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Robert P. Speijer

Robert P. Speijer

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Earth Science

D-Index
47
Citations
8782
World Ranking
3990
National Ranking
30

Overview

Robert P. Speijer is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their research spans various subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Oceanography, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their scholarly output includes significant work on topics such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert P. Speijer are as follows:

  • Surface ocean warming and acidification driven by rapid carbon release precedes Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2022, Science Advances
  • The Giant Marine Gastropod Campanile Giganteum (Lamarck, 1804) as a High-Resolution Archive of Seasonality in the Eocene Greenhouse World, 2020, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • A new age model and chemostratigraphic framework for the Maastrichtian type area (southeastern Netherlands, northeastern Belgium), 2022, Newsletters on Stratigraphy
  • Evolution of European carnivorous mammal assemblages through the Palaeogene, 2022, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Shelf Ecosystems Along the U.S. Atlantic Coastal Plain Prior to and During the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Insights Into the Stratigraphic Architecture, 2022, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Robert P. Speijer frequently collaborates with several researchers, listing as frequent co-authors:

  • Johan Vellekoop
  • Peter Stassen
  • Philippe Claeys
  • Monika Doubrawa
  • Floréal Solé

The publication record shows appearances in notable venues including:

  • Science Advances
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Newsletters on Stratigraphy
  • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Best Publications

  • The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

    Peter Schulte;Laia Alegret;Ignacio Arenillas;José A. Arz

  • The Paleogene Period

    Noël Vandenberghe;FJ Hilgen;Robert Speijer

  • Late Paleocene early Eocene Tethyan carbonate platform evolution — A response to long- and short-term paleoclimatic change

    C. Scheibner;Robert Speijer

  • The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database

    Christopher J Hollis;Tom Dunkley Jones;Eleni Anagnostou;Eleni Anagnostou;Peter K Bijl

  • A benthic foraminiferal record of Paleocene sea level and trophic/redox conditions at Gebel Aweina, Egypt

    Robert P. Speijer;Birger Schmitz

  • The Dababiya Quarry Section: Lithostratigraphy, clay mineralogy, geochemistry and paleontology

    Christian Dupuis;Marie-Pierre Aubry;Etienne Steurbaut;William A. Berggren;William A. Berggren

  • Turnover of larger foraminifera during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and paleoclimatic control on the evolution of platform ecosystems

    C. Scheibner;R.P. Speijer;A.M. Marzouk

  • Sea-level changes and black shales associated with the late Paleocene thermal maximum: Organic-geochemical and micropaleontologic evidence from the southern Tethyan margin (Egypt-Israel)

    Robert P. Speijer;Thomas Wagner

  • High-resolution iridium, δ13C, δ18O, foraminifera and nannofossil profiles across the latest Paleocene benthic extinction event at Zumaya, Spain

    Birger Schmitz;Frank Asaro;Eustoquio Molina;Simonetta Monechi

  • Barium, SiO2 (excess), and P2O5 as proxies of biological productivity in the Middle East during the Palaeocene and the latest Palaeocene benthic extinction event

    Birger Schmitz;Stella D. Charisi;Elisabet I. Thompson;Robert P. Speijer

  • The impact of Paleocene/Eocene boundary events on middle neritic benthic foraminiferal assemblages from Egypt

    R.P. Speijer;G.J. Van Der Zwaan;B. Schmitz

  • Environmental perturbation in the southern Tethys across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary (Dababiya, Egypt): Foraminiferal and clay mineral records

    Sander R. Ernst;Elisa Guasti;Christian Dupuis;Robert P. Speijer

  • The Global Stratotype Sections and Points for the bases of the Selandian (Middle Paleocene) and Thanetian (Upper Paleocene) stages at Zumaia, Spain

    Birger Schmitz;Victoriano Pujalte;Eustoquio Molina;Simonetta Monechi

  • The Paleogene Period

    Unknown

  • The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-P) boundary at Brazos, Texas: Sequence stratigraphy, depositional events and the Chicxulub impact

    Peter Schulte;Robert Speijer;Hartmut Mai;Agnes Kontny

  • Paleocene sea-level and productivity changes at the southern Tethyan margin (El Kef, Tunisia)

    Elisa Guasti;Tanja J. Kouwenhoven;Henk Brinkhuis;Robert P. Speijer

  • BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL EXTINCTION AND REPOPULATION IN RESPONSE TO LATEST PALEOCENE TETHYAN ANOXIA

    Robert P. Speijer;Birger Schmitz;Gijsbert J. van der Zwaan

  • Response of marine ecosystems to deep-time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM)

    Robert Speijer;Christian Scheibner;Peter Stassen;Abdel-Mohsen M Morsi

  • Latest Paleocene benthic extinction event on the southern Tethyan shelf (Egypt): Foraminiferal stable isotopic (δ13C, δ18O) records

    B Schmitz;Robert Speijer;MP Aubry

  • Extinction and survivorship of southern Tethyan Benthic foraminifera across the Cretaceous/Palaeogene boundary

    Robert Speijer;GJ van der Zwaan

  • Ostracode turnover and sea-level changes associated with the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

    Robert P. Speijer;Abdel-Mohsen M. Morsi

Frequent Co-Authors

André Bornemann
André Bornemann Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
Philippe Claeys
Philippe Claeys Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ellen Thomas
Ellen Thomas Yale University
Richard D. Norris
Richard D. Norris University of California, San Diego
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen
Kenneth A. Farley
Kenneth A. Farley California Institute of Technology
Birger Schmitz
Birger Schmitz Lund University
Henk Brinkhuis
Henk Brinkhuis Utrecht University
Veerle Cnudde
Veerle Cnudde Utrecht University
Appy Sluijs
Appy Sluijs Utrecht University

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