Professor MELANIE LENG's Outputs (154)

Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427 (2021)
Journal Article
Henderson, A. C. G., Felder, S., Sagawa, T., Greaves, M., Leng, M. J., Ikehara, K., Kimoto, K., Hasegawa, S., Wagner, T., & Henderson, A. C. (2022). Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 37(1), Article e2021PA004236. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021pa004236

Large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, such as the East Asian monsoon, have been proposed as possible feedbacks of the mid-Pleistocene transition (MPT). Marine sediments of the Japan Sea (JS) record variations in the East Asian monsoon over lo... Read More about Palaeoceanography of the Japan Sea Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition: Insights From IODP Exp. 346, Site U1427.

Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years (2021)
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Maxson, C., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Tyler, J., Leng, M., Lomax, B., Marshall, J., McGregor, G., Schulz, C., Cadd, H., & Jacobsen, G. (2022). Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years. Journal of Paleolimnology, 67(1), 75-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-021-00222-9

Lake sediments are important archives of past climate variability and lake responses to climate. In order to accurately infer past climates, it is necessary to understand, and account for, the ecological processes that affect the record of indicators... Read More about Ecology and climate sensitivity of a groundwater-fed lake on subtropical North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), Queensland, Australia over the last 7,500 years.

Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey (2021)
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Jacobson, M. J., Flohr, P., Gascoigne, A., Leng, M. J., Sadekov, A., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L., Tüysüz, O., & Fleitmann, D. (2021). Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 48(20), Article e2021GL094733. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL094733

Palaeoclimate variability must be constrained to predict the nature and impacts of future climate change in the Eastern Mediterranean. Here, we present a late Holocene high-resolution multiproxy data set from Kocain Cave, the first of its kind from S... Read More about Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean—The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey.

Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden (2021)
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Monz, M. E., Hudleston, P. J., Cook, S. J., Zimmerman, T., & Leng, M. J. (2022). Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden. Boreas, 51(1), 78-99. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12549

Thrust faulting has been suggested as a viable mechanism of debris transport at many glaciers, often inferred from the presence of up-glacier dipping bands of debris that emerge at the ice surface to form ridges of basally derived material. However,... Read More about Thrust faulting in glaciers? Re-examination of debris bands near the margin of Storglaciären, Sweden.

Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders (2021)
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Hendry, K. R., Briggs, N., Henson, S., Opher, J., Brearley, J. A., Meredith, M. P., Leng, M. J., & Meire, L. (2021). Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126(8), Article e2021JC017274. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017274

The Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) is experiencing significant mass loss and freshwater discharge at glacier fronts. The freshwater input from Greenland will impact the physical properties of adjacent coastal seas, including important regions of deep wat... Read More about Tracing Glacial Meltwater From the Greenland Ice Sheet to the Ocean Using Gliders.

Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene (2021)
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Fox, L. R., Wade, B. S., Holbourn, A., Leng, M. J., & Bhatia, R. (2021). Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 36(6), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020PA003924

Sea surface temperatures (SSTs) of the tropical Pacific Ocean exert powerful controls on regional and global climates. Previous studies have suggested that during warm climate phases, the east-west temperature gradient collapsed. To date, there has b... Read More about Temperature Gradients Across the Pacific Ocean During the Middle Miocene.

Transport and storage of anthropogenic contaminants in the Red River Delta, Vietnam  (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panizzo, V., Roberts, L., Do, N., Taylor, S., Watts, M., Hamilton, E., McGowan, S., Trinh, D., Leng, M., & Salgado, J. (2021, April). Transport and storage of anthropogenic contaminants in the Red River Delta, Vietnam . Presented at EGU General Assembly 2021 (vEGU21: Gather Online), Online

Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland (2021)
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Stevenson, M. A., Mcgowan, S., Pearson, E. J., Swann, G. E., Leng, M. J., Jones, V. J., Bailey, J. J., Huang, X., & Whiteford, E. (2021). Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland. Biogeosciences, 18(8), 2465-2485. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-2465-2021

The Arctic is rapidly changing, disrupting biogeochemical cycles and the processing, delivery and sedimentation of carbon (C), in linked terrestrial-aquatic systems. In this investigation, we coupled a hydrogeomorphic assessment of catchment soils, s... Read More about Anthropocene climate warming enhances autochthonous carbon cycling in an upland Arctic lake, Disko Island, West Greenland.

Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Zhang, J., McGowan, S., Metcalfe, S., Jones, M., Leng, M. J., & Hou, J. (2021). Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co. Quaternary Science Reviews, 259, Article 106889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106889

Understanding the strength and extent of the Asian summer monsoon (including the East Asian summer monsoon and the Indian summer monsoon) in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) region is crucial for predicting possible changes in the regional eco-environment an... Read More about Climatic and environmental change in the western Tibetan Plateau during the Holocene, recorded by lake sediments from Aweng Co.

Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean (2021)
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Akhoudas, C. H., Sallée, J. B., Haumann, F. A., Meredith, M. P., Garabato, A. N., Reverdin, G., Jullion, L., Aloisi, G., Benetti, M., Leng, M. J., & Arrowsmith, C. (2021). Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Article 6760. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86043-2

The Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean is the world’s main production site of Antarctic Bottom Water, a water-mass that is ventilated at the ocean surface before sinking and entraining older water-masses—ultimately replenishing the abyssal global... Read More about Ventilation of the abyss in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.

