Ron Kaandorp

to: Department of Paleoclimatology and Geomorphology room E229 tel :+31-205987375
fax :+31-206462457

About

Since 2009 employed as office manager of the Netherlands Research Centre for Integrated Solid Earth Science.
Since 2003 employed as office manager of the Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology.

Former PhD student on a WOTRO project titled:"Molluscan stable isotope growth-band records of seasonality in modern and past Amazonian climates".
Through the analysis of the stable isotope composition of modern and fossil mollusc shells seasonal growth increments the aim of the Climazonia project is: to assess the accuracy of modern molluscan shells as recorders of seasonal environmental change in Amazonia. The stable isotope composition of the shells of living molluscs monthly collected in a one year field experiment, will be compared to host water samples, and to climatic records (rainfall, water- and air temperature).
Using the results of this experiment, we will then reconstruct past Amazonian aquatic environments and seasonality through the analyses of fossil molluscs. A key target for the reconstructions will be the stability of the climatic conditions during Miocene uplift phases of the Andes mountain range.

Publications

Versteegh, E.E.A., H.B. Vonhof, S.R. Troelstra, R.J.G. Kaandorp, D. Kroon, 2010. Seasonally resolved growth of freshwater bivalves determined by oxygen and carbon isotope shell chemistry Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11, Q08022, doi:10.1029/2009GC002961.

Vonhof, H.B. and R.J.G. Kaandorp, 2010. Climate variation in Amazonia during the Neogene and the Quaternary: in: Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution, Eds, C. Hoorn and F.P. Wesselingh, Blackwell UK.

Martin, C., I. Bentaleb, R. Kaandorp, P. Iacumin and K. Chatri, 2008. Intra-tooth study of modern rhinoceros enamel d18O: Is the difference between phosphate and carbonate d18O a sound diagenetic test? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266 (3-4): 183-189.

Kaandorp R.J.G., 2007. Lines of Times. Seasonality, climate and environments of the Miocene Pebas Formation in western Amazonia derived from chemical records in molluscan growth-bands. PhD-Thesis, VU Amsterdam, ISBN 978-90-9022201-1, pp. 134.

Wesselingh, F.P., Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Räsänen, M.E., Renema, W., Gingras, M., 2006. The nature of aquatic landscapes in the Miocene of western Amazonia: An integrated palaeontological and geochemical approach. Scripta Geologica 133, 363-393.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., F.P. Wesselingh, H.B. Vonhof, 2006. Ecological implications from geochemical records of Miocene western Amazonian bivalves, Special Issue on Neogene Amazonia, Journal of South American Earth Sciences 21(1-2): 54-74.

Hoorn, C., R. Aalto, R.J.G. Kaandorp, N.R. Lovejoy, 2006. Miocene semidiurnal tidal rhythmites in Madre de Dios, Peru: Comment, 2006. Geology: Online Forum pp. e98-e99.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., H.B. Vonhof, F.P. Wesselingh, L. Romero-Pittman, D. Kroon, J.E. van Hinte, 2005. Seasonal Amazonian rainfall variation in the Miocene Climate Optimum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 221 (1-2): 1-6.

Vonhof, Hubert, Ron Kaandorp, Lidia Romero Pittman, Javier Guerrero, Oscar Palacios Moncayo, Frank Wesselingh, 2004. Isotope studies of fossil shells give insight in the Miocene paleogeography of Western Amazonia. In: J. Dávila, V. Carlotto and A. Chalco (Editors), XII Congreso Peruano de Geología. Resúmenes Extendidos. Sociedad Geológica del Perú, Lima, pp. 556-559.

Vonhof, H.B., F.P. Wesselingh, R.J.G. Kaandorp, G.R. Davies, J.E. van Hinte, J. Guerrero, M. Räsänen, L. Romero-Pittman, A. Ranzi, 2003. Paleogeography of Miocene Western Amazonia: Isotopic composition of molluscan shells constrains the influence of marine incursions. GSA Bulletin 115 (8): 983-993.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Del Busto, C., Wesselingh, F.P., Ganssen, G.M., Marmól, A.E., Romero Pittman, L., van Hinte, J.E., 2003. Seasonal stable isotope variations of the modern Amazonian fresh water bivalve Anodontites trapesialis. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 194 (4): 339-354.

Wesselingh, F.P., M.E. Räsänen, G. Irion, H.B. Vonhof, R. Kaandorp, W. Renema, L. Romero Pittman, M. Gingras, 2002. Lake Pebas: a palaeoecological reconstruction of a Miocene, long-lived lake complex in western Amazonia. Cainozoic Research, 1(1-2): 35-81.