All Stories

  1. End of Green Sahara amplified mid- to late Holocene megadroughts in mainland Southeast Asia

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  2. Quaternary environmental evolution in the South Carpathians reconstructed from glaciokarst geomorphology and sedimentary archives

    Article • Geomorphology, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  3. Pleistocene carbonates from Dobrogea (E Romania) and their relationship with Black Sea level fluctuations

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  4. Drying in the Middle East during Northern Hemisphere cold events of the early glacial period

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, November 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  5. Runoff events and related rainfall variability in the Southern Carpathians during the last 2000 years

    Article • Scientific Reports, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  6. Reply to Jaffe et al.: Paleoscience precision in an archeological or historical context

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, February 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  7. How climate change caused the world’s first ever empire to collapse

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  8. The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems

    Article • Earth System Science Data, September 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  9. Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  10. Kinetic processes and stable isotopes in cave dripwaters as indicators of winter severity

    Article • Hydrological Processes, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  11. Earliest ever evidence of lead pollution found in the Balkans

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  12. Quantitative assessment of Pb sources in isotopic mixtures using a Bayesian mixing model

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  13. Controls on dripwater chemistry of Oregon Caves National Monument, northwestern United States

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  14. Caves as observatories for atmospheric thermal tides: an example from Ascunsă Cave, Romania

    Article • International Journal of Speleology, January 2018, University of South Florida Libraries

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  15. Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact

    Article • Climate of the Past, July 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  16. A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

    Article • Scientific Data, July 2017, Nature

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Helena Filipsson

  17. Detrital events and hydroclimate variability in the Romanian Carpathians during the mid-to-late Holocene

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, July 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  18. Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact

    Article • Climate of the Past Discussions, January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  19. Periodic input of dust over the Eastern Carpathians during the Holocene linked with Saharan desertification and human impact

    Article • January 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  20. Unveiling exceptional Baltic bog ecohydrology, autogenic succession and climate change during the last 2000 years in CE Europe using replicate cores, multi-proxy data and functional traits of testate amoebae

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Prof Mariusz Lamentowicz

  21. Water isotopic variability in Mallorca: a path to understanding past changes in hydroclimate

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  22. A 9000 year record of cyclic vegetation changes identified in a montane peatland deposit located in the Eastern Carpathians (Central-Eastern Europe): Autogenic succession or regional climatic influences?

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, May 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Associate Professor Ioan Tantau

  23. Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2015, Nature

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Helena Filipsson

  24. Constraining Holocene hydrological changes in the Carpathian–Balkan region using speleothem δ18O and pollen-based temperature reconstructions

    Article • Climate of the Past, July 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  25. Beginnings

    Article • GeoResJ, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  26. Holocene winter climate variability in mid-latitude western North America

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Cheng Hai

  27. Composition and sources of lipid compounds in speleothem calcite from southwestern Oregon and their paleoenvironmental implications

    Article • Environmental Earth Sciences, July 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Cheng Hai

  28. Variations ofδ18O in rainwater from southwestern Oregon

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  29. Environmental influences on speleothem growth in southwestern Oregon during the last 380000 years

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, March 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Cheng Hai