Biology - Palaeoecology - People - Henk Brinkhuis

<body> <a name="_Top">  </a> <table id="main" width="750" height="300" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" summary="Content" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111"> <tr> <td valign="top" height="250" width="34"> </td> <td valign="top" id="content"><h2><font color="#808000">Henk Brinkhuis</font></h2> <table border="0" id="table1" width="668"> <tr> <td width="273" bgcolor="#808000"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <span class="adres"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF">Prof.dr. H. Brinkhuis<br> </font><font size="2"> <a class="wit12px" target="_blank" href="http://www.geo.uu.nl/homegeosciences/aboutthefaculty/addressesandmaps/aardwetenschappe/32017main.html"> <font color="#FFFFFF">Aardwetenschappen building</font></a></font><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"><br> Budapestlaan 4<br> 3584 CD Utrecht</font></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span class="adres"> <font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">The Netherlands<br> Office: W 322</font></p> <p><font color="#FFFFFF" size="2">Phone: +31 30 253 7691                Mobile: +31 652652689<br> Phone secretary: +31 30 253 2629<br> Fax: +31 30 253 5096<br> E-mail: <a href="mailto:h.brinkhuis@uu.nl"><font color="#FFFFFF"> h.brinkhuis@uu.nl </font></a></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> Institute of Environmental Biology</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2" color="#FFFFFF"> Faculty of Science, Utrecht University</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font color="#FFFFFF"> <br> Position: </font><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Chair of Marine Palaeobiology</font></span></td> <td> <img border="0" src="HenkNorthPole.jpg" width="392" height="299"></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table3"> <tr> <td> <font color="#808000" style="font-size: 15pt"><b> <a target="content" href="#Research"><font color="#808000">R</font></a>E</b></font><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Verdana; font-weight: 700"><font color="#808000">SARCH INTERESTS, ACTIVITIES & PROFESSIONAL RESULTS</font></span></td> <td width="37">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <span style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: 700"> <a target="content" href="cnt_publ.html"><font color="#808000">Publications</font></a></span></td> <td width="37">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font color="#808000" style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: 700"> <a href="cnt_media2.htm"><font color="#808000">Media</font></a></font></td> <td width="37">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <font color="#808000" style="font-size: 15pt; font-weight: 700"> <a href="cnt_Master_PhD_Students.htm"><font color="#808000">Current Master and PhD Students and Postdocs</font></a></font></td> <td width="37"> </td> </tr> </table> <h2> </h2> <h2><b><a name="Research">RESEARCH</a> </b> <span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Verdana">INTERESTS, ACTIVITIES & PROFESSIONAL RESULTS</span></h2> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left"> <font face="Verdana"><strong><font size="2" color="#808000">Expertise</font> </strong></font> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">Marine palynology. In particular the stratigraphy, palaeoceanography, and paleoecology of Mesozoic-Cenozoic organic walled dinoflagellate cysts, Cretaceous-Paleogene Extreme climates, Miocene, Pliocene, Quaternary, Paleoceanography, end-Permian extinctions. Areas of expertise: North Sea Basin, (UK, Dutch, Belgian, French, Danish & Norwegian Sectors), Nordic Seas incl. Barentsz Sea, Arctic and N. Atlantic (e.g., ODP 171, 210, Quaternary cores, IODP 302 ACEX - shipboard), Mediterranean incl. North Africa, Yemen, Indian Ocean, Vietnam, Argentinia, Gabon, Venezuela, Colombia, Southern Ocean, Tasman Region (ODP 113, 189 - shipboard), Pacific (ODP 198, 199), co-chief IODP 320 Wilkes Land, more. </span> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left">  </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px" align="left"> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000"><b>Research interests</b> <O:P> </O:P> </font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Ancient global change, extreme climate transitions, biogeochemical cycles, and related biostratigraphy, (paleo)ecology, (palaeo) provincialism, biochemistry, etc. of phytoplankton, and of (organic walled) dinoflagellate(s) (cysts) in particular. </span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table10"> <tr> <td> <img border="0" src="kringloop9basic_combi%20pollenvergrootwebsite.jpg" width="283" height="160">        <img border="0" src="kringloop9basic2meteoor1website.jpg" width="189" height="160">         <img border="0" src="kringloop9basic1website.jpg" width="283" height="160"></td> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000"> Professional results</font></b></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">(Co-)author of >125 peer reviewed international papers, (co)-supervisor of >50 MSc theses, and >20 PhD theses, Utrecht University and elsewhere. (Co-)author of >200 professional consultant reports, LPP Foundation 1988-1996. Shipboard, and postcruise participant of many (I)ODP legs, incl. ACEX, the Arctic Drilling,and IODP Expedition 318, Wilkes Land, Antarctica (co-chief).