Paleoclimate; Southern Hemisphere; lacustrine sedi; lacustrine sediments; deep drilling; multiproxy; diatoms; subsurface biosphere
Vuillemin Aurèle, Ariztegui Daniel, Leavitt Peter R., Bunting Lynda (2016), Recording of climate and diagenesis through sedimentary DNA and fossil pigments at Laguna Potrok Aike, Argentina, in
Biogeosciences, 13(8), 2475-2492.
Wilke Thomas, Wagner Bernd, Van Bocxlaer Bert, Albrecht Christian, Ariztegui Daniel, Delicado Diana, Francke Alexander, Harzhauser Mathias, Hauffe Torsten, Holtvoeth Jens, Just Janna, Leng Melanie J., Levkov Zlatko, Penkman Kirsty, Sadori Laura, Skinner Alister, Stelbrink Björn, Vogel Hendrik, Wesselingh Frank, Wonik Thomas (2016), Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: Integrating geological and biological histories, in
Global and Planetary Change, 143, 118-151.
Recasens Cristina, Ariztegui Daniel, Maidana Nora I., Zolitschka Bernd (2015), Diatoms as indicators of hydrological and climatic changes in Laguna Potrok Aike (Patagonia) since the Late Pleistocene, in
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 417, 309-319.
Ariztegui Daniel, Thomas Camille, Vuillemin Aurèle (2015), Present and future of subsurface biosphere studies in lacustrine sediments through scientific drilling, in
International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(6), 1655-1665.
Vuillemin A., Ariztegui D., Nobbe G., Schubert C. J., the Pasado Science Team (2014), Influence of Methanogenic Populations in Holocene Lacustrine Sediments Revealed by Clone Libraries and Fatty Acid Biogeochemistry, in
Geomicrobiology Journal, 31(4), 285-298.
Vuillemin Aurèle, Ariztegui Daniel, Lücke Andreas, Mayr Christoph (2014), Paleoenvironmental conditions define current sustainability of microbial populations in Laguna Potrok Aike sediments, Argentina, in
Aquatic Sciences, 76(1), 101-114.
Zolitschka B., Anselmetti F., Ariztegui D., Corbella H., Francus P., Lücke A., Maidana N.I., Ohlendorf C., Schäbitz F., Wastegård S. (2013), Environment and climate of the last 51,000 years – new insights from the Potrok Aike maar lake Sediment Archive Drilling prOject (PASADO), in
Quaternary Science Reviews, 71, 1-12.
Vuillemin Aurèle, Ariztegui Daniel (2013), Geomicrobiological investigations in subsaline maar lake sediments over the last 1500 years, in
Quaternary Science Reviews, 71, 119-130.
Vuillemin A., Ariztegui D., De Coninck A. S., Lücke A., Mayr C., Schubert C. J. (2013), Origin and significance of diagenetic concretions in sediments of Laguna Potrok Aike, southern Argentina, in
Journal of Paleolimnology, 50(3), 275-291.
Zanor GA, Piovano EL, Ariztegui D, Vallet-Coulomb C (2012), A modern subtropical playa complex: Salina de Ambargasta, central Argentina, in
JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES, 35, 10-26.
Ndiaye Mapathe, Davaud Eric, Ariztegui Daniel, Fall M (2012), A Semi Automated Method for Laminated Sediments Analysis, in
International Journal of Geosciences , 3, 206-210.
Hodell DA, Turchyn AV, Wiseman CJ, Escobar J, Curtis JH, Brenner M, Gilli A, Mueller AD, Anselmetti F, Ariztegui D, Brown ET (2012), Late Glacial temperature and precipitation changes in the lowland Neotropics by tandem measurement of delta O-18 in biogenic carbonate and gypsum hydration water, in
GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA, 77, 352-368.
Moy CM, Dunbar RB, Guilderson TP, Waldmann N, Mucciarone DA, Recasens C, Ariztegui D, Austin JA, Anselmetti FS (2011), A geochemical and sedimentary record of high southern latitude Holocene climate evolution from Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego, in
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS, 302(1-2), 1-13.
