야스퍼 와센버그 Jasper Wassenburg

Young Scientist Fellow of IBS & Research Professor of PNU

Email: jasper.wassenburg@pusan.ac.kr

Phone: +82-51-510-7862

Research Interests
  • Speleothem oxygen isotope records in the East Asian Monsoon region and their climatic interpretation
  • Processes affecting East Asian Monsoon rainfall isotope composition
  • Speleothem fluid inclusion isotope analysis
  • Isotope enabled climate modeling
  • Drivers of trace element variability in calcite and aragonite speleothems
  • Holocene North Atlantic Oscillation variability, reconstructions and its non-stationary character

Education

2013 Ph.D. Natural Sciences, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
2008 M.Sc. Geosciences, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 B.Sc. Physical Geography, Quaternary Geology, Hydro Geology, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands

Work Experience

2017 2020 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
2013 2017 Postdoc, University of Mainz, Germany
2009 2013 Research assistant, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
2008 2009 Research assistent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Fellowships, Awards, and Honors

2021-present Young Scientist Fellow of the IBS
2017-2020 Postdoc stipend, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (3 years)
2014-2017 DFG grant for temporary position as Principal Investigator (3 years)

Publications

  1. Lijuan Sha, Haowen Dang, Yue Wang, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Jonathan L. Baker, Hanying Li, Ashish Sinha, Yassine Ait Brahim, Nanping Wu, Zhengyao Lu, Ce Yang, Xiyu Dong, Jiayu Lu, Haiwei Zhang, Sasadhar Mahata, Yanjun Cai, Zhimin Jian and Hai Cheng, 2024. Triple oxygen isotope reveals insolation-forced tropical moisture cycles, Science Advances, vol. 10, 37, article eadp7855, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adp7855
  2. Jasper A. Wassenburg, Anupam Samanta, Lijuan Sha, Hosun Lee, Denis Scholz, Hai Cheng, Brigitte Stoll, Yassine Ait Brahim, Alexander Budsky, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, 2024. Trace element partitioning controls on cave drip water compositions through prior calcite and aragonite precipitation, Communications Earth & Environment, vol. 5, Article 488, doi: doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01648-5
  3. Lijuan Sha, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Lifen Sha, Youwei Li, Shilun Zhou, Qisheng Liang, Jingyao Zhao, Jiaoyang Ruan, Hanying Li, Xinnan Zhao, Pengzhen Duan, Jan Wang, Jiayu Lu, Haiwei Zhang, Gayatri Kathayat, Sasadhar Mahata, Fengmei Ban, Ting-Yong Li, Hai Cheng, 2023. Variations in triple oxygen isotope of speleothems from the Asian monsoon region reveal moisture sources over the past 300 years, Communications earth and environment, vol. 4, article 384, doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-01043-6
  4. Ye Tian , Dominik Fleitmann, Qiong Zhang, Lijuan Sha, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Josefine Axelsson, Haiwei Zhang, Xianglei Li, Jun Hu, Hanying Li, Liang Zhao, Yanjun Cai, Youfeng Ning, Hai Cheng, 2023. Holocene climate change in southern Oman deciphered by speleothem records and climate model simulations, Nature communications, vol. 14, 1, Article 4718, doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-40454-z
  5. Yassine Ait Brahim, Lijuan Sha, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Khalil Axennoud, Hai Cheng, Francisco W. Cruz, Lhoussaine Bouchaou, 2023. The spatiotemporal extent of the Green Sahara during the last glacial period, iScience, vol. 26, 7, article 107018, doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107018
  6. Jasper A. Wassenburg, Hubert B. Vonhof, Hai Cheng, Alfredo Martínez-García, Pia-Rebecca Ebner, Xianglei Li, Haiwei Zhang, Lijuan Sha, Ye Tian, R. Lawrence Edwards, Jens Fiebig and Gerald H. Haug, 2021. Penultimate deglaciation Asian monsoon response to North Atlantic circulation collapse, Nature Geoscience
