Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin Frank

 GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel

 Research Unit Paleo-Oceanography

 Research Divison 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics

 Office:
 Room: 8/D-109
 Tel.: +49 431 600-2218
 E-Mail: mfrank(at)geomar.de 

 Address:

 Wischhofstrasse 1-3 D-24148 Kiel

 CV Martin Frank

Research Interests:

The research interests of my working group in “Chemical Paleoceanography” are focusing on the reconstruction of ocean circulation and its relationships to the climate of the past on different time scales. In addition, the relationships between erosional inputs from the continents, nutrient utilization, biological productivity, and the climate are subject of our investigations. For these reconstructions geochemical and isotopic proxy indicators are developed, improved and applied. Our interests are centred around radiogenic (Nd, Pb, Hf, Sr), stable (i.e. Si, Fe, Ba, Mo), and cosmogenic (10Be) isotope systems, as well as element distributions (i.e. rare earth elements, REEs). Besides the extraction of these proxy signatures from marine archives (sediments, manganese/iron crusts and nodules) a particular focus is the understanding of the processes controlling these proxies in the present day water column. For this we actively participate in the detailed investigations of the internationally coordinated research programme GEOTRACES in order to calibrate these proxies for their application to reconstruct the past. Our groups runs a state of the art clean laboratory and operates a MC-ICP mass spectrometer, and in collaboration with other groups at GEOMAR further techniques and methods are applied in order to achieve comprehensive multi proxy data sets.

Publications 1994-2011

Publications 1994 - 2011

Publications since 2012:

2023

Filippova, A., Frank, M., Kienast, M., Gutjahr, M., Hathorne, E.C. and Hillaire-Marcel, C. (2023): Seawater and detrital carbonate Nd isotope records reflect pulses of detrital material supply to the Labrador Sea during the Heinrich Stadials.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology38, e2022PA004470, https://doi.org/10.1029/2022PA004470.

Scholz, F., Cheng, J., Zhang, Z., Vosteen, P., Siebert, C. and Frank, M. (2023): Benthic-pelagic coupling and isotopic fractionation of barium in Kiel Bight, SW Baltic Sea.- Frontiers in Marine Science, 10:1101095,doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1101095.

Dummann, W.,Hofmann, P., Herrle, J., Frank, M. and Wagner, T. (2023): The early opening of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway and the evolution of Cretaceous peak warming.- Geology51, 476-480.

Zhang, Z., Yu, Y., Hathorne, E.C., Vieira, L.H., Grasse, P., Siebert, C., Rahlf, P. and Frank, M. (2023): Decoupling of barium and silicon at the Congo River-dominated Southeast Atlantic margin: Insights from combined barium and silicon isotopes.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles, accepted.

2022

Pöppelmeier, F., Lippold, J., Blaser, P., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M. and Stocker, T.F., (2022): Neodymium isotopes as a paleo-water mass tracer: A model-data reassessment.- Quaternary Science Reviews279, 107404.

Montagna, P., Colin, C., Frank, M., Störling, T., Tanhua, T., Rijkenberg, M.J.A., Taviani, M., Schroeder, K., Chiggiato, J., Gao, G., Dapoigny, A. and Goldstein, S.L. (2022): Dissolved neodymium isotopes in the Mediterranean Sea.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 322, 143-169.

Laukert, G., Peeken, I., Bauch, D., Krumpen, T., Hathorne, E.C., Werner, K., Gutjahr, M., and Frank, M. (2022):Neodymium isotopes trace marine provenance of Arctic sea ice.- Geochemical Perspectives Letters 22, 10–15. doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2220.

Yu, Y., Hathorne, E.C., Siebert, C., Felis, T., Rajendran, C.P., and Frank, M. (2022): Monthly resolved coral barium isotopes record increased riverine inputs during the South Asian Summer Monsoon.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta329, 152-167.

Laukert, G., Grasse, P., Novikhin, A., Povazhnyi, V., Doering, K., Hölemann, J., Janout, M., Bauch, D., Kassens, H. and Frank, M. (2022): Nutrient and Silicon Isotope Dynamics in the Laptev Sea and Implications for Nutrient Availability in the Transpolar Drift.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles36, e2022GB007316. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GB007316.

Vosteen, P., Spiegel, T., Gledhill, M., Frank, M., Zabel, M. and Scholz, F. (2022): The fate of sedimentary reactive iron at the land-ocean interface: A case study from the Amazon Shelf.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems23, e2022GC010543. doi.org/10.1029/2022GC010543.

Yu, Y., Xie, R.C., Gutjahr, M., Laukert, G., Cao, Z., Hathorne, E., Siebert, C., Patton, G. and Frank, M. (2022): High latitude controls on dissolved barium isotope distributions in the global ocean.- Geochemical Perspectives Letters24, 22-26, https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2242.

2021

Rahlf, P., Laukert, G., Hathorne, E.C., Vieira, L.H., and Frank, M. (2021): Dissolved neodymium and hafnium isotopes and rare earth elementsin the Congo River Plume: Tracing and quantifying continental inputs intothe southeast Atlantic.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta294, 192-214.

Chakraborty, S., Chakraborty, P., Hathorne, E., Sarkar, A., Linsy, P., Frank, M., and Nagender Nath, B. (2021): Evidence for increasing anthropogenic Pb concentrations in Indian shelf sediments during the last century.- Science of the Total Environment760, 143833.

