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  1. Strontium Isotopes Reveal Long-Term Drying of the Chinese Loess Plateau Well Before the Toba Super-Eruption

    Article • March 2026, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  2. Reply to: No evidence for a 10-m historical tectonic uplift at Mangalia, (Romanian Black Sea coast): Comment on Drăgușin et al. (2025) by Vespremeanu-Stroe et al.

    Article • Geoscience Letters, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  3. A 10-m vertical displacement on the Romanian Black Sea coast during modern history

    Article • Geoscience Letters, July 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  4. A Multiproxy Approach to study Vegetation and Temperature Changes since the Last Glacial in Central Vietnam.

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  5. Meteoric 10Be as a Tracer of Chemical Weathering in Glacial Sediments

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  6. Spatio-temporal dynamics of speleothem growth and glaciation in the British Isles

    Article • Climate of the Past, January 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  7. Hominin presence in Eurasia by at least 1.95 million years ago

    Article • Nature Communications, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  8. Central-Eastern Europe as a centre of Middle Ages extractive metallurgy

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  9. Sea-level rise and extreme Indian Ocean Dipole explain mangrove dieback in the Maldives

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  10. Local hydroclimate alters interpretation of speleothem δ18O records

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Elizabeth Patterson

  11. A 10 m vertical displacement on the Romanian Black Sea coast during modern history

    Article • September 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  12. Supplementary material to "A 10 m vertical displacement on the Romanian Black Sea coast during modern history"

    Article • September 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  13. Spatio-temporal dynamics of speleothem growth and glaciation in the British Isles

    Article • July 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  14. Winter hydroclimate contrasts between southern and northern Europe at ∼ 5.2 ka

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  15. Deciphering local and regional hydroclimate resolves contradicting evidence on the Asian monsoon evolution

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  16. Glacial changes in sea level modulated millennial-scale variability of Southeast Asian autumn monsoon rainfall

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Elizabeth Patterson, Elizabeth Patterson, Dr Vasile Ersek

  17. Coral reef island shoreline change and the dynamic response of the freshwater lens, Huvadhoo Atoll, Maldives

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2023, Frontiers

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  18. 6000 years of winter climate variability revealed by a speleothem record from East-Central Europe

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  19. Hydroclimate Variability and Pollution History of the Mohoș Peatbog

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  20. Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central–eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact over the past 4000 years

    Article • Climate of the Past, December 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  21. Stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope abundance of major bottled water brands sold in the United Kingdom

    Article • Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  22. Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central-eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact for the past 4000 years

    Article • June 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  23. Supplementary material to "Carbon accumulation rates of Holocene peatlands in central-eastern Europe document the driving role of human impact for the past 4000 years"

    Article • June 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  24. Farmed calcite δ18O, δ13C, and Δ47 at Ascunsă cave, Romania

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  25. Rainwater isotopes in central Vietnam controlled by two oceanic moisture sources and rainout effects

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  26. High variability between regional histories of long-term atmospheric Pb pollution

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  27. Rainwater isotopes in central Vietnam controlled by two oceanic moisture sources and rainout effects

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  28. 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

  29. Farmed calcite δ13C at Ascunsă cave, Romania, and its relation with CO2

    Article • Quaternaire, June 2020, OpenEdition

    Dr Vasile Ersek

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

    Article • Geomorphology, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

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

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  32. 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

  33. Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial

    Article • Climate of the Past, August 2019, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Cheng Hai

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. 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

  37. 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, Cheng Hai

  38. 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

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

    Article • Hydrological Processes, July 2018, Wiley

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  40. 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

  41. 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

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

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  43. 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

  44. 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

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

    Article • Scientific Data, July 2017, Nature

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Helena Filipsson

  46. 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

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. 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

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

    Article • Hydrological Processes, September 2016, Wiley

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  51. 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, Professor Ioan Tantau

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

    Article • Nature Geoscience, August 2015, Nature

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Helena Filipsson

  53. 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

  54. Beginnings

    Article • GeoResJ, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Vasile Ersek

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

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

    Dr Vasile Ersek, Cheng Hai

  56. 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

  57. Variations ofδ18O in rainwater from southwestern Oregon

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

    Dr Vasile Ersek

  58. 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