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Torsten Haberzettl is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany. Their research spans multiple domains within Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a pronounced focus on Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, Anthropology, and Ecology.

The primary fields of study for their research are:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their work covers a variety of subfields including:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Earth-Surface Processes
  • Oceanography
  • Anthropology
  • Ecology

Haberzettl's main research topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Geological Studies and Exploration
  • Heavy metals in environment

Some of their recent publications are:

  • "Seasonal stratification of a deep, high-altitude, dimictic lake: Nam Co, Tibetan Plateau" (2020), published in Journal of Hydrology
  • "Precipitation dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau during the Late Quaternary - Hydroclimatic sedimentary proxies versus lake level variability" (2021), published in Global and Planetary Change
  • "The potential of δ2H-alkanes and δ18Osugar for paleoclimate reconstruction - A regional calibration study for South Africa" (2020), published in The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Reconstructing Late Quaternary precipitation and its source on the southern Cape coast of South Africa: A multi-proxy paleoenvironmental record from Vankervelsvlei" (2022), published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Föhn, fire and grazing in Southern Tibet? A 20,000-year multi-proxy record in an alpine ecotonal ecosystem" (2021), published in Quaternary Science Reviews

Frequent publication venues for Haberzettl include:

  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) with 11 publications
  • Quaternary Science Reviews with 6 publications
  • The Science of The Total Environment with 2 publications
  • Climate of the past with 2 publications
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America with 2 publications

Throughout their career, Haberzettl has collaborated extensively with a number of researchers, including:

  • Paul Strobel (18 collaborations)
  • Marcel Bliedtner (18 collaborations)
  • Roland Zech (17 collaborations)
  • Julian Struck (14 collaborations)
  • Peter Frenzel (13 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • Climatically induced lake level changes during the last two millennia as reflected in sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Patagonia (Santa Cruz, Argentina)

    Torsten Haberzettl;Michael Fey;Andreas Lücke;Nora Maidana

  • Climate change on the Tibetan Plateau in response to shifting atmospheric circulation since the LGM

    Liping Zhu;Liping Zhu;Xinmiao Lü;Xinmiao Lü;Junbo Wang;Junbo Wang;Ping Peng

  • Lateglacial and Holocene wet-dry cycles in southern Patagonia: chronology, sedimentology and geochemistry of a lacustrine record from Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

    Torsten Haberzettl;Hugo Corbella;Michael Fey;Stephanie Janssen

  • Precipitation origin and evaporation of lakes in semi-arid Patagonia (Argentina) inferred from stable isotopes (δ18O, δ2H)

    Christoph Mayr;Andreas Lücke;Willibald Stichler;Peter Trimborn

  • Sediment transport processes across the Tibetan Plateau inferred from robust grain-size end members in lake sediments

    Elisabeth Dietze;F. Maussion;M. Ahlborn;Bernhard Diekmann

  • Holocene variability of the Southern Hemisphere westerlies in Argentinean Patagonia (52°S)

    Christoph Mayr;Michael Wille;Torsten Haberzettl;Michael Fey

  • Environmental history of southern Patagonia unravelled by the seismic stratigraphy of Laguna Potrok Aike

    Flavio S. Anselmetti;Daniel Ariztegui;Marc De Batist;A. Catalina Gebhardt

  • Crater lakes of the Pali Aike Volcanic Field as key sites for paleoclimatic and paleoecological reconstructions in southern Patagonia, Argentina

    Bernd Zolitschka;Frank Schäbitz;Andreas Lücke;Hugo Corbella

  • Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon (IOSM)-dynamics within the past 4 ka recorded in the sediments of Lake Nam Co, central Tibetan Plateau (China)

    Thomas Kasper;Torsten Haberzettl;Stefan Doberschütz;Gerhard Daut

  • Palaeoenvironmental changes in southern Patagonia during the last millennium recorded in lake sediments from Laguna Azul (Argentina)

    Christoph Mayr;Michael Fey;Torsten Haberzettl;Stephanie Janssen

  • Vegetation and climate dynamics in southern South America: The microfossil record of Laguna Potrok Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina

    Michael Wille;Nora I. Maidana;Frank Schäbitz;Michael Fey

  • Late Pleistocene dust deposition in the Patagonian steppe - extending and refining the paleoenvironmental and tephrochronological record from Laguna Potrok Aike back to 55 ka

    Torsten Haberzettl;Flavio S. Anselmetti;Sabine W. Bowen;Michael Fey

  • Hydrological variability in southeastern Patagonia and explosive volcanic activity in the southern Andean Cordillera during Oxygen Isotope Stage 3 and the Holocene inferred from lake sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina

    Torsten Haberzettl;Torsten Haberzettl;Barbara Kück;Sabine Wulf;Flavio S. Anselmetti

  • Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa

    Lynne J. Quick;Michael E. Meadows;Mark D. Bateman;Kelly L. Kirsten

  • Climate Change in Southern South America During the Last Two Millennia

    Christopher M. Moy;Patricio I. Moreno;Robert B. Dunbar;Michael R. Kaplan;Michael R. Kaplan

  • Microsedimentological characterization using image analysis and μ-XRF as indicators of sedimentary processes and climate changes during Lateglacial at Laguna Potrok Aike, Santa Cruz, Argentina.

    Guillaume Jouve;Pierre Francus;Scott Fraser Lamoureux;Laurence Provencher-Nolet

  • Isotopic fingerprints on lacustrine organic matter from Laguna Potrok Aike (southern Patagonia, Argentina) reflect environmental changes during the last 16,000 years

    Christoph Mayr;Andreas Lücke;Nora I. Maidana;Michael Wille

  • Monsoonal forcing of Holocene paleoenvironmental change on the central Tibetan Plateau inferred using a sediment record from Lake Nam Co (Xizang, China)

    Stefan Doberschütz;Peter Frenzel;Torsten Haberzettl;Thomas Kasper

  • Holocene moist period recorded by the chronostratigraphy of a lake sedimentary sequence from Lake Tangra Yumco on the south Tibetan Plateau

    Hao Long;ZhongPing Lai;Peter Frenzel;Markus Fuchs

  • Transient simulations, empirical reconstructions and forcing mechanisms for the Mid-holocene hydrological climate in southern Patagonia

    Sebastian Wagner;Martin Widmann;Julie Jones;Torsten Haberzettl

  • Precipitation origin and evaporation of lakes in semi-arid Patagonia (Argentina) inferred from

    Christoph Mayr;Willibald Stichler;Peter Trimborn;Bettina Ercolano

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernd Zolitschka
Bernd Zolitschka University of Bremen
Christian Ohlendorf
Christian Ohlendorf University of Bremen
Christoph Mayr
Christoph Mayr University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Liping Zhu
Liping Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Frank Schäbitz
Frank Schäbitz University of Cologne
Andreas Lücke
Andreas Lücke Forschungszentrum Jülich
Michael E. Meadows
Michael E. Meadows University of Cape Town
Guillaume St-Onge
Guillaume St-Onge Université du Québec à Rimouski
Gerhard H. Schleser
Gerhard H. Schleser Forschungszentrum Jülich
Matthias Zabel
Matthias Zabel University of Bremen

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