Publications

Published in peer-reviewed journals | December 2018

  • Yanchilina, A. G., Yam, R., Kolodny, Y. and, Shemesh, A. 2018. From diatom opal-A δ18O to chert δ18O in deep sea sediments. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted).
  • Sade, Z., Yam, R., Shemesh, A. and Halevy, I. 2018. Kinetic fractionation of carbon and oxygen isotopes during carbonate mineral precipitation. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta (submitted).
  • Prada F., Yam R., Levy, O., Caroselli, E., Falini, G., Dubinsky, Z., Goffredo, S. and Shemesh, A. 2018. Kinetic and metabolic isotope effects in zooxanthellate and non-zooxanthellate Mediterranean corals along a wide latitudinal gradient. Revised, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta.
  • Fine M., Horwitz N., Horwitz R., Yam R. and Shemesh A. 2018. Stable isotopes (C, N) reveal sustained trophic state of a reef building coral under elevated temperatures and acidification conditions. 2018. Revised, Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta.
  • Crosta X., Crespin J., Didier Swingedouw D., Olivier Marti O, Masson- Delmotte V., Etourneau J., Hugues Goosse H., Pascale Braconnot P., Ruth Yam R. Brailovski I. and Shemesh A. 2018. Ocean as the main driver of Antarctic ice sheet melting during the Holocene. Global and Planetary Change 166, 62-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.04.007
  • Gutner-Hoch E., Ben-Asher HW., Yam R., Shemesh A., Levy O., 2017. Identifying genes and regulatory pathways associated with the scleractinian coral calcification process. PEERJ. Volume: 5, Article Number: e3590. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3590.
  • Sisma-Ventura, G., Yam, R., Kress, N. and Shemesh, A. 2016. Water column distribution of stable isotopes and carbonate properties in the South-eastern Levantine basin (Eastern Mediterranean): Vertical and temporal change, Journal of marine system, doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2016.01.012
  • Stolarski J., Francesca R. Bosellini F.R., Carden C. Wallace C.C., Gothmann A.M, Mazur M., Domart-Coulon I., Gutner-Hoch E., Neuser R. D., Levy O., Shemesh A. and Meibom A. 2016. A unique coral biomineralization pattern has resisted 40 million years of major ocean chemistry change. Scientific Reports, 6: 27579. DOI: 10.1038/srep27579.
  • Gutner-Hoch E., Stolarski J., Domart-Coulon I., Yam R.,Meibom A., Shemesh A., Levy O., 2016. Evidence for Endogenous Pacemaker in the Scleractinian Coral Calcification Process. Scientific Reports, 6: 20191. DOI: 10.1038/srep20191
  • Horwitz R., Borell E., Yam R., Shemesh A., Fine M., 2016. Natural high pCO(2) increases autotrophy in Anemonia viridis (Anthozoa) as revealed from stable isotope (C, N) analysis. Scientific Reports, 5: 8779. DOI: 1038/serp 08779.
  • Steiner, Z., Erez, J., Shemesh, A., Yam, R., Katz, A., and Lazar, B., 2014. Basin-scale estimates of pelagic and coral reef calcification in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111, 46, 16303-16308.
  • Sisma-Ventura, G., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2014. Recent unprecedented warming and oligotrophy of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea within the last millennium. Geophysical Research Letters 41, doi:10.1002/2014GL060393.
  • Crespin, J., Yam, R., Crosta, X., Masse, G., Schmidt, S., Campagne, P., Shemesh, A., 2014. Holocene glacial discharge fluctuations and recent instability in East Antarctica. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 394, 38-47.
  • Panizzo, V., Crespin, J., Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., Masse, G., Yam, R., Mattielli, N., Cardinal, D., 2014. Sea ice diatom contributions to Holocene nutrient utilization in East Antarctica. Paleoceanography 29, 328-342.
  • Domart-Coulon, I., Stolarski, J., Brahmi, C., Gutner-Hoch, E., Janiszewska, K., Shemesh, A., Meibom, A., 2014. Simultaneous extension of both basic microstructural components in scleractinian coral skeleton during night and daytime, visualized by in situ Sr-86 pulse labeling. Journal of Structural Biology 185, 79-88.
  • Morley, J. J., Shemesh, A., Abelmann, A. 2014. Laboratory analysis of dissolution effects on Southern Ocean polycystine Radiolaria. Marine Micropaleontology 110, 83–86.
  • Mor, A.S., Yam, R., Bianchi, C., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Gersonde, R., Shemesh, A., 2012. Variable sequence of events during the past seven terminations in two deep-sea cores from the Southern Ocean. Quaternary Research 77, 317-325.
