Publications


Scientific publications

94 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Aquino-López, M.A., in press. A review of statistics in palaeoenvironmental research (invited review). Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics [link] Open Access

93 - Bronk Ramsey, C., Blaauw, M., Kearney, R., Staff, R., 2019. The importance of Open Access to chronological information: The IntChron initiative. Radiocarbon 61, 1121-1131 [link]

92 - Cordero-Oviedo, C., Correa-Metrio, A., Urrego, L.E., Vázquez-Hurtado, G., Blaauw, M., Escobar, J., Curtis, J.H., 2019. Holocene establishment of mangrove forests in the western coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Catena 180, 212-223 [link]

91 - Lise-Pronovost, A., Fletcher, M., Mallett, T, Mariani, M., Lewis, R., Gadd, P., Herries, A.I.R., Blaauw, M., Heijnis, H., Hodgson, D., Pedro, J., 2019. Scientific drilling of sediments at Darwin Crater, Tasmania. Scientific Drilling 25, 1-14 [link] Open Access

90 - Mayr, C., Zolitschka, B., Lempe, B., Ohlendorf, C., Blaauw, M., Grohganz, M., López Correa, M., Reimer, P.J., Stojakowits, P., Diersche, V., 2019. High-resolution geochemical record of environmental changes during MIS 3 from the northern Alps (Nesseltalgraben, Germany). Quaternary Science Reviews 218, 122-136 [link]

89 - Pontevedra-Pombal, X., Castro, D., Souto, M., Fraga, I., Blake, W.H., Blaauw, M., López-Sáez, J., Pérez-Díaz, S., Valcárcel, M., Garcí-Rodeja, E., 2019. 10,000 years of climate control over carbon accumulation in an Iberian bog (southwestern Europe). Geoscience Frontiers 10, 1521-1533 [link] Open Access

88 - Rabett, R.H., Pryor, A.J.E., Simpson, D.J., Farr, L.R., Pyne-O'Donnell, S., Blaauw, M., Crowhurst, S., Mulligan, R.P.M., Hunt, C.O., Stevens, R., Fiacconi, M., Beresford-Jones, D., Karrow, P.F., 2019. A multi-proxy reconstruction of environmental change in the vicinity of the North Bay outlet of pro-glacial Lake Algonquin. Open Quaternary 5, 12 [link] Open Access

87 - Swindles, G.T., Morris, P.J., Mullan, D.J., Payne, R.J., Roland, T.P., Amesbury, M.J., Lamentowicz, M., Turner, T.E., Gallego-Sala, A., Sim, T., Barr, I.D., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Chambers, F.M., Charman, D.J., Feurdean, A., Galloway, J.M., Gałka, M., Green, S., Kajukało, K., Karofeld, E., Korhola, A., Lamentowicz, L., Langdon, P., Marcisz, K., Mauquoy, D., Mazei, Y.A., McKeown, M., Mitchell, E.A.D., Novenko, E., Plunkett, G., Roe, H.M., Schoning, K., Sillasoo, Ü., Tsyganov, A.N., van der Linden, M., Väliranta, M., Warner, B. 2019. Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries. Nature Geoscience 12, 922-928 [link]

86 - Aquino-López, M.A., Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Sanderson, N., 2018. Bayesian analysis of 210Pb dating. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 23, 317-333 [link] Open Access

85 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Bennett, K.D., Reimer, P.J., 2018. Double the dates and go for Bayes – impacts of model choice, dating density and quality on chronologies. Quaternary Science Reviews 188, 58-66 [link]

84 - Marks, L., Salem, A., Welc, F., Nitychoruk, J., Chen, Z., Blaauw, M., Zalat, A., Majecka, A., Szymanek, M., Chodyka, M., Tołoczko-Pasek, M., Sun, Q., Zhao, X, Jiang, J., 2017. Holocene lake sediments from the Faiyum Oasis in Egypt: a record of environmental and climate change. Boreas 47, 62-79 [link]

83 - Perșoiu, A., Onac, B.P., Wynn, J.G., Blaauw, M., Ioniță, Hansson, M., 2017. Holocene winter climate variability in Central and Eastern Europe. Nature Scientific Reports 7, 1196 [link]

82 - Wright, A.J., Edwards, R.J., van de Plassche, O., Blaauw, M., Parnell, A.C., van der Borg, K., de Jong, A.F.M., Roe, H., Selby, K., Black, S., 2017. Reconstructing the accumulation history of a saltmarsh sediment core: Which age-depth model is best? Quaternary Geochronology 39, 35-67 [link]

81 - Buckles, L.K., Verschuren, D., Weijers, J.W.H., Cocquyt, C., Blaauw, M., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., 2016. Interannual and (multi-)decadal variability in the sedimentary BIT index of Lake Challa, East Africa, over the past 2200 years: assessment of the precipitation proxy. Climate of the Past 12, 1243-1262 [link] Open Access

80 - Chawchai, S., Yamoah, K.A., Smittenberg, R.H., Kurkela, J., Väliranta, M., Chabangborn, A., Blaauw, M., Fritz, S.C., Reimer, P.J. and Wohlfarth, B., 2016. Lake Kumphawapi revisited - the complex climatic and environmental record of a tropical wetland in NE Thailand. The Holocene 26, 614-626 [link]

79 - Flantua, S.G.A., Blaauw, M., Hooghiemstra, H., 2016. Geochronological database and classification system for age uncertainties in Neotropical pollen records. Climate of the Past 12, 387-414 [link]

