Walter Hale

Our task at the IODP Bremen Core Repository (BCR) is to store, preserve and manage the collection of well over 100 km of deep-sea core material collected over several decades by the DSDP, ODP, and IODP programs, and to provide samples to the scientific community worldwide for diverse research projects. Our collection comprises all sediment and hard-rock cores from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea.

• Mar. 1994 – Present: Superintendent ODP/IODP Bremen Core Repository.
• From Jan. 1992: Bremen University, PhD candidate.
• Jan. 1986 – Jan. 1992: Biostratigrapher, Chevron Oil Co. (Exploration), New Orleans, La., USA.
• 1985: East Carolina University – M.S. degree Geology (Application of a Regression Model in the Determination of Post-Mortem Transport of Foraminiferal Tests).

Hale, W. and Pflaumann, U. (1999). Sea-surface temperature estimations using a modern analog technique with foraminiferal assemblages from western Atlantic Quaternary sediments. In: Fischer, G., Wefer, G. (eds.), Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp 69-90.

Wolff, T., Grieger, B., Hale, W., Dürkoop, A., Mulitza, S., Pätzold, J., Wefer, G. (1999). On the reconstruction of paleosalinities. In: Fischer, G., Wefer, G. (eds.), Use of Proxies in Paleoceanography: Examples from the South Atlantic. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp 207-228.

Mulitza, S., Rühlemann, C., Bickert, T., Hale, W., Pätzold, J., Wefer, G. (1998). Late Quaternary 13C gradients and carbonate accumulation in the western equatorial Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 155, 237-249.

Mulitza, S., Wolff, T., Pätzold, J., Hale, W., Wefer, G. (1998). Temperature sensitivity of planktonic foraminifera and its influence on the oxygen isotope record. Marine Micropaleontology, 33, 223-240.

Dürkoop, A., Hale, W., Mulitza, S., Pätzold, J., Wefer G. (1997). Late Quaternary variations of sea surface salinity and temperature in the western tropical Atlantic: evidence from 18O of Globigerinoides sacculifer. Paleoceanography, 12, 764-772.

Mulitza, S., Dürkoop, A., Hale, W., Wefer, G., Niebler, H.-S. (1997). Planktonic foraminifera as recorders of past surface-water stratification. Geology, 25, 335-338.

Rühlemann, C., Frank, M., Hale, W., Mangini, A., Mulitza, S., Müller, P. J., Wefer, G. (1996). Late Quaternary productivity changes in the western equatorial Atlantic: Evidence from 230Th-normalized carbonate and organic carbon accumulation rates. Marine Geology, 135, 127-152.

Snyder, S.W., Hale, W., Kontrovitz, M. (1990). Assessment of postmortem transportation of modern benthic foraminifera on the Washington continental shelf. Micropaleontology, vol. 36, no.3, 259-282.

Snyder, S.W., Hale, W., Kontrovitz, M. (1990). Distributional patterns of modern benthic foraminifera on the Washington continental shelf. Micropaleontology, vol. 36, no.3, 245-258.