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Stephen Louwye

Stephen Louwye

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Earth Science

D-Index
32
Citations
3474
World Ranking
8738
National Ranking
62

Overview

Stephen Louwye is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to this field with a focus on several subfields including Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, Ecology, and Oceanography.

Their research covers a range of topics primarily centered on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological formations and processes, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine and coastal ecosystems, Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena, Geological and Geophysical Studies Worldwide, and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology.

Stephen Louwye's publication record includes significant papers such as:

  • The Pliocene Lillo, Poederlee, Merksplas, Mol and Kieseloolite Formations in northern Belgium: a synthesis, 2020, Geologica Belgica
  • A review of the lower and middle Miocene of northern Belgium, 2020, Geologica Belgica

Additional notable papers by colleagues in related work include:

  • The internal division of the Pliocene Lillo Formation: correlation between Cone Penetration Tests and lithostratigraphic type sections, 2020, Geologica Belgica
  • Middle Miocene Temperature and Productivity Evolution at a Northeast Atlantic Shelf Site (IODP U1318, Porcupine Basin): Global and Regional Changes, 2021, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • The upper Miocene Deurne Member of the Diest Formation revisited: unexpected results from the study of a large temporary outcrop near Antwerp International Airport, Belgium, 2020, Geologica Belgica

Stephen Louwye frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Jef Deckers, Stefan Schouten, Noël Vandenberghe, Francesca Sangiorgi, and Willemijn Quaijtaal, reflecting a network of active scholarly cooperation.

The main venues for their publications include Geologica Belgica, Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research), Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Marine Micropaleontology, and Applied Spectroscopy.

Best Publications

  • Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia

    Carlos Jaramillo;Ingrid Romero;Ingrid Romero;Carlos D’Apolito;Carlos D’Apolito;German Bayona

  • Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: the Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Koen Verhoeven;Thomas Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments: Investigating its potential as salinity proxy

    Kenneth N. Mertens;Sofia Ribeiro;Sofia Ribeiro;Ilham Bouimetarhan;Hulya Caner

  • Northern Hemisphere Glaciation during the Globally Warm Early Late Pliocene

    Stijn De Schepper;Stijn De Schepper;Jeroen Groeneveld;B. David A Naafs;Cédéric Van Renterghem

  • Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Pliocene in northern Belgium, southern North Sea Basin

    Stephen Louwye;Martin J. Head;Stijn De Schepper

  • Paleogene and Neogene lithostratigraphic units (Belgium)

    Pieter Laga;Stephen Louwye;Stéphane Geets

  • Dinoflagellate Cysts from the Cretaceous—Paleogene Boundary at Ouled Haddou, Southeastern Rif, Morocco: Biostratigraphy, Paleoenvironments and Paleobiogeography

    Hamid Slimani;Stephen Louwye;Abdelkabir Toufiq

  • Pliocene dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy, palaeoecology and sequence stratigraphy of the Tunnel-Canal Dock, Belgium

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head;Stephen Louwye

  • Process length variation in cysts of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum, from surface sediments of the Baltic–Kattegat–Skagerrak estuarine system: a regional salinity proxy

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Barrie Dale;Marianne Ellegaard;Ida-Maria Jansson

  • The Upper Miocene of the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium): a palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphical reconstruction using dinoflagellate cysts

    Stephen Louwye;Stijn De Schepper;Pieter Laga;Noël Vandenberghe

  • Shallow marine Lower and Middle Miocene deposits at the southern margin of the North Sea Basin (northern Belgium): dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy and depositional history

    S. Louwye;J. De Coninck;J. Verniers

  • The Miocene–Pliocene hiatus in the southern North Sea Basin (northern Belgium) revealed by dinoflagellate cysts

    Stephen Louwye;Stijn De Schepper

  • Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the North Pacific and Baltic-Skagerrak region: calibration as an annual density proxy and first evidence of pseudo-cryptic speciation

    Kenneth Neil Mertens;Manuel Bringué;Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove;Yoshihito Takano

  • A new age model for the Pliocene–Pleistocene Tjörnes section on Iceland: Its implication for the timing of North Atlantic–Pacific palaeoceanographic pathways

    Koen Verhoeven;Stephen Louwye;Jón Eiríksson;Stijn De Schepper

  • Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoecology of the Lower and Middle Miocene of the Porcupine Basin

    Stephen Louwye;Anneleen Foubert;Kenneth Mertens;David van Rooij

  • Holocene Salinity Changes in the Southwestern Black Sea: A Reconstruction Based on Dinoflagellate Cysts

    Thomas J. Verleye;Kenneth N. Mertens;Stephen Louwye;Helge W. Arz

  • Dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the marginal marine Middle and Upper Miocene of the eastern Campine area, northern Belgium (southern North Sea Basin)

    Stephen Louwye;Pieter Laga

  • Late Quaternary environmental changes and latitudinal shifts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from offshore Chile (41 S)

    Thomas J. Verleye;Stephen Louwye

  • Dinoflagellate cyst biostratigraphy of the Upper Miocene Deurne Sands (Diest Formation) of northern Belgium, southern North Sea Basin

    Stephen Louwye

  • NEW DINOFLAGELLATE CYST AND INCERTAE SEDIS TAXA FROM THE PLIOCENE OF NORTHERN BELGIUM, SOUTHERN NORTH SEA BASIN

    Stijn De Schepper;Martin J. Head;Stephen Louwye

  • Characterising the middle Miocene Mi-events in the Eastern North Atlantic realm: a first high-resolution marine palynological record from the Porcupine Basin

    Willemijn Quaijtaal;Timme H. Donders;Davide Persico;Stephen Louwye

Frequent Co-Authors

Vera Pospelova
Vera Pospelova University of Victoria
Stijn De Schepper
Stijn De Schepper NORCE Research
Francesca Sangiorgi
Francesca Sangiorgi Utrecht University
Martin J. Head
Martin J. Head Brock University
Anne de Vernal
Anne de Vernal University of Quebec at Montreal
André Rochon
André Rochon Université du Québec à Rimouski
Fabienne Marret
Fabienne Marret University of Liverpool
Jeroen Groeneveld
Jeroen Groeneveld University of Bremen
James B. Riding
James B. Riding British Geological Survey
Jens Matthiessen
Jens Matthiessen Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research

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