Faculty & Staff

Prof. Aldo Shemesh

Publications

  1. Shemesh, A., Kolodny, Y. and Luz, B., 1983. Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites. II. Phosphorite rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 64: 405-416.
  2. Shemesh, A. and Kolodny, Y., 1987. Oxygen isotopes variations in phosphorites from the Southeastern Tethys. Israel Journal of Earth Science 37: 1-15.
  3. Shemesh, A., Kolodny, Y. and Luz, B., 1988. Isotope geochemistry of oxygen and carbon in phosphate and carbonate of phosphorite francolite. Geochim. et Cosmochim. Acta 52: 2565-2572.
  4. Shemesh, A., Mortlock, R.A., Smith, R.J. and Froelich, P.N., 1988. Determination of Ge/Si in marine siliceous microfossils: separation, cleaning and dissolution of diatoms and radiolaria. Marine Chemistry 25: 305-323.
  5. Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H. and Froelich, P.N., 1989. Dissolution and preservation of antarctic diatoms and the effect on sediment thanatocoemoses. Quaternary Research 31: 288-308.
  6. Shemesh, A., Mortlock, R.A. and Froelich, P.N., 1989. Late Cenozoic Ge/Si record of marine biogenic opal: implication for variations of riverine fluxes to the ocean. Paleoceanography 4 (3): 221-234.
  7. Froelich, P.N., Mortlock, R.A. and Shemesh, A., 1989. Inorganic germanium and silica in the Indian Ocean: Biological fractionation during (Ge/Si) opal formation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3 (1): 79-88.
  8. Wahlen, M., Tanaka, N., Henry, R., Deck, B., Zeglen, J., Vogel, J.S., Southon, J., Shemesh, A., Fairbanks, R. and Broecker, W.S., 1989. Carbon-14 in methane sources and in atmospheric methane: the contribution from fossil carbon. Science 245: 286-290.
  9. Kastner, M., Garrison, R.E., Kolodny, Y., Shemesh, A. and Reimers, C.E., 1990. Coupled changes of oxygen isotopes in PO4 and CO3 in apatite, with emphasis on the Monterey Formation, California. In: Genesis of Neogene to Modern Phosphorites. (Burnett, W.C. and Riggs, S.R., eds.) pp. 312-324. Cambridge University Press.
  10. Shemesh, A., 1990. Crystallinity and diagenesis of sedimentary apatites. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 54, 2433-2438.
  11. Shemesh, A., Ron, H., Erel, Y., Kolodny, Y. and Nur, A., 1992. Isotopic composition of vein calcite and its fluid inclusion: implication to paleohydrological systems, tectonic events and vein formation. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section), 94, 307-314.
  12. Shemesh, A., Charles, C. D. and Fairbanks, R. G., 1992. Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica: global changes in ocean temperature and isotopic composition. Science 256, 1434-1436.
  13. Shemesh, A., 1992. Silica carbonate isotopic temperature calibration. Science 258, 1163. (Reply; reviewed and contains new data).
  14. Shemesh, A., Macko, S., Charles, C. D. and Rau, G., 1993. isotopic evidence for reduced productivity in the Glacial Southern Ocean. Science 262, 407-410.
  15. Shemesh, A., Luz, B. and Erez, J., 1994. Carbone isotopes, dissolved oxygen and the carbonate system in the Gulf of Aqaba (Elat). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 43, 145-155. Special issue dedicated to M. Magaritz.
  16. Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H. and Hays, J. D., 1994. Evidence for melt water input to the Southern Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 266, 1542-1544.
  17. Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H. and Hays and J. D., 1995. Late pleistocene oxygen isotope records of biogenic silica from the atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography 10, 179-196.
  18. Singer, A.J. and Shemesh, A., 1995. climatically linked carbon isotope variation during the past 430,000 years in Southern Ocean sediments. Paleoceanography 10, 171-177.
  19. Gat, J.R., Shemesh, A., Tziperman, E., Hecht, A., Georgopolulis, G. and Basturk, O., 1996. The stable isotope composition of waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. JGR-Oceans 101, 6441-6451.
  20. Shahack-Gross, R., Shemesh, A., Yakir, D. and Weiner, S., 1996. Oxygen isotopic compositiopn of opaline phytoliths: potential for terrestrial climate reconstruction. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 3949-3953.
