University Education and Degrees:
11/1999 Graduation as Dr. rer. nat. at the Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen (Germany)
Thesis title: “Glaciomarine sedimentation on the continental margins of the Amundsen and Bellingshausen seas (West Antarctica): indications for palaeoenvironmental changes during the Quaternary climatic cycles”
08/1995 Final examination as “Diploma Geologist” at the Department of Geology, University of Würzburg (Germany)
11/1989-08/1995 Study of geology (University of Würzburg)
11/1988-09/1989 Study of physics (University of Würzburg)
Academic Career:
since 06/2022: UK Principal Investigator of the ‘Thwaites Glacier Offshore Research (THOR)” project of the NERC-NSF funded programme “International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration (ITGC)”
since 04/2015: Senior Marine Geologist at BAS in the “Palaeoenvironments, Ice Sheets and Climate Change (PICC)” team
04/2009-03/2015: Senior Marine Geologist at BAS in the workpackage “Palaeo-Ice Sheets”
08/2005-03/2009: Senior Marine Geologist at BAS in project “GRADES-QWAD”
01/2004-07/2005: Marine Geologist at BAS in project AFI 4/17 (in collaboration with Scott Polar Research Institute)
Project title: “Glacial-interglacial changes in the lost drainage basin of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet”
06/2002-06/2003: PostDoc at the Department of Geophysics at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Bremerhaven (Germany): Correlation of data sets derived from drill cores and reflection seismic profiles for numerical modelling of the development of a sediment drift on the Antarctic Peninsula Pacific rise
09/1999-05/2002: PostDoc at the Department of Marine Geology at AWI: Investigations of clay mineralogy and geochemistry on Neogene sedimentary sequences drilled during Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 178
12/1995-11/1998: Research Assistant (PhD student) at the Department of Marine Geology at AWI: Investigations of sedimentology, geochemistry, physical properties, granulometry, mineralogy, and stratigraphy on Plio-/Pleistocene continental margin sediments in the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas
Cruise participation:
12/2022-03/2023: PS134 with RV “Polarstern” (Bellingshausen Sea)
01/2020-03/2020: NBP20-02 with RV/IB “Nathaniel B. Palmer” (Amundsen Sea)
01/2019-03/2019: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Exp379 with RV “JOIDES Resolution” (Amundsen Sea)
01/2018-03/2018: DY087 with RRS “Discovery” (sub-Antarctic SW Atlantic)
02/2017-03/2017: PS104 with RV “Polarstern” (Amundsen Sea)
12/2015-02/2016: PS96 with RV “Polarstern” (Weddell Sea)
01/2015-03/2015: JR298 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Antarctic Peninsula, Bellingshausen Sea)
12/2013-01/2014: JR284 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Antarctic Peninsula)
01/2011-03/2011: JR244 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Weddell Sea)
01/2010-04/2010: ANT-XXVI/3 with RV “Polarstern” (Ross and Amundsen seas)
02/2008-04/2008: JR179 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Amundsen Sea)
02/2006-04/2006: ANT-XXIII/4 with RV “Polarstern” (Amundsen Sea)
01/2006-02/2006: JR141 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Amundsen Sea)
01/2004-02/2004: JR104 with RRS “James Clark Ross” (Bellingshausen Sea)
01/2003-02/2003: SO-169 with RV “Sonne” (SW Pacific)
02/2001-04/2001: ANTARKTIS-XVIII/5a with RV “Polarstern” (Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas, SE Pacific)
01/1997-03/1997: ANTARKTIS-XIV/3 with RV “Polarstern” (Weddell Sea)
01/1994-03/1994: ANTARKTIS-XI/3 with RV “Polarstern” (Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas)
Grants:
02/2018-12/2025 Co-Investigator on NSFPLR-NERC grant: “Stability and Instability – Records of External Drivers and Resulting Behavior of Thwaites Glacier” – THOR (THwaites Offshore Research) (in collaboration with School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA, Department of Geological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, The University of Alabama, USA, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Richmond, USA, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA)
01/2016-12/2018 Co-Investigator on NERC standard grant: “Assessing the role of oceanic forcing in West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat since the Last Glacial Maximum” (in collaboration with School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK, Department of Geography, Durham University, UK, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Department of Geosciences, Bremerhaven, Germany)
10/2014-03/2016 Co-Investigator on NERC UK-IODP grant: “Depositional patterns and records in sediment drifts off the Antarctic Peninsula and West Antarctica” (in collaboration with Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, UK, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, UK, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, UK, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Department of Geosciences, Bremerhaven, Germany, Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e Geofisica Sperimentale, Trieste, Italy, Institute for Geophysics and Geology, University of Leipzig, Germany)
10/2009-09/2012 Co-Investigator on NERC standard grant: “Understanding marine ice stream retreat using numerical modelling and geophysical data” (in collaboration with Department of Geography, Durham University, UK)
11/2007-09/2010 Principal Investigator on NERC New Investigator grant: “Reliable dating of the postglacial ice retreat in West Antarctica by an integrated palaeo-magnetic and radiocarbon approach” (in collaboration with NERC Radiocarbon Facility, East Kilbride, UK, Centre for Environmental Magnetism & Palaeomagnetism, Lancaster University, UK)
10/1993-06/1995 Funding by the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes“ as a holder of the preliminary examination in geology
Awards:
Price of the Faculty for Geosciences, University of Würzburg, for outstanding merits in the final examinations 1994/1995
Peer-reviewed publications:
2024
Hopkins, B., Xuan, C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., van Peer, T.E., Jin, Y., Frederichs, T., Gao, L. & Bohaty, S.M. (2024): Evaluation of geomagnetic relative palaeointensity as a chronostratigraphic tool in the Southern Ocean: Refined Plio-/Pleistocene chronology of IODP Site U1533 (Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica). – Quaternary Science Reviews, 325: 108460, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108460.
2023
Frinault, B.A.V., Barnes, D.K.A., Biskaborn, B.K., Gromig, R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Klages, J.P., Koglin, N. & Kuhn. G. (2023): Spatial competition in a global disturbance minimum; the seabed under an Antarctic ice shelf. – Science of the Total Environment, 903: 166157, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166157.
Herbert, L.C., Lepp, A.P., Munevar Garcia, S., Browning, A., Miller, L.E., Wellner, J., Severmann, S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Johnson, J.S. & Sherrell, R.M. (2023): Volcanogenic fluxes of iron from the seafloor in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica. – Marine Chemistry, 253: 104250, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2023.104250.
Kim, M., Lee, J.I., Bak, Y.-S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Yang, E.J., Montluçon, D.B., Haghipour, N., Eglinton, T.I. &d Hwang, J. (2023): Holocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoproductivity changes in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment of Antarctica. – Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans, 128: e2023JC019797, https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JC019797.
Lecavalier, B.S, Tarasov, L., Balco, G., Spector, P., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Buizert, C., Ritz, C., Leduc-Leballeur, M., Mulvaney, R., Whitehouse, P.L., Bentley, M.J. & Bamber, J. (2023): Antarctic Ice Sheet paleo-constraint database. – Earth System Science Data, 15: 3573-3596, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3573-2023.
