Dr Julien Plancq

  • Lecturer (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences)

Research interests

I am interested in the relationship between coccolithophores (haptophytes secreting calcium carbonate plates around their cell) and their environment, notably through paleoceanographic/paleoclimatic reconstructions. I thus use a multi-proxy / multi-disciplinary approach (micropaleontology, organic geochemistry, sedimentology, biostratigraphy, etc.) in Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine sediments. My studies aim to quantify nannofossil assemblages in order to better characterize the ecological preferences of these algae during the past and to understand the global evolutionary patterns that can be linked to environmental changes. In parallel, I use lipid biomarkers as paleoceanographic proxies. Lipid biomarkers can be used as indicators of the presence of an organism and metabolic processes (primary production), but they may also be used as proxies for environmental parameters (temperature, pH, pCO2, etc.).

In addition, I intend to better constrain the use of alkenones as paleoenvironmental proxies. My PhD work aimed to identify the marine coccolithophore species responsible for the production of alkenones during the Cenozoic, in order to better constrain the use of these long-chain unsaturated ketones in sea-surface temperature and pCO2 reconstructions. I am now studying alkenone composition and alkenone producers in Canadian lakes in order to develop a temperature calibration for paleoclimate reconstructions in continental settings.

 


Grants

July 2017: SAGES Small Grants Scheme

 

Travel Scholarship from the SAGES (Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and Society) to attend the Goldschmidt conference, Paris (France) - £750.

 

 

 

Apr. 2016: Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Grant

Laboratory visit (2 weeks) at Tusukuba University (Japan) – £2500.

 

May-Jun. 2013: EAOG (European Association of Organic Geochemists) Travel Scholarship

Short postdoctoral stay at ICTA (Barcelona, Spain) - 2400€.

 

Nov. 2011: Travel Scholarship from the Federative Research Institute (IFR41) of the University of Lyon (France)

Laboratory visit (2 weeks) at the Department of Earth Sciences of Uppsala (Sweden) - 500€.

 

Jul. 2011: ECORD (European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling) Scholarship

Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (Italy) - 1200€.

 

Sep. 2010: Travel Scholarship from the French Ministry of Education and Research

Molecular Organic Biogeochemistry course (NIOZ, Texel, The Netherlands) - 500€.

 

Sep. 2009-Sep.2012: PhD Scholarship (3 years) from the French Ministry of Education and Research - 15600€/year.


Supervision

Nov. 2017-Apr. 2018: Supervision of Cameron Floyd (L4 student).

 

Project: “Can Climate Change Effect Algae Growth and Alleviate Impact on Aquaculture?”.

 

 

May-June 2017: Supervision of Marjorie Fis (1st year MSc Research in Earth Sciences).

 

Project: “Developing the temperature proxy based on diols in the Bardowie Lake (UK)”.

 

 

Jan. 2017-Jan. 2018: Co-supervision of Natasha Kumar (MSc Research in Earth Sciences).

 

Project: “Climate and environmental change over the past 3000 years in a High Arctic polynya – a biomarker approach”.

 

 

Nov. 2016-Apr. 2017: Supervision of Cameron Bland (L4 student).

 

Project: “Late Holocene climatic events in the eastern Red Sea coast (Saudi Arabia): insights from biomarkers”.

 

Nov. 2015-Apr. 2016: Supervision of Natasha Kumar (L4 student, Glasgow).

 Project: “Late Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction on the eastern Red Sea coast (Saudi Arabia)”.

 

Nov. 2015-Apr. 2016: Supervision of Natasha Kumar (L4 student).

 Project: “Developing a proxy for Paleosalinity”.

 

Feb.-Apr. 2013: Co-supervision of Julie LATTAUD (1st year of Master’s degree).

Project: “Application of the Long-chain Diol Index in Pliocene sediments (Punta Piccola, Sicily)”.

 

Jan.-Feb. 2012: Co-supervision of Théophile GREBERT (3rd year of Bachelor’s degree).

Project: “Lipid biosignature in the sedimentary record of the Eocene-Oligocene transition”.


Teaching

Feb.-June 2018: Lectures in Climate change (Earth Sciences L1), Palaeobiology (Earth Sciences L2) and Palaeoclimatology (Earth Sciences L3).

 

Jan. 2014-Feb. 2015: Tutorials in Global Tectonics (lectures, tutorials and practical classes) and paleontology/petrography (practical classes) for undergraduate students (2nd years of Bachelor’s degree).

 

Sep. 2012-Aug. 2013: Tutorials in cartography (practical classes and field trip) and mineralogy/petrography (lectures, practical classes and field trips) for undergraduate students (2nd and 3rd years of Bachelor’s degree).

 

Sep. 2007-Aug. 2012: Tutorials in geology, evolution and paleontology for undergraduate students (1st and 3rd years of Bachelor’s degree).


Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2019

Plancq, J. , Couto, J., Ijaz, U. Z. , Leavitt, P. R. and Toney, J. (2019) Next generation sequencing to identify lacustrine haptophytes in the Canadian Prairies: significance for temperature proxy applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, (Accepted for Publication)

Fitzer, S. C. , Plancq, J. , Floyd, C. J., Kemp, F. M. and Toney, J. L. (2019) Increased pCO2 changes the lipid production in important aquacultural feedstock algae Isochrysis galbana, but not in Tetraselmis suecica. Aquaculture and Fisheries, (Accepted for Publication)

2018

Plancq, J. , McColl, J. L., Bendle, J. A., Seki, O., Couto, J. M., Henderson, A. C.G., Yamashita, Y., Kawamura, K. and Toney, J. L. (2018) Genomic identification of the long-chain alkenone producer in freshwater Lake Toyoni, Japan: implications for temperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry, 125, pp. 189-195. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.09.011)

Araie, H. et al. (2018) Novel alkenone-producing strains of genus Isochrysis (Haptophyta) isolated from Canadian saline lakes show temperature sensitivity of alkenones and alkenoates. Organic Geochemistry, 121, pp. 89-103. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.04.008)

Plancq, J. , Cavazzin, B., Juggins, S., Haig, H. A., Leavitt, P. R. and Toney, J. L. (2018) Assessing environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies. Organic Geochemistry, 117, pp. 43-55. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.12.005)

2016

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Baudin, F., Duarte, L.V., Boussaha, M. and Grossi, V. (2016) A calcareous nannofossil and organic geochemical study of marine palaeoenvironmental changes across the Sinemurian/Pliensbachian (early Jurassic, ~191Ma) in Portugal. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449, pp. 1-12. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.009)

2015

Plancq, J. , Grossi, V., Pittet, B., Huguet, C., Rosell-Melé, A. and Mattioli, E. (2015) Multi-proxy constraints on sapropel formation during the late Pliocene of central Mediterranean (southwest Sicily). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 420, pp. 30-44. (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.031)

2014

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Simon, L. and Grossi, V. (2014) Productivity and sea-surface temperature changes recorded during the late Eocene–early Oligocene at DSDP Site 511 (South Atlantic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 407, pp. 34-44. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.016)

2013

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Henderiks, J. and Grossi, V. (2013) Global shifts in Noelaerhabdaceae assemblages during the late Oligocene–early Miocene. Marine Micropaleontology, 103, pp. 40-50. (doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.07.004)

Mattioli, E., Plancq, J. , Boussaha, M., Duarte, L.V. and Pittet, B. (2013) Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy: new data from the Lower Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin. Comunicações Geológicas, 100, pp. 69-76.

2012

Plancq, J. , Grossi, V., Henderiks, J., Simon, L. and Mattioli, E. (2012) Alkenone producers during late Oligocene-early Miocene revisited. Paleoceanography, 27(1), PA1202. (doi:10.1029/2011PA002164)

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Number of items: 11.

Articles

Plancq, J. , Couto, J., Ijaz, U. Z. , Leavitt, P. R. and Toney, J. (2019) Next generation sequencing to identify lacustrine haptophytes in the Canadian Prairies: significance for temperature proxy applications. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, (Accepted for Publication)

Fitzer, S. C. , Plancq, J. , Floyd, C. J., Kemp, F. M. and Toney, J. L. (2019) Increased pCO2 changes the lipid production in important aquacultural feedstock algae Isochrysis galbana, but not in Tetraselmis suecica. Aquaculture and Fisheries, (Accepted for Publication)

Plancq, J. , McColl, J. L., Bendle, J. A., Seki, O., Couto, J. M., Henderson, A. C.G., Yamashita, Y., Kawamura, K. and Toney, J. L. (2018) Genomic identification of the long-chain alkenone producer in freshwater Lake Toyoni, Japan: implications for temperature reconstructions. Organic Geochemistry, 125, pp. 189-195. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.09.011)

Araie, H. et al. (2018) Novel alkenone-producing strains of genus Isochrysis (Haptophyta) isolated from Canadian saline lakes show temperature sensitivity of alkenones and alkenoates. Organic Geochemistry, 121, pp. 89-103. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2018.04.008)

Plancq, J. , Cavazzin, B., Juggins, S., Haig, H. A., Leavitt, P. R. and Toney, J. L. (2018) Assessing environmental controls on the distribution of long-chain alkenones in the Canadian Prairies. Organic Geochemistry, 117, pp. 43-55. (doi:10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.12.005)

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Baudin, F., Duarte, L.V., Boussaha, M. and Grossi, V. (2016) A calcareous nannofossil and organic geochemical study of marine palaeoenvironmental changes across the Sinemurian/Pliensbachian (early Jurassic, ~191Ma) in Portugal. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 449, pp. 1-12. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.009)

Plancq, J. , Grossi, V., Pittet, B., Huguet, C., Rosell-Melé, A. and Mattioli, E. (2015) Multi-proxy constraints on sapropel formation during the late Pliocene of central Mediterranean (southwest Sicily). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 420, pp. 30-44. (doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2015.03.031)

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Pittet, B., Simon, L. and Grossi, V. (2014) Productivity and sea-surface temperature changes recorded during the late Eocene–early Oligocene at DSDP Site 511 (South Atlantic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 407, pp. 34-44. (doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.04.016)

Plancq, J. , Mattioli, E., Henderiks, J. and Grossi, V. (2013) Global shifts in Noelaerhabdaceae assemblages during the late Oligocene–early Miocene. Marine Micropaleontology, 103, pp. 40-50. (doi:10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.07.004)

Mattioli, E., Plancq, J. , Boussaha, M., Duarte, L.V. and Pittet, B. (2013) Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy: new data from the Lower Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin. Comunicações Geológicas, 100, pp. 69-76.

Plancq, J. , Grossi, V., Henderiks, J., Simon, L. and Mattioli, E. (2012) Alkenone producers during late Oligocene-early Miocene revisited. Paleoceanography, 27(1), PA1202. (doi:10.1029/2011PA002164)

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Julien Plancq

University of Glasgow, Geographical and Earth Sciences, Lilybank Gardens, Gregory Bldg Glasgow, Glasgow, UK G12 8QQ