Matzerath, P, Kolling, HM, Kienast, M, Fahl, K, Stein, R, Gross, F and Schneider, RR (2026) Holocene sea-ice and productivity changes on the Scotian Shelf, NW Atlantic. Quaternary Science Reviews, 372. 109694. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109694
You, D, Stein, R, Lohmann, G, Masoum, A, Fahl, K, Wu, J and Jackson, R (2026) Surface freshening in the subpolar North Atlantic sustaining the weakened AMOC during the late Younger Dryas. Science Advances, 12(1). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adv6220
Jang, K, Bayon, G, Han, Y, Joe, YJ, Jun, SY, Son, YJ, Matthiessen, J, O’Regan, M, Vogt, C, Stein, R, Sakamoto, T, Byun, E, Woo, KS and Nam, SI (2026) The potential role of Arctic seaway expansion in driving the Mid-Pleistocene Transition. Communications Earth & Environment, 7(1). doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03570-4
Stein, R, Frederichs, T, Fahl, K, Geibert, W, Matthiessen, J, Niessen, F, Vogt, C, Sassenroth, C and Bazhenova, E (2025) A 430 kyr record of ice-sheet dynamics and organic-carbon burial in the central Eurasian Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications, 16(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-025-59112-7
Cui, C, Xiao, X, Liu, Y, Stein, R, Nam, SI, Rebesco, M, De Santis, L, Baradello, L, Ding, Y and Zhao, M (2025) Changes in iceberg discharge and bottom current activity during the last Glacial to Holocene along the Ross Sea continental margin, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 680. 113353. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113353
Nicolas, A, Hefter, J, Grotheer, H, Tesi, T, Stein, R, Nogarotto, A, Alves, EQ and Mollenhauer, G (2025) Delivery of aged terrestrial organic matter to the Laptev Sea during the last deglaciation. Climate of the Past, 21(12). 2579-2599. doi:10.5194/cp-21-2579-2025
Wu, J, Matsubara, F, Mollenhauer, G, Stein, R, Wei, B, Fahl, K, Xiao, X and Gustafsson, Ö (2025) Geospatial patterns in terrestrial organic matter reactivity across four shelf seas spanning the Eurasian Arctic. Science Advances, 11(37). doi:10.1126/sciadv.adt6806
Lin, TW, Nehrke, G, Grotheer, H, Koch, BP, Meyer, H, Ruben, M, Stein, R, Strauss, J, Tesi, T and Mollenhauer, G (2025) Holocene terrestrial permafrost contributes more highly reactive organic matter to the Laptev Sea shelf than Pleistocene permafrost. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130(10). doi:10.1029/2025JG008872
Zhang, JY, Xiao, X, Stein, R, Xiao, W, Wang, R, Ding, Y, Nie, L and Zhao, M (2025) New Sea-ice biomarker data from Bering-Chukchi Sea surface sediments and its significance for pan-Arctic proxy-based sea-ice reconstruction. Global and Planetary Change, 244. 104642. doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104642
Wong, W, Risebrobakken, B, Ödalen, M, Tisserand, AA, Fahl, K, Stein, R and Jansen, E (2025) Ocean control on sea ice in the Nordic Seas. Climate of the Past, 21(11). 2225-2242. doi:10.5194/cp-21-2225-2025
Wu, J, Stein, R, Sachs, JP, Wolhowe, M, Fahl, K and You, D (2025) Quantitative estimates of Younger Dryas freshening from lipid δ2H analysis in the Beaufort Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 52(4). doi:10.1029/2024GL112485
Steinsland, K, Grant, DM, Fahl, K, Stein, R, Rasmussen, TL, Risebrobakken, B, Ninnemann, US, Knies, J, Velle, JH and De Schepper, S (2025) Sea ice variability from the penultimate glacial to the last interglacial in the eastern Fram Strait. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 663. 112779. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112779
Sun, Y, Du, J, Hu, L, Zhang, Y, Ye, J, Zhu, C, Yang, G, Vasilenko, Y, Bosin, A, Astakhov, A, Stein, R and Shi, X (2025) Spatial heterogeneity of terrestrial organic carbon burial and degradation in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf area. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26(3). doi:10.1029/2024GC011775
Wong, W, Risebrobakken, B, Fahl, K, Stein, R, Jansen, E, Steinsland, K and Kissel, C (2024) Sea ice in the Nordic Seas: Greenland stadial to interstadial changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 343. 108916. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108916