2022
Chadwick, M., Allen, C.S., Sime, L.C. Crosta, X. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2022): How does the Southern Ocean palaeoenvironment during Marine Isotope Stage 5e compare to the modern? – Marine Micropaleontology, 170: 102066, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2021.102066.
Chadwick, M., Allen, C.S., Sime, L.C. Crosta, X. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2022): Reconstructing Antarctic winter sea-ice extent during Marine Isotope Stage 5e. – Climate of the Past, 18: 129-146, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-18-129-2022.
Colleoni, F., De Santis, L., Naish, T.R., DeConto, R.M., Escutia, C., Stocchi, P., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Hochmuth, K., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., van de Flierdt, T., Pérez, L., Leitchenkov, G., Sangiorgi, F., Jamieson, S., Bentley, M.J. & Wilson, D.J. (2022): Past Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics (PAIS) and implications for future sea-level change. – In: Florindo, F., Siegert, M., De Santis, L. & Naish, T. (Eds.), Antarctic Climate Evolution, 2nd edition, pp. 689-768, Elsevier (Amsterdam).
Gille-Petzoldt, J., Gohl, K., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Grützner, J., Klages, J.P. & IODP Expedition 379 Scientists (incl. HILLENBRAND, C.-D.) (2022): West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics in the Amundsen Sea sector since the Late Miocene — Tying IODP Expedition 379 results to seismic data. – Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 976703, doi:10.3389/feart.2022.976703
Graham, A.G.C., Wåhlin, A., Hogan, K.A., Nitsche, F.O., Heywood, K.J., Totten, R., Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Simkins, L., Anderson, J.B., Wellner, J.S. & Larter, R.D. (2022): Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier from a pinning point in the pre-satellite era. – Nature Geoscience, 15: 706-713.
Lepp, A.P., Simkins, L.M., Anderson, J.B., Clark, R.W., Wellner, J.S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Lehrmann, A.A., Totten, R., Larter, R.D., Hogan, K.A., Nitsche, F.O., Graham, A.G.C. & Wacker, L. (2022): Sedimentary signatures of persistent subglacial meltwater drainage from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. – Frontiers in Earth Science, 10: 863200, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.863200.
McKay, R., Escutia, C., De Santis, L., Donda, F., Duncan, B., Gohl, K., Gulick, S., Hernández-Molina, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hochmuth, K., Kim, S., Kuhn, G., Larter, R., Leitchenkov, G., Levy, R., Naish, T.R., O’Brien, P., Pérez, L., Shevenell, A. & Williams, T. (2022): Cenozoic History of Antarctic Glaciation and Climate from onshore and offshore studies. – In: Florindo, F., Siegert, M., De Santis, L. & Naish, T. (Eds.), Antarctic Climate Evolution, 2nd edition, pp. 41-164, Elsevier (Amsterdam).
Rodrigues, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Larter, R.D., Rebesco, M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Lucchi, R.G. & Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. (2022): Sedimentary model for mixed depositional systems along the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula: Decoding the interplay of deep-water processes. – Marine Geology, 445: 106754, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2022. 106754.
Rodrigues, S., Hernández-Molina, F.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Lucchi, R.G., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J., Rebesco, M. &. Larter, R.D. (2022): Recognizing key sedimentary facies and their distribution in mixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems: The case of the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula. – Sedimentology, 69: 1953-1991, doi: 10.1111/sed. 12978.
Roseby, Z.A., Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Cartigny, M.J.B., Rosenheim, B.E., Hogan, K.A., Allen, C.S., Leventer, A., Kuhn, G., Ehrmann, W. & Larter, R.D. (2022): History of Anvers-Hugo Trough, western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, since the Last Glacial Maximum. Part I: Deglacial history based on new sedimentological and chronological data. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 291: 107590, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107590.
Roseby, Z.A., Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Allen, C.S., Leventer, A., Hogan, K.A., Cartigny, M.J.B., Rosenheim, B.E., Kuhn, G. & Larter, R.D. (2022): History of the Anvers-Hugo Trough, western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, since the Last Glacial Maximum. Part II: Palaeo-productivity and palaeoceanographic changes during the Last Glacial Transition. – Quaternary Science Reviews: 107503, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107503.
Siegert, M.J., Hein, A.S., White, D.A., Gore, D.B., De Santis, L. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2022): Antarctic Ice Sheet changes since the Last Glacial Maximum. – In: Florindo, F., Siegert, M., De Santis, L. & Naish, T. (Eds.), Antarctic Climate Evolution, 2nd edition, pp. 623-687, Elsevier (Amsterdam).
Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Gohl, K., Hochmuth, K., Salzmann, U., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Klages, J.P. & Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2022): Deep water inflow slowed offshore expansion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. – Communications Earth & Environment, 3: 36, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00369-x.
Wang, R., Williams, T.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Ehrmann, W., Larkin, C.S., Hutchings, A.M. & Piotrowski, A.M. (2022): Boundary processes and neodymium cycling along the Pacific margin of West Antarctica. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 327: 1-20, https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.gca.2022.04.012.
2021
Barnes, D.K.A., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Gromig, R., Koglin, N., Biskaborn, B.K., Frinault, B.A.V., Klages, J.P. & Gutt, J. (2021): Richness, growth, and persistence of life under an Antarctic ice shelf. – Current Biology, 31: R1566-R1567.
Gohl, K., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Gille-Petzoldt, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Klages, J.P., Bohaty, S.M., Passchier, S., Frederichs, T., Wellner, J.S., Lamb, R., Leitchenkov, G. & IODP Expedition 379 Scientists (2021): Evidence for a highly dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Pliocene. – Geophysical Research Letters, 48: e2021GL093103. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL093103.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Crowhurst, S.J., Williams, M., Hodell , D.A., McCave, I.N., Ehrmann, W., Xuan, C., Piotrowski, A.M., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Graham, A.G.C., Grobe, H., Williams, T.J., Horrocks, J.R., Allen, C.S. & Larter, R.D. (2021): New insights from multi-proxy data from the West Antarctic continental rise: Implications for dating and interpreting Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental records. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 257: 106842. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106842.
Lamping, N., Müller, J., Hefter, J., Mollenhauer, G., Haas, C., Shi, X., Vorrath, M.-E., Lohmann, G. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2021): Evaluation of lipid biomarkers as proxies for sea ice and ocean temperatures along the Antarctic continental margin. – Climate of the Past, 17: 2305-2326, https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-17-2305-2021.
Marschalek, J.W., Zurli, L., Talarico, F., van de Flierdt, T., Vermeesch, P., Carter, A., Beny, F., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Sangiorgi, F., Hemming, S., Pérez, L.F., Colleoni, F., Prebble, J.G., van Peer, T.E., Perotti, M., Shevenell, A.E., Browne, I., Kulhanek, D.K., Levy, R., Harwood, D., Sullivan, N.B., Meyers, S.R., Griffith, E.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Gasson, E., Siegert, M.J., Keisling, B., Licht, K.J., Kuhn, G., Dodd, J.P., Boshuis, C., De Santis, L., McKay, R.M. & IODP Expedition 374 (2021): A large West Antarctic Ice Sheet explains early Neogene sea-level amplitude. – Nature, 600: 450-455.
Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Subt, C., Rosenheim, B.E., Frederichs, T., Ehrmann, W., Andersen, T.J., Wacker, L., Makinson, K., Anker, P., Venables, E.J. & Nicholls, K.W. (2021): History of the Larsen C Ice Shelf reconstructed from sub-ice shelf and offshore sediments. – Geology, 49: 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1130/G48503.1.
Spencer-Jones, C.L., McClymont, E.L., Bale, N.J., Hopmans, E.C., Schouten, S., Müller, J., Abrahamsen, E.P., Allen, C., Bickert, T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Mawbey, E., Peck, V., Svalova, A. & Smith, J.A. (2021): Archaeal intact polar lipids in polar waters: a comparison between the Amundsen and Scotia seas. – Biogeosciences, 18: 3485-3504. https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-3485-2021.
2020
Arndt, J. E., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Sørlie, S.H., Forwick, M., Smith, J.A. & Wacker, L. (2020): Past ice sheet–seabed interactions in the northeastern Weddell Sea embayment, Antarctica. – The Cryosphere, 14: 2115-2135. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2115-2020.
Chadwick, M., Allen, C.S., Sime, L.C. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2020): Analysing the timing of peak warming and minimum winter sea-ice extent in the Southern Ocean during MIS 5e. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 229: 106134, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106134.
Hogan, K.A., Larter, R.D., Graham, A.G.C., Arthern, R., Kirkham, J.D., Totten, R.T., Jordan, T.A., Clark, R., Fitzgerald, V., Wåhlin, A.K., Anderson, J.B., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Nitsche, F., Simkins, L., Smith, J.A., Gohl, K., Arndt, J.E., Hong, J. & Wellner, J. (2020): Revealing the former bed of Thwaites Glacier using sea-floor bathymetry: implications for warm-water routing and bed controls on ice flow and buttressing. – The Cryosphere, 14: 2883-2908. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-2883-2020.
Klages, J.P., Salzmann, U., Bickert, T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Gohl, K., Kuhn, G., Bohaty, S., Titschack, J., Müller, J., Frederichs, T., Bauersachs, T., Ehrmann, W., van de Flierdt, T., Simões Pereira, P., Larter, R.D., Lohmann, G. Niezgodzki, I., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Zundel, M., Spiegel, C., Mark, C. Chew, D., Francis, J.E., Nehrke, G., Schwarz, F., Smith, J.A., Freudenthal, T., Esper, O., Pälike, H., Ronge, T., Dziadek, R., and the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2020): Temperate rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth. – Nature, 580: 81-86.
Lamping, N., Müller, J., Esper, O., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A. & Kuhn, G. (2020): Highly branched isoprenoids reveal onset of deglaciation followed by dynamic sea-ice conditions in the western Amundsen Sea, Antarctica. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 228: 106103.
Lu, W., Rickaby, R.E.M., Hoogakker, B.A.A., Rathburn, A.E., Burket, A.M., Dickson, A.J., Martínez-Méndez, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Zhou, X., Thomas, E. & Lu, Z. (2020): I/Ca in epifaunal benthic foraminifera: a semi-quantitative proxy for bottom water oxygen in a multi-proxy compilation for glacial ocean deoxygenation. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 533: 116055.
Mawbey, E.M., Hendry, K.R., Greaves, M.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Spencer-Jones, C.L., McClymont, E.L., Vadman, K.J., Shevenell, A.E., Jernas, P.E. & Smith, J.A. (2020): Mg/Ca-temperature calibration of polar benthic foraminifera species for reconstruction of bottom water temperatures on the Antarctic shelf. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 283: 54-66.
Simões Pereira, P., van de Flierdt, T., Hemmingc, S.R., Frederichs, T., Hammond, S.J., Brachfeld, S., Doherty, C., Kuhn, G., Smith, J.A., Klages, J.P & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2020): The geochemical and mineralogical fingerprint of West Antarctica’s weak underbelly: Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers. – Chemical Geology, 550: 119649.
Turney, C.S.M., Fogwill, C.J., Golledge, N.R., McKay, N.P, van Sebille, E., Jones, R.T., Etheridge, D., Rubino, M., Thornton, D.P., Davies, S.M., Bronk Ramsey, C., Thomas, Z.A., Bird, M.I., Munksgaard, N.C., Kohno, M., Woodward, J., Winter, K., Weyrich, L.S., Rootes, C.M., Millman, H., Albert, P.G., Rivera, A., van Ommen, T., Curran, M., Moy, A., Rahmstorf, S., Kawamura, K., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Weber, M.E., Manning, C.J., Young, J. & Cooper, A. (2020): Early Last Interglacial ocean warming drove substantial ice mass loss from Antarctica. – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117: 3996-4006. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1902469117.
Turney, C.S.M., Jones, R.T., McKay, N.P, van Sebille, Thomas, Z.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Fogwill, C.J. (2020): A global mean sea surface temperature dataset for the Last Interglacial (129-116 ka) and contribution of thermal expansion to sea level change. – Earth System Science Data, 12: 3341-3356. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-3341-2020.
2019
Dickens, W.A., Kuhn, G., Leng. M.J., Graham, A.G.C., Dowdeswell, J.A., Meredith, M.P., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hodgson, D.A., Roberts, S.J., Sloane, H. & Smith, J.A. (2019): Enhanced glacial discharge from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula since the 1700s associated with a positive Southern Annular Mode. – Nature Scientific Reports, 9: 14606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50897-4.
Dziadek, R., Gohl, K., Kaul, N. & the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (incl. HILLENBRAND, C.-D.) (2019): Elevated geothermal surface heat flow in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 506: 530-539.
Larter, R.D., Hogan, K.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Batchelor, C.L., Cartigny, M., Tate, A.J., Kirkham, J.D., Roseby, Z.A., Kuhn, G., Graham, A.G.C. & Dowdeswell, J.A. (2019): Subglacial hydrological control on flow of an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream. – The Cryosphere, 13, 1583-1596.
Park, Y.K., Lee, J.I., Jung, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Yoo, K.-C. & Kim, J. (2019): Elemental compositions of smectites reveal detailed sediment provenance changes during glacial and interglacial periods: The southern Drake Passage and Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica. – Minerals, 9: 322: doi:10.3390/min9050322.
Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Post, A.L., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Bart, P.J. & Powell, R.D. (2019): The marine geological imprint of Antarctic ice shelves – Nature Communications, 10: 5635. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13496-5.
Thatje, S., Brown, A. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2019): Prospects for metazoan life in sub-glacial Antarctic lakes: the most extreme life on Earth? – International Journal of Astrobiology, 18: 416-419.
Vernet, M., Geibert, W., Hoppema, M., Brown, J., Haas, C., Hellmer, H.H., Jokat, W., Jullion, L., Mazloff, M., Bakker, D.C.E., Brearley, A., Croot, P. Hattermann, T., Hauck, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hoppe, C.J.M., Huhn, O., Koch, B.P., Lechtenfeld, O.J., Meredith, M.P., Naveira Garabato, A.C., Nöthig, E.-M., Peeken, I., Rutgers van der Loeff, M.M., Schmidtko, S., Schröder, M., Strass, V.H., Torres-Valdés, S. & Verdy, A. (2019): The Weddell Gyre, Southern Ocean: present knowledge and future challenges. – Reviews of Geophysics, 67: 623-708. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018RG000604.