Gebhardt AC, De Batist M, Niessen F, Anselmetti FS, Ariztegui D, Haberzettl T, Kopsch C, Ohlendorf C, Zolitschka B (2011), Deciphering lake and maar geometries from seismic refraction and reflection surveys in Laguna Potrok Aike (southern Patagonia, Argentina), in
JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH, 201(1-4), 357-363.
Waldmann N, Anselmetti FS, Ariztegui D, Austin JA, Pirouz M, Moy CM, Dunbar R (2011), Holocene mass-wasting events in Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (54 degrees S): implications for paleoseismicity of the Magallanes-Fagnano transform fault, in
BASIN RESEARCH, 23(2), 171-190.
Cusminsky G, Schwalb A, Perez AP, Pineda D, Viehberg F, Whatley R, Markgraf V, Gilli A, Ariztegui D, Anselmetti FS (2011), Late quaternary environmental changes in Patagonia as inferred from lacustrine fossil and extant ostracods, in
BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY, 103(2), 397-408.
Recasens Cristina, Ariztegui Daniel, Gebhardt Catalina, Gogorza Claudia, Haberzettl Torsten, Hahn Anne, Kliem Pierre, Lisé- Pronovost Anne, Lücke Andreas, Maidana Nora Irene, Mayr Christoph, Ohlendorf Christian, Schäbitz Frank, St-Onge Guillaume, Wille Michael, Zolitschka Bernd, PASADO Science Team, New insights into paleoenvironmental changes in Laguna Potrok Aike, Southern Patagonia, since the Late Pleistocene: the PASADO multiproxy record, in
The Holocene.
Elbert J, Grosjean M, von Gunten L, Urrutia R, Fischer D, Wartenburger R, Ariztegui D, Fujak M, Hamann Y, Quantitative high-resolution winter (JJA) precipitation reconstruction from varved sediments of Lago Plomo 47 degrees S, Patagonian Andes, AD 1530-2002, in
HOLOCENE, 22(4), 465-474.
Gebhardt AC, Ohlendorf C, Niessen F, De Batist M, Anselmetti FS, Ariztegui D, Kliem P, Wastegard S, Zolitschka B, Seismic evidence of up to 200 m lake-level change in Southern Patagonia since Marine Isotope Stage 4, in
SEDIMENTOLOGY, 59(3), 1087-1100.
Bianchi Maria Martha, Ariztegui daniel, Vegetation history of the Río Manso Superior catchment area, Northern Patagonia (Argentina), since the last deglaciation, in
The Holocene.
An international team of scientists cooperates within the framework of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) in the Potrok Aike Maar Lake Sediment Archive Drilling Project (PASADO). The present proposal seeks funds to accomplish two ongoing doctoral thesis on the long sedimentary cores retrieved in October/November 2008 from Laguna Potrok Aike, a 770 ka old maar lake in the dry steppe of the province of Santa Cruz, Argentina. Preliminary dating indicate that the recovered sediments contain a paleoenvironmental record spanning at least the last sixty thousand years allowing to develop a comprehensive environmental, climatic and volcanological dataset and thus providing unprecedented information on climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Within the framework of an international and interdisciplinary scientific approach the recovered sediments are used to test hypotheses related to high-resolution quantitative climate and environmental reconstructions from orbital and suborbital (multimillennial) down to decadal timescales. These reconstructions are supported by multiple dating and stratigraphic correlations with emphasis on marine - ice core - terrestrial linkages and incorporation of results from GCM climate simulations. The Swiss contribution to this international project is centered in two major fields,-paleoenvironmental reconstruction using diatom remains;-investigations in living microbial communities within the sediments to characterize the subsurface biosphere in such a unique maar environment emphasizing integrated studies of microbiology, geochemistry (pore waters), and mineral authigenesis/diagenesis. This proposal follows on previous NSF-funded studies in Patagonia and is part of the long-term Swiss scientific efforts to reconstruct Quaternary climates in the Southern Hemisphere using continental records. Thus, it also contains a modeling section to be carried out by a postdoctoral researcher that will integrate results of this project with comparable data from our previous investigations in Patagonia and the Pampas.