• Cold-seep ostracods from the western Svalbard margin: direct palaeo-indicator for methane seepage? 

      Yasuhara, Moriaki; Sztybor, Kamila; Rasmussen, Tine Lander; Okahashi, Hisayo; Sato, Runa; Tanaka, Hayato (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-05)
      Despite their high abundance and diversity, microfossil taxa adapted to a particular chemosynthetic environment have rarely been studied and are therefore poorly known. Here we report on an ostracod species, Rosaliella svalbardensis gen. et sp. nov., from a cold methane seep site at the western Svalbard margin, Fram Strait. The new species shows a distinct morphology, different from other ...
    • Deglacial–Holocene Svalbard paleoceanography and evidence of Melt Water Pulse 1B 

      Tian, Skye Y.; Yasuhara, Moriaki; Hong, Y.; Huang, H.-H.; Iwatani, H.; Chiu, W.-T. R.; Mamo, Bryoni; Okahashi, Hisayo; Rasmussen, Tine Lander (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-09)
      Better understanding of deglacial meltwater pulses (MWPs) is imperative for future predictions of human-induced warming and abrupt sea-level change because of their potential for catastrophic damage. However, our knowledge of the second largest meltwater pulse MWP-1B that occurred shortly after the start of the Holocene interglacial remains very limited. Here, we studied fossil ostracods as ...
    • Late Quaternary paleoceanography of Vestnesa Ridge, Fram Strait: Ostracode species as a potential indicator of cold seep activity 

      Chu, Rachel W.C.; Yasuhara, Moriaki; Myrvang Riise, Karoline; Asahi, Hirofumi; Huang, Huai-Hsuan May; Cotton, Laura J.; Hong, Yuanyuan; Rasmussen, Tine Lander (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-02)
      Past intensity of methane release from deep-ocean methane hydrates continues to be challenging to reconstruct reliably. Here, we used fossil ostracode fauna paired with foraminiferal δ<sup>13</sup>C values in a marine sediment core from Vestnesa Ridge, western Svalbard margin, to reconstruct methane seepage activity during the late Quaternary and to examine faunal response to deglacial climatic ...