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Rik Tjallingii is affiliated with the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant contribution to Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Paleontology, Ecology, and Oceanography.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics related to Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Marine and environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for Rik Tjallingii include Communications Earth & Environment, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), Nature Geoscience, and Scientific Reports.

Among their recent papers are the following:

  • Inorganic geochemistry of lake sediments: A review of analytical techniques and guidelines for data interpretation, 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • VARDA (VARved sediments DAtabase) - providing and connecting proxy data from annually laminated lake sediments, 2020, Earth system science data
  • Varve microfacies and chronology from a new sediment record of Lake Gościąż (Poland), 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • New insights into lake responses to rapid climate change: the Younger Dryas in Lake Gościąż, central Poland, 2020, Boreas

Rik Tjallingii has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Achim Brauer, Markus J. Schwab, Cécile Blanchet, Daniela Müller, and Arne Ramisch.

Best Publications

  • Calibration of XRF core scanners for quantitative geochemical logging of sediment cores: Theory and application

    Gert Jan Weltje;Rik Tjallingii

  • Influence of the water content on X-ray fluorescence core-scanning measurements in soft marine sediments

    Rik Tjallingii;Ursula Röhl;Martin Kölling;Torsten Bickert

  • Coherent high- and low-latitude control of the northwest African hydrological balance

    Rik Tjallingii;Rik Tjallingii;Martin Claussen;Martin Claussen;Jan Berend W Stuut;Jens Fohlmeister

  • Prediction of Geochemical Composition from XRF Core Scanner Data: A New Multivariate Approach Including Automatic Selection of Calibration Samples and Quantification of Uncertainties

    Gert Jan Weltje;M R Bloemsma;Rik Tjallingii;David Heslop

  • A reference time scale for Site U1385 (Shackleton Site) on the SW Iberian Margin

    D. Hodell;L. Lourens;S. Crowhurst;T. Konijnendijk

  • Infilling and flooding of the Mekong River incised valley during deglacial sea-level rise

    Rik Tjallingii;Karl Stattegger;Andreas Wetzel;Phung Van Phach

  • Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years

    James A. Collins;Enno Schefuß;David Heslop;David Heslop;Stefan Mulitza

  • Early anthropogenic impact on Western Central African rainforests 2,600 y ago

    Yannick Garcin;Pierre Deschamps;Guillemette Ménot;Geoffroy de Saulieu

  • Atlantic forcing of Western Mediterranean winter rain minima during the last 12,000 years

    Christoph Zielhofer;William J. Fletcher;Steffen Mischke;Marc De Batist

  • Modelling the joint variability of grain size and chemical composition in sediments

    M R Bloemsma;Matthias Zabel;Jan-Berend Stuut;Rik Tjallingii

  • Mid to late Holocene sea-level reconstruction of Southeast Vietnam using beachrock and beach-ridge deposits

    Karl Stattegger;Rik Tjallingii;Yoshiki Saito;Maximiliano Michelli

  • High- and low-latitude forcing of the Nile River regime during the Holocene inferred from laminated sediments of the Nile deep-sea fan

    Cécile L. Blanchet;Rik Tjallingii;Martin Frank;Janne Lorenzen

  • Inorganic geochemistry of lake sediments: A review of analytical techniques and guidelines for data interpretation

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  • Current perspectives on the capabilities of high resolution XRF core scanners

    Ian W. Croudace;Ludvig Löwemark;Rik Tjallingii;Bernd Zolitschka

  • Practical guidelines and recent advances in the Itrax XRF core-scanning procedure.

    Ludvig Löwemark;Menno Bloemsma;Ian Croudace;J. Stephen Daly

  • Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle

    Cécile L. Blanchet;Anne H. Osborne;Rik Tjallingii;Werner Ehrmann

  • Varve microfacies and varve preservation record of climate change and human impact for the last 6000 years at Lake Tiefer See (NE Germany)

    Nadine Dräger;Martin Theuerkauf;Krystyna Szeroczyńska;Sabine Wulf

  • Varved sediment responses to early Holocene climate and environmental changes in Lake Meerfelder Maar (Germany) obtained from multivariate analyses of micro X‐ray fluorescence core scanning data

    Celia Martin-Puertas;Rik Tjallingii;Menno Bloemsma;Menno Bloemsma;Achim Brauer

  • Rapid flooding of the southern Vietnam shelf during the early to mid-Holocene

    Rik Tjallingii;Karl Stattegger;Paolo Stocchi;Yoshiki Saito

  • Varves of the Dead Sea sedimentary record

    Yoav Ben Dor;Ina Neugebauer;Yehouda Enzel;Markus J. Schwab

  • Climate variability in the SW Indian Ocean from an 8000-yr long multi-proxy record in the Mauritian lowlands shows a middle to late Holocene shift from negative IOD-state to ENSO-state

    Erik J. de Boer;Rik Tjallingii;Maria I. Vélez;Kenneth F. Rijsdijk

  • The "Shackleton Site" (IODP Site U1385) on the Iberian Margin

    D. A. Hodell;L. Lourens;D. A. V. Stow;J. Hernández-Molina

Frequent Co-Authors

Achim Brauer
Achim Brauer University of Potsdam
Birgit Plessen
Birgit Plessen University of Potsdam
Sabine Wulf
Sabine Wulf University of Portsmouth
Lucas Joost Lourens
Lucas Joost Lourens Utrecht University
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen
Yehouda Enzel
Yehouda Enzel Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Polychronis C Tzedakis
Polychronis C Tzedakis University College London
David Heslop
David Heslop Australian National University
Luke C Skinner
Luke C Skinner University of Cambridge
Enno Schefuß
Enno Schefuß University of Bremen

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