  • Chapligin, B., Leng, M.J., Webb, E., Alexandre, A., Dodd, J.P., Ijiri, A., Lucke, A., Shemesh, A., Abelmann, A., Herzschuh, U., Longstaffe, F.J., Meyer, H., Moschen, R., Okazaki, Y., Rees, N.H., Sharp, Z.D., Sloane, H.J., Sonzogni, C., Swann, G.E.A., Sylvestre, F., Tyler, J.J., Yam, R., 2011. Inter-laboratory comparison of oxygen isotope compositions from biogenic silica. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 75, 7242-7256.
  • Levy O., Rosenfeld M., Loya Y., Yam R., Mizrachi I. and Shemesh A. 2011. Anthropogenic stressors and eutrophication processes as recorded by stable isotopes compositions in coral skeletons. Biogeosciences Discussions, 7, 7657-7672.
  • Mizrachi, I., Loya, Y., Rosenfeld, M., Kramarski-Winter, E., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2010. The build up of the isotopic signal in skeletons of the stony coral Porites lutea. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 7021-7030.
  • Krief, S., Hendy, E.J., Fine, M., Yam, R., Meibom, A., Foster, G.L., Shemesh, A., 2010. Physiological and isotopic responses of scleractinian corals to ocean acidification. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 4988-5001.
  • Rozanski, K., Klisch, M.A., Wachniew, P., Gorczyca, Z., Goslar, T., Edwards, T.W.D., Shemesh, A., 2010. Oxygen-isotope geothermometers in lacustrine sediments: New insights through combined delta O-18 analyses of aquatic cellulose, authigenic calcite and biogenic silica in Lake Gosciaz, central Poland. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 74, 2957-2969.
  • Luz, B., Barkan, E., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2009. Fractionation of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in evaporating water. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 6697-6703.
  • Alamaru, A., Loya, Y., Brokovich, E., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2009. Carbon and nitrogen utilization in two species of Red Sea corals along a depth gradient: Insights from stable isotope analysis of total organic material and lipids. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 5333-5342.
  • Alamaru, A., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., Loya, Y., 2009. Trophic biology of Stylophora pistillata larvae: evidence from stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 383, 85-94.
  • Sisma-Ventura, G., Guzner, B., Yam, R., Fine, M., Shemesh, A., 2009. The reef builder gastropod Dendropoma petreaum - A proxy of short and long term climatic events in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 73, 4376-4383.
  • Combes, H.J.D., Esper, O., De la Rocha, C.L., Abelmann, A., Gersonde, R., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2008. Diatom delta C-13, delta N-15, and C/N since the Last Glacial Maximum in the Southern Ocean: Potential impact of Species Composition. Paleoceanography 23; PA4209, doi:10.1029/2008PA001589.
  • Schneider-Mor, A., Yam, R., Bianchi, C., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Gersonde, R., Shemesh, A., 2008. Nutrient regime at the siliceous belt of the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during the past 660 ka. Paleoceanography 23; PA3217, doi:10.1029/2007PA001466.
  • Makovsly, Y., Wunch, A., Ariely, R., Shaked, Y., Rivlin, A., Shemesh, A., Ben Avraham, Z., Agnon, A., 2008. Quaternary transform kinematics constrained by sequence stratigraphy and submerged coastline features: The Gulf of Aqaba. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 271, 109-122.
  • Levy, O., Rosenfeld, M., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2006. Heterogeneity of coral skeletons isotopic compositions during the 1998 bleaching event. Limnology and Oceanography 51, 1142-1148.
  • Rosenfeld, M., Shemesh, A., Yam, R., Sakai, K., Loya, Y., 2006. Impact of the 1998 bleaching event on delta O-18 records of Okinawa corals. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 314, 127-133.
  • Polissar, P.J., Abbott, M.B., Shemesh, A., Wolfe, A.P., Bradley, R.S., 2006. Holocene hydrologic balance of tropical South America from oxygen isotopes of lake sediment opal, Venezuelan Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 242, 375-389.
  • Schneider-Mor, A., Yam, R., Bianchi, C., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Gersonde, R., Shemesh, A., 2005. Diatom stable isotopes, sea ice presence and sea surface temperature records of the past 640 ka in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Geophysical Research Letters 32; L10704, doi: 10.1029/2005GL022543.
  • Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., Etourneau, J., Yam, R., Billy, I., Pichon, J.J., 2005. Nutrient cycling in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean over the last 50,000 years. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 19; (3), GB3007, 10.1029/2004GB002344.
  • Chondrogianni, C., Ariztegui, D., Rolph, T., Juggins, S., Shemesh, A., Rietti-Shati, M., Niessen, F., Guilizzoni, P., Lami, A., McKenzie, J.A., Oldfield, F., 2004. Millennial to interannual climate variability in the Mediterranean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International 122, 31- 41.
