Staff Directory

Carsten Meyer-Jacob

Professeur sous octroi

Campus de Rouyn-Noranda

Room :: F-203
Phone :: 819 762-0971 ext 2057 (opens in a new tab)
Toll-free :: +1 877 870-8728 ext 2057 (opens in a new tab)

Email :: carsten.meyer-jacob@uqat.ca (opens in a new tab)

Education

Postdoctorat, Queen's University, Canada
Doctorat, Umeå University, Suède
Diplôme (équivalent M. Sc.), University of Cologne, Allemagne

Areas of expertise

Paléolimnologie et archives environnementales
Cycle du carbone et biogéochimie des écosystèmes aquatiques
Impacts des changements climatiques et activités humaines
Réponses des écosystèmes aquatiques aux perturbations
Transport et devenir des nutriments et contaminants dans les écosystèmes aquatiques

Publications

Source: ORCID (opens in a new tab)

2026

Long-term changes in Wolf Lake (Sudbury region, Ontario) situated in Mi'iangan Zaagagan Preserve: A proposed Indigenous conservation area

Journal article
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2025-0187 (opens in a new tab)

2025

Long-term ecological stability in high mountain lakes of Costa Rica

Journal article
Inland Waters

DOI: 10.1080/20442041.2025.2497249 (opens in a new tab)
Using paleolimnology to assess long-term acidification and recovery trajectories in lakes from Killarney Provincial Park and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada)

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-025-00356-0 (opens in a new tab)
How ‘long term’ is long term enough? Bridging neo- and paleo-ecological timescales

Journal article
ARPHA Conference Abstracts

DOI: 10.3897/aca.8.e147461 (opens in a new tab)

2024

Trends in sedimentary Cladocera and metal(loid)s from Williams Lake (Washington, USA) track ∼125 years of trans-boundary contamination from smelter emissions in the upper Columbia River valley

Journal article
Science of The Total Environment

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175816 (opens in a new tab)
Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic matter in Holocene sediment records

Journal article
The Holocene

DOI: 10.1177/09596836231211872 (opens in a new tab)

2023

Impacts of acid deposition and lake browning on long-term organic carbon storage in Canadian northern forest lakes

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-023-00307-7 (opens in a new tab)
Legacy effects of acidification and climate warming affect recent recovery of diatom assemblages in Sudbury-region lakes (Ontario, Canada)

Journal article
Hydrobiologia

DOI: 10.1007/s10750-023-05222-6 (opens in a new tab)
Using a multi-proxy paleolimnological approach to track the effects of multiple stressors on a naturally acidic lake from Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario, Canada)

Journal article
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2022-0225 (opens in a new tab)
Neoglacial lake-ecosystem changes above and below the subarctic Fennoscandian treeline inferred from changes in diatom functional groups

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-022-00272-7 (opens in a new tab)
The impacts of whole-lake acidification and eutrophication on the accumulation of lead in sediments from manipulated lakes in the Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA)

Journal article
Environmental Pollution

DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120829 (opens in a new tab)

2022

Climate oscillations drive millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size

Journal article
Global Change Biology

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16171 (opens in a new tab)
Developing diatom-based inference models to assess lake ecosystem change along a gradient of metal smelting impacts: Sudbury lakes revisited

Journal article
Journal of Phycology

DOI: 10.1111/jpy.13257 (opens in a new tab)
Metal contamination in alkaline Phantom Lake (Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada) generates strong responses in multiple paleolimnological proxies

Journal article
Science of the Total Environment

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152299 (opens in a new tab)

2021

Diatoms and other siliceous indicators track the ontogeny of a “bofedal” (Wetland) ecosystem in the peruvian andes

Journal article
Botany

DOI: 10.1139/cjb-2020-0196 (opens in a new tab)
Land-use and climate controls on aquatic carbon cycling and phototrophs in karst lakes of southwest China

Journal article
Science of the Total Environment

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141738 (opens in a new tab)
Long-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes

Journal article
Limnology and Oceanography

DOI: 10.1002/lno.11761 (opens in a new tab)
Long-term primary production trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes: a comparison of geochemical methods

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-020-00170-w (opens in a new tab)
Traces of sunlight in the organic matter biogeochemistry of two shallow subarctic lakes

Journal article
Biogeochemistry

DOI: 10.1007/s10533-021-00820-9 (opens in a new tab)
Tracking deepwater oxygen recovery using sedimentary chironomid assemblages: Peninsula Lake revisited

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-021-00211-y (opens in a new tab)

2020

A Holocene record of aquatic bio-optics in subarctic fennoscandia

Journal article
Quaternary Science Reviews

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106491 (opens in a new tab)
A multibasin comparison of historical water quality trends in Lake Manitou, Ontario, a provincially significant lake trout lake