78 - Battarbee, R.W., Turner, S., Yang, H., Rose, N.L., Smyntek, P.M., Reimer, P.J., Oldfield, F., Jones, V.J., Flower, R.J., Roe, K., Shilland, E., Blaauw, M., 2015. Air pollutant contamination and acidification of surface waters in the North York Moors, UK: Multi-proxy evidence from the sediments of a moorland pool. The Holocene 25, 226-237 [link]

77 - Chawchai, S., Chabangborn, A., Fritz, S., Väliranta, M., Mörth, C.-M., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., Krusic, P.J., Löwemark, L., Wohlfarth, B., 2015. Hydroclimatic shifts in northeast Thailand during the last two millennia - the record of Lake Pa Kho. Quaternary Science Reviews 111, 62-71 [link]

76 - Crann, C.A., Patterson, R.T., Macumber, A.L., Galloway, J.M., Roe, H.E., Blaauw, M., Swindles, G.T., Falck, H., 2015. Sediment accumulation rates in subarctic lakes: insights into age-depth modeling from 22 dated lake records from the Northwest Territories, Canada. Quaternary Geochronology 27, 131-144 [link]

75 - Plunkett, G., Coulter, S., Ponomareva, V., Blaauw, M., Klimaschewski, A., Hammarlund, A., 2015. Distal tephrochronology in volcanic regions: challenges and insights from Kamchatkan lake sediments. Global and Planetary Change 134, 26-40 [link]

74 - Ponomareva, V., Portnyagin, M., Pevzner, M., Blaauw, M., Kyle, P., Derkachev, A., 2015. Tephra from andesitic Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka, NW Pacific: Chronology of explosive eruptions and geochemical fingerprinting of glasses. International Journal of Earth Sciences 104, 1459-1482 [link]

73 - Saher, M.H., Gehrels, W.R., Barlow, N.L.M., Long, A.J., Haigh, I.D., Blaauw, M., 2015. Sea-level changes in Iceland and the influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation during the last half millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 108, 23-36 [link]

72 - Steinthorsdottir, M., de Boer, A.M., Oliver, K.I.C., Muschitiello, F., Blaauw, M., 2015. Response to: Comment on "Synchronous records of pCO2 and d14C suggest rapid, ocean-derived pCO2 fluctuations at the onset of Younger Dryas" (Steinthorsdottir et al., 2014, Quaternary Science Reviews 99, 84-96). Quaternary Science Reviews 107, 270-273 [link]

71 - Armit, I., Swindles, G.T., Becker, K., Plunkett, G., Blaauw, M., 2014. Rapid climate change did not cause population collapse at the end of the European Bronze Age. PNAS 111, 17045-17049 [link]

70 - Baker, A., Routh, J., Blaauw, M., Roychoudhury, A.N., 2014. Geochemical records of palaeoenvironmental controls on peat forming processes in the Mfabeni peatland, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa since the Late Pleistocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 395, 95-106 [link]

69 - Giesecke, Th., Davis, B.A.S., Brewer, S., Finsinger, W., Wolters, S., Blaauw, M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Binney, H., Fyfe, R.P., Gaillard, M.-J., Gil-Romera, G., van der Knaap, P.W.O., Kuneš, P., Köhl, N., van Leeuwen, J.F.N., Leydet, M., Lotter, A.F., Ortu, E., Semmler, M., Bradshaw, R.H.W., 2014. Towards mapping the late Quaternary vegetation change of Europe. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 23, 75-86 [link] Open Access

68 - Mahan, S.A., Gray, H.J., Pigati, J.S., Wilson, J., Lifton, N.A., Paces, J.B., Blaauw, M., 2014. A geochronologic framework for the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado. Quaternary Research 82, 490-503 [link]

67 - Miller, I.M., Pigati, J.S., Anderson, R.S., Johnson, K.R., Mahan, S.A., Ager, T.A., Baker, R.G., Blaauw, M., and 36 others, 2014. Summary of the Snowmastodon Project Special Volume: A high-elevation, multi-proxy biotic and environmental record of MIS 6-4 from the Ziegler Reservoir fossil site, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA. Quaternary Research 82, 618-634 [link]

66 - Steinthorsdottir, M., de Boer, A.M., Oliver, K.I.C., Muschitiello, F., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., Wohlfarth, B., 2014. Synchronous records of pCO2 and d14C suggest rapid, ocean-derived pCO2 fluctuations at the onset of Younger Dryas. Quaternary Science Reviews 99, 84-96 [link]

65 - Allan, M., Le Roux, G., De Vleeschouwer, F., Bindler, R., Blaauw, M., Fagel, N., 2013. High-resolution reconstruction of atmospheric deposition of trace metals and metalloids since AD 1400 recorded by ombrotrophic peat cores in Hautes-Fagnes, Belgium. Environmental Pollution 178, 1-14 [link]

64 - Barrell, D.J.A., Almond, P.C., Vandergoes, M.J., Lowe, D.J., Newnham, R.M., and INTIMATE members, 2013. A composite pollen-based stratotype for inter-regional evaluation of climatic events in New Zealand over the past 30,000 years (NZ-INTIMATE project). Quaternary Science Reviews 74, 4-20 [link]

63 - Cañellas-Boltà, Rull, V., Sáez, A., Margalef, O., Bao, R., Pla-Rabes, S., Blaauw, M., Valero-Garcés, B., Giralt, S., 2013. Vegetation changes and human settlement of Easter Island during the last millennia: a multiproxy study of the Lake Raraku sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews 72, 36-48 [link]

