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Publications

2025

44. Lanigan, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Simmatis, B., Smol, J. P. (2025). Using paleolimnology to assess long-term acidification and recovery trajectories in lakes from Killarney Provincial Park and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada). Journal of Paleolimnology, 73, 217-237, doi:10.1007/s10933-025-00356-0.


43. Michelutti, N., Meyer-Jacob, C., Grooms, C., Umaña-Villalobos, G., Horn, S. P., Smol, J. P. (2025). Long-term ecological stability in high mountain lakes of Costa Rica. Inland Waters, 1-49, doi:10.1080/20442041.2025.2497249.


42. Rantala, M., Israde-Alcántara, I., Safaierad, R., Tylmann, W., Lepoint, G., Francus, P., Smol, J. P., Meyer-Jacob, C., Grooms, C., Mattielli, N., Metcalfe, S., Etmanski, P., Fagel, N. (2025). Anthropogenic increase in organic carbon production and burial in two tropical crater lakes from central Mexico. Science of the Total Environment, 871, 179041, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179041.


41. Vogel, H., Meyer-Jacob, C. (2025). Visible and infrared spectroscopical applications in paleoenvironmental research. Editor(s): Scott Elias, Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (Third Edition), Elsevier, Pages: 271-279, doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-99931-1.00138-0.

2024

40. Meyer-Jacob, C., Labaj, A. L., Paterson, A. M., Layton-Matthews, D., Smol, J. P. (2024). Impacts of acid deposition and lake browning on long-term organic carbon storage in Canadian northern forest lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 71(2), 153-173, doi:10.1007/s10933-023-00307-7.


39. Ninnes, S., Meyer-Jacob, C., Tolu, J., Bindler, R., Martínez Cortizas, A. (2024). Application of mid-infrared spectroscopy for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of organic matter in Holocene sediment records. The Holocene, 34(3), 259-273, doi:10.1177/09596836231211872.


38. Would, J. A., Rühland, K. M., Simmatis, B., Evans, M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P. (2024) Trends in sedimentary cladocera and metal(loid)s from Williams Lake (Washington, USA) track ~125 years of trans-boundary contamination from smelter emissions in the upper Columbia River valley. Science of the Total Environment, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.175816.

2023

37. Atti, S., Rantala, M. V., Lami, A., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P., Weckström, J., Nevalainen, L. (2023). Impacts of anthropogenic pressures on underwater light conditions and diatom functional group distributions in mountain lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 70(1), 57-76, doi:10.1007/s10933-023-00283-y.


36. Baud, A., Smol, J. P., Meyer-Jacob, C., Paterson, M., Francus, P., Gregory-Eaves, I. (2023). The impacts of whole-lake acidification and eutrophication on the accumulation of lead in sediments from manipulated lakes in the Experimental Lakes Area (IISD-ELA). Environmental Pollution, 317, 120829, doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120829.


35. Cheng, Y., Michelutti, N., Meyer-Jacob, C., Paterson, A. M., Gunn, J. M., Keller, W., Smol, J. P. (2023) Legacy effects of acidification and climate warming affect recent recovery of diatom assemblages in Sudbury-region lakes (Ontario, Canada). Hydrobiologia, 850(9), 2101-2114, doi:10.1007/s10750-023-05222-6.


34. Rantala, M. V., Kivilä, E. H., Meyer-Jacob, C., Atti, S., Luoto, T. P., Smol, J. P., Nevalainen, L. (2023) Neoglacial lake ecosystem changes above and below the subarctic Fennoscandian treeline inferred from changes in diatom functional groups. Journal of Paleolimnology, 69(3), 267-291, doi:10.1007/s10933-022-00272-7.


33. Simmatis, B., Lanigan, C., Lambert, B., Meyer-Jacob, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Smol, J. P. (2023). Using a multi-proxy paleolimnological approach to track the effects of multiple stressors on a naturally acidic lake from Killarney Provincial Park (Ontario, Canada). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 80(6), 913-923, doi:10.1139/cjfas-2022-0225.

2022

32. Cheng, Y., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P. (2022) Developing diatom-based inference models to assess lake ecosystem change along a gradient of metal smelting impacts: Sudbury lakes revisited. Journal of Phycology, 58(4), 530-542, doi:10.1111/jpy.13257.


31. Duda, M. P., Cyr, F., Robertson, G. J., Michelutti, N., Meyer-Jacob, C., Hedd, A., Montevecchi, W. A., Kimpe, L. E., Blais, J. M., Smol, J. P. (2022) Climate oscillations drive millennial-scale changes in seabird colony size. Global Change Biology, 28(14), 4292-4307, doi:10.1111/gcb.16171.


30. Simmatis, B., Rühland, K. M., Evans, M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kirk, J., Muir, D. C. G., Smol, J. P. (2022). Metal contamination in alkaline Phantom Lake (Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada generates strong responses in multiple paleolimnological proxies. Science of the Total Environment, 811, 152299, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152299.

