Dr Ola Kwiecien

Assistant Professor

Department: Geography and Environmental Sciences

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Key Publications

A six-million-year speleothem derived clumped isotope temperature record of continental Eurasia, Umbo, S., Modestou, S., Opel, T., Lechleitner, F., Vaks, A., Golan, T., Mason, A., Margerum, J., Kwiecien, O., Osintsev, A., Breitenbach, S. 15 Mar 2025, EGU General Assembly 2025
Classic Maya response to multiyear seasonal droughts in Northwest Yucatán, Mexico, James, D., Carolin, S., Breitenbach, S., Hoggarth, J., Lases-Hernández, F., Endsley, E., Curtis, J., Gallup, C., Milbrath, S., Nicolson, J., Rolfe, J., Kwiecien, O., Ottley, C., Iveson, A., Baldini, J., Brenner, M., Henderson, G., Hodell, D. 15 Aug 2025, In: Science advances
Khuit Agui (Khuit Cave): A paleoenvironmental and archaeological treasure trove in northern Mongolia, Box, M., Serdyanjiv, N., Dashtseren, A., Sandag, K., Kononov, A., Gutareva, O., Osintsev, A., Sokol'nikov, D., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 30 Jun 2025, In: Quaternary Newsletter
New high-precision U–Th dates for speleothems from the Assynt caves and their significance for past environmental change, Breitenbach, S., Lawson, T., Atkinson, T., Fox, B., Kwiecien, O., Henderson, G. 1 Jan 2025, In: Cave and Karst Science
Reconstruction of Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation dynamics and wildfire activity in southern Siberia, Margerum, J., Homann, J., Umbo, S., Nehrke, G., Hoffmann, T., Vaks, A., Kononov, A., Osintsev, A., Giesche, A., Mason, A., Lechleitner, F., Henderson, G., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 20 Mar 2025, In: Climate of the Past
Seasonally-resolved stratigraphy at Jwalapuram India shows regional surface warming after the Toba volcanic super-eruption, Jha, G., Costa, M., Tsoupra, A., Dias, C., Kwiecien, O., Longman, J., Breitenbach, S., Ditchfield, P., Jha, D., Rudd, R., Anilkumar, D., Paladugu, R., Shree, S., Achyuthan, H., Raj, R., Krishnan, K., Boivin, N., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M. 7 Apr 2025, In: PNAS Nexus
Seasonal temperature and ventilation changes govern proxy-signal transfer into caves in northern Mongolia, Box, M., Kononov, A., Serdyanjiv, N., Dashtseren, A., Sandag, K., Gutareva, O., Osintsev, A., Sokol’Nikov, D., Margerum, J., Kwiecien, O., Breitenbach, S. 1 Jan 2025, In: Cave and Karst Science
A 60–50 ka African Humid Period modulated by stadial Heinrich events HE6 and HE5a in northwestern Africa, Nutz, A., Kwiecien, O., Buylaert, J., Guihou, A., Khabouchi, I., Deschamps, P., Breitenbach, S., Poirier, P., Dietrich, P., Kabiri, L., Essafraoui, B., Bodin, S. 1 Feb 2024, In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Author Correction: Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum, Wolf, A., Baker, J., Tjallingii, R., Cai, Y., Osinzev, A., Antonosyan, M., Amano, N., Johnson, K., Skiba, V., McCormack, J., Kwiecien, O., Chervyatsova, O., Dublyansky, Y., Dbar, R., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. 26 Mar 2024, In: Communications Earth and Environment
Hydrochemical mixing‐zones trigger dolomite formation in an alkaline lake, McCormack, J., Baldermann, A., Bontognali, T., Wolf, A., Kwiecien, O. 1 Apr 2024, In: Sedimentology

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