Dr Jens Wendler

Post-doc research fellow

wendler@uni-bremen.de
Tel +49 421 218 4512

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since 2005 Postdoctoral fellow project "Platform crises of the Cenomanian Levant Platform – high-resolution studies of dysoxic sediments (Central Jordan): environmental changes, cycles, palaeoecology" more...

2004 Field work in Tibet, Austrian Alps, Jordan; IGCP project 494 co-leader: Research project "Electromagnetic forcing of global change"

2002-2003 Postdoctoral fellow Bremen-Amsterdam-Utrecht Universities: European Graduate Kolleg EUROPROX "Proxies in Earth History"

2001 PhD at Bremen University
"Reconstruction of astronomically-forced cyclic and abrupt palaeoecological changes in the Upper Cretaceous Boreal Realm based on calcareous dinoflagellate cysts", Prof Dr H. Willems
Pdf available in the Uni-Bremen E-LIB

1991-1997 Studies of Geology and Mineralogy, TU Mining Academy Freiberg
"Diagenesis and sedimentology of upper Permian carbonates (Ca2) - methodical approach"

Teaching

Previously:

Practical and seminars: Palaeoecology

Advanced geological mapping course: Deckenzone der Süd-Pyrenäen

Practical and seminars: Gelände- und Labormethoden in der Paläontologie

Chair of the EUROPROX PhD seminar

Postgraduate course: Scientific literature work and methods of scientific presentation

Currently:

EMaG lecture: Global change (in English)

Field trip: 05-9006 Weserbergland (with Jochen Kuss and Martina Bachmann)

Projects

since 2005: Platform crises of the Cenomanian Levant Platform – high-resolution studies of dysoxic sediments ( Central Jordan ): environmental changes, cycles, palaeoecology more...

since 2002: Electromagnetic forcing (cosmic rays, solar cycles, geomagnetic field) and climate: Sedimentological-paleontological and geomagnetic effects of Milky Way spiral arm passages of the solar system

since 2002: Late Cretaceous marine red beds ( Tibet , Alps , Jordan): Sedimentology, Geochemistry, Palaeontology (IGCP 463 und 494) more...

1997-2001: Zyklenarchitektur und integrierte Stratigraphie sedimentärer Becken (Oberkreide) DFG Project Wi 725/12

Publications

Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Gräfe, K.-U., Willems, H., Lehmann, J., (subm.). Turonian to Santonian carbon isotopes from the Tethys Himalaya, South Tibet. Cretaceous Research.


Wendler, J., Sepulveda, J., Vogt, C., Mort, H.P., Morsi, A.M., Stein, R., Masri, A., Kuss, H.J., submitted. The Cenomanian/Turonian oceanic anoxic event (OAE 2) on the eastern Levant carbonate platform (Central Jordan) – a multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters.


Sepulveda, J., Wendler, J., Leider, A., Kuss, J., Summons, R., Hinrichs, K.-U., submitted. Molecular-isotopic evidence of marine productivity changes across the C/T boundary in the Levant platform (Central Jordan). Organic Geochemistry.


Morsi, A-M.M. and Wendler, J., submitted. Ostracode record from the middle Cenomanian – early Turonian of Central Jordan: Taxonomy and palaeoecology related to Oceanic Anoxic Event 2. Geological Society of London, Special Publications.


Wendler, J., Lehmann, J. and Kuss, J., submitted. Orbital time scale, intra-platform basin correlation, carbon isotope stratigraphy, and sea level history of the Cenomanian/Turonian Eastern Levant platform, Jordan. Geological Society of London, Special Publications.


Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Neuhuber, S. and Wagreich, M., in press. Productivity fluctuations and orbital cyclicity during onset of Early to Middle Turonian marine red bed formation (Austrian Eastern Alps), SEPM Special Publications.


Wendler
, J., Wendler, I. and Kuss, J., in press. Early Turonian shallow marine red beds on the Levant carbonate platform (Jordan), Southern Tethys. SEPM Special Publications


Wendler, J., Kuss, J., Stein, R., (2006). Expanded platform crises at the MCE and OAE2 (Mid Cenomanian to Lower Turonian) of the Levent carbonate platform (Jordan). Terra Nostra 2006/3, 103.


Lehmann, J., Wendler, I., Wendler, J., Willems, H., Hu, X. (2005). First Ammonite and Inoceramid data from the Upper Cretaceous of the Tingri section in SE-Tibet: Biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental implications. Earth Science Frontiers 12 (2), 105-112.

Wendler , J. (2004). External forcing of the geomagnetic field? – Implications for the cosmic ray flux – climate – variability. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics 66, 1195-1203. PDF

Bison, K., Wendler , J., Versteegh, G.J.M., Willems, H. (2004). Tetratropis terrina sp. nov., a new calcareous dinoflagellate cyst from the Upper Campanian polyplocom zone of Lägerdorf (NW Germany). Journal of Micropalaeontoloy 23, 127-132. PDF

Wendler , J., Willems, H. (2004). Pithonelloid wall crystallite orientation of the Upper Cretaceous calcareous dinoflagellate cyst genus Tetratropis. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 129, 133-140. PDF

Gräfe, K.-U. and Wendler , J. (2003). Foraminifers and calcareous dinoflagellate cysts as proxies for deciphering sequence stratigraphy, sea-level change, and paleoceanography of Cenomanian-Turonian hemipelagic sediments in western Europe. SEPM, Special Publication 75, "Proxies and sea-level changes" (eds. Mark Leckie, H. Clement Olson), 229-262. PDF

Wendler , J. and Willems, H. (2002). The distribution pattern of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (Fish Clay, Stevns Klint , Denmark ) - Implications for our understanding of species selective extinction. In: eds. C. Koeberl and K. G. MacLeod, Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and beyond. - Geological Society of America Special Paper, 356, 265-275.

Wendler , J., Gräfe, K.-U. and Willems, H. (2002). Reconstruction of mid-Cenomanian orbitally-forced palaeoenvironmental changes based on calcareous dinoflagellate cysts. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 179, 19-41. PDF

Wendler , J., Gräfe, K.-U. and Willems, H (2002). Palaeoecology of calcareous dinoflagellate cysts in the mid-Cenomanian Boreal Real: Implications for the reconstruction of palaeoceanography of the NW European shelf sea. - Cretaceous Research, 23, 213-229. PDF

Wendler , J., Wendler, I. and Willems, H., (2001). Orthopithonella collaris sp. nov., a new calcareous dinoflagellate cyst from the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (Fish Clay, Stevns Klint/Denmark). Revue of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 115, 69-77.

Wendler , J. (2001). Reconstruction of astronomically-forced cyclic and abrupt palaeoecological changes in the Upper Cretaceous Boreal realm based on calcareous dinoflagellate cysts. Berichte, Fachbereich Geowissenschaften, Universität Bremen 183, 149 Seiten. PDF