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Lucas Joost Lourens

Lucas Joost Lourens

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Earth Science

D-Index
74
Citations
22225
World Ranking
747
National Ranking
21

Overview

Lucas Joost Lourens is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and works within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans primarily the fields of Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Environmental Chemistry, Oceanography, and Ocean Engineering.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

The scientist has published extensively in notable venues such as:

  • Climate of the Past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

Among their recent publications are:

  • "An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years," 2020, Science
  • "Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry," 2022, Science
  • "On the Cause of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition," 2021, Reviews of Geophysics
  • "A 1.5-million-year record of orbital and millennial climate variability in the North Atlantic," 2023, Climate of the Past
  • "Carbon isotope and mammal recovery from extreme greenhouse warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in astronomically-calibrated fluvial strata, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA," 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent collaborators include:

  • David A Hodell
  • André Bahr
  • F. Javier Hernández-Molina
  • Dorrik A. V. Stow
  • Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian

Best Publications

  • An astronomically dated record of Earth's climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years.

    Thomas Westerhold;Norbert Marwan;Norbert Marwan;Anna Joy Drury;Anna Joy Drury;Diederik Liebrand

  • A new Geologic Time Scale, with special reference to Precambrian and Neogene

    Felix M. Gradstein;James G. Ogg;Alan G. Smith;Wouter Bleeker

  • Rapid acidification of the ocean during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum.

    James C. Zachos;Ursula Röhl;Stephen A. Schellenberg;Appy Sluijs

  • The Neogene Period

    F.J. Hilgen;L.J. Lourens;Jan A. van Dam

  • Evaluation of the Plio‐Pleistocene astronomical timescale

    L. J. Lourens;A. Antonarakou;F. J. Hilgen;A. A. M. Van Hoof

  • Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum

    Appy Sluijs;Stefan Schouten;Mark Pagani;Martijn Woltering

  • Astronomical pacing of late Palaeocene to early Eocene global warming events

    Lucas J. Lourens;Appy Sluijs;Dick Kroon;James C. Zachos

  • A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25 million years

    Isabella Raffi;Jan Backman;Eliana Fornaciari;Heiko Pälike

  • Extending the astronomical ( polarity) time scale into the Miocene

    F.J. Hilgen;W. Krijgsman;C.G. Langereis;L.J. Lourens

  • Temporal variability in the northern Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) during the last 225,000 years

    G. J. Reichart;L. J. Lourens;W. J. Zachariasse

  • Long-period astronomical forcing of mammal turnover

    Jan A. Van Dam;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;Hayfaa Abdul Aziz;M. A'Ngeles A'Lvarez Sierra;Frederik J. Hilgen

  • On the duration of magnetochrons C24r and C25n and the timing of early Eocene global warming events: Implications from the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 208 Walvis Ridge depth transect

    Thomas Westerhold;Ursula Röhl;Jacques Laskar;Isabella Raffi

  • Bromine counts from XRF scanning as an estimate of the marine organic carbon content of sediment cores

    Martin Ziegler;Tom Jilbert;Gert J. de Lange;Lucas J. Lourens

  • Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity

    E. J. Rohling;A. Sluijs;H. A. Dijkstra;P. Köhler

  • Geological constraints on tidal dissipation and dynamical ellipticity of the Earth over the past three million years

    Lucas J. Lourens;Rolf Wehausen;Hans J. Brumsack

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

  • The response of the African summer monsoon to remote and local forcing due to precession and obliquity

    E. Tuenter;E. Tuenter;S.L. Weber;F.J. Hilgen;L.J. Lourens

  • Revised tuning of Ocean Drilling Program Site 964 and KC01B (Mediterranean) and implications for the δ18O, tephra, calcareous nannofossil, and geomagnetic reversal chronologies of the past 1.1 Myr

    Lucas J. Lourens

  • Cenozoic global ice-volume and temperature simulations with 1-D ice-sheet models forced by benthic δ18O records

    B. de Boer;R.S.W. van de Wal;R. Bintanja;L.J. Lourens

  • A study of the TEX86 paleothermometer in the water column and sediments of the Santa Barbara Basin, California

    Carme Huguet;Arndt Schimmelmann;Robert Thunell;Lucas J. Lourens

  • Persistent 400,000-year variability of Antarctic ice volume and the carbon cycle is revealed throughout the Plio-Pleistocene

    B. de Boer;Lucas J. Lourens;Roderik S.W. van de Wal

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederik J Hilgen
Frederik J Hilgen Utrecht University
Isabella Raffi
Isabella Raffi University of Chieti-Pescara
James C. Zachos
James C. Zachos University of California, Santa Cruz
Martin Ziegler
Martin Ziegler Utrecht University
Gert-Jan Reichart
Gert-Jan Reichart Utrecht University
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University
Dick Kroon
Dick Kroon University of Edinburgh
Heiko Pälike
Heiko Pälike University of Bremen
Steven M Bohaty
Steven M Bohaty University of Southampton
David A Hodell
David A Hodell University of Cambridge

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