Publications

2025

  • Expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water driven by Antarctic warming in the last deglaciation.
    Huang H, Gutjahr M., Hu Y., Pöppelmeier F., Kuhn G., Lippold J., Ronge T. A., Wu S., Blaser P., Jaccard S. L., Luo Y., Yu J., Lembke-Jene, L. (2025). Accepted at Nature Geoscience.

  • Abyssal seafloor as a key driver of marine biogeochemical cycles.
    Du J., Haley B.A., McManus J., Blaser P., Rickli J., Vance D. (2025). Nature 642, 620–627 📖

  • Prevalent North Atlantic Deep Water during the Last Glacial Maximum and Heinrich Stadial 1.
    Blaser P., Waelbroeck C., Thornalley D.J., Lippold J., Pöppelmeier F., Kaboth-Bahr S., Repschläger J., Jaccard S.L (2025). Nature Geoscience 18, 410–416 📖

  • The Role of the St. Anna Trough in Atlantic Water Transport Into the Arctic Ocean: A Novel Radiogenic Isotope Assessment Using Iodine, Uranium, and Neodymium.
    Pérez-Tribouillier, H., Jaccard, S.L., Blaser, P., Christl, M., Creac’h, L., Hölemann, J., Scheiwiller, M., Vockenhuber, C., Wefing, A.M., Casacuberta, N. (2025). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 130, e2024JC022050 📖

  • Peak glacial-to-Heinrich-1 changes in Denmark Strait Overflow and seawater stratification in the Nordic Seas, a switchboard of changes in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and the “Nordic Heat Pump”.
    Sarnthein, M. and Blaser, P. (2025). Quaternary Science Reviews 100266 📖

  • Reconstruction of deep-water undercurrent variability from the outer Labrador Sea during the past 550,000 years.
    Kaboth-Bahr, S., Bahr, A., Blaser, P., Voelker, A.H.L., Lippold, J., Gutjahr, M., Hodell, D.A., Channell, J.E.T., de Vernal, A., Hillaire-Marcel, C. (2025). Quaternary Science Advances 355, 109181 📖


2023

  • Atlantic Thermocline Ocean and Ecosystems Dynamic during Natural Climate Change - ATHENA, Cruise No. M151, October 06, 2018 - October 31, 2018, Ponta Delgada (Portugal) - Funchal (Portugal)
    PFrank, N., Hebbeln, D., Blaser, P., Carreiro-Silva, M., Diekamp, V., Eichstädter, R., Freiwald, A., Gaide, S., Günther, B., Hemsing, F., Hoffman, L., Krengel, T., Lausecker, M., Leymann, T., Link, J., Linnemann, U., Matos, L., Nowald, N., Raddatz, J., Schade, T., Schröder, M., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Seiter, C., Speicher, R., Stelzner, M., Tamborrino, L., Wefing, A.-M., Wenzel, J., Wienberg, C. (2023). Cruise Report 📖


2022

  • Neodymium isotopes as a paleo-water mass tracer: A model-data reassessment.
    Pöppelmeier, F., Lippold, J., Blaser, P., Gutjahr, M., Frank, M., Stocker, T.F. (2022). Quaternary Science Reviews 279, 107404. 📖


2021

  • Stable Atlantic Deep Water Mass Sourcing on Glacial-Interglacial Timescales.
    Pöppelmeier, F., Gutjahr, M., Blaser, P., Schulz, H., Süfke, F., Lippold, J. (2021). Geophysical Research Letters 48, e2021GL092722. 📖

  • Deep-ocean circulation in the North Atlantic during the Plio-Pleistocene intensification of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation (~2.65–2.4 Ma).
    Jakob, K.A., Pross, J., Link, J.M., Blaser, P., Hauge Braaten, A., Friedrich, O. (2021). Marine Micropaleontology 165, 101998. 📖


2020

  • Influence of Elevated Nd Fluxes on the Northern Nd Isotope End Member of the Atlantic During the Early Holocene.
    Pöppelmeier, F., Scheen, J., Blaser, P., Lippold, J., Gutjahr, M., Stocker, T.F. (2020). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 35, e2020PA003973. 📖