62 - Charman, D.J., Beilman, D.W., Blaauw, M., Booth, R.K., Brewer, S., Chambers, F.M., Christen, J.A., Gallego-Sala, A., Harrison, S.P., Hughes, P.D.M., Jackson, S.T., Korhola, A., Mauquoy, D., Mitchell, F.J.G., Prentice, I.C., van der Linden, M., De Vleeschouwer, F., Yu, Z.C., Alm, J., Bauer, I.E., Corish, Y.M.C., Garnaeu, M., Hohl, Huang, Y., V., Karofeld, E., Le Roux, G., Loisel, J., Moschen, R., Nichols, J.E., Nieminen, T.M,. MacDonald, G.M., Phadtare, N.R., Rausch, N., Sillasoo, Ü., Swindles, G.T., Tuittila, E.-S., Ukonmaanaho, L., Väliranta, M., van Bellen, S., van Geel, B., Vitt, D.H., Zhao, Y., 2013. Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium. Biogeosciences 10, 929-944 [link]

61 - Chawchai, S., Chabangborn, A., Wohlfarth, B., Kylander, M., Löwemark, L., Mörth, M., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., Fritz, S.C., Klubseang, W., 2013. Lake Kumphawapi - an archive of Holocene paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic changes in northeast Thailand. Quaternary Science Reviews 68, 59-75 [link]

60 - de Boer, E.J., Hooghiemstra, H., Florens, F.B.V., Baider, C., Engels, S., Dakos, V., Blaauw, M., Bennett, K.D., 2013. Rapid succession of plant associations on the small ocean island of Mauritius at the onset of the Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 68, 114-125 [link]

59 - Lamentowicz, M., Gałka, M., Milecka, K., Tobolski, K., Lamentowicz, Ł, Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł, B.,Blaauw, M., 2013. A 1300 years multi-proxy, high-resolution record from a rich fen in northern Poland: reconstructing hydrology, land-use and climate change. Journal of Quaternary Science 28, 582-594 [link]

58 - Lowe, D.J., Blaauw, M., Hogg, A.G., Newnham, R.M., 2013. Ages of 24 widespread tephras erupted since 30,000 years ago in New Zealand, with re-evaluation of the timing and palaeoclimatic implications of the Lateglacial cool episode recorded at Kaipo bog. Quaternary Science Reviews 74, 170-194 [link]

57 - Reimer, P.J., Reimer, R., Blaauw, M., 2013. Calibration of the 14C record. Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (2nd Edition) 345-352 [link]

56 - Steinthorsdottir, M., Wohlfarth, B., Kylander, M.E., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., 2013. Stomatal proxy record of CO2 concentrations from the Last Termination suggests an important role for CO2 at climate change transitions. Quaternary Science Reviews 68, 43-58 [link]

55 - Swindles, G.T., Lawson, I.T., Matthews, I.P., Blaauw, M., Daley, T.J., Charman, D.J., Roland, T.P., Plunkett, G., Schettler, G., Gearey, B.R., Turner, T.E., Rea, H.A., Roe, H.M., Amesbury, M.J., Chambers, F.M., Holmes, J., Mitchell, F.J.G., Blackford, J., Blundell, A., Branch, N., Holmes, J., Langdon, P., McCarroll, J., McDermott, F., Oksanen, P.O., Pritchard, O., Stastney, O., Stefanini, B., Young, D., Wheeler, J., Becker, K., Armit, I., 2013. Centennial-scale climate change in Ireland during the Holocene. Earth Science Reviews 126, 300-320 [link]

54 - Vandergoes, M.J., Hogg, A., Lowe, D.J., Newnham, R.M., Denton, G.H., Southon, J., Barrell, D.J.A., Wilson, C.J.N., McGlone, M.S., Allan, A.S.R., Almond, P.C., Petchey, F., Dabell, K., Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C., Blaauw, M., 2013. A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand. Quaternary Science Reviews 74, 195-201 [link]

53 - Vandergoes, M.J., Newnham, R.W., Denton, G.H., Blaauw, M., Barrell, D.J.A., 2013. The anatomy of Last Glacial Maximum climate variations in south Westland, New Zealand, derived from pollen records. Quaternary Science Reviews 74, 215-229 [link]

52 - Aarnes, I., Bjune, A.E., Birks, H.H., Balascio, N.L., Bakke, J., Blaauw, M., 2012. Vegetation responses to rapid climatic changes during the last deglaciation 13500-8000 years ago on southwest Andøya, arctic Norway. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 21, 17-35 [link]

51 - Blaauw, M., 2012. Out of tune: the dangers of aligning proxy archives. Quaternary Science Reviews 36, 38-49 [link]

50 - Blaauw, M., Heegaard, E., 2012. Estimation of age-depth relationships. In: Birks, H.J.B., Juggins, S., Lotter, A., Smol, J.P. (editors), Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments Vol. 5: Data Handling and Statistical Techniques, pp 379-413 [link]

49 - Blaauw, M., Holliday, V.T., Gill, J.L., Nicoll, K., 2012. Age-models and the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis [Letter to the Editor]. PNAS 109, E2240 [link]

48 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., 2012. Signal and variability within a Holocene peat bog - chronological uncertainties of pollen, macrofossil and fungal proxies. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 186, 5-15 [link]

47 - Booth, R.K., Brewer, S., Blaauw, M., Minckley, T.A., Jackson, S.T., 2012. Decomposing the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in eastern North America. Ecology 93, 1841-1852 [link]

