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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Overview

Yair Rosenthal is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in several related subfields.

Their main subfields of research include Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology, Oceanography, and Paleontology. These areas reflect a broad scientific interest in both present and historical environmental processes.

Rosenthal's work covers a range of topics in geosciences, including:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
  • Geological formations and processes

They have published extensively, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Seasonal origin of the thermal maxima at the Holocene and the last interglacial" (2021) in Nature
  • "Remote and local drivers of Pleistocene South Asian summer monsoon precipitation: A test for future predictions" (2021) in Science Advances
  • "Warm pool ocean heat content regulates ocean-continent moisture transport" (2022) in Nature
  • "Interglacial instability of North Atlantic Deep Water ventilation" (2020) in Science
  • "Global and regional temperature change over the past 4.5 million years" (2024) in Science

Frequent publication venues for Rosenthal's research include the Publishing Network for Geoscientific and Environmental Data (PANGAEA), Zenodo, Abstracts with programs from the Geological Society of America, Nature, and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

Collaborations with fellow researchers have been a significant part of their work. Frequent co-authors include Samantha C. Bova, James D. Wright, Paul N. Pearson, Tom Dunkley Jones, and Vincent J. Clementi.

Rosenthal has also been recognized with the Fellow of American Geophysical Union (AGU) award in 2019, indicating acknowledgement from the scientific community for their contributions.

Best Publications

  • The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

    P. Falkowski;R. J. Scholes;E. Boyle;J. Canadell

  • Temperature control on the incorporation of magnesium, strontium, fluorine, and cadmium into benthic foraminiferal shells from Little Bahama Bank: Prospects for thermocline paleoceanography

    Yair Rosenthal;Edward A. Boyle;Niall Slowey

  • The evolutionary inheritance of elemental stoichiometry in marine phytoplankton

    Antonietta Quigg;Zoe V. Finkel;Andrew J. Irwin;Yair Rosenthal

  • The Holocene temperature conundrum

    Zhengyu Liu;Zhengyu Liu;Jiang Zhu;Yair Rosenthal;Xu Zhang

  • Benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca-paleothermometry: a revised core-top calibration

    Caroline Helen Lear;Yair Rosenthal;Niall Slowey

  • Cooling and ice growth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition

    Caroline Helen Lear;Trevor R. Bailey;Paul Nicholas Pearson;Helen Kathrine Coxall

  • Paleoceanographic changes of the Late Pliensbachian-Early Toarcian interval: a possible link to the genesis of an Oceanic Anoxic Event

    T. R. Bailey;Yair Rosenthal;J. M. McArthur;B. van de Schootbrugge

  • 2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool

    Delia W. Oppo;Yair Rosenthal;Braddock K. Linsley

  • Precise determination of element/calcium ratios in calcareous samples using sector field inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

    Rosenthal Y;Field Mp;Sherrell Rm

  • Deep-Sea Temperature and Ice Volume Changes Across the Pliocene-Pleistocene Climate Transitions

    Sindia Sosdian;Yair Rosenthal

  • Stable sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific warm pool over the past 1.75 million years

    Thibault de Garidel-Thoron-de Garidel-Thoron;Y. Rosenthal;F. Bassinot;Luc Beaufort

  • High tide of the warm Pliocene: Implications of global sea level for Antarctic deglaciation

    Kenneth G. Miller;James D. Wright;James V. Browning;Andrew Kulpecz

  • Stepwise transition from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse

    Miriam E. Katz;Miriam E. Katz;Kenneth G. Miller;James D. Wright;Bridget S. Wade;Bridget S. Wade

  • The amplitude and phasing of climate change during the last deglaciation in the Sulu Sea, western equatorial Pacific

    Yair Rosenthal;Delia W. Oppo;Braddock K. Linsley

  • Seasonal origin of the thermal maxima at the Holocene and the last interglacial

    Samantha Bova;Yair Rosenthal;Zhengyu Liu;Shital P. Godad;Shital P. Godad

  • Authigenic cadmium enrichments in suboxic sediments: Precipitation and postdepositional mobility

    Yair Rosenthal;Phoebe Lam;Edward A Boyle;John Thomson

  • Late Eocene to early Miocene ice sheet dynamics and the global carbon cycle

    Caroline Helen Lear;Y. Rosenthal;Helen Kathrine Coxall;P. A. Wilson

  • Incorporation and preservation of Mg in Globigerinoides sacculifer: implications for reconstructing the temperature and 18O/16O of seawater

    Yair Rosenthal;G. P. Lohmann;K. C. Lohmann;Robert Sherrell

  • Floral changes across the Triassic/Jurassic boundary linked to flood basalt volcanism

    B. van de Schootbrugge;T. M. Quan;S. Lindström;S. Lindström;W. Püttmann

  • Quaternary deep sea temperature histories derived from benthic foraminiferal Mg/Ca

    Pamela A Martin;David W Lea;Yair Rosenthal;Nicholas J Shackleton

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Delia W Oppo
Delia W Oppo Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kenneth G. Miller
Kenneth G. Miller Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Braddock K. Linsley
Braddock K. Linsley Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
James D. Wright
James D. Wright Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Mahyar Mohtadi
Mahyar Mohtadi University of Bremen
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade University College London
Caroline H. Lear
Caroline H. Lear Cardiff University
Paul G. Falkowski
Paul G. Falkowski Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Ulysses S Ninnemann
Ulysses S Ninnemann University of Bergen
Ann Holbourn
Ann Holbourn Kiel University

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