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Overview

Xavier Crosta is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France and has published extensively in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research focuses on areas such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their work often centers on topics including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Marine and environmental studies

They have contributed to numerous scientific papers, with recent publications including:

  • "Vulnerability of the North Water ecosystem to climate change," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Multi-decadal trends in Antarctic sea-ice extent driven by ENSO-SAM over the last 2,000 years," 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "Antarctic sea-ice and palaeoproductivity variation over the last 156,000 years in the Indian sector of Southern Ocean," 2020, Marine Micropaleontology
  • "Impact of Southern Ocean surface conditions on deep ocean circulation during the LGM: a model analysis," 2021, Climate of the past
  • "Antarctic sea ice over the past 130,000 years - Part 1: a review of what proxy records tell us," 2022, Climate of the past

Their frequent co-authors include Johan Étourneau, Minoru Ikehara, Sunil Kumar Shukla, Matthieu Civel-Mazens, and Giuseppe Cortese.

Publication venues where Xavier Crosta has frequently published are:

  • Marine Micropaleontology (9 publications)
  • Climate of the past (8 publications)
  • Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA) (Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research) (7 publications)
  • Nature Geoscience (3 publications)
  • Quaternary Science Reviews (3 publications)

Best Publications

  • Sea-surface temperature and sea ice distribution of the Southern Ocean at the EPILOG Last Glacial Maximum—a circum-Antarctic view based on siliceous microfossil records

    Rainer Gersonde;Xavier Crosta;Andrea Abelmann;Leanne K Armand

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

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

  • Global characterization of the Holocene Thermal Maximum

    Hans Renssen;Heikki Seppä;Xavier Crosta;Hugues Goosse

  • Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern Hemisphere surface climate

    Julie M. Jones;Sarah T. Gille;Hugues Goosse;Nerilie J. Abram

  • The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean sediments

    Leanne K. Armand;Xavier Crosta;Oscar Romero;Jean-Jacques Pichon

  • A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Michael J Bentley;Colm Ó Cofaigh;John B Anderson;Howard Conway

  • The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean sediments: 2. Open ocean related species

    Xavier Crosta;Oscar E Romero;Leanne K Armand;Jean-Jacques Pichon

  • Abrupt Cooling of Antarctic Surface Waters and Sea Ice Expansion in the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P.

    David A. Hodell;Sharon L. Kanfoush;Aldo Shemesh;Xavier Crosta

  • Application of modern analog technique to marine Antarctic diatoms: Reconstruction of maximum sea-ice extent at the Last Glacial Maximum

    X. Crosta;J.-J. Pichon;L. H. Burckle

  • Late Quaternary sea ice history in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean as recorded by diatom assemblages

    Xavier Crosta;Arne Sturm;Leanne Armand;Jean Jacques Pichon

  • Retreat history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum

    Andrew N. Mackintosh;Elie Verleyen;Philip E. O'Brien;Duanne A. White

  • Evidence from wavelet analysis for a mid-Holocene transition in global climate forcing

    M. Debret;D. Sebag;X. Crosta;N. Massei

  • African humid periods triggered the reactivation of a large river system in Western Sahara

    Charlotte Skonieczny;P. Paillou;A. Bory;Germain Bayon;Germain Bayon

  • Sequence of events during the last deglaciation in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores

    A. Shemesh;D. Hodell;X. Crosta;S. Kanfoush;S. Kanfoush

  • Holocene climate in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: Controlled by insolation or oceanic circulation?

    Simon H.H. Nielsen;Nalân Koç;Xavier Crosta

  • Distribution of Chaetoceros resting spores in modern peri-Antarctic sediments

    Xavier Crosta;Jean-Jacques Pichon;Monique Labracherie

  • Holocene climate variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula: evidence for sea ice extent predominantly controlled by changes in insolation and ENSO variability

    Johan Etourneau;Lewis G. Collins;V. Willmott;J.-H. Kim

  • Reappraisal of Antarctic seasonal sea-ice at the Last Glacial Maximum

    Xavier Crosta;Jean-Jacques Pichon;Lloyd H. Burckle

  • Highly branched isoprenoids as proxies for variable sea ice conditions in the Southern Ocean

    Guillaume Massé;Simon T. Belt;Xavier Crosta;Sabine Schmidt

  • The biogeography of major diatom taxa in Southern Ocean surface sediments: 3. Tropical/Subtropical species

    Oscar E Romero;Leanne K Armand;Xavier Crosta;Jean-Jacques Pichon

  • Relationship between Antarctic sea ice and southwest African climate during the late Quaternary

    Jan Berend W. Stuut;Xavier Crosta;Klaas van der Borg;Ralph Schneider

  • Holocene subsurface temperature variability in the eastern Antarctic continental margin

    Jung-Hyun Kim;Xavier Crosta;Veronica Willmott;Hans Renssen

  • Antarctic Sea Ice Proxies from Marine and Ice Core Archives Suitable for Reconstructing Sea Ice over the past 2000 Years

    Elizabeth R. Thomas;Claire S. Allen;Johan Etourneau;Amy C. F. King

Frequent Co-Authors

Sabine Schmidt
Sabine Schmidt University of Bordeaux
Leanne K. Armand
Leanne K. Armand Macquarie University
Didier M. Roche
Didier M. Roche Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Samuel L. Jaccard
Samuel L. Jaccard University of Lausanne
Barbara Stenni
Barbara Stenni Ca Foscari University of Venice
Amy Leventer
Amy Leventer Colgate University
Hugues Goosse
Hugues Goosse Université Catholique de Louvain
Raja S. Ganeshram
Raja S. Ganeshram University of Edinburgh
Alain Mazaud
Alain Mazaud Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement
Aldo Shemesh
Aldo Shemesh Weizmann Institute of Science

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