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Stefan Wastegård

Stefan Wastegård

Stefan Wastegård publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefan Wastegård sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Stefan Wastegård D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Stefan Wastegård sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Stefan Wastegård is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Anthropology, Environmental Chemistry, and Earth-Surface Processes.

The primary topics of Wastegård's work include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Marine and environmental studies

Wastegård has published in a range of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Quaternary Geochronology
  • GFF
  • Boreas
  • Quaternary Science Reviews

Notable recent papers include:

  • The Holocene of Sweden - a review, 2022, GFF
  • A dated volcano-tectonic deformation event in Jan Mayen causing landlocking of Arctic charr, 2021, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Hekla 1947, 1845, 1510 and 1158 tephra in Finland: challenges of tracing tephra from moderate eruptions, 2020, Journal of Quaternary Science
  • Palaeolake sediment records reveal a mid- to late Younger Dryas ice-sheet maximum in Mid-Norway, 2021, Boreas
  • Holocene wet shifts in NW European bogs: evidence for the roles of external forcing and internal feedback from a high-resolution study of peat properties, plant macrofossils and testate amoebae, 2022, Journal of Quaternary Science

Frequent collaborators in Wastegård's research include:

  • Eiliv Larsen
  • Astrid Lyså
  • Simon A. Larsson
  • Maarit Kalliokoski
  • Esther R. Guðmundsdóttir

Best Publications

  • Integrating the INTIMATE records using tephrochronology rising to the challenge

    Siwan M. Davies;Peter M. Abbott;Nicholas J. G. Pearce;Stefan Wastegård

  • Tephrochronology of last termination sequences in Europe: a protocol for improved analytical precision and robust correlation procedures (a joint SCOTAV-INTIMATE proposal)

    Chris S.M. Turney;J. John Lowe;Siwan M. Davies;Valerie Hall

  • Early to middle Holocene silicic tephra horizons from the Katla volcanic system, Iceland: new results from the Faroe Islands

    Stefan Wastegård

  • Widespread dispersal of Icelandic tephra: how does the Eyjafjöll eruption of 2010 compare to past Icelandic events?

    Siwan M. Davies;Gudrun Larsen;Stefan Wastegard;Chris S. M. Turney

  • Extending the known distribution of the Younger Dryas Vedde Ash into northwestern Russia

    Stefan Wastegård;Barbara Wohlfarth;Dmitry A. Subetto;Tatyana V. Sapelko

  • Recommendations for using XRF core scanning as a tool in tephrochronology

    Malin E. Kylander;Ewa M. Lind;Stefan Wastegård;Ludvig Löwemark

  • Luminescence dating of the PASADO core 5022-1D from Laguna Potrok Aike (Argentina) using IRSL signals from feldspar

    Jan-Pieter Buylaert;A.S. Murray;A.C. Gebhardt;Reza Sohbati

  • Evidence for the occurrence of Vedde Ash in Sweden: radiocarbon and calendar age estimates

    Stefan Wastegård;Stefan Wastegård;Svante Björck;Göran Possnert;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • The Mjáuvøtn tephra and other Holocene tephra horizons from the Faroe Islands: a link between the Icelandic source region, the Nordic Seas, and the European continent:

    Stefan Wastegård;Svante Björck;Marianne Grauert;Gina E. Hannon

  • Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods

    Barbara Wohlfarth;Maarten Blaauw;Siwan Davies;Mamite Andersson

  • Extending the limits of the Borrobol Tephra to Scandinavia and detection of new early Holocene tephras

    Siwan M. Davies;Stefan Wastegård;Barbara Wohlfarth

  • Calendar year ages of three mid-Holocene tephra layers identified in varved lake sediments in west central Sweden

    Lovisa M Zillén;Stefan Wastegård;Ian F Snowball

  • North European last glacial–interglacial transition (LGIT; 15–9 ka) tephrochronology: extended limits and new events

    C. S. M. Turney;K. Van Den Burg;S. Wastegård;S. M. Davies

  • Climate and environment on the Karelian Isthmus, northwestern Russia, 13000-9000 cal. yrs BP

    Dmitry A. Subetto;Barbara Wohlfarth;Natalya N. Davydova;Tatyana V. Sapelko

  • An overview of distal tephrochronology in northern Europe during the last 1000 years

    Stefan Wastegård;Siwan M. Davies

  • Tracing volcanic events in the NGRIP ice-core and synchronising North Atlantic marine records during the last glacial period

    Siwan M. Davies;Stefan Wastegård;P.M. Abbott;C. Barbante

  • Were there two Borrobol Tephras during the early Lateglacial period: implications for tephrochronology?

    Siwan M. Davies;Siwan M. Davies;Barbara Wohlfarth;Stefan Wastegård;Mamite Andersson

  • Late Quaternary tephrochronology of Sweden: a review

    Stefan Wastegård

  • Late warming and early cooling of the sea surface in the Nordic seas during MIS 5e (Eemian Interglacial)

    Tine L. Rasmussen;Erik Thomsen;Antoon Kuijpers;Stefan Wastegård

  • Climate oscillations and tephrochronology in eastern middle Sweden during the last glacial–interglacial transition

    Jonas Björck;Stefan Wastegård

  • Holocene tephra horizons at Klocka Bog, west-central Sweden: aspects of reproducibility in subarctic peat deposits

    Jonas Bergman;Stefan Wastegård;Dan Hammarlund;Barbara Wohlfarth

Frequent Co-Authors

Siwan M. Davies
Siwan M. Davies Swansea University
Barbara Wohlfarth
Barbara Wohlfarth Stockholm University
Tine L. Rasmussen
Tine L. Rasmussen University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Christian Ohlendorf
Christian Ohlendorf University of Bremen
Bernd Zolitschka
Bernd Zolitschka University of Bremen
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Göran Possnert
Göran Possnert Uppsala University
William E. N. Austin
William E. N. Austin University of St Andrews
Svante Björck
Svante Björck Lund University

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