Williams, T.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Piotrowski, A.M., Allen, C.S., Frederichs, T., Smith, J.A., Ehrmann, W. & Hodell, D.A. (2019): Paleocirculation and ventilation history of Southern Ocean sourced deep water masses during the last 800,000 years. – Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 34: 833-852. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018PA003472.
Zundel, M., Spiegel, C., Mehling, A., Lisker, F., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Monien, P. & Klügel, A. (2019): Thurston Island (West Antarctica) between Gondwana subduction and continental separation: a multistage evolution revealed by apatite thermochronology. – Tectonics, 38: 878-897.
2018
Arndt, J.E., Larter, R.D., Friedl, P., Gohl, K., Höppner, K. & the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (incl. HILLENBRAND, C.-D.) (2018): Bathymetric controls on calving processes at Pine Island Glacier. – The Cryosphere, 12: 2039-2050.
Gales, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Larter, R., Laberg, J.S., Melles, M., Benetti, S. & Passchier, S.: Processes influencing differences in Arctic and Antarctic trough mouth fan sedimentology. – In: Le Heron, D.P., Hogan, K.A., Phillips, E.R., Huuse, M., Busfield, M.E. & Graham, A.G.C. (eds). Glaciated Margins: The Sedimentary and Geophysical Archive, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 475: 203-221.
Hodgson, D.A., Hogan, K., Smith, J., Smith, J..A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Graham, A.G.C., Fretwell, P., Allen, C., Peck, V., Arndt, J.-E., Dorschel, B., Hübscher, C., Smith, A.M. & Larter, R. (2018): Deglaciation and future stability of the Coats Land ice margin, Antarctica. – The Cryosphere, 12: 2383-2399.
Rosier, S.H.R., Hofstede, C., Brisbourne, A.M., Hattermann, T., Nicholls, K.W., Davis, P.E.D., Anker, P.G.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, A.M. & Corr, H.J.G. (2018): A new bathymetry for the southeastern Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf: implications for modern oceanographic processes and glacial history. Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, 123: 4610-4623.
Simões Pereira, P., van de Flierdt, T., Hemming, S.R., Hammond, S.J., Kuhn, G., Brachfeld, S., Doherty, C. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2018): Geochemical fingerprints of glacially eroded bedrock from West Antarctica: detrital thermochronology, radiogenic isotope systematics and trace element geochemistry in Late Holocene glacial-marine sediments. – Earth Science Reviews, 182: 204-232.
2017
Arndt, J.E., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Grobe, H., Kuhn, G. & Wacker, L. (2017): Evidence for a dynamic grounding-line in outer Filchner Trough, Antarctica, until the early Holocene. – Geology, 45: 1035-1038.
Carter, A., Riley, T.R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Rittner, M. (2017): Widespread Antarctic glaciation during the Late Eocene. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458: 49-57.
Gohl, K., Freudenthal., T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Klages, J., Larter, R., Bickert, T., Bohaty, S., Ehrmann, W., Esper, O., Frederichs, T., Gebhardt, C., Küssner, K., Kuhn, G., Pälike, H., Ronge, T., Simões Pereira, P., Smith, J., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., van de Flierdt, C. & the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2017): MeBo70 seabed drilling on a polar continental shelf: operational report and lessons from drilling in the Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica. – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 18: 4235-4250. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GC007081.
Graham, A.G.C., Kuhn, G., Meisel, O., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hodgson, D.A., Ehrmann, W., Wacker, L., Wintersteller, P., dos Santos Ferreira, C., Römer, M., White, D. & Bohrmann, G. (2017): Major advance of South Georgia glaciers during the Antarctic Cold Reversal following extensive sub-Antarctic glaciation. – Nature Communications, 8: 14798, doi:10.1038/ncomms14798.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Hodell, D.A., Greaves, M., Poole, C.R., Kender, S., Williams, M., Andersen, T.J., Jernas, P.E., Elderfield, H., Klages, J.P., Roberts, S.J., Gohl, K., Larter, R.D. & Kuhn, G. (2017): West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions. – Nature, 547: 43-48.
Hogan, K.A., Dowdeswell, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Ehrmann, W., Noormets, R. & Wacker, L. (2017): Subglacial sediment pathways and deglacial chronology of the northern Barents Sea Ice Sheet. – Boreas, 46: 750-771.
Holloway, M.D., Sime, L.C., Allen, C.S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Bunch, P., Wolff, E. & Valdes, P.J. (2017): The spatial structure of the 128 ka Antarctic sea ice minimum. – Geophysical Research Letters, 44: 11,129–11,139.
Johnson, J.S., Smith, J.A., Schaefer, J.M., Young, N.E., Goehring, B.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Finkel, R.C. & Gohl, K. (2017): The last glaciation of Bear Peninsula, western Amundsen Sea Embayment of Antarctica: constraints on timing and duration revealed by in situ cosmogenic 14C and 10Be dating. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 178: 77-88.
Klages, J.P., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Nitsche, F.O., Frederichs, T., Jernas, P.E., Gohl, K. & Wacker, L. (2017): Limited grounding-line advance onto the West Antarctic continental shelf in the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment during the last glacial period. – PLoS ONE, 12 (7): e0181593. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0181593.
Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kasten, S., Smith, J.A., Nitsche, F.O., Frederichs, T., Wiers, S., Ehrmann, W., Klages, J.P. & Mogollón, J.M. (2017): Evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake on the Antarctic continental shelf. – Nature Communications, 8: 15591, doi:10.1038/ncomms15591.
Roberts, J., McCave, I.N., McClymont, E.L., Kender, S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Matano, R., Hodell, D.A. & Peck, V. (2017): Deglacial changes in flow and frontal structure through the Drake Passage. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 474: 397-408.
Smith, J.A., Andersen, T.J., Shortt, M., Gaffney, A.M., Truffer, M., Stanton T.P., Bindschadler, R., Dutrieux, P., Jenkins, A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Ehrmann, W., Corr, H.F.J., Farley, N., Crowhurst, S. & Vaughan, D.G. (2017): Sub-ice-shelf sediments record history of twentieth-century retreat of Pine Island Glacier. – Nature, 541: 77-80.
Turner, J., Orr, A., Gudmundsson, G.H., Jenkins, A., Bingham, R.G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Bracegirdle, T.J. (2017): Atmosphere-ocean-ice interactions in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. – Reviews of Geophysics, 55: 235-276.
2016
Graham, A.G.C., Jakobsson, M., Nitsche, F.O., Larter, R.D., Anderson, J.B., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Gohl, K., Klages, J.P., Smith, J.A. & Jenkins, A. (2016): Submarine glacial-landform distribution across the West Antarctic margin from grounding line to slope: the Pine Island-Thwaites ice-stream system. – In Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. & Hogan, K.A. (Eds.), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and ancient, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 46: 393-500.
Jamieson, S.S.R., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J., Vieli, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Spagnolo, M. (2016): Subglacial processes on an Antarctic Ice Stream bed 2: Can modelled ice dynamics explain the morphology of mega-scale glacial lineations? – Journal of Glaciology, 62: 285-298.
