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I am a palaeoclimatologist with strong affinity to caves and carbonates. My research interest includes palaeoclimatology, geothermometry, geochronology, climate-human interaction, geochemistry, continental environmental change, and human adaptation/behaviour in response to climate change.

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  • A 60–50 ka African Humid Period modulated by stadial Heinrich events HE6 and HE5a in northwestern Africa, Nutz, A., Kwiecien, O., Buylaert, J., Guihou, A., Khabouchi, I., Deschamps, P., Breitenbach, S., Poirier, P., Dietrich, P., Kabiri, L., Essafraoui, B., Bodin, S. 1 Feb 2024, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
  • Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum, Wolf, A., Baker, J., Tjallingii, R., Cai, Y., Osinzev, A., Antonosyan, M., Amano, N., Johnson, K., Skiba, V., McCormack, J., Kwiecien, O., Chervyatsova, O., Dublyansky, Y., Dbar, R., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. 26 Mar 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment
  • Climate monitoring in the Caumont cave and quarry system (northern France) reveal near oxygen isotopic equilibrium conditions for carbonate deposition, Bejarano-Arias, I., Nehme, C., Breitenbach, S., Meyer, H., Modestou, S., Mouralis, D. Jan 2024, In: International Journal of Speleology
  • Mid‐Holocene rainfall seasonality and ENSO dynamics over the south‐western Pacific, Nava‐Fernandez, C., Braun, T., Pederson, C., Fox, B., Hartland, A., Kwiecien, O., Höpker, S., Bernasconi, S., Jaggi, M., Hellstrom, J., Gázquez, F., French, A., Marwan, N., Immenhauser, A., Breitenbach, S. Feb 2024, In: The Depositional Record
  • Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum, Wolf, A., Baker, J., Tjallingii, R., Cai, Y., Osinzev, A., Antonosyan, M., Amano, N., Johnson, K., Skiba, V., McCormack, J., Kwiecien, O., Chervyatsova, O., Dublyansky, Y., Dbar, R., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. 5 Feb 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment
  • Controls on Speleothem Initial 234U/238U Ratios in a Monsoon Climate, Oster, J., Ronay, E., Sharp, W., Breitenbach, S., Furbish, D. Apr 2023, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
  • Deciphering local and regional hydroclimate resolves contradicting evidence on the Asian monsoon evolution, Wolf, A., Ersek, V., Braun, T., French, A., McGee, D., Bernasconi, S., Skiba, V., Griffiths, M., Johnson, K., Fohlmeister, J., Breitenbach, S., Pausata, F., Tabor, C., Longman, J., Roberts, W., Chandan, D., Peltier, W., Salzmann, U., Limbert, D., Trinh, H., Trinh, A. 14 Sep 2023, In: Nature Communications
  • Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies, Braun, T., Breitenbach, S., Skiba, V., Lechleitner, F., Ray, E., Baldini, L., Polyak, V., Baldini, J., Kennett, D., Prufer, K., Marwan, N. 17 Mar 2023, In: Communications Earth and Environment
  • Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran, Shoaee, M., Breeze, P., Drake, N., Hashemi, S., Vahdati Nasab, H., Breitenbach, S., Stevens, T., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. 1 Mar 2023, In: PLoS One
  • Holocene hydroclimate variability along the Southern Patagonian margin (Chile) reconstructed from Cueva Chica speleothems, Nehme, C., Todisco, D., Breitenbach, S., Couchoud, I., Marchegiano, M., Peral, M., Vonhof, H., Hellstrom, J., Tjallingii, R., Claeys, P., Borrero, L., Martin, F. 1 Mar 2023, In: Global and Planetary Change

  • Maria Box Interglacial environmental dynamics in the permafrost region of Northern Mongolia Start Date: 01/10/2023
  • Jade Margerum Regional interglacial climate and environment of continental Siberia during the past 600,000 years. Start Date: 01/10/2021

you can find more about my current work here: https://quest.pik-potsdam.de/

COPRA and other useful tools can be downloaded from: http://tocsy.pik-potsdam.de/copra.php

PhD October 19 2009

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