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  • Development and application of new organic proxies

Prof. Dr. Stefan Schouten

Senior Research Leader

Searching for keys in climate history

We search for chemical compounds that can inform about the climate in earlier times. For this we are working on techniques that will allow to read sediment archives using “proxies”: compounds that indirectly tell us something about the temperature or chemical composition of the atmosphere or the oceans. We mainly look at the different chemical compounds that occur in microorganisms. For example, we culture microbes at different temperatures and then examine the influence of those temperatures on the lipids these organisms produce.  Ultimately, there is no such thing as the “ideal proxy” for the climate of the past as all proxies have their own shortcomings. We try to recognise and understand the shortcomings of these proxies, to better constrain their application in reconstructing past climate.

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Friday 21 June 2024
CO2 puts heavier stamp on temperature than thought
A doubling of the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere could cause an increase in the average temperature on earth from 7 to even a maximum of 14 degrees. That is shown in the analysis of sediments from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, by…
Friday 24 May 2024
30 million for research into acceleration of climate change
Climate change can be accelerated by feedback mechanisms: complex phenomena caused by climate change that in turn can further drive climate change. One example is the additional CO2 emissions from thawing permafrost. Research into the influence of…
Friday 17 May 2024
NWO Open Competition Domain Science – M awards for 3 NIOZ scientists
The NWO Domain Board Science has approved the grant applications of NIOZ scientists Femke the Jong, Stefan Schouten and Peter Kraal in the Open Competition Domain Science-M program. M-grants are intended for innovative, high-quality, fundamental…
Friday 29 July 2022
How coastal seas help the ocean in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
The biologically productive North Sea impacts the global climate through exchange of carbon and nutrients with the Atlantic Ocean. A Dutch consortium of scientists will investigate how big this role of the North Sea really is. Under the leadership of…
Wednesday 08 December 2021
Baleens read like a whale's history book
By chemically analyzing sequential samples from the baleen of dead whales, it is possible to read not only the history of the diet, but also the migration route of the animals. In the latest issue of the journal Royal Society Open Science, NIOZ…
Monday 23 August 2021
PhD researcher provides ways to determine methane emissions on land
Nadine Smit, researcher at the Royal NIOZ Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, has discovered new chemical tracers to investigate the presence of terrestrial bacteria that consume the powerful greenhouse gas methane. The knowledge about methane…
Wednesday 26 August 2020
Understanding potential errors and downfalls of a novel climate proxy
Accurate reconstructions of past climate changes are essential to understand the changes the world faces today and make predictions for the future. In her PhD research, NIOZ scientists Sophie Reiche focused on the novel proxies of long-chain alkyl…
Thursday 09 January 2020
Reconstructing past atmospheric CO2 levels to better understand climate change
Carbon dioxide plays a critical role in global climate and is of growing concern with the continuous rise of CO2. Past Earth is used to better understand the precise relationship between CO2 and climate (aka climate sensitivity), but reconstructing…
Thursday 17 October 2019
PhD defence: Sources and genetic controls of lipid biomarkers involved in paleotemperature proxies
On November 1, 2019 Marc Besseling will defend his thesis at the University of Utrecht.
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Nieuwe stap in onderzoek naar zoutgehaltes van vroegere oceanen
Op 20 september promoveert Gabriella Weiss bij de Universiteit van Utrecht. Zij heeft bij NIOZ zoutgehaltes van vroegere oceanen onderzocht. In haar proefschrift zet ze een nieuwe stap in het verbeteren van de onderzoeksmethode.

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Tuesday 07 April 2020
New dusty paper out: Saharan dust versus Amazon River water
In their new paper that appeared today in the open-access version of Limnology & Oceanography, entitled “Multiple drivers of production and particle export in the western tropical North Atlantic”, Laura Korte and colleagues present a comprehensive…
Monday 12 March 2018
Fire biomarker in Saharan dust traced across the Atlantic Ocean
In their new paper that was published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta today, Laura Schreuder and colleagues apply a new proxy for burnt vegetation; the anhydrosugar levoglucosan, and demonstrate how this sugar can be found in present-day Saharan…
Sunday 26 November 2017
Biomarkers in Saharan dust
A new paper by Laura Schreuder and colleagues presents new data on terrestrial higher-plant biomarkers found in aerosols and marine sediments sampled along the DUSTTRAFFIC transatlantic array of sediment traps as well as in seafloor sediments.

NIOZ publications

  • 2024
    Cutmore, A.; Bale, N.; Lourens, L.; Schouten, S. (2024). A search for biomarker evidence of an intermittent deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin in the eastern Mediterranean during the Early Pliocene. Org. Geochem. 196: 104827. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104827
    Hättig, K.; Prokopiou, P.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2024). Large variability and 2H-depletion of Middle Miocene to Pleistocene alkenone hydrogen isotopes in the Equatorial Pacific reflect subsurface, low light haptophyte growth. Org. Geochem. 196: 104840. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104840
    Witkowski, C.R.; von der Heydt, A.S.; Valdes, P.J.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2024). Continuous sterane and phytane δ13C record reveals a substantial pCO2 decline since the mid-Miocene. Nature Comm. 15(1): 5192. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47676-9
    Varma, D.; Hopmans, E.C.; van Kemenade, Z.R.; Kusch, S.; Berg, S.; Bale, N.J.; Sangiorgi, F.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2024). Evaluating isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGT-based temperature proxies in surface sediments from the global ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 370: 113-127. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2023.12.019
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    Meyer, V.D.; Pätzold, J.; Mollenhauer, G.; Castañeda, I.S; Schouten, S.; Schefuß, E. (2024). Evolution of winter precipitation in the Nile river watershed since the last glacial. Clim. Past 20(3): 523-546. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-20-523-2024
    Varma, D.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Reichart, G.-J.; Schouten, S. (2024). Impact of water depth on the distributions and proxies of isoprenoidal hydroxylated GDGTs in the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Org. Geochem. 194: 104780. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104780
  • 2023
    Neubauer, C.; Kantnerová, K.; Lamothe, A.; Savarino, J.; Hilkert, A.; Juchelka, D.; Hinrichs, K.-U.; Elvert, M.; Heuer, V.B.; Elsner, M.; Bakkour, R.; Julien, M.; Öztoprak, M.; Schouten, S.; Hattori, S.; Dittmar, T. (2023). Discovering nature’s fingerprints: isotope ratio analysis on bioanalytical mass spectrometers. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 34(4): 525-537. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jasms.2c00363
    Hättig, K.; Varma, D.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2023). Glacial–interglacial seawater isotope change near the Chilean Margin as reflected by δ2H values of C37 alkenones. Clim. Past 19(10): 1919-1930. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-1919-2023
    Varma, D.; Hättig, K.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Reichart, G.-J.; Schouten, S. (2023). Constraining water depth influence on organic paleotemperature proxies using sedimentary archives. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 38(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2022pa004533
    Mitrovic, D.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Richter, N.; Amaral-Zettler, L.; Baxter, A.J.; Peterse, F; Miguel Raposeiro, P.; Gonçalves, V.; Cristina Costa, A.; Schouten, S. (2023). Isoprenoidal GDGTs and GDDs associated with anoxic lacustrine environments. Org. Geochem. 178: 104582. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2023.104582
    Sliwinska, K.K.; Coxall, H.K.; Hutchinson, D.K.; Liebrand, D.; Schouten, S.; de Boer, A.M. (2023). Sea surface temperature evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean across the Eocene–Oligocene transition. Clim. Past 19(1): 123-140. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-19-123-2023
    Beltran, L.C.; Cvirkaite-Krupovic, V.; Miller, J.; Wang, F.; Kreutzberger, M.A.B.; Patkowski, J.B.; Costa, T.R.D.; Schouten, S.; Levental, I.; Conticello, V.P.; Egelman, E.H.; Krupovica, M. (2023). Archaeal DNA-import apparatus is homologous to bacterial conjugation machinery. Nature Comm. 14: 666. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36349-8
  • 2022
    van der Weijst, C.M.H.; van der Laan, K.J.; Peterse, F.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sangiorgi, F.; Schouten, S.; Veenstra, T.J.T.; Sluijs, A. (2022). A 15-million-year surface- and subsurface-integrated TEX86 temperature record from the eastern equatorial Atlantic. Clim. Past 18(8): 1947-1962. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-1947-2022
    Wang, F.; Cvirkaite-Krupovic, V.; Vos, M.; Beltran, L.C.; Kreutzberger, M.A.B.; Winter, J.-M.; Su, Z.; Liu, J.; Schouten, S.; Krupovic, M.; Egelman, E.H. (2022). Spindle-shaped archaeal viruses evolved from rod-shaped ancestors to package a larger genome. Cell 185(8): 1297-1307.e11. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2022.02.019
  • 2021
    Riekenberg, P.M.; Camalich, J.; Svensson, E.; IJsseldijk, L.L.; Brasseur, S.M.; Witbaard, R.; Leopold, M.F.; Rebolledo, E.B.; Middelburg, J.J.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2021). Reconstructing the diet, trophic level and migration pattern of mysticete whales based on baleen isotopic composition. Royal Society Open Science 8(12): 210949. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210949
    Ding, S.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Arts, M.G.I.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. II: characterization using molecular networking and information theory. Front. Microbiol. 12: 659315. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659315
    Morcillo-Montalbá, L.; Rodrigo-Gamiz, M.; Martinez-Ruiz, F.; Ortega-Huertas, M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2021). Rapid climate changes in the Western most Mediterranean (Alboran Sea) over the last 35 kyr: New insights from four lipid paleothermometers (UK'37, TEXH86, RI‐OH', and LDI). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(12): e2020PA004171. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020pa004171
    Erdem, Z.; Lattaud, J.; van Erk, M.R.; Mezger, E.M.; Reichart, G.-J.; Lückge, A.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2021). Applicability of the long chain diol index (LDI) as a sea surface temperature proxy in the Arabian Sea. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(12): e2021PA004255. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004255