Journal article
Lake and Reservoir Management

DOI: 10.1080/10402381.2019.1659889 (opens in a new tab)
Long-Term Changes in Chironomid Assemblages Linked to Lake Liming and Fertilization in Previously Acidified Middle Lake (Sudbury, Canada)

Journal article
Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

DOI: 10.1007/s11270-020-04780-y (opens in a new tab)
Re-browning of Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) lakes now approaches pre-acid deposition lake-water dissolved organic carbon levels

Journal article
Science of the Total Environment

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138347 (opens in a new tab)

2019

Environmental footprint of small-scale, historical mining and metallurgy in the Swedish boreal forest landscape: The Moshyttan blast furnace as microcosm

Journal article
Holocene

DOI: 10.1177/0959683618824741 (opens in a new tab)
The browning and re-browning of lakes: Divergent lake-water organic carbon trends linked to acid deposition and climate change

Journal article
Scientific Reports

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52912-0 (opens in a new tab)

2018

200,000 years of monsoonal history recorded on the lower Bengal Fan - strong response to insolation forcing

Journal article
Global and Planetary Change

DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.04.003 (opens in a new tab)

2017

Inferring Past Trends in Lake Water Organic Carbon Concentrations in Northern Lakes Using Sediment Spectroscopy

Journal article
Environmental Science and Technology

DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b03147 (opens in a new tab)
Investigating molecular changes in organic matter composition in two Holocene lake-sediment records from central Sweden using pyrolysis-GC/MS

Journal article
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

DOI: 10.1002/2016JG003715 (opens in a new tab)
Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia

Journal article
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.001 (opens in a new tab)
Spatial variability of organic matter molecular composition and elemental geochemistry in surface sediments of a small boreal Swedish lake

Journal article
Biogeosciences

DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-1773-2017 (opens in a new tab)

2016

Determining the responses of vegetation to natural processes and human impacts in north-eastern Poland during the last millennium: combined pollen, geochemical and historical data

Journal article
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

DOI: 10.1007/s00334-016-0565-z (opens in a new tab)
Holocene paleo-climatic record from the South African Namaqualand mudbelt: A source to sink approach

Journal article
Quaternary International

DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.017 (opens in a new tab)
Impact processes, permafrost dynamics, and climate and environmental variability in the terrestrial Arctic as inferred from the unique 3.6 Myr record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russia – A review

Journal article
Quaternary Science Reviews

DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.019 (opens in a new tab)
Quantification of biogenic silica by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) in marine sediments

Journal article
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods

DOI: 10.1002/lom3.10129 (opens in a new tab)
Sedimentological and geochemical responses of Lake Żabińskie (north-eastern Poland) to erosion changes during the last millennium

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-016-9910-6 (opens in a new tab)

2015

Early land use and centennial scale changes in lake-water organic carbon prior to contemporary monitoring

Journal article
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1501505112 (opens in a new tab)

2014

Biogeochemical variability during the past 3.6 million years recorded by FTIR spectroscopy in the sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

Journal article
Climate of the Past

DOI: 10.5194/cp-10-209-2014 (opens in a new tab)
Independent measurement of biogenic silica in sediments by FTIR spectroscopy and PLS regression

Journal article
Journal of Paleolimnology

DOI: 10.1007/s10933-014-9791-5 (opens in a new tab)

2013

Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11c at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

Journal article
Climate of the Past

DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-1467-2013 (opens in a new tab)
Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments

Preprint

DOI: 10.5194/cpd-9-3061-2013 (opens in a new tab)
Supplementary material to "Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments"

Preprint

DOI: 10.5194/cpd-9-3061-2013-supplement (opens in a new tab)
Biogeochemical properties and diagenetic changes during the past 3.6 Ma recorded by FTIR spectroscopy in the sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

Preprint

DOI: 10.5194/cpd-9-2489-2013 (opens in a new tab)
Chronology of Lake El’gygytgyn sediments – A combined magnetostratigraphic, palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses

Journal article
Climate of the Past

DOI: 10.5194/cp-9-2413-2013 (opens in a new tab)
Pliocene warmth, polar amplification, and stepped pleistocene cooling recorded in NE Arctic Russia

Journal article
Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.1233137 (opens in a new tab)

2012

Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11 at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

Preprint

DOI: 10.5194/cpd-8-6309-2012 (opens in a new tab)
A 250 ka oxygen isotope record from diatoms at Lake El'gygytgyn, far east Russian Arctic

Journal article
Climate of the Past

DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-1621-2012 (opens in a new tab)

