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Dr. Jan-Berend W. Stuut
Name: | Dr. Jan-Berend W. Stuut | |
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Funktionen: | Since 1 Sept. 2009 Research Scientist at Royal NIOZ, the Netherlands. Associated to MARUM | |
Mondays - Thursdays at NIOZ (NL) | ||
Telefon: | 0421 218 - 65657 | |
Fax: | 0421 218 - 65505 | |
E-Mail: |
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Latest news
Next to the daily madness here are some things that keep me busy at the moment:
Dust collection onboard the clipper "Stad Amsterdam" that is sailing the route of the HMS Beagle, more than 150 years after Dawin. See http://beagle.vpro.nl and some items in which I participated at: www.stuut.tv/html/beagle10.html
Dust storms in Australia.
Due to the drying up of Lake Eyre that was full this (austral) autumn, Australia is now suffering from heavy dust loads.
See e.g., this news item on the Dutch television, and many more on the web.
Moving to and from Royal NIOZ in the Netherlands.
Usually you can reach me there at +31 222 369 405.
On Fridays still at MARUM.
Setting up a field trip to some sources of Saharan dust in Mauritania in November 2009.
Organising a field trip to Mauritania to collect Saharan dust at its source(s)
Setting up a special volume in Quaternary International as a result of the Southern-Connections 2010 meeting, Bariloche, Argentina, 15-19 February 2010.
Click here for the call for papers.
From 13 March until 9 April I participated in cruise MSM11/2 onboard the R.V. Merian. Inka Meyer and me kept a blog of this cruise, which you can still read here.
Spreading the word of the new journal "Aeolian Research"
Dust-OZ-IV
Field trip to the Lake-Eyre Basin (central Australia) to study dust at its source, postponed from the Fall of this year to sometime September 2010.
Click here for a photo impression of Dust-OZ-I, June 2007
A film about my dusty work for www.dfg-science-tv.de; episode 9 has appeared recently (in German).
Research interests
Aeolian dust is the main research topic I have been working on since my PhD;
My approach is a sedimentological one: the wind is a very selective transport mechanism that has a strong impact on the material it carries from source to sink, and on its particle-size distributions:
* coarse particles won't be picked up
* fine particles will be kept in suspension
Therefore, wind-blown deposits have a very-well sorted size distribution that decreases from proximal (close to the source) to distal (far away from the source).
If we can recognise and quantify wind-blown particles in deep-sea sediments (and obviously we claim that we can) they can tell us something about the environmental conditions in the source area at the time of deposition.
In addition I try to find support for the inferences made on the physical properties using (bio)geochemical and mineralogical proxies.
This approach resulted in a number of papers that you'll find listed on this page.
For more information please visit my website at www.stuut.tv
Peer-reviewed papers
| In the pipeline |
| Mieke Thierens, Hans Pirlet , Colin Colin, Kathrin Latruwe, Fred Vanhaecke, Jan-Berend Stuut, Jürgen Titschack, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Boris Dorschel, Andy J. Wheeler, and Jean-Pierre Henriet Evidence for an ice-rafting British-Irish Ice Sheet since the earliest Pleistocene (2.6 million years ago) |
| 2002 - 2010 |
| Mieke Thierens, Jürgen Titschack, Boris Dorschel, Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Andrew J. Wheeler, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Rory O’Donnell (2010) The 2.6 Ma depositional sequence from the Challenger cold-water coral carbonate mound (IODP Exp. 307): Sediment contributors and hydrodynamic palaeo-environments Marine Geology 271 p 260-277 |
| John S. Compton, Caren Herbert, M. Timm Hoffman, Ralph Schneider & Jan-Berend Stuut (2010) A tenfold increase in the Orange River mean Holocene mud flux: implications for soil erosion in South Africa The Holocene 20 p 115-122 |
| Helen V. McGregor, Lydie Dupont, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Holger Kuhlmann (2009) Vegetation change, goats, and religion: a 2000-year history of land use in southern Morocco Quaternary Science Reviews 28 p 1434-1448 |
