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Stephen J. Gallagher

Stephen J. Gallagher

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
4042
World Ranking
7014
National Ranking
346

Overview

Stephen J. Gallagher is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research primarily falls within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with significant contributions also spanning several subfields such as Environmental Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, Geophysics, Ocean Engineering, and Geology.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Seismic Imaging and Inversion Techniques
  • Reservoir Engineering and Simulation Methods
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geological formations and processes

Among recent research publications are:

  • Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, 2020, Geology
  • Retracted: Plio-Pleistocene Indonesian Throughflow Variability Drove Eastern Indian Ocean Sea Surface Temperatures, 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • Dating the Northwest Shelf of Australia Since the Pliocene, 2021, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems
  • Palynological-age determination of Early Cretaceous vertebrate-bearing beds along the south Victorian coast of Australia, with implications for the spore-pollen biostratigraphy of the region, 2020, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • Surface-circulation change in the southwest Pacific Ocean across the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum: inferences from dinoflagellate cysts and biomarker paleothermometry, 2020, Climate of the past

Stephen J. Gallagher has frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • David De Vleeschouwer
  • Jeroen Groeneveld
  • Gerald Auer
  • Lars Reuning
  • Beth A. Christensen

Their research outputs are published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)
  • Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

Best Publications

  • The Pliocene to recent history of the Kuroshio and Tsushima Currents: a multi-proxy approach

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Akihisa Kitamura;Yasufumi Iryu;Takuya Itaki

  • Cenozoic stratigraphic succession in southeastern Australia

    B. McGOWRAN;G. R. Holdgate;Q. Li;S. J. Gallagher

  • Origin and Timing of the Miocene-Pliocene Unconformity in Southeast Australia

    Julie A. Dickinson;Malcolm W. Wallace;Guy R. Holdgate;Stephen J. Gallagher

  • A near-field sea level record of East Antarctic Ice Sheet instability from 32 to 27 Myr

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Giuliana Villa;Russell N. Drysdale;Bridget S. Wade

  • Neogene history of the West Pacific Warm Pool, Kuroshio and Leeuwin currents

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Malcolm W. Wallace;Chung Leong Li;Belinda Kinna

  • Australian shelf sediments reveal shifts in Miocene Southern Hemisphere westerlies

    Jeroen Groeneveld;Jorijntje Henderiks;Willem Renema;Cecilia M. McHugh

  • Indonesian throughflow drove Australian climate from humid pliocene to arid pleistocene

    Beth A. Christensen;Willem Renema;Jorijntje Henderiks;David De Vleeschouwer

  • Timing and Pacing of Indonesian Throughflow Restriction and Its Connection to Late Pliocene Climate Shifts

    Gerald Auer;David De Vleeschouwer;Rebecca A. Smith;Kara Bogus;Kara Bogus

  • The Pliocene climatic and environmental evolution of southeastern Australia: evidence from the marine and terrestrial realm

    S.J Gallagher;D.R Greenwood;D Taylor;A.J Smith

  • Eocene-Miocene carbon-isotope and floral record from brown coal seams in the Gippsland Basin of southeast Australia

    Guy R. Holdgate;Brian McGowran;Tom Fromhold;Barbara E. Wagstaff

  • NEOGENE TECTONICS IN SE AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PETROLEUM SYSTEMS

    J.A. Dickinson;M.W. Wallace;G.R. Holdgate;J. Daniels

  • Controls on the distribution of calcareous Foraminifera in the Lower Carboniferous of Ireland

    Stephen J Gallagher

  • The Miocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoceanographic evolution of the Gippsland Basin, Southeast Australia: a record of Southern Ocean change

    S.J Gallagher;A.J Smith;K Jonasson;M.W Wallace

  • No mountains to snow on: major post-Eocene uplift of the East Victoria Highlands; evidence from Cenozoic deposits

    G. R. Holdgate;M. W. Wallace;S. J. Gallagher;B. E. Wagstaff

  • Cheirolepidiacean foliage and pollen from Cretaceous high-latitudes of southeastern Australia

    Anne-Marie P. Tosolini;Stephen McLoughlin;Stephen McLoughlin;Barbara E. Wagstaff;David J. Cantrill

  • Integrated tephrostratigraphy and stable isotope stratigraphy in the Japan Sea and East China Sea using IODP Sites U1426, U1427, and U1429, Expedition 346 Asian Monsoon

    Takuya Sagawa;Yoshitaka Nagahashi;Yasufumi Satoguchi;Ann Holbourn

  • The stratigraphy and cyclicity of the late Dinantian platform carbonates in parts of southern and western Ireland

    Stephen J. Gallagher

  • Middle to Upper Eocene stratigraphic nomenclature and deposition in the Eucla Basin

    Jonathan D. A. Clarke;Paul R. Gammon;B. Hou;Stephen J. Gallagher

  • The palaeogeographic and palaeoenvironmental evolution of a Palaeogene mixed carbonate–siliciclastic cool-water succession in the Otway Basin, Southeast Australia

    S.J Gallagher;G Holdgate

  • High-resolution and high-precision correlation of dark and light layers in the Quaternary hemipelagic sediments of the Japan Sea recovered during IODP Expedition 346

    Ryuji Tada;Tomohisa Irino;Ken Ikehara;Akinori Karasuda

  • Late Dinantian (Lower Carboniferous) platform carbonate stratigraphy of the Buttevant area North Co. Cork, Ireland

    Stephen J. Gallagher;Ian D. Somerville

  • Rapid expansion of meso-megathermal rain forests into the southern high latitudes at the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

    E.P. Huurdeman;J. Frieling;T. Reichgelt;P.K. Bijl

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm W. Wallace
Malcolm W. Wallace University of Melbourne
David De Vleeschouwer
David De Vleeschouwer Münster University of Applied Sciences
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen
Peter K Bijl
Peter K Bijl Utrecht University
Jörg Pross
Jörg Pross Heidelberg University
Jorijntje Henderiks
Jorijntje Henderiks Uppsala University
Willem Renema
Willem Renema Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Brian McGowran
Brian McGowran University of Adelaide
Ryuji Tada
Ryuji Tada University of Tokyo
Francien Peterse
Francien Peterse Utrecht University

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