Carsten Meyer-Jacob

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Professeur sous octroi

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Education

Areas of expertise

Publications

Long-term changes in Wolf Lake (Sudbury region, Ontario) situated in Mi'iangan Zaagagan Preserve: A proposed Indigenous conservation area

Long-term ecological stability in high mountain lakes of Costa Rica

Using paleolimnology to assess long-term acidification and recovery trajectories in lakes from Killarney Provincial Park and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada)

How ‘long term’ is long term enough? Bridging neo- and paleo-ecological timescales

Trends in sedimentary Cladocera and metal(loid)s from Williams Lake (Washington, USA) track ∼125 years of trans-boundary contamination from smelter emissions in the upper Columbia River valley

Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic matter in Holocene sediment records

Impacts of acid deposition and lake browning on long-term organic carbon storage in Canadian northern forest lakes

Legacy effects of acidification and climate warming affect recent recovery of diatom assemblages in Sudbury-region lakes (Ontario, Canada)

Using a multi-proxy paleolimnological approach to track the effects of multiple stressors on a naturally acidic lake from Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario, Canada)

Neoglacial lake-ecosystem changes above and below the subarctic Fennoscandian treeline inferred from changes in diatom functional groups

The impacts of whole-lake acidification and eutrophication on the accumulation of lead in sediments from manipulated lakes in the Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA)

Climate oscillations drive millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size

Developing diatom-based inference models to assess lake ecosystem change along a gradient of metal smelting impacts: Sudbury lakes revisited

Metal contamination in alkaline Phantom Lake (Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada) generates strong responses in multiple paleolimnological proxies

Diatoms and other siliceous indicators track the ontogeny of a “bofedal” (Wetland) ecosystem in the peruvian andes

Land-use and climate controls on aquatic carbon cycling and phototrophs in karst lakes of southwest China

Long-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes

Long-term primary production trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes: a comparison of geochemical methods

Traces of sunlight in the organic matter biogeochemistry of two shallow subarctic lakes

Tracking deepwater oxygen recovery using sedimentary chironomid assemblages: Peninsula Lake revisited

A Holocene record of aquatic bio-optics in subarctic fennoscandia

A multibasin comparison of historical water quality trends in Lake Manitou, Ontario, a provincially significant lake trout lake

Long-Term Changes in Chironomid Assemblages Linked to Lake Liming and Fertilization in Previously Acidified Middle Lake (Sudbury, Canada)

Re-browning of Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) lakes now approaches pre-acid deposition lake-water dissolved organic carbon levels

Environmental footprint of small-scale, historical mining and metallurgy in the Swedish boreal forest landscape: The Moshyttan blast furnace as microcosm

The browning and re-browning of lakes: Divergent lake-water organic carbon trends linked to acid deposition and climate change

200,000 years of monsoonal history recorded on the lower Bengal Fan - strong response to insolation forcing

Inferring Past Trends in Lake Water Organic Carbon Concentrations in Northern Lakes Using Sediment Spectroscopy

Investigating molecular changes in organic matter composition in two Holocene lake-sediment records from central Sweden using pyrolysis-GC/MS

Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia

Spatial variability of organic matter molecular composition and elemental geochemistry in surface sediments of a small boreal Swedish lake

Determining the responses of vegetation to natural processes and human impacts in north-eastern Poland during the last millennium: combined pollen, geochemical and historical data

Holocene paleo-climatic record from the South African Namaqualand mudbelt: A source to sink approach

Impact processes, permafrost dynamics, and climate and environmental variability in the terrestrial Arctic as inferred from the unique 3.6 Myr record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russia – A review

Quantification of biogenic silica by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) in marine sediments

Sedimentological and geochemical responses of Lake Żabińskie (north-eastern Poland) to erosion changes during the last millennium

Early land use and centennial scale changes in lake-water organic carbon prior to contemporary monitoring

Biogeochemical variability during the past 3.6 million years recorded by FTIR spectroscopy in the sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

Independent measurement of biogenic silica in sediments by FTIR spectroscopy and PLS regression

Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11c at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments

Supplementary material to "Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments"

Biogeochemical properties and diagenetic changes during the past 3.6 Ma recorded by FTIR spectroscopy in the sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic

Chronology of Lake El’gygytgyn sediments – A combined magnetostratigraphic, palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses

Pliocene warmth, polar amplification, and stepped pleistocene cooling recorded in NE Arctic Russia

Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11 at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia

A 250 ka oxygen isotope record from diatoms at Lake El'gygytgyn, far east Russian Arctic

200,000 years of monsoonal history recorded on the lower Bengal Fan - strong response to insolation forcing