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Overview

Stephen Barker is affiliated with Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplinary fields with a focus on environmental chemistry, atmospheric science, and earth-surface processes. They also contribute significantly to astronomy and astrophysics, as well as molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers a broad range of main research topics including methane hydrates and related phenomena, geology and paleoclimatology research, astro and planetary science, geomagnetism and paleomagnetism studies, geological formations and processes, solar and space plasma dynamics, and cryospheric studies and observations.

Stephen Barker has published research in several academic venues. The most frequent include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Nature Geoscience

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Barker are:

  • Climate tipping point interactions and cascades: a review, 2024, Earth System Dynamics
  • Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability, 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • Millennial scale feedbacks determine the shape and rapidity of glacial termination, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Persistent influence of precession on northern ice sheet variability since the early Pleistocene, 2022, Science
  • Antarctic icebergs reorganize ocean circulation during Pleistocene glacials, 2021, Nature

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated extensively with Stephen Barker include:

  • I.R. Hall
  • Sidney R. Hemming
  • J.J.L. van der Lubbe
  • Leah J. LeVay
  • F.J. Jiménez-Espejo

Barker's research contributions primarily focus on understanding complex climate processes and Earth's historical climate variability, often utilizing interdisciplinary approaches that combine environmental chemistry, atmospheric observations, and paleoclimatic data interpretation. Their work on methane hydrates connects biochemical and geological perspectives, contributing to the understanding of climate feedback mechanisms.

Their publications in highly recognized scientific journals reflect engagement with diverse topics such as the influence of astronomical cycles on climate variability, glacial terminations, and ocean circulation patterns during past climatic periods.

Best Publications

  • The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification

    Bärbel Hönisch;Andy Ridgwell;Daniela N. Schmidt;Ellen Thomas;Ellen Thomas

  • A study of cleaning procedures used for foraminiferal Mg/Ca paleothermometry

    Stephen Barker;M. Greaves;Henry Elderfield

  • Interhemispheric Atlantic seesaw response during the last deglaciation.

    Stephen Barker;Paula Diz;Maryline J. Vautravers;Jennifer Pike

  • Ventilation of the Deep Southern Ocean and Deglacial CO2 Rise

    Luke C. Skinner;Stewart J. Fallon;C. Waelbroeck;Elisabeth Michel

  • Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum

    C. Waelbroeck;A. Paul;M. Kucera;A. Rosell-Melé

  • 800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability

    Stephen Barker;Gregor Knorr;R. Lawrence Edwards;Frédéric Parrenin

  • Foraminiferal Calcification Response to Glacial-Interglacial Changes in Atmospheric CO2

    Stephen Barker;Henry Elderfield

  • Planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca as a proxy for past oceanic temperatures: a methodological overview and data compilation for the Last Glacial Maximum

    Stephen Barker;Isabel Cacho;Heather Benway;Kazuyo Tachikawa

  • Beyond the bipolar seesaw: toward a process understanding of interhemispheric coupling

    Joel B. Pedro;Markus Jochum;Christo Buizert;Feng He;Feng He

  • Icebergs not the trigger for North Atlantic cold events

    Stephen Barker;James Chen;Xun Gong;Lukas Jonkers

  • Interlaboratory comparison study of Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca measurements in planktonic foraminifera for paleoceanographic research

    Yair Rosenthal;Suzanne Perron‐Cashman;Caroline H. Lear;Edouard Bard

  • Development of Middle Stone Age innovation linked to rapid climate change

    Martin Ziegler;Margit H. Simon;Ian Robert Hall;Stephen Barker

  • A 190‰ drop in atmosphere's Δ14C during the “Mystery Interval” (17.5 to 14.5 kyr)

    Wallace Broecker;Stephen Barker

  • The Deglacial Evolution of North Atlantic Deep Convection

    David J. R. Thornalley;David J. R. Thornalley;Stephen Barker;Wallace S. Broecker;Henry Elderfield

  • Abrupt North Atlantic circulation changes in response to gradual CO2 forcing in a glacial climate state

    Xu Zhang;Gregor Knorr;Gregor Knorr;Gerrit Lohmann;Gerrit Lohmann;Stephen Barker

  • Coccolith chemistry reveals secular variations in the global ocean carbon cycle

    R. E. M. Rickaby;E. Bard;C. Sonzogni;F. Rostek

  • A record of bottom water temperature and seawater δ18O for the Southern Ocean over the past 440 kyr based on Mg/Ca of benthic foraminiferal Uvigerina spp

    H. Elderfield;M. Greaves;Stephen Barker;Ian Robert Hall

  • Solar forcing of North Atlantic surface temperature and salinity over the past millennium

    Paola Moffa-Sánchez;Andreas Born;Andreas Born;Ian R. Hall;David J. R. Thornalley;David J. R. Thornalley

  • Extreme deepening of the Atlantic overturning circulation during deglaciation

    Stephen Barker;Gregor Knorr;Maryline J. Vautravers;Maryline J. Vautravers;Paula Diz;Paula Diz

  • The future of the carbon cycle: review, calcification response, ballast and feedback on atmospheric CO2

    Stephen Barker;J. A. Higgins;H. Elderfield

  • Temperature dependency of metabolic rates in the upper ocean: A positive feedback to global climate change?

    Flavia Boscolo-Galazzo;Katherine A. Crichton;Stephen Barker;Paul N. Pearson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gregor Knorr
Gregor Knorr Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Ian Hall
Ian Hall Griffith University
Henry Elderfield
Henry Elderfield University of Cambridge
Wallace S. Broecker
Wallace S. Broecker Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Sidney R. Hemming
Sidney R. Hemming Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Martin Ziegler
Martin Ziegler Utrecht University
Robert F. Anderson
Robert F. Anderson Columbia University
Andy Ridgwell
Andy Ridgwell University of California, Riverside
Mervyn Greaves
Mervyn Greaves University of Cambridge
Gerrit Lohmann
Gerrit Lohmann University of Bremen

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