    Baquero, D.P.; Gazi, A.D.; Sachse, M.; Liu, J.; Schmitt, C.; Moya-Nilges, M.; Schouten, S.; Prangishvili, D.; Krupovic, M. (2021). A filamentous archaeal virus is enveloped inside the cell and released through pyramidal portals. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 118(32): e2105540118. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105540118
    Häggi, C.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schefuß, E.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Schreuder, L.T.; Bertassoli, D.J.; Chiessi, C.M.; Mulitza, S.; Sawakuchi, H.O.; Baker, P.A.; Schouten, S. (2021). Negligible quantities of particulate low‐temperature pyrogenic carbon reach the Atlantic Ocean via the Amazon River. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 35(9): e2021GB006990. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021gb006990
    Sangiorgi, F.; Quaijtaal, W.; Donders, T.H.; Schouten, S.; Louwye, S. (2021). Middle Miocene temperature and productivity evolution at a Northeast Atlantic shelf site (IODP U1318, Porcupine Basin): global and regional changes. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 36(7): e2020PA004059. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2020pa004059
    Bale, N.J.; Ding, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Arts, M.G.I.; Villanueva, L.; Boschman, C.; Haas, A.F.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). Lipidomics of environmental microbial communities. I: visualization of component distributions using untargeted analysis of high-resolution mass spectrometry data. Front. Microbiol. 12. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.659302
    Holzheimer, M.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Havenith, R.W.A.; Minnaard, A.J. (2021). Total synthesis of the alleged structure of crenarchaeol enables structure revision. Angew. Chem. 133(32): 17645-17654. https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202105384
    Spencer-Jones, C.L.; McClymont, E.L.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Müller, J.; Abrahamsen, E.Povl; Allen, C.; Bickert, T.; Hillenbrand, C.-D.; Mawbey, E.M.; Peck, V.; Svalova, A.; Smith, J.A. (2021). Archaeal intact polar lipids in polar waters: a comparison between the Amundsen and Scotia seas. Biogeosciences 18(11): 3485-3504. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3485-2021
    Blanchet, C.L.; Tjallingii, R.; Schleicher, A.M.; Schouten, S.; Frank, M.; Brauer, A. (2021). Deoxygenation dynamics on the western Nile deep-sea fan during sapropel S1 from seasonal to millennial timescales. Clim. Past 17(3): 1025-1050. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-1025-2021
    Lattaud, J.; Balzano, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2021). Sources and seasonality of long-chain diols in a temperate lake (Lake Geneva). Org. Geochem. 156: 104223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2021.104223
    de L. Sobrinho, R.; Bernardes, M.C.; de Rezende, C.E.; Kim, J.-H; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S (2021). A multiproxy approach to characterize the sedimentation of organic carbon in the Amazon continental shelf. Mar. Chem. 232: 103961. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2021.103961
    Smit, N.T.; Villanueva, L.; Rush, D.; Grassa, F.; Witkowski, C.R.; Holzheimer, M.; Minnaard, A.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2021). Novel hydrocarbon-utilizing soil mycobacteria synthesize unique mycocerosic acids at a Sicilian everlasting fire. Biogeosciences 18(4): 1463-1479. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-1463-2021
  • 2020
    Bale, N.J.; Koenen, M.; Yadav, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2020). Diagnostic amide products of amino lipids detected in the microaerophilic bacteria Lutibacter during routine fatty acid analysis using gas chromatography. Org. Geochem. 144: 104027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104027
    Sluijs, A.; Frieling, J.; Inglis, G.N.; Nierop, K.G.J.; Peterse, F; Sangiorgi, F.; Schouten, S. (2020). Late Paleocene–early Eocene Arctic Ocean sea surface temperatures: reassessing biomarker paleothermometry at Lomonosov Ridge. Clim. Past 16(6): 2381-2400. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-2381-2020
    Simon, M.H.; Ziegler, M.; Barker, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Schouten, S.; Hall, I.R. (2020). A late Pleistocene dataset of Agulhas Current variability. Scientific Data 7: 385. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00689-7
    Witkowski, C.R.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Blais, B.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2020). Algal biomarkers as a proxy for pCO2: Constraints from late quaternary sapropels in the eastern Mediterranean. Org. Geochem. 150: 104123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104123
    Ruan, Y.; Mohtadi, M.; Dupont, L.M.; Hebbeln, D.; Kaars, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Hyer, E.J.; Schefuß, E. (2020). Interaction of fire, vegetation, and climate in tropical ecosystems: A multiproxy study over the past 22,000 years. Global Biogeochem. Cycles 34(11): e2020GB006677. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020gb006677
    Cramwinckel, M.J.; Coxall, H.K.; Sliwinska, K.K.; Polling; Harper; Bijl, P.K.; Brinkhuis, H.; Eldrett, J.S.; Houben, A.J.P.; Peterse, F; Schouten, S.; Reichart, G.-J.; Zachos, J.C.; Sluijs, A. (2020). A warm, stratified, and restricted Labrador Sea across the middle Eocene and its climatic optimum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35(10): e2020PA003932. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020pa003932
    Cramwinckel, M.J.; Coxall, H.K.; Sliwinska, K.K.; Polling, M.; Harper, D.P.; Bijl, P.K.; Brinkhuis, H.; Eldrett, J.S.; Houben, A.J.P.; Peterse, F; Schouten, S.; Reichart, G.-J.; Zachos, J.C.; Sluijs, A. (2020). A warm, stratified, and restricted Labrador Sea across the middle Eocene and its climatic optimum. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35(10): e2020PA003932. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020pa003932
    Schroeter, N.; Toney, J.L.; Lauterbach, S.; Kalanke, J.; Schwarz, A.; Schouten, S.; Gleixner, G. (2020). How to deal with multi-proxy data for paleoenvironmental reconstructions: Applications to a Holocene lake sediment record from the Tian Shan, Central Asia. Front. Earth Sci. 8: article 353. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00353
    Witkowski, C.R.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Smit, N.T.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2020). Testing algal-based pCO2 proxies at a modern CO2 seep (Vulcano, Italy). NPG Scientific Reports 10(1): 10508. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67483-8
    Leiva-Dueñas, C.; Leavitt, P.R.; Buchaca, T.; Cortizas, A.M.; López-Merino, L.; Serrano, O.; Lavery, P.S.; Schouten, S.; Mateo, M.A. (2020). Factors regulating primary producers' assemblages in Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile ecosystems over the past 1800 years. Sci. Total Environ. 718: 137163. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137163
    Riekenberg, P.M.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Schouten, S. (2020). Practical considerations for improved reliability and precision during determination of δ15N values in amino acids using a single combined oxidation-reduction reactor. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom. 34(14): e8797. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8797
    Quirós‐Collazos, L.; Calvo, E.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Rodrigo-Gamiz, M.; Pena, L.D.; Cacho, I.; Pelejero, C. (2020). Controls on primary productivity in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific, east of the Galapagos islands, during the penultimate deglaciation. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 167(5). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003777
    de Bar, M.W.; Weiss, G.M.; Yildiz, C.; Rampen, S.W.; Lattaud, J.; Bale, N.J.; Mienis, F.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; Schulz, H.; Rush, D.; Kim, J.-H.; Donner, B.; Knies, J.; Lückge, A.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2020). Global temperature calibration of the Long chain Diol Index in marine surface sediments. Org. Geochem. 142: 103983. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.103983
    Korte, L.F.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; van der Does, M.; Guerreiro, C.V.; Mienis, F.; Munday, C.I.; Ponsoni, L.; Schouten, S.; Stuut, J.-B.W. (2020). Multiple drivers of production and particle export in the western tropical North Atlantic. Limnol. Oceanogr. 65(9): 2108-2124. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.11442
    Schroeter, N.; Lauterbach, S.; Stebich, M.; Kalanke, J.; Mingram, J.; Yildiz, C.; Schouten, S.; Gleixner, G. (2020). Biomolecular evidence of early human occupation of a high-altitude site in Western Central Asia during the Holocene. Front. Earth Sci. 8: article 20. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00020
    Weiss, G.M.; Massalska, B.; Hennekam, R.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2020). Alkenone distributions and hydrogen isotope ratios show changes in haptophyte species and source water in the Holocene Baltic Sea. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 21(2): e2019GC008751. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019gc008751
    van Duyl, F.C.; Lengger, S.K.; Schouten, S.; Lundälv, T.; van Oevelen, D.; Müller, C.E. (2020). Dark CO2 fixation into phospholipid-derived fatty acids by the cold-water coral associated sponge Hymedesmia (Stylopus) coriacea (Tisler Reef, NE Skagerrak). Mar. Biol. Res. 16(1): 1-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2019.1704019
    Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2020). The absence of intact polar lipid-derived GDGTs in marine waters dominated by Marine Group II: Implications for lipid biosynthesis in Archaea. NPG Scientific Reports 10(1): 10 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57035-0
  • 2019
    Lengger, S.K.; Rush, D.; Mayser, J.P.; Blewett, J.; Schwartz-Narbonne, R.; Talbot, H.M.; Middelburg, J.J.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2019). Dark carbon fixation in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone contributes to sedimentary organic carbon (SOM). Global Biogeochem. Cycles 33(12): 1715-1732. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019gb006282
    Wang, F.; Liu, Y.; Su; Osinski, T.; de Oliveira; Conway; Schouten, S.; Krupovic, M.; Prangishvili, D.; Egelman, E.H. (2019). A packing for A-form DNA in an icosahedral virus. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116(45): 22591-22597. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908242116
    Witkowski, C.R.; Agostini, S.; Harvey, B.P.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Validation of carbon isotope fractionation in algal lipids as a pCO2 proxy using a natural CO2 seep (Shikine Island, Japan). Biogeosciences 16(22): 4451-4461. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4451-2019
    Bale, N.J.; Hennekam, R.; Hopmans, E.C.; Dorhout, D.; Reichart, G.-J.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Villareal, T.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Biomarker evidence for nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial blooms in a brackish surface layer in the Nile River plume during sapropel deposition. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 47(11): 1088-1092. https://dx.doi.org/10.1130/g46682.1