Blanchet, C.L., Osborne, A.H., Tjallingii, R., Ehrmann, W., Friedrich, T., Timmermann, A., Brückmann, W., and Frank, M. (2021): Drivers of river reactivation in North Africa during the last glacial cycle.- Nature Geoscience14, 97-103.

Fuhr, M., Laukert, G., Yu, Y., Nürnberg, D., and Frank, M. (2021): Tracing water mass mixing from the Equatorial to the North Pacific Ocean with dissolved neodymium isotopes and concentrations.- Frontiers in Marine Science7:603761, doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.603761.

Bretschneider, L., Hathorne, E.C., Huang, H., Lübbers, J., Kochhann, K.G.D., Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., Thiede, R., Gebregiorgis, D., Giosan, L., and Frank, M. (2021): Provenance and weathering of clays delivered to the Bay of Bengeal during the middle Miocene: Linkages to tectonics and monsoonal climate.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology36, e2020PA003917, doi:10.1029/2020PA003917.

Ali, S., Hathorne, E.C., and Frank, M. (2021): Persistent provenance of South Asian Monsoon induced silicate weathering over the past 27 million years.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology36, e2020PA003909, doi:10.1029/2020PA003909.

Patton, G.M., Francois, R., Weis, D., Hathorne, E., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., and Gordon, K. (2021): An experimental investigation of the acquisition of Nd by authigenic phases of marine sediments.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta301, 1-29.

Blanchet, C.L., Tjallingii, R., Schleicher, A.M., Schouten, S., Frank, M., and Brauer, A. (2021): Deoxygenation dynamics above the western Nile deep-sea fan during sapropel S1 at seasonal to millennial time-scales.- Climate of the Past 17, 1025-1050.

Doering, K., Ehlert, C., Pahnke, K., Frank, M., Schneider, R., and Grasse, P. (2021): Silicon isotope signatures of radiolaria reveal taxon-specific differences in isotope fractionation.- Frontiers in Marine Science 8:666896, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.666896.

Grasse, P., Haynert, K., Doering, K., Geilert, S., Jones, J.L., Brzezinski, M., and Frank, M. (2021): Controls on the silicon isotope composition of diatoms in the Peruvian Upwelling, Frontiers in Marine Science8:697400, doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.697400.

Bretschneider, L., Hathorne, E.C., Bolton, C.T., Gebregiorgis, D., Giosan, L., Gray, E., Huang, H., Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., and Frank, M. (2021): Enhanced late Miocene chemical weathering and altered precipitation patterns in the watersheds of the Bay of Bengal recorded by detrital clay radiogenic isotopes.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology36, e2021PA004252, doi:10.1029/2021PA004252.

Cao, Z., Rao, X, Yu, Y., Siebert, C., Hathorne, E., Liu, B., Wang, G., Lian, E., Wang, Z., Zhang, R., Gao, L., Wie, G., Yang, S., Dai, M., and Frank, M. (2021): Stable barium isotope dynamics during estuarine mixing.- Geophysical Research Letters48, e2021GL095680, doi:10.1029/2021GL095680.

Eroglu, S., Scholz, F., Salvatteci, R., Siebert, C., Schneider, R. and Frank, M. (2021): The impact of postdepositional alteration on iron- and molybdenum-based redox proxies.- Geology49, 1411-1415.

2020

Dummann, W., Steinig, S., Hofmann, P., Flögel S., Osborne, A., Frank, M., Herrle, J.O., Bretschneider, L., Sheward, R.M., and Wagner, T. (2020): The impact of Early Cretaceous gateway evolution on ocean circulation and organic carbon burial in the emerging South Atlantic and Southern Ocean basins.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters530, 115890.

Rahlf, P., Hathorne, E., Laukert, G., Gutjahr, M., Weldeab, S. and Frank, M. (2020): Tracing water mass mixing and continental inputs in the southeastern Atlantic Ocean with dissolved neodymium isotopes, Earth and Planetary Science Letters530, 115944.

Hathorne, E.C., Frank, M., and Mohan, P.M. (2020): Rare earth elements in Andaman Island surface seawater: Geochemical tracers for the monsoon? - Frontiers in Marine Science6:767, doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00767.

Gebregiorgis, D., Giosan, L., Hathorne, E.C., Anand, P., Nilsson-Kerr, K., Plass, A., Lückge, A., Clemens, S.C., and Frank, M. (2020): What can we learn from X‐ray fluorescence core scanning data? A paleo-monsoon case study.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems21, e2019GC008414, doi:10.1029/2019GC008414.

Eroglu, S., Scholz, F., Frank, M., Siebert, C. (2020): Influence of particulate versus diffusive molybdenum supply mechanisms on the molybdenum isotope composition of continental margin  sediments.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta273, 51-69.   

Zhang, Z., Cao, Z., Grasse, P., Dai, M., Gao, L., Kuhnert, H., Gledhill, M., Chiessi, C.M., Doering, K., and Frank, M. (2020): Dissolved silicon isotope dynamics in large river estuaries.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta273, 367-382.

Gebregiorgis, D., Clemens, S., Hathorne, E., Giosan, L., Thirumalai, K., and Frank, M. (2020): A brief commentary on the interpretation of Chinese speleothem δ18O records as summer monsoon intensity tracers.- Quaternary3, 7, doi:10.3390/quat3010007.

Geilert, S., Grasse, P., Doering, K., Wallmann, K., Ehlert, C., Scholz, F., Frank, M., Schmidt, M., and Hensen, C. (2020): Impact of ambient conditions on the Si isotope fractionation in marine pore fluids during early diagenesis.- Biogeosciences 17, 1745–1763.