| Ulrich Alt-Epping, Jan-Berend Stuut, Dierk Hebbeln & Ralph Schneider (2009) Variations in sediment provenance during the past 3000 years off the Tagus River, Portugal Marine Geology 261 p 82-91 |
| Dana Pittauerová, Stefan Mulitza, Bernd Hettwig, Wissam Chehade, Gesine Mollenhauer, Jan-Berend Stuut & Helmut W. Fischer (in press): Application of self-absorption correction method in gamma spectroscopy for 210Pb and 137Cs sediment chronology on the continental slope off NW Africa Radioprotection 44 (5) p 457-461 |
| Jan-Berend Stuut, Ian Smalley & Ken O'Hara Dhandt (2009) Aeolian dust in Europe: African sources and European deposits Quaternary International 198 p 234-245 |
| Xingqi Liu, Hailiang Dong, Xiangdong Yang, Ulrike Herzschuh, Enlou Zhang, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Yongbo Wang (2009) Late Holocene forcing of the Asian winter and summer monsoon as evidenced by proxy records from the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Earth and Planetary Science Letters 280 p 276-284 |
| Patrick De Deckker, Raeid Abed, Dirk de Beer, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Tadhg O’Loingsigh, Enno Schefuss, Jan-Berend Stuut, Nigel Tapper & Sander van der Kaars (2008) Geochemical and microbiological fingerprinting of airborne dust that fell in Canberra, Australia in October 2002 G³ 9, Q12Q10 |
| Stefan Mulitza, Matthias Prange, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Matthias Zabel, Tilo von Dobeneck, Achakie C. Itambi, Jean Nizou, Michael Schulz & Gerold Wefer (2008) Sahel megadroughts triggered by glacial slowdowns of Atlantic meridional overturning Paleoceanography 23 PA4206 |
| Rik Tjallingii, Martin Claussen, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Jens Fohlmeister, Alexandra Jahn, Torsten Bickert, Frank Lamy & Ursula Röhl (2008) Coherent high- and low latitude control of the Northwest African hydrological balance Nature Geoscience 1(10), pp 670-675 |
| Jan-Berend Stuut, Stefan Mulitza & Matthias Prange (2008) Challenges to Understanding Past and Future Climate in Africa (Workshop report) EOS 89-21, pp 196 |
| Yvonne Hamann, Werner Ehrmann, Gerhard Schmiedl, Stefan Krüger, Jan-Berend Stuut & Tanja Kuhnt (2008) Sedimentation Processes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the Late Glacial and Holocene revealed by end-member modelling of the terrigenous fraction in marine sediments Marine Geology 248 (1-2), pp 97-114 |
| Christine Holz, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Helge Meggers & Rüdiger Henrich (2007) Variability in terrigenous sedimentation processes off northwest Africa and its relation to climatic changes: inferences from grain-size distributions of a Holocene marine sediment record Sedimentary Geology 202, pp 499-508 |
| Shiming Wan, Anchun Li, Peter D. Clift & Jan-Berend W. Stuut (2007) Development of the East Asian monsoon: Mineralogical and Sedimentological records in the northern South China Sea since 15 Ma Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 254, pp 561-582 |
| Christine Zühlsdorff, Katarina Wien, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Rüdiger Henrich (2007) Late Quaternary sedimentation within a submarine channel-levee system offshore Cap Timiris, Mauritania Marine Geology 240 (1), pp 217-234 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Sabine Kasten, Frank Lamy & Dierk Hebbeln (2007) Sources and modes of terrigenous sediment input to the Chilean continental slope Quaternary International 161, pp 67-76 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Margarita Marchant, Jérôme Kaiser, Frank Lamy, Mahyar Mohtadi, Oscar Romero & Dierk Hebbeln (2006) The Late Quaternary paleoenvironment of Chile as seen from marine archives Geographica Helvetica 61-2, pp 35-5 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Matthias Zabel, Gaute Lavik, Enno Schefuß, Volker Ratmeyer & Ralph R. Schneider (2005) Provenance of present-day eolian dust collected off NW Africa: implications for deep-marine sediment studies JGR - Atmospheres 110 D04202 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Frank Lamy (2004) Climate variability at the southern boundaries of the Namib (Southwestern Africa) and Atacama (Northern Chile) coastal Deserts Quaternary Research 62 (3) pp. 301-309 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Xavier Crosta, Klaas van der Borg & Ralph R. Schneider (2004) Relationship between Antarctic sea ice and southwest African climate during the Late Quaternary Geology 32 (10) pp. 909-912 |