</span></p> <p> </p> <p><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><font color="#808000"> Membership Editorial Boards</font></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span></i></b></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Palaeoceanography (assistant editor)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">The Open Palaeontology Journal</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tms/journalonline.htm"> Journal of Micropalaeontology</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldispatchdates.cws_home/503351/dispatchdates"> Marine Micropaleontology</a></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">The Netherlands Journal of Earth Sciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw </span></p> <p><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">Bolletino della Societa Geologica Italiana</span></p> <p><span lang="IT" style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Verdana">Geobiology </span></p> <p> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2"> <a name="OceanDrilling" target="_blank" href="http://www.iodp.org/"> <font color="#808000">Ocean Drilling</font></a></font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><font face="Verdana">  </font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><font size="2" face="Verdana">I am <a target="_blank" href="http://www.iodp.org/">IODP</a> Science Steering and Evaluation Panel (SSEP) delegate for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ecord.org/">ECORD</a>, </font> <font size="2">the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling, and representing The Netherlands. SSEP is responsible for the scientific evaluation of drilling proposals. <a href="mailto:llourens@geo.uu.nl">Lucas Lourens</a> replaced me as <a target="_blank" href="http://www.essac.ecord.org/">ESSAC</a> representative of The Netherlands in October 2007. I am chair of The Netherlands Ocean Drilling committee, see </font><font size="2" face="Verdana"> <a href="http://www.iodp.nl/">http://www.iodp.nl/</a>.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <div> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><font face="Verdana" size="2">I took part in the legendary The Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), aka IODP Expedition 302 summer 2004. <a href="http://www.bio.uu.nl/~palaeo/Personeel/Photoalbums/webphotos_Acex"> Here some photos </a>I made during the expedition. See also <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eso.ecord.org/expeditions/302/302.htm"> http://www.eso.ecord.org/expeditions/302/302.htm</a> .</font><p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html"> <img border="0" src="../../images/NATURE-COVER-.jpg" width="89" height="116" align="left"></a>    <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0">  <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" border="0" id="table8"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="629"> <table cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="629" border="0" id="table9"> <tr> <td> <u><b><font size="4" color="#800000"> <a target="content" href="../../cnt_Nature.html">June 1st, 2006: 3 articles in Nature!</a></font></b></u></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><b> <a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5034026.stm"> <font size="3">Arctic's tropical past uncovered </font></a></b> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="mxb"> <div class="sh"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"> <b> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/31/science/earth/31cnd-climate.html?ex=1149739200&en=0c287bb115286ddc&ei=5070&emc=eta1"> <font size="3">Arctic Once Felt Like Florida, Studies Say </font></a></b> </div> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <p style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"> <font face="Verdana" size="2">Together with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ugr.es/~cescutia/">Carlota Escutia</a> (University of Granada, Spain), I have been invited as co-chief for the <a target="_blank" href="http://iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/wilkes_land.html">Wilkes Land IODP expedition 318</a>, staff scientist <a target="_blank" href="http://iodp.tamu.edu/staffdir/indiv/klaus/">Adam Klaus</a>. </font></div> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table11"> <tr> <td width="231"> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <font size="2" face="Verdana">Click here for the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vimeo.com/1230667">promoclip</a>.