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Prof. Dr. Martin Melles
Institute: Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie (Uni Köln)

Adress: Universität zu Köln

Zülpicher Straße 49a

50674 Köln
Related Publications

Andrei Andreev, Elisabeth Dietze, Olga Glushkova, Vladimir Smirnov, Volker Wennrich, Martin Melles (2021). "The Environment at Lake El’gygytgyn Area (Northeastern Russian Arctic) Prior to and After the Meteorite Impact at 3.58 Ma" Frontiers in Earth Science: Sec. Quaternary Science, Geomorphology and Paleoenvironment


Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos, Holtvoeth, Jens, Kouli, Katerina, Marinova, Elena, Francke, Alexander, Cvetkoska, Aleksandra, Jovanovska, Elena, Lacey, Jack H., Lyons, Emma T., Buckel, Connie, Bertini, Adele, Donders, Timme, Just, Janna, Leicher, Niklas, Leng, Melanie J., Melles, Martin, Pancost, Richard D., Sadori, Laura, Tauber, Paul, Vogel, Hendrik, Wagner, Bernd, Wilke, Thomas (2020). "Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene" Quaternary Science Reviews 227 p106044


Wagner, Bernd, Vogel, Hendrik, Francke, Alexander, Friedrich, Tobias, Donders, Timme, Lacey, Jack H., Leng, Melanie J., Regattieri, Eleonora, Sadori, Laura, Wilke, Thomas, Zanchetta, Giovanni, Albrecht, Christian, Bertini, Adele, Combourieu-Nebout, Nathalie, Cvetkoska, Aleksandra, Giaccio, Biagio, Grazhdani, Andon, Hauffe, Torsten, Holtvoeth, Jens, Joannin, Sebastien, Jovanovska, Elena, Just, Janna, Kouli, Katerina, Kousis, Ilias, Koutsodendris, Andreas, Krastel, Sebastian, Lagos, Markus, Leicher, Niklas, Levkov, Zlatko, Lindhorst, Katja, Masi, Alessia, Melles, Martin, Mercuri, Anna M., Nomade, Sebastien, Nowaczyk, Norbert, Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos, Peyron, Odile, Reed, Jane M., Sagnotti, Leonardo, Sinopoli, Gaia, Stelbrink, Björn, Sulpizio, Roberto, Timmermann, Axel, Tofilovska, Slavica, Torri, Paola, Wagner-Cremer, Friederike, Wonik, Thomas, Zhang, Xiaosen (2019). "Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years" Nature 573 p256-260


Morlock, Marina A., Vogel, Hendrik, Nigg, Valentin, Ordoñez, Luis, Hasberg, Ascelina K. M., Melles, Martin, Russell, James M., Bijaksana, Satria, the Towuti Drilling Project Science Team (2018). "Climatic and tectonic controls on source-to-sink processes in the tropical, ultramafic catchment of Lake Towuti, Indonesia" Journal of Paleolimnology online p1-17


Zhao, Wenwei, Rarasov, Pavel E., Lozhkin, Anatoly V., Anderson, Patricia M., Andreev, Andrei A., Korzun, Julie A., Melles, Martin, Nedorubova, Ekaterina Y., Wennrich, Volker (2018). "High-latitude vegetation and climate changes during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition inferred fromapalynological record from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russian Arctic" BOREAS 47 p137-149


Hasberg, Ascelina, Bijaksana, Satria, Held, Peter, Just, Janna, Melles, Martin, Morlock, Marina A., Opitz, Stephan, Russell, James M., Vogel, Hendrik, Wennrich, Volker (2018). "Modern sedimentation processes in Lake Towuti, Indonesia, revealed by the composition of surface sediments" Sedimentology online-first


Melles, Martin, Wennrich, Volker (2017). "Arctic Glacial and Interglacial Variability throughout the Quaternary: Evidence from Lake El’gygytgyn, northeastern Russia" Polarforschung 87 p43-60


Herzschuh, Ulrike, Birks, H John B, Laepple, Thomas, Andreev, Andrei, Melles, Martin, Brigham-Grette, Julie (2016). "Glacial legacies on interglacial vegetation at the Pliocene-Pleistocene transition in NE Asia" Nature communications 7


Andreev, Andrei A., Tarasov, Pavel E., Wennrich, Volker, Melles, Martin (2016). "Millennial-scale vegetation changes in the north-eastern Russian Arctic during the Pliocene/Pleistocene transition (2.7–2.5 Ma) inferred from the pollen record of Lake El’gygytgyn" Quaternary Science Reviews 147 p245-258


Russell, J. M., Bijaksana, S., Vogel, H., Melles, M., Kallmeyer, J., Ariztegui, D., Crowe, S., Fajar, S., Hafidz, A., Haffner, D., Hasberg, A., Ivory, S., Kelly, C., King, J., Kirana, K., Morlock, M., Noren, A., O'Grady, R., Ordonez, L., Stevenson, J., von Rintelen, T., Vuillemin, A., Watkinson, I., Wattrus, N., Wicaksono, S., Wonik, T., Bauer, K., Deino, A., Friese, A., Henny, C., Imran,, Marwoto, R., Ngkoimani, L. O., Nomosatryo, S., Safiuddin, L. O., Simister, R., Tamuntuan, G. (2016). "The Towuti Drilling Project: paleoenvironments, biological evolution, and geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake" Sci. Dril. 21 p29-40


