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Note: TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Advances in 40Ar/39Ar dating: from archaeology to planetary sciences – introduction / Fred Jourdan, Darren F. Mark and Chrystele Verati / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 1-8, 16 January 2014, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.24 Perspectives on 40Ar/39Ar dating / Ian McDougall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 9-20, 30 September 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.20 Methodological developments Some footnotes to the optimization-based calibration of the 40Ar/39Ar system / Paul R. Renne / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 21-31, 25 July 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.17 Neutron-induced 37Ar recoil ejection in Ca-rich minerals and implications for 40Ar/39Ar dating / F. Jourdan and P. R. Renne / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 33-52, 25 July 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.15 Direct measurement of recoil effects on 40Ar/39Ar standards / Chris M. Hall / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 53-62, 13 March 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.7 FCs-EK: a new sampling of the Fish Canyon Tuff 40Ar/39Ar neutron flux monitor / L. E. Morgan, D. F. Mark, J. Imlach, D. Barfod and R. Dymock / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 63-67, 30 September 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.21 Petrology and geochronology of ‘muscovite age standard’ B4M / Alexandra R. Heri, Martin Robyr and Igor M. Villa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 69-78, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.2 Argon extraction from geological samples by CO2 scanning laser step-heating / D. N. Barfod, D. F. Mark, A. Tait, R. C. Dymock and J. Imlach / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 79-90, 24 October 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.23 The multi-diffusion domain model: past, present and future / T. Mark Harrison and Oscar M. Lovera / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 91-106, 13 March 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.9 Diffusion of Ar in K-feldspar: Present and absent / Igor M. Villa / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 107-116, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.4 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and the diffusion of 39Ar in phengite–muscovite intergrowths during step-heating experiments in vacuo / Marnie A. Forster and Gordon S. Lister / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 117-135, 25 July 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.16 Ar diffusion and solubility measurements in plagioclases using the ultra-violet laser depth-profiling technique / Jo-Anne Wartho, Simon P. Kelley and Stephen C. Elphick / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 137-154, 25 July 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.13 Modelling effect of sericitization of plagioclase on the 40K/40Ar and 40Ar/39Ar chronometers: implication for dating basaltic rocks and mineral deposits / Chrystèle Verati and Fred Jourdan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 155-174, 25 July 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.14 The other isotopes: research avenues based on 36Ar, 37Ar and 38Ar / Grenville Turner and Ray Burgess / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 175-188, 13 March 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.8 Applications: Tectonics 40Ar/39Ar Thermochronology on Central China Orogen: Cooling, uplift and implications for orogeny dynamics / Fei Wang, Rixiang Zhu, Quanlin Hou, Dewen Zheng, Liekun Yang, Lin Wu, Wenbei Shi, Huile Feng, Haiqing Sang, Hongyuan Zhang and Qing Liu / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 189-206, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.3 40Ar/39Ar ages of crystallization and recrystallization of rock-forming polyhalite in Alpine rocksalt deposits / C. Leitner, F. Neubauer, J. Genser, S. Borojević-Šoštarić and G. Rantitsch / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 207-224, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.5 Persistent long-term (c. 24 Ma) exhumation in the Eastern Alaska Range constrained by stacked thermochronology / Jeff A. Benowitz, Paul W. Layer and Sam Vanlaningham / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 225-243, 20 June 