Klages CV 2020 - AWIapps3.awi.de/CurriculumVitae/jklages.pdf · 2020-04-28 · CV and scientific achievements Dr. Johann Philipp Klages hh Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum

CV and scientific achievements Dr. Johann Philipp Klages hh

Alfred-Wegener- Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

Marine Geology Am Alten Hafen 26, 27568 Bremerhaven, Germany

E-Mail: [email protected] | Phone +49 471 4831 1574

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Personal information

Date and place of birth: 1. September 1982 in Celle, Germany

Citizenship: German

Marital status: Married, two children

Language Fluency: German (native), English (fluent)

Professional information

h-index: 10

i10-index: 10

Peer-Reviewed Articles: 14 (6 as first author)

Citations: 433

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2bc1ewEAAAAJ&hl=en

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johann_Philipp_Klages

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0968-1183

Education

Dr. rer. nat. University of Bremen, Faculty of Geosciences

Magna cum laude (2014) “Late Quaternary West Antarctic Ice

Sheet dynamics”

Work equally performed at BAS (UK) and AWI (02/2011–01/2014)

under supervision by

Dr. Claus-Dieter Hillenbrand, British Antarctic Survey (UK)

Dr. James A. Smith, British Antarctic Survey (UK)

Dr. Alastair G.C. Graham, University of Exeter (UK), now at: University

of South Florida (USA)

Dr. Gerhard Kuhn, Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany)

Diploma University of Kiel, Institute for Geography

Magna cum laude (2011) “Sedimentological investigation of a

channel/levee-complex in the Riiser Larsen Sea, East Antarctica: A

late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental record”

Supervised by

Dr. H. Christian Hass, Alfred Wegener Institute (Germany)

Prof. Dr. Horst Sterr, University of Kiel (Germany)





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Employment

Research Scientist, Marine Geology, AWI 04/2020–ongoing

Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Geology, AWI 09/2019–03/2020

Helmholtz Postdoctoral Fellow, AWI (Principle Investigator of project PD-201) 05/2015–08/2019

Parental Leave 05/2016–12/2016

Postdoctoral Researcher, Marine Geology, AWI 05/2014–04/2016

Expeditions

RV JOIDES Resolution “Amundsen Sea West Antarctic Ice Sheet History”, 01/2019–03/2019

Shipboard sedimentologist, Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica (invited)

RV Polarstern PS104 “ASE-MeBo”, AWI / MARUM / BAS, Group Leader of 01/2017–03/2017

Working Group Marine Geology, Amundsen Sea Embayment

RV Polarstern PS75, AWI / BAS, Ross and Amundsen Seas, West Antarctica 01/2010–04/2010

RV Meteor M75 “Paläo-Indik”, MARUM / University of Bremen, Eastern Indian 01/2008–03/2008

Ocean

Research articles (accepted for publication)

2020

Simões Pereira, P., van de Flierdt, T., Hemming, S., Frederichs, T., Hammond, S., Brachfeld, S.,

Doherty, C., Kuhn, G., Smith, J.A., Klages, J.P. and Hillenbrand, C.-D. (2020). The geochemical and

mineralogical fingerprint of West Antarctica’s weak underbelly: Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers.

Chemical Geology.

Research articles (published)

2020

Klages, J.P., Salzmann, U., Bickert, T., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Gohl, K., Kuhn, G., Bohaty, S., Titschack,

J., Müller, J., Frederichs, T., Bauersachs, T., Ehrmann, W., van de Flierdt, T., Simões Pereira, P.,





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Larter, R.D., Lohmann, G., Niezgodzki, I., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Zundel, M., Spiegel, C., Mark, C.,

Chew, D., Francis, J.E., Nehrke, G., Schwarz, F., Smith, J.A., Freudenthal, T., Esper, O., Pälike, H.,

Ronge, T., Dziadek, R., and the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2020). Temperate rainforests

near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous warmth. Nature 580 (7801), 81-86.

2017

Gohl, K., Freudenthal, T., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Klages, J. P., Larter, R. L., Bickert, T., Bohaty, S.,

Ehrmann, W., Esper, O., Frederichs, T., Gebhardt, C., Küssner, K., Kuhn, G., Pälike, H., Ronge, T.,

Simões Pereira, P., Smith, J. A., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., and van de Flierdt, T. (2017). MeBo70

Seabed Drilling on a Polar Continental Shelf: Operational Report and Lessons From Drilling in the

Amundsen Sea Embayment of West Antarctica. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems: Technical Reports 18, doi:10.1002/2017GC007081.

