Alexander Francke

Dr Alexander Francke

ARC Grant-Funded Researcher (A)

School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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I am working on paleoclimate and -environmental reconstructions by applying a variety of sedimentary and geochemical proxies to Quaternary lake sediment records across the Mediterranean, Australia, Asia, and the High Arctic realm. In my research, I use element geochemical and stable isotope proxies to reconstruct paleoclimate variability. I use a new approach based on uranium isotope geochemistry applied to fine-grained (lacustrine) sedimentary achieves to quantify Quaternary catchment erosion. The obtained information shall be directly compared to information derived on paleoclimate conditions and information about human activity to obtain a comprehensive picture about climate-human-landscape interactions. I work on Quaternary (last 1.3Ma, Lake Ohrid) to Holocene timescales.

I am Editor for Quaternary International (IF: 1.99), the in-house journal of INQUA (International Quaternary Association)

Top 5 publications:

Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Forbes, M., Cadd, H., Short, J., Sherborne-Higgins, B., et al. (2022). Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Global and Planetary Change (IF: 4.1), 217, 103922

Francke, A., Holtvoeth, J., Codilean, A., et al. (2020): Geochemical methods to infer landscape response to Quaternary climate change and land use in depositional archives: a review, Earth-Science Reviews (IF: 10.6), 103218.

Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Panagiotopoulos, et al. (2019): Landscape threshold crossed on the Balkan Peninsula during the Early to Mid-Holocene, Global and Planetary Change (IF: 4.1), 177, 186-200.

Francke, A., Wagner, B., Just, et al. (2016): Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 637 ka and the present, Biogeosciences (IF: 3.7), 13, 1179-1196.