46 - de Vleeschouwer, F,. Pazdur, A., Luthers, C., Streel, M., Mauquoy, D., Wastiaux, C., Le Roux, G., Moschen, R., Blaauw, M., Pawlyta, J., Sikorski, J., Piotrowska, N., 2012. A millennial record of environmental change in peat deposits from the Misten Bog (east Belgium). Quaternary International 268, 44-57 [link]

45 - Gehrels, W.R., Callard, S.L., Moss, P.T., Marshall, W.A., Blaauw, M., Hunter, J., Milton, J.A., Garnett, M.H., 2012. Nineteenth and twentieth century sea-level changes in Tasmania and New Zealand. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 315-316, 94-102 [link]

44 - Goring, S., Williams, J.W., Blois, J.L., Jackson, S.T., Paciorek, C.J., Booth, R.K., Marlon, J.R., Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2012. Deposition times in the northeastern United States during the Holocene: establishing valid priors for Bayesian age models. Quaternary Science Reviews 48, 54-60 [link]

43 - Swindles, G., Blaauw, M., Blundell, A., Turner, E., 2012. Examining the uncertainties in a 'tuned and stacked' peatland water table reconstruction. Quaternary International 268, 58-64 [link]

42 - Swindles, G., Morris, P.J., Baird, A.J., Blaauw, M., Plunkett, G., 2012. Ecohydrological feedbacks confound peat-based climate reconstructions. Geophysical Research Letters 39, L11401 [link]

41 - Wohlfarth, B., Klubseang, W., Inthongkaew, S., Fritz, S.C., Blaauw, M., Reimer, P.J., Chabangborn, A., and Löwemark, L., 2012. Holocene environmental changes in Northeast Thailand as reconstructed from a tropical wetland. Global and Planetary Change 92-93, 148-161 [link]

40 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2011. Flexible paleoclimate age-depth models using an autoregressive gamma process. Bayesian Analysis 6, 457-474 [link] Open Access

39 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Kristen, I., Plessen, B., Lyaruu, A., Engstrom, D.R., van der Plicht, J., Verschuren, D., 2011. High-resolution 14C dating of a 25,000-year lake-sediment record from equatorial East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 3043-3059 [link]

38 - Piotrowska, N., Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Chambers, F.M., 2011. Constructing deposition chronologies in peat deposits using radiocarbon dating. Mires and Peat 7, 1-14 [link]

37 - Andersson, S., Rosqvist, G., Leng, M., Wastegård, S., Blaauw, M., 2010. Late Holocene climate change in central Sweden inferred from lacustrine stable isotope data. Journal of Quaternary Science 25, 1305-1316 [link]

36 - Blaauw, M., 2010. Methods and code for 'classical' age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences. Quaternary Geochronology 5, 512-518 [link]

35 - Blaauw, M., Bennett, K.D., Christen, J.A., 2010. Random walk simulations of fossil proxy data. The Holocene 20, 645-649 [link]

34 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., Christen, J.A., Ampel, L., Veres, D., Hughen, K.A., Preusser, F., Svensson, A., 2010. Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and France? A quantitative comparison using non-tuned chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science 25, 387-394 [link]

33 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., 2010. Reply: Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and France? A quantitative comparison using non-tuned chronologies. Journal of Quaternary Science 25, 1047 [link]

32 - de Jong, R., Blaauw, M., Chambers, F.M., Christensen, T.R., De Vleeschouwer, F., Finsinger, W., Fronzek, S., Johansson, M., Kokfelt, U., Lamentowicz, M., LeRoux, G., Mitchell, E.A.D., Mauquoy, D., Nichols, J.E., Samaritani, E., van Geel, B., 2010. Peatlands and Climate. In: Dodson, J. (Ed.), Changing Climates, Earth Systems, and Society. Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 85-121 [link]

31 - Binney, H.A., Willis, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Bhagwat, S.A., Anderson, P.M., Andreev, A.A., Blaauw, M., Damblon, F., Haesaerts, P., Kienast, F.C., Kremenetski, K.V., Krivonogov, S.K., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Novenko, E.Y., Oksanen, P., Sapelko, T.V., Valiranta, M., Vazhenina, L., 2009. The distribution of late-Quaternary woody taxa in northern Eurasia: evidence from a new macrofossil database. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 2445-2464 [link]

30 - Charman, D.J., Barber, K., Blaauw, M., Langdon, P., Mauquoy, D., Daley, T., Hughes, P., Karofeld, E., 2009. Climate drivers for peatland palaeoclimate records. Quaternary Science Reviews 28, 1811-1819 [link]

29 - Hormes, A., Blaauw, M., Dahl, S.O., Nesje, A., Possnert, G., 2009. Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating of proglacial lake sediments - implications for the 8.2 ka event. Quaternary Geochronology 4, 267-277 [link]

28 - Plunkett, G., Whitehouse, N.J., Hall, V.A., Charman, D.J., Blaauw, M., Kelly, E., Mulhall, I., 2009. A multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental investigation of the findspot of an Iron Age bog body from Oldcroghan, Co. Offaly, Ireland. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 265-277 [link]

27 - Sillasoo, Ü., Poska, A., Seppä, H., Blaauw, M., Chambers, F., 2009. Linking past cultural developments to palaeoenvironmental changes in Estonia. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 18, 315-327 [link]

26 - Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Moernout, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G.H., CHALLACEA project members, 2009. Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African equator. Nature 462, 637-641 [link]

25 - Vorren, K.D., Elverland, E., Blaauw, M., Ravna, E., Jensen, C., 2009. Vegetation and climate c. 12300-9000 cal. yr BP at Andøya, NW Norway. Boreas 38, 401-420 [link]

