Rein Vaikmäe

Prof. Rein Vaikmäe
Quaternary geology
Department . of Geology
Tallinn University of Technology
Ehitajate tee 5
EE-19086 Tallinn
Estonia


Phone: +37 (2) 50 22816
Phone2: +37 (2) 620 3031
Fax: +372 (2) 620 3011
E-mail: rein.vaikmae(at)ttu.ee
URL Institution: www.gi.ee/
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
Vice-Rector for Research; Head of Department
Head, Estonian Polar Research Committee
IPICS (International Partnership in Ice Core Sciences) Steering Committee


Key Publications of Rein Vaikmäe (up to ten) :
Gerber, C., Vaikmäe, R., Aeschbach, W., Babre, A., Jiang, W., Leuenberger, M., Lu, Z.T., Mokrik, R., Müller, P., Raidla, V., Saks, T., Waber, H.N., Weissbach, T., Zappala, J.C. & Purtschert, R. 2017. Using 81Kr and noble gases to characterize and date groundwater and brines in the Baltic Artesian Basin on the one-million-year timescale. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, 205, 187–210.
Raidla, V., Kirsimäe, K., Vaikmäe, R., Jõeleht, A., Karro, E., Marandi, A., Savitskaja, L. 2009. Geochemical evolution of groundwater in the Cambrian-Vendian aquifer system of the Baltic Basin. Chemical Geology 258(1), 219-231.

Vaikmäe, R., Kaup, E., Marandi, A., Martma, T., Raidla, V., Vallner, L. 2008. The Cambrian-Vendian aquifer, Estonia. In: Edmunds, W.M. & Shand, P. (eds.) Natural Groundwater Quality. Blackwell Publishing, UK. 353-371.

Isaksson, E., Kohler, J., Pohjola, V., Moore, J., Igarashi, M., Karlöf, L., Martma, T., Meijer, H., Motoyama, H., Vaikmäe, R., van de Wal, R.S.W. 2005. Two ice-cored delta18O records from Svalbard illustrating climate and sea-ice variability over the last 400 years. The Holocene 15(4), 501-509.

Pinglot, J.F., Vaikmäe, R., Kamiyama, K., Igorashi, M., Fritzsche, D., Wilhelms, F., Koerner, R., Henderson, L., Isaksson, E., Winther, J.G., Van de Wal, R.S.W., Fournier, M., Bouisset, P., Meijer, H.A.J. 2003. Ice cores from Arctic subpolar glaciers: chronology and post depositional processes deduced from radioactivity measurements. Journal of Glaciology, 49, 164, 149-158

Jouzel J., Vaikmäe R., Petit J.R., Martin M., Duclos Y., Stievenard M., Lorius C., Toots M., Méliéres M.A., Burckle L.H., Barkov N.I., Kotlyakov V.M. The two-step shape and timing of the last deglaciation in Antarctica. - Climate Dynamics, 1995, 11, 151-161.


Expertise of Rein Vaikmäe:
Expertise CategorySpecific Expertise
Expert TypeExpert Type
Scientific / Fundamental Research
Research Interface / Management
Topic AtmosphereAtmosphere
Climate
Global Warming
Topic HydrosphereHydrosphere
Topic CryosphereCryosphere
Glaciers
Permafrost / Solifluction
Topic Integrated SystemsIntegrated Systems and Ecology
Hydrogeochemical Cycle
Topic SocietySociety
Education / Communication / Participation
Time FrameTime Frame
Past
MethodsMethod
Data Collection - Measurement
Data Analysis
Literature Study
Policy Analysis and Formation
Program Coordination / Management

Specialties of Rein Vaikmäe:
Isotope-paleoclimatology, -paleohydrology, -paleocryology; research policy

Last update: 12/9/23
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