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Stefano M. Bernasconi

Stefano M. Bernasconi

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Earth Science
Switzerland
2026

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Earth Science

D-Index
90
Citations
27343
World Ranking
269
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Stefano M. Bernasconi is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus centered predominantly on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Paleontology, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their main topics of study cover a broad range of geoscientific and environmental themes such as:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis

Bernasconi's notable recent publications include:

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards, 2021, published in Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5-1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization, 2021, published in Geophysical Research Letters
  • Biodegradation of poly(butylene succinate) in soil laboratory incubations assessed by stable carbon isotope labelling, 2022, published in Nature Communications
  • Cenozoic evolution of deep ocean temperature from clumped isotope thermometry, 2022, published in Science
  • Calibration of the dual clumped isotope thermometer for carbonates, 2021, published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Frequent collaborators in their research include Madalina Jaggi, Nathan Looser, Gretchen L. Früh-Green, Mark A. Lever, and Álvaro Fernández.

Bernasconi has published extensively across multiple venues with the highest numbers of publications found in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Goldschmidt2021 abstracts
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

This scientist's body of work provides significant contributions to isotope geochemistry and environmental processes, advancing understanding in clumped isotope thermometry and its applications in paleoclimatic reconstructions and ecological studies.

Best Publications

  • A Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystem: The Lost City Hydrothermal Field

    Deborah S. Kelley;Jeffrey A. Karson;Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Dana R. Yoerger

  • Preservation of organic matter and alteration of its carbon and nitrogen isotope composition during simulated and in situ early sedimentary diagenesis

    Moritz F Lehmann;Stefano M Bernasconi;Alberto Barbieri;Judith A McKenzie

  • Microbial mediation as a possible mechanism for natural dolomite formation at low temperatures

    Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie;Stefano Bernasconi;Djordje Grujic

  • A revised isotope fractionation model for dissimilatory sulfate reduction in sulfate reducing bacteria

    Benjamin Brunner;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Temperature and salinity variations of Mediterranean Sea surface waters over the last 16,000 years from records of planktonic stable oxygen isotopes and alkenone unsaturation ratios

    Kay-Christian Emeis;Ulrich Struck;Hans-Martin Schulz;Reinhild Rosenberg

  • 30,000 Years of Hydrothermal Activity at the Lost City Vent Field

    Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Deborah S. Kelley;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Jeffrey A. Karson

  • Calibration of the δ18O paleothermometer for dolomite precipitated in microbial cultures and natural environments

    Crisogono Vasconcelos;Judith A. McKenzie;Rolf Warthmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Dolomite formation within microbial mats in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

    Tomaso R. R. Bontognali;Crisógono Vasconcelos;Rolf J. Warthmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Hypersulfidic deep biosphere indicates extreme sulfur isotope fractionation during single-step microbial sulfate reduction

    Ulrich G. Wortmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Michael E. Böttcher

  • The record of nitrate utilization and productivity limitation provided by δ15N values in lake organic matter—A study of sediment trap and core sediments from Baldeggersee, Switzerland

    Jane L. Teranes;Stefano M. Bernasconi

  • Reducing Uncertainties in Carbonate Clumped Isotope Analysis Through Consistent Carbonate-Based Standardization

    Stefano M. Bernasconi;Inigo A. Müller;Kristin D. Bergmann;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach;Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach

  • InterCarb: A Community Effort to Improve Interlaboratory Standardization of the Carbonate Clumped Isotope Thermometer Using Carbonate Standards.

    S. M. Bernasconi;M. Daëron;K. D. Bergmann;M. Bonifacie

  • 100,000 Years of African monsoon variability recorded in sediments of the Nile margin

    Marie Revel;E. Ducassou;F. E. Grousset;S. M. Bernasconi

  • A Unified Clumped Isotope Thermometer Calibration (0.5–1,100°C) Using Carbonate-Based Standardization

    Noah Anderson;J R Kelson;S Kele;M Daëron

  • Temperature dependence of oxygen- and clumped isotope fractionation in carbonates: A study of travertines and tufas in the 6-95 °C temperature range

    Sándor Kele;Sándor Kele;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Sebastian F.M. Breitenbach;Enrico Capezzuoli;A. Nele Meckler

  • A model for oxygen and sulfur isotope fractionation in sulfate during bacterial sulfate reduction processes

    Benjamin Brunner;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Jutta Kleikemper;Martin H. Schroth

  • The role of serpentinites in cycling of carbon and sulfur: Seafloor serpentinization and subduction metamorphism

    Jeffrey C. Alt;Esther M. Schwarzenbach;Gretchen L. Früh-Green;Wayne C. Shanks

  • Tethyan magnetostratigraphy from Pizzo Mondello (Sicily) and correlation to the Late Triassic Newark astrochronological polarity time scale

    Giovanni Muttoni;Dennis V. Kent;Paul E. Olsen;Piero Di Stefano

  • Bacterial, archaeal and fungal succession in the forefield of a receding glacier.

    Anita Zumsteg;Joerg Luster;Hans Göransson;Hans Göransson;Rienk H. Smittenberg;Rienk H. Smittenberg

  • Seasonal variation of the δC and δN of particulate and dissolved carbon and nitrogen in Lake Lugano: Constraints on biogeochemical cycling in a eutrophic lake

    Moritz F. Lehmann;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Judith A. McKenzie;Alberto Barbieri

  • Modelling nitrogen and oxygen isotope fractionation during denitrification in a lacustrine redox-transition zone

    Moritz F. Lehmann;Peter Reichert;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Alberto Barbieri

  • A volcanic CO2 pulse triggered the Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and a biocalcification crisis

    Sabine Méhay;Christina E. Keller;Stefano M. Bernasconi;Helmut Weissert

  • Activity and Diversity of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Petroleum Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Aquifer

    Jutta Kleikemper;Martin H. Schroth;William V. Sigler;Martina Schmucki

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter A. Hochuli
Peter A. Hochuli University of Zurich
Benjamin Brunner
Benjamin Brunner The University of Texas at El Paso
Martin Ziegler
Martin Ziegler Utrecht University
Gert J. de Lange
Gert J. de Lange Utrecht University
Rienk H. Smittenberg
Rienk H. Smittenberg Stockholm University

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