24 - Wohlfarth, B., Veres, D., Ampel, L., Lacourse, T., Blaauw, M., Preusser, F., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Kéravis, D., Lallier-Vergès, E., Björck, S., Davies, S.M., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Risberg, J., Hormes, A., Kasper, H.U., Possnert, G., Reille, M., Thouveny, N., Zander, A., 2008. Rapid ecosystem response to abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period in Western Europe, 40–16 kyr BP. Geology 36, 407-410 [link]

23 - Vandergoes, M.J., Dieffenbacher-Krall, A.C., Newnham, R.M., Denton, G.H., Blaauw, M., 2008. Cooling and changing seasonality in the Southern Alps, New Zealand during the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 589-601 [link]

22 - Blaauw, M., Bakker, R., Christen, J.A., Hall, V.A., van der Plicht, J., 2007. A Bayesian framework for age-modelling of radiocarbon-dated peat deposits: case studies from the Netherlands. Radiocarbon 49, 357-367 [link]

21 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2007. Testing the timing of radiocarbon-dated events between proxy archives. The Holocene 17, 283-288 [link]

20 - Blockley, S.P.E., Blaauw, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., van der Plicht, J., 2007. Assessing uncertainties in age modelling sedimentary records in the Lateglacial and Early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 1915-1926 [link]

19 - Chambers, F.M., Mauquoy, D., Brain, S.A., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., 2007. Globally synchronous climate change 2800 years ago: proxy data from peat in South America. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 253, 439-444 [link]

18 - Charman, D.J, Blundell, A., ACCROTELM members, 2007. A pan-European testate amoebae transfer function for palaeohydrological reconstruction on ombrotrophic peatlands. Journal of Quaternary Science 22, 209-221 [link]

17 - Sillasoo, Ü., Mauquoy, D., Blundell, A., Charman, D., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., Toms, P., Newberry, J., Chambers, F.M., Karofeld, E., 2007. Peat multi-proxy from Männikjärve bog as indicators of Late Holocene climate changes in Estonia. Boreas 36, 20-37 [link]

16 - Vorren K-D, Blaauw, M., Wastegård, S., van der Plicht, J., Jensen, C.A.H., 2007. High-resolution stratigraphy of the northernmost concentric raised bog in Europe - Sellevollmyra, Andøya, northern Norway. Boreas 36, 253-277 [link]

15 - Cohen, A.S., Lezzar, K.R., Cole, J., Dettman, D., Ellis, G.S., Eagle, M., Plisnier, P.-D., Langenberg, V., Blaauw, M., Zilifi, D., 2006. Late Holocene linkages between decade-century scale climate variability and productivity at Lake Tanganyika, Africa. Journal of Palaeolimnology 36, 189-209 [link]

14 - Wohlfarth, B., Blaauw, M., Davies, S.M., Andersson, M., Wastegård, S., Hormes, A., Possnert, G., 2006. Constraining the age of Lateglacial and early Holocene pollen zones and tephra horizons in southern Sweden with Bayesian probability methods. Journal of Quaternary Science 21, 321-334 [link]

13 - Yeloff, D., Bennett, K.D., Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Sillasoo, Ü., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2006. High precision C-14 dating of Holocene peat deposits: a comparison of Bayesian calibration and wiggle-matching approaches. Quaternary Geochronology 1, 222-235 [link]

12 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2005a. Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change. Applied Statistics 54, 805-816 [link]

11 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2005b. The problems of radiocarbon dating [Letter to the Editor]. Science 308, 1551-1553 [link]

10 - Bindler, R., Martíñez-Cortizas, A., Blaauw, M., 2005. Comment on "Atmospheric mercury accumulation rates between 5900 and 800 calibrated years BP in the High Arctic of Canada recorded by peat hummocks". Environmental Science and Technology 39, 908-909 [link]

9 - Blaauw, M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2004a. Radiocarbon dating of bulk peat samples from raised bogs: non-existence of a previously reported reservoir effect? Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 1537-1542 [link]

8 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., 2004b. Radiocarbon wiggle-match dating of peat deposits: advantages and limitations. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 177-181 [link]

7 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., 2004c. Solar forcing of climate change during the mid-Holocene: indications from raised bogs in the Netherlands. The Holocene 14, 35-44 [link]

6 - Mauquoy, D., Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Borromei, A., Quattrocchio, M., Chambers, F.M., Possnert, G., 2004a. Late-Holocene climatic changes in Tierra del Fuego based on multi-proxy analyses of peat deposits. Quaternary Research 61, 148-158 [link]

5 - Mauquoy, D., van Geel, B., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., 2004b. Changes in solar activity and Holocene climate shifts derived from C-14 wiggle-match dated peat deposits. The Holocene 14, 45-52 [link]

4 - van der Plicht J, van Geel, B., Bohncke, S.J.P., Bos, J.A.A., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., Muscheler, R., Björck, S., 2004. The Preboreal climate reversal and a subsequent solar forced climate shift. Journal of Quaternary Science 19, 263-269 [link]

3 - Blaauw, M., Heuvelink, G.B.M., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2003. A numerical approach to C-14 wiggle-match dating of organic deposits: best fits and confidence intervals. Quaternary Science Reviews 22, 1485-1500 [link]

2 - Mauquoy, D., van Geel, B., Blaauw, M., van der Plicht, J., 2002. Evidence from northwest European bogs shows Little Ice Age climatic changes driven by variations in solar activity. The Holocene 12, 1-6 [link]