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.12 40Ar/39Ar hornblende provenance clues about Heinrich event 3 (H3) / Greg E. Downing, Sidney R. Hemming, Anne Jost and Martin Roy / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 245-263, 30 September 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.18 Observation of centimetre-scale argon diffusion in alkali feldspars: implications for 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology / Stephanie Flude, Alison M. Halton, Simon P. Kelley, Sarah C. Sherlock, James Schwanethal and Camilla M. Wilkinson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 265-275, 10 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.25 Applications: Volcanology 40Ar/39Ar age constraints on the Haifanggou and Lanqi formations: When did the first flowers bloom? / Su-Chin Chang, Haichun Zhang, Sidney R. Hemming, Gary T. Mesko and Yan Fang / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 277-284, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.1 Timing of geothermal activity in an active island-arc volcanic setting: First 40Ar/39Ar dating from Bouillante geothermal field (Guadeloupe, French West Indies) / C. Verati, P. Patrier-Mas, J. M. Lardeaux and V. Bouchot / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 285-295, 30 September 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.19 Applications: Planetary sciences Issues in dating young rocks from another planet: Martian shergottites / Jisun Park, Donald D. Bogard, Laurence E. Nyquist and G. F. Herzog / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 297-316, 20 June 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.10 A laser probe 40Ar/39Ar investigation of poikilitic shergottite NWA 4797: implications for the timing of shock metamorphism / Erin L. Walton, Simon Kelley, Christopher D. K. Herd and Anthony J. Irving / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 317-332, 20 June 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.11 40Ar/39Ar ages of impacts involving ordinary chondrite meteorites / Timothy D. Swindle, D. A. Kring and J. R. Weirich / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 333-347, 24 January 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.6 A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for hydrated impact glass from the Dellen impact, Sweden / D. F. Mark, P. Lindgren and A. E. Fallick / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 378, 349-366, 30 September 2013, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP378.22

Note: Berlin, Humboldt Univ., Diss., 2011

Note: Contents: 1 Introduction / John E. Hobbie. - 2 Climate and Hydrometeorology of the Toolik Lake Region and the Kuparuk River Basin: Past, Present, and Future / Jessica E. Cherry, Stephen J. Déry, Yiwei Cheng, Marc Stieglitz, Amy S. Jacobs, and Feifei Pan. - 3 Glacial History and Long-Term Ecology in the Toolik Lake Region / Donald A. Walker, Thomas D. Hamilton, Hilmar A. Maier, Corinne A. Munger, and Martha K. Raynolds. - 4 Late-Quaternary Environmental and Ecological History of the Arctic Foothills, Northern Alaska / W. Wyatt Oswald, Linda B. Brubaker, Feng Sheng Hu, and George W. Kling. - 5 Terrestrial Ecosystems at Toolik Lake, Alaska / Gaius R. Shaver, James A. Laundre, M. Syndonia Bret-Harte, F. Stuart Chapin, III, Joel A. Mercado-Dfaz, Anne E. Giblin, Laura Gough, William A. Gould, Sarah E. Hobbie, George W. Kling, Michelle C. Mack, John C. Moore, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Edward B. Rastetter, and Joshua P. Schimel. - 6 Land-Water Interactions / George W. Kling, Heather E. Adams, Neil D. Bettez, William B. Bowden, Byron C. Crump, Anne E. Giblin, Kristin E. Judd, Katy Keller, George W. Kipphut, Edward R. Rastetter, Gaius R. Shaver, and Marc Stieglitz. - 7 Ecology of Streams of the Toolik Region / William B. Bowden, Bruce J. Peterson, Linda A. Deegan, Alex D. Huryn, Jonathan P. Benstead, Heidi Golden, Michael Kendrick, Stephanie M. Parker, Elissa Schuett, Joseph J. Vallino, and John E. Hobbie. - 8 The Response of Lakes Near the Arctic LTER to Environmental Change / Chris Luecke, Anne E. Giblin, Neil D. Bettez, Greta A. Burkart, Byron C. Crump, Mary Anne Evans, Gretchen Gettel, Sally Maclntyre, W. John O'Brien, Parke A. Rublee, and George W. Kling. - 9 Mercury in the Alaskan Arctic / William F. Fitzgerald, Chad R. Hammerschmidt, Daniel R. Engstrom, Prentiss H. Balcom, Carl H. Lamborg, and Chun-Mao Tseng. - 10 Ecological Consequences of Present and Future Changes in Arctic Alaska / John E. Hobbie, and George W. Kling.

