Google Scholar * - graduate students; ** - undergraduate students; ^ - postdocs
2024
*Roza, S.E.V., Versteegh, G.J.M., Pospelova, V., Zonneveld, K.A.F. 2024. Environmental control of interannual and seasonal variability in dinoflagellate cyst export flux over 18 years in the Cape Blanc upwelling region (Mauritania). Frontiers in Marine Science, Volume 11. 22 p. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1284425. Link
Mertens, K.N., *Meyvisch, P., ^Gurdebeke, P.R., Pospelova, V., Matsuoka, K., Bilien, G., Gu, H., Yamaguchi, A. 2024. Revisiting the cyst-theca relationship for Votadinium spinosum: an examination of the Protoperidinium claudicans species complex. Palynology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2024.2303170. Link
2023
*Meyvisch, P., Mertens, K.N., Gurdebeke, P.R., Pospelova, V., Sandt, C., Borondics, F., Vrielinck, H., Louwye, S. 2023. Does dinocyst wall composition really reflect trophic affinity? New evidence from ATR micro-FTIR spectroscopy measurements. Journal of Phycology, 59, p. 1064–1084. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13382. Link
Telesiński, M.M., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K.N., *Małgorzata, M., Zajączkowski, M. Dinoflagellate cysts and benthic foraminifera from surface sediments of Svalbard fjords and shelves as paleoenvironmental indicators. 2023. Oceanologia, 65(4), p. 571–594. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceano.2023.06.007. Link
^Li, Z., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K.N., Liu, L., Wu, Y., Li, C., Jiang, W., Gu, H. 2023. Evaluation of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distributions in coastal surface sediments of the China Seas in relation with hydrographic conditions for paleoceanographic reconstruction. Quaternary International, 661, p. 60–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.03.007. Link
Mertens, K.N., Morquecho, L., Carbonell-Moore, C., Meyvisch, P., Gu, H., Bilien, G., Duval, A., Derrien, A., Pospelova, V., Sliwińska, K.K., Gárate-Lizárraga, I., Pérez-Cruz, P. 2023. Pentaplacodinium lapazense sp. nov. from Central and Southern Gulf of California, a new non-toxic gonyaulacalean resembling Protoceratium reticulatum. Marine Micropaleontology, 178, 102187(2022), 22 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102187. Link
*Gurdebeke, P.R., Mertens, K.N., Rajter, L., *Meyvisch, P., Potvin, E., Yang, E.J., André, C., Pospelova, V., Louwye, S. 2022. The ciliophoran affinity of Radiosperma textum, and its relation to other marine ciliate cysts. Marine Micropaleontology, 178, 102185(2022), 18 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102185. Link
Obrezkova, M.S., &Pospelova, V., Kolesnik, A.N. 2022. Diatom and dinoflagellate cyst distribution in surface sediments of the Chukchi Sea in relation to the upper water masses. Marine Micropaleontology, 178, 102184(2022), 28 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2022.102184. Link
2022
Dashtgard, S.E., Wang, A., Pospelova, V., Wang, P.-L., La Croix, A., Ayranci, A. 2022. Salinity indicators in sediment through the fluvial-to-marine transition (Fraser River, Canada). Scientific Reports, 12, 14303(2022), 10 pp., doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18466-4. Link
*Over, J.-S. and Pospelova, V. 2022. Last Interglacial (MIS 5e) sea surface hydrographic conditions in coastal southern California based on dinoflagellate cysts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 591, 20 pp., 110875. Link
