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Robert F Spielhagen is affiliated with the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, focusing on topics related to geology, paleoclimatology, and marine environmental studies.

The scientist's main fields of study include Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Within these broad domains, their research covers the following subfields:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Geology

Robert F Spielhagen's work addresses several key topics, primarily concentrating on:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Climate change and permafrost

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Henning A. Bauch
  • Mohamed M. Ezat
  • Ruediger Stein
  • Marc Zehnich
  • Nicole Syring

Robert F Spielhagen has published in several academic venues, with the majority of outputs appearing in:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Holocene

The scientist's recent published papers include the following:

  • "Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum" (2022), published in Nature Geoscience
  • "Holocene changes in sea-ice cover and polynya formation along the eastern North Greenland shelf: New insights from biomarker records" (2020), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Natural variability of the Arctic Ocean sea ice during the present interglacial" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "The ikaite to calcite transformation: Implications for palaeoclimate studies" (2022), published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • "Environmental variability off NE Greenland (western Fram Strait) during the past 10,600 years" (2020), published in The Holocene

Best Publications

  • Late quaternary ice sheet history of northern Eurasia

    John Inge Svendsen;Helena Alexanderson;Valery I Astakhov;Igor Demidov

  • Enhanced Modern Heat Transfer to the Arctic by Warm Atlantic Water

    Robert F. Spielhagen;Kirstin Werner;Steffen Aagaard Sørensen;Katarzyna Zamelczyk

  • Arctic Ocean deep-sea record of northern Eurasian ice sheet history

    Robert F. Spielhagen;Robert F. Spielhagen;Karl-Heinz Baumann;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Norbert R. Nowaczyk

  • Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change

    P. Anderson;O. Bennike;N. Bigelow;J. Brigham-Grette

  • Chronology of the Holocene transgression at the North Siberian margin

    Henning A. Bauch;Thomas Mueller-Lupp;Ekaterina Taldenkova;Robert F. Spielhagen

  • Temperature and precipitation history of the Arctic

    G. H. Miller;J. Brigham-Grette;R. B. Alley;L. Anderson

  • Glacimarine sedimentary processes and facies on the Polar North Atlantic margins

    J.A. Dowdeswell;A. Elverhfi;R. Spielhagen

  • A multiproxy reconstruction of the evolution of deep and surface waters in the subarctic Nordic seas over the last 30,000yr

    Henning A. Bauch;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Robert F. Spielhagen;Ulrich Struck

  • Arctic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum: Atlantic and polar domains of surface water mass distribution and ice cover

    Niels Nørgaard-Pedersen;Niels Nørgaard-Pedersen;Robert F. Spielhagen;Helmut Erlenkeuser;Pieter M. Grootes

  • The Growth and Decay of the Late Weichselian Ice Sheet in Western Svalbard and Adjacent Areas Based on Provenance Studies of Marine Sediments

    Anders Elverhøi;Espen S. Andersen;Trond Dokken;Dierk Hebbeln

  • Reflection of Scandinavian Ice Sheet Fluctuations in Norwegian Sea Sediments during the Past 150,000 Years

    Karl-Heinz Baumann;Klas S. Lackschewitz;Jan Mangerud;Robert F. Spielhagen

  • Central Arctic surface ocean environment during the past 80,000 years

    Niels Nørgaard-Pedersen;Robert F. Spielhagen;Jörn Thiede;Heidemarie Kassens

  • Active Nordic Seas deep-water formation during the last glacial maximum

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  • Arctic Ocean evidence for late Quaternary initiation of northern Eurasian ice sheets

    Robert F. Spielhagen;Georges Bonani;Anton Eisenhauer;Martin Frank

  • Overview of Glacial Atlantic Ocean Mapping (GLAMAP 2000)

    Michael Sarnthein;R. Gersonde;S. Niebler;U. Pflaumann

  • Arctic ice export events and their potential impact on global climate during the late Pleistocene

    Dennis A. Darby;Jens F. Bischof;Robert F. Spielhagen;Steven A. Marshall

  • Holocene sea subsurface and surface water masses in the Fram Strait – Comparisons of temperature and sea-ice reconstructions

    Kirstin Werner;Juliane Müller;Katrine Husum;Robert F. Spielhagen;Robert F. Spielhagen

  • Atlantic Water advection versus sea-ice advances in the eastern Fram Strait during the last 9 ka - multiproxy evidence for a two-phase Holocene

    Kirstin Werner;Robert F. Spielhagen;Dorothea Bauch;H. Christian Hass

  • Stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in planktic foraminifers from Arctic Ocean surface sediments: Reflection of the low salinity surface water layer

    Robert F. Spielhagen;Helmut Erlenkeuser

  • Detailed mineralogical evidence for two nearly identical glacial/deglacial cycles and Atlantic water advection to the Arctic Ocean during the last 90,000 years

    Christoph Vogt;Jochen Knies;Robert F. Spielhagen;Ruediger Stein

  • Late Quaternary paleoceanography of the Eurasian Basin, Arctic Ocean

    T. M. Cronin;T. R. Holtz;Rüdiger Stein;R. Spielhagen

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Erlenkeuser
Helmut Erlenkeuser Kiel University
Henning A Bauch
Henning A Bauch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Heidemarie Kassens
Heidemarie Kassens GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Katrine Husum
Katrine Husum Norwegian Polar Institute
Jörn Thiede
Jörn Thiede Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Dorothea Bauch
Dorothea Bauch GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Jan Heinemeier
Jan Heinemeier Aarhus University
Ruediger Stein
Ruediger Stein University of Bremen
Thomas M. Marchitto
Thomas M. Marchitto University of Colorado Boulder

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