  7. Lijuan Sha, Wassine Ait Brahim, Jasper A. Wassenburg, Juanjun Yin. Jiayu Lu, Francisco W. Cruz, Yanjun Cai, R. Lawrence Edwards, Hai Cheng, 2021. The “Hockey Stick” Imprint in Northwest African Speleothems, Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 48, 17, e2021GL094232
  8. Wassenburg, J.A., Riechelmann, S., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Richter, D.K., Immenhauser, A., Terente, M., Constantin, S., Niedermayr, A., Scholz, D., 2020. Calcite Mg and Sr distribution coefficients in cave environments: implications for interpreting prior calcite precipitation in speleothems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 269, 581-596.
  9. Riechelmann, D.F.C., Riechelmann, S., Wassenburg, J.A., Fohlmeister, J., Schöne, B.R., Jochum, K.P., Richter, D.K., Scholz, D., 2020. High-Resolution Proxy Records From Two Simultaneously Grown Stalagmites From Zoolithencave (Southeastern Germany) and their Potential for Palaeoclimate Reconstruction. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 21, e2019GC008755
  10. de Graaf, S., Vonhof, H.B., Weissbach, T., Wassenburg, J.A., Levy, E.J., Kluge, T., Haug, G.H., 2020. A comparison of IRMS and CRDS techniques for isotope analysis of fluid inclusion water. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 34, e8837.
  11. Budsky, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Mertz-Kraus, R., Spötl, C., Jochum, K.P., Gibert, L., Scholz, D., 2019. Western Mediterranean climate response to Dansgaard/Oeschger events: new insights from speleothem records. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46.
  12. Ait Brahim, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Sha, L., Cruz, F.W., Deininger, M., Sifeddine, A., Bouchaou, L., Spötl, C., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., 2019. North Atlantic ice-rafting, ocean and atmospheric circulation during the Holocene:: Insights from Western Mediterranean speleothems. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 7614-7623.
  13. Sha, L., Ait Brahim, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Yin, J., Peros, M., Cruz, F.W., Cai, Y., Li, H., Du, W., Zhang, H., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., 2019. How Far North Did the African Monsoon Fringe Expand During the African Humid Period? Insights From Southwest Moroccan Speleothems. Geophys. Res. Lett. 46, 14093-14102.
  14. Budsky, A., Scholz, D., Wassenburg, J.A., Mertz-Kraus, R., Spötl, C., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Gibert, L., Johchum, K.P., Andreae, M.O., 2019a. Speleothem δ13C record suggests enhanced spring/summer drought in south-eastern Spain between 9.7 and 7.8 ka – A circum-Western Mediterranean anomaly? The Holocene 29, 7, 1113-1133
  15. Jochum, K.P., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Veter, M., Stoll, B., Weis, U., Weber, M., Lugli, F., Jentzen, A., Schiebel, R., Wassenburg, J.A., Jacob, D.E., Haug, G.H., 2019. Nano-powdered calcium carbonate reference materials- a significant progress for microanalysis? Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research. doi: 10.1111/ggr.12292
  16. Ait Brahim, Y., Wassenburg, J.A., Cruz, F.W., Sifeddine, A., Scholz, D., Bouchaou, L., Dassié, E.P., Jochum, K.P., Edwards, R.L., Cheng, H., 2018. Multi-decadal to centennial hydro-climate variability and linkage to solar forcing in the Western Mediterranean during the last 1000 years. Sci Rep-Uk 8, 17446.
  17. Weber, M., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Oster, J., Scholz, D., 2017. Sr-isotope analysis of speleothems by LA-MC-ICP-MS: High temporal resolution and fast data acquisition. Chem. Geol. 468, 63-74.
