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Simon T. Belt is a researcher affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their work covers several domains within Earth and Environmental Sciences, focusing predominantly on topics related to atmospheric science, environmental chemistry, oceanography, and planetary change.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these disciplines, Simon T. Belt's subfields of expertise extend to:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology

The primary research topics they explore are:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Simon T. Belt has contributed to multiple scholarly articles, some of which include:

  • Group 2i Isochrysidales produce characteristic alkenones reflecting sea ice distribution, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Antiphased dust deposition and productivity in the Antarctic Zone over 1.5 million years, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Resolving sea ice dynamics in the north-western Ross Sea during the last 2.6 ka: From seasonal to millennial timescales, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Multiple Trophic Markers Trace Dietary Carbon Sources in Barents Sea Zooplankton During Late Summer, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Reduced Arctic sea ice extent during the mid-Pliocene Warm Period concurrent with increased Atlantic-climate regime, 2020, Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The frequent co-authors working alongside Simon T. Belt include:

  • Lukas Smik
  • Francesco Muschitiello
  • Tommaso Tesi
  • Lucilla Capotondi
  • Alessio Nogarotto

Simon T. Belt's research is regularly published in a range of scientific journals and publication venues, such as:

  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Organic Geochemistry
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • A novel chemical fossil of palaeo sea ice: IP25

    Simon T. Belt;Guillaume Massé;Steven J. Rowland;Michel Poulin

  • The Rise of the Rhizosolenid Diatoms

    Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté;Gerard Muyzer;Ben Abbas;Sebastiaan W. Rampen

  • Abrupt climate changes for Iceland during the last millennium: evidence from high resolution sea ice reconstructions

    Guillaume Massé;Steven J. Rowland;Marie Alexandrine Sicre;Jérémy Jacob

  • The Arctic sea ice biomarker IP25: a review of current understanding, recommendations for future research and applications in palaeo sea ice reconstructions

    Simon T. Belt;Juliane Müller

  • Variability of sea-ice conditions in the Fram Strait over the past 30,000 years

    Juliane Müller;Guillaume Massé;Guillaume Massé;Rüdiger Stein;Simon T. Belt

  • Highly branched isoprenoids (HBIs): identification of the most common and abundant sedimentary isomers

    Simon T Belt;W.Guy Allard;Guillaume Massé;Guillaume Massé;Jean-Michel Robert

  • Source identification of the Arctic sea ice proxy IP25.

    Thomas Adam Brown;Simon T. Belt;Agnieszka Tatarek;Christopher Mundy

  • Source-specific biomarkers as proxies for Arctic and Antarctic sea ice

    Simon T. Belt

  • Sea ice variations in the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the Holocene

    Lindsay L. Vare;Guillaume Massé;Thomas R. Gregory;Christopher W. Smart

  • A reproducible method for the extraction, identification and quantification of the Arctic sea ice proxy IP25 from marine sediments

    Simon T. Belt;Thomas A. Brown;Alba Navarro Rodriguez;Patricia Cabedo Sanz

  • The emergence of modern sea ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

    Jochen Knies;Patricia Cabedo-Sanz;Simon T. Belt;Soma Baranwal

  • Temporal and vertical variations of lipid biomarkers during a bottom ice diatom bloom in the Canadian Beaufort Sea: further evidence for the use of the IP25 biomarker as a proxy for spring Arctic sea ice

    Thomas A. Brown;Simon T. Belt;Benoît Philippe;Christopher J. Mundy

  • Identification of paleo Arctic winter sea ice limits and the marginal ice zone: Optimised biomarker-based reconstructions of late Quaternary Arctic sea ice

    Simon T. Belt;Patricia Cabedo-Sanz;Lukas Smik;Alba Navarro-Rodriguez

  • Identification of contrasting seasonal sea ice conditions during the Younger Dryas

    Patricia Cabedo-Sanz;Simon T. Belt;Jochen Knies;Katrine Husum

  • Highly branched isoprenoids as proxies for variable sea ice conditions in the Southern Ocean

    Guillaume Massé;Simon T. Belt;Xavier Crosta;Sabine Schmidt

  • Effects of Alkyl Chain Branching on the Biotransformation of Naphthenic Acids

    Benjamin E. Smith;C. Anthony Lewis;Simon T. Belt;Corinne Whitby

  • Striking similarities in temporal changes to spring sea ice occurrence across the central Canadian Arctic Archipelago over the last 7000 years

    Simon T. Belt;Lindsay L. Vare;Guillaume Massé;Guillaume Massé;Hayley R. Manners

  • Semi-quantitative estimates of paleo Arctic sea ice concentration based on source-specific highly branched isoprenoid alkenes: A further development of the PIP25 index

    Lukas Smik;Patricia Cabedo-Sanz;Simon T. Belt

  • Quantitative measurement of the sea ice diatom biomarker IP25 and sterols in Arctic sea ice and underlying sediments: Further considerations for palaeo sea ice reconstruction

    Simon T. Belt;Thomas A. Brown;Ashleigh E. Ringrose;Patricia Cabedo-Sanz

  • Variability in drift ice export from the Arctic Ocean to the North Icelandic Shelf over the last 8000 years: A multi-proxy evaluation

    Patricia Cabedo-Sanz;Simon T. Belt;Anne E. Jennings;John T. Andrews

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Massé
Guillaume Massé Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Steven J. Rowland
Steven J. Rowland Plymouth University
John T. Andrews
John T. Andrews University of Colorado Boulder
Jochen Knies
Jochen Knies University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Katrine Husum
Katrine Husum Norwegian Polar Institute
Dennis A. Darby
Dennis A. Darby Old Dominion University
Robin N. Perutz
Robin N. Perutz University of York
Anne E. Jennings
Anne E. Jennings University of Colorado Boulder
Axel Timmermann
Axel Timmermann Pusan National University
Michel Gosselin
Michel Gosselin Université du Québec à Rimouski

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