1 - Ostrowski, M., Cavicchioli, R., Blaauw, M., Gottschal, J.C., 2001. Specific growth rate plays a critical role in hydrogen peroxide resistance of the marine oligotrophic ultramicrobacterium Sphingomonas alaskensis Strain RB2256. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 67, 1292-1299 [link]


Other publications

-Grimm, E.C., Blaauw, M.,Buck, C.E., Williams, J.W., 2014. Age models, chronologies, and databases workshop. Past Global Changes Magazine 22(2), 104

-Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., 2010. Peatlands as a model system for exploring and reconciling Quaternary chronologies PAGES News 18, 9-10

-Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2006. 21st century suck-in or smear: Testing the timing of events between archives. PAGES News 14, 15-16


Thesis

-Blaauw, M., 2003. An investigation of Holocene sun-climate relationships using numerical C-14 wiggle-match dating of peat deposits. Published PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 90-76894-29-9


Conference abstracts

49 - Greenop, R., Burke, A., Rea, J., Austin, W.E.N., Reimer, P.J., Blaauw, M., Crocker, A., Chalk, T., Barker, S., Knutz, P., Hall, I., 2016. Improving estimates of surface water radiocarbon reservoir ages in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 17-22 April 2016.

48 - Steinthorsdottir, M., de Boer, A.M., Oliver, K.I.C., Muschitiello, F., Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., 2015. Synchronous abrupt and transient fluctuations of carbon dioxide and radiocarbon at the onset of the Younger Dryas. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.

47 - De Cort, G., Creutz, M., Barao, L., Conley, D., Haug, G., Bodé, Blaauw, M., Engstrom, D., Verschuren, D., 2015. Early-to Mid-Holocene hydroclimate shifts in tropical East Africa: the multi-proxy sediment record from Lake Rutundu, Kenya EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.

46 - Austin, W.E.N., Reimer, P.J., Blaauw, M., Bryant, C., Rae, J., Burke, A., 2015. Towards a North Atlantic Marine Radiocarbon Calibration Curve EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.

45 - Massy, C., Yu, Z., Blaauw, M., Loisel, J., 2014. Dealing with Uncertainties in Analyzing Holocene Northern Peatland Carbon Dynamics. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.

44 - Chawchai, S., Chabangborn, A., Fritz, S., Blaauw, M., Löwemark, L., Reimer, P.J., Krusic, P., Väliranta, M., Mörth, C.-M., Wohlfarth, B., 2014. Asian summer monsoon variability during the last two millennia EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 12-17 April 2015.

43 - Gehrels, R., Long, A., Saher, M., Barlow, N., Blaauw, M., Haigh, I., Woodworth, P., 2014. North Atlantic sea-level variability during the last millennium EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 27 April-2 May 2014.

42 - Hartmann, K., Wünnemann, B., Reicherter, K., Rudersdorf, A., Blaauw, M., Diekmann, B., BÖlscher, J., Lu, H., 2014. Late-Quaternary morphodynamics of Ejina Basin, Inner Mongolia, China: Quantification of neotectonic subsidence and palaeohydrological implications. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 27 April-2 May 2014.

41 - Wohlfarth, B., Blaauw, M., Chabangborn, A., Chawchai, S., Fritz, S., Kylander, M., Löwemark, L., Mörth, C.-M., Reimer, P.J., Väliranta, M., 2014. Lake Kumphawapi, NE Thailand-a sensitive archive for tracking Holocene paleo-monsoon shifts. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 27 April-2 May 2014.

40 - Lae, D.,W., Saraswat, R., Di Nezio, P.N., Tierney, J.E., Shakun, J.D., Blaauw, M., 2013. The hydrological response of the Indian Ocean during the LGM and deglaciation. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

39 - Mathijssen, P., Aurela, M., Blaauw, M., Juutinen, S., Lohila, A., Niemelä, E., Tuittila, E., Tuovinen, J., Väliranta, M., 2013. Holocene carbon dynamics and climate forcing of two subarctic minerotrophic fens. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting

38 - Gehrels, R., Long, A., Saher, M., Barlow, N., Woodworth, P., Blaauw, M., 2012. High-precision reconstructions of relative sea-level changes in the NW Atlantic Ocean during the last 500 years. Fall Meeting American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, 2-7 December 2012.

37 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2012. Bacon and clam: nouvelle cuisine age-depth modelling. 21st International Radiocarbon Conference, Paris, 9-13 July 2012.

36 - Blaauw, M., 2011. The pitfalls of tuned proxy archives. XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern, 21-27 July 2011.

35 - Giesecke, T., Brewer, S., Finsinger, W., Davis, B., Blaauw, M., Bradshaw, R., 2011. Patterns of European vegetation changes over the last 15,000 years based on the European Pollen Database with new chronologies. Oral presentation at XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern, 21-27 July 2011.

34 - Ponomareva, V., Blaauw, M., Portnyagin, M., 2011. A chronology of the Holocene eruptions from the northern Kamchatka volcanoes based on linking major C14-dated tephra sequences with the help of EMPA glass data. Poster at XVIII INQUA Congress, Bern, 21-27 July 2011.