Wagner, B.*, Vogel, H.*, Francke, A. et al. (2019): Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoon during past 1.36 million years, Nature (IF: 43.1), 573, 256-260.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2023 Francke, A., Tsimosh, O., Tibby, J., Reid, M., Fletcher, M., & Tyler, J. J. (2023). Contemporary Controls on Terrestrial Carbon Characteristics in Temperate and Sub‐Tropical Australian Wetlands. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128(1).
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    2022 Zaova, D., Cvetkoska, A., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Levkov, Z., & Jovanovska, E. (2022). Diatom community responses to environmental change in Lake Ohrid (Balkan Peninsula) during the mid-Pleistocene Transition. Quaternary International, 622, 19.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2022 Cadd, H., Sherborne-Higgins, B., Becerra-Valdivia, L., Tibby, J., Barr, C., Forbes, M., . . . Turney, C. (2022). The application of pollen radiocarbon dating and bayesian age-depth modeling for developing robust geochronological frameworks of wetland archives. Radiocarbon, 64(2), 213-235.
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    2022 Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Forbes, M., Cadd, H., Short, J., Sherborne-Higgins, B., . . . Cohen, T. J. (2022). Catchment vegetation and erosion controlled soil carbon cycling in south-eastern Australia during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles. Global and Planetary Change, 217, 103922-1-103922-16.
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    2022 Wagner, B., Tauber, P., Francke, A., Leicher, N., Binnie, S. A., Cvetkoska, A., . . . Wilke, T. (2022). The geodynamic and limnological evolution of Balkan Lake Ohrid, possibly the oldest extant lake in Europe. Boreas, 52(1), 26 pages.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2021 Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Hauffe, T., Donders, T. H., Levkov, Z., Van de Waal, D. B., . . . Wagner-Cremer, F. (2021). Drivers of phytoplankton community structure change with ecosystem ontogeny during the Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews, 265, 1-10.
    DOI Scopus3 WoS3
    2021 Donders, T., Panagiotopoulos, K., Koutsodendris, A., Bertini, A., Mercuri, A. M., Masi, A., . . . Sadori, L. (2021). 1.36 million years of Mediterranean forest refugium dynamics in response to glacial-interglacial cycle strength.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(34), 1-9.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS6
    2021 Leicher, N., Giaccio, B., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Albert, P. G., Tomlinson, E. L., . . . Wagner, B. (2021). Lake Ohrid's tephrochronological dataset reveals 1.36 Ma of Mediterranean explosive volcanic activity. Scientific data, 8(1), 1-14.
    DOI Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC2
    2021 Francke, A., Lacey, J. H., Marchegiano, M., Wagner, B., Ariztegui, D., Zanchetta, G., . . . Knodgen, K. (2021). Last Glacial central Mediterranean hydrology inferred from Lake Trasimeno's (Italy) calcium carbonate geochemistry. BOREAS, 51(1), 19 pages.
    DOI Scopus1 WoS1
    2021 Forbes, M., Cohen, T., Jacobs, Z., Marx, S., Barber, E., Dodson, J., . . . Woodward, C. (2021). Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: a multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record. Quaternary Science Reviews, 252, 106750-1-106750-20.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6
    2020 Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Just, J., Wagner, B., & Jones, B. G. (2020). Assessment of the controls on (<sup>234</sup>U/<sup>238</sup>U) activity ratios recorded in detrital lacustrine sediments. Chemical Geology, 550, 18 pages.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6
    2020 Francke, A., Holtvoeth, J., Codilean, A. T., Lacey, J. H., Bayon, G., & Dosseto, A. (2020). Geochemical methods to infer landscape response to Quaternary climate change and land use in depositional archives: A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 207, 23 pages.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS5
    2020 Marchegiano, M., Horne, D. J., Gliozzi, E., Francke, A., Wagner, B., & Ariztegui, D. (2020). Rapid Late Pleistocene climate change reconstructed from a lacustrine ostracod record in central Italy (Lake Trasimeno, Umbria). Boreas, 49(4), 739-750.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS6
    2020 Panagiotopoulos, K., Holtvoeth, J., Kouli, K., Marinova, E., Francke, A., Cvetkoska, A., . . . Wilke, T. (2020). Insights into the evolution of the young Lake Ohrid ecosystem and vegetation succession from a southern European refugium during the Early Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 227, 17 pages.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS18
    2020 Thomas, C., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Wagner, B., & Ariztegui, D. (2020). Weak influence of paleoenvironmental conditions on the subsurface biosphere of lake ohrid over the last 515 ka. Microorganisms, 8(11), 1-20.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS6 Europe PMC2
    2020 Wilke, T., Hauffe, T., Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Donders, T., Ekschmitt, K., . . . Wagner, B. (2020). Deep drilling reveals massive shifts in evolutionary dynamics after formation of ancient ecosystem. Science advances, 6(40), 9 pages.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC9
