluxes in the oligotrophic subtropical gyre of the South Indian Ocean" (2021, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography)

Best Publications

  • ODP Leg 107 in the Tyrrhenian Sea: Insights into passive margin and back-arc basin evolution

    Kim Kastens;Jean Mascle;Christian Auroux;Enrico Bonatti

  • Barite fronts in continental margin sediments: a new look at barium remobilization in the zone of sulfate reduction and formation of heavy barites in diagenetic fronts

    M.E. Torres;H.J. Brumsack;G. Bohrmann;K.C. Emeis

  • Selective preservation of organic matter in marine environments; processes and impact on the sedimentary record

    K. A. F. Zonneveld;G. J. M. Versteegh;Sabine Kasten;T. I. Eglinton

  • Temperature and salinity variations of Mediterranean Sea surface waters over the last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Ulrich Struck;Hans-Martin Schulz;Reinhild Rosenberg

  • Modulation and amplification of climatic changes in the Northern Hemisphere by the Indian summer monsoon during the past 80 k.y

    H.R. Kudrass;A. Hofmann;H. Doose;K. Emeis

  • Upwelling systems : evolution since the Early Miocene

    C. P. Summerhayes;W. L. Prell;K. C. Emeis;Sri Hartati

  • Why is the Eastern Mediterranean phosphorus limited

    M. D. Krom;K. C. Emeis;P. Van Cappellen

  • African monsoon variability during the previous interglacial maximum

    E.-J. Rohling;T.-R. Cane;Steve Cooke;M. Sprovieri

  • The sapropel record of the eastern Mediterranean Sea — results of Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Tatsuhiko Sakamoto;R. Wehausen;Hans-Jürgen Brumsack

  • Changes in the C, N, P burial rates in some Baltic Sea sediments over the last 150 years—relevance to P regeneration rates and the phosphorus cycle

    K.-C Emeis;U Struck;T Leipe;F Pollehne

  • Sea surface temperatures and ice rafting in the Holocene North Atlantic: climate influences on northern Europe and Greenland

    Matthias Moros;Kay Emeis;Bjørg Risebrobakken;Ian Snowball

  • Sea-Surface Temperatures and the History of Monsoon Upwelling in the Northwest Arabian Sea during the Last 500,000 Years

    Kay-Christian Emeis;David M. Anderson;Heidi Doose;Dick Kroon

  • Reconstructing past planktic foraminiferal habitats using stable isotope data: A case history for Mediterranean sapropel S5

    E.J. Rohling;M. Sprovieri;T. Cane;J.S.L. Casford

  • Benthic foraminiferal record of ecosystem variability in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during times of sapropel S5 and S6 deposition

    Gerhard Schmiedl;Angelika Mitschele;Stefan Beck;Kay-Christian Emeis

  • Eastern Mediterranean surface water temperatures and d18O composition during deposition of sapropels in the late Quaternary

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Hartmut Schulz;Ulrich Struck;Martine Rossignol-Strick

  • Travertine formation in Plitvice National Park, Yugoslavia: chemical versus biological control

    K.-C. Emeis;H.-H. Richnow;S. Kempe

  • Salinity changes in the central Baltic Sea (NW Europe) over the last 10000 years

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Ulrich Struck;Thomas Blanz;Alexander Kohly

  • Paleoceanography and sapropel introduction

    K.-C. Emeis

  • Provenance of lithogenic surface sediments and pathways of riverine suspended matter in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: evidence from 143Nd/144Nd and 87Sr/86Sr ratios

    Syee Weldeab;Kay-Christian Emeis;Christoph Hemleben;Wolfgang Siebel

  • Climatic forcing of eastern Mediterranean deep-water formation and benthic ecosystems during the past 22 000 years

    Gerhard Schmiedl;Tanja Kuhnt;Werner Ehrmann;Kay-Christian Emeis

  • Water depth and diagenetic constraints on the use of barium as a palaeoproductivity indicator

    Marta T. Von Breymann;Kay-Christian Emeis;Erwin Suess

Frequent Co-Authors

Alastair H. F. Robertson
Alastair H. F. Robertson University of Edinburgh
Ulrich Struck
Ulrich Struck Museum für Naturkunde
Ioanna Bouloubassi
Ioanna Bouloubassi Sorbonne University
Thomas Leipe
Thomas Leipe Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research
Egon T. Degens
Egon T. Degens Universität Hamburg
Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
John W. Morse
John W. Morse Texas A&M University
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack
Hans-Jürgen Brumsack Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Gerhard Schmiedl
Gerhard Schmiedl Universität Hamburg
Tim Rixen
Tim Rixen Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology

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