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Graham, A. G. C., Nitsche, F. O., Frederichs,

T., Jernas, P. E., Gohl, K. and Wacker, L. (2017). Limited grounding-line advance onto the West

Antarctic continental shelf in the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment during the last glacial

period. PLOS ONE 12 (7), 1-16, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0181593.

Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Hodell, D. A., Greaves, M., Poole, C. R., Kender, S., Williams, M.,

Andersen, T. J., Jernas, P. E., Elderfield, H., Klages, J. P., Roberts, S. J., Gohl, K., Larter, R. D.

and Kuhn, G. (2017). West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat driven by Holocene warm water incursions.

Nature 547 (7661), 43-48.

Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Kasten, S., Smith, J. A., Nitsche, F. O., Frederichs, T., Wiers, S.,

Ehrmann, W., Klages, J. P. and Mogollón, J. M. (2017). Evidence for a palaeo-subglacial lake on the

Antarctic continental shelf. Nature Communications 8, doi: 10.1038/NCOMMS15591.

2016

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C. D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl,

K. (2016). A glacial landform assemblage from an inter-ice stream setting in the eastern Amundsen

Sea Embayment, West Antarctica. Geological Society London Memoirs 46, 349-352.

Graham, A. G. C., Jakobsson, M., Nitsche, F. O., Larter, R. D., Anderson, J. B., Hillenbrand, C.-

D., Gohl, K., Klages, J. P., Smith, J. A. and Jenkins, A. (2016). Submarine glacial-landform distribution





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across the West Antarctic margin, from grounding line to slope: the Pine Island–Thwaites ice-stream

system. Geological Society London Memoirs 46, 493-500.

2015

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Nitsche, F. O., Larter, R. D.

and Gohl, K. (2015). Palaeo-ice stream pathways and retreat style in the easternmost Amundsen Sea

Embayment, West Antarctica, revealed by combined multibeam bathymetric and seismic data.

Geomorphology 245 , 207-222.

2014

Smith, J. A., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Klages, J. P., Graham, A. G. C., Larter, R. D., Ehrmann, W.,

Moreton, S. G., Wiers, S. (2014). New constraints on the timing of West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat in

the eastern Amundsen Sea since the Last Glacial Maximum. Global and Planetary Change 122, 224-

237.

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl, K.,

Wacker, L. (2014). Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the western Amundsen Sea shelf at a

pre- or early LGM stage. Quaternary Science Reviews 91, 1-15.

Larter, R. D., Anderson, J. B., Graham, A. G. C., Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Jakobsson, M.,

Johnson, J. S., Kuhn, G., Nitsche, F. O., Smith, J. A., Witus, A., Bentley, M. J., Dowdeswell, J. A.,

Ehrmann, W., Klages, J. P., Lindow, J., Ó Cofaigh, C. and Spiegel, C. (2014). Reconstruction of

changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since

the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100, 55-86.

The RAISED* Consortium (Bentley, M., et al., AWI contributors: Kuhn, G., Gohl, K., Klages, J. P.)

(2014). A community-based reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial

Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews 100, 1-9.

*RAISED: Reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet Deglaciation

2013

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl, K.

(2013). First geomorphological record and glacial history of an inter-ice stream ridge on the West

Antarctic continental shelf. Quaternary Science Reviews 61, 47-61.





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Hillenbrand, C.-D., Kuhn, G., Smith, J. A., Gohl, K., Graham, A. G. C., Larter, R. D., Klages, J. P.,

Downey, R., Moreton, S. G., Forwick, M. and Vaughan, D. G. (2013). Grounding-line retreat of the

West Antarctic Ice Sheet from inner Pine Island Bay. Geology 41, 35-38.

Selected oral presentations including invited presentations (marked) (see ePic for full record)





Ronge, T., Dziadek, R., and the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2019). Diverse temperate

rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous greenhouse warmth. Annual Meeting of the

German Geological Society 2019 (GeoMünster), Germany, 22 – 25 September 2019.

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C. D., Smith, J. A., Nitsche, F. O., Frederichs, T., Gohl, K., and

Wacker, L. (2018). Did we find an ice-proximal location in the Amundsen Sea to finally reveal the last

interglacial state of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?, International Polar Conference, Rostock, Germany,

25 – 29 March 2018.