Klages, J.P., Kuhn, HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Graham, A.G.C., Smith, J.A., Larter, R.D. & Gohl, K. (2017): A glacial landform assemblage from an inter-ice stream setting in the eastern Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. – In Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. & Hogan, K.A. (Eds.), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and ancient, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 46: 349-352.
Larter, R.D., Hogan, K.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Benetti, S. (2016): Debris-flow deposits on the West Antarctic continental slope. – In Dowdeswell, J.A., Canals, M., Jakobsson, M., Todd, B.J., Dowdeswell, E.K. & Hogan, K.A. (Eds.), Atlas of Submarine Glacial Landforms: Modern, Quaternary and ancient, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 46: 375-376.
Livingstone, S.J., Stokes, C.R., Ó Cofaigh, C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Vieli, A., Jamieson, S.S.R., Spagnolo, M. & Dowdeswell, J.A. (2016): Subglacial processes on an Antarctic ice stream bed. 1: Sediment transport and bedform genesis inferred from marine geophysical data. – Journal of Glaciology, 62: 270-284.
Lu, Z., Hoogakker, B.A.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Zhou, X., Thomas, E., Gutchess, K.M., Lu, W., Jones, L. & Rickaby, R.E.M. (2016): Oxygen depletion recorded in upper waters of the glacial Southern Ocean. – Nature Communications, 7: 11146, doi:10.1038/ncomms11146.
2015
Klages, J.P., Kuhn, G., Graham, A.G.C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Nitsche, F.O., Larter, R.D. & Gohl, K. (2015): Palaeo-ice stream pathways and retreat style in the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, revealed by combined multibeam bathymetric and seismic data. – Geomorphology, 245: 207-222.
2014
Dickens, W.A., Graham, A.G.C., Smith, J.A., Dowdeswell, J.A., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Trathan, P.N., Arndt, J.E. & Dorschel, B. (2014): A new bathymetric compilation for the South Orkney Islands, Antarctic Peninsula (49°-39°W to 64°-59°S): insights into the glacial development of the continental shelf. – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 15: 2494-2514.
Gales, J.A., Leat, P.T., Larter, R.D., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Graham, A.G.C., Mitchell, N.C., Tate, A.J., Buys, G.B. & Jokat, W. (2014): Large-scale submarine landslides, channel and gully systems on the southern Weddell Sea margin, Antarctica. – Marine Geology, 348: 73-87.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Bentley, M.J., Stolldorf, T.D., Hein, A.S., Kuhn, G., Graham, A.G.C., Fogwill, C.J., Kristoffersen, Y., Smith, J.A., Anderson, J.B., Larter, R.D., Melles, M., Hodgson, D.A., Mulvaney, R. & Sugden, D.E. (2014): Reconstruction of changes in the Weddell Sea sector of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 100: 111-136.
Jamieson, S.S.R., Vieli, A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., Livingstone, S.J. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2014): Understanding controls on rapid ice-stream retreat during the last deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, using a numerical model. – Journal of Geophysical Research, 119: 1-17.
Klages, J.P., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Graham, A.G.C., Smith, J.A., Larter, R.D., Gohl, K. & Wacker, L. (2014): Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the western Amundsen Sea shelf at a pre- or early LGM stage. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 91: 1-15.
Larter, R.D., Anderson, J.B., Graham, A.G.C., Gohl, K., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Jakobsson, M., Johnson, J.S., Kuhn, G., Nitsche, F.O., Smith, J.A., Witus, A.E., Bentley, M.J., Dowdeswell, J.A., Ehrmann, W., Klages, J.P., Lindow, J., Ó Cofaigh, C. & Spiegel, C. (2014): Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 100: 55-86.
McCave, I.N., Crowhurst, S.J., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Meredith, M.P. (2014): Minimal change in Antarctic Circumpolar Current flow speed between the last glacial and Holocene. – Nature Geoscience, 7, 113-116.
Ó Cofaigh, C., Davies, B.J., Livingstone, S.J., Johnson, J.S., Smith, J.A., Hocking, E.P., Hodgson, D.A., Anderson, J.B., Bentley, M.J., Canals, M., Domack, E., Dowdeswell, J.A., Evans, J., Glasser, N.F., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Larter, R.D. & Roberts, S.J. (2014): Reconstruction of ice- sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 100: 87-110.
Rickli, J., Gutjahr, M., Vance, D., Fischer-Gödde, M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Kuhn, G. (2014): Neodymium and hafnium boundary contributions to seawater along the West Antarctic continental margin. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 394: 99-110.
Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. Kuhn, G., Klages, J.P., Graham, A.G.C., Larter, R.D., Ehrmann, W., Moreton, S.G., Wiers, S. & Frederichs, T. (2014): New constraints on the timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in the eastern Amundsen Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Global and Planetary Change, 122: 224-237.
The RAISED Consortium (incl. HILLENBRAND, C.-D.) (2014): A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 100: 1-9.
2013
Gohl, K., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hochmuth, K., Kalberg, T., Weigelt, E., Davy, B., Kuhn, G. & Nitsche, F.O. (2013): Seismic stratigraphic record of the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf from pre-glacial to recent times: Evidence for a dynamic West Antarctic Ice Sheet. – Marine Geology, 344: 115-131.
Golledge, N.R., Levy, R.H., McKay, R.M., Fogwill, C.J., White, D.A., Graham, A.G.C., Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Licht, K.J., Denton, G.H., Ackert Jr., R.P., Maas, S.M. & Hall, B.L. (2013): Glaciology and geological signature of the Last Glacial Maximum Antarctic ice sheet. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 78: 225-247.
Gutjahr, M., Vance, D., Hoffmann, D.L., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Foster, G.L., Rae, J.W.B. & Kuhn, G. (2013): Structural limitations in deriving accurate U-series ages from calcitic cold-water corals contrast with robust coral radiocarbon and Mg/Ca systematics. – Chemical Geology, 355: 69-87.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Smith, J.A., Gohl, K., Graham, A.G.C., Larter, R.D., Klages, J.P., Downey, R.., Moreton, S.G., Forwick, M. & Vaughan, D.G. (2013): Grounding-line retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from inner Pine Island Bay. – Geology, 41: 35-38.
Klages, J.P., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Graham, A.G.C., Smith, J.A., Larter, R.D. & Gohl, K. (2013): First geomorphological record and glacial history of an inter-ice stream ridge on the West Antarctic continental shelf. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 61: 47-61.
Livingstone, S.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Vieli, A. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2013): Glacial Geomorphology of Marguerite Bay Palaeo-Ice Stream, western Antarctic Peninsula. – Journal of Maps, 9: 558-572.
Nitsche, F.O., Gohl, K., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Smith, J.A., Jacobs, S., Anderson, J.B. & Jakobsson, M. (2013): Paleo-ice flow and subglacial meltwater dynamics in Pine Island Bay, West Antarctica. – The Cryosphere, 7: 249-262.
Vautravers, M.J., Hodell, D.A., Channel, J.E.T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hall, M., Smith, J.A. & Larter, R.D. (2013): Palaeoenvironmental records from the West Antarctic Peninsula drift sediments over the last 75 ka. – In: Hambrey, M.J., Barker, P. F., Barrett, P. J., Bowman, V., Davies, B., Smellie, J.L. & Tranter, M. (Eds.), Antarctic Palaeoenviroments and Earth-Surface Processes, Geological Society of London Special Publications, 318: doi 10.1144/SP381.12.
