Logo Universitat Bremen
Seitenpfad:

Dr. David De Vleeschouwer

Archivierte Seite

Diese Webseite wird seit dem Ausscheiden der Kollegin / des Kollegen aus dem MARUM nicht mehr aktualisiert.

 

Se­lec­ted Quick Facts

As a pa­leocean­o­grapher, un­rav­el­ing en­vir­on­mental proxy sig­nals frompast warm climatecon­di­tions asrecorded in marine sedimentsis my bread & but­ter. 

Three "warmer-than-present" Epochsof in­terest:

  • Pliocene (transition from uni-polar to bi-polar ice sheets)
  • Eocene (transition from ice-free conditions to isolated uni-polar ice caps)
  • Late Devonian (ice-free greenhouse climate state). 

Two main proxiesof in­terest:Natural Gamma Radiation &Clumped isotopepa­leo­ther­mo­metry. 

Ship­board sci­ent­ist onIODP Exp. 356 "Indonesian Throughflow". Shore-based sci­ent­ist onIODP Exp. 369 "Australia climate and tectonics". 

European Geosciences Union (EGU) Out­stand­ing Young Sci­ent­ist Award in the di­vi­sion ofStratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology (SSP).

Amer­ican Geo­phys­ical Union (AGU)Nanne Weber Early Career Award in Pa­leo­cli­mato­logy & Pa­leocean­o­graphy. 

VOCATIO Laureate for re­search on Plio­cene Aus­tralian mon­soon dy­nam­ics.

An­nual Award Laur­eate in Geo­logy (2014) of theAcadémie Royale de Belgique.

Full Mem­ber (Or­dent­liches Mit­glied) of the Ger­man "Subkommission Devon-Stratigraphie".

Co-founder of theCyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project. 

More than 45 peer-re­viewed pub­lic­a­tions (Google Scholar Profile)

Re­search In­terests

My re­search fo­cus lies onclimate - carbon cycle feedback mechanisms(and their chan­ging re­sponse to as­tro­nom­ical for­cing)under non-Quaternary boundary conditions. For ex­ample, on a planet with uni­polar ice-sheets, on a planet without 8000 m high Hi­m­alayan moun­tains, on a planet with a wide-open In­done­sian Through­flow, or on a planet with more than 500 ppm CO2.

To do so, I study sev­eral geo­lo­gical epochs: the Late Devo­nian (~375 Ma), the Eo­cene (~40 Ma) and the Plio­cene (~5 Ma). None of these time slices are per­fect ana­logues for the An­thro­po­cene, yet they are worth study­ing as they provide valu­able in­sights into the ma­chinery of the cli­mate sys­tem un­der bound­ary con­di­tions much un­like today’s. Ob­vi­ously, the age of the sed­i­ment(ary rock) un­der in­vest­ig­a­tion is very dif­fer­ent between the three epochs of in­terest, but my work al­ways shares a com­mon ob­ject­ive:Integrating the paleoclimate and geochronology aspects of the sedimentary archives to better constrainhow muchandhow fastour planet has been changing.To do so, I draw from my broad skill set (field, lab and nu­mer­ical mod­el­ing) and from a wide range of prox­ies (iso­topic, ele­mental and geo­phys­ical prox­ies). 

Cur­riculum vitae

2019 - 2021

Postdoc at MARUM: “Cluster of Ex­cel­lence – The Ocean Floor – Earth’s Un­charted In­ter­face”

Objective: To de­rive scen­arios for “warmer worlds” through com­pre­hens­ive de­cod­ing of en­vir­on­mental sig­nals from past warm cli­mate con­di­tions as re­cor­ded in ocean-floor archives.
2014 - 2019

Postdoc at MARUM: “ERC Con­sol­id­ator Grant – EARTH­SEQUEN­CING” (Prof. Heiko Pä­like).

Objective:To se­quence Earth his­tory at as­tro­nom­ical (104-year) res­ol­u­tion over the past 66 Myr.
2015

Phys­ical Prop­er­ties and Down­hole Log­ging spe­cial­ist on IODP Ex­ped­i­tion 356 “In­done­sian Through­flow”.
2014

PhD in Geo­logy from the Vrije Uni­versiteit Brus­sel (Bel­gium): "The in­flu­ence of or­bital for­cing on the Devo­nian (370 Ma) ex­treme green­house cli­mate.”
2010 Mas­ter of Sci­ence from the Vrije Uni­versiteit Brus­sel & Kath­olieke Uni­versiteit Leuven (Bel­gium) in Geo­graphy – Earth and cli­mate.

