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Dr Ola Kwiecien

Assistant Professor

School: Geography and Natural Sciences

Ola Kwiecien
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  • Pronounced drought and wet periods during the Maya Terminal Classic period reconstructed using stalagmite calcium isotopes, James, D., Bradbury, H., Carolin, S., Breitenbach, S., Cheng, H., Orland, I., Curtis, J., Hartland, A., Gallup, C., Kwiecien, O., Mason, A., Henderson, G., Brenner, M., Turchyn, A., Hodell, D. 17 Jul 2026, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • Response of Botovskaya Cave to local and regional environmental dynamics, Margerum, J., Gutareva, O., Lechleitner, F., Box, M., Umbo, S., Vaks, A., Meyer, H., Kononov, A., Osintsev, A., Sokol'nikov, D., Marwan, N., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 10 Mar 2026, In: International Journal of Speleology
  • A six-million-year speleothem derived clumped isotope temperature record of continental Eurasia, Umbo, S., Modestou, S., Opel, T., Lechleitner, F., Vaks, A., Golan, T., Mason, A., Margerum, J., Kwiecien, O., Osintsev, A., Breitenbach, S. 15 Mar 2025, EGU General Assembly 2025
  • Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico, James, D., Carolin, S., Breitenbach, S., Hoggarth, J., Lases-Hernández, F., Endsley, E., Curtis, J., Gallup, C., Milbrath, S., Nicolson, J., Rolfe, J., Kwiecien, O., Ottley, C., Iveson, A., Baldini, J., Brenner, M., Henderson, G., Hodell, D. 15 Aug 2025, In: Science advances
  • Khuit Agui (Khuit Cave): A paleoenvironmental and archaeological treasure trove in northern Mongolia, Box, M., Serdyanjiv, N., Dashtseren, A., Sandag, K., Kononov, A., Gutareva, O., Osintsev, A., Sokol'nikov, D., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 30 Jun 2025, In: Quaternary Newsletter
  • New high-precision U–Th dates for speleothems from the Assynt caves and their significance for past environmental change, Breitenbach, S., Lawson, T., Atkinson, T., Fox, B., Kwiecien, O., Henderson, G. 1 Jan 2025, In: Cave and Karst Science
  • 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 Mar 2025, In: Climate of the Past
  • Seasonally-resolved stratigraphy at Jwalapuram India shows regional surface warming after the Toba volcanic super-eruption, Jha, G., Costa, M., Tsoupra, A., Dias, C., Kwiecien, O., Longman, J., Breitenbach, S., Ditchfield, P., Jha, D., Rudd, R., Anilkumar, D., Paladugu, R., Shree, S., Achyuthan, H., Raj, R., Krishnan, K., Boivin, N., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M. 7 Apr 2025, In: PNAS Nexus
  • Seasonal temperature and ventilation changes govern proxy-signal transfer into caves in northern Mongolia, Box, M., Kononov, A., Serdyanjiv, N., Dashtseren, A., Sandag, K., Gutareva, O., Osintsev, A., Sokol’Nikov, D., Margerum, J., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 1 Jan 2025, In: Cave and Karst Science
  • 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
PhD June 30 2008

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