Selected publications

Zhao, B., Castañeda, I.S., Salacup, J.M., Thomas, E.K., Daniels, W.C., Schneider, T., de Wet, G.A., Bradley, R.S. (2022). Prolonged Drying Trend Coincident with the Demise of Norse Settlement, Southern Greenland. Science Advances. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4346

Changed the leading explanation for why the Norse abandoned Greenland — from cooling to drought. Covered by CNN, The Guardian and Science.

Schneider, T., Castañeda, I.S., Zhao, B., Krüger, S., Salacup, J.M., Bradley, R.S. (2024). Tracing Holocene temperatures and human Impact in a Greenlandic lake: Novel insights from hyperspectral imaging and lipid biomarkers. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108851

First Holocene-length combined temperature, anoxia and productivity record from South Greenland, and the first independent anoxia reconstruction comparison based on hyperspectral imaging and lipid biomarkers.

Zhao, B., Castañeda, I.S., Bradley, R.S., Salacup, J.M., de Wet, G.A., Daniels, W.C., Schneider, T. (2021). Development of an in-situ branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) calibration in Lake 578, southern Greenland. Organic Geochemistry. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104168

The first in-situ brGDGT–temperature calibration developed in a lake — a reference point for lacustrine paleothermometry.

Schneider, T. and Castañeda, I.S. (2025). GaDGeT: An open-source R-workflow for fast and flexible GDGT index calculations. SoftwareX. doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2025.102374

Free, reproducible tooling that removes a recurring bottleneck for every lab doing GDGT work. 

Schneider, T., Hampel, H., Mosquera, P.V., Tylmann, T., Grosjean, M. (2018). Paleo-ENSO revisited: Ecuadorian Lake Pallcacocha does not reveal a conclusive El Niño signal. Global and Planetary Change 168, p. 54-66, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.06.004

A re-evaluation of one of the most widely cited ENSO archives, showing the signal is more complex than the field assumed.

Schneider, T., Rimer, D., Butz, C., Grosjean, M. (2018). A high-resolution pigment and productivity record from the varved Ponte Tresa basin (Lake Lugano, Switzerland) since 1919: insight from an approach that combines hyperspectral imaging and high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Paleolimnology 60, p. 381-398, doi: 10.1007/s10933-018-0028-x

Refined the hyperspectral-imaging + HPLC workflow that underpins much of my later work. 

Publications

2025

Schneider, T. and Castañeda, I.S. (2025). GaDGeT: An open-source R-workflow for fast and flexible GDGT index calculations. SoftwareX. doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2025.102374

Camperio, G., Ladd, N.S, Prebble, M., De Jonge, C., Schneider, T., Argiriadis, E., Lloren, R., Nelson, D.B., Delahaie, A., Krentscher C., Dubois, N. (2025). Human-climate-environment interactions and landscape transformation in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu during the past millenium. Frontiers in Earth Science. doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1613262

Guerra, L., Briones, D., Aqueveque, V.F., Soteres, R.L., Schneider, T., Vogel, H., López-García, L., Moreno, P. (2025). Lake sedimentation and landscape evolution since ~31 ka in Isla Grande de Chiloé, northwestern Patagonia (42°S). Quaternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109374 

Tang, Y., Han, Y., Yao, P., Liu, Z., Yan, D., Schneider, T., Lei, D., Jiang, H., Ni, H., Dusek, U. (2025). Tracing Sources of Sedimentary Soot: The Underestimated Role of Liquid Fossil Fuels in North China. Journal of Hazardous Materials. doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2025.138408

Wienhues, G., Zahajska, P., Fischer, D., Schneider, T., Grosjean, M. (2025). Direct detection and quantification of phycocyanin in sediment by hyperspectral scanning. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi: 10.1007/s10933-024-00350-y

2024

Schneider, T., Castañeda, I.S., Zhao, B., Krüger, S., Salacup, J.M., Bradley, R.S. (2024). Tracing Holocene temperatures and human Impact in a Greenlandic lake: Novel insights from hyperspectral imaging and lipid biomarkers. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108851

Krüger, S., Schneider, T., Bradley, R.S, Castañeda, I.S., Feeser, I., Koch Madsen, C., Strunk, A., Zhao, B., Jessen, C. (2024). The steady loss – Palynological investigation into main triggers of changes in vegetation and pastoral activity during the Norse period in southern Greenland. Quaternary Environments and Humans. doi: 10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100018