2021

29. Jeziorski, A., Nelligan, C., Corrigan, D., Meyer-Jacob, C., Peterson, A. M., Smol, J. P. (2021). Tracking deepwater oxygen recovery using sedimentary chironomid assemblages: Peninsula Lake revisited. Journal of Paleolimnology, 66(4), 371-387, doi:10.1007/s10933-021-00211-y.


28. King, C., Michelutti, N., Meyer-Jacob, C., Bindler, R., Tapia, P., Grooms, C., Smol, J. P. (2021). Diatoms and other siliceous indicators track the ontogeny of a “bofedal” (wetland) ecosystem in the Peruvian Andes. Botany, 99(8), 491-505, doi:10.1139/cjb-2020-0196.
 

27. Liu, Y., Chen, G., Meyer-Jacob, C., Huang, L., Liu, X., Huang, G., Klamt, A.-M., Smol, J. P. (2021). Land-use and climate controls on aquatic carbon cycling and phototrophs in karst lakes of southwest China. Science of the Total Environment, 751, 141738, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141738.


26. Myrstener, E., Ninnes, S., Meyer-Jacob, C., Mighall, T., Bindler, R. (2021). Long-term development and trajectories of inferred lake-water organic carbon and pH in naturally acidic boreal lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 66(6), 2408-2422, doi:10.1002/lno.11761.


25. Rantala, M. V., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kivilä, E. H., Luoto, T. P., Ojala, A. E. K., Smol, J. P., Nevalainen, L. (2021). Traces of sunlight in organic matter biogeochemistry of two shallow subarctic lakes. Biogeochemistry, 155(2), 169-188, doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00820-9.


24. Reavie, E. D., Cai, M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P., Werne, J. P. (2021). Long-term primary production trends in the Laurentian Great Lakes: a comparison of geochemical methods. Journal of Paleolimnology, 65, 299-314, doi:10.1007/s10933-020-00170-w.

2020

23. Meyer-Jacob, C., Labaj, A. L., Paterson, A. M., Edwards, B. A., Keller, W., Cumming, B. F., Smol, J. P. (2020). Re-browning of Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) lakes now approaches pre-acid deposition lake-water dissolved organic carbon levels. Science of the Total Environment, 725, 138347, doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138347.

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22. Nelligan, C., Jeziorski, A., Rühland, K. M., Paterson, A. M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P. (2020). A multibasin comparison of historical water quality trends in Lake Manitou, Ontario, a provincially significant lake trout lake. Lake and Reservoir Management, 36(3), 243-259, doi:10.1080/10402381.2019.1659889.

 

21. Nevalainen, L., Rantala, M. V., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kivilä, E. H., Ojala, A. E. K., Smol, J. P., Luoto, T. P. (2020). A Holocene record of aquatic bio-optics in subarctic Fennoscandia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 243, 106491, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106491.


20. Pegler, S., Simmatis, B., Labaj, A. L., Meyer-Jacob, C., Smol, J. P. (2020). Long-term changes in chironomid assemblages linked to lake liming and fertilization in previously acidified Middle Lake (Sudbury, Canada). Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 231(8), 410, doi:10.1007/s11270-020-04780-y.

2019

19. Meyer-Jacob, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Cumming, B. F., Keller, W., Smol, J. P. (2019). The browning and re-browning of lakes: Divergent lake-water organic carbon trends linked to acid deposition and climate change. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 16676, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-52912-0.


18. Myrstener, E., Biester, H., Bigler, C., Lidberg, W., Meyer-Jacob, C., Rydberg, J., Bindler, R. (2019). Environmental footprint of small-scale, historical mining and metallurgy in the Swedish boreal forest landscape: The Moshyttan blast furnace as microcosm. The Holocene, 29(4), 578-591, doi:10.1177/0959683618824741.

2018

17. Weber, M. E., Lantzsch, H., Dekens, P., Das, S. K., Reilly, B. T., Martos, Y. M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Agrahari, S., Ekblad, A., Tischack, J., Holmes, B., Wolfgramm, P. (2018). 200,000 years of monsoonal history recorded on the lower Bengal Fan - strong response to insolation forcing, Global and Planetary Change, 166, 107-119, doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.04.003.

2017

16. Meyer-Jacob, C., Michelutti, N., Paterson, A. M., Monteith, D., Yang, H., Weckström, J., Smol, J. P., Bindler, R. (2017). Inferring past trends in lake-water organic carbon concentrations in northern lakes using sediment spectroscopy, Environmental Science and Technology, 51(22), 13248-13255, doi:10.1021/acs.est.7b03147.


15. Meyer-Jacob, C., Bindler, R., Bigler, C., Leng, M. J., Lowick, S. E., Vogel, H. (2017). Regional Holocene climate and landscape changes recorded in the large subarctic lake Torneträsk, N Fennoscandia, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 487, 1-14, doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.08.001.