33 - Blaauw, M., Verschuren, D., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., Kristen, I., Lyaruu, A., 2009. High-resolution age-depth model of Lake Challa, 25 kyr BP to present (Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya/Tanzania). 11th International Paleolimnology Symposium, 14-18 December 2009, Guadalajara, Mexico, p. 20

32 - Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Moernaut, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G.H., Challacea Project Members, 2009. Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African equator: Implications for Indian Ocean ITCZ migration over the past 25,000 years. 19th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, A1380

31 - Reimer, P.J., Baillie, M.G.L., Bard, E., Bayliss, A., Beck, J.W., Blaauw, M., Blackwell, P.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Buck, C.E., Burr, G.S., Edwards, R.L., Friedrich, M., Grootes, P.M., Guilderson, T.P., Hajdas, I., Heaton, T.J., Hogg, A.G., Hughen, K.A., Kaiser, K.F., Kromer, B., McCormac, F.G., Manning, S.W., Reimer, R.W., Richards, D.A., Southon, J.R., Talamo, S., Taylor, F.W., Turney, C.S.M., van der Plicht, J., Weyhenmeyer, C.E., 2009. Progress in the extension and update of the IntCal04, Marine04, and SHCal04 radiocarbon calibration curves. Twentieth International Radiocarbon Conference, 31 May-5 June 2009, Big Island, Hawaii [link]

30 - Lowe, D.J., Blaauw, M., Bateman, M., Buck, C.E., Newnham, R.M., 2009. Introducing SUPRAnet and some implications for age modelling in the Australasian INTIMATE project. Past Climates Symposium and Australasian-INTIMATE Workshop, 15-17 May 2009, Wellington, New Zealand

29 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., Christen, J.A., Ampel, L., Veres, D., Hughen, K.A., Preusser, F., Svensson, A., 2008. Were last glacial climate events simultaneous between Greenland and western Europe? INTIMATE 10 Conference, 19-22 September, Oxford, UK

28 - Blaauw, M., Verschuren, D., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., Kristen, I., Lyaruu, A., 2008. High-resolution age-depth modelling of the Lake Challa sediment record, 25 kyr BP to present (Mt. Kilimanjaro, Kenya/Tanzania). ESF Final Euroclimate Conference, Presqu'île de Giens, France

27 - Blaauw, M., Chambers, F.M., Mauquoy, D., Plunkett, G., Swindles, G.T., van Geel, B., Yeloff, D., 2007. A meta-analysis of climate change c. 850 cal BC using high resolution proxy archives. XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, Quaternary International 167-168, p. 35.

26 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., 2007. Can non-annually dated proxy archives be correlated at decadal scale? A meta-analysis of climate change c. 850 cal BC. XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, Quaternary International 167-168, p. 35.

25 - Blaauw, M., 2007. Registration of a past climate event c. 850 cal BC: Bayesian analysis of multiple cores from within a raised bog site. XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, Quaternary International 167-168, p. 35.

24 - Lowe, D., Newnham, R.M., Blaauw, M., Hajdas, I., Hogg, A.G., 2007. Timing of the late-glacial climate reversal in Southern Hemisphere: update using high-resolution Bayesian age-modelling (Bpeat) at Kaipo bog, New Zealand. XVII INQUA Congress, Cairns, Australia, Quaternary International 167-168, p. 252.

23 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2007. Testing the timing of radiocarbon-dated events between proxy archives. Open Scientific meeting of the European Pollen Database, Europôle Méditerranéen de l'Arbois, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp. 11-12

22 - Blaauw, M., Wohlfarth, B., Preusser, F., Veres, D., Ampel, L., Hughen, K.A., Reimer, P.J., 2007. Bayesian testing for synchrony of events in glacial proxy archives. EGU General Assembly 2007, 15-20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria

21 - Hormes, A., Blaauw, M., Dahl, S.O., Nesje, A., Possnert, G., 2007. A radiocarbon wiggle-match dated age-model for the proglacial lake Hervavatnet, western Norway. EGU General Assembly 2007, 15-20 April 2007, Vienna, Austria

20 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2006. Testing the timing of radiocarbon dated events between archives. HOLIVAR Final Open Science Meeting, London 12-15 June 2006, p. 121

19 - Sillasoo, Ü., Karofeld, E., Mauquoy, D., Blundell, A., Charman, D., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., Toms, P., Chambers, F.M., 2006. Late Holocene environmental changes derived from peat multi-proxy data in Männikjärve bog (Estonia) with possible indications for climate change. HOLIVAR Final Open Science Meeting, London 12-15 June 2006, p. 137

18 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., Bennett, K.D., 2005. Testing the timing of radiocarbon dated events between archives. HOLIVAR Final Open Science Meeting, London 12-15 June 2006, p. 121

17 - Sillasoo, Ü., Karofeld, E., Mauquoy, D., Blundell, A., Charman, D., Blaauw, M., Daniell, J.R.G., Toms, P., Chambers, F.M., 2006. Late Holocene environmental changes derived from peat multi-proxy data in Männikjärve bog (Estonia) with possible indications for climate change. HOLIVAR Final Open Science Meeting, London 12-15 June 2006, p. 137

16 - Blaauw, M., Christen, J.A., 2005. Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change. National Statistics Forum (Guanajuato, Mexico)

15 - Blockley, S., Blaauw, M., Bronk Ramsey, C., 2005. Testing Age Models of Lateglacial and Early Holocene Sediment Records. Abstract 8th International (North Atlantic) INTIMATE workshop, Mýrdalur, Iceland 10-14 September 2005, p. 22

14 - Christen, J.A., Blaauw, M., 2005. Radiocarbon peat chronologies and environmental change. Second Latin American Congress on Bayesian Statistics, San José del Cabo, Mexico.