Note: Contents: Preface. - List of abbreviations. - 1. Sea-level changes: the emergence of a Quaternary perspective. - 1.1 Introduction. - 1.2 The Quaternary Period. - 1.3 Sea-Jevel changes: historical development of ideas. - 1.4 Observations from classical antiquity until the nineteenth century. - 1.4.1 Early Mediterranean studies. - 1.4.2 Eighteenth-century writings on universal changes to the Earth. - 1.4.3 Diluvial Theory - the universal flood. - 1.4.4 The Temple of Serapis: a compelling case for relative sea-level change. - 1.4.5 Lavoisier and the concepts of transgression and regression. - 1.5 Glacial action and recognition of the Ice Ages. - 1.5.1 Louis Agassiz and the Glacial Theory. - 1.5.2 The Croll-Milankovitch Hypothesis. - 1.6 Vertical changes in land and sea Ievel related to Quaternary climate. - 1.6.1 Charles Darwin and James Dana. - 1.6.2 Insights from around the world. - 1. 7 Evolution of ideas in the twentieth century. - 1. 7.1 Developments in Europe. - 1.7.2 Advances in geochemistry and geochronology. - 1.7.3 Oxygen-isotope records from marine sediments and ice cores. - 1.7.4 Geophysical models of sea-level changes. - 1.7.5 Sequence stratigraphy. - 1.7.6 International concern and a focus on current and future sea-level trends. - 1.8 Theoretical concepts relevant to the study of Quaternary sea-level changes. - 1.9 Synthesis and way forward. - 1.9.1 Revisiting old ideas. - 1.9.2 Quaternary sea-level changes: the status quo. - 2. The causes of Quaternary sea-level changes. - 2.1 Introduction. - 2.2 Sea Ievel and sea-level changes: some definitions. - 2.2.1 Sea Ievel and base Ievel. - 2.2.2 Relative sea-level changes. - 2.3 Processes responsible for relative sea-level changes in the Quaternary. - 2.3.1 Glacio-eustasy. - 2.3.2 lsostasy. - 2.3.3 Glacial isostasy and relative sea-Ievel changes. - 2.3.4 Hydro-isostasy and relative sea-level changes. - 2.3.5 The geoid and changes to its configuration. - 2.3.6 Global variation in geophysical response and equatorial ocean siphoning. - 2.4 Tectonism, volcanism, and other processes resulting in relative sea-level changes. - 2.4.1 Teetonic movements. - 2.4.2 Volcanism and its link to sea-level changes. - 2.4.3 Lithospheric flexure. - 2.4.4 Changes in tidal range. - 2.4.5 Steric changes, meteorological changes, and the role of ENSO events. - 2.5 Geophysical models and the sea-!evel equation. - 2.6 Synthesis and conclusions. - 3. Palaeo-sea-level indicators. - 3.1 Introduction. - 3.1.1 Fixed and relational sea-level indicators. - 3.1.2 Relative sea-level changes, sea-level index points, and indicative meaning. - 3.1.3 Sources of uncertainty in palaeo-sea-Ievel estimation. - 3.1.4 Palaeo-sea-level curve or envelope?. - 3.1.5 Facies architecture, allostratigraphy, and sea-level changes. - 3.2 Pleistocene and Holocene palaeo-sea-level indicators compared. - 3.3 Corals and coral reefs. - 3.3.1 Reefs and Pleistocene sea Ievels. - 3.3.2 Reefs and Holocene sea Ievels. - 3.3.3 Conglomerates and recognition of in-situ corals. - 3.3.4 Microatolls. - 3.4 Other biological sea-level indicators. - 3.4.1 Fixed biological indicators. - 3.4.2 Mangroves. - 3.4.3 Salt-marsh sediments and microfossil analysis. - 3.4.4 Seagrass. - 3.4.5 Marine molluscs. - 3.4.6 Submerged forests. - 3.5 Geomorphological and geological sea-level indicators. - 3.5.1 Marine terraces and shore platforms. - 3.5.2 Shoreline notches and visors. - 3.5.3 Isolation basins. - 3.5.4 Beach ridges. - 3.5.5 Cheniers. - 3.5.6 Aeolianites. - 3.5.7 Calcretes. - 3.5.8 Beachrock. - 3.6 Geoarchaeology and sea-level changes. - 3.7 Synthesis and conclusions. - 4. Methods of dating Quaternary sea-level changes. - 4.1 Introduction. - 4.1.1 Terminology. - 4.1.2 Historical approaches used for evaluating geological age of coastal deposits. - 4.2 Radiocarbon dating. - 4.2.1 