Davies, J, Fahl, K, Moros, M, Carter-Champion, A, Detlef, H, Stein, R, Pearce, C and Seidenkrantz, MS (2024) Sea-ice conditions from 1880 to 2017 on the Northeast Greenland continental shelf: a biomarker and observational record comparison. The Cryosphere, 18(7). 3415-3431. doi:10.5194/tc-18-3415-2024
You, D, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Limoges, A and Schefuß, E (2024) Interaction between ice sheet dynamics and sea surface characteristics in the Labrador Sea during the last 50 ka. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 629. 118596. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118596
Kolling, H, Schneider, R, Gross, F, Hamann, C, Kienast, M, Kienast, S, Doering, K, Fahl, K and Stein, R (2023) Biomarker records of environmental shifts on the Labrador Shelf during the Holocene. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 38(9). doi:10.1029/2022PA004578
Steinsland, K, Grant, DM, Ninnemann, US, Fahl, K, Stein, R and De Schepper, S (2023) Sea ice variability in the North Atlantic subpolar gyre throughout the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 313. 108198. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108198
You, D, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Williams, M, Schmidt, DN, McCave, IN, Barker, S, Schefuß, E, Niu, L, Kuhn, G and Niessen, F (2023) Last deglacial abrupt climate changes caused by meltwater pulses in the Labrador Sea. Communications Earth & Environment, 4(1). doi:10.1038/s43247-023-00743-3
Wu, J, Mollenhauer, G, Stein, R, Köhler, P, Hefter, J, Fahl, K, Grotheer, H, Wei, B and Nam, SI (2022) Deglacial release of petrogenic and permafrost carbon from the Canadian Arctic impacting the carbon cycle. Nature Communications, 13(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-34725-4
Saini, J, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Weiser, J, Hebbeln, D and Madaj, L (2022) Holocene variability in sea‐ice conditions in the eastern Baffin Bay‐Labrador Sea – A north–south biomarker transect study. Boreas. doi:10.1111/bor.12583
Purcell, K, Hillaire-Marcel, C, de Vernal, A, Ghaleb, B and Stein, R (2022) Potential and limitation of 230Th-excess as a chronostratigraphic tool for late Quaternary Arctic Ocean sediment studies: An example from the Southern Lomonosov Ridge. Marine Geology, 448. 106802. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2022.106802
Geibert, W, Matthiessen, J, Wollenburg, JE and Stein, R (2022) Reply to: No freshwater-filled glacial Arctic Ocean. Nature, 602(7895). E4-E6. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04090-1
Scoto, F, Sadatzki, H, Maffezzoli, N, Barbante, C, Gagliardi, A, Varin, C, Vallelonga, P, Gkinis, V, Dahl-Jensen, D, Kjær, HA, Burgay, F, Saiz-Lopez, A, Stein, R and Spolaor, A (2022) Sea ice fluctuations in the Baffin Bay and the Labrador Sea during glacial abrupt climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(44). doi:10.1073/pnas.2203468119
Zimmermann, HH, Stoof-Leichsenring, KR, Kruse, S, Müller, J, Stein, R, Tiedemann, R and Herzschuh, U (2020) Changes in the composition of marine and sea-ice diatoms derived from sedimentary ancient DNA of the eastern Fram Strait over the past 30 000 years. Ocean Science, 16(5). 1017-1032. doi:10.5194/os-16-1017-2020
Syring, N, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Vahlenkamp, M, Zehnich, M, Spielhagen, RF and Niessen, F (2020) Holocene changes in sea-ice cover and polynya formation along the eastern North Greenland shelf: New insights from biomarker records. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231. 106173. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106173
Saini, J, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Weiser, J, Hebbeln, D, Hillaire-Marcel, C and de Vernal, A (2020) Holocene variability in sea ice and primary productivity in the northeastern Baffin Bay. arktos, 6(1-3). 55-73. doi:10.1007/s41063-020-00075-y
Stein, R (2019) The Late Mesozoic‐Cenozoic Arctic Ocean climate and sea ice history: a challenge for past and future scientific ocean drilling. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. doi:10.1029/2018PA003433
Clotten, C, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Schreck, M, Risebrobakken, B and De Schepper, S (2019) On the causes of Arctic sea ice in the warm Early Pliocene. Scientific Reports, 9(1). doi:10.1038/s41598-018-37047-y ![]()