13 - van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., Bohncke, S.J.P., Bos, J.A.A., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., Muscheler, R., Björck, S., 2005. Early Holocene solar forcing of climate change. Abstracts Academy Colloquium 'Early Holocene Climate Oscillations', KNAW, Amsterdam, p. 45-46

12 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., 2003. 14C wiggle-match dating of peat deposits. Abstracts ESF-HOLIVAR Workshop 'Holocene dating, chronologies, and age modelling', April 24-27, Zeist, p. 15-18

11 - Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., 2003. Solar forcing of climate change during the mid-Holocene: evidence from raised bogs in the Netherlands. ESF-HOLIVAR Training course 'Quantitative climate reconstruction and data-model comparisons'. June 23-July 4, London, p. 34

10 - Blaauw, M., Bos, J.A.A., van Geel, B., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., 2002. 14C wiggle-match dating: advantages and limitations. Abstracts Discussion Meeting Quaternary Research Association, January 3rd - 5th 2002, Oxford, p. 6

9 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2002. Solar forcing of climate during the holocene: evidence from peat bogs. Abstracts Climate Change Symposium (S. Tuhkanen and M. Oja, editors), 6-8 June 2001, Turku, Publicationes Instituti Geographici Universitatis Turkuensis 165, p. 57-58

8 - Bos, J.A.A., Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., Mauquoy, D., van der Plicht, J., 2002. 14C wiggle-match dating: advantages and limitations. Abstracts Zesde Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, 18-19 April, Veldhoven, p. 4.9

7 - van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., Renssen, H., Mauquoy, D., Blaauw, M., Bos, J.A.A., Bohncke, S.J.P., 2002. Sun-climate relationships: the evidence from Lateglacial and Holocene terrestrial deposits. EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice, France, April 2002, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Volume 4 (CD-ROM: ISSN 1029-7006)

6 - van der Plicht J, van Geel, B., Bohncke, S.J.P., Bos, J.A.A., Blaauw, M., Speranza, A.O.M., Muscheler, R., 2002. European terrestrial evidence for early holocene solar forcing of climate change. Abstracts Zesde Nederlands Aardwetenschappelijk Congres, 18 -19 April, Veldhoven, p. 4.12

5 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2001. Solar forcing of climate during the Holocene: evidence from peat bogs. Abstracts Climate Change Symposium CLIC, June 6-8th 2001, Turku, p. 70

4 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2001. Solar forcing of climate during the Holocene: evidence from peat bogs. Abstracts Open Science Conference Global Change, 10-13 July 2001, Amsterdam, p. 244

3 - Mauquoy, D., Blaauw, M., van Geel, B., van der Plicht, J., 2001. North-west European bogs show that Little Ice Age climatic changes were driven by changes in solar activity. Abstracts Open Science Conference Global Change, 10-13 July 2001, Amsterdam, p. 244

2 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Renssen, H., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2000. Evidence for solar forcing of climate during the Late-Glacial and Holocene. Abstracts Annual Discussion Meeting Quaternary Research Association, 6-7th January 2000, Southampton, p. 36

1 - Blaauw, M., Mauquoy, D., Speranza, A.O.M., van der Plicht, J., van Geel, B., 2000. Evidence for solar forcing of climate change during Late-Glacial and Holocene. Abstracts Symposium Past Global Changes, 3-11-2000, IGBP/WCRP commissie Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschapppen, p. 40-41


Software

-clam

-Wiggle-match dating using Excel

-Bpeat


Popular-scientific articles

-June 2006, our research into peat age-modelling was explained in the Mexican national newspaper Jornada, 10 June, Ciencias 13a (in Spanish)

-April 2006, a story about our research into peat age-modelling appeared on the web site of CONACYT, the Mexican research council (in Spanish)

-On 9 February 2006, Mexican television (Canal 11) interviewed me about my research activities at CIMAT (in Spanish)

-Blaauw, M. and Christen JA, 2005. El clima, ¿más furioso que antes? Periodico Correo, Guanajuato, Mexico (in Spanish)

-On 15 March 2003, a Dutch national newspaper interviewed me about my PhD project, De Volkskrant, p.3W (in Dutch)

-Blaauw, M., 1997. Als de lente komt maken we een tochtje met de huskys. UK (Groningen University magazine) 26(26): 5 (in Dutch)

-Blaauw, M., 1997. Does coal mining still have a future on Svalbard? Circumpolar Journal 12: 35-38

-Blaauw, M., 1996. Student excursion to Spitsbergen. Circumpolar Journal 11: 57-58

-Popular-scientific publications in "De Helix" (magazine Faculty of Biology, Groningen University, The Netherlands. Several articles were co-authored. All in Dutch):
1999, 13(4): Zonnevlekken beïnvloeden het klimaat p.8-10
1997, 11(3): Walvissen en Noren p.21-23
1997, 11(1): Stenen op Spitsbergen p.10-13
1996, 10(4): Het plantenleven op Spitsbergen p.8-9, Ongewenste intimiteiten p.14
1996, 10(3): Oceaan in zicht p.13-15, Geflipt? p.23
1996, 10(2): Moordlustige orkas en andere reuzen p.12-14, Arctisch Centrum p.19
1995, 9(4): Mariene Biologie p.10
1995, 9(3): Zoveel research voor zo´n klein flesje? p.4-6
1995, 9(2): Plantenoecologie p.14-15
1995, 9(1): Voorbericht p.1, XTC p. 2-4
1994, 8(4): Redactioneel p.1, Evolutie van muziek p.6-7, Leeg p.19, De mythe van Yakult p.22
1994, 8(3): Predikanten p.8, Uit eigen tuin p.10
1994, 8(2): Een veilig dorp p.13-14, Droomkastelen p.15, De schepping p.16-17
1994, 8(1): Wilfried Finkers p.2-3, Charlatan p.4-5, De schijf van Phaistos p.12-13