Welcome to my page on the new NIOZ website!
In short, my main scientific interest is: desert dust and aeolian sedimentary processes.
I study two main aspects of desert dust:
1) the depositional aspect allows me to study dust dispersal in the geologic past. Just like rivers nearly always flow to the sea and deliver sediments, winds always blow off land masses and deposit dust in the ocean. Using such marine archives of sediment deposition, I try to reconstruct past environmental conditions in dust-source regions.
2) the marine-environmental effects that dust has are most likely enormous. Desert dust contains all kinds of nutrients and metals, from which marine life can profit. In a couple of projects I am trying to answer the question if dust can be used as an artifical fertiliser for the ocean. We think that this is happening in nature, and should this be the case, we could potentially apply it as a means to combat climate change.
Much more information on dust-related studies at NIOZ can be found at the institute's dustiest website at www.nioz.nl/dust .
In addition, we are regularly publishing dusty news in the NIOZ dust-blog
Alternatively, you can find more dusty info on my personal website at: www.stuut.tv
An example of an impressive dust storm, that made it into The Australian newspaper.
Linked blogs
Saturday 19 August 2017
Expedition M140
Research Expedition M140 onboard FS Meteor is taking place from 10 August until 5 September 2017 and is dedicated to servicing three sediment-trap mooring stations and surface buoys that have been collecting Saharan dust since we deployed them last…
Thursday 22 June 2017
Australian dust cycle
The Australian dust cycle is a "natural laboratory" for the production of mineral dust. Nowhere else on the planet is the process so clearly visible and chances are that in a few months, huge dust outbreaks will happen again!
Wednesday 14 June 2017
New dust paper by Catarina Guerreiro accepted in Biogeosciences
New dust paper by Catarina Guerreiro accepted for Biogeosciences Discussions
Tuesday 13 June 2017
Saharan dust outbreak
A huge dust outbreak occurred off NW Africa, which was registered by our buoys!
Tuesday 30 May 2017
New dust paper published by Laura Korte
Laura Korte published her very first paper in the open-access journal Atmospheric Chemistry & Physics
NIOZ publications
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2017
Bernhardt, A.; Schwanghart, W.; Hebbeln, D.; Stuut, J-B W.; Strecker, M.R. (2017). Immediate propagation of deglacial environmental change to deep-marine turbidite systems along the Chile convergent margin. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 473: 190-204. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.05.017Korte, L.F.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; van der Does, M.; Guerreiro, C.V.; Hennekam, R.; van Hateren, J.A.; Jong, D.; Munday, C.I.; Schouten, S.; Stuut, J-B W. (2017). Downward particle fluxes of biogenic matter and Saharan dust across the equatorial North Atlantic. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 17(9): 6023-6040. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-6023-2017Wu, J.; Liu, Z.; Stuut, J-B W.; Zhao, Y.; Schirone, A.; de Lange, G.J. (2017). North-African paleodrainage discharges to the central Mediterranean during the last 18,000 years: A multiproxy characterization. Quat. Sci. Rev. 163: 95-113. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.015
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2016
Friese, C.A.; van der Does, M.; Merkel, U.; Iversen, M.H.; Fischer, G.; Stuut, J-B W. (2016). Environmental factors controlling the seasonal variability in particle sizedistribution of modern Saharan dust deposited off Cape Blanc. Aeolian Research 22: 165–179. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2016.04.005McKay, C.L.; Filipsson, H.L.; Romero, O.E.; Stuut, J.-B. W.; Bjorck, S. (2016). The interplay between the surface and bottom water environment within the Benguela Upwelling System over the last 70 ka. Paleoceanography 31(2): 266–285. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002792van der Does, M.; Korte, L.F.; Munday, C.I.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; Stuut, J-B W. (2016). Particle size traces modern Saharan dust transport and deposition across the equatorial North Atlantic. Atmos. Chem. Phys. 16: 13697–13710. dx.doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-13697-2016
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2015
Carreira, C; Piel, T; Staal, M.; Stuut, J.-B; Middelboe, M.; Brussaard, C.P.D. (2015). Microscale spatial distributions of microbes and viruses in intertidal photosynthetic microbial mats. SpringerPlus 4: 239. dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-015-0977-8
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2014
De Deckker, P.; Munday, C.I.; Brocks, J.; O'Loingsigh, T.; Allison, G.E.; Hope, J.; Norman, M.; Stuut, J.-B.; Tapper, N.J.; van der Kaars, S. (2014). Characterisation of the major dust storm that traversed over eastern Australia in September 2009; a multidisciplinary approach. Aeolian Research 15: 133-149. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2014.07.003Deplazes, G.; Lückge, A.; Stuut, J.-B.; Pätzold, J.; Kuhlmann, H.; Husson, D.; Fant, M.; Haug, G.H. (2014). Weakening and strengthening of the Indian monsoon during Heinrich events and Dansgaard-Oeschger oscillations. Paleoceanography 29(2): 99-114. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013PA002509Just, J.; Schefuß, E.; Kuhlmann, H.; Stuut, J.B.W.; Pätzold, J. (2014). Climate induced sub-basin source-area shifts of Zambezi River sediments over the past 17 ka. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 410: 190-199. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.045Knippertz, P.; Stuut, J.