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Rainer Gersonde is affiliated with the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Ocean Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Additional subfields include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, and Geology.

Their work addresses several research topics that include Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods, Drilling and Well Engineering, Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, and Geological Studies and Exploration.

Gersonde has contributed to multiple publications in various scientific venues. Notable publication venues include Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Frontiers in Earth Science, and OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) from La Trobe University.

  • Deglacial Land-Ocean Linkages at the Alaskan Continental Margin in the Bering Sea (2021, Frontiers in Earth Science)
  • ODP Leg 113, Hole 693A - Well Logging Data (2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))
  • ODP Leg 113, Hole 696B - Well Logging Data (2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))
  • ODP Leg 113, Hole 696B - Well Logging Data (2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))
  • ODP Leg 177, Hole 1093D - Well Logging Data (2021, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research))

Frequent coauthors in Gersonde's research include Suzanne O'Connell, Detlef A. Warnke, P. F. Barker, James P. Kennett, and Stephen Berkowitz. These collaborations span multiple projects and reflect interdisciplinary engagements within their research fields.

Best Publications

  • One-to-one coupling of glacial climate variability in Greenland and Antarctica.

    C. Barbante;J.-M. Barnola;J.-M. Barnola;S. Becagli;J. Beer;J. Beer

  • Sea-surface temperature and sea ice distribution of the Southern Ocean at the EPILOG Last Glacial Maximum—a circum-Antarctic view based on siliceous microfossil records

    Rainer Gersonde;Xavier Crosta;Andrea Abelmann;Leanne K Armand

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • The reconstruction of late Quaternary Antarctic sea-ice distribution—the use of diatoms as a proxy for sea-ice

    Rainer Gersonde;Uli Zielinski

  • Diatom distribution in Southern Ocean surface sediments (Atlantic sector): Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions

    U. Zielinski;Rainer Gersonde

  • Seasonal variability of particle flux in the Weddell Sea and its relation to ice cover

    Gerhard Fischer;Dieter Fütterer;Rainer Gersonde;Susumu Honjo

  • Seasonal particle flux in the Bransfield Strait, Antartica

    Gerold Wefer;Gerhard Fischer;Dieter Füetterer;Rainer Gersonde

  • Links between iron supply, marine productivity, sea surface temperature, and CO2 over the last 1.1 Ma

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Walter Geibert;Rainer Gersonde

  • Increased Dust Deposition in the Pacific Southern Ocean During Glacial Periods

    Frank Lamy;Rainer Gersonde;Gisela Winckler;Gisela Winckler;Oliver Esper

  • Subpolar Link to the Emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific Cold Tongue

    Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Alfredo Martínez-Garcia;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Antoni Rosell-Melé;Erin L. McClymont;Rainer Gersonde

  • Geological record and reconstruction of the late Pliocene impact of the Eltanin asteroid in the Southern Ocean

    Rainer Gersonde;F. T. Kyte;U. Bleil;Bernhard Diekmann

  • Biosiliceous particle flux in the Southern Ocean

    Andrea Abelmann;Rainer Gersonde

  • Last glacial sea surface temperatures and sea-ice extent in the Southern Ocean (Atlantic-Indian sector): A multiproxy approach

    Rainer Gersonde;Andrea Abelmann;Uta Brathauer;Uta Brathauer;Sabine Becquey;Sabine Becquey

  • Past hydrographic and climatic changes in the Subantarctic Zone of the South Atlantic – The Pleistocene record from ODP Site 1090

    Sabine Becquey;Rainer Gersonde

  • Pleistocene fluctuations in the Agulhas Current Retroflection based on the calcareous plankton record

    José-Abel Flores;Rainer Gersonde;F.Javier Sierro

  • Opal sedimentation shifts in the World Ocean over the last 15 Myr

    Giuseppe Cortese;Rainer Gersonde;Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand;Gerhard Kuhn

  • Similar glacial and interglacial export bioproductivity in the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean: Multiproxy evidence and implications for glacial atmospheric CO2

    Martin Frank;Rainer Gersonde;Michiel Rutgers van der Loeff;Gerhard Bohrmann

  • The role of Southern Ocean processes in orbital and millennial CO2 variations – A synthesis

    Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Hubertus Fischer;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Jochen Schmitt;Dieter Lüthi;Dieter Lüthi;Thomas F. Stocker;Thomas F. Stocker

  • Sedimentation of biogenic siliceous particles in Antarctic waters from the Atlantic sector

    Rainer Gersonde;Gerold Wefer

  • Sequence of events from the onset to the demise of the Last Interglacial: Evaluating strengths and limitations of chronologies used in climatic archives

    Aline Govin;E Capron;P C Tzedakis;S Verheyden

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Abelmann
Andrea Abelmann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ralf Tiedemann
Ralf Tiedemann Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Frank Lamy
Frank Lamy Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gerhard Kuhn
Gerhard Kuhn University of Bremen
Gisela Winckler
Gisela Winckler Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Alfredo Martínez-García
Alfredo Martínez-García Max Planck Society
Hanno Meyer
Hanno Meyer Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen
Antoni Rosell-Melé
Antoni Rosell-Melé Autonomous University of Barcelona

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