Gu, H., Mertens, K.N. Derrien, A., Bilien, G., Li, Z., Hess, P., Séchet, V., Krock, B., Amorim, A., Li, Z., Pospelova, V., F. Smith, K.F., MacKenzie, L. , Yoon, J.Y., Kim, H.Y., Shin, H.H. 2022. Unravelling the Gonyaulax baltica species complex: Cyst-theca relationship of Impagidinium variaseptum, Spiniferites pseudodelicatus sp. nov. and S. ristingensis (Gonyaulacaceae, Dinophyceae), with descriptions of Gonyaulax bohaiensis sp. nov, G. amoyensis sp. nov. and G. portimonensis sp. nov. Journal of Phycology, 58, p. 465–486. Link
2021
*McLachlan, S.M.S. and Pospelova, V. 2021. Calcareous dinoflagellate cyst distribution across the K/Pg boundary at DSDP Site 577, Shatsky Rise, western North Pacific Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology, 168, 18 pp., 102057. Link
*Li, Z., Pospelova, V., Liu, L., Francois, R., Wu, Y, Mertens, K.N., Saito, Y., Zhou, R., Song, B., Xie, X. 2021. High-resolution reconstructions of Holocene sea-surface conditions from dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in the northern South China Sea. Marine Geology, 438, 20 pp., 106528. Link
*McLachlan, S.M.S., Pospelova, V., Humphrey, E.C. 2021. Vesiculation in the dinoflagellate cyst Cannosphaeropsis franciscana Damassa 1979 across the K–Pg boundary (Vancouver Island, Canada) with implications for spiniferate gonyaulacacean taxonomy and ecophynotypy. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 292, 31 pp., 104452. Link
Gu, H., Huo, K., Krock, B., Bilien, G., Luo, Z., Pospelova, V., *Li, Z., Carbonell-Moore, C., Morquecho, S., Ninčević, Z., Mertens, K.N. 2021. Cyst-theca relationship of Spiniferites bentorii, S. hyperacanthus, S. ramosus and S. scabratus and related molecular phylogenetics of Spiniferites and Tectatodinium (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae). Phycologia, 60(4), p. 332–353. Link
*McLachlan, S.M.S. and Pospelova, V. 2021. Dinoflagellate cyst-based paleoenvironmental reconstructions and phytoplankton paleoecology across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary interval, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Cretaceous Research, 126, 30 pp., 104878. Link
*Gurdebeke, P.R., Mertens, K.N., *Meyvisch, P., Bogus, K., Pospelova, V., Louwye, S. 2021. Hiddenocysta matsuokae gen. nov. et. sp. nov. from the Holocene of Vancouver. Palynology, 45(1), p. 103–114. Link
2020
Romero, O.E., Baumann, K.-H., Zonneveld, K.A.F., Donner, B., Hefter, J., Hamady, B., Pospelova, V., Fischer, G. 2020. Flux variability of phyto- and zooplankton communities in the Mauritanian coastal upwelling between 2003 and 2008. Biogeosciences, 17, p. 187-214. Link
Li, Z., Mertens, K.N., Gottschling, M., Gu, H., Söhner, S., Price, A.M., Marret, F., Pospelova, V., Smith, S.F., Carbonell-Moore, C., Nézan, E., Bilien, G., Shin, H.H. 2020. Taxonomy and molecular phylogenetics of Ensiculiferaceae, fam. nov. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae), with consideration of the life-history. Protist, 171, p. 1-26. Link
*Gurdebeke, P.R., Mertens, K.N., Pospelova, V., Matsuoka, K., *Li, Z., Gribble, K.E., Gu, H., Bogus, K., Vrielinck, H., Louwye, S. 2020. Taxonomic revision, phylogeny, and cyst wall composition of the dinoflagellate cyst genus Votadinium Reid (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales, Protoperidiniaceae). Palynology, 44(2), p. 310–335. Link
Zhang, W., Li, Z., Mertens, K.N., Luo, Z., Derrien, A., Pospelova, V., Carbonell-Moore, C., Bagheri, S., Matsuoka, K., Shin, H.H., Gu, H. 2020. Reclassification of Gonyaulax verior (Gonyaulacales, Dinophyceae) as Sourniaea diacantha gen. et comb. nov. Phycologia, 59(3), p. 246–260. Link
*Gurdebeke, P.R., Mertens, K.N., Pospelova, V., Nieuwenhove, N., Louwye, S. 2020. Islandinium pacificum sp. nov., a new dinoflagellate cyst from the upper Quaternary sediments of the NE Pacific (Dinophyceae, Peridiniales). Palynology, 44(1), p. 80-93. Link