    2019 Just, J., Sagnotti, L., Nowaczyk, N. R., Francke, A., & Wagner, B. (2019). Recordings of Fast Paleomagnetic Reversals in a 1.2 Ma Greigite-Rich Sediment Archive From Lake Ohrid, Balkans. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 124(12), 12445-12464.
    DOI Scopus11 WoS12
    2019 Francke, A., Dosseto, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Leicher, N., Lacey, J., Kyrikou, S., . . . Leng, M. (2019). Sediment residence time reveals Holocene shift from climatic to vegetation control on catchment erosion in the Balkans. Global and Planetary Change, 177, 186-200.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS21
    2019 Leicher, N., Giaccio, B., Zanchetta, G., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Palladino, D. M., . . . Tomlinson, E. L. (2019). Central Mediterranean explosive volcanism and tephrochronology during the last 630 ka based on the sediment record from Lake Ohrid. Quaternary Science Reviews, 226, 29 pages.
    DOI Scopus14 WoS13
    2019 Wagner, B., Vogel, H., Francke, A., Friedrich, T., Donders, T., Lacey, J. H., . . . Zhang, X. (2019). Mediterranean winter rainfall in phase with African monsoons during the past 1.36 million years. Nature, 573(7773), 256-260.
    DOI Scopus81 WoS77 Europe PMC11
    2019 Marchegiano, M., Francke, A., Gliozzi, E., Wagner, B., & Ariztegui, D. (2019). High-resolution palaeohydrological reconstruction of central Italy during the Holocene. Holocene, 29(3), 481-492.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS10
    2019 Sinopoli, G., Peyron, O., Masi, A., Holtvoeth, J., Francke, A., Wagner, B., & Sadori, L. (2019). Pollen-based temperature and precipitation changes in the Ohrid Basin (western Balkans) between 160 and 70 ka. Climate of the Past, 15(1), 53-71.
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    2018 Zanchetta, G., Baneschi, I., Francke, A., Boschi, C., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., . . . Sadori, L. (2018). Evidence for carbon cycling in a large freshwater lake in the Balkans over the last 0.5 million years using the isotopic composition of bulk organic matter. Quaternary Science Reviews, 202, 154-165.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS12
    2018 Kousis, I., Koutsodendris, A., Peyron, O., Leicher, N., Francke, A., Wagner, B., . . . Pross, J. (2018). Centennial-scale vegetation dynamics and climate variability in SE Europe during Marine Isotope Stage 11 based on a pollen record from Lake Ohrid. Quaternary Science Reviews, 190, 20-38.
    DOI Scopus26 WoS24
    2018 Francke, A., Carney, S., Wilcox, P., & Dosseto, A. (2018). Sample preparation for determination of comminution ages in lacustrine and marine sediments. Chemical Geology, 479, 123-135.
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    2018 Regattieri, E., Zanchetta, G., Isola, I., Bajo, P., Perchiazzi, N., Drysdale, R. N., . . . Wagner, B. (2018). A MIS 9/MIS 8 speleothem record of hydrological variability from Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.). Global and Planetary Change, 162, 39-52.
    DOI Scopus18 WoS17
    2018 Sinopoli, G., Masi, A., Regattieri, E., Wagner, B., Francke, A., Peyron, O., & Sadori, L. (2018). Palynology of the Last Interglacial Complex at Lake Ohrid: palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic inferences. Quaternary Science Reviews, 180, 177-192.
    DOI Scopus32 WoS30
    2018 Marchegiano, M., Francke, A., Gliozzi, E., & Ariztegui, D. (2018). Arid and humid phases in central Italy during the Late Pleistocene revealed by the Lake Trasimeno ostracod record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 490, 55-69.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS9
    2018 Lacey, J., Leng, M., Peckover, E., Dean, J., Wilke, T., Francke, A., . . . Wagner, B. (2018). Investigating the environmental interpretation of oxygen and carbon isotope data from whole and fragmented bivalve shells. Quaternary Science Reviews, 194, 55-61.
    DOI Scopus4 WoS4
    2018 Masi, A., Francke, A., Pepe, C., Thienemann, M., Wagner, B., & Sadori, L. (2018). Vegetation history and paleoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene. Climate of the Past, 14(3), 351-367.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS19
    2018 Rothacker, L., Dosseto, A., Francke, A., Chivas, A., Vigier, N., Kotarba-Morley, A., & Menozzi, D. (2018). Impact of climate change and human activity on soil landscapes over the past 12,300 years. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 7 pages.
    DOI Scopus32 WoS27 Europe PMC2
    2017 Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Francke, A., Albrecht, C., Baumgarten, H., Bertini, A., . . . Zhang, X. S. (2017). The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): Interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project. Biogeosciences, 14(8), 2033-2054.
    DOI Scopus45 WoS44
    2017 Thienemann, M., Masi, A., Kusch, S., Sadori, L., John, S., Francke, A., . . . Rethemeyer, J. (2017). Organic geochemical and palynological evidence for Holocene natural and anthropogenic environmental change at Lake Dojran (Macedonia/Greece). Holocene, 27(8), 1103-1114.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS17
