Peer Reviewed Publications
Ardenghi1, Nicolò; Andreas Mulch, Jamie M. McFarlin, Dirk Sachse, Ansgar Kahmen and Eva M. Niedermeyer (2024): Leaf wax n-alkane distribution and hydrogen isotopic fractionation in fen plant communities of two Mediterranean wetlands (Tenaghi Philippon, Nisí fen—Greece). Frontiers in Earth Science, 12, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1359157
Vasiliev, Iuliana; Marcel T.J. van der Meer, Marius Stoica, Wout Krijgsman, Gert-Jan Reichart, Sergei Lazarev, Geanina A. Butiseacă, Eva M. Niedermeyer, Elmira Aliyeva, Christian G.C. van Baak, Andreas Mulch (2022): Biomarkers reveal two paramount Pliocene-Pleistocene connectivity events in the Caspian Sea Basin. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 110802
Butiseacă, Geanina A., Juliana Vasiliev, Marcel T.J. van der Meer, Wout Krjigsman, Dan V. Palcu, Angelica Feurdean, Eva M. Niedermeyer, Andreas Mulch (2021): Severe Late Miocene drought affected Western Eurasia. Global and Planetary Change, 206, 103644
Feurdean, Angelica; Roxana Grindean, Gabriela Florescu, Ioan Tanţău, Eva M. Niedermeyer, Andrei-Cosmin Diaconu, Simon M. Hutchinson, Anne Brigitte Nielsen, Tiberiu Sava, Andrei Panait, Mihaly Braun and Thomas Hickler (2020): The transformation of the forest steppe in the lower Danube Plain of south-eastern Europe: 6000 years of vegetation and land use dynamic. Biogeosciences, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2020-239
Ardenghi, Nicolò; Andreas Mulch, Andreas Koutsodendris, Jörg Pross, Ansgar Kahmen, Eva M. Niedermeyer (2019): Temperature and moisture variability in the Eastern Mediterranean region during Marine Isotope Stages 11-10 based on biomarker analysis of the Tenaghi Philippon peat deposit. Quaternary Science Reviews, 225, 105977
Chase, Brian M.; Eva M. Niedermeyer, Arnoud Boom, Andrew S. Carr, Manuel Chevalier, Feng He, Michael E. Meadows, Neil Ogle, Paula J. Reimer (2019): Orbital controls on Namib Desert hydroclimate over the past 50,000 years. Geology, 47 (9), 867-871
Nicolò Ardenghi, Andreas Mulch, Jörg Pross, Eva M. Niedermeyer (2017): Leaf wax n-alkane extraction: an optimised procedure. Organic Geochemistry, 113, 283-292 [pdf]
Pausata, Francesco S.R.; Qiong Zhang, Francesco Muschitiello, Zhengyao Lu, Léon Chafik, Eva M. Niedermeyer, J. Curt Stager, Kim M. Cobb, Zhengyu Liu (2017): Greening of the Sahara suppressed ENSO activity during the mid-Holocene. Nature Communications, 8, 16020
Schemmel, Fabian; Eva M. Niedermeyer, Andreas Koutsodendris, J. Pross, Jens Fiebig, Andreas Mulch (2017): Paleohydrological changes in the Eastern Mediterranean region during the early to mid-Holocene recorded in plant wax n-alkane distributions and δ13CTOC - new data from Tenaghi Philippon, NE Greece. Organic Geochemistry, 110, 100-109
Nieto-Moreno, Vanesa; Alexander Rohrmann, Marcel T.J. van der Meer, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Dirk Sachse, Stefanie Tofelde, Eva M. Niedermeyer, Manfred R. Strecker, Andreas Mulch (2016): Elevation-dependent changes in n-alkane dD and soil GDGTs across the South Central Andes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 453, 234-242 [pdf]
Niedermeyer, Eva M..; Brian Chase, Gerd Gleixner, Andreas Mulch (2016): Southwestern African climate change during Heinrich Stadial 1 inferred from plant wax d13C and dD from rock hyrax middens. Quaternary International, 404, Part B, 202
Niedermeyer, Eva M..; Matthew Forrest, Britta Beckmann, Alex L. Sessions, Andreas Mulch, Enno Schefuß (2016): The stable hydrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary plant waxes as quantitative proxy for rainfall in the West African Sahel. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 184, 55-57 [pdf] [Data available at PANGAEA]
