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Dr. James Collins

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Publications

Collins, J. A., Schefuß, E., Govin, A., Mulitza, S., & Tiedemann, R. (2014). Insolation and glacial–interglacial control on southwestern African hydroclimate over the past 140 000 years. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 398, 1-10.

Collins, J. A., Govin, A., Mulitza, S., Heslop, D., Zabel, M., Hartmann, J., Röhl, U., Wefer, G. (2013) Abrupt shifts of the Sahara-Sahel boundary during Heinrich Stadials. Climate of the Past 9, 1181-1191.

Collins, J. A., Schefuß, E., Mulitza, S., Prange, M., Werner, M., Tharammal, T., Paul, A., Wefer, G. (2013). Estimating the hydrogen isotopic composition of past precipitation using leaf-waxes from western Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 65, 88-101.

Collins, J. A., Schefuß, E., Heslop, D., Mulitza, S., Prange, M., Zabel, M., Tjallingii, R., Dokken, T. M., Huang, E., Mackensen, A., Schulz, M., Tian, J., Zarriess, M., Wefer, G. (2011) Interhemispheric symmetry of the tropical African rainbelt over the past 23,000 years. Nature Geoscience 4, 42-45.

Govin, A., Holzwarth, U., Heslop, D., Ford Keeling, L., Zabel, M., Mulitza, S., Collins, J. A., and Chiessi, C. M. (2012) Distribution of major elements in Atlantic surface sediments (36°N-49°S): Imprint of terrigenous input and continental weathering. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 13, Q01013.

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

CV

Feb 2013 - Present
Aug 2011 - Jan 2013
Aug 2008 - Jul 2011
Sep 2004 - Jun 2008
Post-Doc, AWI, Bremerhaven
Post-Doc, MARUM, University of Bremen
PhD, MARUM, University of Bremen
MEarthSci, University of Oxford

Research Interests

  • Palaeoclimatology (tropical western Africa, southern Chile)
  • Palaeoceanography (sea surface temperature of SE Pacific and SE Atlantic
  • Organic geochemistry (leaf wax 13C, D/H, GDGTs)
  • Major-element geochemistry

Funding and Projects

Present:
Helmholtz Post-doc programm and Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Marine and Polar Reearch
Helmholtz Post-doc programme

Previous:
REKLIM: Topic 8 - Rapid climate change derived from proxy data (Helmholtz)

ESF-EuroMARC Project 'RETRO': Response of tropical Atlantic surface and intermediate waters to changes in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Conference presentations

SASQUA, Gobabeb, Namibia, 2012
IMOG, Interlaken, 2011
ESF-EUROMARC meeting, Lisbon, 2011
EGU, Vienna, 2009, 2010

Awards

Bremer Studienpreis, 2012
MARUM Research Prize, 2012

Expeditions

RV Marion Dufresne MD173: 'RETRO-III' Oct 2009
RV Meteor M78/3b: 'Sediment transport of Uruguay and Argentina' Jun-Jul 2009