    2017 Regattieri, E., Giaccio, B., Nomade, S., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Drysdale, R. N., . . . Peronace, E. (2017). A Last Interglacial record of environmental changes from the Sulmona Basin (central Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 472, 51-66.
    DOI Scopus29 WoS24
    2016 Sadori, L., Koutsodendris, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Masi, A., Bertini, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., . . . Donders, T. (2016). "pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka" published in Biogeosciences, 13, 1423-1437, 2016. Biogeosciences, 13(5), 1423-1427.
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    2016 Bertini, A., Sadori, L., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Donders, T., Kouli, K., Koutsodendris, A., . . . Wagner, B. (2016). All together now: an international palynological team documents vegetation and climate changes during the last 500 kyr at Lake Ohrid (SE Europe). Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 29(2), 201-210.
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    2016 Zanchetta, G., Regattieri, E., Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Sulpizio, R., Francke, A., . . . Leicher, N. (2016). Aligning and synchronization of MIS5 proxy records from Lake Ohrid (FYROM) with independently dated Mediterranean archives: implications for DEEP core chronology. Biogeosciences, 13(9), 2757-2768.
    DOI Scopus28 WoS24
    2016 Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Francke, A., Sloane, H. H., Milodowski, A., Vogel, H., . . . Wagner, B. (2016). Northern Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: A 637 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia). Biogeosciences, 13(6), 1801-1820.
    DOI Scopus32 WoS31
    2016 Sadori, L., Koutsodendris, A., Panagiotopoulos, K., Masi, A., Bertini, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., . . . Donders, T. H. (2016). Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (south-eastern Europe) during the past 500 ka. Biogeosciences, 13(5), 1423-1437.
    DOI Scopus103 WoS96
    2016 Zhang, X. S., Reed, J. M., Lacey, J. H., Francke, A., Leng, M. J., Levkov, Z., & Wagner, B. (2016). Complexity of diatom response to Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in ancient, deep and oligotrophic Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania). Biogeosciences, 13(4), 1351-1365.
    DOI Scopus9 WoS8
    2016 Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Hauffe, T., Levkov, Z., Wagner, B., Sulpizio, R., . . . Wilke, T. (2016). Differential resilience of ancient sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa to environmental disturbances during the Late Pleistocene. Biogeosciences, 13(4), 1149-1161.
    DOI Scopus27 WoS25
    2016 Wilke, T., Wagner, B., Van Bocxlaer, B., Albrecht, C., Ariztegui, D., Delicado, D., . . . Wonik, T. (2016). Scientific drilling projects in ancient lakes: Integrating geological and biological histories. Global and Planetary Change, 143, 118-151.
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    2016 Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Francke, A., Tofilovska, S., Vogel, H., Levkov, Z., . . . Wagner-Cremer, F. (2016). Ecosystem regimes and responses in a coupled ancient lake system from MIS 5b to present: The diatom record of lakes Ohrid and Prespa. Biogeosciences, 13(10), 3147-3162.
    DOI Scopus22 WoS15
    2016 Leicher, N., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Nomade, S., . . . Del Carlo, P. (2016). First tephrostratigraphic results of the DEEP site record from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia and Albania). Biogeosciences, 13(7), 2151-2178.
    DOI Scopus63 WoS60
    2016 Just, J., Nowaczyk, N. R., Sagnotti, L., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Lacey, J. H., & Wagner, B. (2016). Environmental control on the occurrence of high-coercivity magnetic minerals and formation of iron sulfides in a 640ka sediment sequence from Lake Ohrid (Balkans). Biogeosciences, 13(7), 2093-2109.
    DOI Scopus19 WoS17
    2016 Francke, A., Wagner, B., Just, J., Leicher, N., Gromig, R., Baumgarten, H., . . . Giaccio, B. (2016). Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 637 ka and the present. Biogeosciences, 13(4), 1179-1196.
    DOI Scopus81 WoS76
    2015 Baumgarten, H., Wonik, T., Tanner, D. C., Francke, A., Wagner, B., Zanchetta, G., . . . Nomade, S. (2015). Age-depth model of the past 630 kyr for Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania) based on cyclostratigraphic analysis of downhole gamma ray data. Biogeosciences, 12(24), 7453-7465.
    DOI Scopus21 WoS20
    2015 Lacey, J., Francke, A., Leng, M., Vane, C., & Wagner, B. (2015). A high-resolution Late Glacial to Holocene record of environmental change in the Mediterranean from Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 104(6), 1623-1638.
    DOI Scopus38 WoS35
    2014 Zhang, X., Reed, J., Wagner, B., Francke, A., & Levkov, Z. (2014). Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in the northeastern Mediterranean region: Diatom evidence from Lake Dojran (Republic of Macedonia/Greece). Quaternary Science Reviews, 103(1), 51-66.
    DOI Scopus31 WoS28
    2014 Wennrich, V., Minyuk, P. S., Borkhodoev, V., Francke, A., Ritter, B., Nowaczyk, N. R., . . . Melles, M. (2014). Pliocene to pleistocene climate and environmental history of lake el'gygytgyn, far east Russian Arctic, based on high-resolution inorganic geochemistry data. Climate of the Past, 10(4), 1381-1399.
    DOI Scopus42 WoS37
