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Kirsten Fahl is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, contributing extensively within these fields through studies related to atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, oceanography, ecology, and geology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics, climate change and permafrost, isotope analysis in ecology, geological studies and exploration, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Fahl has coauthored publications with frequent collaborators including Ruediger Stein, Henriette Kolling, Xiaotong Xiao, Junjie Wu, and Gesine Mollenhauer. These partnerships have contributed to a significant body of work published across several scientific venues.

Common publication venues for their research include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Communications
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Communications Earth & Environment

Selected recent papers by Kirsten Fahl include:

  • Holocene changes in sea-ice cover and polynya formation along the eastern North Greenland shelf: New insights from biomarker records, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Biomarker Distributions in (Sub)-Arctic Surface Sediments and Their Potential for Sea Ice Reconstructions, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Holocene Interactions Between Glacier Retreat, Sea Ice Formation, and Atlantic Water Advection at the Inner Northeast Greenland Continental Shelf, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Rapid reductions and millennial-scale variability in Nordic Seas sea ice cover during abrupt glacial climate changes, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Deglacial release of petrogenic and permafrost carbon from the Canadian Arctic impacting the carbon cycle, 2022, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Holocene cooling culminates in sea ice oscillations in Fram Strait

    Juliane Müller;Kirstin Werner;Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl

  • Towards quantitative sea ice reconstructions in the northern North Atlantic: A combined biomarker and numerical modelling approach

    Juliane Müller;Axel Wagner;Axel Wagner;Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • Modern seasonal variability and deglacial/Holocene change of central Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover: New insights from biomarker proxy records

    Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • Sea surface temperature variability and sea‐ice extent in the subarctic northwest Pacific during the past 15,000 years

    Lars Max;Jan-Rainer Riethdorf;Ralf Tiedemann;Maria Smirnova

  • Natural variability or anthropogenically-induced variation? Insights from 15 years of multidisciplinary observations at the arctic marine LTER site HAUSGARTEN

    Thomas Soltwedel;Eduard Bauerfeind;Melanie Bergmann;Astrid Bracher;Astrid Bracher

  • Modern organic carbon deposition in the Laptev Sea and the adjacent continental slope: surface water productivity vs. terrigenous input

    Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • Biomarkers as organic-carbon-source and environmental indicators in the Late Quaternary Arctic Ocean: problems and perspectives

    Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean

    Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Michael Schreck;Gregor Knorr

  • Lithogenic and biogenic particle fluxes on the Lomonosov Ridge (central Arctic Ocean) and their relevance for sediment accumulation: Vertical vs. lateral transport

    Kirsten Fahl;Eva-Maria Nöthig

  • Holocene variability in sea ice cover, primary production, and Pacific‐Water inflow and climate change in the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas (Arctic Ocean)

    Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Inka Schade;Adelina Manerung

  • Particle sedimentation patterns in the eastern Fram Strait during 2000-2005: Results from the Arctic long-term observatory HAUSGARTEN

    Eduard Bauerfeind;Eva-Maria Nöthig;Agnieszka Beszczynska;Kirsten Fahl

  • Arctic (palaeo) river discharge and environmental change: evidence from the Holocene Kara Sea sedimentary record

    Rüdiger Stein;Klaus Dittmers;K. Fahl;M. Kraus

  • Sea ice and millennial-scale climate variability in the Nordic seas 90 kyr ago to present

    Ukrike Hoff;Tine Lander Rasmussen;Rüdiger Stein;Mohamed M. Ezat;Mohamed M. Ezat

  • Arctic Ocean sea ice cover during the penultimate glacial and the last interglacial.

    Ruediger Stein;Ruediger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Paul Gierz;Frank Niessen

  • Holocene accumulation of organic carbon at the Laptev Sea continental margin (Arctic Ocean): sources, pathways, and sinks

    Rüdiger Stein;Kirsten Fahl

  • Lipid content and fatty acid composition of algal communities in sea-ice and water from the Weddell Sea (Antarctica)

    Kirsten Fahl;Gerhard Kattner

  • Biomarker distributions in surface sediments from the Kara and Laptev seas (Arctic Ocean): indicators for organic-carbon sources and sea-ice coverage

    Xiaotong Xiao;Kirsten Fahl;Ruediger Stein

  • Sea-ice distribution in the modern Arctic Ocean: Biomarker records from trans-Arctic Ocean surface sediments

    Xiaotong Xiao;Kirsten Fahl;Juliane Müller;Ruediger Stein

  • Proxy Reconstruction of Cenozoic Arctic Ocean Sea-Ice History – from IRD to IP25 –

    Rüdiger Stein;Kirsten Fahl;Juliane Müller

  • Accumulation of particulate organic carbon at the Eurasian continental margin during late Quaternary times: controlling mechanisms and paleoenvironmental significance

    Rüdiger Stein;B. Boucsein;Kirsten Fahl;T. Garcia de Oteyza

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank Niessen
Frank Niessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ruediger Stein
Ruediger Stein University of Bremen
Eva-Maria Nöthig
Eva-Maria Nöthig Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Henning A Bauch
Henning A Bauch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gesine Mollenhauer
Gesine Mollenhauer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Matthias Forwick
Matthias Forwick University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Eystein Jansen
Eystein Jansen University of Bergen
Dierk Hebbeln
Dierk Hebbeln University of Bremen

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