Blaser, P., Gutjahr, M., Pöppelmeier, F., Frank, M., Kaboth-Bahr, S., and Lippold, J. (2020): Labrador Sea bottom water provenance and REE exchange over thepast 35,000 years.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 542, 116299.

Yu, Y., Siebert, C., Fietzke, J., Goepfert, T., Hathorne, E., Cao, Z., and Frank, M. (2020): The impact of MC-ICP-MS plasma conditions on the accuracy and precision of stable isotope measurements evaluated for barium isotopes.- Chemical Geology549, 110697.

Dausmann, V., Frank, M. and Zieringer, M. (2020): Water mass mixing versus local weathering inputs along the Bay of Biscay: Evidence from dissolved hafnium and neodymium isotopes.- Marine Chemistry224, 1034844.

Nasemann, P., Janssen, D.J., Rickli, J., Grasse, P., Frank, M., and Jaccard, S.L. (2020):Chromium reduction and associated stable isotope fractionation restricted to anoxic shelf waters in the Peruvian Oxygen Minimum Zone.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta285, 207-224.

Pöppelmeier, F., Blaser, P., Gutjahr, M., Jaccard, S.L., Frank, M., Max, L., and Lippold, J. (2020): Northern Sourced Water dominated the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum.- Geology48, 826-829.

Cao, Z., Li, Y., Rao, X., Yu, Y., Hathorne, E., Siebert, C., Dai, M., and Frank, M. (2020): Constraining barium isotope fractionation in the upper water column of the South China Sea.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta288, 120-137. 

2019

Blaser, P., Pöppelmeier, F., Schulz, H., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Lippold, J., Heinrich, H., Link; J.M., Hoffmann, J., Szidat, S. and Frank, N. (2019): The resilience and sensitivity of Northeast Atlantic deep water ɛNd to overprinting by detrital fluxes over the past 30,000 years.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 245, 79-97.

Dausmann, V., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Kouzmanov, K., and Schaltegger, U. (2019): Experimental evidence for a mineral-controlled release of radiogenic Nd, Hf and Pb isotopes from granitic rocks during progressive chemical weathering.- Chemical Geology507, 64-84.

Xie, R.C., Rehkämper, M., Grasse, P., van de Flierdt, T, Frank, M., and Xue, Z. (2019): Isotopic evidence for complex biogeochemical cycling of Cd in the eastern tropical South Pacific.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 512, 134-146.

Jiang, F., Xiong, Z., Frank, M., Yin, X., and Li, A. (2019): The evolution and control of detrital sediment provenance in the middle and northern Okinawa Trough since the last deglaciation: evidence from Sr and Nd isotopes.- Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 522, 1-11.

Struve, T., Roberts, N.L., Frank, M., Piotrowski, A.M., Spielhagen, R.F., Teschner, C, and Bauch, H. (2019):  Ice-sheet driven weathering input and water mass mixing in the Nordic Seas during the last 25,000 years.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters514, 108-118.

Zieringer, M., Frank, M., Stumpf, R, and Hathorne, E.C. (2019): The distribution of neodymium isotopes and concentrations in the eastern tropical North Atlantic.- Chemical Geology511, 265-278.

Morrison, R., Waldner, A., Hathorne, E.C., Rahlf, P., Zieringer, M, Montagna, P., Colin, C.,  Frank, N., and Frank, M. (2019): Limited influence of basalt weathering inputs on the seawater neodymium isotope composition of the northern Iceland Basin.- Chemical Geology511, 358-370.

Xie, R.C., Galer, S.J.G., Abouchami, W., and Frank, M. (2019): Limited impact of eolian and riverine sources to the biogeochemical cycling of Cd in the Tropical Atlantic.- Chemical Geology511, 371-379.

Laukert, G., Makhotin, M., Petrova, M., Frank, M., Hathorne, E.C., Bauch, D., Böning, P., and Kassens H. (2019): Water mass transformation in the Barents Sea inferred fromradiogenic neodymium isotopes, rare earth elements and stable oxygenisotopes.- Chemical Geology511, 416-430.

Doering, K., Ehlert, C., Martinez, P., Frank, M., and Schneider, R. (2019): Latitudinal variations in δ30Si and δ15N signatures along the Peruvian shelf: quantifying the effects of nutrient utilization versus denitrification over the past 600 years.- Biogeosciences16, 2163-2180.

Bialik, O., Frank, M., Betzler, C., Zammit, R., and Waldmann, N.D. (2019): Two-step closure of the Miocene Indian Ocean Gateway to the Mediterranean.- Scientific Reports9:8842, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-45308-7.

Sarkar, S., Basak, C., Frank, M., Berndt, C., Huuse, M., Badhani, S. and Bialas, J. (2019): The Late Eocene onset of the Proto-Antarctic Circumpolar Current.- Scientific Reports9: 10125, DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-46253-1.

Kirillova, V., Osborne, A.H., Störling, T., and Frank, M. (2019): Miocene restriction of the Pacific-North Atlantic throughflow strengthened Atlantic overturning circulation.- Nature Communications, 10:4025, DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-12034-7.

Osborne, A.H., Hathorne, E.C., Böning, P., Groeneveld, J., Pahnke, K., and Frank, M. (2019): Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene variability of the REE and Nd isotope composition of Caribbean bottom water: A record of changes in sea level and terrestrial inputs during the final stages of Central American Seaway closure.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34, 2067-2079.