2012
Carter, P., Vance, D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A. & Shoosmith, D.R. (2012): The neodymium isotopic composition of waters masses in the eastern Pacific Sector of the Southern Ocean. – Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 79: 41-59.
Gales, J.A., Larter, R.D., Mitchell, N.C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Østerhus, S. & Shoosmith, D.R. (2012): Southern Weddell Sea shelf edge geomorphology: Implications for gully formation by the overflow of high-salinity water. – Journal of Geophysical Research, 117: F04021, doi:10.1029/2012JF002357.
Hauck, J., Gerdes, D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hoppema, M., Kuhn, G., Nehrke, G., Völker, C. & Wolf-Gladrow, D.A. (2012): Distribution and mineralogy of carbonate sediments on Antarctic shelves. – Journal of Marine Systems, 90: 77-87.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Melles, M., Kuhn, G. & Larter, R.D. (2012): Marine geological constraints for the grounding-line position of the Antarctic Ice Sheet on the southern Weddell Sea shelf at the Last Glacial Maximum. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 32: 25-47.
Jamieson, S.S.R., Vieli, A., Livingstone, S.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Dowdeswell, J.A. (2012): Ice stream grounding-line stability on a reverse bed slope. – Nature Geoscience, 5: 799-802.
Konfirst, M.A., Scherer, R.P., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Kuhn, G. (2012): A marine diatom record from the Amundsen Sea – Insights into oceanographic and climatic response to the Mid-Pleistocene Transition in the West Antarctic sector of the Southern Ocean. – Marine Micropalaeontology, 92-93: 40-51.
Larter, R.D., Graham, A.G.C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A. & Gales, J.A. (2012): Late Quaternary grounded ice extent in the Filchner Trough, Weddell Sea, Antarctica: new marine geophysical evidence. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 53: 111-122.
Livingstone, S.J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C.R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Vieli, A. & Jamieson, S.S.R. (2012): Antarctic palaeo-ice streams. – Earth-Science Reviews, 111: 90-128.
Noble, T.L., Piotrowski, A.M., Robinson, L.F., McManus, J.F., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Bory, A.J.-M. (2012): Greater supply of Patagonian-sourced detritus and transport by the ACC to the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during the last glacial period. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 317/318: 374-385.
2011
Ehrmann, W., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Graham, A.G.C., Kuhn, G. & Larter, R.D. (2011): Provenance changes between recent and glacial-time sediments in the Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica: clay mineral assemblage evidence. – Antarctic Science, 23: 471-486.
Reinardy, B.T.I., Hiemstra, J.F., Murray, T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Larter, R.D. (2011): Till genesis at the bed of an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream as indicated by micromorphological analysis. – Boreas, 40: 498-517.
Reinardy, B.T.I., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Murray, T., Hiemstra, J.F. & Booth, A.D. (2011): Streaming flow of an Antarctic Peninsula palaeo-ice stream, both by basal sliding and deformation of substrate. – Journal of Glaciology, 57: 596-608.
Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Larter, R.D., Graham, A.G.C., Ehrmann, W., Moreton, S.G. & Forwick, M. (2011): Deglacial history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 30: 488-505.
Venuti, A., Florindo, F., Caburlotto, A., Hounslow, M.W., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Strada, E., Talarico, F.M. & Cavallo, A. (2011): Late Quaternary sediments from deep‐sea sediment drifts on the Antarctic Peninsula Pacific margin: Climatic control on provenance of minerals. – Journal of Geophysical Research, 116: B06104, doi:10.1029/2010JB007952.
2010
Barnes, D.K.A. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2010): Faunal evidence for a late quaternary trans-Antarctic seaway. – Global Change Biology, 16: 3297-3303.
Graham, A.G.C., Larter, R.D., Gohl, K., Dowdeswell, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Evans, J., Kuhn, G. & Deen, T. (2010): Flow and retreat of the Late Quaternary Pine Island‐Thwaites palaeo‐ice stream, West Antarctica. – Journal of Geophysical Research, 115: F03025, doi:10.1029/2009JF001482.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Larter, R.D., Dowdeswell, J.A., Ehrmann W., Ó Cofaigh, C., Benetti, S., Graham, A.G.C. & Grobe, H. (2010): The sedimentary legacy of a palaeo-ice stream on the shelf of the southern Bellingshausen Sea: Clues to West Antarctic glacial history during the Late Quaternary. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 29: 2741-2763.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Kuhn, G., Esper, O., Gersonde, R., Larter, R.D., Maher, B., Moreton, S.G., Shimmield, T.M. & Korte, M. (2010): Age assignment of a diatomaceous ooze deposited in the western Amundsen Sea Embayment after the Last Glacial Maximum. – Journal of Quaternary Science, 25: 280-295.
Rickaby, R.E.M., Elderfield, H., Roberts, N., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Mackensen, A. (2010): Evidence for elevated alkalinity in the glacial Southern Ocean. – Paleoceanography, 25, PA1209, doi:10.1029/2009PA001762.
Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Pudsey, C.J. & Allen, C.S. (2010): The presence of polynyas in the Weddell Sea during the Last Glacial Period with implications for the reconstruction of sea-ice limits and ice sheet history. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 296: 287-298.
2009
Bentley, M.J., Hodgson, D.A., Smith, J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Domack, E.W., Larter, R.D., Roberts, S.J., Brachfeld, S., Leventer, A., Hjort, C., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Evans, J. (2009): Mechanisms of Holocene palaeoenvironmental change in the Antarctic Peninsula region. – The Holocene, 19: 51-66.
Convey, P., Stevens, M.I., Hodgson D.A., Smellie, J.L., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Barnes, D.K.A., Clarke, A., Pugh, P.J.A., Linse, K. & Craig Cary, S. (2009): Exploring biological constraints on the glacial history of Antarctica. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 3035-3048.
Graham, A.G.C., Larter, R.D., Gohl, K., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., & Kuhn, G. (2009): Bedform signature of a West Antarctic palaeo-ice stream reveals a multi-temporal record of flow and substrate control. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 2774-2793.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G. & Frederichs, T. (2009): Record of a Mid-Pleistocene depositional anomaly in West Antarctic continental margin sediments: an indicator for ice-sheet collapse? – Quaternary Science Reviews, 28: 1147-1159.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Ehrmann, W., Larter, R.D., Benetti, S., Dowdeswell, J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Graham, A.G.C. & Grobe, H. (2009): Clay mineral provenance of sediments in the southern Bellingshausen Sea reveals drainage changes of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the Late Quaternary. – Marine Geology, 265: 1-18.
Larter, R.D., Graham, A.G.C., Gohl, K., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smith, J.A., Deen, T.J., Livermore, R.A. & Schenke, H.-W. (2009): Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. – Geology, 37: 411-414.
Pugh, R.S., McCave, I.N., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Kuhn, G. (2009): Circum-Antarctic age modelling of Quaternary marine cores under the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: Ice-core dust–magnetic correlation. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 284, 113-123.
