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, 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