Sadatzki, H, Dokken, TM, Berben, SMP, Muschitiello, F, Stein, R, Fahl, K, Menviel, L, Timmermann, A and Jansen, E (2019) Sea ice variability in the southern Norwegian Sea during glacial Dansgaard-Oeschger climate cycles. Science Advances, 5(3). eaau6174. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau6174 ![]()
De Schepper, S, Ray, JL, Skaar, KS, Sadatzki, H, Ijaz, UZ, Stein, R and Larsen, A (2019) The potential of sedimentary ancient DNA for reconstructing past sea ice evolution. The ISME Journal, 13(10). 2566-2577. doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0457-1
Cavaleiro, C, Voelker, AHL, Stoll, H, Baumann, KH, Kulhanek, DK, Naafs, BDA, Stein, R, Grützner, J, Ventura, C and Kucera, M (2018) Insolation forcing of coccolithophore productivity in the North Atlantic during the Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 191. 318-336. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.027 ![]()
Maier, E, Zhang, X, Abelmann, A, Gersonde, R, Mulitza, S, Werner, M, Méheust, M, Ren, J, Chapligin, B, Meyer, H, Stein, R, Tiedemann, R and Lohmann, G (2018) North Pacific freshwater events linked to changes in glacial ocean circulation. Nature, 559(7713). 241-245. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0276-y ![]()
Stein, R, Fahl, K, Gierz, P, Niessen, F and Lohmann, G (2017) Arctic Ocean sea ice cover during the penultimate glacial and the last interglacial. Nature Communications, 8(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00552-1 ![]()
Stein, R, Fahl, K, Schreck, M, Knorr, G, Niessen, F, Forwick, M, Gebhardt, C, Jensen, L, Kaminski, M, Kopf, AJ, Matthiessen, J, Jokat, W and Lohmann, G (2016) Evidence for ice-free summers in the late Miocene central Arctic Ocean. Nature Communications, 7. 11148. doi:10.1038/ncomms11148 ![]()
Maier, E, Méheust, M, Abelmann, A, Gersonde, R, Chapligin, B, Ren, J, Stein, R, Meyer, H and Tiedemann, R (2015) Deglacial subarctic Pacific surface water hydrography and nutrient dynamics and links to North Atlantic climate variability and atmospheric CO2. Paleoceanography, 30(7). 949-968. doi:10.1002/2014PA002763 ![]()
Stärz, M, Gong, X, Stein, R, Darby, DA, Kauker, F and Lohmann, G (2012) Glacial shortcut of Arctic sea-ice transport. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 557. 257-267. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.033
März, C, Stratmann, A, Matthiessen, J, Meinhardt, AK, Eckert, S, Schnetger, B, Vogt, C, Stein, R and Brumsack, HJ (2011) Manganese-rich brown layers in Arctic Ocean sediments: Composition, formation mechanisms, and diagenetic overprint. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75(23). 7668-7687. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.09.046 ![]()
Müller, J, Wagner, A, Fahl, K, Stein, R, Prange, M and Lohmann, G (2011) Towards quantitative sea ice reconstructions in the northern North Atlantic: A combined biomarker and numerical modelling approach. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 306. 137-148. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2011.04.011
Saukel, C, Stein, R, Vogt, C and Shevchenko, VP (2010) Clay-mineral and grain-size distributions in surface sediments of the White Sea (Arctic Ocean): indicators of sediment sources and transport processes. Geo-Marine Letters, 30(6). 605-616. doi:10.1007/s00367-010-0210-2 ![]()
Naafs, BDA, Stein, R, Hefter, J, Khélifi, N, De Schepper, S and Haug, GH (2010) Late Pliocene changes in the North Atlantic Current. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 298(3-4). 434-442. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.08.023 ![]()
Knies, J, Matthiessen, J, Mackensen, A, Stein, R, Vogt, C, Frederichs, T and Nam, SI (2007) Effects of Arctic freshwater forcing on thermohaline circulation during the Pleistocene. Geology, 35(12). 1075-1078. doi:10.1130/G23966A.1 ![]()
Birgel, D, Stein, R and Hefter, J (2004) Aliphatic lipids in recent sediments of the Fram Strait/Yermak Plateau (Arctic Ocean): composition, sources and transport processes. Marine Chemistry, 88(3-4). 127-160. doi:10.1016/j.marchem.2004.03.006 ![]()
Evans, J, Dowdeswell, JA, Grobe, H, Niessen, F, Stein, R, Hubberten, HW and Whittington, RJ (2002) Late Quaternary sedimentation in Kejser Franz Joseph Fjord and the continental margin of East Greenland. Geological Society of London, Special Publications, 203. 149-179. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.203.01.09 ![]()