Reinardy, B.T.I, Pudsey, C.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Murray, T. & Evans, J. (2009): Contrasting sources for glacial and interglacial shelf sediments used to interpret changing ice flow directions in the Larsen Basin, Northern Antarctic Peninsula. – Marine Geology, 266: 156-171.
Smellie, J.L., Haywood, A.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Lunt, D.J. & Valdes, P.J. (2009): Nature of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet during the Pliocene: Geological evidence and modelling results compared. – Earth-Science Reviews, 94, 79-94.
Smith, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Larter, R.D., Graham, A.G.C. & Kuhn, G. (2009): The sediment infill of subglacial meltwater channels on the West Antarctic continental shelf. – Quaternary Research, 71, 190-200.
2008
Convey, P., Gibson, J.A.E., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hodgson, D.A., Pugh, P.J.A., Smellie, J.L. & Stevens, M.I. (2008): Antarctic terrestrial life – challenging the history of the frozen continent? – Biological Reviews, 83, 103-117.
Cowan, E.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hassler, L.E. & Ake, M.T. (2008): Coarse-grained terrigenous sediment deposition on continental rise drifts: A record of Plio-Pleistocene glaciation on the Antarctic Peninsula. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 265: 275-291.
Dowdeswell, J.A., Ó Cofaigh, C., Noormets, R., Larter, R.D., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Benetti, S. Evans, J. & Pudsey, C.J. (2008): A major trough-mouth fan on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica: The Belgica Fan. – Marine Geology, 252: 129-140.
Haywood, A.M., Smellie, J.L., Ashworth, A., Cantrill, D.J., Florindo, F., Hambrey, M.J., Hill, D.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Hunter S.J., Larter, R.D., Lear, C.H., Passchier, S., van de Wal, R. (2008): Middle Miocene to Pliocene history of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. – In: Siegert, M. & Florindo, F. (Eds.), Antarctic Climate Evolution, Advances in Antarctic Earth Sciences, Developments in Earth & Environmental Sciences, 8: pp. 401-463; Elsevier (Amsterdam).
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Moreton, S.G., Caburlotto, A., Pudsey, C.J., Lucchi, R.G., Smellie, J.L., Benetti, S., Grobe, H., Hunt, J.B. & Larter, R.D. (2008): Volcanic time-markers for marine isotopic stages 6 and 5 in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores: implications for tephra correlations between palaeoclimatic records. – Quaternary Science Reviews, 27: 518-540.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Camerlenghi, A., Cowan, E.A., Hernández-Molina, F.J., Lucchi, R.G. Rebesco, M. & Uenzelmann-Neben, G. (2008): The present and past bottom-current flow regime around the sediment drifts on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula. – Marine Geology, 255: 55-63.
Johnson, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Smellie, J.L. & Rocchi, S. (2008): The last deglaciation of Cape Adare, northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. – Antarctic Science, 20: 581-587.
Thatje, S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Mackensen, A. & Larter, R. (2008): Life hung by a thread: endurance of Antarctic fauna in glacial periods. – Ecology, 89: 682-692.
2007
Bart, P.J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Ehrmann, W., Iwai, M., Winter, D. & Warny, S.A. (2007): Are Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet grounding events manifest in sedimentary cycles on the adjacent continental rise? – Marine Geology, 236: 1-13.
Livermore, R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Meredith, M. & Eagles, G. (2007): Drake Passage and Cenozoic climate: An open and shut case? – Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 8: Q01005, doi:10.1029/2005GC001224.
Williams, M., Haywood, A.M., Vautravers, M., Sellwood, B.W., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Wilkins, I.P. & Giles Miller, C. (2007): Relative effect of taphonomy on calcification temperature estimates from fossil planktonic foraminifera. – Geobios, 40: 861-874.
2006
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Cortese, G. (2006): Polar stratification: A critical view from the Southern Ocean. – Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 242: 240-252.
Whitehead, J.M., Ehrmann, W., Harwood, D.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Quilty, P.G., Hart, C., Taviani, M., Thorn, V. & McMinn, A. (2006): Late Miocene palaeoenvironment of the Lambert Graben embayment, East Antarctica, evident from: Mollusc paleontology, sedimentology and geochemistry. – Global and Planetary Change, 50: 127-147.
2005
Grützner, J., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Rebesco, M. (2005): Terrigenous flux and biogenic silica deposition at the Antarctic continental rise during the late Miocene to early Pliocene: implications for ice sheet stability and sea ice coverage. – Global and Planetary Change, 45: 131-149.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Baesler, A. & Grobe, H. (2005): The sedimentary record of the last glaciation in the western Bellingshausen Sea (West Antarctica): implications for the interpretation of diamictons in a polar-marine setting. – Marine Geology, 216: 191-204.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Ehrmann, W. (2005): Late Neogene to Quaternary environmental changes in the Antarctic Peninsula region: evidence from drift sediments. – Global and Planetary Change, 45: 165-191.
Ó Cofaigh, C., Larter, R.D., Dowdeswell, J.A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Pudsey, C.J., Evans, J. & Morris, P. (2005): Flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea at the Last Glacial Maximum. – Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, B11103, doi:10.1029/2005JB003619.
Thatje, S., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Larter, R. (2005): On the origin of Antarctic marine benthic community structure. – Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 20: 534-540.
Williams, M., Haywood, A.M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Wilkinson, I.P. (2005): Efficacy of δ18O data from Pliocene planktonic foraminifer calcite for spatial sea surface temperature reconstruction: comparison with a fully coupled ocean–atmosphere GCM and fossil assemblage data for the mid-Pliocene. – Geological Magazine, 142: 399-417.
Williams, M., Haywood, A.M., Taylor, S.P., Valdes, P.J., Sellwood, B.W. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2005): Evaluating the efficacy of planktonic foraminifer calcite δ18O data for sea surface temperature reconstruction for the Late Miocene. – Geobios, 38: 843-863.
2004
Cortese, G., Gersonde, R., HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Kuhn, G. (2004): Opal sedimentation shifts in the World Ocean over last 15 Myr. – Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 224: 509-527.
Gingele, F.X., De Deckker, P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2004): Late Quaternary terrigenous sediments from the Murray Canyons area, offshore South Australia and their implications for sea level change, palaeoclimate and palaeodrainage of the Murray-Darling Basin. – Marine Geology, 212: 183-197.
2003
Diekmann, B., Fütterer, D.K., Grobe, H., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Michels, K., Petschick, R. & Pirrung, M. (2003): Terrigenous sediment supply in the polar to temperate South Atlantic: land-ocean links of environmental changes during the Late Quaternary. – In Wefer, G., Mulitza, S., & Ratmeyer, V. (Eds.), The South Atlantic in the Late Quaternary: Reconstruction of Material Budget and Current Systems, 355-379; Springer (Berlin).
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Ehrmann, W. (2003): Palaeoenvironmental Implications from Tertiary Sediments of Kainan Maru Seamount and Northern Gunnerus Ridge. – Antarctic Science, 15: 522-536.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Grobe, H., Diekmann, B., Kuhn, G. & Fütterer, D. (2003): Distribution of clay minerals and proxies for productivity in surface sediments of the Bellingshausen and Amundsen seas (West Antarctica) – Relation to modern environmental conditions. – Marine Geology, 193: 253-271.