Van Nieuwenhove, N., Pospelova, V., de Vernal, A., Rochon, A. 2020. Preface: A historical perspective on the development of the Northern Hemisphere modern dinoflagellate cyst database. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101824, doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2020.101824. Link
*Li, Z., Pospelova, V., Kawamura, H., Luo, C., Mertens, K.N., Hernández-Almeida, I., Yin, K., Wu, Y., Wu, H., Xiang, R. 2020. Dinoflagellate cyst distribution in surface sediments from the South China Sea in relation to hydrographic conditions and primary productivity. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101815, 10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101815. Link
Van Nieuwenhove, N., Head, M.J., Limoges, A., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K., Matthiessen, J., De Schepper, S., de Vernal, A., Eynaud, F., Londeix, L., Marret-Davies, F., Peynaud, A., Radi, T., Rochon, A. 2020. An overview and brief description of common marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa occurring in surface sediments of the Northern Hemisphere. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101814, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101814. Link
Limoges, A., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Mertens, K.N., Head, M.J., Pospelova, V., Rochon, A. 2020. A review of rare and endemic extant marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa of the orders Gonyaulacales and Suessiales from the Northern Hemisphere. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101801, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101801. Link
de Vernal, A., Radi, T., Zaragosi, S., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Rochon, A., Allan, E., De Schepper, S., Eynaud, F., Head, M.J., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Marret-Davies, F., Matthiessen, J., Peynaud, A., Pospelova, V., Price, A., Richerol, T. 2020. Distribution of common modern dinocyst taxa in surface sediment of the Northern Hemisphere in relation to environmental parameters: the updated n=1968 database. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101796, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101796. Link
Mertens, K.N., Gu, H., *Gurdebeke, P.R., Yoshihito, T., Clarke, D., Aydin, H., *Li, Z., Pospelova, V., Shin, H.H., Li, Z., Matsuoka, K., Head, M.J. 2020. A review of rare, poorly known, and morphologically problematic extant marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa of the orders Gymnodiniales and Peridiniales from the Northern Hemisphere. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101773https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101773. Link
Marret, F., Bradley, L., de Vernal, A., Hardy, W., So-Young Kim, S.-Y., Mudie., P., Penaud, A., Pospelova, V., Price, A., Radi, T., Rochon, A. 2020. From bi-polar to regional distribution of modern dinoflagellate cysts, an overview of their biogeography. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101753, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101753. Link
Head, M.J., Pospelova, V., Radi, T., Marret, F. 2020. Stelladinium bifurcatum sp. nov., a distinctive extant thermophilic heterotrophic dinoflagellate cyst from the late Quaternary of the eastern Pacific and east equatorial Atlantic oceans. Marine Micropaleontology, 159, 101754, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101754. Link
2019
^Bringué, M., Pospelova, V., Tappa, E.J., Thunell, R.C. 2019. Dinoflagellate cyst production in the Cariaco Basin: a 12 year-long sediment trap study. Progress in Oceanography, 171, p. 175-211. Link
Obrezkova, M.S. and Pospelova, V. 2019. Distribution of diatoms and dinocyst in surface sediments from the East Siberian and Chukchi Seas. Paleontological Journal, 53(8), p. 790–794. Link
