Dr Sebastian Breitenbach

I am a palaeoclimatologist with strong affinity to caves and carbonates. My research interest includes palaeoclimatology, geothermometry, geochronology, climate-human interaction, geochemistry, continental environmental change, and human adaptation/behaviour in response to climate change.

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• Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia, Margerum, J., Homann, J., Umbo, S., Nehrke, G., Hoffmann, T., Vaks, A., Kononov, A., Osintsev, A., Giesche, A., Mason, A., Lechleitner, F., Henderson, G., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 20 Jan 2025, In: Climate of the Past
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of speleothem growth and glaciation in the British Isles, Panitz, S., Rogerson, M., Longman, J., Scroxton, N., Lawson, T., Atkinson, T., Ersek, V., Baldini, J., Baldini, L., Umbo, S., Lone, M., Henderson, G., Breitenbach, S. 29 Jan 2025, In: Climate of the Past
• A 60–50 ka African Humid Period modulated by stadial Heinrich events HE6 and HE5a in northwestern Africa, Nutz, A., Kwiecien, O., Buylaert, J., Guihou, A., Khabouchi, I., Deschamps, P., Breitenbach, S., Poirier, P., Dietrich, P., Kabiri, L., Essafraoui, B., Bodin, S. 1 Feb 2024, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• A multi-proxy stalagmite record indicates a shift in forcing of twentieth century drought events in Normandy, Bejarano-Arias, I., Nehme, C., Breitenbach, S., Ionita, M., Baldini, J., Pons-Branchu, E., Modestou, S., Umbo, S., Mouralis, D. 30 Oct 2024, In: Scientific Reports
• Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum, Wolf, A., Baker, J., Tjallingii, R., Cai, Y., Osinzev, A., Antonosyan, M., Amano, N., Johnson, K., Skiba, V., McCormack, J., Kwiecien, O., Chervyatsova, O., Dublyansky, Y., Dbar, R., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. 26 Mar 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment
• Characterising the decay of organic metal complexes in speleothem-forming cave waters, Höpker, S., Breitenbach, S., Grainger, M., Stirling, C., Hartland, A. 15 May 2024, In: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
• Climate monitoring in the Caumont cave and quarry system (northern France) reveal near oxygen isotopic equilibrium conditions for carbonate deposition, Bejarano-Arias, I., Nehme, C., Breitenbach, S., Meyer, H., Modestou, S., Mouralis, D. Jan 2024, In: International Journal of Speleology
• Isothermal thermoluminescence dating of speleothem growth – A case study from Bleßberg cave 2, Germany, Zhang, J., Klose, J., Scholz, D., Marwan, N., Breitenbach, S., Katzschmann, L., Kraemer, D., Tsukamoto, S. 1 Dec 2024, In: Quaternary Geochronology
• Mid‐Holocene rainfall seasonality and ENSO dynamics over the south‐western Pacific, Nava‐Fernandez, C., Braun, T., Pederson, C., Fox, B., Hartland, A., Kwiecien, O., Höpker, S., Bernasconi, S., Jaggi, M., Hellstrom, J., Gázquez, F., French, A., Marwan, N., Immenhauser, A., Breitenbach, S. Feb 2024, In: The Depositional Record
• Trace element partitioning controls on cave drip water compositions through prior calcite and aragonite precipitation, Wassenburg, J., Samanta, A., Sha, L., Lee, H., Scholz, D., Cheng, H., Stoll, B., Ait Brahim, Y., Budsky, A., Breitenbach, S. 5 Sep 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment

• Maria Box Interglacial environmental dynamics in the permafrost region of Northern Mongolia Start Date: 01/10/2023
• Jade Margerum Regional interglacial climate and environment of continental Siberia during the past 600,000 years. Start Date: 01/10/2021

you can find more about my current work here: https://quest.pik-potsdam.de/

COPRA and other useful tools can be downloaded from: http://tocsy.pik-potsdam.de/copra.php

PhD October 19 2009

• Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
• official website of the (now finished) QUEST project
• see our work in Siberia. IsoPerm is a project funded by The Leverhulme Trust