Coletti, A. J., DeConto, R. M., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M. (2015). "A GCM comparison of Pleistocene super-interglacial periods in relation to Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Arctic Russia" Clim. Past 11 p979-989


Vogel, Hendrik, Russell, James M, Cahyarini, Sri Yudawati, Bijaksana, Satria, Wattrus, Nigel, Rethemeyer, Janet, Melles, Martin (2015). "Depositional modes and lake-level variability at Lake Towuti, Indonesia, during the past~ 29 kyr BP" Journal of Paleolimnology p359-377


Zhao, W. W., Andreev, A. A., Wennrich, V., Tarasov, P. E., Anderson, P., Lozhkin, A. V., Melles, M. (2015). "The Réunion Subchron vegetation and climate history of the northeastern Russian Arctic inferred from the Lake El'gygytgyn pollen record" Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology p167-177


Meyer-Jacob, C., Vogel, H., Gebhardt, A. C., Wennrich, V., Melles, M., Rosén, P. (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" Clim. Past p209-220


Russell, James M., Vogel, Hendrik, Konecky, Bronwen L., Bijaksana, Satria, Huang, Yongsong, Melles, Martin, Wattrus, Nigel, Costa, Kassandra, King, John W. (2014). "Glacial forcing of central Indonesian hydroclimate since 60,000 y B.P" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences p5100-5105


Andreev, A. A., Tarasov, P. E., Wennrich, V., Raschke, E., Herzschuh, U., Nowaczyk, N. R., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M. (2014). "Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene vegetation history of northeastern Russian Arctic inferred from the Lake El'gygytgyn pollen record" Clim. Past p1017-1039


Wennrich, V., Minyuk, P. S., Borkhodoev, V., Francke, A., Ritter, B., Nowaczyk, N. R., Sauerbrey, M. A., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M. (2014). "Pliocene to Pleistocene climate and environmental history of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic, based on high-resolution inorganic geochemistry data" Clim. Past p1381-1399


Frank, U, Nowaczyk, NR, Minyuk, Pavel, Vogel, Hendrik, Rosen, Peter, Melles, Martin (2013). "A 350 ka record of climate change from Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic: refining the pattern of climate modes by means of cluster analysis" Climate of the Past 9 p1559-1569


Tarasov, P. E., Andreev, A. A., Anderson, P. M., Lozhkin, A. V., Leipe, C., Haltia, E., Nowaczyk, N. R., Wennrich, V., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M. (2013). "A pollen-based biome reconstruction over the last 3.562 million years in the Far East Russian Arctic - new insights into climate-vegetation relationships at the regional scale" Clim. Past 9 p2759-2775


Vogel, H., Meyer-Jacob, C., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., Andreev, A. A., Wennrich, V., Tarasov, P. E., Rosén, P. (2013). "Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11c at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia" Clim. Past 9 p1467-1479


Koeberl, Christian, Pittarello, Lidia, Reimold, Wolf Uwe, Raschke, Ulli, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Melles, Martin, Minyuk, Pavel (2013). "El'gygytgyn impact crater, Chukotka, Arctic Russia: Impact cratering aspects of the 2009 ICDP drilling project" Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48 p1108-1129


Sauerbrey, M. A., Juschus, O., Gebhardt, A. C., Wennrich, V., Nowaczyk, N. R., Melles, M. (2013). "Mass movement deposits in the 3.6 Ma sediment record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic" Clim. Past 9 p1949-1967


Francke, A., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M., Juschus, O., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J. (2013). "Multivariate statistic and time series analyses of grain-size data in quaternary sediments of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia" Clim. Past 9 p2459-2470


Gebhardt, A. C., Francke, A., Kück, J., Sauerbrey, M., Niessen, F., Wennrich, V., Melles, M. (2013). "Petrophysical characterization of the lacustrine sediment succession drilled in Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic" Clim. Past 9 p1933-1947


Brigham-Grette, Julie, Melles, Martin, Minyuk, Pavel, Andreev, Andrei, Tarasov, Pavel, DeConto, Robert, Koenig, Sebastian, Nowaczyk, Norbert, Wennrich, Volker, Rosén, Peter, Haltia, Eeva, Cook, Tim, Gebhardt, Catalina, Meyer-Jacob, Carsten, Snyder, Jeff, Herzschuh, Ulrike (2013). "Pliocene Warmth, Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling Recorded in NE Arctic Russia" Science 340 p1421-1427