*McLachlan, S.M.S., Pospelova, V., Hebda, R.J. 2019. Areoligeracean dinoflagellate cysts from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hornby Island, British Columbia (Canada). Palynology, 43(4), p. 669–689. Link
Luo, Z., Mertens, K.N., Nézan, E., Gu, L., Pospelova, V., Thoha, H., Gu, H. 2019. Morphology, ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of cyst-producing Caladoa arcachonensis gen. et sp. nov. (Dinophyceae) from France and Indonesia. European Journal of Phycology, 54(2), p. 235-248. Link
Wang. N., Mertens, K.N., Krock, B., Luo., Z., Derrien, A., Pospelova, V., Liang, Y., Bilien, G., Smith, K.F., De Schepper, S., Wietkamp, S., Tillmann, U., Gu, H. 2019. Cryptic speciation in Protoceratium reticulatum (Dinophyceae): evidence from morphological, molecular and ecophysiological data. Harmful Algae, 88, 101610, 15 pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2019.05.003. Link
2018
*García-Moreiras, I., Pospelova, V., García-Gil, S., Muñoz Sobrino, C. 2018. Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on the Ría de Vigo (NW Iberia) over the last two centuries: a high-resolution dinoflagellate cyst sedimentary record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 504, p. 201-218. Link
*McLachlan, S.M.S., Pospelova, V., Hebda, R.J. 2018. Dinoflagellate cysts from the upper Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hornby Island, British Columbia (Canada), with implications for Nanaimo Group biostratigraphy and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. Marine Micropaleontology, 145, p. 1-20. Link
^Bringué, M., Thunell, R.C., Pospelova, V., Pinckney, J.L., Romero, O. and Tappa, E.J. 2018. Physico-chemical and biological factors influencing dinoflagellate cyst production in the Cariaco Basin. Biogeosciences, 15(8), p. 2325–2348. Link
*Gurdebeke, P.R., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K.N., Dallimore, A., **Chana, J., Louwye, S. 2018. Diversity and distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from fjords of western Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada). Marine Micropaleontology, 143, p. 12-29. Link
*Li., Z., Pospelova, V., Lin, H.-L., Liu, L., Song, B., Gong, W. 2018. Seasonal dinoflagellate cyst production and terrestrial palynomorph deposition in the monsoon influenced South China Sea: A sediment trap study from the Southwest Taiwan waters. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 257, p. 117-139. Link
Pospelova, V., Zonneveld, K.A.F., ^Heikkilä, M., *Bringué, M., *Price, A., *Esenkulova, S., Matsuoka, K. 2018. Seasonal, annual, and inter-annual Spiniferites cyst production: a review of sediment trap studies. Palynology, 42(S1), p. 162-181. Invited special issue paper. Link
Mertens, K.N., van Nieuwenhove, N., *Gurdebeke, P., P.R., Aydin, H., Bogus, K., ^Bringue´, M., Dale, B., De Schepper, S., de Vernal, A., Ellegaard, M., Grothe, A., Gu, H., Head, M.J., Heikkila¨, M., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Louwye, S., Marret, F., Masure, E., Matsuoka, K., Mudie, P.J., Penaud, A., Pospelova, V., Price, A.M., Ribeiro, S., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Schreck, M., Torres-Torres, V., Uzar, S., Versteegh, G.J.M., Warny, S., Zonneveld, K. 2018. The dinoflagellate cyst genera Achomosphaera Evitt 1963 and Spiniferites Mantell 1850 in Pliocene to modern sediments: a summary of round table discussions. Palynology, 42(S1), p. 10-44. Link
de Vernal, A., Eynaud, F., Henry, M., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Matthiessen, M., Marret, F., Pospelova, V., Radi, T., Rochon, A., van Nieuwenhove, N., Zaragosi, S. 2018. Distribution and (paleo)ecological affinities of the main Spiniferites taxa in the mid-high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Palynology, 42(S1), p. 182-202. Invited special issue paper. Link
