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
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
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
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 ![]()