Guinoiseau, D., Galer, S.J.G., Abouchami, W., Frank, M., Achterberg, E.P. and Haug, G.H. (2019): Importance of cadmium sulfides for biogeochemical cycling of Cd and its isotopes in Oxygen Deficient Zones – A case study of the Angola Basin.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles 33, 1746-1763.

2018

Sarnthein, M., Grunert, P., Khélifi, N., Frank, M., and Nürnberg, D. (2018): Interhemispheric teleconnections – Late Pliocene change in Mediterranean Outflow Water linked to changes in Indonesian Throughflow and Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a review and update.- International Journal of Earth Sciences107, 505-515.

Molina-Kescher, M., Hathorne, E.C., Osborne, A.H., Behrens, M.K., Kölling, M., Pahnke, K., and Frank, M. (2018): The influence of basaltic islands on the oceanic REE distribution: A case study from the tropical South Pacific.- Frontiers in Marine Science5:50, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00050. 

Schlitzer, R., et al. (2018): The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017.- Chemical Geology493, 210-223.

Kessarkar, P.M., Naqvi, S.W.A., Thamban, M., Fernandes, L.L., Siebert, C., Rao, P., Kawahata, H., Ittekkot, V., and Frank, M. (2018): Variations in denitrification and ventilation within the Arabian Sea oxygen minimum zone during the Holocene.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems19, 2179-2193.

Schlosser, C., Streu, P., Frank, M., Lavik, G., Croot, P.L., Dengler, M., and Achterberg, E.P. (2018): H2S events in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone facilitate enhanced dissolved Fe concentrations.- Scientific Reports, 8:12642, DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-30580-w.

Xiong, Z.,  Li, T., Chang, F., Algeo, T.,Clift, P.D., Bretschneider, L., Lu, Z., Zhu, X., Frank, M., Sauer, P.E., Jiang, F., Wan, S., Zhang, X., Chen, S., and Huang, J.(2018): Rapid precipitation changes in the tropical West Pacific linked to North Atlantic climate forcing during the last deglaciation.- Quaternary Science Reviews197, 288-306.

Gebregiorgis, D., Hathorne, E., Giosan, L., Clemens, S., Nürnberg, D., and Frank, M. (2018): Southern Hemisphere forcing of South Asian monsoon precipitation over the past ~1 million years.- Nature Communications 9:4702, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07076-2. 

Batenburg, S., Voigt, S., Friedrich, O., Osborne A., Bornemann, A., Klein, T., Pérez-Díaz, L., and Frank, M. (2018): Major intensification of Atlantic overturning circulation at the onset of Paleogene greenhouse warmth.- Nature Communications 9:4954, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07457-7.

Poggemann, D.W., Nürnberg, D., Hathorne, E.C., Frank, M., Rath, W., Reißig, S., and Bahr, A. (2018): Deglacial heat uptake by the Southern Ocean and rapid northward redistribution via Antarctic Intermediate Water.- Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33, 1292–1305.

2017

Filippova, A., Frank, M., Kienast, M., Rickli, J., Hathorne, E., Yashayaev, I.M., and Böning, P. (2017): Water mass circulation and weathering inputs in the Labrador Sea based on coupled Hf-Nd isotope compositions and rare earth element distributions.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 199, 164-184. (PDF - 4517kb)

Laukert, G., Frank, M., Bauch, D., Hathorne, E.C., Rabe, B., von Appen, W.J., Wegner, C., Zieringer, M., and Kassens, H. (2017): Ocean circulation and freshwater pathways in the Arctic Mediterranean based on a combined Nd isotope, REE and oxygen isotope  section across Fram Strait.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta202, 185-309. (PDF - 5935kb)

Poggemann, D.W., Hathorne, E.C., Nürnberg, D., Frank, M., Bruhn, I., Reißig, S., and Bahr, A. (2017): Rapid deglacial injection of nutrients into the Atlantic via Antarctic Intermediate Water.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters463, 118-126. (PDF - 2097kb)

Grasse, P., Brzezinski, M.A., Cardinal, D., de Souza, G.F., Andersson, P., Closset, I., Cao, Z., Dai, M., Ehlert, C., Estrade, N., Francois, R., Frank, M., Jiang, G., Jones, J.L., Kooijman, E., Liu, Q., Lu, D., Pahnke, K., Ponzevera, E., Schmitt, M.,  Sun, X., Sutton, J.N., Thil, F., Weis, D., Wetzel, F., Zhang, A., Zhang, J. and Zhang, Z. (2017): GEOTRACES-intercalibration of the stable silicon isotope composition of dissolved silicic acid in seawater.- Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry32, 562-578.
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Dausmann, V., Frank., M., Gutjahr, M., and Rickli, J. (2017): Glacial reduction of AMOC strength and long term transition in weathering inputs into the Southern Ocean since the Mid Miocene: Evidence from radiogenic Nd and Hf isotopes.- Paleoceanography 32, 265-283. (PDF - 2095kb)

Osborne, A.H., Hathorne, E.C., Schijf, J., Plancherel, Y., Böning, P., and Frank, M. (2017): The potential of sedimentary foraminiferal Rare Earth Element patterns to trace water masses in the past.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems18, 1550-1568. (PDF - 3288kb)

Scholz, F., Siebert, C., Dale, A., and Frank, M. (2017): Intense molybdenum accumulation in sediments underneath a nitrogenous water column and implications for the reconstruction of paleo-redox conditions based on molybdenum isotopes.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta213, 400-417. (PDF - 1719kb)

Grasse, P., Bosse, L., Hathorne, E.C., Böning, P., Pahnke, K., and Frank, M. (2017): Short-term variability of dissolved Rare Earth Elements and neodymium isotopes in the entire water column of the Panama Basin.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters475, 242-253.