van Nieuwenhove, N., Potvin, E., ^Heikkilä, M., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K.N., Masure, E., Kucharska, M., Yang, E.Y., Chomérat, N., Zajaczkowski, M. 2018. Taxonomic revision of Spiniferites elongatus (the resting stage of Gonyaulax elongata) based on morphological and molecular analyses. Palynology, 42(S1), p. 111-134. Invited special issue paper. Link
Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Mertens, K., Rochon, A., Pospelova, V., de Vernal, A., del Carmen Cuéllar, T. 2018. Towards an identification key for Pliocene and Quaternary Spiniferites taxa bearing intergonal processes based on observations from estuarine and coastal environments. Palynology, 42(S1), p. 72-88. Invited special issue paper. Link
Mertens, K.N., Carbonell-Moore, C., Pospelova, V., Head, M.J. 2018. Ceratocorys mariaovidiorum P. Salgado, S. Fraga, F. Rodri´guez, P. Riobo´ & I. Bravo is a junior synonym of Pentaplacodinium saltonense K.N. Mertens, M.C. Carbonell-Moore, V. Pospelova & M.J. Head. Notulae algarum, 45, p. 1-2. ISSN 2009-8987. Link
Mertens, K.N., Carbonell-Moore, C., Pospelova, V., Head, M.J., Highfield, A. Schroeder,D., Gu, G., Andree, K.B., Fernandez, M., Yamaguchi, A., Yoshihito, T., Matsuoka, K., Nézan, E., Bilien, G., Okolodkov, Y., Koike, K., Hoppenrath, M., Pfaff, M., Pitcher, G., Al-Muftah, A., Rochon, A., Teen Lim, P., Pin Leaw, C., Fei Lim, Z., Ellegaard, M. 2018. Pentaplacodinium saltonense gen. et sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), and its relationship to the cyst-defined Operculodinium psilatum and the yessotoxin-producing Protoceratium reticulatum. Harmful Algae, 71, p. 57-77. Link
2017
Mertens, K.N., Gu, H., Pospelova, V., Chomérat, N., Nézan, E., *Gurdebeke, P.R., Bogus, K., Vrielinck, H., Rumebe, M., Meteigner, C. 2017. First record of resting cysts of the benthic dinoflagellate Prorocentrum leve in a natural reservoir in Gujan-Mestras, Gironde, France. Journal of Phycology, 53, p. 1193–1205. Link
Mertens, K.N., Takano, Y., Gu, H., Bagheri, S., Pospelova, V., Matsuoka, K. 2017. Cyst-theca relationship and phylogenetic position of Impagidinium caspienense incubated from Caspian Sea surface sediments: evidence for heterospory within gonyaulacoid dinoflagellates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 64(6), p. 829-842. Link
*Price, A.M., *Coffin, M.R.S, Pospelova, V., Latimer, J.S., Chmura, G.L. 2017. Effect of nutrients on dinoflagellate cyst assemblages across estuaries of the NW Atlantic. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 121(1-2), p. 339–351. Link
*Li., Z., Pospelova, V., Liu, L., Zhou, R., Song. B. 2017. High-resolution palynological record of Holocene climatic and oceanographic changes in the northern South China Sea. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 483, p. 94-124. Link
Luo, Z., Yang, W., Leaw, C.P., Pospelova, V., Bilien, G., Leaw, G.R., Lim, P.T., Gu, H. 2017. Cryptic diversity within the harmful dinoflagellate Akashiwo sanguinea in coastal Chinese waters is related to differentiated ecological niches. Harmful Algae, 66, p. 88-96. Link
Song, B., Li., Z., Lu, H., Mao, L., Saito, Y., Yi, S., Li, Z., Lu, A., Sha, L., Zhou, R., Pospelova, V. 2017. Pollen record of the centennial climate changes during 9-7 cal ka BP in the Changjiang (Yangtze) River Delta plain, China. Quaternary Research, 87, p. 275–287. Link
Mertens, K.N., Gu, H., Takano, Y., *Price, A., Pospelova, V., Bogus, K., Versteegh, G, Marret, F., Turner, R.E., Rabalais, N., Matsuoka, K. 2017. The cyst-theca relationship of Trinovantedinium pallidifulvum, with erection of Protoperidinium lousianensis sp. nov. and their phylogenetic position within the Conica group. Palynology, 41(2), p. 183-202. Link