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. Sinnesael, M., De Vleeschouwer D., Zeeden C. et al. (2019) The Cyclostratigraphy Intercomparison Project (CIP): consistency, merits and pitfalls. Earth-Science Reviews, in press. 
  2. Vahlenkamp M., De Vleeschouwer D., Batenburg S. et al. (2019) An early to middle Eocene astrochronology for the Mentelle Basin (Australia) and its implications for the geologic time scale. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, in press. 
  3. De Vleeschouwer D., Petrick B., Garcia-Marinez A. (2019) Stepwise weakening of the Pliocene Leeuwin Current. Geophysical Research Letters, 46: 8310-8319. 
  4. Ishiwa T., Yokoyama Y., Reuning L., McHugh C.M., De Vleeschouwer D., Gallagher S.J. (2019) Australian Summer Monsoon variability in the past 14,000 years revealed by IODP Expedition 356 sediments. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 6: 17.
  5. Auer G., De Vleeschouwer D., Smith R.A., Bogus K., Groeneveld J., Grunert P., Castañeda I.S., Petrick B., Christensen B., Fulthorpe C., Gallagher S.J., Henderiks J. (2019) Timing and pacing of Indonesian Throughflow restriction and its connection to Late Pliocene climate shifts. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34: 635-657.
  6. Da Silva A.C., Dekkers M.J., De Vleeschouwer D., Hladil J., Chadimova L., Slavik L., Hilgen F.J. (2018) Millennial-scale climate changes manifest Milankovitch combination tones and Hallstatt solar cycles in the Devonian greenhouse world. Geology, 47(1): 19-22.
  7. Gallagher S. J., Reuning L., Himmler T., Henderiks J., De Vleeschouwer D., Groeneveld J., Rastigar Lari A., Fulthorpe C.S., Bogus K., and Expedition 356 Shipboard Scientists (2018) The enigma of rare Quaternary oolites in the Indian and Pacific Oceans: A result of global oceanographic physicochemical conditions or a sampling bias? Quaternary Science Reviews, 200: 114-122.
  8. De Vleeschouwer D., Auer G., Smith R., Bogus K., Christensen B., Groeneveld J., Petrick B., Henderiks J., Castañeda I.S., O'Brien E., Ellinghausen M., Gallagher S.J., Fulthorpe C.S., Pälike H. (2018) The amplifying effect of Indonesian Throughflow heat transport on Late Pliocene Southern Hemisphere climate cooling. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 500: 15-27.
  9. Percival L.M.E., Davies J.H.F.L., Schaltegger U., De Vleeschouwer D., Da Silva A.-C., Föllmi K. B. (2018). Precisely dating the Frasnian-Famennian boundary: implications for the cause of the Late Devonian mass extinction. Scientific Reports, 8: 9578.
  10. Gallagher S.J., Sagawa T., Henderson A.C.G., Saavedra-Pellitero M., De Vleeschouwer D., Black H., Itaki T., Toucanne S., Bassetti M.-A., Clemens S., Anderson W., Alvarez-Zarikian C., Tada R. (2018) East Asian Monsoon History and Paleoceanography of the Japan Sea Over the Last 460,000 Years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33: 683-702.
  11. Tangunan D.N., Baumann K.-H., Just J., LeVay L.J., Barker S., Brentegani L., De Vleeschouwer D., Hall I.R., Hemming S., Norris R. (2018) The last 1  million  years of the extinct genus Discoaster: Plio–Pleistocene environment and productivity at Site U1476 (Mozambique Channel). Palaeogeog. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol., 505: 187-197.
  12. Zhang W., De Vleeschouwer D., Shen J.,Zhang Z., Zeng L. (2018). Orbital time scale records of Asian eolian dust from the Sea of Japan since the early Pliocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 187: 157-167.
  13. Boulila S., Vahlenkamp M., De Vleeschouwer D., Laskar J., Yamamoto Y., Pälike H., Kirtland Turner S., Sexton P., Westerhold T., Röhl U. (2018) Towards a robust and consistent middle Eocene astronomical timescale. Earth and Planetary Science Letters

  14. Vahlenkamp M., Niezgodzki I., De Vleeschouwer D., Bickert T., Harper D., Kirtland Turner S., Lohmann G., Sexton P., Zachos J., Pälike H. (2018) Astronomically paced changes in deep-water circulation in the western North Atlantic during the middle Eocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 484: 329-340.