Laukert, G., Frank, M., Bauch, D., Hathorne, E.C., Gutjahr, M., Janout, M., and Hölemann, J. (2017):  Transport and transformation of riverine neodymium isotope and rare earth element signatures in high latitude estuaries: A case study from the Laptev Sea.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters477, 205-217.

Laukert, G., Frank, M., Hathorne, E.C., Krumpen, T., Rabe, B., Bauch, D., Werner, K., Peeken, I., and Kassens, H. (2017):  Pathways of Siberian freshwater and sea ice in the Arctic Ocean traced with radiogenic neodymium isotopes and rare earth elements.- Polarforschung 87, 3-13.

2016

Cao, Z., Siebert, C., Hathorne, E., Dai, M., and Frank, M. (2016): Constraining the oceanic barium cycle with stable barium isotopes.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters434, 1-9. (PDF - 958kb)

Doering, K., Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., Crosta, X., Fleury, S., Frank, M., and Schneider, R. (2016): Differences between mono-generic and mixed diatom silicon isotope compositions trace present and past nutrient utilisation off Peru.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta177, 30-47.  (PDF - 1732kb)

Voigt, J., Hathorne, E., Frank, M., and Holbourn, A. (2016): Minimal influence of recrystallization on Middle Miocene benthic foraminiferal stable isotope stratigraphy in the eastern equatorial Pacific.- Paleoceanography31, 98-114. (PDF - 6741kb)

van der Lubbe, J.J.L., Frank, M., Tjalingii, R., and Schneider, R.R. (2016): Neodymium isotope constraints on provenance, dispersal and supply of Zambezi sediments along the Mozambique margin during the past ~45,000 years.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems17, 181-198. (PDF - 3749kb)

Gebregiorgis, D., Hathorne , E.C., Sijinkumar, A.V.,  Nath, B.N., Nürnberg, D., and Frank, M. (2016): South Asian Summer Monsoon variability during the last ~54kyrs inferred from surface water salinity and river run off proxies.- Quaternary Science Reviews.- Quaternary Science Reviews 138, 6-15. (PDF - 6084kb)

Abbott, A.N., Tripati, A., Haley, B.A., Frank, M. (2016): Constraints on ocean circulation at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum from neodymium isotopes.- Climate of the Past12, 837-847. (PDF - 1265kb)

Filippova, A., Kienast, M., Frank, M., and Schneider, R.R. (2016): Alkenone paleothermometry in the North Atlantic: A review and synthesis of surface sediment data and calibrations.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems17, 1370-1382. (PDF - 3453kb)  

Teschner, C., Frank, M., Haley, B.A., and Knies, J. (2016): Plio-Pleistocene evolution of water mass exchange and erosional input at the Atlantic-Arctic gateway.- Paleoceanography31, 582-599. (PDF - 2726kb)

Blaser, P., Lippold, J., Gutjahr, M., Frank, N., Link, J.M., and Frank, M. (2016): Extracting foraminiferal seawater Nd isotope signatures with bulk sediment leaches.- Chemical Geology439, 289-304. (PDF - 3233kb)

Molina-Kescher, M., Frank, M., Tapia, R., Ronge, T.A., Nürnberg, D., and Tiedemann, R. (2016): Reduced admixture of North Atlantic Deep Water to the deep central South Pacific during the last two glacial periods.- Paleoceanography31, 651-668. (PDF - 1441kb)

Höfig, T., Hoernle, K., Hauff, F., and Frank, M. (2016): Hydrothermal versus active margin sediment supply to the eastern equatorial Pacific over the past 23 million years traced by radiogenic Pb isotopes: Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic implications.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta190, 213-238. (PDF - 1484kb)

Ehlert, C., Doering, K., Wallmann, K., Scholz, F., Sommer, S., Grasse, P., Geilert, S. and Frank, M. (2016): Stable silicon isotope signatures of marine pore waters – biogenic opal dissolution versus authigenic clay mineral formation.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta191, 102-117. (PDF - 845kb)

Zheng, X, Li, A., Kao, S., Gong, X., Frank, M., Kuhn, G., Cai, W., Yan, H., Wan, S., Zhang, H., Jiang, F., Hathorne, E., Chen, Z., and Hu, B. (2016): Synchronicity of Kuroshio Current and climate system variability since the Last Glacial Maximum.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters452, 247-257. (PDF - 2419kb)

Grasse, P., Ryabenko, E., Ehlert, C., Altabet, M.A., and Frank, M. (2016): Silicon and nitrogen cycling in the upwelling area off Peru: A dual isotope approach.- Limnology and Oceanography61, 1661-1676. (PDF - 1012kb)

Hellmer, H., Rhein, M., Heinemann, G., AbalichinJ., Abouchami, W., Baars, O., Cubasch, U., Dethloff, K., Ebner, L., Fahrbach, E., Frank, M., Gollan, G., Greatbatch, R., Grieger, J., Gryanik, V., Gryschka, M., Hauck, J., Hoppema, M., Huhn, O., Kanzow, T., Koch, B., König-Langlo, G., Langematz, U., Leckebusch, G., Lüpkes, C., Paul, S., Rinke, A., Rost, B., Rutgers van der Loeff, M., Schröder, M., Seckmeyer, G., Stichel, T., Strass, V., Timmermann, R., Trimborn, S., Ulbrich, U., Venchiarutti, C.,  Wacker, U.,Willmes, S. and Wolf-Gladrow, D. (2016): Meteorology and Oceanography of the Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean - A Review of Recent Achievements.- Ocean Dynamics 66, 1379-1413. (PDF - 9256kb)