    2014 Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Krastel, S., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Reicherter, K., . . . Vogel, H. (2014). The SCOPSCO drilling project recovers more than 1.2 million years of history from Lake Ohrid. Scientific Drilling, 17(17), 19-29.
    DOI Scopus55
    2013 Nowaczyk, N. R., Haltia, E. M., Ulbricht, D., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M. A., Rosén, P., . . . Lozhkin, A. V. (2013). Chronology of Lake El’gygytgyn sediments – A combined magnetostratigraphic, palaeoclimatic and orbital tuning study based on multi-parameter analyses. Climate of the Past, 9(6), 2413-2432.
    DOI Scopus52 WoS51
    2013 Francke, A., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M., Juschus, O., Melles, M., & Brigham-Grette, J. (2013). Multivariate statistic and time series analyses of grain-Size data in quaternary sediments of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia. Climate of the Past, 9(6), 2459-2470.
    DOI Scopus33 WoS23
    2013 Magny, M., Combourieu-Nebout, N., De Beaulieu, J. L., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Colombaroli, D., Desprat, S., . . . Wirth, S. (2013). North-south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central mediterranean during the holocene: Tentative synthesis and working hypotheses. Climate of the Past, 9(5), 2043-2071.
    DOI Scopus189 WoS179
    2013 Wennrich, V., Francke, A., Dehnert, A., Juschus, O., Leipe, T., Vogt, C., . . . Melles, M. (2013). Modern sedimentation patterns in Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Russia, derived from surface sediment and inlet streams samples. Climate of the Past, 9(1), 135-148.
    DOI Scopus24 WoS21
    2013 Gebhardt, A. C., Francke, A., Kück, J., Sauerbrey, M., Niessen, F., Wennrich, V., & Melles, M. (2013). Petrophysical characterization of the lacustrine sediment succession drilled in Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic. Climate of the Past, 9(4), 1933-1947.
    DOI Scopus12 WoS8
    2013 Francke, A., Wagner, B., Leng, M., & Rethemeyer, J. (2013). A late glacial to holocene record of environmental change from Lake Dojran (Macedonia, Greece). Climate of the Past, 9(1), 481-498.
    DOI Scopus61 WoS55
    2012 Wagner, B., Francke, A., Sulpizio, R., Zanchetta, G., Lindhorst, K., Krastel, S., . . . Trajanovski, S. (2012). Possible earthquake trigger for 6th century mass wasting deposit at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania). Climate of the Past, 8(6), 2069-2078.
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    - Baumgarten, H., Wonik, T., Tanner, D. C., Francke, A., Wagner, B., Zanchetta, G., . . . Nomade, S. (n.d.). Age depth-model for the past 630 ka in Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania) based on cyclostratigraphic analysis of downhole gamma ray data.
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    - Zhang, X. S., Reed, J. M., Lacey, J. H., Francke, A., Leng, M. J., Levkov, Z., & Wagner, B. (n.d.). Complexity of diatom response to Lateglacial and Holocene climate and environmental change in ancient, deep, and oligotrophic Lake Ohrid (Macedonia/Albania).
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    - Just, J., Nowaczyk, N., Francke, A., Sagnotti, L., & Wagner, B. (n.d.). Climatic control on the occurrence of high-coercivity magnetic minerals and preservation of greigite in a 640 ka sediment sequence from Lake Ohrid (Balkans).
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    - Francke, A., Wagner, B., Just, J., Leicher, N., Gromig, R., Baumgarten, H., . . . Giaccio, B. (n.d.). Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 640 ka and present day.
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    - Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Francke, A., Tofilovska, S., Vogel, H., Levkov, Z., . . . Wagner-Cremer, F. (n.d.). Ecosystem regimes and responses in a coupled ancient lake system from MIS 5b to present: the diatom record of lakes Ohrid and Prespa.
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    - Wennrich, V., Minyuk, P. S., Borkhodoev, V. Y., Francke, A., Ritter, B., Nowaczyk, N., . . . Melles, M. (n.d.). Pliocene to Pleistocene climate and environmental history of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic, based on high-resolution inorganic geochemistry data.
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    - Cvetkoska, A., B. Van de Waal, D., H. Donders, T., Jovanovska, E., Levkov, Z., Hauffe, T., . . . Wagner-Cremer, F. (n.d.). Basin- and global-scale environment alternately drive diatom community structure in ancient Lake Ohrid.
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    - Francke, A., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M., Juschus, O., Melles, M., & Brigham-Grette, J. (n.d.). Multivariate statistic and time series analyses of grain-size data in Quaternary sediments of Lake El'gygytgyn, NE Russia.
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    - Gebhardt, A. C., Francke, A., Kück, J., Sauerbrey, M., Niessen, F., Wennrich, V., & Melles, M. (n.d.). Petrophysical characterization of the lacustrine sediment succession drilled in Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic.
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    - Masi, A., Francke, A., Pepe, C., Thienemann, M., Wagner, B., & Sadori, L. (n.d.). Vegetation history and palaeoclimate at Lake Dojran (FYROM/Greece) during the Late Glacial and Holocene.