    Dietze; Brykala; Schreuder, L.T.; Jazdzewski, K.; Blarquez; Brauer; Dietze; Obremska; Ott; Pienczewska; Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Slowinski (2019). Human-induced fire regime shifts during 19th century industrialization: A robust fire regime reconstruction using northern Polish lake sediments. PLoS One 14(9): e0222011. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222011
    Houben, A.J.P.; Quaijtaal, W.; Wade, B.S.; Schouten, S.; Brinkhuis, H. (2019). Quantitative organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst stratigraphy across the Eocene-Oligocene Transition in the Gulf of Mexico: A record of climate- and sea level change during the onset of Antarctic glaciation. Newsl. Stratigr. 52(2): 131-154. https://dx.doi.org/10.1127/nos/2018/0455
    Häggi, C.; Schefuß, E.; Sawakuchi, A.O.; Chiessi, C.M.; Mulitza, S.; Bertassoli, D.J.; Hefter, J.; Zabel, M.; Baker, P.A.; Schouten, S. (2019). Modern and late Pleistocene particulate organic carbon transport by the Amazon River: Insights from long-chain alkyl diols. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 262: 1-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.07.018
    Kurth, J.M.; Smit, N.T.; Berger, S.; Schouten, S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Welte, C.U. (2019). Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea of the ANME-2dclade feature lipid composition that differs from otherANME archaea. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 95(7): fiz082. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz082
    Smit, N.T.; Rush, D.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Verweij, M.; Rasigraf, O.; Guerrero-Cruz, S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Demethylated hopanoids in ‘Ca. Methylomirabilis oxyfera’ as biomarkers for environmental nitrite-dependent methane oxidation. Org. Geochem. 137: 103899. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.07.008
    Lattaud, J.; Erdem, Z.; Weiss, G.M.; Rush, D.; Balzano, S.; Chivall, D.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Hydrogen isotopic ratios of long-chain diols reflect salinity. Org. Geochem. 137: 103904. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.103904
    Besseling, M.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Koenen, M.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Vreugdenhil, S.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2019). Depth-related differences in archaeal populations impact the isoprenoid tetraether lipid composition of the Mediterranean Sea water column. Org. Geochem. 135: 16-31. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.06.008
    Weiss, G.M.; de Bar, M.W.; Stolwijk, D.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2019). Paleosensitivity of hydrogen isotope ratios of long‐chain alkenones to salinity changes at the Chile Margin. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34(6): 978-989. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019pa003591
    Willard, D.A.; Donders, T.H.; Reichgelt; Greenwood, D.R.; Sangiorgi, F.; Peterse, F.; Nierop, K.G.J.; Frieling, J.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A. (2019). Arctic vegetation, temperature, and hydrology during Early Eocene transient global warming events. Global Planet. Change 178: 139-152. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.04.012
    Houben, A.J.P.; Bijl, P.K.; Sluijs, A.; Schouten, S.; Brinkhuis, H. (2019). Late Eocene Southern Ocean Cooling and invigoration of circulation preconditioned Antarctica for full‐scale glaciation. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 20(5): 2214-2234. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019gc008182
    de Bar, M.W.; de Nooijer, L.J.; Schouten, S.; Ziegler, M.; Sluijs, A.; Reichart, G.-J. (2019). Comparing seawater temperature proxy records for the past 90 Myrs from the shallow shelf record Bass River, New Jersey. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34(4): 455-475. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018pa003453
    Weiss, G.M.; Roepert, A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2019). Hydrogen isotope fractionation response to salinity and alkalinity in a calcifying strain of Emiliania huxleyi. Org. Geochem. 134: 62-65. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.06.001
    Schreuder, L.T.; Donders, T.H.; Mets, A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Comparison of organic and palynological proxies for biomass burning and vegetation in a lacustrine sediment record (Lake Allom, Fraser Island, Australia). Org. Geochem. 133: 10-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.03.002
    Meegan Kumar, D.; Woltering, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S.; Werne, J.P. (2019). The vertical distribution of Thaumarchaeota in the water column of Lake Malawi inferred from core and intact polar tetraether lipids. Org. Geochem. 132: 37-49. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.03.004
    Lattaud, J.; Lo, L.; Zeeden, C.; Liu, Y.-J.; Song, S.-R.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). A multiproxy study of past environmental changes in the Sea of Okhotsk during the last 1.5 Ma. Org. Geochem. 132: 50-61. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2019.04.003
    Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; de Bar, M.; Sahonero Canavesi, D.X.; Yildiz, C.; Engelmann, J.C.; Maréchal, E.; Lupette, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Biosynthesis of long chain alkyl diols and long chain alkenols in Nannochloropsis spp. (Eustigmatophyceae). Plant Cell Physiol. 60(8): 1666-1682. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz078
    Beltran, C.; Rousselle, G.; de Rafélis, M.; Sicre, M.-A.; Labourdette, N.; Schouten, S. (2019). Evolution of the zonal gradients across the equatorial Pacific during the Miocene–Pleistocene. J. Sedim. Res. 89(3): 242-252. https://dx.doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2019.15
    de Bar, M.W.; Ullgren, J.E.; Thunnell, R.C.; Wakeham, S.G.; Brummer, G.-J. A.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2019). Long-chain diols in settling particles in tropical oceans: insights into sources, seasonality and proxies. Biogeosciences 16(8): 1705-1727. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-1705-2019
    Schreuder, L.T.; Hopmans, E.C.; Castañeda, I.S.; Schefuß, E.; Mulitza, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Late Quaternary biomass burning in Northwest Africa and interactions with climate, vegetation, and humans. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34(2): 153-163. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003467
    Sliwinska, K.K.; Thomsen, E.; Schouten, S.; Schoon, P.L.; Heilmann-Clausen, C. (2019). Climate- and gateway-driven cooling of Late Eocene to earliest Oligocene sea surface temperatures in the North Sea Basin. NPG Scientific Reports 9(1): 4458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41013-7
    Cramwinckel, M.J.; van der Ploeg, R.; Bijl, P.K.; Peterse, F; Bohaty, S.M.; Röhl, U.; Schouten, S.; Middelburg, J.J.; Sluijs, A. (2019). Harmful algae and export production collapse in the equatorial Atlantic during the zenith of Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum warmth. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 47(3): 247-250. https://doi.org/10.1130/G45614.1
    Weiss, G.M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2019). Constraining the application of hydrogen isotopic composition of alkenones as a salinity proxy using marine surface sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 250: 34-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.01.038
    de Bar, M.W.; Rampen, S.W.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2019). Constraining the applicability of organic paleotemperature proxies for the last 90 Myrs. Org. Geochem. 128: 122-136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.12.005
    van Maldegem, L.M.; Sansjofre, P.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Wolkenstein, K.; Strother, P.K.; Wörmer, L.; Hefter, J.; Nettersheim, B.J.; Hoshino, Y.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Nath, N.; Griesinger, C.; Kuznetsov, N.B.; Elie, M.; Elvert, M.; Tegelaar, E.; Gleixner, G.; Hallmann, C. (2019). Bisnorgammacerane traces predatory pressure and the persistent rise of algal ecosystems after Snowball Earth. Nature Comm. 10(1): 476. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08306-x
    Etourneau, J.; Sgubin, G.; Crosta, X.; Swingedouw, D.; Willmott, V.; Barbara, L.; Houssais, M.-N.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Goosse, H.; Escutia, C.; Crespin, J.; Massé, G.; Kim, J.-H (2019). Ocean temperature impact on ice shelf extent in the eastern Antarctic Peninsula. Nature Comm. 10(article number: 304): 8 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08195-6
    Bischof, L.F.; Haurat, M.F.; Hoffmann, L.; Albersmeier, A.; Wolf, J.; Neu, A.; Pham, T.K.; Albaum, S.P.; Jakobi, T.; Schouten, S.; Neumann-Schaal, M.; Wright, P.C.; Kalinowski, J.; Siebers, B.; Albers, S.-V. (2019). Early response of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius to nutrient limitation. Front. Microbiol. 9: 3201. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.03201
  • 2018
    de Bar, M.W.; Stolwijk, D.J.; McManus, J.F.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A Late Quaternary climate record based on long-chain diol proxies from the Chilean margin. Clim. Past 14(11): 1783-1803. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1783-2018
    Witkowski, C.R.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Blais, B.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2018). Molecular fossils from phytoplankton reveal secular Pco2 trend over the Phanerozoic. Science Advances 4(11): eaat4556. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aat4556
    Balzano, S.; Lattaud, J.; Villanueva, L.; Rampen, S.W.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; van Bleijswijk, J.; Bale, N.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A quest for the biological sources of long chain alkyl diols in the western tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Biogeosciences 15(19): 5951-5968. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5951-2018
    Heimhofer, U.; Wucherpfennig, N.; Adatte, T.; Schouten, S.; Schneebeli-Hermann, E.; Gardin, S.; Keller, G.; Kentsch, S.; Kujau, A. (2018). Vegetation response to exceptional global warmth during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Nature Comm. 9: 3832. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06319-6
    Jaeschke, A.; Rethemeyer, J.; Lappé, M.; Schouten, S.; Boeckx, P.; Schefuß, E. (2018). Influence of land use on distribution of soil n-alkane δD and brGDGTs along an altitudinal transect in Ethiopia: Implications for (paleo)environmental studies. Org. Geochem. 124: 77-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.06.006
    Liu, Y.; Osinski, T.; Wang, F.; Krupovic, M.; Schouten, S.; Kasson, P.; Prangishvili, D.; Egelman, E.H. (2018). Structural conservation in a membrane-enveloped filamentous virus infecting a hyperthermophilic acidophile. Nature Comm. 9(1): 3360. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05684-6
    Hartman, J.D.; Sangiorgi, F.; Salabarnada, A.; Peterse, F; Houben, A.J.P.; Schouten, S.; Brinkhuis, H.; Escutia, C.; Bijl, P.K. (2018). Paleoceanography and ice sheet variability offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica – Part 3: Insights from Oligocene–Miocene TEX86-based sea surface temperature reconstructions. Clim. Past 14(9): 1275-1297. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1275-2018
    Reiche, S.; Rampen, S.W.; Dorhout, D.J.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). The impact of oxygen exposure on long-chain alkyl diols and the long chain diol index (LDI) – a long-term incubation study. Org. Geochem. 124: 238-246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.08.003
