Stephanie Kienast

Department of Oceanography
Dalhousie University
1355 Oxford Street
PO BOX 15000
Halifax NS  B3H 4R2

Phone: (902) 494-2203
   Fax: (902) 494-3877
Email: stephanie.kienast@dal.ca

Education Background

• PhD - Marine Geology/Paleoceanography, University of British Columbia, Canada
• MSc - Marine Geology, Kiel University, Germany
• BSc - Geology, Freiburg University, Germany

Awards and Honours

• UBC Graduate Fellowship (2002)
• Government of Canada Award (2000)
• Geological Society of America Student Research Grant (2000)
• German Academic Exchange Fellowship (1998, 1999)
  

Research Interests

• Paleoceanography
• Marine Geology
• Marine Biogeochemical Cycles

Kienast, S.S., Kienast, M., Mix, A.C., Calvert, S.E., and Francois R. - 2007 - Thorium-230 normalized particle flux and sediment focusing in the Panama Basin Region during the last 30,000 years - Paleoceanography, V.22, PA2213, doi:10.1029/2006PA001357

Dubois, N., Kienast, M., Kienast, S., Normandeau, C., Calvert, S.E., Herbert, T.D., and Mix, A. - 2011 - Millennial-scale variations in hydrography and biogeochemistry in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific over the last 100 kyrs - Quaternary Science Reviews, 30, 210-223

Dubois, N., M. Kienast, S. Kienast, S.E. Calvert, R. Francois, and R.F. Anderson - 2010 - Sedimentary opal records in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: It’s not all about leakage - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 24, GB4020, doi:10.1029/2010GB003821

Kienast, M., Kienast, S. S., Calvert, S. E., Eglinton, T. I., Mollenhauer, G., François, R., and Mix, A - 2006 - Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation. - Nature, 443, 846-849, doi:10.1038/nature05222

Kienast, S. S., Kienast, M., Jaccard, S., Calvert, S. E., and François, R. - 2006 - Testing the silica leakage hypothesis with sedimentary opal records from the eastern equatorial Pacific over the last 150 kyrs. - Geophysical Research Letters, 33, L15607, doi:10.1029/2006GL026651.

Kienast S S, Hendy I H, Crusius J, Pedersen T F, Calvert S E - 2004 - Export production in the subarctic North Pacific over the last 800 kyrs: No evidence for iron fertilization ? - Journal of Oceanography, vol 60, p. 189-203 (invited review).

Crusius J, Pedersen T F, Kienast S S, Keigwin L, Labeyrie L - 2004 - Influence of Northwest Pacific productivity on North Pacific Intermediate water oxygen concentrations during the Bølling-Allerød interval (14.7-12.9 ka). - Geology, vol. 32(7),p. 633-636.

McKay J L, Pedersen T F, Kienast S S - 2004 - Organic carbon accumulation over the last 16 kyr off Vancouver Island, Canada: Evidence for increased marine productivity during the deglacial. - Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 23, p. 261-281.

Kienast S S, Calvert S E, Pedersen T F - 2002 - Nitrogen isotope and productivity variations along the northeast Pacific margin over the last 120 kyr: Surface and subsurface paleoceanography. - Paleoceanography, vol. 17(4), p. 7-1 to 7-17.

Kienast S S, McKay J L - 2001 - Sea surface temperatures in the Subarctic Northeast Pacific reflect Millennial-scale climate oscillations during the last 16 kyrs. - Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 28(8), p. 1563-1566.