Underlying principles of the radiocarbon method. - 4.2.2 Age range. - 4.2.3 Measurement techniques. - 4.2.4 Isotopic fractionation. - 4.2.5 Marine reservoir and hard-water effects. - 4.2.6 Secular 14C/ 12C variation and the calibration of radiocarbon ages to sidereal years. - 4.2.7 Cantamination and sample pre-treatment strategies. - 4.2.8 Statistical considerations: comparisons of radiocarbon age and pooling of results. - 4.3 Uranium-series disequilibrium dating. - 4.3.1 Underlying principles of U-series disequilibrium dating. - 4.3.2 U-series dating of marine carbonates. - 4.3.3 U-series dating of other materials. - 4.4 Oxygen-isotope stratigraphy. - 4.5 Luminescence dating methods. - 4.5.1 Quantifying the cumulative effects of environmental radiation dose. - 4.5.2 Age range of luminescence methods. - 4.5.3 Anomalaus fading and partial bleaching. - 4.6 Electron spin resonance dating. - 4.7 Amino acid racemisation dating. - 4.7.1 The amino acid racemisation reaction. - 4.7.2 Environmental factors that influence racemisation. - 4.7.3 Sources of uncertainty in AAR dating. - 4.7.4 Application of AAR to dating coastal successions. - 4.8 Cosmogenic dating. - 4.9 Other dating techniques. - 4.9.1 Event markers. - 4.9.2 Palaeomagnetism. - 4.10 Synthesis and conclusions. - 5 Vertical displacement of shorelines. - 5.5.1 Introduction. - 5.2 Plate tectonics and implications for coastlines globally. - 5.2.1 Lithospheric plate domains. - 5.2.2 Plate margins. - 5.2.3 Plate tectonics and coastal classification. - 5.2.4 Ocean plate dynamics and island types. - 5.3 Styles of tectonic deformation and rates of uplift or subsidence. - 5.3.1 Coseismic uplift. - 5.3.2 Epeirogenic uplift. - 5.3.3 Folding and warping. - 5.3.4 Isostasy. - 5.3.5 Lithospheric flexure. - 5.3.6 Mantle plumes. - 5.3.7 Subsidence and submerged shorelines. - 5.4 The last interglacial shoreline: a reference for quantifying vertical displacement. - 5.4.1 Terrace age and elevation. - 5.4.2 Constraints on using the last interglacial shoreline as a benchmark. - 5.5 Coastlines in tectonically 'stable' cratonic regions. - 5.5.1 Australia. - 5.5.2 Southern Africa. - 5.6 Coastlines of emergence. - 5.6.1 Huon Peninsula. - 5.6.2 Barbados. - 5.6.3 Convergent continental margins: Chile. - 5.7 Vertical crustal movements associated with glacio-isostasy: Scandinavia. - 5.8 The Mediterranean Basin . - 5.8.1 Italy. - 5.8.2 Greece. - 5.9 The Caribbean region. - 5.9.1 Southern Florida and the Bahamas. - 5.9.2 Other Caribbean sites and more tectonically active islands. - 5.10 Divergent spreading-related coastlines: Red Sea. - 5.11 Pacific Plate. - 5.11.1 Pacific islands. - 5.11.2 Hawaii. - 5.11.3 Japan. - 5.11.4 New Zealand. - 5.12 Synthesis and conclusions. - 6. Pleistocene sea-level changes. - 6.1 Introduction. - 6.2 Prelude to the Pleistocene. - 6.3 Pleistocene icesheets. - 6.4 Early Pleistocene sea Ievels. - 6.4.1 Roe Calcarenite, Roe Plains, southern Australia. - 6.4.2 The Crag Group, southeastern England. - 6.S The middle Pleistocene Transition. - 6.6 Middle Pleistocene sea-level changes. - 6.7 Sea-level highstands of the middle Pleistocene. - 6.7.1 Marine Isotope Stage 11. - 6.7.2 Marine Isotope Stage 9 - the pre-penultimate interglacial. - 6.7.3 Marine Isotope Stage 7 - the penultimate interglacial. - 6.8 Middle Pleistocene sea-level lowstands. - 6.9 Late Pleistocene sea-level changes. - 6.9.1 The last interglacial maximum (MIS 5e). - 6.9.2 Timing and duration of the last interglacial maximum. - 6.9.3 Global estimates of last interglacial sea Ievels - the sanctity of the 6 m APSL datum?. - 6.10 Interstadial sea Ievels of the last glacial cycle (MIS 5c and 5a). - 6.11 Interstadial sea Ievels during MIS 3. - 6.12 Late Pleistocene interstadial sea Ievels: Dansgaard-Oeschgerand Heinrich Events. - 6.13 Eustatic sea Ievels during the Last Glacial Maximum (MIS 2). - 6.14 Long records of Pleistocene sea-level highstands. - 6.14.1 Coorong Coastal Plain and Murray Basin, southern Australia. - 6.14.2 Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. - 6.14.3 Sumba Island, Indonesia. - 6.15 Synthesis and conclusions. - 7. Sea-level changes since the Last Glacial Maximum. - 7.1 Introduction. -

