• Amino acid racemization in Quaternary foraminifera from the Yermak Plateau, Arctic Ocean 

      West, Gabriel; Kaufman, Darrell S; Muschitiello, Francesco; Forwick, Matthias; Matthiessen, Jens; Wollenburg, Jutta; O’Regan, Matt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-11-18)
      Amino acid racemization (AAR) geochronology is a powerful tool for dating Quaternary marine sediments across the globe, yet its application to Arctic Ocean sediments has been limited. Anomalous rates of AAR in foraminifera from the central Arctic were reported in previously published studies, indicating that either the rate of racemization is higher in this area, or inaccurate age models were used ...
    • Rapid Atlantification along the Fram Strait at the beginning of the 20th century 

      Tesi, Tommaso; Muschitiello, Francesco; Mollenhauer, Gesine; Miserocchi, Stefano; Langone, Leonardo; Ceccarelli, Chiara; Panieri, Giuliana; Chiggiato, Jacopo; Nogarotto, Alessio; Hefter, Jens; Ingrosso, Gianmarco; Giglio, Federico; Giordano, Patrizia; Capotondi, Lucilla (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-24)
      The recent expansion of Atlantic waters into the Arctic Ocean represents undisputable evidence of the rapid changes occurring in this region. Understanding the past variability of this “Atlantification” is thus crucial in providing a longer perspective on the modern Arctic changes. Here, we reconstruct the history of Atlantification along the eastern Fram Strait during the past 800 years using ...
    • Sea ice-ocean coupling during Heinrich Stadials in the Atlantic–Arctic gateway 

      el Bani Altuna, Naima; Mohamed, Mohamed Mahmoud Ezat Ahmed; Smik, Lukas; Muschitiello, Francesco; Belt, Simon T.; Knies, Jochen Manfred; Rasmussen, Tine Lander (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-01-11)
      The variability of Arctic sea-ice during abrupt stadial-interstadial shifts in the last glacial period remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the millennial-scale relationship, with a focus on Heinrich Stadials (HS), between sea-ice cover and bottom water temperature (BWT) during Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3 and 2 (64–13 ka) in the Fram Strait using new molecular sea ice biomarker data and ...
    • Ventilation History of the Nordic Seas Deduced from Pelagic‐Benthic Radiocarbon Age Offsets 

      Telesiński, Maciej M.; Ezat, Mohamed; Muschitiello, Francesco; Bauch, Henning A.; Spielhagen, Robert F. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-24)
      Changes in ocean circulation are considered a major driver of centennial-to-millennial scale climate variability during the last deglaciation. Using four sediment records from the Nordic Seas, we studied radiocarbon ventilation ages in subsurface and bottom waters to reconstruct past variations in watermass overturning. Planktic foraminiferal ages show significant spatial variability over most of ...