Volpi, V., Camerlenghi, A., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Rebesco, M. & Ivaldi, R. (2003): The effects of biogenic silica on sediment compaction and slope stability on the Pacific margin of the Antarctic Peninsula. – Basin Research, 15: 339-363.
2002
HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Fütterer, D.K., Grobe, H. & Frederichs, T. (2002): No evidence for a Pleistocene collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from continental margin sediments recovered in the Amundsen Sea. – Geo-Marine Letters, 22: 51-59.
Michels, K.H., Kuhn, G., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Diekmann, B., Fütterer, D.K., Grobe, H. & Uenzelmann-Neben, G. (2002): The southern Weddell Sea: Combined contourite – turbidite sedimentation at the southeastern margin of the Weddell Gyre. – In Stow, D.A.V., Pudsey, C.J., Howe, J.A., Faugeres, J.-C. & Viana, A.R. (Eds.), Deep-Water Contourites: Modern drifts and ancient series, seismic and sedimentary characteristics, Geological Society of London Memoirs, 22: 305-323.
Pirrung, M., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Diekmann, B., Fütterer, D., Grobe, H. & Kuhn, G. (2002): Magnetic Susceptibility and ice-rafted debris in surface sediments of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. – Geo-Marine Letters, 22: 170-180.
2001
Gingele, F.X., De Deckker P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2001): Late Quaternary fluctuations of the Leeuwin Current and palaeoclimates on the adjacent landmasses: clay mineral evidence. – Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 48: 867-874.
Gingele, F.X., De Deckker, P. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2001): Clay mineral distribution in surface sediments between Indonesia and NW Australia – source and transport by ocean currents. – Marine Geology, 179: 135-146.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Ehrmann, W. (2001): Distribution of clay minerals in drift sediments on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula, ODP Leg 178, Sites 1095 and 1096. – In Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D. & Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178: 1-29 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/178_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/ SR178_08.PDF.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. & Fütterer, D.K. (2001): Neogene to Quaternary deposition of opal on the continental rise west of the Antarctic Peninsula, ODP Leg 178, Sites 1095, 1096, and 1101. – In Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D. & Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178: 1-33 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/178_SR/VOLUME/ CHAPTERS/SR178_23.PDF.
Other publications:
Gohl, K., Wellner, J.S., Klaus, A. & the Expedition 379 Scientists (incl. HILLENBRAND, C.-D.) (2019): Expedition 379 Preliminary Report: Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History. – International Ocean Discovery Program, https://doi.org/10.14379/iodp.pr.379.2019.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2013): East Antarctica’s Achilles heel. – Nature Geoscience (News & Views), 6: 680-681.
Grobe, H., Diekmann, B. & HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2009): The memory of the polar oceans. – In Hempel, G. & Hempel, I. (Eds.), Biological Studies in Polar Oceans, Exploration of Life in Icy Waters, 37-45; Wirtschaftsverlag (Bremerhaven).
Wolf-Welling, T.C.W., Mörz, T., HILLENBRAND, C.-D., Pudsey, C.J. & Cowan, E. (2001): Data Report: Bulk sediment parameters (CaCO3, TOC, >63µm) of Sites 1095, 1096, 1101 and coarse fraction analysis of Site 1095 (ODP Leg 178, Western Antarctic Peninsula). – In Barker, P.F., Camerlenghi, A., Acton, G.D. & Ramsay, A.T.S. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Scientific Results, 178: 1-19 [Online]. Available from World Wide Web: http://www-odp.tamu.edu/publications/178_SR/VOLUME/CHAPTERS/SR178_15.PDF.
HILLENBRAND, C.-D. (2000): Glazialmarine Sedimentationsentwicklung am westantarktischen Kontinentalrand im Amundsen- und Bellingshausenmeer – Hinweise auf Paläoumweltveränderungen während der quartären Klimazyklen. – Reports on Polar Research, 346; Alfred Wegener Institute (Bremerhaven); 182 pp.
Sinclair, D., Gossmann, T., Barnes, D., & Hillenbrand, C. (2025). Carbon Properties of Sediment Cores from the Southern Ocean and Wider Polar Front (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/148d0f6e-b4ec-45cc-af76-e0dad9e9faa5
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1533D, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b86984d2-8d73-4731-bad7-701a8cb43534
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1533B, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/3b855b7b-fb14-439a-a6d9-ac233133cf23
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1533A, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/287c6403-9f9f-45f9-a34e-49e69f870b99
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1532G, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/f3c8c5e2-f8c2-4938-a7e0-6fdc9bedb412
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1532C, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/41524ab6-e19d-43d9-8ba1-8ff2fab1a955
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1532B, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0502846d-3ac3-46e9-aa2c-27adbe9367fd
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of sediments from International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 379 Hole U1532A, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (2019) (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/43a4fb6f-62b2-4ed8-96b9-6b8827dbe15a
Hillenbrand, C., & Ehrmann, W. (2023). Clay mineral composition of seafloor surface sediments from the Amundsen Sea continental shelf, West Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/e8198dd3-ea60-4a4c-9975-d9c1695820fe
Larter, R., Hogan, K., Hillenbrand, C., & Gowland, E. (2021). Topographic Parametric Sonar (TOPAS) acoustic sub-bottom profiler data acquired on RRS James Clark Ross JR298 cruise in 2015 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/bdfeb69c-df5c-461d-b7a8-583f9daab685
Hogan, K., Larter, R., Graham, A., Nitsche, F., Kirkham, J., Totten Minzoni, R., Clark, R., Fitzgerald, V., Anderson, J., Hillenbrand, C., Simkins, L., Smith, J., Gohl, K., Arndt, J., Hong, J., Heywood, K., Abrahamsen, E., Thompson, A., Dunbar, R., & Wellner, J. (2020). A multibeam-bathymetric compilation for the southern Amundsen Sea shelf, 1999-2019 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/f2dfeda9-bf44-4ef5-89a3-ee5e434a385c
Larter, R., Hogan, K., Hillenbrand, C., Smith, J., Batchelor, C., Cartigny, M., Tate, A., Kirkham, J., Roseby, Z., Kuhn, G., Graham, A., & Dowdeswell, J. (2019). A bathymetric compilation over Anvers-Hugo Trough, Perrier Trough and Palmer Deep, 1990-2017 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. UK Polar Data Centre, Natural Environment Research Council, UK Research & Innovation. https://doi.org/10.5285/70905d9c-6dc0-421b-b20b-1e2dff97e802
Fretwell, P., Hodgson, D., Hogan, K., Smith, J., Hillenbrand, C., Allen, C., Peck, V., Arndt, J., Dorschel, B., Hubscher, C., Smith, A., Larter, R., & Graham, A. (2019). A bathymetric compilation of the Brunt Sub-Iceshelf, Antarctica (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/01134
Elderfield, H., Rickaby, R., & Hillenbrand, C. (2012). Analysis of piston sediment core from the Weddell Sea (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00560
Benetti, S., Dowdeswell, J., Graham, A., Hillenbrand, C., Larter, R., Morris, P., Pudsey, C., Noormets, R., & O Cofaigh, C. (2007). Sediment cores collected on RRS James Clark Ross cruise (JR104), Bellingshausen Sea, 2004 (Version 1.0) [Data set]. NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre. https://data.bas.ac.uk/full-record.php?id=GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00272
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