Doering, K., Erdem, Z., Ehlert, C., Fleury, S., Frank, M., and Schneider, R. (2016): Changes in diatom productivity and upwelling intensity off Peru since the Last Glacial Maximum: Response to basin-scale atmospheric and oceanic forcing.- Paleoceanography. (PDF - 6505kb)

2015

Böhm, E., Lippold, J., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Blaser, P., Antz, B, Fohlmeister, J., Frank, N., Andersen, M., and Deininger, M. (2015): Strong and deep Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation during the last glacial cycle.- Nature517, 73-76. (PDF - 2468kb)

Voigt, J., Hathorne, E., Frank, M., Vollstaedt, H. and Eisenhauer, A. (2015): Variability of carbonate diagenesis in equatorial Pacific sediments deduced from radiogenic and stable Sr isotopes.- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta148, 360-377. (PDF - 1366kb)

Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., Gutiérrez, D., Salvatteci, R., and Frank, M. (2015): Nutrient utilisation and weathering inputs in the Peruvian upwelling region since the Little Ice Age.- Climate of the Past11, 187-202. (PDF - 794kb)

Stumpf, R., Kraft, S., Frank, M., Haley B.A., Holbourn, A. and Kuhnt, W. (2015): Persistently strong Indonesian Throughflow during Marine Isotope Stage 3: Evidence from radiogenic isotopes.- Quaternary Science Reviews 112, 197-206. (PDF - 1617kb)

Schönfeld, J., Kuhnt, W., Erdem, Z., Flögel, S., Glock, N., Aquit, M., Frank, M., and Holbourn, A. (2015): Records of past mid-depth ventilation: Cretaceous Ocean Anoxic Event 2 vs. Recent oxygen minimum zones.- Biogeosciences12, 1169-1189. (PDF - 3084kb)

Ali, S., Hathorne, E., Frank, M., Gebregiorgis, D., Stattegger, K., Stumpf, R., Kutterolf, S., Johnson, J.E., and Giosan, L. (2015): South Asian monsoon history over the past 60 kyr recorded by radiogenic isotopes and clay mineral assemblages in the Andaman Sea.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 16, 505-521. (PDF - 1247kb)

Dausmann, V., Frank, M., Siebert, C., Christl, M., and Hein, J.R. (2015): The evolution of climatically driven weathering inputs into the western Arctic Ocean since the late Miocene: Radiogenic isotope evidence.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 419, 111-124. (PDF - 2121kb)

Basak, C., Pahnke, K., Frank, M., Lamy, F., and Gersonde, R. (2015): Neodymium isotope characterization of Ross Sea Bottom Water and its advection through the southern South Pacific.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 419, 211-221. (PDF - 5311kb)

Xiong, Z., Li ,T., Algeo, T., Doering, K., Frank, M., Brzezinski, M., Chang, F., Opfergelt, S., Crosta, X., Jiang, F., Wan, S., and Zhai, B. (2015): The silicon isotope composition of Ethmodiscus rex laminated diatom mats from the tropical West Pacific: Implications for silicate cycling during the Last Glacial Maximum.- Paleoceanography30, 803-823. (PDF - 5289kb)

Cao, Z., Frank, M., and Dai, M. (2015):Dissolved silicon isotopic compositions in the East China Sea: Water mass mixing versus biological fractionation.- Limnology and Oceanography60, 1619-1633. (PDF - 537kb)

The GEOTRACES Group (2015): The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2014.- Marine Chemistry177, 1-8. (PDF - 1396kb)

Hathorne, E., Stichel, T., Brück, B., and Frank, M. (2015): Rare earth element distribution in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean: The balance betweenparticle scavenging and vertical supply.- Marine Chemistry177, 157-171. (PDF - 1886kb)

Osborne, A., Haley, B.A., Hathorne, E., Plancherel, Y., and Frank, M. (2015): Rare Earth Element distribution in Caribbean seawater: Continental inputs versus lateral transport of distinct REE compositions in subsurface water masses.- Marine Chemistry177, 172-183. (PDF - 2251kb)

2014

Ali, S., Stattegger, K., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Frank, M., Kraft, S., and Kuhnt, W. (2014): The provenance of Cretaceous to Quaternary sediments in the Tarfaya basin, SW Morocco: evidence from trace element geochemistry and radiogenic Nd-Sr isotopes.- Journal of African Earth Sciences90, 64-76. (PDF - 4579kb)

Haley, B.A., Frank, M., Hathorne, E.A. and Pisias, N. (2014): Biogeochemical implications from dissolved Rare Earth Element and Nd isotope distributions in the Gulf of Alaska.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta126, 455-474. (PDF - 3627kb)

Molina-Kescher, M., Frank, M., and Hathorne, E. (2014): South Pacific dissolved Nd isotope compositions and rare earth element distributions: Water mass mixing versus biogeochemical cycling.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta127, 171-189. (PDF - 3254kb)

Werner, K.,Frank, M., Teschner, C., Müller, J., and Spielhagen, R.F. (2014): Neoglacial change in deep water exchange and increase of sea-ice transport through eastern Fram Strait: Evidence from radiogenic isotopes.- Quaternary Science Reviews 92, 190-207. (PDF - 2460kb)

Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Lippold, J. and Halliday A.N. (2014): Peak last glacial weathering conditions on the North American continent recorded by the authigenic Hf isotope composition of North Atlantic deep-sea sediments.- Quaternary Science Reviews 99, 97-111. (PDF - 3072kb)

Khélifi, N. and Frank, M. (2014): A major change in North Atlantic deep water circulation 1.6 million years ago.- Climate of the Past 10, 1441-1451. (PDF - 2182kb)

Osborne, A., Newkirk, D.R., Groeneveld, J., Martin, E.E., Tiedemann, R., and Frank, M. (2014): The seawater neodymium and lead isotope record of the final stages of Central American Seaway closure.- Paleoceanography29, 715-729. (PDF - 1778kb)

Khélifi, N., Sarnthein, M., Frank, M., Andersen, N., and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2014): Late Pliocene variations of the Mediterranean outflow.- Marine Geology357, 182-194. (PDF - 4837kb)

Osborne, A.H., Haley, B.A., Hathorne, E.C., Flögel, S., and Frank, M. (2014): Neodymium isotopes and concentrations in Caribbean seawater: Tracing water mass mixing and continental input in a semi-enclosed basin. Earth and Planetary Science Letters406, 174-186. (PDF - 1733kb)

Molina Kescher, M., Frank, M., and Hathorne, E.C. (2014): Nd and Sr isotope compositions of different phases of surface sediments in the South Pacific: extraction of seawater signatures, boundary exchange, and detrital/dust provenance.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 15, 3502–3520. (PDF - 1072kb)

Blanchet, C., Frank, M., and Schouten, S. (2014): Asynchronous changes in vegetation, runoff and erosion in the Nile River watershed during the Holocene.- PLoS ONE9, e115958. (PDF - 1240kb)

2013

Rickli, J., Frank, M., Stichel, T., Georg, R.B., Vance, D., and Halliday A.N. (2013): Controls on the incongruent release of hafnium during weathering of metamorphic and sedimentary catchments.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta101, 263-284. (PDF - 2847kb)

Lachner, J., Christl, M., Synal, H.-A., Frank M. and Jakobsson, M. (2013): Carrier free 10Be/9Be measurements with low-energy AMS: Determination of sedimentation rates in the Arctic Ocean.- Nucl. Instr. Meth. Phys. Res. B. 294, 67-71. (PDF - 340kb)

Muiños, S.B., Hein, J.R., Frank, M., Monteiro, J.H., Gaspar, L., Conrad, T., Garcia Pereira, H. and Abrantes, F. (2013): Deep-sea Fe-Mn crusts from the northeast Atlantic Ocean: Composition and resource considerations.- Marine Georesources & Geotechnology31, 40-70. (PDF - 2025kb)

Blanchet, C.L., Tjallingii, R., Frank, M., Lorenzen, J., Reitz, A., Brown, K., Feseker, T., and Brückmann, W. (2013): High- and low-latitude forcing of the fluvial regime of the Nile during the Holocene inferred from high-resolution analyses of laminated sediments from the Nile deep-sea fan.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 364, 98-110. (PDF - 1555kb)

Holbourn, A., Kuhnt, W., Frank, M., and Haley, B.A. (2013): Changes in Pacific Ocean circulation following the Miocene onset of permanent Antarctic ice cover.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 365, 38-50. (PDF - 1801kb)

Chen, T.-Y, Li, G., Frank, M., and Ling, H.-F., Hu, R. (2013): Hafnium isotope fractionation during continental weathering: implications for the generation of the seawater Nd-Hf isotope relationship.- Geophysical Research Letters 40, 916–920. (pdf - 263kb)

Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., and Frank, M. (2013): Changes in silicate utilisation and upwelling intensity off Peru since the Last Glacial Maximum – insights from silicon and neodymium isotopes.- Quaternary Science Reviews72, 18-35. (pdf - 1604kb)

Voigt, S., Jung, C., Friedrich, O., Frank, M., Teschner, C., and Hoffmann, J. (2013): Tectonically restricted deep-ocean circulation at the end of the Cretaceous greenhouse.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters369-370, 169-177. (pdf - 1363kb)

Chen, T.-Y, Ling, H.-F., Hu, R., Frank, M., and Jiang, S.J. (2013): Lead isotope provinciality of central North Pacific Deep Water over the Cenozoic.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems14, 1523-1537. (pdf - 2010kb)

Jiang, F., Frank, M., Li, T., Chen, T.-Y., Xu, Z., and Li, A. (2013): Asian dust input in the western Philippine Sea: Evidence from radiogenic Sr and Nd isotopes.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 14, 1538-1551. (pdf - 1203kb)

Kraft, S., Frank, M., Hathorne, E.A. and Weldeab, S. (2013): Assessment of seawater Nd isotope signatures extracted from planktonic foraminiferal shells and authigenic phases of Gulf of Guinea sediments.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta121, 414-435. (pdf - 2427kb)

Grasse, P., Ehlert, C. and Frank, M. (2013): The influence of water mass mixing on the dissolved silicon isotope composition of the eastern Equatorial Pacific.- Earth and Planetary Science Letters 380, 60-71. (pdf - 3491kb)

Chen, T.-Y., Rempfer, J., Frank, M., Stumpf, R. and Molina-Kescher, M. (2013): Upper ocean vertical supply: a neglected primary factor controlling the distribution of neodymium concentrations of open ocean surface waters? Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans118, 3887-3894. (pdf - 3687kb)