  • Rosqvist, G., Jonsson, C., Yam, R., Karlen, W., Shemesh, A., 2004. Diatom oxygen isotopes in proglacial lake sediments from northern Sweden: a 5000 year record of atmospheric circulation. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 851-859.
  • Hu, F.S., Kaufman, D., Yoneji, S., Nelson, D., Shemesh, A., Huang, Y., Tian, J., Bond, G., Clegg, B., Brown, T., 2003. Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic. Science 301, 1890-1893.
  • Rosenfeld, M., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., Loya, Y., 2003. Implication of water depth on stable isotope composition and skeletal density banding patterns in a Porites lutea colony: results from a long-term translocation experiment. Coral Reefs 22, 337-345.
  • Hu, F.S., Shemesh, A., 2003. A biogenic-silica delta O-18 record of climatic change during the last glacial-interglacial transition in southwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research 59, 379-385.
  • Gat, J.R., Klein, B., Kushnir, Y., Roether, W., Wernli, H., Yam, R., Shemesh, A., 2003. Isotope composition of air moisture over the Mediterranean Sea: an index of the air-sea interaction pattern. Tellus Series B-Chemical and Physical Meteorology 55, 953-965.
  • Shemesh, A., Hodell, D., Crosta, X., Kanfoush, S., Charles, C., Guilderson, T., 2002. Sequence of events during the last deglaciation in Southern Ocean sediments and Antarctic ice cores. Paleoceanography 17; 10.1029/2000PA000599.
  • Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., Salvignac, M.E., Gildor, H., Yam, R., 2002. Late quaternary variations of elemental ratios (C/Si and N/Si) in diatom-bound organic matter from the Southern Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies in Oceanography 49, 1939-1952.
  • Crosta, X., Shemesh, A., 2002. Reconciling down core anticorrelation of diatom carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios from the Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography 17; 1, 10.1029/2000PA000565.
  • Kacanski, A., Carmi, I., Shemesh, A., Kronfeld, J., Yam, R., Flexer, A., 2001. Late Holocene climatic change in the Balkans: Speleothem isotopic data from Serbia. Radiocarbon 43, 647-658.
  • Rioual, P., Andrieu-Ponel, V., Rietti-Shati, M., Battarbee, R.W., de Beaulieu, J.L., Cheddadi, R., Reille, M., Svobodova, H., Shemesh, A., 2001. High-resolution record of climate stability in France during the last interglacial period. Nature 413, 293-296.
  • Hodell, D.A., Kanfoush, S.L., Shemesh, A., Crosta, X., Charles, C.D., Guilderson, T.P., 2001. Abrupt cooling of Antarctic surface waters and sea ice expansion in the South Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean at 5000 cal yr B.P. Quaternary Research 56, 191-198.
  • Shemesh, A., Rietti-Shati, M., Rioual, P., Battarbee, R., de Beaulieu, J.L., Reille, M., Andrieu, V., Svobodova, H., 2001a. An Oxygen isotope record of lacustrine opal from a European Maar indicates climatic stability during the last interglacial. Geophysical Research Letters 28, 2305-2308.
  • Shemesh, A., Rosqvist, G., Rietti-Shati, M., Rubensdotter, L., Bigler, C., Yam, R., Karlen, W., 2001b. Holocene climatic change in Swedish Lapland inferred from an oxygen-isotope record of lacustrine biogenic silica. Holocene 11, 447-454.
  • Rietti-Shati, M., Yam, R., Karlen, W., Shemesh, A., 2000. Stable isotope composition of tropical highaltitude fresh-waters on Mt. Kenya, Equatorial East Africa. Chemical Geology 166, 341-350.
  • Rosenthal, Y., Dahan, M., Shemesh, A., 2000. Southern Ocean contributions to glacial-interglacial changes of atmospheric pCO(2): An assessment of carbon isotope records in diatoms. Paleoceanography 15, 65-75.
  • Karlen, W., Fastook, J.L., Holmgren, K., Malmstrom, M., Matthews, J.A., Odada, E., Risberg, J., Rosqvist, G., Sandgren, P., Shemesh, A., Westerberg, L.O., 1999. Glacier fluctuations on Mount Kenya since similar to 6000 cal. years BP: Implications for Holocene climatic change in Africa. Ambio 28, 409-418.
  • Rosqvist, G.C., Rietti-Shati, M., Shemesh, A., 1999. Late glacial to middle Holocene climatic record of lacustrine biogenic silica oxygen isotopes from a Southern Ocean island. Geology 27, 967-970.
  • Brami, Y., Herut, B., Shemesh, A., Cohen, H., 1999. Surface chemical characteristics of coal fly ash particles after interaction with seawater under natural deep sea conditions. Environmental Science & Technology 33, 276-281.