  21. Shemesh, A and Peteet, D., 1998. Oxygen isotopes in fresh water biogenic opal- Northeastern US Allerod-Younger Drays temperature shift. Geophysical Research Letters 25(11), 1935-1938.
  22. Reitti-Shati, M., Shemesh, A. and Karlen, W., 1998. A 3000 year climatic record from biogenic silica oxygen isotopes in an equatorial high altitude lake. Science 281, 980-982.
  23. De La Rocha, C.L., Brzezinski, M.A., DeNiro, M.J. and Shemesh, A., 1998. Silicon- isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change. Nature 395, 680-683.
  24. Brami, Y., Cohen, H., Herut, B. and Shemesh, A., 1999. Surface Chemical Characteristics of Coal Fly Ash Particles after Interaction with Seawater under Natural Deep Sea Conditions. Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 33, 276-281.
  25. Rosqvist, G., Rietti-Shati, M. and Shemesh, A., 1999. Late glacial to middle Holocene climatic record of lacustrine biogenic silica oxygen isotopes from a Southern Ocean Island. Geology, 27(11), 967-970.
  26. Karlen, W., Fastook, J.L., Holmgren, K., Malmstorm, M., Matthews, J.A., Odada, E., Risberg, J., Rosqvist, N., Sandgren, P., Shemesh, A. and Westerberg, L.O., 1999. Holocene glacier fluctuation on Mt. Kenya, East Africa, between 5700 cal years BP and the present. Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ambio 28(5), 409-418.
  27. Rosenthal, Y., Dahan, M. and Shemesh, A., 2000. The Southern Ocean contribution to glacial-interglacial changes of atmospheric pCO2: evidence from carbon isotopes in diatoms. Paleoceanography, 15(1), 65-75.
  28. Rietti-Shati, M., Yam, R., Karlen, W. and Shemesh, A., 2000. Stable isotopes of tropical high-altitude fresh-waters on Mt. Kenya, Equatorial East Africa. Chemical Geology (Isotope Geoscience Section) 166, 341-350.
  29. Shemesh A., Rosqvist G. C., Rietti-Shati M., Rubensdotter L., Bigler C. and Karlen W., 2001. Holocene climate change in Swedish Lapland inferred from an oxygen isotope record of lacustrine biogenic silica, The Holocene, 11(4), 447-454.
  30. Shemesh A., Rietti-Shati M., Rioual P., Battarbee R., de Beaulieu J.L. and Reille, M., 2001. An oxygen isotopes record of lacustrine opal from a European maar indicates climatic stability during the Last Interglacial. 2001. Geophysical Research Letters, 28(12), 2305-2308.
  31. Hodell, D., Shemesh, A., Crosta, X., Kanfoush, S., Charles, C.D. and Guilderson, T., 2001. Abrupt cooling of Antarctic surface water and sea ice expension in the South Atlantic Sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P. Quaternary Research, 56 (2), 191-198.
  32. Rioual, P., Andrieu, V., Battarbee R.W, de Beaulieu, J-L. Cheddadi, R., Reille, M., Rietti-Shati, M. and Shemesh, A., 2001. High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the Last Interglacial. Nature 413, 293-296.
  33. Crosta, X. and Shemesh, A., 2002. Reconciling down-core anti-correlation of diatom carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios from the Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography, 17(1), 10.1029/2000PA000565.
  34. Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., Salvignac, M.-E., Lemoine, F., Gildor, H. and Yam, R., 2002. Late Quaternary variations of elemental ratios (C/Si and N/Si) in diatom-bound organic matter from the Southern Ocean. Deep Sea Research II, 49, 1939-1952.
  35. Shemesh, A., Hodell, D. Crosta, X., Kanfoush, S., Charles, C.D. and Guilderson, T., 2002. Sequence of Events During the Last Deglaciation in Southern Ocean Sediments and Antarctic Ice Cores Paleoceanography, 17, 10.1029/2000PA000599.
  36. Gat, J.R., Klein, B., Kushnir, Y., Roether, W., Wernli, H., Yam, R. and Shemesh, A., 2003. Isotope composition of air moisture over the Mediterranean Sea: an index of the air-sea interaction pattern. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology 55(5), 953-965.