| Christine Holz, Jan-Berend W. Stuut & Rüdiger Henrich (2004) Terrigenous sedimentation processes along the continental margin off NW-Africa: implications from grain-size analysis of surface sediments Sedimentology 51, pp. 1145-1154 |
| Bas West, J.H. Fred Jansen & Jan-Berend W. Stuut (2004) Surface water conditions in the Northern Benguela region (SE Atlantic) during the last 450 ky reconstructed from assemblages of planktonic foraminifera Marine Micropaleontology 51, pp. 321-344 |
| Michael Frenz, René Höppner, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Thomas Wagner & Rüdiger Henrich (2004) Surface sediment bulk geochemistry and grain-size composition related to the oceanic circulation along the South American continental margin in the Southwest Atlantic in: Gerold Wefer, Stefan Mulitza, & Volker Ratmeyer (Eds.): The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budgets and Current Systems. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York Tokyo, pp 347-373 |
| Enno Schefuß, Volker Ratmeyer, Jan-Berend W. Stuut, J.H. Fred Jansen & Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté (2003) Carbon isotope analysis of N-alkanes in dust from the lower atmosphere over the central eastern Atlantic Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 67 (10), pp 1757-1767 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Maarten A. Prins & J. H. Fred Jansen (2002) Fast reconnaisance of carbonate dissolution based on the size distribution of calcareous ooze on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Ocean Marine Geology 190 (3-4), pp 563-571 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut, Maarten A. Prins, Ralph R. Schneider, Gert Jan Weltje, J.H. Fred Jansen & George Postma (2002) A 300-kyr record of aridity and wind strength in southwestern Africa: inferences from grain-size distributions of sediments on Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Marine Geology 180, pp 221-233 |
| Jan-Berend W. Stuut (2001) Late Quaternary SW African terrestrial-climate signals in the marine record of Walvis Ridge, SE Atlantic Ocean. Geologica Ultraiectina 212, Ph.D. thesis, 128 pp |
Curriculum Vitae
| September 2009 - | Research Scientist (tenure track) at Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (Royal NIOZ) the Netherlands. Associated to MARUM. |
| July 2005 - August 2009 | Post-doc in NEBROC |
| March 2002 - June 2005 | Post-doc in RCOM C3: Sedimentation processes on the Chilean continental margin |
| November 2001 - February 2002 | Lab assistant in Sedimentology laboratory of VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| May 1997 - November 2001 | Ph.D. student at Utrecht University and Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research |
| January - August 1994 | Internship at the Laboratory for Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography, Patras University, Greece |
| September 1990 - August 1996 | Bachelor's and Master's at Utrecht University, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Sedimentology Division: Subject: Marine geology and Sedimentology |
Expeditions
| March 2010 | Clipper Stad Amsterdam | Off S Australia |
| November 2009 | Onland fieldwork | Mauritania |
| March 2009 | MSM11/2 MS Merian | Off NW Africa |
| February 2009 | Fieldtrip to UAE Deserts | United Arab Emirates |
| May 2008 | P366/1 FS Poseidon | Off Mauritania |
| June 2007 | Onland fieldwork (DOZ-I) | Lake Eyre Australia |
| June 2005 | M65/1 FS Meteor | Off W Africa |
| March 2003 | RV BioBio | Off Chile |
| April 2001 | SUPO RV Pelagia | Indian Ocean-Red Sea |
| February 2001 | MARE3 RV Pelagia | Off Namibia |
| July 2000 | MARE2 SA Agulhas | Off South Africa |
| February 1998 | M41/1 FS Meteor | Off W Africa |
| October 1996 | IMAGESII NO Marion Dufresne | Indian Ocean-S Atlantic |
| June 1994 | Greek fish cutter | Central Mediterranean |
Literature stuff
Just as shameless self promotion (I'm in the editorial boards of these two journals) I'd like to promote:
Climate of the Past (an open-access Journal of the EGU)
Aeolian Research (a new Elsevier journal)
For keeping track of my references I use the Thomson software package EndNote.
Please feel free to use my library that you can download here.
(last update: 2010-03-18)