Zwier, M., van der Bilt, W.G.M, Schneider, T., D'Andrea, W.J., Bakke, J., Van der Putten, N., Bjune, A.E. (2024). Holocene changes in the position of the Southern Hemisphere Westerlies recorded by long distance transport of exotic pollen to the Kerguelen Islands. Quaternary Science Reviews. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108595

2023

Han, Y., Zhisheng, A., Lei, D., Zhou, W., Zhang, L., Zhao, X., Yan, D., Li, L., Rose, N., Roberts, S., Turner, S., Waters, C., Arimoto, R., Tang, Y., Liu, X., Fu, X., Schneider, T., Hou, X., Lan, J., Tan, L., Liu, X., Hu, J., Cao, Y., Liu, W., Wu, F., Wang, T., Qiang, X., Chen, N., Cheng, P., Hao, Y., Wang, Q., Chu, G., Guo, M., Han, M., Tan, Z., Wei, C., Dusek, U. (2023). The Sihailongwan Maar Lake, northeastern China as a candidate Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the Anthropocene Series. Anthropocene Reviews. doi: 10.1177/20530196231167019

Luethje, M., Benito, X., Schneider, T., Mosquera, P.V., Baker, P., Fritz, S.C. (2023). Paleolimnological responses of Ecuadorian páramo lakes to local and regional stressors over the last two millennia. Journal of Paleolimnology. doi: 10.1007/s10933-022-00274-5

2022

Zhao, B., Castañeda, I.S., Salacup, J.M., Thomas, E.K., Daniels, W.C., Schneider, T., de Wet, G.A., Bradley, R.S. (2022). Prolonged Drying Trend Coincident with the Demise of Norse Settlement, Southern Greenland. Science Advances. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abm4346

Benito, X., Benito, B., Vélez, M., Salgado, J., Schneider, T., Giosan, L., Nascimiento, M. (2022). Human practices behind the aquatic and terrestrial ecological decoupling to climate change in the tropical Andes. Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154115

Benito, X., Feitl, M., Schneider, T., Fritz, S.C., Baker, P.A., Pedersen, E.J., Gaüzère, P., de Novaes Nascimento, M., Bush, M., Ruhi, A. (2022). Ecological resilience in tropical Andean lakes: a paleolimnological perspective. Limnology and Oceanography. doi: 10.1002/lno.11747

Han, Y., Zhisheng, A., Waters, C. C., Arimoto, R., Schneider, T., Yao, P., Sarli, E., Zhou, W., Li, L., Dusek, U. (2022). Soot in Chinese lake sediments record rapid increase in fossil fuel usage since 1950. Environmental Science and Technology. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05424

2021

Schneider, T., Bandowe, B.A.M., Bigalke, M., Mestrot, A., Hampel, H., Mosquera, P.V., Fraenkl, L., Wienhues, G., Vogel, H., Tylmann, W., Grosjean, M. (2021). 250-year records of mercury and trace element deposition in two lakes from Cajas National Park, SW Ecuadorian Andes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. doi: 10.1007/s11356-020-11437-0

Zhao, B., Castañeda, I.S., Bradley, R.S., Salacup, J.M., de Wet, G.A., Daniels, W.C., Schneider, T. (2021). Development of an in-situ branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether (brGDGT) calibration in Lake 578, southern Greenland. Organic Geochemistry. doi: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104168

Han, Y., Bandowe, B.A.M., Schneider, T., Pongpiachan, S., Sai Hang Ho, S., Wei, Chong, Wang, Q., Xing, L., Wilcke, W. (2021). A 150-year record of black carbon (soot and char) and polycyclic aromatic compounds deposition in Lake Phayao, north Thailand. Environmental Pollution. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.116148

2020

Arcusa, S. H., Schneider, T., Mosquera, P.V., Vogel, H., Kaufman, D., Szidat, S., Grosjean, M. (2020). Late Holocene tephrostratigraphy from Cajas National Park, southern Ecuador. Andean Geology 47(3), doi: 10.5027/andgeoV47n3-3301

Chiaia-Hernandez, A.C., Zander, P.D., Schneider, T., Szidat, S., Lloren, R., Grosjean, M. (2020). High-Resolution Historical Record of Plant Protection Product Deposition Documented by Target and Nontarget Trend Analysis in a Swiss Lake under Anthropogenic Pressure. Environmental Science and Technology 54 (20), p. 13090-13100, doi: 10.1021/acs.est.0c04842

