Appy Sluijs

Earth Sciences - Marine palynology & palaeoceanography
Utrecht University
Netherlands

Biography

Appy Sluijs (1980) is the Professor of Paleoceanography at the Earth Sciences Department and co-chair of the research group Marine Palynology and Paleoceanography, at Utrecht University. Sluijs studied biology and biogeology in Utrecht and at the University of California at Santa Cruz, USA. In 2006 he obtained his Ph.D. cum laude in Utrecht. Subsequently he received a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research (NWO), and was appointed to a tenure Assistant Professor position in January 2010. In 2010, he received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. He was appointed as full professor in May 2014. His group carries out research on the full range of marine sciences, in close collaboration with researchers in Utrecht, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ) and a large international suite of institutes.

Research Intrest

earth sciences

List of Publications
Woelders, L., Vellekoop, J., Kroon, D., Smit, J., Casadío, S., Prámparo, M. B., Dinarès-Turell, J., Peterse, F., Sluijs, A., Lenaerts, J.T.M. & Speijer, R. P. (2017). Latest Cretaceous climatic and environmental change in the South Atlantic region. Paleoceanography, 32 (5), (pp. 466-483) (18 p.).
van Roij, Linda, Sluijs, Appy, Laks, Jelmer J. & Reichart, Gert-Jan (15.01.2017). Stable carbon isotope analyses of nanogram quantities of particulate organic carbon (pollen) with laser ablation nano combustion gas chromatography/isotope ratio mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 31 (1), (pp. 47-58) (12 p.).
Frieling, Joost, Gebhardt, Holger, Huber, Matthew, Adekeye, Olabisi A., Akande, Samuel O., Reichart, Gert-Jan, Middelburg, Jack J., Schouten, Stefan, Sluijs, Appy & Reichart, Gert-Jan (03.03.2017). Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science advances, 3 (3) (10 p.).