  15. De Vleeschouwer D., Königshof P. and Claeys P. (2018). Reading time and paleoenvironmental change in the Emsian-Eifelian boundary GSSP section (Wetteldorf, Germany): A combination of cyclostratigraphy and facies analysis. Newsletters on Stratigraphy, 51(2) 209-226.
  16. De Vleeschouwer D., Da Silva A.C., Sinnesael M., Chen D., Day J.E., Whalen M.T., Guo Z., Claeys P. (2017) Timing and pacing of the Late Devonian mass extinction event regulated by eccentricity and obliquity. Nature Communications, 8: 2268.

  17. De Vleeschouwer D., Dunlea A.G., Auer G., Anderson C.A., Brumsack H., de Loach A., Gurnis M.C., Huh Y., Ishiwa T., Jang K., Kominz M.A., März C., Schnetger B., Murray R.W., Pälike H., and Expedition 356 shipboard scientists (2017) Quantifying K, U and Th contents of marine sediments using shipboard natural gamma radiation spectra measured on DV JOIDES Resolution. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18: 1053-1064.

  18. De Vleeschouwer D., Vahlenkamp M., Crucifix M., Pälike H. (2017) Alternating southern and northern hesmiphere response to astronomical forcing during the past 35 million years. Geology, 45(4): 375-378.

  19. Christensen B.A., Renema W., Henderiks J., De Vleeschouwer D., Groeneveld J., Castañeda I.S., Reuning L., Bogus K., Auer G., Ishiwa T., McHugh C.M., Gallagher S.J., Fulthorpe C.S., and IODP Expedition 356 Scientists (2017). Indonesian Throughflow drove Australian climate from humid Pliocene to arid Pleistocene. Geophysical Research Letters.

  20. Groeneveld J., Hendriks J., Renema W., McHugh C.M., De Vleeschouwer D., Christensen B.A., Fulthorpe C.S., Reuning L., Gallagher S., Bogus K., Auer G., Ishiwa T. and Expedition 356 scientists (2017). Australian shelf sediments reveal shifts in Miocene Southern Hemisphere Westerlies. Science Advances, 3(5).

  21. Montanari A., Farley K., Claeys P., De Vleeschouwer D., de Winter N., Vansteenberge S., Sinnesael M., Koeberl C. (2017). Stratigraphic record of the asteroidal Veritas breakup in the Tortonian Monte dei Corvi section (Ancona, Italy). GSA Bulletin.

  22. Sinnesael M., Zivanovic M., De Vleeschouwer D., Claeys P., Schoukens J. (2016) Astronomical component estimation (ACE v.1) by time-variant sinusoidal modeling. Geoscientific Model Development, 9: 3517-3531

  23. Batenburg S. J., De Vleeschouwer D., Sprovieri M., Hilgen F. J., Gale A. S., Singer B. S., Koeberl C., Coccioni R., Claeys P., Montanari A. (2016) Orbital control on the timing of oceanic anoxia in the Late Cretaceous. Climate of the Past, 12: 1995-2009.

  24. Martinez M., Kotov S., De Vleeschouwer D., Pas D., Pälike H. (2016) Testing the impact of stratigraphic uncertainty on spectral analyses of sedimentary series. Climate of the Past, 12: 1765-1783.

  25. Sinnesael M., De Vleeschouwer D., Coccioni R., Claeys P., Frontalini F., Jovane L., Savian J.F., Montanari A. (2016) High-resolution multiproxy cyclostratigraphic analysis of environmental and climatic events across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary in the classic pelagic succession of Gubbio (Italy). Geological Society of America Special Papers 524: SPE524-09

  26. Pas D., Da Silva A.C., Devleeschouwer X., De Vleeschouwer D., Cornet P., Labaye C., Boulvain F. (2016) Insights into a million-year scale Rhenohercynian carbonate platform evolution through a multi-disciplinary approach: example of a Givetian carbonate record from Belgium. Geological Magazine: 1-33

  27. Whalen M.T., De Vleeschouwer D., Payne J.H., Day, J.E.., Over, J., and Claeys, P. (2016) Pattern and Timing of the Late Devonian Biotic Crisis in Western Canada: Insights from Carbon Isotopes and Astronomical Calibration of Magnetic Susceptibility Data, in Playton, T., Kerans, C., Weissenberger, J., and Montgomery, P., eds., New Advances in Devonian Carbonates: Outcrop Analogs, Reservoirs, and Chronostratigraphy: Tulsa, OK, USA, SEPM Special Publications (available online).