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    - Wagner, B., Wilke, T., Francke, A., Albrecht, C., Baumgarten, H., Bertini, A., . . . Zhang, X. S. (n.d.). The environmental and evolutionary history of Lake Ohrid (FYROM/Albania): Interim results from the SCOPSCO deep drilling project.
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    - Magny, M., Combourieu Nebout, N., de Beaulieu, J. L., Bout-Roumazeilles, V., Colombaroli, D., Desprat, S., . . . Wirth, S. (n.d.). North–south palaeohydrological contrasts in the central Mediterranean during the Holocene: tentative synthesis and working hypotheses.
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    - Sadori, L., Koutsodendris, A., Masi, A., Bertini, A., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Francke, A., . . . Donders, T. H. (n.d.). Pollen-based paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic change at Lake Ohrid (SE Europe) during the past 500 ka.
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    - Leicher, N., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Nomade, S., . . . Del Carlo, P. (n.d.). First tephrostratigraphic results of the DEEP site record from Lake Ohrid, Macedonia.
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    - Jovanovska, E., Cvetkoska, A., Hauffe, T., Levkov, Z., Wagner, B., Sulpizio, R., . . . Wilke, T. (n.d.). Differential resilience of ancient sister lakes Ohrid and Prespa to environmental disturbances during the Late Pleistocene.
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    - Lacey, J. H., Leng, M. J., Francke, A., Sloane, H. J., Milodowski, A., Vogel, H., . . . Wagner, B. (n.d.). Mediterranean climate since the Middle Pleistocene: a 640 ka stable isotope record from Lake Ohrid (Albania/Macedonia).
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    - Nowaczyk, N. R., Haltia, E. M., Ulbricht, D., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M. A., Rosén, P., . . . Lozhkin, A. V. (n.d.). Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments.
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    - Zanchetta, G., Regattieri, E., Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Sulpizio, R., Francke, A., . . . Leicher, N. (n.d.). Aligning MIS5 proxy records from Lake Ohrid (FYROM) with independently dated Mediterranean archives: implications for core chronology.
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    - Sinopoli, G., Peyron, O., Masi, A., Holtvoeth, J., Francke, A., Wagner, B., & Sadori, L. (n.d.). Pollen-based temperature and precipitation changes in the Ohrid Basin (western Balkans) between 160 and 70 ka.
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    - Thomas, C., Francke, A., Vogel, H., Wagner, B., & Ariztegui, D. (n.d.). Weak influence of paleoenvironmental conditions on the subsurface biosphere of Lake Ohrid in the last 515 ka.
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    - Nowaczyk, N. R., Haltia, E. M., Ulbricht, D., Wennrich, V., Sauerbrey, M. A., Rosén, P., . . . Lozhkin, A. V. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;Chronology of Lake El'gygytgyn sediments&amp;quot;.
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    - Wennrich, V., Minyuk, P. S., Borkhodoev, V. Y., Francke, A., Ritter, B., Nowaczyk, N., . . . Melles, M. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;Pliocene to Pleistocene climate and environmental history of Lake El'gygytgyn, Far East Russian Arctic, based on high-resolution inorganic geochemistry data&amp;quot;.
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    - Francke, A., Wagner, B., Just, J., Leicher, N., Gromig, R., Baumgarten, H., . . . Giaccio, B. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;Sedimentological processes and environmental variability at Lake Ohrid (Macedonia, Albania) between 640 ka and present day&amp;quot;.
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    - Leicher, N., Zanchetta, G., Sulpizio, R., Giaccio, B., Wagner, B., Nomade, S., . . . Del Carlo, P. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;First tephrostratigraphic results of the DEEP site record from Lake Ohrid, Macedonia&amp;quot;.
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    - Cvetkoska, A., Jovanovska, E., Francke, A., Tofilovska, S., Vogel, H., Levkov, Z., . . . Wagner-Cremer, F. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;Ecosystem regimes and responses in a coupled ancient lake system from MIS 5b to present: the diatom record of lakes Ohrid and Prespa&amp;quot;.
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    - Just, J., Nowaczyk, N., Francke, A., Sagnotti, L., & Wagner, B. (n.d.). Supplementary material to &amp;quot;Climatic control on the occurrence of high-coercivity magnetic minerals and preservation of greigite in a 640 ka sediment sequence from Lake Ohrid (Balkans)&amp;quot;.
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    - Francke, A., Forbes, M., Cadd, H., Short, J. E., Dosseto, A., Tyler, J., . . . Tim C., C. (n.d.). Catchment vegetation and erosion controls soil carbon cycling in SE Australia during two Glacial-Interglacial complexes.
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2022 Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Resources, University of Adelaide: “Building new capacity for high-precision uranium-thorium analyses in the Earth Science Department“, (AUD$ 2,500)