Ellegaard, M., Dale, B., Mertens, K.N., Pospelova, V., Ribeiro, S. 2017. Equal contributions. Invited book chapter #12: “Dinoflagellate cysts as proxies for Holocene and recent environmental change in estuaries: Diversity, abundance and morphology.” Eds. K. Weckström et al. (eds.), Applications of Paleoenvironmental Techniques in Estuarine Studies, Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research 20, DOI:10.1007/978-94-024-0990-1_12, Berlin, Germany: Springer, p. 295-312. Link
2016
*Price, A.M., Pospelova, V. *Coffin, M.R.S, Latimer, J.S., Chmura, G.L. 2016. Biogeography of dinoflagellate cysts in northwest Atlantic estuaries. Ecology and Evolution, 6, p. 5648–5662. Link
^Heikkilä, M., Pospelova, V., Forest, A., Stern, G.A., Fortier, L., Macdonald, R.W. 2016. Dinoflagellate cyst production over an annual cycle in seasonally ice-covered Hudson Bay. Marine Micropaleontology, 125, p. 1-24. Link
*Price, A.M., *Gurdebeke, P.R., Mertens, K.N., Pospelova, V. 2016. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments III: Identifying the source of Lycopodium loss during palynological processing and further testing of the Lycopodium marker-grain method. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 226(1), p. 78-90. Link
*Bringué, M., Pospelova, V., Calvert, S.E., Enkin, R.J., Lacourse, T., Ivanochko, T. 2016. High resolution dinoflagellate cyst record of environmental change in Effingham Inlet (BC, Canada) over the last millennium. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 441(4), p. 787-810. Link
2015
Pospelova, V., *Price, A., Pedersen, T.F. 2015. Palynological evidence for late Quaternary climate and marine primary productivity changes along the California margin. Paleoceanography, 30(7), p. 877-894. DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002728. Link
Zonneveld, K.A.F. and Pospelova, V. 2015. A determination key for modern dinoflagellate cysts. Palynology, 39, p. 387-409. Link
Mertens, K.N., Takano, Y., Gu, H., Yamaguchi, A., Pospelova, V., Ellegaard, M., Matsuoka, K. 2015. The cyst-theca relationship of a new dinoflagellate with a spiny round brown cyst, Protoperidinium lewisiae, and its comparison to the cyst of Oblea acanthocysta. Phycological Research, 63, p. 110–124. Link
2014
*Bringué, M., Pospelova, V., Field, D.B. 2014. High resolution dinoflagellate cyst record of decadal variability and 20th century warming in the Santa Barbara Basin, California. Quaternary Science Reviews, 105, p. 86-101. Link
^Heikkilä, M., Pospelova, V., Hochheim, K.P., Kuzyk, Z.Z.A., Stern, G.A., Macdonald, R.W., Barber, D.G. 2014. Surface sediment dinoflagellate cysts from the Hudson Bay system and their relation to freshwater and nutrient cycling. Marine Micropaleontology, 106, p. 79-109. Link
*Price, A. and Pospelova, V. 2014. Spiniferites multisphaerus sp. nov. (Dinophyceae), a dinoflagellate cyst from the Late Pleistocene in Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California, Mexico. Palynology, 38(1), p. 101-116. Link
Zonneveld K.A.F. and Pospelova, V. 2014. A determination key for modern dinoflagellate cysts. Online. See the website
*Czarnecki, J., Dashtgard, S.E., Pospelova, V., Mathewes, R., MacEachern, J.A. 2014. Palynology and geochemistry of channel-margin sediments across the tidal-fluvial transition, lower Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 51, p. 152-166. Link
2013