Jung, C., Koch, M.C., Voigt, S., Friedrich, O. and Frank, M. (2013): Campanian-Maastrichtian ocean circulation in the tropical Pacific.- Paleoceanography28, 562-573. (pdf - 1846kb)

Chen, T.-Y., Stumpf, R., Frank, M., Beldowski J. and Staubwasser, M. (2013): Contrasting geochemical cycling of hafnium and neodymium in the central Baltic Sea.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 123, 166-180. (pdf - 1477kb)

Sprenk, D., Weber, M.E., Kuhn, G., Rosén, P., Frank, M., Molina-Kescher, M., Liebetrau, V., and Röhling, H.G. (2013): Southern Ocean bioproductivity during the last glacial cycle – new detection method and decadal-scale insight from the Scotia Sea.- in Hambrey, M. J., Barker, P. F., Barrett, P. J., Bowman, V., Davies, B., Smellie, J. L. and Tranter, M. (eds.): Antarctic Palaeoenvironments and Earth-Surface Processes. Geological Society, London, Special Publications381, 245-261. (pdf - 4842kb)

Stramma, L., Bange, H.W., Czeschel, R., Lorenzo, A. and Frank, M. (2013): On the role of mesoscale eddies for the biological productivity and biogeochemistry in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean off Peru.- Biogeosciences 10, 7293–7306. (pdf - 4096kb)

2012

Stichel, T., Frank, M., Rickli, J., and Haley, B.A. (2012): The hafnium and neodymium isotope composition of seawater in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 317-318, 282-294. (PDF - 2377kb)

Hathorne, E., Haley, B.A., Stichel, T., Grasse, P., Zieringer, M., and Frank, M. (2012): Online preconcentration ICP-MS analysis of Rare Earth Elements in seawater.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 13, Q01020, doi:10.1029/2011GC003907. (PDF - 765kb)

van de Flierdt T., Pahnke, K., Amakawa, H., Andersson, P., Basak, C., Coles, B., Colin, C., Crocket, K., Frank, M., Frank, N., Goldstein, S.L., Goswami, V., Haley, B.A., Hathorne, E.C., Hemming, S.R., Henderson, G.M., Jeandel, C., Jones, K., Kreissig, K., Lacan, F., Lambelet, M., Martin, E.E., Newkirk, D.R., Obata, H., Pena, L., Piotrowski, A.M., Pradoux, C., Scher, H.D., Schöberg, H., Singh, S.K., Stichel, T., Tazoe, H., Vance, D., Yang, J. (2012): GEOTRACES intercalibration of neodymium isotopes and rare earth element concentrations in seawater and suspended particles – Part 1: reproducibility of results for the international intercomparison.- Limnology and Oceanography: Methods 10, 234-251. (PDF - 1104kb)

De Souza, G.F., Reynolds, B.C., Rickli, J., Frank, M., Saito, M., Gerringa, L.J.A., and Bourdon, B. (2012): Southern Ocean control of silicon stable isotope distribution in the deep Atlantic Ocean.- Global Biogeochemical Cycles26, GB2035, doi:10.1029/2011GB004141. (PDF - 3704kb)

Stichel, T., Frank, M., Rickli, J., Hathorne, E.A., Haley, B.A., Jeandel, C., and Pradoux, C. (2012): Sources and input mechanisms of hafnium and neodymium in surface waters of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta94, 22-37. (PDF - 777kb)

Chen T.-Y, Frank, M., Haley, B.A., Gutjahr, M., and Spielhagen, R.F. (2012): Variations of north Atlantic inflow to the central Arctic Ocean over the last 14 million years inferred from hafnium and neodymium isotopes.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 353-354, 82-92. (PDF - 1136kb)

Etourneau, J., Ehlert, C., Frank, M., Martinez, P., and Schneider, R. (2012): Contribution of changes in opal productivity and nutrient distribution in the coastal upwelling systems to late Pliocene/early Pleistocene climate cooling.- Climate of the Past8, 1435-1445. (PDF - 2220kb)

Grasse, P., Stichel, T., Stumpf, R., Stramma, L., and Frank, M. (2012): The distribution of neodymium isotopes and concentrations in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: Water mass advection versus particle exchange.- Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 353-354, 198-207.
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Cao, Z., Frank, M., Dai, M., Grasse, P., and Ehlert, C. (2012): Silicon isotope constraints on sources and utilization of silicic acid in the northern South China Sea.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta97, 88-104. (PDF - 1307kb)

Ehlert, C., Grasse, P., Mollier‐Vogel, E., Böschen, T., Franz, J., de Souza, G.F., Reynolds, B.C., Stramma, L. and Frank, M. (2012): Factors controlling the silicon isotope distribution in waters and surface sediments of the Peruvian coastal upwelling.- Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta99, 128-145. (PDF - 1200kb)

Hein, J.R., Conrad, T.A., Frank, M., Christl, M. and Sager, W.W. (2012): Copper-nickel-rich, amalgamated ferromanganese crust-nodule deposits from Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific.- Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems13, Q10022, doi:10.1029/2012GC004286. (PDF - 6057kb)

Altabet, M., Ryabenko, E., Stramma, L., Wallace, D., Frank, M., Grasse, P. and Lavik, G. (2012): An eddy-stimulated hotspot for fixed nitrogen-loss from the Peru Oxygen Minimum Zone.- Biogeosciences 9, 4897-4908. (PDF - 3612kb)