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Reinhard Pienitz

Reinhard Pienitz

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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
55
Citations
9930
World Ranking
3890
National Ranking
163

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Reinhard Pienitz is a researcher affiliated with Université Laval in Canada, specializing in Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their scholarly activity focuses extensively on atmospheric science, ecology, environmental chemistry, biomaterials, and oceanography. This broad interdisciplinary approach supports a varied investigation into past and present environmental conditions.

The main topics within their research include geology and paleoclimatology, isotope analysis in ecology, and studies related to climate change and permafrost. Additional areas of inquiry cover diatoms and algae research, heavy metals in the environment, tree-ring climate responses, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Reinhard Pienitz's publication record comprises multiple appearances in scientific journals such as:

  • Scientific Data
  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • The Cryosphere
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Reinhard Pienitz include:

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Publisher Correction: A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Thermokarst lake inception and development in syngenetic ice-wedge polygon terrain during a cooling climatic trend, Bylot Island (Nunavut), eastern Canadian Arctic, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • Asbestos mining waste impacts on the sedimentological evolution of the Bécancour chain of lakes, southern Quebec (Canada), 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

The researcher collaborates frequently with several scientists in their field, including Dermot Antoniades, Émilie Saulnier-Talbot, Boris K. Biskaborn, Olivier Jacques, and Biljana Narancic. These relationships reflect ongoing joint efforts that contribute to studies published in peer-reviewed venues.

Best Publications

  • Climate-driven regime shifts in the biological communities of arctic lakes

    John P. Smol;Alexander P. Wolfe;H. John B. Birks;Marianne S. V. Douglas

  • Rapid response of treeline vegetation and lakes to past climate warming

    Glen M. MacDonald;Tom W. D. Edwards;Katrina A. Moser;Katrina A. Moser;Reinhard Pienitz

  • Assessment of freshwater diatoms as quantitative indicators of past climatic change in the Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada

    Reinhard Pienitz;John P. Smol;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks;H. John B. Birks

  • Variability in greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost thaw ponds

    Isabelle Laurion;Isabelle Laurion;Warwick F. Vincent;Sally MacIntyre;Leira Retamal;Leira Retamal

  • A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

    Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

  • Effect of climate change relative to ozone depletion on UV exposure in subarctic lakes.

    Reinhard Pienitz;Warwick F. Vincent

  • Early Humans and Rapidly Changing Holocene Sea Levels in the Queen Charlotte Islands-Hecate Strait, British Columbia, Canada

    Heiner Josenhans;Daryl Fedje;Reinhard Pienitz;John Southon

  • Spatial trends and historical deposition of mercury in eastern and northern Canada inferred from lake sediment cores.

    D. C. G. Muir;X. Wang;F. Yang;N. Nguyen

  • Freshwater Diatoms from northern Québec and Labrador (Canada)

    Marie-Andrée Fallu;Nancie Allaire;Reinhard Pienitz

  • Physical and chemical limnology of 59 lakes located between the southern Yukon and the Tuktoyaktuk Peninsula, Northwest Territories (Canada)

    R Pienitz;J P Smol;D Rs Lean

  • Long-term environmental change in Arctic and Antarctic lakes

    Reinhard Pienitz;Marianne S. Douglas;J. P. Smol

  • Diatom assemblages and their relationship to environmental variables in lakes from the boreal forest-tundra ecotone near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Reinhard Pienitz;John P. Smol

  • Ice Shelf Microbial Ecosystems in the High Arctic and Implications for Life on Snowball Earth

    W. F. Vincent;J. A. E. Gibson;R. Pienitz;V. Villeneuve

  • Past and Future Changes in Arctic Lake and River Ice

    Terry Prowse;Knut Alfredsen;Spyros Beltaos;Barrie Bonsal

  • Physical and chemical limnology of 24 lakes located between Yellowknife and Contwoyto Lake, Northwest Territories (Canada)

    Reinhard Pienitz;John P. Smol;David R.S. Lean

  • Paleolimnological Reconstruction of Holocene Climatic Trends from Two Boreal Treeline Lakes, Northwest Territories, Canada

    Reinhard Pienitz;John P. Smol;Glen M. MacDonald

  • The Diatoms: Diatoms as indicators of environmental change near arctic and alpine treeline

    André F. Lotter;Reinhard Pienitz;Roland Schmidt

  • Sensitivity of High-latitude Freshwater Ecosystems to Global Change: Temperature and Solar Ultraviolet Radiation

    Warwick F. Vincent;Reinhard Pienitz

  • Freshwater diatoms from northern Québec and Labrador (Canada) : species-environment relationships in lakes of boreal forest, forest-tundra and tundra regions

    Marie-Andrée Fallu;Nancie Allaire;Reinhard Pienitz

  • Environmental Change in the Great Whale River Region, Hudson Bay: Five Decades of Multidisciplinary Research by Centre d'études Nordiques (CEN)

    Najat Bhiry;Ann Delwaide;Michel Allard;Yves Bégin

  • Factors influencing the distribution of chironomids in lakes distributed along a latitudinal gradient in northwestern Quebec, Canada

    Isabelle Larocque;Reinhard Pienitz;Nicolas Rolland

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Smol
John P. Smol Queen's University
Warwick F. Vincent
Warwick F. Vincent Université Laval
Pierre Francus
Pierre Francus Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Marianne S. V. Douglas
Marianne S. V. Douglas Queen's University
Isabelle Laurion
Isabelle Laurion Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Derek C. G. Muir
Derek C. G. Muir Environment and Climate Change Canada
Guillaume St-Onge
Guillaume St-Onge Université du Québec à Rimouski
Ian R. Walker
Ian R. Walker University of British Columbia
Scott F. Lamoureux
Scott F. Lamoureux Queen's University
Richard E. Thomson
Richard E. Thomson Fisheries and Oceans Canada

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