</font></p> <p> </td> <td><font size="2" face="Verdana"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vimeo.com/1230667"> <img border="0" src="promoclip.jpg" width="100" height="75"></a></font></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000"> <b><a name="Urbino Summerschool">Urbino Summerschool</a> in Palaeoclimatology</b></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> Together with Simone Galeotti (Urbino), Stephen Schellenberg (San Diego) and Roderik van der Wal (Utrecht), I am co-director of the International Summer School in Paleoclimatology (USSP) held at the University of Urbino in Italy. The school focuses on teaching young graduate students and other interested parties various aspects related to the multidisciplinary area of the paleoclimatic reconstruction and modelling, with more than 50 internationally accliamed senior scientists. <a href="USSP2007">Photos</a> and <a href="http://www.uniurb.it/ussp/">Website</a></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <o:p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table12"> <tr> <td><img border="0" src="Urbinoweb.jpg" width="425" height="247"><img border="0" src="urbino2website.jpg" width="439" height="247"></td> <td> </td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000"><b> Professional <a name="Dinoflagellate Cyst Course">Dinoflagellate Cyst Short Courses</a></b></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> Together with Martin Pearce (StatoilHydro), Martin Head (Brock University), Joerg Pross (Frankfurt University), Jim Riding (BGS), and other colleagues I organize 1-week professional dinoflagellate cyst short courses, emphasizing taxonomy, ecology, biostratigraphy and palaeoecology in various locations around the world. These courses are based on the early ones by Bill Evitt, Graham Williams, Lew Stover and Sarah Damassa, and have been run in the new form since 1996. In recent years, courses were organized in Tuebingen, Germany (2004), click for <a href="Urbinodinocourse2006"><u>photos</u></a> and <a href="http://www.bio.uu.nl/~palaeo/Congressen/Dino2004/Program_Dino2004.htm"> website</a>. and in Urbino, Italy, in 2006, click for <a href="Urbinodinocourse2006"><u>photos</u></a> and <a href="http://www.bio.uu.nl/~palaeo/Congressen/Dino2004/Program_Dino2004.htm"> website</a>. A next course is planned for late spring or early summer 2009.  </font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><b> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000">The Netherlands Academic Year Prize, 'expedition greenhouseworld'.</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><font face="Verdana" size="2">In 2007, our joint team from the department of Biology, faculty of Sciences, and the Earth Science department, faculty of Geosciences Utrecht University won the prestigeous prize for the best translation of top science to a broad public, with the project 'Expedition Greenhouseworld'. The 100,000 euro, plus contributions from sponsors, was spent on the production of an instructive and appealing <a target="_blank" href="http://www.expeditiebroeikaswereld.nl/"> website</a> and DVD, together with multi-media producer <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zcene.nl">ZCENE</a>, and senior Polar traveller <a target="_blank" href="http://www.xmarx.nl/">Marc Cornelissen.</a> In 2008, the project culminated in taking the prize-winning highschool students on an actual expedition to Svalbard. Check here to enjoy the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.expeditiebroeikaswereld.nl/blog">weblog</a>. </font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table13"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="AJP%20Logo%20def%202test.jpg" width="567" height="185"></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><b> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000">WUN Palaeo-Arctic Climate and Environmentes (pACE)</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><font face="Verdana" size="2"> Together with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wun.ac.uk/">WUN</a> colleagues from Penn State University, Southampton University, Leeds University, Sheffield University, Oslo University, we have formed the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wun.ac.uk/pACE/index.html">pACE-initiative</a>, studying ancient Arctic climates and Environments. In 2007, a first workshop was held in Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Click here for clip and photos.