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Paul Vallelonga is affiliated with the Department of Transport in Western Australia, Australia. Their scholarly activity centers on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant focus on Environmental Science. The subfields most represented in their work include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The primary topics covered by Vallelonga's research include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Polar Research and Ecology

The scientist has contributed publications to several notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Climate of the past
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored feature the following works:

  • Nanoplastics measurements in Northern and Southern polar ice, 2022, Environmental Research
  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period, 2020, Climate of the past
  • Surface velocity of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS): assessment of interior velocities derived from satellite data by GPS, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • High-resolution aerosol concentration data from the Greenland NorthGRIP and NEEM deep ice cores, 2022, Earth system science data
  • An 83,000-year-old ice core from Roosevelt Island, Ross Sea, Antarctica, 2020, Climate of the past

Frequent collaborators in Vallelonga's research include:

  • Helle Astrid Kjær
  • Andrea Spolaor
  • Niccolò Maffezzoli
  • Carlo Barbante
  • Alfonso Saiz-Lopez

Best Publications

  • A stratigraphic framework for abrupt climatic changes during the Last Glacial period based on three synchronized Greenland ice-core records: refining and extending the INTIMATE event stratigraphy

    Sune O. Rasmussen;Matthias Bigler;Simon P. Blockley;Thomas Blunier

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core

    D. Dahl-Jensen;M. R. Albert;A. Aldahan;N. Azuma

  • A first chronology for the North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) ice core

    S. O. Rasmussen;P. M. Abbott;T. Blunier;A. J. Bourne

  • Regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

    Elizabeth R. Thomas;J. Melchior van Wessem;Jason Roberts;Jason Roberts;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • The lead pollution history of Law Dome, Antarctica, from isotopic measurements on ice cores: 1500 AD to 1989 AD

    P. Vallelonga;K. Van de Velde;J.-P. Candelone;V.I. Morgan

  • Post 17th-century changes of European PAH emissions recorded in high-altitude Alpine snow and ice.

    Jacopo Gabrieli;Paul Vallelonga;Giulio Cozzi;Paolo Gabrielli

  • Fire in ice: two millennia of boreal forest fire history from the Greenland NEEM ice core

    P. Zennaro;N. Kehrwald;J. R. McConnell;Simon Schüpbach;Simon Schüpbach

  • Optimization of high-resolution continuous flow analysis for transient climate signals in ice cores.

    Matthias Bigler;Matthias Bigler;Anders Svensson;Ernesto Kettner;Paul Vallelonga

  • Rapid increase in atmospheric iodine levels in the North Atlantic since the mid-20th century.

    Carlos A. Cuevas;Niccolò Maffezzoli;Juan Pablo Corella;Andrea Spolaor

  • Antarctic-wide array of high-resolution ice core records reveals pervasive lead pollution began in 1889 and persists today

    Joseph R. McConnell;Olivia J. Maselli;Michael Sigl;Paul Vallelonga

  • Greenland records of aerosol source and atmospheric lifetime changes from the Eemian to the Holocene.

    Simon Schüpbach;Hubertus Fischer;M. Bigler;Tobias Erhardt

  • The summer 2012 Greenland heat wave: In situ and remote sensing observations of water vapor isotopic composition during an atmospheric river event

    Jean-Louis Bonne;Hans Christian Steen-Larsen;Camille Risi;Martin Werner

  • Direct linking of Greenland and Antarctic ice cores at the Toba eruption (74 ka BP)

    A. Svensson;Matthias Bigler;T. Blunier;H. B. Clausen

  • Lead isotopic compositions in the EPICA Dome C ice core and Southern Hemisphere Potential Source Areas

    P Vallelonga;P Gabrielli;Eleonora Balliana;Eleonora Balliana;A Wegner

  • Pb isotope record over one century in snow from Victoria Land, Antarctica

    K. Van de Velde;P. Vallelonga;J. P. Candelone;K. J. R. Rosman

  • Bipolar volcanic synchronization of abrupt climate change in Greenland and Antarctic ice cores during the last glacial period

    Anders Svensson;Dorthe Dahl-Jensen;Jørgen Peder Steffensen;Thomas Blunier

  • Widespread pollution of the South American atmosphere predates the industrial revolution by 240 y

    Chiara Uglietti;Paolo Gabrielli;Colin A. Cooke;Paul Vallelonga

  • East Greenland ice core dust record reveals timing of Greenland ice sheet advance and retreat

    Marius Folden Simonsen;Giovanni Baccolo;Thomas Blunier;Alejandra Borunda

  • Initial results from geophysical surveys and shallow coring of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (NEGIS)

    P. Vallelonga;K. Christianson;K. Christianson;R. B. Alley;S. Anandakrishnan

  • Greenland 2012 melt event effects on CryoSat‐2 radar altimetry

    Johan Nilsson;Paul Travis Vallelonga;Sebastian Bjerregaard Simonsen;Louise Sandberg Sørensen

  • Determination of Fe2+ and Fe3+ species by FIA-CRC-ICP-MS in Antarctic ice samples

    Andrea Spolaor;Andrea Spolaor;Paul Vallelonga;Paul Vallelonga;Jacopo Gabrieli;Giulio Cozzi

  • A 2700-year annual timescale and accumulation history for an ice core from Roosevelt Island, West Antarctica

    Mai Winstrup;Mai Winstrup;Paul Vallelonga;Helle A. Kjær;Tyler J. Fudge

  • Review of regional Antarctic snow accumulation over the past 1000 years

    Elizabeth R. Thomas;J. Melchior van Wessem;Jason Roberts;Jason Roberts;Elisabeth Isaksson

  • Eemian interglacial reconstructed from a Greenland folded ice core (SCI)

    D Dahl-Jensen;M R Albert;A Aldahan;N Azuma

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Svensson
Anders Svensson University of Copenhagen
Carlo Barbante
Carlo Barbante Ca Foscari University of Venice
Bo M Vinther
Bo M Vinther University of Copenhagen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen
Dorthe Dahl-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez Spanish National Research Council
Nancy A. N. Bertler
Nancy A. N. Bertler Victoria University of Wellington
Barbara Delmonte
Barbara Delmonte University of Milano-Bicocca
Mark A. J. Curran
Mark A. J. Curran University of Tasmania
Matthias Bigler
Matthias Bigler University of Bern
Sune Olander Rasmussen
Sune Olander Rasmussen University of Copenhagen

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