2019

Tu, L., Jarosch, K. A., Schneider, T., Grosjean, M. (2019). Phosphorus fractions in sediments and their relevance for historical lake eutrophication in the Ponte Tresa basin (Lake Lugano, Switzerland) since 1959. Science of the Total Environment 685, p. 806-817, doi: j.scitotenv.2019.06.243

Benito, X., Feitl, M., Fritz, S.C., Mosquera, P.V., Schneider, T., Hampel, H., Quevedo, L., Steinitz-Kannan, M. (2019). Identifying temporal and spatial patterns of diatom community change in the tropical Andes over the last c. 150 years. Journal of Biogeography 46, P. 1889-1900, doi: 10.1111/jbi.13561

2018

Schneider, T., Hampel, H., Mosquera, P.V., Tylmann, T., Grosjean, M. (2018). Paleo-ENSO revisited: Ecuadorian Lake Pallcacocha does not reveal a conclusive El Niño signal. Global and Planetary Change 168, p. 54-66, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2018.06.004

Schneider, T., Rimer, D., Butz, C., Grosjean, M. (2018). A high-resolution pigment and productivity record from the varved Ponte Tresa basin (Lake Lugano, Switzerland) since 1919: insight from an approach that combines hyperspectral imaging and high-performance liquid chromatography. Journal of Paleolimnology 60, p. 381-398, doi: 10.1007/s10933-018-0028-x

Bandowe, B. A. M., Fränkl, L., Grosjean, M., Tylmann, W., Mosquera, P. V., Hampel, H., Schneider, T. (2018). A 150-year record of polycyclic aromatic compound (PAC) deposition from high Andean Cajas National Park, southern Ecuador. Science of the Total Environment 621, p. 1652-1663, 

doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.060

2016

De Jong, R., Schneider, T., Hernández-Almeida, I., Grosjean, M. (2016). Recent temperature trends in the South Central Andes reconstructed from sedimentary chrysophyte stomatocysts in Laguna Escondida (1742 m a.s.l., 38°28 S, Chile). Global and Planetary Change 137, p. 24-34, doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.12.006

Book contributions

Schneider, T. (2023). Environmental change and impacts on prehistoric human colonization of Peary Land. In: Leister Expeditions 2021 and 2022: Discoveries and Explorations in North Greenland. (Order your free book from here)

Schneider, T., Weber, H., Franke, J., Brönnimann, S. (2013). The Storm Surge Event of the Netherlands in 1953. In: Brönnimann, S. and Martius, O. (Eds.). Weather extremes during the past 140 years. Geographica Bernensia G89, p. 35-43, doi: 10.4480/GB2013.G89.04

Software

Schneider, T. and Castañeda, I.S. (2025). GaDGeT. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15827944 

GaDGeT calculates published GDGT proxies from your raw data in a single streamlined workflow. Please refer to the original publication for more details: doi: 10.1016/j.softx.2025.102374

In review & in preparation

Schneider, T., Zwier, M., van der Bilt, W.G.M., Bakke, J., D'Andrea, W.J. (in prep.). Holocene-length hydroclimatic variability on the Kerguelen Islands: dD-isotopes from leaf waxes suggest rapid movement of the Southern Westerlies in the early Holocene. Target: Geophysical Research Letters.

Schneider, T., Lapointe, F., Stein, R., Balascio, N., Perren, B., D'Andrea, W.J., Bradley, R.S. (in prep.). A promising archive of High Arctic Holocene temperature variability: lake sediments from Peary Land, North Greenland. Target: Science Advances.

Schneider, T., Zahajská, P., Schouten, S., Grosjean, M. (in prep.). Tracking anthropogenically induced ecosystem shifts in Lake 578 during the Norse-era using sedimentary fossil pigments. Target: Anthropocene.

Schaad, E., Schneider, T., Casado-Martinez, C., Dubois, N., Rünzi, P., Grosjean, M., Chiaia-Hernández, A.C. (in prep.). Small lentic system under pressure: Reconstruction of pesticide input in the last century. Target: Science of the Total Environment.

Martinez Sosa, P., et al. (in prep.). Glycerol Dialkyl Glycerol Tetraethers in the terrestrial realm. Target: Biogeosciences