Melles, Martin, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Minyuk, Pavel S., Nowaczyk, Norbert R., Wennrich, Volker, DeConto, Robert M., Anderson, Patricia M., Andreev, Andrei A., Coletti, Anthony, Cook, Timothy L., Haltia-Hovi, Eeva, Kukkonen, Maaret, Lozhkin, Anatoli V., Rosén, Peter, Tarasov, Pavel, Vogel, Hendrik, Wagner, Bernd (2012). "2.8 Million Years of Arctic Climate Change from Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia" Science p315-320


Richter, Jürgen, Melles, Martin, Schäbitz, Frank (2012). "Temporal and spatial corridors of Homo sapiens sapiens population dynamics during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene" Quaternary International 274 p1-4


Juschus, Olaf, Pavlov, Maksim, Schwamborn, Georg, Preusser, Frank, Fedorov, Grigory, Melles, Martin (2011). "Late Quaternary lake-level changes of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Siberia" Quaternary Research p441-451


Swann, George E. A., Leng, Melanie J., Juschus, Olaf, Melles, Martin, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Sloane, Hilary J. (2010). "A combined oxygen and silicon diatom isotope record of Late Quaternary change in Lake El'gygytgyn, North East Siberia" Quaternary Science Reviews 29 p774-786


Brigham-Grette, Julie, Melles, Martin (2009). "Complex drilling logistics for Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia" Scientific Drilling 7 p38-39


Juschus, Olaf, Melles, Martin, Gebhardt, A. Catalina, Niessen, Frank (2009). "Late Quaternary mass movement events in Lake El′gygytgyn, North-eastern Siberia" Sedimentology 56 p2155-2174


Pienitz, R, Melles, M, Zolitschka, B (2009). "Results of recent sediment drilling activities in deep crater lakes" Pages News 17 No. 3 p117-118


Vogel, Hendrik, Rosén, Peter, Wagner, Bernd, Melles, Martin, Persson, Per (2008). "Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, a new cost-effective tool for quantitative analysis of biogeochemical properties in long sediment records" Journal of Paleolimnology 40 p689-702


Nowaczyk, Norbert R., Melles, Martin, Minyuk, Pavel (2007). "A revised age model for core PG1351 from Lake El’gygytgyn, Chukotka, based on magnetic susceptibility variations tuned to northern hemisphere insolation variations" Journal of Paleolimnology 37 p65-76


Juschus, Olaf, Preusser, Frank, Melles, Martin, Radtke, Ulrich (2007). "Applying SAR-IRSL methodology for dating fine-grained sediments from Lake El’gygytgyn, north-eastern Siberia" Quaternary Geochronology 2 p187-194


Lozhkin, A. V., Anderson, P. M., Matrosova, T. V., Minyuk, P. S., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M. (2007). "Continuous record of environmental changes in Chukotka during the last 350 thousand years" Russian Journal of Pacific Geology 1 (6) p550-555


Minyuk, P. S., Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M., Borkhodoev, V. Ya., Glushkova, O. Yu. (2007). "Inorganic geochemistry of El’gygytgyn Lake sediments (northeastern Russia) as an indicator of paleoclimatic change for the last 250 kyr" Journal of Paleolimnology 37 p123-133


Forman, Steven L., Pierson, James, Gómez, Jeaneth, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Nowaczyk, Norbert R., Melles, Martin (2007). "Luminescence geochronology for sediments from Lake El’gygytgyn, northeast Siberia, Russia: constraining the timing of paleoenvironmental events for the past 200 ka" Journal of Paleolimnology 37 p77-88


Brigham-Grette, Julie, Melles, Martin, Minyuk, Pavel (2007). "Overview and significance of a 250 ka paleoclimate record from El’gygytgyn Crater Lake, NE Russia" Journal of Paleolimnology 37 p1-16


Melles, Martin, Brigham-Grette, Julie, Glushkova, Olga Yu., Minyuk, Pavel S., Nowaczyk, Norbert R., Hubberten, Hans-W. (2007). "Sedimentary geochemistry of core PG1351 from Lake El’gygytgyn—a sensitive record of climate variability in the East Siberian Arctic during the past three glacial–interglacial cycles" Journal of Paleolimnology 37 p89-104


Müller, J., Oberhänsli, H., Melles, M., Schwab, M., Rachold, V., Hubberten, H. W. (2001). "Late Pliocene sedimentation in Lake Baikal: implications for climatic and tectonic change in SE Siberia" Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 174 (4) p305-326


Müller, J, Kasbohm, J, Oberhänsli, H, Melles, M, Hubberten, Hans-Wolfgang (2001). "TEM analysis of smectite-illite mixed-layer minerals of BDP-96-1-a preliminary report.-S. 90-100" Lake Baikal: a mirror in time and space for understanding global change processes (K Minoura, ed)-Elsevier, Amsterdam p90-100


Müller, J., Kasbohm, J., Oberhänsli, H., Melles, M., Hubberten, H.-W. (2000). "TEM analysis of smectite-illite mixed-layer minerals of core BDP 96 hole 1: Preliminary results" Book: Lake Baikal (ed. Kimoura) Chapter 7 p90-100