  • De La Rocha, C.L., Brzezinski, M.A., DeNiro, M.J., Shemesh, A., 1998. Silicon-isotope composition of diatoms as an indicator of past oceanic change. Nature 395, 680-683.
  • Rietti-Shati, M., Shemesh, A., Karlen, W., 1998. A 3000-year climatic record from biogenic silica oxygen isotopes in an equatorial high-altitude lake. Science 281, 980-982.
  • Shemesh, A., Peteet, D., 1998. Oxygen isotopes in fresh water biogenic opal - Northeastern US Allerod-Younger Dryas temperature shift. Geophysical Research Letters 25, 1935-1938.
  • Shahack-Gross, R., Shemesh, A., Yakir, D., Weiner, S., 1996. Oxygen isotopic composition of opaline phytoliths: Potential for terrestrial climatic reconstruction. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 60, 3949-3953.
  • Gat, J.R., Shemesh, A., Tziperman, E., Hecht, A., Georgopoulos, D., Basturk, O., 1996. The stable isotope composition of waters of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans 101, 6441-6451.
  • Singer, A.J., Shemesh, A., 1995. Climatically linked carbon isotope variation during the past 430,000 years in Southern Ocean sediments. Paleoceanography 10, 171-177.
  • Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H., Hays, J.D., 1995. Late pleistocene oxygen isotope records of biogenic silica from the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Paleoceanography 10, 179-196.
  • Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H., Hays, J.D., 1994. Evidence for melt water input to the Southern Ocean during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science 266, 1542-1544.
  • Shemesh, A., Luz, B. and Erez, J. 1994. Carbone isotopes, dissolved oxygen and the carbonate system in the Gulf of Aqaba (Elat). Israel Journal of Earth Sciences 43, 145-155.
  • Shemesh, A., Macko, S.A., Charles, C.D., Rau, G.H., 1993. isotopic evidence for reduced productivity in the Glacial Southern Ocean. Science 262, 407-410.
  • Shemesh, A., 1992. Silica carbonate isotopic temperature calibration - Response. Science 258, 1163-1163.
  • Shemesh, A., Charles, C.D., Fairbanks, R.G., 1992. Oxygen isotopes in biogenic silica: global changes in ocean temperature and isotopic composition. Science 256, 1434-1436.
  • Shemesh, A., Ron, H., Erel, Y., Kolodny, Y., Nur, A., 1992. Isotopic composition of vein calcite and its fluid inclusion: implication to paleohydrological systems, tectonic events and vein formation. Chemical Geology 94, 307-314.
  • Shemesh, A., 1990. Crystallinity and diagenesis of sedimentary apatites. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 54, 2433-2438.
  • Kastner, M., Garrison, R.E., Kolodny, Y., Shemesh, A. and Reimers, C.E., 1990. Coupled changes of oxygen isotopes in PO4 and CO3 in apatite, with emphasis on the Monterey Formation, California. In: Genesis of Neogene to Modern Phosphorites. (Burnett, W.C. and Riggs, S.R., eds.) pp. 312-324. Cambridge University Press.
  • Wahlen, M., Tanaka, N., Henry, R., Deck, B., Zeglen, J., Vogel, J.S., Southon, J., Shemesh, A., Fairbanks, R., Broecker, W., 1989. Carbon-14 in methane sources and in atmospheric methane: the contribution from fossil carbon. Science 245, 286-290.
  • Froelich, P.N., Mortlock, R.A. and Shemesh, A., 1989. Inorganic germanium and silica in the Indian Ocean: Biological fractionation during (Ge/Si) opal formation. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3 (1): 79-88.
  • Shemesh, A., Mortlock, R.A. and Froelich, P.N., 1989. Late Cenozoic Ge/Si record of marine biogenic opal: implication for variations of riverine fluxes to the ocean. Paleoceanography 4 (3): 221-234.
  • Shemesh, A., Burckle, L.H., Froelich, P.N., 1989. Dissolution and preservation of antarctic diatoms and the effect on sediment thanatocoemoses. Quaternary Research 31, 288-308.
  • Shemesh, A., Mortlock, R.A., Smith, R.J., Froelich, P.N., 1988. Determination of Ge/Si in marine siliceous microfossils: separation, cleaning and dissolution of diatoms and radiolaria. Marine Chemistry 25, 305-323.
  • Shemesh, A., Kolodny, Y., Luz, B., 1988. Isotope geochemistry of oxygen and carbon in phosphate and carbonate of phosphorite francolite. Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta 52, 2565-2572.
  • Shemesh, A. and Kolodny, Y., 1988. Oxygen isotopes variations in phosphorites from the Southeastern Tethys. Israel Journal of Earth Science 37: 1-15.
  • Shemesh, A., Kolodny, Y., Luz, B., 1983. Oxygen isotope variations in phosphate of biogenic apatites. II. Phosphorite rocks. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 64, 405-416.