2022 ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) Research Portal Proposal: “Refining the Late Glacial to Holocene history of Australia’s iconic rain gauge: A new sediment fore from eastern parts of Lake George (NSW)”, (AUD$ 22,668)

2022 ANSTO Research Portal Proposal: “Palaeoenvironmental context for the restoration of traditional land management in McLaren Vale, South Australia” (AUD$ 15,160)

2021 The Environment Institute, University of Adelaide: "Australia’s role as global terrestrial CO2 sink in future climate analogues: A case study from Kangaroo Island – South Australia" (AUD$ 4,996)

2021 Accelerated Discovery Initiative (ADI) by the South Australian Government: “Curnamona Regolith Mapping, Soils and Biogeochemical Sampling Project 2021 lead by Sinosteel Uranium SA Pty Ltd” (AUD$ 129,000). Industry Linkage Project. 

2020 GeoQuEST Research Centre, University of Wollongong: "Ancient Lake George (NSW) as palaeo-rainfall gauge: Tackling the challenges of future droughts" (AUS$9,360)

2019 "INQUA" travel grant for participation on the INQUA congress 2019, Dublin, Ireland (1,450€)

2017-2019 2-year DFG Fellowship, University of Wollongong (NSW, Australia): "Unravelling natural and human-accelerated erosional and weathering processes in the past based on uranium and lithium isotope analyses applied on a lake sediment record" (FR 3783/1-1, 82,600€)

2017 GeoQuEST Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Co-funding support for DFG (German Research Foundation) project: "Unravelling natural and humana ccelerated erosional and weathering processes in the past based on uranium and lithium isotope analyses applied on a lake sediment record" (AUS$5,000)

2018 Travel grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for participating in the EGU annual assembly 2018 (774€)

2016 "Mobility Grants for national and international Young Faculty", University of Cologne, funded by "Excellence Initiative" of the German federal and state governments (2,512€)

2015 "INQUA" travel grant for participation on the XIX INQUA congress 2015, Nagoya, Japan (1,300€)

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2022 Co-Supervisor Reconstruction of the East Asian Monsoon through the last ~140,000 years- Isotope palaeoclimatology of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Vanessa Nowinski
    2021 Co-Supervisor Oxygen isotopes in plant phytoliths as a proxy for past climates and environments Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Kym Elizabeth Edwards
  • Position: ARC Grant-Funded Researcher (A)
  • Phone: 83130894
  • Email: alexander.francke@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134380
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Mawson, floor 1
  • Org Unit: School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
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