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table15"> <tr> <td> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="spitsbergenweb.jpg" width="335" height="146"></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"><b> <font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#808000">DARWIN <i>Azolla </i>Project</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:9.0pt;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><font size="2"> <font face="Verdana">D</font><span style="font-family: Verdana">uring</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Verdana"> the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX) 302 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) unique central Arctic drill cores have been recovered from the Lomonosov Ridge </span></font><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> (Backman <i>et al</i>., 2006; Brinkhuis <i>et al</i>., 2006)</span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">. Preliminary analyses of the laminated sediments has shown that enormous quantities of the free floating, freshwater fern <i>Azolla </i>grew and reproduced <i>in situ </i>in the mid Eocene (~48,5 Ma) Arctic Ocean for a period of at least 800 kyrs. Additional cores taken during commercial coring in the Arctic Basin and in the adjacent Nordic Seas have also been reported to contain huge amounts of <i>Azolla</i> remains (</font></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Brinkhuis <i>et al</i>., 2006).</span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:9.0pt;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><i> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">Azolla</font></span></i><span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2"> is a free floating aquatic fern, which nowadays can be found in freshwater environments in temperate and tropical regions all over the world. It ranks among the fastest growing plants on Earth and due to its association with the nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria <i>Anabaena azollae</i>, it is independent of extern organic nitrogen. In that way <i>Azolla</i> is not only known to fix huge amounts of carbon, but as well to produce vast amounts of organic nitrogen. The nutrient, which mainly limits the growth of <i>Azolla</i>, is phosphorous.   </font></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:9.0pt;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">From the presence of the <i> Azolla</i> blooms, covering the entire Arctic basin, interesting information about the prevailing environmental conditions can be derived. Due to its intolerance for saline water, its presence implies that at least the surface waters must have been fresh during extended episodes. Furthermore, it is believed that this event might have influenced global carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycles. Notably, the <i>Azolla </i>event occurred precisely at the transition from a Greenhouse to an Icehouse Earth. </font></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:9.0pt;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"> <span style="font-family: Verdana"><font size="2">From a biogeochemical cycling as well as from a global climate change perspective we thus identify a strong need for better constraining the capability of <i>Azolla </i>as a sink for atmospheric CO<sub>2</sub> in a fresh Eocene Arctic Ocean, and assess its potential role as a regulator of regional and global nutrient cycles. For this purpose we have set up the <a target="_blank" href="../../Azolla/Azolla.htm"> Azolla</a> Project, in the frame of The Netherlands <a target="_blank" href="http://www.darwincenter.nl/">Darwin</a> initiative. </font></span></p> <p style="margin-top:4.5pt;margin-right:9.0pt;margin-bottom: 4.5pt;margin-left:0pt;text-align:justify;text-autospace:none">  </p> <table border="0" width="100%" id="table14"> <tr> <td width="286"> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="IMG_4968web.jpg" width="238" height="159"></td> <td> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="IMG_4966web.jpg" width="228" height="155"></td> <td> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="IMG_5003web.jpg" width="230" height="156"></td> </tr> </table> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <o:p> <hr> <p> <a target="_self" href="#_Top"> <img border="0" src="../../images/solis/pijl-up.gif" align="right" width="25" height="28"></a></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px"> </p> <div align="right"> <p> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td height="50" width="34"></td> <td align="left" valign="bottom"> <div class="teklein"><a target="_self" href="#_Top"> <img border="0" src="../../images/solis/pijl-up.gif" align="right" width="25" height="28"></a> Last update: 04-Sep-2008<br />  <a href="mailto:palweb@bio.uu.nl">palweb@bio.uu.nl</a></div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="34"> </td> <td> <p> </td> </tr> </table>   <div id="OneStatTag"><table border='0' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'><tr><td align='center'> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <noscript> <a href="http://www.onestat.com"><img border="0" src="http://stat.onestat.com/stat.aspx?tagver=2&sid=278212&js=No&" ALT="online web counter"></a> </noscript> </td></tr><tr><td align='center'><div style="COLOR:black;display:none;FONT-FAMILY:'Verdana';"><a href="http://www.onestatfree.com" style="text-decoration:none;"> online web counter</a></div></td></tr></table></div>  </body>