Biography:
Dr Jens Holtvoeth joined FIDELIO as a research associate in January 2020 working on the collection and modelling of secondary environmental data and supporting also the organisation of social surveys in European national parks.
Jens was awarded a PhD in Geosciences in 2004 by the University of Bremen, Germany, and has since worked in the fields of paleoclimatology and environmental geosciences, mainly on ecosystem adaptation to past climate change. He has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and at Liverpool University and, from 2014 to 2019, a lecturer at Bristol University, teaching a range of environmental subjects, from the global carbon cycle to analytical geochemistry, as well as being a personal tutor and supervising BSc and MSc projects.
Jens’ research has targeted, for example, past changes in sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic, the effects of oceanic iron fertilisation on deep-sea ecosystems and the geochemical fingerprint of soil organic matter in lake sediments. Prior to his academic career, Jens gained substantial experience in site investigation, working freelance in environmental consultancy. In 2014, he became involved in an interdisciplinary project with Dr Nikoleta Jones and Dr Chrisovaladis Malesios, among others, on the local population’s perception of severe environmental pollution in a Greek river catchment. This successful collaboration is now continued in FIDELIO.
Research Interests
impact of climate change on ecosystems and societies, global carbon cycle, sustainability, environmental education, knowledge exchange
Selected Recent Publications
Panagiotopoulos, K., J. Holtvoeth, K. Kouli, E. Marinova, et al. (2020): Insights into the early evolution of the Lake Ohrid Basin: a unique archive of environmental and climatic changes during the Early Pleistocene, Quaternary Science Reviews, 227, 106044, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106044.
Wagner, B., H. Vogel, A. Francke, T. Friedrich, T. Donders, J. Lacey, M. Leng, E. Regattieri, L. Sadori, T. Wilke, G. Zanchetta, C. Albrecht, A. Bertini, N. Combourieu-Nebout, A. Cvetkoska, B. Giaccio, A. Grazhdani, T. Hauffe, J. Holtvoeth, S. Joannin, E. Jovanovska, et al. (2019): Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoon during past 1.36 million years, Nature, 573, 256-260, doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1529-0.
Jones, N., C. Malesios, M. Aloupi, M. Proikaki, T. Tsalis, M. Hatziantoniou, P. G. Dimitrakopoulos, A. Skouloudis, J. Holtvoeth, I. Nikolaou, A. S. Stasinakis, O.-I. Kalantzi, G. Gatidou, I. Zkeri, M. Koulousaris, and K. I. Evangelinos (2019): Exploring the role of local community perceptions in sustainability measurements, International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, doi:10.1080/13504509.2019.1638330
Holtvoeth, J., J. H. Whiteside, S. Engels, P. Greenwood, K. Grice, I. Kendall, S. K. Lengger, A. Luecke, C. Mayr, B. D. A. Naafs, M. Rohrssen, F. S. Freitas, and J. Sepúlveda (2019): The paleolimnologist’s guide to compound-specific stable isotope analysis – an introduction to principles and applications of CSIA for Quaternary lake sediments, Quaternary Science Reviews, 207, 101-133, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.01.001.
Chávez Lara, C. M., J. Holtvoeth, P. D. Roy, and R. D. Pancost (2018): A 27cal ka biomarker-based record of ecosystem change from lacustrine sediments of the Chihuahua Desert (Mexico), Quaternary Science Reviews, 191, 132-143, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.05.013.
Holtvoeth, J., H. Vogel, V. Valsecchi, S. Schouten, B. Wagner, and G. A. Wolff (2017): Linear and non-linear responses of vegetation and soils to glacial-interglacial climate change in a Mediterranean refuge, Scientific Reports, 7, 8121, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08101-y.