    Heinzelmann, S.M.; Villanueva, L.; Lipsewers, Y.A.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2018). Assessing the metabolism of sedimentary microbial communities using the hydrogen isotopic composition of fatty acids. Org. Geochem. 124: 123-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.07.011
    Cramwinckel, M.J.; Huber, M.; Kocken, I.J.; Agnini, C.; Bijl, P.K.; Bohaty, S.M.; Frieling, J.; Goldner, A.; Hilgen, F.J.; Kip, E.L.; Peterse, F; van der Ploeg, R.; Röhl, U.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A. (2018). Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene. Nature (Lond.) 559(7714): 382-386. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0272-2
    Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Hopmans, E.C.; den Uijl, M.J.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Schouten, S. (2018). The enigmatic structure of the crenarchaeol isomer. Org. Geochem. 124: 22-28. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.06.005
    Lattaud, J.; Kirkels, F.; Peterse, F.; Freymond, C.V.; Eglinton, T.I.; Hefter, J.; Mollenhauer, G.; Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). Long-chain diols in rivers: distribution and potential biological sources. Biogeosciences 15(13): 4147-4161. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-4147-2018
    Lattaud, J.; Lo, L.; Huang, J.-J.; Chou, Y.-M.; Gorbarenko, S.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Schouten, S. (2018). A comparison of Late Quaternary organic proxy-based paleotemperature records of the Central Sea of Okhotsk. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33(7): 732-744. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018pa003388
    Bojanowski, M.J.; Ciurej, A.; Haczewski, G.; Jokubauskas, P.; Schouten, S.; Tyszka, J.; Bijl, P.K. (2018). The Central Paratethys during Oligocene as an ancient counterpart of the present-day Black Sea: Unique records from the coccolith limestones. Mar. Geol. 403: 301-328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2018.06.011
    Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Dorhout, D.; Stal, L.J.; Grego, M.; van Bleijswijk, J.D.L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). A novel heterocyst glycolipid detected in a pelagic N2 -fixing cyanobacterium of the genus Calothrix. Org. Geochem. 123: 44-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.06.009
    Lo, L.; Belt, S.T.; Lattaud, J.; Friedrich, T.; Zeeden, C.; Schouten, S.; Smik, L.; Timmermann, A.; Cabedo-Sanz, P.; Huang, J.-J.; Zhou, L.; Ou, T.-H.; Chang, Y.-P.; Wang, L.-C.; Chou, Y.-M.; Shen, C.-C.; Chen, M.-T.; Wei, K.-Y.; Song, S.-R.; Fang, T.-H.; Gorbarenko, S.A.; Wang, W.-L.; Lee, T.-Q.; Elderfield, H.; Hodell, D.A. (2018). Precession and atmospheric CO2 modulated variability of sea ice in the central Okhotsk Sea since 130,000 years ago. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 488: 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.02.005
    Schreuder, L.T.; Hopmans, E.C.; Stuut, J.-B.W.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). Transport and deposition of the fire biomarker levoglucosan across the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 227: 171-185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2018.02.020
    Bale, N.J.; Villareal, T.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Besseling, M.; Dorhout, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). C5 glycolipids of heterocystous cyanobacteria track symbiont abundance in the diatom Hemiaulus hauckii across the tropical North Atlantic. Biogeosciences 15(4): 1229-1241. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-1229-2018
    Sangiorgi, F.; Bijl, P.K.; Passchier, S.; Salzmann, U.; Schouten, S.; McKay, R.M.; Cody, R.D.; Pross, J.; van de Flierdt, T.; Bohaty, S.M.; Levy, R.; Williams, T.; Escutia, C.; Brinkhuis, H. (2018). Southern Ocean warming and Wilkes Land ice sheet retreat during the mid-Miocene. Nature Comm. 9(1): 317. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02609-7
    Schreuder, L.T.; Stuut, J.-B. W.; Korte, L.F.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2018). Aeolian transport and deposition of plant wax n-alkanes across the tropical North Atlantic Ocean. Org. Geochem. 115: 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.10.010
  • 2017
    Weiss, G.M.; Pfannerstill, E.Y.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2017). Effects of alkalinity and salinity at low and high light intensity on hydrogen isotope fractionation of long-chain alkenones produced by Emiliania huxleyi. Biogeosciences 14(24): 5693-5704. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-5693-2017
    de Bar, M.W.; Hopmans, E.C.; Verweij, M.; Dorhout, D.J.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). Development and comparison of chromatographic methods for the analysis of long chain diols and alkenones in biological materials and sediment. J. Chromatogr. 1521: 150-160. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chroma.2017.09.037
    Lattaud, J.; Dorhout, D.; Schulz, H.; Castañeda, I.S.; Schefuß, E.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). The C32 alkane-1,15-diol as a proxy of late Quaternary riverine input in coastal margins. Clim. Past 13(8): 1049-1061. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-1049-2017
    Holtvoeth, J.; Vogel, H.; Valsecchi, V.; Lindhorst, K.; Schouten, S.; Wagner, B.; Wolff, G.A. (2017). Linear and non-linear responses of vegetation and soils to glacial-interglacial climate change in a Mediterranean refuge. NPG Scientific Reports 7(1): 7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08101-y
    O'Brien, C.L.; Robinson, S.A.; Pancost, R.D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Lunt, D.J.; Alsenz, H.; Bornemann, A.; Bottini, C.; Brassell, S.C.; Farnsworth, A.; Forster, A.; Huber, B.T.; Inglis, G.N.; Jenkyns, H.C.; Linnert, C.; Littler, K.; Markwick, P.; McAnena, A.; Mutterlose, J.; Naafs, B.D.A.; Püttmann, W.; Sluijs, A.; van Helmond, N.A.G.M.; Vellekoop, J.; Wagner, T.; Wrobel, N.E. (2017). Cretaceous sea-surface temperature evolution: Constraints from TEX86 and planktonic foraminiferal oxygen isotopes. Earth-Sci. Rev. 172: 224-247. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.07.012
    Kasson, P.; DiMaio, F.; Yu, X.; Lucas-Staat, S.; Krupovic, M.; Schouten, S.; Prangishvili, D.; Egelman, E.H. (2017). Model for a novel membrane envelope in a filamentous hyperthermophilic virus. eLIFE 6: e26268. https://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.26268.001
    Vellekoop, J.; Holwerda, F.; Prámparo, M.B.; Willmott, V.; Schouten, S.; Cúneo, N.R.; Scasso, R.A.; Brinkhuis, H. (2017). Climate and sea-level changes across a shallow marine Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary succession in Patagonia, Argentina. Palaeontology 60(4): 519-534. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/pala.12297
    Christianen, M.J.A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Holthuijsen, S.J.; Jouta, J.; Compton, T.J.; van der Heide, T.; Piersma, T.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; van der Veer, H.W.; Schouten, S.; Olff, H. (2017). Benthic primary producers are key to sustain the Wadden Sea food web: stable carbon isotope analysis at landscape scale. Ecology 98(6): 1498-1512. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1837
    Balzano, S.; Villanueva, L.; de Bar, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). Impact of culturing conditions on the abundance and composition of long chain alkyl diols in species of the genus Nannochloropsis. Org. Geochem. 108: 9-17. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.02.006
    Denis, E.H.; Pedentchouk, N.; Schouten, S.; Pagani, M.; Freeman, K.H. (2017). Fire and ecosystem change in the Arctic across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 467: 149-156. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.03.021
    Korte, 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-17-6023-2017
    Bale, N.; de Vries, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). A method for quantifying heterocyst glycolipids in biomass and sediments. Org. Geochem. 110: 33-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.04.010
    Jaramillo, C.; Romero, I.; D’Apolito, C.; Bayona, G.; Duarte, E.; Louwye, S.; Escobar, J.; Luque, J.; Carrillo-Briceño, J.D.; Zapata, V.; Mora, A.; Schouten, S.; Zavada, M.; Harrington, G.; Ortiz, J.; Wesselingh, F.P. (2017). Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia. Science Advances 3(5): e1601693. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1601693
    Lattaud, J.; Kim, J.-H; de Jonge, C.; Zell, C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2017). The C32 alkane-1,15-diol as a tracer for riverine input in coastal seas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 202: 146-158. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2016.12.030
    Kandiano, E.S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Schouten, S.; Fahl, K.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Bauch, H.A. (2017). Response of the North Atlantic surface and intermediate ocean structure to climate warming of MIS 11. NPG Scientific Reports 7: 46192. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep46192
    Frieling, J.; Gebhardt, H.; Huber, M.; Adekeye, O.A.; Akande, S.O.; Reichart, G.-J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A. (2017). Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science Advances 3(3): e1600891. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600891
    Villanueva, L.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2017). Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’. Environ. Microbiol. 19(1): 54-69. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13361
  • 2016
    Sciscio, L.; Tsikos, H.; Roberts, D.L.; Scott, L.; van Breugel, Y.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Grocke, D.R. (2016). Miocene climate and vegetation changes in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa: Evidence from biogeochemistry and palynology. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 445: 124-137. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.12.014
    Levy, R.; Schouten, S.; SMS Sci Team (2016). Antarctic ice sheet sensitivity to atmospheric CO2 variations in the early to mid-Miocene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113(13): 3453–3458. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1516030113
    Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Brown, E.T.; Abbott, A.; Berke, M.; Steinman, B.E.; Halbur, J.; Contreras, S.; Grosshuesch, S.; Deino, A.; Lyons, R.P.; Scholz, C.A.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years. Nature (Lond.) 537(7619): 220-224. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19065
    den Haan, J.; Huisman, J.; Brocke, H.J.; Goehlich, H.; Latijnhouwers, K.R.W.; van Heeringen, S.; Honcoop, S.A.S.; Bleyenberg, T.E.; Schouten, S.; Cerli, C.; Hoitinga, L.; Vermeij, M.J.A.; Visser, P.M. (2016). Nitrogen and phosphorus uptake rates of different species from a coral reef community after a nutrient pulse. NPG Scientific Reports 6: 28821. dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep28821
    Courtens, E.N.P.; Spieck, E.; Vilchez-Vargas, R.; Bodé, S.; Boeckx, P.; Schouten, S.; Jáuregui, R.; Pieper, D.H.; Vlaeminck, S.E.; Boon, N. (2016). A robust nitrifying community in a bioreactor at 50°C opens up the path for thermophilic nitrogen removal. ISME J. 10: 2293–2303. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2016.8
    Castañeda, I.S; Schouten, S.; Paetzold, J.; Lucassen, F; Kasemann, S.; Kuhlmann, H.; Schefuß, E. (2016). Hydroclimate variability in the Nile River Basin during the past 28,000 years. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 438: 47-56. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2015.12.014