Dipole patterns in tropical precipitation were pervasive across landmasses throughout Marine Isotope Stage 5 (2021)
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Nilsson-Kerr, K., Anand, P., Holden, P. B., Clemens, S. C., & Leng, M. J. (2021). Dipole patterns in tropical precipitation were pervasive across landmasses throughout Marine Isotope Stage 5. Communications Earth & Environment, 2(1), Article 64. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00133-7

Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods (2020)
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Bennett, C. E., Kearsey, T. I., Davies, S. J., Leng, M. J., Millward, D., Smithson, T. R., Brand, P. J., Browne, M. A., Carpenter, D. K., Marshall, J. E., Dulson, H., & Curry, L. (2021). Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 564, Article 110194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110194

© 2020 The Ballagan Formation of northern Britain provides an exceptional record of Early Mississippian ecosystems that developed as tetrapods emerged onto land. In this paper, we study two 500-metre sections of the formation near Berwick-upon-Tweed,... Read More about Palaeoecology and palaeoenvironment of Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes during the early terrestrialisation of tetrapods.

Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6 (2020)
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Wilson, G. P., Frogley, M. R., Hughes, P. D., Roucoux, K. H., Margari, V., Jones, T. D., Leng, M. J., & Tzedakis, P. C. (2021). Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6. Quaternary Science Advances, 3, Article 100016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qsa.2020.100016

Exploring the mode and tempo of millennial-scale climate variability under evolving boundary conditions can provide insights into tipping points in different parts of the Earth system, and can facilitate a more detailed understanding of climate telec... Read More about Persistent millennial-scale climate variability in Southern Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 6.

Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene (2020)
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Harding, P., Bezrukova, E. V., Kostrova, S. S., Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Meyer, H., Pavlova, L. A., Shchetnikov, A., Shtenberg, M. V., Tarasov, P. E., & Mackay, A. W. (2020). Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene. Global and Planetary Change, 195, Article 103333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2020.103333

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Southern Siberia is currently undergoing rapid warming, inducing changes in vegetation, loss of permafrost, and impacts on the hydrodynamics of lakes and rivers. Lake sediments are key archives of environmental change and contain... Read More about Hydrological (in)stability in Southern Siberia during the Younger Dryas and early Holocene.

Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem (2020)
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Wilke, T., Hauffe, T., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Donders, T., Ekschmitt, K., Francke, A., Lacey, J. H., Levkov, Z., Marshall, C. R., Neubauer, T. A., Silvestro, D., Stelbrink, B., Vogel, H., Albrecht, C., Holtvoeth, J., Krastel, S., Leicher, N., Leng, M. J., Lindhorst, K., …Wagner, B. (2020). Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem. Science Advances, 6(40), Article eabb2943. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb2943

The scarcity of high-resolution empirical data directly tracking diversity over time limits our understanding of speciation and extinction dynamics and the drivers of rate changes. Here, we analyze a continuous species-level fossil record of endemic... Read More about Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem.

Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature (2020)
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Pieńkowski, G., Hesselbo, S. P., Barbacka, M., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature. Earth-Science Reviews, 210, Article 103383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103383

© 2020 The Authors New carbon-isotope data obtained from homogenous organic material (separated microfossil wood; δ13Cwood) from the upper Rhaetian and entire Lower Jurassic permit chemostratigraphic correlation of these marginal/non-marine deposits... Read More about Non-marine carbon-isotope stratigraphy of the Triassic-Jurassic transition in the Polish Basin and its relationships to organic carbon preservation, pCO2 and palaeotemperature.

Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin (2020)
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Trinh, A. D., Do, T. N., Panizzo, V. N., McGowan, S., & Leng, M. J. (2020). Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin. Hydrological Processes, 34(22), 4239-4250. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.13878

© 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd The young water fraction of streamflow (Fyw), an important hydrological variable, has been calculated for the first time, for a monsoon-fed coastal catchment in northern Vietnam. Oxygen stable isotopes (δ18O) from six r... Read More about Using stable isotopes to estimate young water fractions in a heavily regulated, tropical lowland river basin.

Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability (2020)
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Tucker, M. E., Carey, S. N., Sparks, R. S. J., Stinton, A., Leng, M., Robinson, L., Li, T., Lewis, J., & Cotton, L. (2020). Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability. Marine Geology, 429, Article 106320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106320

© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Extensive carbonate crusts discovered forming on the slopes of seamounts in many parts of the world's oceans are providing extra stability to the volcanic edifices. These crusts are hardgrounds composed of mixtures of volcaniclas... Read More about Carbonate crusts around volcanic islands: Composition, origin and their significance in slope stability.

δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation (2020)
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Roberts, L. R., Holmes, J. A., Sloane, H. J., Arrowsmith, C., Leng, M. J., & Horne, D. J. (2022). δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation. Marine Micropaleontology, 160, Article 101907. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101907

© 2020 Stable isotope analyses of ostracod shells are a commonly-used proxy for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Although the fundamental controls on isotope composition of ostracod shells are well understood and, in some instances, quantifiable,... Read More about δ18O and δ13C of Cyprideis torosa from coastal lakes: Modern systematics and down-core interpretation.

Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska (2020)
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Broadman, E., Kaufman, D. S., Henderson, A. C., Berg, E. E., Anderson, R. S., Leng, M. J., Stahnke, S. A., & Muñoz, S. E. (2020). Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 241, Article 106420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106420

© 2020 Elsevier Ltd The Holocene hydroclimate of south-central Alaska has been studied extensively, but conflicting interpretations between oxygen isotope paleoclimate datasets are seemingly as common as converging reconstructions, in part due to the... Read More about Multi-proxy evidence for millennial-scale changes in North Pacific Holocene hydroclimate from the Kenai Peninsula lowlands, south-central Alaska.