Mertens, K.N., Yamaguchi, A., Takano, Y., Pospelova, V., Head, M.J., Radi, T., Pienkowski, A.J., de Vernal, A., Kawami, H., Matsuoka, K. 2013. A new heterotrophic dinoflagellate from the North Pacific, Protoperidinium fukuyoi: cyst–theca relationship, phylogeny, distribution and ecology. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, 60(6), p. 545-563. Link
*Bringué, M., Pospelova, V., Pak, D. 2013. Seasonal production of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in upwelling systems: a sediment trap study from the Santa Barbara Basin, California. Marine Micropaleontology, 100, p. 34–51. Link
*Price, A., ^Mertens, K.N., Pospelova, V., Pedersen, T.F., Ganeshram, R. 2013. Late Quaternary climatic and oceanographic changes in the Eastern North Pacific as recorded by dinoflagellate cysts from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California (Mexico). Paleoceanography, 28(1), p. 200-212. doi:10.1002/palo.20019. Link
Zonneveld, K.A.F., Marret-Davies, F., Versteegh, G.J.M., Bonnet, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Crough, E., El-Shanawany, R., Edwards, L., Esper, O., Grøsfjeld, K., Henry, M., Holzwarth, U., Kielt, J.-F., Ladouceur, S., Ledu, D., Liang, C., Limoges, A., Londeix, L., Lu, S.-H, Mahmoud, M.S. , Marino, G., Matsouka, K., Matthiessen, J., Mildenhal, D.C., Neil, H.L., Pospelova, V., Radi, T., Richerol, T., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Solignac, S., Turon, J-L., Verleye, T., de Vernal, A., Young, M., Young, S. 2013. The Atlas of modern dinoflagellate cyst distribution based on 2405 datapoints. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 191, 1-197. Total: 197 pages. Link
Roy, S., Pospelova, V., Montresor, M., Cembella A., (Eds.). 2013. GEOHAB - Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Algal Blooms, GEOHAB Core Research Project: HABs in Fjords and Coastal Embayments. Second Open Science Meeting. Progress in Interpreting Life History and Growth Dynamics of Harmful Algal Blooms in Fjords and Coastal Environments. GEOHAB Report # 10. IOC and SCOR, Paris, France and Newark, Delaware USA, ISSN 1538 182X, 52 pp. Link
Radi, T., Bonnet, S., Cormier, M.-A., de Vernal, A., Durantou, L., Faubert, É., Head, M.J., Henry, M., Pospelova, V., Rochon, A., Van Nieuwenhove, N. 2013. Operational taxonomy and (paleo-)autecology of round, brown, spiny dinoflagellate cysts from the Quaternary of high northern latitudes. Marine Micropaleontology, 98, p. 41-57. Link
2012
^Mertens, K.N., *Price, A., Pospelova, V. 2012. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments II: further tests of the Lycopodium marker-grain method. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 184, p. 74-81. Link
Mertens, K.N., Yamaguchi, A., Kawami, H., Ribeiro, S., Leander, B.S., Price, A.M., Pospelova, V., Ellegaard, M., Matsuoka, K. 2012. Archaeperidinium saanichi sp. nov.: a new species based on morphological variation of cyst and theca within the Archaeperidinium minutum Jörgensen 1912 species complex. Marine Micropaleontology, 96-97, p. 48-62. Link
Roy, S. and Pospelova, V. 2012. Progress in Interpreting Life History and Coastal Dynamics of Harmful Algal Blooms in Fjords and Coastal Environments. 2012 GEOHAB Open Science Meeting. The North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) Press, Vol. 20(2), p. 48-50. Link
Mertens, K.N., *Bringué, M., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Takano, Y., Pospelova, V., Rochon, A., de Vernal, A., Radi, T., Dale, B., Patterson, R.T., Weckström, K., Andrén, E., Louwye, S., Matsuoka, K. 2012. Process length variation of the cyst of the dinoflagellate Protoceratium reticulatum in the North Pacific and Baltic-Skagerrak region: calibration as annual density proxy and first evidence of pseudo-cryptic speciation. Journal of Quaternary Science, 27(7),p. 734-744. Link