    Castañeda, I.S; Caley, T.; Dupont, L.; Kim, J.-H.; Malaizé, B.; Schouten, S. (2016). Middle to Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate change insubtropical southern East Africa. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 450: 306–316. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.06.049
    Rensen, E.I.; Mochizuki, T,; Quemin, E.R. J.; Schouten, S.; Krupovica, M.; Prangishvili, D. (2016). A virus of hyperthermophilic archaea with a unique architecture among DNA viruses. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113(9): 2478–2483. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1518929113
    Lehtovirta-Morley, L.E.; Sayavedra-Soto, L.A.; Gallois, N.; Schouten, S.; Stein, L.Y.; Prosser, J.I.; Nicol, G.W. (2016). Identifying Potential Mechanisms Enabling Acidophily in the Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaeon “Candidatus Nitrosotalea devanaterra”. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 82: 2608-2619. dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.04031-15
    Kim, J.G.; Park, S.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Jung, M.Y.; Kim, S.J.; Gwak, J.-H.; Hong, H.; Si, O.-J.; Lee, S.H.; Madsen, E.L.; Rhee, S.K. (2016). Hydrogen peroxide detoxification is a key mechanism for growth of ammonia-oxidizing archaea. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113(28): 7888–7893. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605501113
    Rodrigo-Gámiz, M.; Rampen, S.W.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). The impact of oxic degradation on long chain alkyl diol distributions in Arabian Sea surface sediments. Org. Geochem. 100: 1-9. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.07.003
    Kandiano, E.S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J.; Bauch, H.A.; Helmke, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2016). A cold and fresh ocean surface in the Nordic Seas during MIS 11: Significance for the future ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett. 43(20): 10,929–10,937. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2016GL070294
    Svensson, E.; Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Middelburg, J.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). Factors Controlling the Stable Nitrogen Isotopic Composition (δ15N) of Lipids in Marine Animals. PLoS One 11(1): e0146321. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146321
    Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2016). The effect of improved chromatography on GDGT-based palaeoproxies. Org. Geochem. 93: 1-6. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.12.006
    de Bar, M.W.; Dorhout, D.J.C.; Hopmans, E.C.; Rampen, S.W.; Sinninghe Damste, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2016). Constraints on the application of long chain diol proxies in the Iberian Atlantic margin. Org. Geochem. 10: 184–195. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2016.09.005
    Maat, D.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Brussaard, C.P.D. (2016). Increasing P limitation and viral infection impact lipid remodeling of the picophytoplankter Micromonas pusilla. Biogeosciences 13(5): 1667-1676. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-1667-2016
    Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schoon, P.; de Kluijver, A.; Downing, J.A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2016). Impact of trophic state on the distribution of intact polar lipids in surface waters of lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 61(3): 1065–1077. dx.doi.org/10.1002/lno.10274
    Heinzelmann, S.M.; Bale, N.J.; Villanueva, L.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Philippart, C.J.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2016). Seasonal changes in the D  /  H ratio of fatty acids of pelagic microorganisms in the coastal North Sea. Biogeosciences 13: 5527-5539. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5527-2016
  • 2015
    Villanueva, L. ; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Depth-related distribution of a key gene of the tetraether lipid biosynthetic pathway in marine Thaumarchaeota. Environ. Microbiol. 17(10): 3527–3539. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12508
    Svensson, E.; Schouten, S.; Stam, A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Compound-specific stable isotope analysis of nitrogen-containing intact polar lipids. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrom. 29(23): 2263–2271. dx.doi.org/10.1002/rcm.7393
    Schoon, P.L.; Heilmann-Clausen, C.; Schultz, B.P.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2015). Warming and environmental changes in the eastern North Sea Basin during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum as revealed by biomarker lipids. Org. Geochem. 78: 79–88. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.11.003
    Kaiser, J.; Schouten, S.; Kilian, R.; Arz, H.W.; Lamy, F.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Isoprenoid and branched GDGT-based proxies for surface sediments from marine, fjord and lake environments in Chile. Org. Geochem. 89-90: 117-127. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.10.007
    Jean, M.R.N.; Gonzalez-Rizzo, S.; Gauffre-Autelin, P.; Lengger, S.K.; Schouten, S.; Gros, O. (2015). Two New Beggiatoa Species Inhabiting Marine Mangrove Sediments in the Caribbean. PLoS One 10(2): e0117832. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117832
    Günther, F.; Witt, R.; Schouten, S.; Mausbacher, R.; Daut, G.; Zhu, L.; Xu, B.Q.; Yao, T.; Gleixner, G. (2015). Quaternary ecological responses and impacts of the Indian Ocean Summer Monsoon at Nam Co, Southern Tibetan Plateau. Quat. Sci. Rev. 112: 66-77. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.01.023
    Bottini, C.; Erba, E.; Tiraboschi, D.; Jenkyns, H.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Climate variability and ocean fertility during the Aptian Stage. Clim. Past 11: 383-402. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-11-383-2015
    Quemin, E.R. J.; Pietilä, M.K.; Oksanen, H.M.; Forterre, P.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Schouten, S.; Bamford, D,H,; Prangishvili, D.; Krupovica, M. (2015). Sulfolobus Spindle-Shaped Virus 1 Contains Glycosylated Capsid Proteins, a Cellular Chromatin Protein, and Host-Derived Lipids. J. Virol. 89(22): 11681-11691. dx.doi.org/10.1128/JVI.02270-15
    Simon, M.H.; Gong, X.; Hall, I.R.; Ziegler, M.; Barker, S.; Knorr, G.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Kasper, S.; Schouten, S. (2015). Salt exchange in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway since the Last Glacial Maximum: A compensating effect between Agulhas Current changes and salinity variations? Paleoceanography 30(10): 1318–1327. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015PA002842
    Sollai, M.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Keil, R.G.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Intact polar lipids of Thaumarchaeota and anammox bacteria as indicators of N cycling in the eastern tropical North Pacific oxygen-deficient zone. Biogeosciences 12: 4725-4737. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4725-2015
    Kim, J.H.; Schouten, S.; Rodrigo-Gámiz, M.; Rampen, S.W.; Marino, G.; Huguet, C.; Helmke, P.; Buscail, R.; Hopmans, E.C.; Pross, J.; Sangiorgi, F.; Middelburg, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Influence of deep-water derived isoprenoid tetraether lipids on the TEX h 86 paleothermometer in the Mediterranean Sea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 150: 125–141. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.11.017
    Heinzelmann, S.M.; Chivall, D.; M'boule, D.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2015). Comparison of the effect of salinity on the D/H ratio of fatty acids of heterotrophic and photoautotrophic microorganisms. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 362(10). dx.doi.org/10.1093/femsle/fnv065
    Heinzelmann, S.M.; Villanueva, L. ; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Van der Meer, M.T.J. (2015). Impact of metabolism and growth phase on the hydrogen isotopic composition of microbial fatty acids. Front. Microbiol. 6: 408. dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00408
    van der Meer, M.T.J.; Benthien, A.; French, K.L.; Epping, E.; Zondervan, I.; Reichart, G.J.; Bijma, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2015). Large effect of irradiance on hydrogen isotope fractionation of alkenones in Emiliania huxleyi. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 160: 16-24. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2015.03.024
    Kasper, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Castañeda, I.S; Tjallingii, R.; Brummer, G.J.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2015). Testing the alkenone D/H ratio as a paleo indicator of sea surface salinity in a coastal ocean margin (Mozambique Channel). Org. Geochem. 78: 62-68. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.10.011
    Bale, N.J.; Maat, D.S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Mets, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Schouten, S. (2015). Fatty acid dynamics during viral infection of Phaeocystis globosa. Aquat. Microb. Ecol. 74: 85–94. dx.doi.org/10.3354/ame01730
    Bale, N.; Hopmans, E.C.; Zell, C.; Sobrinho, R.; Kim, J.H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villareal, T.A.; Schouten, S. (2015). Long chain glycolipids with pentose head groups as biomarkers for marine endosymbiotic heterocystous cyanobacteria. Org. Geochem. 81: 1-7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2015.01.004
    Rodrigo-Gámiz, M.; Rampen, S.W.; de Haas, H.; Baas, M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2015). Constraints on the applicability of the organic temperature proxies Uk'37, TEX86 and LDI in the subpolar region around Iceland. Biogeosciences 12(22). dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6573-2015
  • 2014
    Weijers, J.W.H.; Schefuß, E.; Kim, J.-H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.; Schouten, S. (2014). Constraints on the sources of branched tetraether membrane lipids in distal marine sediments. Org. Geochem. 72: 14-22. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.04.011
    Villanueva, L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). A re-evaluation of the archaeal membrane lipid biosynthetic pathway. Nat. Rev., Microbiol. 12(6): 438-448. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro3260
    Svensson, E.; Freitas, V.; Schouten, S.; Middelburg, J.J.; van der Veer, H.W.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Comparison of the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic values of gill and white muscle tissue of fish. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 457: 173-179. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jembe.2014.04.014
    Sluijs, A.; van Roij, L.; Harrington, G.J.; Schouten, S.; Sessa, J.A.; LeVay, L.J.; Reichart, G.-J.; Slomp, C.P. (2014). Warming, euxinia and sea level rise during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum on the Gulf Coastal Plain: implications for ocean oxygenation and nutrient cycling. Clim. Past 10: 1421-1439. hdl.handle.net/10.5194/cp-10-1421-2014
    Sliwinska, K.K.; Dybkjær, K.; Schoon, P.L.; Beyer, C.; King, C.; Schouten, S.; Nielsen, O.B. (2014). Paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental records of the Oligocene-Miocene transition, central Jylland, Denmark. Mar. Geol. 350: 1-15. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.12.014
    Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Volkman, J.K. (2014). C27-C30 neohop-13(18)-enes and their saturated and aromatic derivatives in sediments: Indicators for diagenesis and water column stratification. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 133: 402-421. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.03.008
    Seki, O.; Mikami, Y.; Nagao, S.; Bendle, J.A.; Nakatsuka, T.; Kim, V.I. ; Shesterkin, V.P.; Makinov, A.N.; Fukushima, M.; Moossen, H.M.; Schouten, S. (2014). Lignin phenols and BIT index distributions in the Amur River and the Sea of Okhotsk: Implications for the source and transport of particulate terrestrial organic matter to the ocean. Prog. Oceanogr. 126: 146-154. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.pocean.2014.05.003
    Mutterlose, J.; Bottini, C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). High sea-surface temperatures during the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a in the Boreal Realm. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 42(5): 439-442. hdl.handle.net/10.1130/G35394.1
    Günther, F.; Thiele, A.; Gleixner, G.; Xu, B.Q.; Yao, T.; Schouten, S. (2014). Distribution of bacterial and archaeal ether lipids in soils and surface sediments of Tibetan lakes: Implications for GDGT-based proxies in saline high mountain lakes. Org. Geochem. 67: 19-30. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.11.014
    Giusberti, L.; Bannikov, A.; Galazzo, F.B.; Fornaciari, E.; Frieling, J.; Luciani, V.; Papazzoni, C.A.; Roghi, G.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A.; Bosellini, F.R.; Zorzin, R. (2014). A new Fossil-Lagerstätte from the Lower Eocene of Lessini Mountains (northern Italy): A multidisciplinary approach. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 403: 1-15. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.012
    Frieling, J.; Iakovleva, A.I.; Reichart, G.-J.; Aleksandrova, G.N.; Gnibidenko, Z.N.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A. (2014). Paleocene–Eocene warming and biotic response in the epicontinental West Siberian Sea. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 42(9): 767-770. dx.doi.org/10.1130/G35724.1
    Douglas, P.M.J.; Affek, H.P.; Ivany, L.C.; Houben, A.J.P.; Sijp, W.P.; Sluijs, A.; Schouten, S.; Pagani, M. (2014). Pronounced zonal heterogeneity in Eocene southern high-latitude sea surface temperatures. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111(18): 6582-6587. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321441111
    de Kluijver, A.; Schoon, P.L.; Downing, J.A.; Schouten, S.; Middelburg, J.J. (2014). Stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of lakes along a trophic gradient. Biogeosciences 11: 6265– 6276. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6265-2014
    Blyth, A.J.; Jex, C.N.; Baker, A.; Khan, S.J.; Schouten, S. (2014). Contrasting distributions of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in speleothems and associated soils. Org. Geochem. 69: 1-10. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.01.013
    Blanchet, C.; Frank, M.; Schouten, S. (2014). Asynchronous Changes in Vegetation, Runoff and Erosion in the Nile River Watershed during the Holocene. PLoS One 9(12): e115958. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0115958
    Berke, M.A.; Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Livingstone, D.R.; Grice, K.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Characterization of the last deglacial transition in tropical East Africa: Insights from Lake Albert. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 409: 1-8. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.014
    Bauersachs, T.; Schouten, S.; Schwark, L. (2014). Characterization of the sedimentary organic matter preserved in Messel oil shale by bulk geochemistry and stable isotopes. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 410: 390-400. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.015
    Villanueva, L.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Genetic biomarkers of the sterol-biosynthetic pathway in microalgae. Environmental Microbiology Reports 6(1): 35-44. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12106
    Rush, D.; Jaeschke, A.; Geenevasen, J.A.J.; Tegelaar, E.; Pureveen, J.; Lewan, M.D.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Generation of unusual branched long chain alkanes from hydrous pyrolysis of anammox bacterial biomass. Org. Geochem. 76: 136–145. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.08.002
    Rush, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Poulton, S.W.; Thamdrup, B.; Leigh Garside, A.; Acuña-Gonzalez, J.; Schouten, S.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Talbot, H.M. (2014). Anaerobic ammonium-oxidising bacteria: A biological source of the bacteriohopanetetrol stereoisomer in marine sediments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 140: 50-63. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.05.014
    Rodrigo-Gámiz, M.; Martínez-Ruiz, F.; Rampen, S.W.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Sea surface temperature variations in the western Mediterranean Sea over the last 20 kyr: A dual-organic proxy (UK'37 and LDI) approach. Paleoceanography 29(2): 87-98. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013PA002466
    Rampen, S.W.; Willmott, V.; Kim, J.H.; Rodrigo-Gamiz, M.; Uliana, E.; Mollenhauer, G.; Schefuß, E.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). Evaluation of long chain 1,14-alkyl diols in marine sediments as indicators for upwelling and temperature. Org. Geochem. 76: 39–47. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2014.07.012
    Rampen, S.; Datema, M.; Rodrigo-Gámiz, M.; Schouten, S.; Reichart, G.-J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Sources and proxy potential of long chain alkyl diols in lacustrine environments. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 144: 59–71. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.08.033
    M'boule, D.; Chivall, D.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2014). Salinity dependent hydrogen isotope fractionation in alkenones produced by coastal and open ocean haptophyte algae. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 130: 126-135. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.029
    Kasper, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Mets, A.; Zahn, R.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). Salinity changes in the Agulhas leakage area recorded by stable hydrogen isotopes of C37 alkenones during Termination I and II. Clim. Past 10(1): 251-260. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-10-251-2014
    Chivall, D.; M'Boule, D.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2014). The effects of growth phase and salinity on the hydrogen isotopic composition of alkenones produced by coastal haptophyte algae. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 140: 381–390. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.gca.2014.05.043
    Chivall, D.; M'Boule, D.; Sinke-Schoen, D.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2014). Impact of salinity and growth phase on alkenone distributions in coastal haptophytes. Org. Geochem. 67: 31-34. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.12.002
    Schouten, S.; Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Are Marine Group II Euryarchaeota significant contributors to tetraether lipids in the ocean? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111(41): e4285. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1416176111
    Lengger, S.K.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). Fossilization and degradation of archaeal intact polar tetraether lipids in deeply buried marine sediments (Peru Margin). Geobiol. 12(3): 212-220. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12081
    Lengger, S.K.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). Impact of sedimentary degradation and deep water column production on GDGT abundance and distribution in surface sediments in the Arabian Sea: Implicationsfor the TEX86 paleothermometer. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 142: 386-399. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.gca.2014.07.013
    De Jonge, C.; Hopmans, E.C.; Zell, C.; Kim, J.H.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Occurrence and abundance of 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers in soils: Implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 141: 97–112. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.06.013
    Lengger, S.K.; Lipsewers, Y.A.; de Haas, H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2014). Lack of 13C-label incorporation suggests low turnover rates of thaumarchaeal intact polar tetraether lipids in sediments from the Iceland shelf. Biogeosciences 11(2): 201-216. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-201-2014
    Vellekoop, J.; Sluijs, A.; Smit, J.; Schouten, S.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Brinkhuis, H. (2014). Rapid short-term cooling following the Chicxulub impact at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 111(21): 7537-7541. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319253111
    Villanueva, L.; Hopmans, E.C.; Bale, N.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2014). Diversity and distribution of a key sulpholipid biosynthetic gene in marine microbial assemblages. Environ. Microbiol. 16(3): 774-787. dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12202
    Lipsewers, Y.A.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Villanueva, L. (2014). Seasonality and depth distribution of the abundance and activity of ammonia oxidizing microorganisms in marine coastal sediments (North Sea). Front. Microbiol. 5: 471 1-12. dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00472
    Heinzelmann, S.M.; Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J. (2014). Critical Assessment of Glyco- and Phospholipid Separation by Using Silica Chromatography. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 80(1): 360-365. dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02817-13
    Bale, N.; Villanueva, L.; Fan, H.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Stal, L.J. (2014). Occurrence and activity of anammox bacteria in surface sediments of the southern North Sea. FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 89(1): 99–110. hdl.handle.net/10.1111/1574-6941.12338
  • 2013
    Veuger, B.; Pitcher, A.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Middelburg, J.J. (2013). Nitrification and growth of autotrophic nitrifying bacteria and Thaumarchaeota in the coastal North Sea. Biogeosciences 10(3): 1775-1785. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-10-1775-2013
    Turich, C.; Schouten, S.; Thunell, R.C.; Varela, R.; Astor, Y.; Wakeham, S.G. (2013). Comparison of TEX86 and UK37 temperature proxies in sinking particles in the Cariaco Basin. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 78: 115-133. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.02.008
    Smith, M.; De Deckker, P.; Rogers, J.; Brocks, J.; Hope, J.; Schmidt, S.; Lopes dos Santos, R.; Schouten, S. (2013). Comparison of UK37, TEXH86 and LDI temperature proxies for reconstruction of south-east Australian ocean temperatures. Org. Geochem. 64: 94-104. hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.08.015
    Schoon, P.L.; de Kluijver, A.; Middelburg, J.J.; Downing, J.A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). Influence of lake water pH and alkalinity on the distribution of coreand intact polar branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in lakes. Org. Geochem. 60: 72-82. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.04.015