Gohl, K., Klages, J. P., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Larter, R. D., Kuhn, G., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Bickert,

T. and Freudenthal, T. (2017). MeBo seabed drilling operation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment

and early results on West Antarctic Ice Sheet dynamics. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 23 – 28

April 2017. (Invited)

Klages, J. P. (2016). New evidence for the LGM maximum extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on

the eastern Amundsen Sea shelf. Lamont MGG-SGT Seminar Series, Lamont-Doherty Earth

Observatory - Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA, 23 November 2016. (Invited)

Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Maher, B., Moreton, S. G., Wacker, L.,

Frederichs, T., Wiers, S., Jernas, P. E., Anderson, J. B., Ehrmann, W., Graham, A. G. C., Gohl,

K. and Larter, R.D. (2016). Dating glacimarine sediments from the continental shelf in the

Amundsen Sea using a multi-tool box: Implications for West Antarctic ice-sheet extent and retreat

during the last glacial cycle. AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 21 – 26

February 2016. (Invited)





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Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C. D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl, K.

(2013). Glacial geomorphological data from the Amundsen Sea shelf provide new insights into the

dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum, EGU General Assembly,

Wien, Austria, 7 – 12 April 2013. (Invited)

Klages, J. P. (2013). Eisfluss- und Rückzugsdynamik des westantarktischen Eisschilds im Spätquartär

- Aus der Vergangenheit lernen, um zukünftige Veränderungen besser vorhersagen zu können. 104.

Bundeskongress des Deutschen Vereins zur Förderung des mathematischen und

naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts e.V., Hamburg, Germany, 24 – 28 March 2013. (Invited)

Selected poster presentations (see ePic for full record)





Ronge, T., Dziadek, R., and the Science Team of Expedition PS104 (2019). Diverse temperate

rainforests near the South Pole during peak Cretaceous greenhouse warmth. AGU Fall Meeting

2019, San Francisco, California, USA, 9 – 13 December 2019.

Klages, J. P., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Kuhn, G., Graham, A. G. C., Nitsche, F. O.,

Frederichs, T., Arndt, J. E., Gebhardt, C., Zindler, R., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Gohl, K., Jernas, P.

E. and PS104 Shipboard Scientific Party (2017). New details about the LGM extent and subsequent

retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf. AGU

Fall Meeting 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 11 – 15 December 2017.

Klages, J. P., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Arndt, J. E., Gebhardt, C.,

Larter, R. D., Graham, A. G. C., Gohl, K., Kuhn, G. and Zindler, R. and PS104 Shipboard Scientific

Party (2017). New geophysical and sediment core data reveal a large-scale post-LGM West

Antarctic stacked grounding-zone wedge on the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf. Past Antarctic

Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS) Conference, Trieste, Italy, 10 – 15 September 2017.

Gohl, K., Uenzelmann-Neben, G., Larter, R. D., Gebhardt, C., Bohaty, S., Arndt, J. E., Klages, J. P.,

Hillenbrand, C.-D., Pälike, H., Bickert, T., Freudenthal, T., Ehrmann, W., Esper, O., Frederichs, T.,

Smith, J. A., van de Flierdt, T., Hochmuth, K., Dziadek, R., Riefstahl, F., Ronge, T., Simoes Pereira,





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P., Kuhn, G. and Afanasyeva, V. (2017). Seismic stratigraphic correlation with MeBo seabed drill

cores of the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf. Past Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics (PAIS)

Conference, Trieste, 10 – 15 September 2017.

Klages, J. P., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Larter, R. D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Gohl, K. and Kuhn,

G. (2017). The grounding-zone wedge inventory on the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf, West

Antarctica: formation processes and significance for establishing reliable post-LGM retreat

chronologies. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 23 – 28 April 2017.

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Smith, J. A., Graham, A. G. C., Gohl, K. and Wacker,

L. (2016). Reliable radiocarbon evidence for the maximum extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in

the easternmost Amundsen Sea Embayment during the Last Glacial Maximum. AGU Ocean

Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 21 – 26 February 2016.


L. (2015). The grounding-zone wedge inventory on the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf, West


chronologies. 26. Internationale Polartagung, Munich, Germany, 6 – 11 September 2015. (Best

Poster Award)

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Nitsche, F. O., Larter, R.

D. and Gohl, K. (2015). Palaeo-ice stream pathways and retreat style in the easternmost Amundsen

Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, revealed by combined high-resolution multibeam bathymetric and

seismic data. EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 12 – 17 April 2015.


L. (2015). The grounding-zone wedge inventory on the Amundsen Sea Embayment shelf, West


chronologies. AGU Fall Meeting 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, 14 – 19 December 2015.

Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl, K.,

Wacker, L. (2014). Retreat of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet from the western Amundsen Sea shelf at a

pre- or early LGM stage. Joint Model Data Workshop, Grenoble, France, 22 – 24 May 2014.





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Klages, J. P., Kuhn, G., Hillenbrand, C.-D., Graham, A. G. C., Smith, J. A., Larter, R. D. and Gohl, K.

(2012). LGM-extent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet offshore from the Hobbs Coast, based on palaeo-

ice stream bed observations. AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, 3 – 7 December 2012.

Convening activities at (inter)national meetings

Session leader (together with co-chairs K. Hogan, BAS; H.C. Hass, AWI; F. Colleoni & M. Rebesco,

OGS): “Polar continental margins and fjords – climate, oceanography, tectonics and geohazards”,

EGU General Assembly 2020 Online, 3–8 May 2020.

Session 4e/f (together with G. Kuhn, AWI): “Archives of environmental changes throughout Earth

history: bio- and authigenic mineralization to paleoenvironmental reconstruction”, GeoMünster 2019,

22 – 25 September 2019.

Peer-review experience

US National Science Foundation (NSF), Nature Communications, Scientific Reports, The Cryosphere,

Journal of Geophysical Research, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Funding obtained

I designed, applied for, and was granted a 3-year Helmholtz Postdoctoral Research Project (PD-201:

Cenozoic West Antarctic Ice Sheet Dynamics), funded with € 300,000.00 (May 2015 – August 2019;

including parental leave). I was the principal investigator of this project and supervised Master and

Bachelor students as well as student assistants.

In 2012 I have been chosen by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for their RISE-

Program (www.daad.de/rise/en) in order to offer young British or North American students a research

internship at a German scientific institute. Caroline Templeton from Florida, USA, was selected and

supervised by me from May, 29th until August, 3rd 2012 and participated actively in lab work and

discussing current research.

Joint Model Data Workshop, Grenoble, France, May, 22-24, 2014 ($450.00), granted from

International Association of Cryospheric Sciences.

International Symposium of Antarctic Earth Sciences, Edinburgh, Scotland, July, 10-16, 2011

($400.00), granted from Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).





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Awards received

MARUM Research Award for outstanding PhD Thesis (2015)

Best Poster Award at the Polar Research Conference (DGP Polartagung) 2015 in Munich, Germany

Public outreach and media contacts (see ePic for full record)

I extensively reach out to the general public for communicating polar research and the significance of

the Antarctic continent and the Southern Ocean. This already resulted in about 20 public talks in a

variety of settings such as Elementary Schools, High Schools (Gymnasien and Gesamtschulen), Lions

Clubs, Landfrauen Vereine, Kinder-Unis, public science centers, the Überseemuseum Bremen,

congregations, etc. I am also frequently covered by various media outlets. National (amongst others):

ZDF, ARD, NDR, Deutschlandfunk und Deutschland Funk Kultur, Radio Bremen 1 & 2, Sat.1,

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Welt. International (amongst others): BBC, CNN, NBC, NPR, NY Times, The

Guardian, Swedish National Television, Vice, Discover Magazine.

Professional memberships

European Geosciences Union (EGU), American Geophysical Union (AGU), Deutsche Gesellschaft für

Polarforschung (DGP), Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft (DGGV)

Teaching experience

Lecturer, “Klastische Sedimentologie: Küsten- und Schelfdynamik“, University of Bremen, Faculty of

Geosciences (SoSe)

Lecturer, “Sediment Acoustics Training Cruise with RV Polarstern”, University of Bremen, Faculty of

Geosciences (WiSe 2015, WiSe 2018)

Student co-supervision

Victoria Afanasyeva (PhD), since 2017, Title: “Late Holocene Reconstruction of Meltwater Discharge

in Front of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica”

Supervising together with G. Leitchenkov and J. Thiede (University of St. Petersburg, Russia) and G.

Kuhn (AWI).

Nele Lamping (MSc), finished 2016, Title: “Deglacial variability of the Filchner Ice Shelf, Antarctica:

New constraints from ice-proximal sediment cores”





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Supervised together with G. Kuhn (AWI) and T. Bickert (University of Bremen, Germany).

Robin Zindler (Bsc), finished 2017, Title: “Bathymetrische und sedimentechographische Kartierung

eines Stacked Grounding Zone Wedges im Amundsen Sea Embayment”

Supervised together with C. Gebhardt (AWI) and T. Bickert (University of Bremen, Germany).

Bremerhaven, 28.04.2020

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