  • Northern-Sourced Water Dominated the Atlantic Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum.
    Pöppelmeier, F., Blaser, P., Gutjahr, M., Jaccard, S. L., Frank, M., Max, L., Lippold, J. (2020) Geology, 48 (8), 826–829. 📖

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

  • Water mass gradients of the mid-depth Southwest Atlantic during the past 25,000 years.
    Pöppelmeier, F., Gutjahr, M., Blaser, P., Oppo, D.W., Jaccard, S.L., Regelous, M., Huang, K.-F., Süfke, F., Lippold, J. (2020). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531, 115963. 📖

  • Inverse response of 231Pa/230Th to variations of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in the North Atlantic intermediate water.
    Süfke, F., Schulz, H., Scheen, J., Szidat, S., Regelous, M., Blaser, P., Pöppelmeier, F., Goepfert, T.J., Stocker, T.F., Lippold, J. (2020). Geo-Marine Letters 40, 75–87. 📖

  • Ice-rafted debris as a source of non-conservative behaviour for the εNd palaeotracer: insights from a simple model.
    Vogt-Vincent, N., Lippold, J., Kaboth-Bahr, S., Blaser, P. (2020). Geo-Marine Letters 40, 325–340. 📖


2019

  • Constraints on the northwestern Atlantic deep water circulation from 231Pa/230Th during the last 30,000 years.
    Süfke F., Pöppelmeier F., Goepfert T. J., Regelous M., Koutsodendris A., Blaser P., Gutjahr M. and Lippold J. (2019). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 34, 1945–1958. 📖

  • Revealing past ocean circulation with neodymium isotopes.
    Blaser P., Frank M. and van de Flierdt T. (2019). Past Global Changes Magazine 27, 54–55. 📖

  • Influence of Ocean Circulation and Benthic Exchange on Deep Northwest Atlantic Nd Isotope Records During the Past 30,000 Years.
    Pöppelmeier F., Blaser P., Gutjahr M., Süfke F., Thornalley D. J. R., Grützner J., Jakob K. A., Link J. M., Szidat S. and Lippold J. (2019). Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 20, 4457–4469. 📖

  • Constraining the Variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation During the Holocene.
    Lippold J., Pöppelmeier F., Süfke F., Gutjahr M., Goepfert T. J., Blaser P., Friedrich O., Link J. M., Wacker L., Rheinberger S. and Jaccard S. L. (2019). Geophysical Research Letters 46, 11338–11346. 📖

  • The resilience and sensitivity of Northeast Atlantic deep water εNd to overprinting by detrital fluxes over the past 30,000 years.
    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). Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 245, 79–97. 📖


2018

  • Undisturbed Measurements of Oxygen in Deep Sea Sediments with Oxygen Sensitive Foil
    Blaser P. and Jacek R. (2018). Application Note, Heidelberg. 📖

  • Origin of Abyssal NW Atlantic Water Masses Since the Last Glacial Maximum.
    Pöppelmeier F., Gutjahr M., Blaser P., Keigwin L. D. and Lippold J. (2018). Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33, 530–543. 📖


2017

  • High precision U-series dating of scleractinian cold-water corals using an automated chromatographic U and Th extraction.
    Wefing A.-M., Arps J., Blaser P., Wienberg C., Hebbeln D. and Frank N. (2017). Chemical Geology 475, 140–148. 📖


2016

  • Deep water provenance and dynamics of the (de)glacial Atlantic meridional overturning circulation.
    Lippold J., Gutjahr M., Blaser P., Christner E., de Carvalho Ferreira M. L., Mulitza S., Christl M., Wombacher F., Böhm E., Antz B., Cartapanis O., Vogel H. and Jaccard S. L. (2016). Earth and Planetary Science Letters 445, 68–78. 📖

  • Extracting foraminiferal seawater Nd isotope signatures from bulk deep sea sediment by chemical leaching.
    Blaser P., Lippold J., Gutjahr M., Frank N., Link J. M. and Frank M. (2016). Chemical Geology 439, 189–204. 📖


2015

  • Strong and deep Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial cycle.
    Böhm E., Lippold J., Gutjahr M., Frank M., Blaser P., Antz B., Fohlmeister J., Frank N., Andersen M. B. and Deininger M. (2015). Nature 517, 73–76. 📖