  28. De Vleeschouwer D., Leather D., Claeys P. (2015) Ripple marks indicate Mid-Devonian paleo-wind directions in the Orcadian Basin (Orkney Isles, Scotland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 426: 68-74

  29. Narkiewicz M., Grabowski J., Narkiewicz K., Niedźwiedzki G., Retallack G.J., Szrek P., De Vleeschouwer D. (2015). Palaeoenvironments of the Eifelian dolomites with earliest tetrapod trackways (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 420: 173-192.

  30. De Vleeschouwer D., Boulvain F., Da Silva A.C., Pas D., Labaye C., Claeys P. (2015): The astronomical calibration of the Givetian (Middle Devonian) time scale. Geological Society of London Special Publications 414: 245-256

  31. Grabowski J., Narkiewicz M., De Vleeschouwer D. (2015). Forcing factors of the magnetic susceptibility signal in lagoonal and subtidal depositional cycles from the Zachelmie section (Eifelian, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Geological Society of London Special Publications 414: 225-244

  32. Devleeschouwer X., Riquier L., Bábek O., De Vleeschouwer D., Petitclerc E., Sterckx S., Spassov S. (2015). Magnetization carriers of grey to red deep-water limestones in the GSSP of the Givetian–Frasnian boundary (Puech de la Suque, France): signals influenced by moderate diagenetic overprinting. Geological Society of London Special Publications 414: 157-180

  33. Pas D., Da Silva A.C., Devleeschouwer X., De Vleeschouwer D., Labaye C., Cornet P., Michel J., Boulvain F. (2014) Sedimentary development and magnetic susceptibility evolution of the Frasnian in Western Belgium (Dinant Synclinorium, La Thure section). Geological Society of London Special Publications 414: 15-36

  34. De Vleeschouwer D., Crucifix M., Bounceur N., Claeys P. (2014): The impact of astronomical forcing on the Late Devonian greenhouse climate. Global and Planetary Change 120: 65-85

  35. De Vleeschouwer, D., Parnell, A. (2014): Reducing time scale uncertainty for the Devonian by integrating astrochronology and Bayesian statistics. Geology 42: p. 491-494

  36. Da Silva A.C., De Vleeschouwer D., Boulvain F., Claeys P., Fagel N., Humblet M., Mabille C., Michel J., Sardar Abadi M., Pas D., Dekkers M.J. (2013): Magnetic susceptibility as a high-resolution correlation tool and as a climatic proxy in Paleozoic rocks – Merits and pitfalls: Examples from the Devonian in Belgium. Marine and Petroleum Geology 46: 173-189.

  37. De Vleeschouwer, D., Rakociński M., Racki G., Bond D. P. G., Sobień K., and Claeys P. (2013): The astronomical rhythm of Late-Devonian climate change (Kowala section, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 365: 25-37.

  38. Pas D., Da Silva A.C., Suttner T., Kido E., Bultynck P., Pondrelli M., Corradini C., De Vleeschouwer D., Dojen C. and Boulvain F. (2013). Insight into the development of a carbonate platform through a multi-disciplinary approach: a case study from the Upper Devonian slope deposits of Mount Freikofel (Carnic Alps, Austria/Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences 103: 519-538.

  39. Van Rampelbergh, M., Fleitmann, D., Verheyden, S., Cheng, H., Edwards, L., De Geest, P., De Vleeschouwer, D., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Claeys, P. (2013). Mid-to late Holocene Indian Ocean Monsoon variability recorded in four speleothems from Socotra Island, Yemen. Quaternary Science Reviews 65, 129-142.

  40. De Vleeschouwer, D., M. T. Whalen, J. E. Day, and P. Claeys (2012): Cyclostratigraphic calibration of the Frasnian (Late Devonian) time scale (western Alberta, Canada). Geological Society of America Bulletin 124(5-6): 928-942.

  41. De Vleeschouwer, D., A. C. Da Silva, F. Boulvain, M. Crucifix, and P. Claeys (2012): Precessional and half-precessional climate forcing of Mid-Devonian monsoon-like dynamics. Climate of the Past 8: 337-351.