  18. Ait Brahim, Y., Cheng, H., Sifeddine, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Cruz, F.W., Khodri, M., Sha, L., Pérez-Zanón, N., Beraaouz, E.H., Apaéstegui, J., Guyot, J.-L., Jochum, K.P., Bouchaou, L., 2017. Speleothem records decadal to multidecadal hydroclimate variations in southwestern Morocco during the last millennium. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 476, 1-10.
  19. Wassenburg, J.A., Dietrich, S., Fietzke, J., Fohlmeister, J., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Richter, D.K., Sabaoui, A., Spötl, C., Lohmann, G., Andreae, M.O., Immenhauser, A., 2016a. Reorganization of the North Atlantic Oscillation during Early Holocene deglaciation. Nat. Geosci. 9, 602-605.
  20. Wassenburg, J.A., Scholz, D., Jochum, K.P., Cheng, H., Oster, J., Immenhauser, A., Richter, D.K., Häger, T., Jamieson, R.A., Baldini, J.U.L., Hoffmann, D., Breitenbach, S.F.M., 2016. Determination of aragonite trace element partition coefficients from speleothem calcite-aragonite transitions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 190, 347-367.
  21. Cheng, H., Spötl, C., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Sinha, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Jochum, K.P., Scholz, D., Li, X., Yi, L., Peng, Y., Lv, Y., Zhang, P., Votintseva, A., Loginov, V., Ning, Y., Kathayat, G., Edwards, R.L., 2016. Climate variability of central Asia on orbital to millennial timescales. Sci Rep-Uk 6.
  22. Jamieson, R.A., Baldini, J.U.L., Brett, M.J., Taylor, J., Ridley, H.E., Ottley, C.J., Prufer, K.M., Wassenburg, J.A., Scholz, D., Breitenbach, S.F.M., 2016. Intra- and inter-annual uranium concentration variability in a Belizean stalagmite controlled by prior aragonite precipitation: a new tool for reconstructing hydro-climate using aragonitic speleothems. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 190, 332-346.
  23. Zinke, J., Reuning, L., Pfeiffer, M., Wassenburg, J.A., Hardman, E., Jhangeer-Khan, R., Davies, G.R., Ng, C.K.C., Kroon, D., 2016. A sea surface temperature reconstruction for the southern Indian Ocean trade wind belt from corals in Rodrigues Island (19°S, 63°E). Biogesociences 13, 5827-5847.
  24. Riechelmann, S., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Wassenburg, J.A., Schreuer, J., Richter, D.K., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Terente, M., Constantin, S., Mangini, A., Immenhauser, A., 2014. Physicochemical characteristics of drip waters: Influence on mineralogy and crystal morphology of recent cave carbonate precipitates. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 145, 13-29.
  25. Wassenburg, J.A., Immenhauser, A., Richter, D.K., Niedermayr, A., Riechelmann, S., Fietzke, J., Scholz, D., Jochum, K.P., Fohlmeister, J., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Sabaoui, A., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Schneider, L., Esper, J., 2013. Moroccan speleothem and tree ring records suggest a variable positive state of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the Medieval Warm Period. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 375, 291-302.
  26. Wassenburg, J.A., Immenhauser, A., Richter, D.K., Jochum, K.P., Fietzke, J., Deininger, M., Goos, M., Scholz, D., Sabaoui, A., 2012. Climate and cave control on Pleistocene/Holocene calcite-to- aragonite transitions in speleothems from Morocco: elemental and isotopic evidence. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 92, 23-47.
  27. Riechelmann, S., Buhl, D., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Riechelmann, D.F.C., Richter, D.K., Vonhof, H.B., Wassenburg, J.A., Geske, A., Spötl, C., Immenhauser, A., 2012. The magnesium isotope record of cave carbonate archives. Clim. Past. 8, 1849-1867.
  28. Perry, C.T., Smithers, S.G., Roche, R.C., Wassenburg, J., 2011. Recurrent patterns of coral community and sediment facies development through successive phases of Holocene inner-shelf reef growth and decline. Mar. Geol. 289, 60-71.