Dr. Stefan Mulitza

Research Topics

• History of ocean circulation and upwelling
• Tropical land-ocean interactions
• Ecology of planktic foraminifera
• Calibration of paleoceanographic proxies

Selected Publications

Collins, JA, Schefuß, E, Heslop, D, Mulitza, S, Prange, M, Zabel, M, Tjallingii, R, Dokken, TM, Huang, E, Mackensen, A, Schulz, M, Tian, J, Zarriess, M & Wefer, G (2010) Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years. Nature Geoscience, 3, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1039, Published online, 12 December 2010

Mulitza, S, Heslop, D, Pittauerova, D, Fischer, HW, Meyer, I, Stuut, JB, Zabel, M, Mollenhauer, G, Collins, JA, Kuhnert, H, Schulz, M (2010) Increase in African dust flux at the onset of commercial agriculture in the Sahel region. Nature, 466, 226-228.

MARGO Project Members (2009) Constraints on the magnitude and patterns of ocean cooling at the Last Glacial Maximum. Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO411

Castañeda, IS, Mulitza, S, Schefuß, E, Lopes dos Santos, RA, Sinninghe Damsté, JS, Schouten, S (2009) Wet phases in the Sahara/Sahel region and human migration patterns in North Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi10.1073pnas.0905771106 (open access)

Lynch-Stieglitz, J, Adkins, JF, Curry, WB, Dokken, T, Hall, IR, Herguera, JC, Hirschi,, JJ-M, Ivanova, EV, Kissel, C, Marchal, O, Marchitto, TM, McCave, IN, McManus, JF, Mulitza, S, Ninnemann, U, Peeters, F, Yu, E-F, Zahn, R (2007) Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science, 316, 66-69.

McGregor, H, Dima, M, Fischer, HW, Mulitza, S (2007) Rapid 20th-century increase in coastal upwelling off Northwest Africa, Science, 315, 637-639.

Rühlemann, C, Mulitza, S, Müller, PM, Wefer, G, Zahn, R (1999) Warming of the tropical Atlantic Ocean and slowdown of thermohaline circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature, 402, 511-514.

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Data

I am happy to share all my published data. Please contact me if you can not find a data set from any of my papers on PANGAEA.

Editorial Boards/Working Groups

Marine Micropaleontology

Glacial Ocean Atlas

MARGO - Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean surface

PACE - SCOR/IMAGES WG 123 on
Reconstruction of Past Ocean Circulation

Talks and Seminars 2011

• Mid- to late Holocene history of West African precipitation, vegetation and dust production. Workshop on NORTHERN AFRICA – PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGES, Hamburg, February 7, 2011 (invited)
• Late Holocene variability of Saharan dust mobilisation: relation to ocean circulation and human activity. EGU Vienna, April 4, 2011
• Glacial to Holocene History of the Tropical Atlantic Rainbelt: Influence of Orbital Insolation and Ocean Circulation. Keynote XIII ABEQUA Congress, Buzios, Brazil, October 11, 2011 (invited)
• Oxygen isotope constraints on the glacial Atlantic surface water hydrology. XIII ABEQUA Congress, Buzios, Brazil, October 11, 2011 (invited)
• Anthropogenic signals in sediments of the tropical/subtropical Atlantic. Seminar University of Sao Paulo, October 14, 2011 (invited)

Workshops Hosted

Response of North African ecosystems to abrupt climate change This 3-day workshop brought together leading international scientists in African palaeoclimate reconstruction, from both the marine and terrestrial realms, archaeology, paleoclimate modelling as well as experts in monsoon dynamics. The workshop aimed at exploring the role of Africa in global climate change throughout the geological past, the present and the future. more...


Reconstruction of the Glacial Deep Ocean Circulation  The main goal of the workshop was to compile a global data base of proxies related to deep water circulation and that have the potential to be simulated in climate models. more...

PMIP-MARGO-PAGES Workshop on Comparing Ocean Models with Paleo-Archives 2012 (COMPARE 2012). more...