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Dr. Stephan Steinke

Time：2021-06-16　　

Brief CV

  • Professor, Xiamen University, China (2016-)

  • Research Associate, Bremen University, Germany (2010-2016)

  • Guest Researcher, Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2009)

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Bremen University, Germany (2003-2009)

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan (2002-2003)

  • PhD, Kiel University, Germany (2001)

  • Diploma, Kiel University, Germany (1996)

Research Interests

  • Palaeoceanography/-climatology (tropical climate change; Austral-Asian palaeomonsoon; external and internal influences on the Earth’s climate system);

  • Reconstructing variations in water mass conditions in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific;

  • Sedimentary processes in siliciclastic environments with special emphasis on the understanding of climate and oceanic related processes controlling sediment supply across ocean margins;

  • Ecology, trace element and isotopic composition of planktonic foraminifera.

Selected Publications


  • Zou, S., Groeneveld, J., Giosan, L., Steinke, S. (2022). Determining the habitat depth of the planktic foraminifera Dentoglobigerina altispira in the eastern Arabian Sea during the middle Miocene, Marine Micropaleontology, 2022(170), 102075.


  • Cheng, Z.,Weng, C.,Steinke, S., Mohtadi, M.(2021). Marine pollen records provide perspective on coastal wetlands through Quaternary sea-level changes[J]. Ecological Indicators,2021,133.


  • Li, D., Yu, M., Jia, Y.,Steinke, S., Li, L., Xiang, R., Zhao, M.(2021). Gradually Cooling of the Yellow Sea Warm Current Driven by Tropical Pacific Subsurface Water Temperature Changes Over the Past 5 kyr[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2021, 48(10)


  • Mohtadi, M., Lückge, A., Steinke, S., Permana, H., Susilohadi, S., Zuraida, R., Jennerjahn, T.C. (2021). Late Quaternary environmental history of Indonesia. In: Jennerjahn, TC, Rixen, T, Irianto, HE, Samiaji, J (Eds.), Science for the Protection of Indonesian Coastal Ecosystems (SPICE). Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-815050-4.00012-2.


  • Chen, Y., Huang, E., Schefuß, E., Mohtadi, M., Steinke, S., Liu, J.J., MartínezMéndez, G., Tian, J. (2020). Wetland expansion on the continental shelf of the northern South China Sea during deglacial sea level rise. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231. 106202.


  • Jia, Q., Li, T., Xiong, Z., Steinke, S., Algeo,T.J., Jiang, F., Chang, F., Qin, B. (2020).Thermocline dynamics in the northwestern tropical Pacific over the past 700 kyr[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2020(244),106465.


  • Yang, X., Groeneveld, J., Jian, Z., Steinke, S., Giosan, L.(2020). Middle Miocene Intensification of South Asian Monsoonal Rainfall[J]. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology,2020,35(12), DOI: 10.1029/2020pa003853.


  • Khim, B., Lee, J., Ha, S., Park, J., Pandey, D., Clift, P.,Kulhanek, D.,Steinke, S., Griffith, E., Suzuki, K., Xu, Z. (2019). Variations in δ13C values of sedimentary organic matter since late Miocene time in the Indus Fan (IODP Site 1457) of the eastern Arabian Sea. Geological Magazine, 1-10. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000870


  • L.A. Contreras-Rosales,T. Jennerjahn,S. Steinke,M. Mohtadi,E. Schefuß(2019). Holocene changes in biome size and tropical cyclone activity around the Northern South China Sea[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019(215), 45-63.


  • Routledge, C., Kulhanek, D., Tauxe, L., Scardia, G., Singh, A., Steinke, S., Griffith, E., Saraswat, R. (2019). A revised chronostratigraphic framework for International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 355 sites in Laxmi Basin, eastern Arabian Sea. Geological Magazine, 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0016756819000104


  • Satpathy, R., Steinke, S., Singh, A. (2019). Monsoon-induced changes in surface hydrography of the eastern Arabian Sea during the early Pleistocene. Geological Magazine, 1-11. doi:10.1017/S0016756819000098


  • Cheng, Z., Weng, C., Steinke, S., Mohtadi, M. (2018). Anthropogenic modification of vegetated landscapes in southern China from 6,000 years ago. Nature Geoscience 11, 939-943.


  • Hollstein, M., Mohtadi, M., Rosenthal, Y., Prange, M., Oppo, D.W., Martínez Mendez, G., Tachikawa, K., Moffa Sanchez, P., Steinke, S., Hebbeln, D. (2018). Variations in Western Pacific Warm Pool surface and thermocline conditions over the past 110,000 years: Forcing mechanisms and implications for the glacial Walker circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews 201, 429-445.


  • Huang E., Chen Y., Schefuss E., Steinke S., Liu J., Tian J., Martínez-Méndez G., Mohtadi M. (2018). Precession and glacial-cycle controls of monsoon precipitation isotope changes over East Asia during the Pleistocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 494, 1-11.


  • Jia, Q., Li, T., Xiong, Z., Steinke, S., Jiang, F., Chang, F., Qin, B. (2018). Hydrological variability in the western tropical Pacific over the past 700 kyr and its linkage to Northern Hemisphere climatic change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 493, 44-54, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.12.039.


  • Hollstein, M., Mohtadi, M., Rosenthal, Y., Moffa Sanchez, P., Oppo, D., Martínez Méndez, G., Steinke, S., Hebbeln, H. (2017). Stable oxygen isotopes and Mg/Ca in planktic foraminifera from modern surface sediments of the Western Pacific Warm Pool: Implications for thermocline reconstructions. Paleoceanography 32, doi: 10.1002/2017PA003122.


  • Raza, T., Ahmad, S. M., Steinke, S., Raza, W., Lone, M.-A., Santosh Kumar Beja, S. K., Suseela, G. (2017). Glacial to Holocene changes in sea surface temperature and seawater δ18O in the northern Indian Ocean. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485, 697–705. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.07.026.


  • Munz, P. M., Steinke, S., Böll, A., Lückge, A., Groeneveld, J., Kucera, M, Schulz, H., 2017. Decadal resolution record of Oman upwelling indicates solar forcing of the Indian summer monsoon (9–6 ka). Climate of the Past 13, 491–509, doi:10.5194/cp-13-491-2017.


  • Jianguo Liu, J., Steinke, S., Vogt, C., Mohtadi, M., De Pol-Holz., R., Hebbeln, D., 2017. Temporal and spatial patterns of sediment deposition in the northern South China Sea over the last 50,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 465, 212–224, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.10.033.


  • Johnstone, H.J.H., Steinke, S., Kuhnert, H., Bickert, T., Pälike, H., Mohtadi, M., 2016. Automated cleaning of foraminifera shells before Mg/Ca analysis using a pipette robot. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 17, doi:10.1002/2016GC006422.


  • Mohtadi, M., Prange, M., Steinke, S. (2016). Palaeoclimatic insights into forcing and response of monsoon rainfall. Nature 533, 191-199, doi:10.1038/nature17450.