 

14. Ninnes, S., Tolu, J., Meyer-Jacob, C., Mighall, T. M., Bindler, R. (2017). Investigating molecular changes in organic matter composition in two Holocene lake-sediment records from central Sweden using pyrolysis-GC/MS, Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(6), doi:10.1002/2016JG003715.


13. Tolu, J., Rydberg, J., Meyer-Jacob, C., Gerber, L., Bindler, R. (2017). Spatial variability of organic matter molecular composition and elemental geochemistry in surface sediments of a small boreal Swedish lake, Biogeosciences, 14(7), 1773-1792, doi:10.5194/bg-14-1773-2017.

2016

12. Bonk, A., Kinder, M., Enters, D., Grosjean, M., Meyer-Jacob, C., Tylmann, W. (2016). Sedimentological and geochemical responses of Lake Å»abiÅ„skie (north-eastern Poland) to erosion changes during the last millennium. Journal of Paleolimnology, 56(2), 239–252, doi:10.1007/s10933-016-9910-6.

 

11. Hahn, A., Compton, J. S., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kirsten, K. L., Lucassen, F., Pérez Mayo, M., Schefuß, E., Zabel, M. (2016). Holocene paleo-climatic record from the South African Namaqualand mudbelt: A source to sink approach. Quaternary International, 404(B), 121-135, doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.017.


10. Vogel, H., Meyer-Jacob, C., Thöle, L., Lippold, J. A., Jaccard, S. L. (2016). Quantification of biogenic silica by means of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIRS) in marine sediments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods, 14(12), 828-838, doi:10.1002/lom3.10129.


9. Wacnik, A., Tylmann, W., Bonk, A.,Goslar, T., Enters, D., Meyer-Jacob, C., Grosjean, M. (2016). Determining the responses of vegetation to natural processes and human impacts in north-eastern Poland during the last millennium: combined pollen, geochemical and historical data. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 25(5), 479-498, doi:10.1007/s00334-016-0565-z.


8. Wennrich, V., Andreev, A.A., Tarasov, P.E., Fedorov, G., Zhao, W., Gebhardt, C.A., Meyer-Jacob, C., Snyder, J.A., Nowaczyk, N.R., Schwamborn, G., Chapligin, B., Anderson, P.M., Lozhkin, A.V., Minyuk, P.S., Koeberl, C., Melles, M. (2016). Impact processes, permafrost dynamics, and climate and environmental variability in the terrestrial Arctic as inferred from the unique 3.6 Myr record of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russia – A review. Quaternary Science Reviews, 147, 221-244, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.03.019.

2015

7. Meyer-Jacob, C., Tolu, J., Bigler, C., Handong, Y., Bindler, R. (2015). Early land use and centennial scale changes in lake-water organic carbon prior to contemporary monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 112(21), 6579-6584, doi:10.1073/pnas.1501505112.

2014

6. Meyer-Jacob, C., Vogel, H., Boxberg, F., Rosén, P., Weber, M.E., Bindler, R. (2014). Independent measurement of biogenic silica in sediments by FTIR spectroscopy and PLS regression. Journal of Paleolimnology, 52(3), 245-255, doi:10.1007/s10933-014-9791-5.


5. 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. Climate of the Past, 10(1), 209-220, doi:10.5194/cp-10-209-2014.

2013

4. Brigham-Grette, J., Melles, M., Minyuk, P., Andreev, A., Tarasov, P., DeConto, R., Koenig, S., Nowaczyk, N., Wennrich, V., Rosén, P., Haltia-Hovi, E., Cook, T., Gebhardt, C., Meyer-Jacob, C., Snyder, J., Herzschuh, U. (2013). Pliocene Warmth, extreme Polar Amplification, and Stepped Pleistocene Cooling recorded in NE Russia. Science, 340(6139), 1421-1427, doi:10.1126/science.1233137.


3. Nowaczyk, N. R., Haltia, E. M., Ulbricht, D., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M. A., Rosén, P., Vogel, H., Francke, A., Meyer-Jacob, C., Andreev, A. A., Lozhkin, A. V. (2013). Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments – a combined magnetostratigraphic palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses. Climate of the Past, 9(6), 2413-2432, doi:10.5194/cp-9-2413-2013.​

 

2. Vogel, H., Meyer-Jacob, C., Melles, M., Brigham-Grette, J., Andreev, A.A., Wennrich, V., Rosén, P. (2013). Detailed insight into Arctic climatic variability during MIS 11c at Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia. Climate of the Past, 9(4), 1467-1479, doi:10.5194/cp-9-1467-2013.

2012

1. Chapligin, B., Meyer, H., Swann, G.E.A., Meyer-Jacob, C., Hubberten, H.W. (2012). A 250 ka oxygen isotope record from diatoms at Lake El'gygytgyn, far east Russian Arctic. Climate of the Past, 8(5), 1621-1636, doi:10.5194/cp-8-1621-2012.

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