  37. Hu, F.S. and Shemesh, A., 2003. A biogenic-silica delta O-18 record of climatic change during the last glacial-interglacial transition in southwestern Alaska Quaternary Research 59(3), 379-385.
  38. Rosenfeld, M., Yam, R., Shemesh, A. and Loya, Y., 2003. Implication of water depth on stable isotope composition and skeletal density banding patterns in a Porites lutea colony: results from a long-term translocation experiment Coral Reefs 22(4), 337-345.
  39. Hu, F.S., Kaufman, D., Yoneji, S., Nelson, D., Shemesh, A., Huang, Y., Tian, J., Bond, G., Clegg, B. and Brown. T., 2003. Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic. Science 301(5641), 1890-1893.
  40. Rosqvist, G., Jonsson, C., Yam, R., Karlen, W. and Shemesh, A., 2004. Diatom oxygen isotopes in pro-glacial lake sediments from northern Sweden: a 5000 year record of atmospheric circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews 23(7-8), 851-859.
  41. Chondrogianni, C., Ariztegui, D., Rolph, T., Juggins, S., Shemesh, A., Rietti-Shati, M., Niessen, F., Guilizzoni, P., Lami, A., McKenzie, J.A. and Oldfield, F., 2004. Millennial to interannual climate variability in the Mediterranean during the Last Glacial Maximum Quaternary International 122, 31-41.
  42. Schneider-Mor, A., Yam, R., Bianchi, C., Kunz-Pirrung,,M., Gersonde. R. and Shemesh, A., 2005. Diatom stable isotopes, sea ice presence and sea surface temperature records of the past 640 ka in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 32(10), L10704.
  43. Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., Etourneau, J., Yam,,R., Billy, I., Pichon, J.J., 2005. Nutrient cycling in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 50,000 years. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19(3), GB3007.
  44. Polissar, P.J., Abbott, M.B., Shemesh, A., Wolfe, A.P. and Bradley, R.S., 2006. Holocene hydrologic balance of tropical South America from oxygen isotopes of lake sediment opal, Venezuelan Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 242(3-4), 375-389.
  45. Makovsly, Y., Wunch, A., Ariely, R., Shaked, Y., Rivlin, A., Shemesh, A., Ben Avraham. Z. and Agnon, A., 2008. Quaternary transform kinematics constrained by sequence stratigraphy and submerged coastline features: The Gulf of Aqaba. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271(1-4), 109-122.
  46. Levy, O., Rosenfeld, M., Yam, R. and Shemesh, A., 2006. Heterogeneity of coral skeletons isotopic compositions during the 1998 bleaching event. Limnology and Oceanography 51(2), 1142-1148.
  47. Rosenfeld, M., Shemesh, A., Yam, R., Sakai, K. and Loya, Y., 2006. Impact of the 1998 bleaching event on delta O-18 records of Okinawa corals. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 314, 127-133.
  48. Schneider-Mor, A., Yam, R., Bianchi, C., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Gersonde, R. and Shemesh, A., 2008. Nutrient regime at the siliceous belt of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during the past 660 ka. Paleoceanography 23(3), PA3217.
  49. Combes, H.J.D., Esper, O., De la Rocha, C.L., Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R., Yam, R. and Shemesh, A., 2008. Diatom delta C-13, delta N-15, and C/N since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Ocean: Potential impact of species composition. Paleoceanography 23(4), PA4209.
  50. Alamaru, A., Yam, R., Shemesh, A. and Loya. Y., 2009. Trophic biology of Stylophora pistillata larvae: evidence from stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 383, 85-94.
  51. Sisma-Ventura, G., Guzner, B., Yam, R. and Fine, M., Shemesh, A., 2009. The reef builder gastropod Dendropoma petreaum - A proxy of short and long term climatic events in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(15), 4376-4383.
  52. Alamaru, A., Loya, Y., Brokovich, E., Yam, R. and Shemesh, A., 2009. Carbon and nitrogen utilization in two species of Red Sea corals along a depth gradient: Insights from stable isotope analysis of total organic material and lipids. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73(18), 5333-5342.
  53. Luz, B., Barkan, E., Yam, R. and Shemesh, A., 2009. A fractionation of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in evaporating water. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 73 (22), 6697-6703