Note: Zugl.: Hannover, Univ., Diss., 2014

Note: Zugl.: Karlsruhe, Karlsruher Inst. für technologie, Diss., 2014

Note: Contents: Preface / Wolf Dieter Blümel, Jörn Thiede and Ruth Narmann. - Acknowledgements. - Aims of the Leopoldina Symposium on Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of Northeastern Eurasia: A Personal and Eclectic View / Jörn Thiede. - Welcome Speech / Nikolay M. Kropachev. - Welcome Address / Wolf Dieter Blümel. - LEOPOLDINA LECTURE. - From Lomonosov to Modern Times: Eclectic History of Russian-German Cooperation in the Scientific Exploration of High Northern Latitudes / Jörn Thiede. - EXTENDED CONTRIBUTIONS. - Research Infrastructure in Northern Sibiria. - The Zotino Tall Tower Observatory (ZOTTO): Quantifying Large Scale Biogeochemical Changes in Central Siberia / Martin Heimann, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Jan Winderlich, Meinrat O. Andreae, Xuguang Chi, Christoph Gerbig, Olaf Kolle, Karl Kubler, Jost Lavric, Eugene Mikhailov, Alexey Panov, Sungbin Park, Christian Rodenbeck and Andrej Skorochod. - The New Arctic Research Station "Samoylov Island" in the Lena Delta: Prospects of Joint Russian-German Studies / Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten and Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Methods of Radiochronology of Quaternary Sediments: Modern Approaches and Results of Studies / Vladislav Y. Kuznetsov. - SESSION 1. - Summary. - Environmental Change in Northern Eurasia in Real Time / Session Chair: Jörn Thiede. - Sedimentation history in the Lena Delta, Northern Siberia / Georg Schwamborn, Volker Rachold, Mikhail Grigoriev and Matthias Krbetschek. - Hydrology of the Lena River Delta / Irina V. Fedorova, Antonia A. Chetverova, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Aleksandr S. Makarov, Julia Boike, Anne Morgenstern and Birgit Heim. - Advanced process-based hydrological modelling as an effective tool for assessment of changes of the Arctic Environment in different temporal and spatial scales / Olga Semenova and Lyudmila S. Lebedeva. - Shelf-basin exchange in the Laptev Sea in the warming climate: the joint roles of atmospheric forcing and hydrography / Vladimir Ivanov, Ekaterina Chernyavskaya, Pavel Maslov, Yevgeny Aksenov and Beverly Cuevas. - Distribution of sea ice derived brine signals from the Siberian shelf area based on stable oxygen isotope and salinity data / Irina Semeryuk and Dorothea Bauch. - SESSION 2. - Summary. - Continental Siberia: dynamics of permafrost landscapes and carbon fluxes / Session Chair: Mikhael N. Grigoriev. - Genesis and age of pingo structures in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Anna A. Urban. - Content and distribution of trace metals in permafrost-affected soils of Northern Siberia, Russia / Iulia Antcibor, Annette Eschenbach, Lars Kutzbach, Dmitry Bolshiyanov and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Carbon stocks in permafrost-affected soils in the Lena River Delta / Sebastian Zubrzycki, Alexey R. Desyatkin, Lars Kutzbach and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Microbial methane driving processes in Siberian Arctic and Sub-Arctic cryosols / Svetlana Evgrafova and Dirk Wagner. - The latest tectonic movements in key areas on the coasts and islands of the Laptev Sea / Alisa V. Baranskaya. - Erosion rates and terrigenous sediment fluxes in the Lena Delta Region (East Siberian Arctic) / Mikhail N. Grigoriev. - Nitrogen