-B. (2014). Mineral Dust : A Key Player in the Earth System. Springer: Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London. ISBN 9789401789783. I-XXV; 1-509 pp. hdl.handle.net/10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3Knippertz, P.; Stuut, J.-B. (2014). Introduction, in: Knippertz, P. et al. Mineral Dust : A Key Player in the Earth System. pp. 1-14. hdl.handle.net/10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_1Snik, F.; Rietjens, J.H.H.; Apituley, A.; Volten, H.; Mijling, B.; Di Noia, A.; Heikamp, S.; Heinsbroek, R.C.; Hasekamp, O.P.; Smit. , J.M.; Vonk, J.; Stam, D.M.; van Harten, G.; de Boer, J.; Keller, C.U.; iSPEX citizen scientists; Stuut, J.B.W.; Wernand, M.R.; Philippart, C.J.M. (2014). Mapping atmospheric aerosols with a citizen science network of smartphone spectropolarimeters. Geophys. Res. Lett. 41(20): 7351–7358. hdl.handle.net/10.1002/2014GL061462Stuut, J.-B. (2014). Subaquatic Dust Deposits, in: Knippertz, P. et al. Mineral Dust : A Key Player in the Earth System. pp. 443-462. hdl.handle.net/10.1007/978-94-017-8978-3_17Stuut, J.-B.W.; Temmesfeld, F.; De Deckker, P. (2014). A 550 ka record of aeolian activity near North West Cape, Australia: inferences from grain-size distributions and bulk chemistry of SE Indian Ocean deep-sea sediments. Quat. Sci. Rev. 83: 83-94. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.003
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2013
Lengger, S.K.; Kraaij, M.; Tjallingii, R.; Baas, M.; Stuut, J.-B.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). Differential degradation of intact polar and core glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids upon post-depositional oxidation. Org. Geochem. 65: 83-93. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.10.004McGee, D.; deMenocal, P.B.; Winckler, G.; Stuut, J.B.W.; Bradtmiller, L.I. (2013). The magnitude, timing and abruptness of changes in North African dust deposition over the last 20,000 yr. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 371: 163-176. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.054Meyer, I.; Davies, G.R.; Vogt, C.; Kuhlmann, H.; Stuut, J.B.W. (2013). Changing rainfall patterns in NW Africa since the Younger Dryas. Aeolian Research 10: 111-123. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2013.03.003Weldeab, S.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Schneider, R.R.; Siebel, W. (2013). Holocene climate variability in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa. Clim. Past 9: 2347-2364. hdl.handle.net/10.5194/cp-9-2347-2013
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2012
Bertrand, S.; Hughen, K.A.; Lamy, F.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Torrejón, F.; Lange, C.B. (2012). Precipitation as the main driver of Neoglacial fluctuations of Gualasglacier, Northern Patagonian Icefield. Clim. Past 8(2): 519-534. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-519-2012Bloemsma, M.R.; Zabel, M.; Stuut, J.B.W.; Tjallingii, R.; Collins, J.A.; Weltje, G.J. (2012). Modelling the joint variability of grain size and chemical composition in sediments. Sediment. Geol. 280: 135-148. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.04.009Thierens, M.; Pirlet, H.; Colin, C.; Latruwe, K.; Vanhaecke, F.; Lee, J.R.; Stuut, J.-B.; Titschaeck, J.; Titschack, J.; Huvenne, V.; Dorschel, B.; Wheeler, A.J.; Henriet, J.P. (2012). Ice-rafting from the British-Irish ice sheet since the earliest Pleistocene (2.6 million years ago): implications for long-term mid-latitudinal ice-sheet growth in the North Atlantic region. Quat. Sci. Rev. 44: 229-240. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.020
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2011
Filipsson, H.L.; Romero, O.E.; Stuut, J.B.W. (2011). Relationships between primary productivity and bottom-water oxygenation off northwest Africa during the last deglaciation. J. Quaternary Sci. 26(4): 448-456. dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1473Hamza, W.; Enan, M.R.; Al-Hassini, H.; Stuut, J.B.; de-Beer, D. (2011). Dust storms over the Arabian Gulf: a possible indicator of climate changes consequences. Aquat. ecosyst. health manag. 14(3): 260-268. dx.doi.org/10.1080/14634988.2011.601274Meyer, I.; Davies, G.R.; Stuut, J.B.W. (2011). Grain size control on Sr-Nd isotope provenance studies and impact on paleoclimate reconstructions: An example from deep-sea sediments offshore NW Africa. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 12. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010GC003355Mohtadi, M.; Oppo, D.W.; Steinke, S.; Stuut, J.B.W.; De Pol-Holz, R.; Hebbeln, D.; Lückge, A.; Stuut, J.B.W.; De-Pol-Holz, R. (2011). Glacial to Holocene swings of the Australian-Indonesian monsoon. Nature Geoscience 4(8): 540-544. dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1209Saukel, C.; Lamy, F.; Stuut, J.B.W.; Tiedemann, R.; Vogt, C. (2011). Distribution and provenance of wind-blown SE Pacific surface sediments. Mar. Geol. 280(1-4): 130-142. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2010.12.006Skonieczny, C.; Bory, A.; Bout-Roumazeilles, V.; Abouchami, W.; Galer, S.J.G.; Crosta, X.; Stuut, J.B.; Meyer, I.; Chiapello, I.; Podvin, T.; Chatenet, B.; Diallo, A.; Ndiaye, T. (2011). The 7-13 March 2006 major Saharan outbreak: Multiproxy characterization of mineral dust deposited on the West African margin. J. Geophys. Res. 116. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JD016173
Linked projects
TRAFFIC_Transatlantic fluxes of Saharan dust
Supervisor
Jan Berend Stuut
Funder
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Project duration
31 Dec 2012 - 31 Dec 2017
DustTraffic: Transatlantic fluxes of Saharan dust: changing climate through fertilising the ocean?
Supervisor
Jan Berend Stuut
Funder
European Community - European Research Council
Project duration
1 Oct 2012 - 30 Sep 2017