    Schoon, P.L.; Heilmann-Clausen, C.; Schultz, B.P.; Sluijs, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). Recognition of Early Eocene global carbon isotope excursions using lipids of marine Thaumarchaeota. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 373: 160-168. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.037
    Pancost, R.D.; Taylor, K.W.R.; Inglis, G.N.; Kennedy, E.M,; Handley, L.; Hollis, C.J.; Crouch, E.; Pross, J.; Huber, M.; Schouten, S.; Pearson, P.N.; Morgans, H.E.G.; Raine, J.I. (2013). Early Paleogene evolution of terrestrial climate in the SW Pacific, Southern New Zealand. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 14(12): 5413-5429. hdl.handle.net/10.1002/2013GC004935
    Lopes dos Santos, R.A.; De Deckker, P.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). A late Quaternary sedimentary record of steryl alkyl ethers from offshore southeastern Australia. Org. Geochem. 54: 140-145. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.10.010
    Lopes dos Santos, R.A.; Spooner, M.I.; Barrows, T.Y.; De Deckker, P.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). Comparison of organic (UK'37, TEXH86, LDI) and faunal proxies (foraminiferal assemblages) for reconstruction of late Quaternary sea surface temperature variability from offshore southeastern Australia. Paleoceanography 28(3): 377–387. hdl.handle.net/10.1002/palo.20035
    Gaudin, M.; Gauliard, E.; Schouten, S.; Houel-Renault, L.; Lenormand, P.; Marguet, E.; Forterre, P. (2013). Hyperthermophilic archaea produce membrane vesicles that can transfer DNA. Environmental Microbiology Reports 5(1): 109-116. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-2229.2012.00348.x
    Etourneau, J.; Collins, L.G.; Willmott, V.; Barbara, L.; Leventer, A.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Bianchini, A.; Klein, V.; Crosta, X.; Massé, G. (2013). Holocene climate variations in the western Antarctic Peninsula: evidence for sea ice extent predominantly controlled by changes in insolation and ENSO variability. Clim. Past 9(4): 1431-1446. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-9-1431-2013
    Borin, S.; Mapelli, F.; Rolli, E.; Song, B.; Tobias, G.; Schmid, M.C.; De Lange, G.J.; Reichart, G.J.; Jetten, M.; Daffonchio, D.; Schmid, M.C.; Schouten, S. (2013). Anammox bacterial populations in deep marine hypersaline gradiënt systems. Extremophiles 17(2): 289-299. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-013-0516-x
    Blyth, A.J.; Schouten, S. (2013). Calibrating the glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether temperature signalin speleothems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 109: 312-328. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2013.02.009
    Frieling, J.; Gebhardt, H.; Huber, M.; Adekeye, O.A.; Akande, S.O.; Reichart, G.-J.; Middelburg, J.J.; Schouten, S.; Sluijs, A. (2017). Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-EoceneThermal Maximum. Science Advances, 3. NIOZ: [s.l.]. e1600891 pp. dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600891
    Reysenbach, A.-L.; Liu, Y.T.; Lindgren, A.N.; Wagner, I.D.; Sislak, C.D.; Mets, A.; Schouten, S. (2013). Mesoaciditoga lauensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately thermoacidophilic member of the order Thermotogales from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 63: 4724-4729 . hdl.handle.net/10.1099/ijs.0.050518-0
    van der Meer, M.T.J.; Benthien, A.; Bijma, J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Alkenone distribution impacts the hydrogen isotopic composition of the C37:2 and C37:3 alkan-2-ones in Emiliania huxleyi. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 111: 162-166. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.10.041
    Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Rosell-Melé, A.; Pearson, A.; Adam, P.; Bauersachs, T.; Bard, E.; Bernasconi, S.M.; Bianchi, T.S.; Brocks, J.J.; Carlson, L.T.; Castañeda, I.S.; Derenne, S.; Dogrul Selver, A.; Dutta, K.; Eglinton, T.I.; Fosse, C.; Galy, V.; Grice, K.; Hinrichs, K.U.; Huang, Y.S.; Huguet, A.; Huguet, C.; Hurley, S.; Ingalls, A.; Jia, G.; Keely, B.J.; Knappy, C.; Kondo, M.; Krishnan, S.; Lincoln, S.; Lipp, J.S.; Mangelsdorf, K.; Martínez-Garcia, A.; Ménot, G.; Mets, A.; Mollenhauer, G.; Ohkouchi, N.; Ossebaar, J.; Pagani, M.; Pancost, R.D.; Pearson, E.J.; Peterse, F.; Reichart, G.J.; Schaeffer, P.; Schmitt, G.; Schwark, L.; Shah, S.R.; Smith, R.W.; Smittenberg, R.H.; Summons, R.E.; Takano, Y.; Talbot, H.M.; Taylor, K.W.R.; Tarozo, R.; Uchida, M.; van Dongen, B.E.; Van Mooy, B.A.S.; Wang, J.; Warren, C.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Werne, J.P.; Woltering, M.; Xie, S.; Yamamoto, M.; Jang, H.; Zhang, C.L.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). An interlaboratory study of TEX86 and BIT analysis of sediments, extracts, and standard mixtures. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 14(12): 5263–5285. dx.doi.org/10.1002/2013GC004904
    Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). The organic geochemistry of glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids: A review. Org. Geochem. 54: 19-61. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.09.006
    Schouten, S.; Villareal, T.A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Mets, A.; Swanson, K.M.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Endosymbiotic heterocystous cyanobacteria synthesize different heterocyst glycolipids than free-living heterocystous cyanobacteria. Phytochemistry 85: 115-121. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.09.002
    Lopes dos Santos, R.A.; De Deckker, P.; Hopmans, E.C.; Magee, J.W.; Mets, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). Abrupt vegetation change after the Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction in southeastern Australia. Nature Geoscience 6(8): 627-631. dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1856
    Hopmans, E.C.; dos Santos, R.A.L.; Mets, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2013). A novel method for the rapid analysis of levoglucosan in soils and sediments. Org. Geochem. 58: 86-88. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2013.02.003
    Hamilton-Brehm, S.D.; Gibson, R.A.; Green, S.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Shields, J.P.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Elkins, J.G. (2013). Thermodesulfobacterium geofontis sp nov., a hyperthermophilic, sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from Obsidian Pool, Yellowstone National Park. Extremophiles 17(2): 251-263. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00792-013-0512-1
    Gibson, R.A.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Reysenbach, A.-L.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Comparison of intact polar lipid with microbial community composition of vent deposits of the Rainbow and Lucky Strike hydrothermal fields. Geobiol. 11(1): 72-85. dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12017
    Ferrer, C.; Fodran, P.; Barroso, S.; Gibson, R.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S.; Minnaard, A.J. (2013). Asymmetric synthesis of cyclo-archaeol and ß-glucosyl cyclo-archaeol. Org. Biomol. Chem. 11(15): 2482-2492. dx.doi.org/10.1039/c3ob27277j
    Bauersachs, T.; Miller, S.R.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Distribution of long chain heterocyst glycolipids in cultures of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus and a hot spring microbial mat. Org. Geochem. 56: 19-24. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.11.013
    Bijl, P.K.; Bendle, J.A.P.; Bohaty, S.M.; Pross, J.; Schouten, S.; Tauxe, L.; Stickley, C.E.; McKay, R.M.; Röhl, U.; Olney, M.; Sluijs, A.; Escutia, C.; Brinkhuis, H.; Expedition 318 Scientists (2013). Eocene cooling linked to early flow across the Tasmanian Gateway. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 110(24): 9645-9650. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1220872110
    Bale, N.J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2013). Different seasonality of pelagic and benthic Thaumarchaeota in the North Sea. Biogeosciences 10: 7195–7206. hdl.handle.net/10.5194/bg-10-7195-2013
    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.2013.10.004
  • 2012
    Woltering, M.; Werne, J.P.; Kish, J.L.; Hicks, R.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2012). Vertical and temporal variability in concentration and distribution of thaumarchaeotal tetraether lipids in Lake Superior and the implications for the application of the TEX86 temperature proxy. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 87: 136-153. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.03.024
    Sauder, L.A.; Peterse, F.; Schouten, S.; Neufeld, J.D. (2012). Low-ammonia niche of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in rotating biological contactors of a municipal wastewater treatment plant. Environ. Microbiol. 14(9): 2589-2600. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2012.02786.x
    Richoz, S.; van de Schootbrugge, B.; Pross, J.; Püttmann, W.; Quan, T.M.; Lindström, S.; Heunisch, C.; Fiebig, J.; Maquil, R.; Schouten, S.; Hauzenberger, C.A.; Wignall, P.B. (2012). Hydrogen sulphide poisoning of shallow seas following the end-Triassic extinction. Nature Geoscience 5(9): 662-667. dx.doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1539
    Mutterlose, J.; Malkoc, M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Reconstruction of vertical temperature gradients in past oceans - Proxy data from the Hauterivian-early Barremian (Early Cretaceous) of the Boreal Realm. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 363: 135-143. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.006
    McKay, R.; Naish, T.; Carter, L.; Riesselman, C.; Dunbar, R.; Sjunneskog, C.; Winter, D.; Sangiorgi, F.; Warren, C.; Pagani, M.; Schouten, S.; Willmott, V.; Levy, R.; DeConto , R.M.; Powell, R.D. (2012). Antarctic and Southern Ocean influences on Late Pliocene global cooling. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109(17): 6423-6428. dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112248109
    Lopes dos Santos, R.A.; Wilkins, D.; De Deckker, P.; Schouten, S. (2012). Late Quaternary productivity changes from offshore Southeastern Australia: A biomarker approach. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 363: 48-56. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.08.013
    Kim, J.H.; Crosta, X.; Willmott, V.; Renssen, H.; Bonnin, J.; Helmke, P.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Holocene subsurface temperature variability in the eastern Antarctic continental margin. Geophys. Res. Lett. 39. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2012GL051157
    Jenkyns, H.C.; Schouten-Huibers, L.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Warm Middle Jurassic-Early Cretaceous high-latitude sea-surface temperatures from the Southern Ocean. Clim. Past 8(1): 215-226. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-215-2012
    Harada, N.; Sato, M.; Seki, O.; Timmermann, A.; Moossen, H.; Bendle, J.; Nakamura, Y.; Kimoto, K.; Okazaki, Y.; Nagashima, K.; Gorbarenko, S.A.; Ijiri, A.; Nakatsuka, T.; Menviel, L.; Chikamoto, M.O.; Abe-Ouchi, A.; Schouten, S. (2012). Sea surface temperature changes in the Okhotsk Sea and adjacent North Pacific during the last glacial maximum and deglaciation. Deep-Sea Res., Part 2, Top. Stud. Oceanogr. 61-64: 93-105. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2011.12.007
    Handley, L.; O'Halloran, A.; Pearson, P.N.; Hawkins, E.; Nicholas, C.J.; Schouten, S.; McMillan, I.K.; Pancost, R.D. (2012). Changes in the hydrological cycle in tropical East Africa during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 329: 10-21. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.002