availability, turnover and limitation in permafrost affected soils of Samoylov Island in the Lena Delta, Northeast Siberia / Tina Sanders, Claudia Fiencke and Eva-Maria Pfeiffer. - Sedimentological studies of high latitude lake sediments aimed at palaeoenvironmental reconstructions: an example from the Lena Delta Hinterland / Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris K. Biskaborn, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Bernhard Diekmann, Larissa A. Savelieva and Dmitry A. Subetto. - Palynological characteristics of lower Yenisey quaternary deposits / Valentina A. Chetverova, Luda G. Derevyanko and Evgeny A. Gusev. - SESSION 3. - Summary. - The paleoenvironmental history of Siberian permafrost landscapes / Session Chair: Hans-Wolfgang Hubberten. - Vegetation history of the lower Lena River from pollen records of lake sediments / Larissa Savelieva, Dmitry Yu. Bolshiyanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Polina S. Vakhrameeva, Boris Biskaborn and Bernhard Diekmann. - Climate and vegetation of late pleistocene in the east Siberian Arctic based on pollen data from Bol'shoy Lyakhovsky Island / Natalya A. Rudaya, Andrei Andreev, Sebastian Wetterich and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Evolution of thermokarst lakes and alasses in the ice-rich permafrost of the Lena River Delta / Anne Morgenstern, Frank Günther, Mathias Ulrich, Irina V. Fedorova, Natalya A. Rudaya, Julia Boike and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Late pleistocene and holocene vegetation history deduced from palynological investigations of the permafrost records of the El'gygytgyn impact crater / Elena Raschke, Andrei Andreev, Grigory Fedorov, Georg Schwamborn and Lutz Schirrmeister. - Tracking environmental change using invertebrate bioindicators from the lakes of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia) / Larisa B. Nazarova, Oleg N. Tumanov, Ulrike Herzschuh, Larisa A. Frolova and Lyudmila A. Pestryakova. - Palaeoenvironmental investigations and reconstructions in Northern Russia using subfossil Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) / Larisa A. Frolova, Liliya I. Gafiatulina, Larissa B. Nazarova and Sebastian Wetterich. - SESSION 4. - Summary. - Siberian shelf seas and the adjacent Arctic Ocean / Session Chair: Heidemarie Kassens. - Oceanography of the Laptev Sea / Bennet Juhls, Sergey A. Kirillov, Jens Hölemann, Leonid A. Timokhov, Heidemarie Kassens, Birgit Heim, Andrey Novikhin and Markus Janout. - Summer sediment transport dynamics on the Laptev sea shelf (Siberian Arctic) / Carolyn Wegner, Kerstin Wittbrodt, Dorothea Bauch, Jens A. Hölemann, Markus Janout, Andrey Novikhin, Birgit Heim, Sergey Kirillov, Heidemarie Kassens and Leonid Timokhov. - Living and fossil microalgae from the Eurasian Arctic Seas as indicators of modern and past environmental changes / Yelena Polyakova, Irina Kryukova, Tatiana Klyuvitkina, Yekatherina Novichkova and Nataliya Manko. - Past environmental transformation of the Laptev Sea continental margin and water mass changes since last deglacial times / Ekaterina Taldenkova, Natalia Chistyakova, Henning A. Bauch, Anna Stepanova, Yaroslav Ovsepyan and Robert F. Spielhagen. - A multiproxy reconstruction of the last interglacial environmental conditions in northern Russia / Henning A. Bauch, Yaroslav Ovsepyan, Ekaterina Taldenkova, Anna Stepanova and Olga Rudenko. - Holocene variability of Atlantic water advection to the Arctic Ocean / Robert F. Spielhagen, Kirstin Werner, Natalia Chistyakova and Ekaterina Taldenkova. - Ecological and geographical characteristics of phytoplankton in the Eastern Laptev Sea (Autumnal Season 2008) / Irina Kryukova, Yelena Polyakova, Ekaterina Abramova, Fedor Martynov, Andrey Novikhin, Heidemarie Kassens and Jens Hölemann.