Maarten Blaauw

Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records (2009)

Charman, Dan J., Barber, Keith E., Blaauw, Maarten, Langdon, Pete G, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Daley, Tim J., ...

Reconstruction of hydroclimate variability is an important part of understanding natural climate change on decadal to millennial timescales. Peatland records reconstruct ‘bog surface wetness’...

Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and western Europe? (2008)

Blaauw, Maarten, Wohlfarth, Barbara, Christen, J Andrés, Ampel, Linda, Veres, Daniel, Hughen, Konrad A, ...

During the last glacial period, several large abrupt climate fluctuations took place on the Greenland ice cap and elsewhere. Often these Dansgaard/Oeschger events are assumed to have been...

Cooling and changing seasonality in the Southern Alps, New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2008)

Vandergoes, MJ, Dieffenbacher-Krall, AC, Newnham, RM, Denton, GH, Blaauw, Maarten

A comprehensively 14C AMS dated pollen and chironomid record from Boundary Stream Tarn provides the first chironomid-derived temperature reconstruction to quantify temperature change during...

Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in Western Europe, 40–16 ka (2008)

Wohlfarth, Barbara, Veres, Daniel, Ampel, Linda, Lacourse, Terri, Blaauw, Maarten, Preusser, Frank, ...

Studies establishing key phenomena and developing diagnostics for energetic particle physics, which are essential for the next step burning plasma experiments such as the International Thermonuclear...

A Bayesian Framework for Age Modeling of Radiocarbon-Dated Peat Deposits: Case Studies from The Netherlands (2007)

Hall, Valerie A., Christen, J. Andrés, Bakker, Ronald, Blaauw, Maarten, Plicht, Johannes Van Der

Recently, Bayesian statistical software has been developed for age-depth modeling (“wiggle-match dating”) of sequences of densely spaced radiocarbon dates from peat cores. The method is described...

High precision 14C dating of Holocene peat deposits: A comparison of Bayesian calibration and wiggle-matching approaches (2006)

Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Sillasoo, Ülle, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Blaauw, Maarten, Bennett, Keith D., Yeloff, Dan, ...

The chronologies of five northern European ombrotrophic peat bogs subjected to a large AMS 14C dating effort (32–44 dates/site) are presented here. The results of Bayesian calibration (BCal) of...

Solar forcing of climatic change during the mid-Holocene: indications from raised bogs in The Netherlands (2004)

Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Geel, Bas Van, Blaauw, Maarten

Two cores of mid-Holocene raised-bog deposits from the Netherlands were 14C wiggle-match dated at high precision. Changes in local moisture conditions were inferred from the changing species...

Changes in solar activity and Holocene climatic shifts derived from 14C wiggle-match dated peat deposits (2004)

Speranza, Alessandra, Blaauw, Maarten, Geel, Bas Van, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Plicht, Johannes Van Der

Closely spaced sequences of accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) 14C dates of peat deposits display century-scale wiggles which can be fitted to the radiocarbon calibration curve. By wiggle-matching...

Carbon-14 wiggle-match dating of peat deposits: advantages and limitations (2004)

Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Geel, Bas Van, Blaauw, Maarten

Carbon-14 wiggle-match dating (WMD) of peat deposits uses the non-linear relationship between 14C age and calendar age to match the shape of a series of closely spaced peat 14C dates with the 14C...

Radiocarbon dating of bulk peat samples from raised bogs: non-existence of a previously reported ‘reservoir effect’? (2004)

Geel, Bas Van, Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Blaauw, Maarten

In 1995, an unexpected reservoir effect was reported in sequences of bulk 14C dates of raised bog peat. In most peat studies bulk 14C dates are used for obtaining chronologies. Therefore it is...

A numerical approach to 14C wiggle-match dating of organic deposits: best fits and confidence intervals (2003)

Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Mauquoy, Dmitri, Heuvelink, Gerard B.M., Blaauw, Maarten, Geel, Bas Van

14C wiggle-match dating (WMD) of peat deposits uses the non-linear relationship between 14C age and calendar age to match the shape of a sequence of closely spaced peat 14C dates with the 14C...

Evidence from northwest European bogs shows ‘Little Ice Age’ climatic changes driven by variations in solar activity (2002)

Plicht, Johannes Van Der, Blaauw, Maarten, Geel, Bas Van, Mauquoy, Dmitri

Fluctuations in Holocene atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations have been shown to be due to variations in solar activity. Analyses of both 10Be and 14C nuclides confirm that production-rate changes...

Specific Growth Rate Plays a Critical Role in Hydrogen Peroxide Resistance of the Marine Oligotrophic Ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain RB2256

Ostrowski, Martin, Cavicchioli, Ricardo, Blaauw, Maarten, Gottschal, Jan C.

The marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis RB2256 has a physiology that is distinctly different from that of typical copiotrophic marine bacteria, such as Vibrio angustum...

Specific Growth Rate Plays a Critical Role in Hydrogen Peroxide Resistance of the Marine Oligotrophic Ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain RB2256

Ostrowski, Martin, Cavicchioli, Ricardo, Blaauw, Maarten, Gottschal, Jan C.

The marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis RB2256 has a physiology that is distinctly different from that of typical copiotrophic marine bacteria, such as Vibrio angustum...

Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change

Maarten Blaauw, J. Andrés Christen

Raised bog peat deposits form important archives for reconstructing past changes in climate. Precise and reliable age models are of vital importance for interpreting such archives. We propose...