Ron Kaandorp

to: Department of Paleoclimatology and Geomorphology room F324 tel :+31-205987375
fax :+31-206462457

About

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.

Currently employed as office manager of the Netherlands Research School of Sedimentary Geology (NSG).

Publications

Papers

Kaandorp, R.J.G., F.P. Wesselingh, H.B. Vonhof, in press. Ecological implications from geochemical records of Miocene western Amazonian bivalves. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, Special Issue on Neogene Amazonia.

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

Vonhof, H.B., F.P. Wesselingh, R.J.G. Kaandorp, G.R. Davies, J.E. van Hinte, J. Guerrero, M. Räsänen, L. Romero-Pittman and 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. and 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.

Abstracts

Vonhof, Hubert, Ron Kaandorp, Lidia Romero Pittman, Javier Guerrero, Oscar Palacios Moncayo and 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.

Hoorn, Carina, Hubert Vonhof, Frank Wesselingh, Ron Kaandorp, 2003. New advances in geological research on Neogene deposits of the Amazon basin. Abstracts of the "3rd Latinamerican Congress of Sedimentology", June 8-11, Belém-Pará, Brazil. P. 271.

Bentaleb, I., R. Kaandorp, P. Tafforeau, S. Ducrocq, Y. Chaimanee, J.J. Jaeger, G. Ganssen, 2002. Middle Miocene monsoon precipitation seasonality in Thailand using rhino-teeth oxygen isotopes. EGS Geophysical Research Abstracts 4, 2002, 27th General Assembly, Nice.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., H.B. Vonhof, F.P. Wesselingh, G.M. Ganssen, 2002. Seasonal variation in stable isotopes of Amazonian fresh water recorded in the growth increments of modern and Miocene bivalves. EGS Geophysical Research Abstracts 4, 2002, 27th General Assembly, Nice.

Bentaleb, I., R. Kaandorp, P. Tafforeau, S. Ducrocq, Y. Chaimanee, J.J. Jaeger, G. Ganssen, 2001. Middle Miocene monsoon seasonality inferred from Thai rhino-teeth stable isotopes. Eos. Trans. AGU, 82(47), Fall Meeting Suppl. Abstract PP42B-0514.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Wesselingh, F.P., Ganssen, G.M., Hinte, J.E. van, 2001. Seasonal variation in stable isotopes of Amazonian fresh water recorded in the growth increments of bivalves. 8th Annual NSG Symposium. Natural variations in the Earth System: Continental margins and paleo-climate variability. Amsterdam, 21 November 2001. p. 8.

Kaandorp, R.J.G.; Vonhof, H.B.; Wesselingh, F.P.; Ganssen, G.M., 2001. Growth Increments of Bivalve Anodontites trapesialis Record Seasonal Variation in Amazonian Fresh Water Stable Isotopes. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.3, 2001 (EGS 26th Annual Meeting, Nice).

Vonhof, H.B.; Wesselingh, F.P.; Kaandorp, R.J.G.; Ganssen, G.M., 2001. Quantitative salinity reconstructions for Miocene Western Amazonia: a model based on strontium-isotope signatures of bivalves. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.3, 2001 (EGS 26th Annual Meeting, Nice).

Wesselingh, F.P., H.B. Vonhof & R.J.G. Kaandorp, 2001. The present is not a key to the past: fossil molluscs as paleoenvironmental recorders in long-lived lakes.- Abstracts, World Congress of Malacology 2001, Vienna, Austria, 389.

Kaandorp, R.J.G., Vonhof, H.B., Wesselingh, F.P., Ganssen, G.M., 2000. Stable isotope records of climate variation in growth increments of Amazonian fresh water bivalves. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol.2, 2000 (EGS 25th Annual Meeting, Nice).

Vonhof, H.B., R.J.G. Kaandorp, F.P. Wesselingh, G.M. Ganssen, S.R. Troelstra, J.E van Hinte, 1999. High resolution isotope geochemical records of climate variation in molluscan bivalves. NSG symposium Amsterdam abstracts.