    Berke, M.A.; Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Grice, K.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Molecular records of climate variability and vegetation response since the Late Pleistocene in the Lake Victoria basin, East Africa. Quat. Sci. Rev. 55: 59-74. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.08.014
    Berke, M.A.; Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). A mid-Holocene thermal maximum at the end of the African Humid Period. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 351: 95-104. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2012.07.008
    Garcia Costas, A.M.; Tsukatani, Y.; Rijpstra, W.I.C.; Schouten, S.; Welander, P.V.; Summons, R.E.; Bryant, D.A. (2012). Identification of the Bacteriochlorophylls, Carotenoids, Quinones, Lipids, and Hopanoids of "Candidatus Chloracidobacterium thermophilum". J. Bacteriol. 194(5): 1158-1168. dx.doi.org/10.1128/JB.06421-11
    Rampen, S.W.; Willmott, V.; Kim, J.H.; Uliana, E.; Mollenhauer, G.; Schefuss, E.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2012). Long chain 1,13-and 1,15-diols as a potential proxy for palaeotemperature reconstruction. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 84: 204-216. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.01.024
    Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Ossebaar, J.; Schouten, S.; Verschuren, D. (2012). Distribution of tetraether lipids in the 25-ka sedimentary record of Lake Challa: extracting reliable TEX86 and MBT/CBT palaeotemperatures from an equatorial African lake. Quat. Sci. Rev. 50: 43-54. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2012.07.001
    Flores, G.E.; Hunter, R.C.; Liu, Y.T.; Mets, A.; Schouten, S.; Reysenbach, A.L. (2012). Hippea jasoniae sp. nov. and Hippea alviniae sp. nov., thermoacidophilic members of the class Deltaproteobacteria isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vent deposits. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 62: 1252-1258. dx.doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.033001-0
    Peterse, F.; van der Meer, J.; Schouten, S.; Weijers, J.W.H.; Fierer, N.; Jackson, R.B.; Kim, J.H.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Revised calibration of the MBT-CBT paleotemperature proxy based on branched tetraether membrane lipids in surface soils. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 96: 215-229. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.08.011
    Tierney, J.E.; Schouten, S.; Pitcher, A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Core and intact polar glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (GDGTs) in Sand Pond, Warwick, Rhode Island (USA): Insights into the origin of lacustrine GDGTs. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 77: 561-581. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.10.018
    Seki, O.; Schmidt, D.N.; Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Pancost, R.D. (2012). Paleoceanographic changes in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the last 10 Myr. Paleoceanography 27. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011PA002158
    Sáenz, J.P.; Hopmans, E.C.; Rogers, D.; Henderson, P.B.; Charette, M.A.; Schouten, S.; Casciotti, K.L.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Eglinton, T.I. (2012). Distribution of anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in a subterranean estuary. Mar. Chem. 136: 7-13. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2012.04.004
    Rush, D.; Hopmans, E.C.; Wakeham, S.G.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Occurrence and distribution of ladderane oxidation products in different oceanic regimes. Biogeosciences 9(7): 2407-2418. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-2407-2012
    Rush, D.; Wakeham, S.G.; Hopmans, E.C.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Biomarker evidence for anammox in the oxygen minimum zone of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific. Org. Geochem. 53: 80-87. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.02.005
    Niemann, H.; Stadnitskaia, A.; Wirth, S.B.; Gilli, A.; Anselmetti, F.S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.S.; Schouten, S.; Hopmans, E.C.; Lehmann, M.F. (2012). Bacterial GDGTs in Holocene sediments and catchment soils of a high Alpine lake: application of the MBT/CBT-paleothermometer. Clim. Past 8(3): 889-906. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-8-889-2012
    Lengger, S.K.; Hopmans, E.C.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2012). Comparison of extraction and work up techniques for analysis of core and intact polar tetraether lipids from sedimentary environments. Org. Geochem. 47: 34-40. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.02.009
    Lengger, S.K.; Hopmans, E.C.; Reichart, G.J.; Nierop, K.G.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2012). Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone. Part II: Selective preservation and degradation in sediments and consequences for the TEX86. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 98: 244-258. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.05.003
    Brandsma, J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Philippart, C.J.M.; Veldhuis, M.J.W.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.S. (2012). Low temporal variation in the intact polar lipid composition of North Sea coastal marine water reveals limited chemotaxonomic value. Biogeosciences 9(3): 1073-1084. dx.doi.org/10.5194/bg-9-1073-2012
    Brandsma, J.; Hopmans, E.C.; Brussaard, C.P.D.; Witte, H.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Spatial distribution of intact polar lipids in North Sea surface waters: Relationship with environmental conditions and microbial community composition. Limnol. Oceanogr. 57(4): 959-973. dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2012.57.4.0959
    Wade, B.S.; Houben, A.J.P.; Quaijtaal, W.; Schouten, S.; Rosenthal, Y.; Miller, K.G.; Katz, M.E.; Wright, J.D.; Brinkhuis, H. (2012). Multiproxy record of abrupt sea-surface cooling across the Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Gulf of Mexico. Geology (Boulder Colo.) 40(2): 159-162. hdl.handle.net/10.1130/G32577.1
    Pross, J.; Contreras, L.; Bijl, P.K.; Greenwood, D.R.; Bohaty, S.M.; Schouten, S.; Bendle, J.A.; Röhl, U.; Tauxe, L.; Raine, J.I.; Huck, C.E.; van de Flierdt, T.; Jamieson, S.S.R.; Stickley, C.E.; van de Schootbrugge, B.; Escutia, C.; Escutia, C.; Brinkhuis, H. (2012). Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature (Lond.) 488(7409): 73-77. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature11300
    Fallet, U.; Castañeda, I.S; Henry-Edwards, A; Richter, T.O.; Boer, W.; Schouten, S.; Brummer, G.J. (2012). Sedimentation and burial of organic and inorganic temperature proxies in the Mozambique Channel, SW Indian Ocean. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 59: 37-53. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2011.10.002
    Schouten, S.; Pitcher, A.; Hopmans, E.C.; Villanueva, L.; van Bleijswijk, J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2012). Intact polar and core glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipids in the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone: I. Selective preservation and degradation in the water column and consequences for the TEX86. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 98: 228-243. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.05.002
  • 2011
    Woltering, M.; Johnson, T.C.; Werne, J.P.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Late Pleistocene temperature history of Southeast Africa: A TEX86 temperature record from Lake Malawi. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 303(1-4): 93-102. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.02.013
    Weijers, J.W.H.; Bernhardt, B.; Peterse, F.; Werne, J.P.; Dungait, J.A.J.; Schouten, S.; Sinninge Damsté, J.S. (2011). Absence of seasonal patterns in MBT-CBT indices in mid-latitude soils. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 75(11): 3179-3190. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2011.03.015
    Sluijs, A.; Bijl, P.K.; Schouten, S.; Röhl, U.; Reichart, G.-J.; Brinkhuis, H. (2011). Southern Ocean warming, sea level and hydrological change during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Clim. Past 7(1): 47-61. hdl.handle.net/10.5194/cp-7-47-2011
    Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Verschuren, D.; Ossebaar, J.; Blokker, J.; van Houten, R.; Plessen, B.; Schouten, S. (2011). A 25,000-year record of climate-induced changes in lowland vegetation of eastern equatorial Africa revealed by the stable carbon-isotopic composition of fossil plant leaf waxes. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 302(1-2): 236-246. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.025
    Schoon, P.L.; Sluijs, A.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2011). Stable carbon isotope patterns of marine biomarker lipids in the Arctic Ocean during Eocene Thermal Maximum 2. Paleoceanography 26. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002028
    Pitcher, A.; Wuchter, C.; Siedenberg, K.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Crenarchaeol tracks winter blooms of ammonia-oxidizing Thaumarchaeota in the coastal North Sea. Limnol. Oceanogr. 56(6): 2308-2318. dx.doi.org/10.4319/lo.2011.56.6.2308
    Peterse, F.; Prins, M.A.; Beets, C.J.; Troelstra, S.R.; Zheng, H.B.; Gu, Z.Y.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Decoupled warming and monsoon precipitation in East Asia over the last deglaciation. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 301(1-2): 256-264. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.11.010
    Huguet, C.; Martrat, B.; Grimalt, J.O.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Schouten, S. (2011). Coherent millennial-scale patterns in U37k' and TEX86H temperature records during the penultimate interglacial-to-glacial cycle in the western Mediterranean. Paleoceanography 26. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010PA002048
    Fawcett, P.J.; Werne, J.P.; Anderson, R.S.; Heikoop, J.M.; Brown, E.T.; Berke, M.A.; Smith, S.J.; Goff, F.; Donohoo-Hurley, L.; Cisneros-Dozal, L.M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Huang, Y.S.; Toney, J.; Fessenden, J.; WoldeGabriel, G.; Atudorei, V.; Geissman, J.W.; Allen, C.D. (2011). Extended megadroughts in the southwestern United States during Pleistocene interglacials. Nature (Lond.) 470(7335): 518-521. dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature09839
    Castañeda, I.S; Schouten, S. (2011). A review of molecular organic proxies for examining modern and ancient lacustrine environments. Quat. Sci. Rev. 30(21-22): 2851-2891. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.07.009
    Caley, T.; Kim, J.H.; Malaize, B.; Giraudeau, J.; Laepple, T.; Caillon, N.; Charlier, K.; Rebaubier, H.; Rossignol, L.; Castañeda, I.S; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). High-latitude obliquity as a dominant forcing in the Agulhas current system. Clim. Past 7(4): 1285-1296. dx.doi.org/10.5194/cp-7-1285-2011
    Hu, B.L.; Rush, D.; van der Biezen, E.; Zheng, P.; van Mullekom, M.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S.; Smolders, A.J.P.; Jetten, M.S.M.; Kartal, B. (2011). New Anaerobic, Ammonium-Oxidizing Community Enriched from Peat Soil. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 77(3): 966-971. dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.02402-10
    Rampen, S.W.; Schouten, S.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S. (2011). Occurrence of long chain 1,14-diols in Apedinella radians. Org. Geochem. 42(5): 572-574. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2011.03.009
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