Schemmel, Fabian; Eva M. Niedermeyer, Valérie F. Schwab, Gerd Gleixner, J. Pross, Andreas Mulch (2016): Plant wax dD values record changing Eastern Mediterranean atmospheric circulation patterns during the 8.2 kyr B.P. climatic event. Quaternary Science Reviews, 133, 96-107 [pdf]
Niedermeyer, Eva M.., Alex L. Sessions, Sarah J. Feakins, Mahyar Mohtadi (2014): Hydroclimate of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool during the past 24,000 years. PNAS, 111 (26), 9402-9406 [pdf] [Data available at PANGAEA]
Niedermeyer, Eva M.., Enno Schefuß, Alex L. Sessions, Stefan Mulitza, Gesine Mollenhauer, Michael Schulz and Gerold Wefer (2010): Orbital- and millennial-scale changes in the hydrologic cycle and vegetation in the western African Sahel: insights from individual plant wax δD and δ13C . Quaternary Science Reviews, 29, 2996-3005 [pdf] [Data available at PANGAEA]
Lopes dos Santos, Raquel A., Matthias Prange, Isla S. Castañeda, Enno Schefuß, Stefan Mulitza, Michael Schulz, Eva M. Niedermeyer, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté and Stefan Schouten (2010): Glacial–interglacial variability in Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and thermocline adjustments in the tropical North Atlantic. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300, 407-414 [pdf] [data available at PANGEA]
Niedermeyer, Eva M., Matthias Prange, Stefan Mulitza, Gesine Mollenhauer, Enno Schefuß and Michael Schulz (2009): Extratropical forcing of Sahel aridity during Heinrich stadials. Geophysical Research Letters, 36, L20707 [pdf] [Data available at PANGAEA]
Niedermeyer, Eva M., (2009): Northwest African Sahel climate variations during Holocene/Late Pleistocene: Insights from plant wax stable hydrogen (δD) and carbon (δ13C) isotopic composition and sea-surface temperature. Dissertation, University of Bremen, Germany [pdf]
Niedermeyer, Eva M. (2005): Untersuchungen zur Carboxylierungseffizienz des Enzyms Rubisco für Erdsystem-Modelle (‘Investigations on carboxylation-efficiency of the enzyme rubisco for earth-system models’). Diploma thesis, University of Giessen, Germany
Other Publications
A. Bahr, A.L. Spadano Albuquerque, N. Ardenghi, S.J. Batenburg, M. Bayer, M.C. Catunda, A. Conforti, B. Dias, R. Díaz Ramos, L.M. Egger, F. Evers, T. Fischer, K. Hatsukano, B. Hennrich, J. Hoffmann, S. Jivcov, S. Kusch, P. Munz, E. Niedermeyer, A. Osborne, J. Raddatz, A.W. Raeke, S. Reissig, U. Sebastian, N. Taniguchi, I. Martins Venancio, S. Voigt, A. Wachholz (2016) SouthAmerican Hydrological Balance and Paleoceanography during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene(SAMBA) – Cruise No. M125 – March 21 – April 15, 2016 - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – Fortaleza (Brazil). METEOR-Berichte, M125, 47 pp., DFG-Senatskommission für Ozeanographie, doi:10.2312/cr_m125 [pdf]
Niedermeyer, Eva M. & Andreas Mulch (2014): Molekulare Fossilien. Natur • Forschung • Museum - Das Senckenberg-Wissenschaftsmagazin. Band 145, Heft 11/12 2014
Public outreach
"alle wetter!" Sendebeitrag, aired on 14 Aug 2016
Bohrkerne, Bits und Bytes - Klimaforschung bei Senckenberg. Öffentlicher Vortrag mit anschließender Laborführung, 4 May 2018
"alle wetter!" live interview, aired on 25 Jul 2016
Newspaper article on rainfall reconstruction, published 25 Jul 2016 in Offenbach Post
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung press release on Niedermeyer et al. (2016), published on 28 Jun 2016
Info booth on "Evolution & Climate" in Herborn, Hessentag May 2016
"HR info" radio interview, aired on 19 Feb 2015
Natur • Forschung • Museum - Das Senckenberg-Wissenschaftsmagazin: Article on "Molekulare Fossilien" (Band 145, Heft 11/12 2014)
"alle wetter!" live interview, aired on 27 Jun 2014
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung press release on Niedermeyer et al. (2014), published on 17 Jun 2014
MARUM press release on GLOMAR best paper award, published on 11 Dec 2009