Mertens, K.N., Bradley, L.R., Takano, Y., Mudie, P.J., Marret, F., Aksu, A.E., Hiscott, R.N., Verleye, T.J., Mousing, E.A., Smyrnova, L.L., Bagheri, S., Pospelova, V., Matsuoka, K. 2012. Quantitative estimation of Holocene surface salinity variation in the Black Sea using dinoflagellate cyst process length. Quaternary Science Review, 39, p. 45-59. Link
2011
**Price, A. and Pospelova, V. 2011. High-resolution sediment trap study of organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production and biogenic silica flux in Saanich Inlet (BC, Canada). Marine Micropaleontology, 80(1-2), p. 18-43. Link
McCarthy, F.G., Mertens, K.N., Ellegaard, M., Sherman, K., Pospelova, V., Ribeiro, S., Blasco, S., Vercauteren, D. 2011. Resting cysts of freshwater dinoflagellates in southeastern Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) as proxies of cultural eutrophication. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 166, p. 46-62. Link
Yamaguchi, A., Hoppenrath, M., Pospelova, V., Horiguchi, T., Leander, B.S. 2011. Molecular phylogeny of the marine sand-dwelling dinoflagellate Herdmania litoralis and an emended description of the closely related planktonic genus Archaeperidinium Jörgensen. European Journal of Phycology, 46(2) p. 98-112. Link
*Verleye, T., Pospelova, V., Mertens, K.N., Louwye, S. 2011. The geographical distribution and (palaeo)ecology of Selenopemphix undulata sp. nov., a new late Quaternary dinoflagellate cyst from the Pacific Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology, 78, p. 65-83. Link
*Bonnett, C.J.M., Pospelova, V., Haggart, J.W. 2011. Dinoflagellate cysts from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rocks of Grassy Island, British Columbia, Proceedings of the 21st Canadian Paleontology Conference, Vancouver, Canada, p. 11.
Haggart, J.W., Schröder-Adams, C.J., *Bonnett, C.J.M., Pospelova, V., Carter E.S., Grey, M., Sweet, A.R. 2011. The Buchia-bearing strata of Grassy Island, west coast Vancouver Island: litho- and biostratigraphy of a shoreface to outer-shelf transect across the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous forearc basin. Canada. Proceedings of the 21st Canadian Paleontology Conference, Vancouver, Canada, p. 32-33.
2010
**Krepakevich, A. and Pospelova, V. 2010. Tracing the influence of sewage discharge on coastal bays of Southern Vancouver Island (BC, Canada) using sedimentary records of phytoplankton. Continental Shelf Research, 30(18), p. 1924-1940. Link
Pospelova, V. and Kim, S.J. 2010. Dinoflagellate cysts in Recent sediments from the aquaculture sites of southern South Korea. Marine Micropaleontology, 76, p. 37-51. Link
Pospelova, V., *Esenkulova., S., Johannessen, S.C., O’Brien, M.C., Macdonald, R.W. 2010. Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst production, composition and flux from 1996 to 1998 in the central Strait of Georgia (BC, Canada): a sediment trap study. Marine Micropaleontology, 75(1-4), p. 17-37. Link
2009
Mertens, K.N. Verhoeven, K., Verleye, T., Louwye, S., Amorim, Ana, Ribeiro, S., Deaf, A.S., Harding, I., De Schepper, S., Kodrans-nsiah, M., de Vernal, A., Radi, T., Dybkjaer, K., Poulsen, N.E., Feist-burkhardt, S., Chitolie, J., González Arango, C., Heilmann-clausen, C., Londeix, L., Turon, J.-L., Marret, F., Matthiessen, J., Mccarthy, F., Prasad, V., Pospelova, V., Hughes, J.K., Riding, J.B., Rochon, A., Sangiorgi, F., Marino, G., Welters, N., Sinclair, N., Thun, C., Soliman, A., Van Nieuwenhove, N., Vink, A., Young, M. 2009. Determining the absolute abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in recent marine sediments: The Lycopodium marker-grain method put to the test. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 157, p. 238-252. Link
Mertens, K.N., Ribeiro, S., Bouimetarhan, I., Caner, H., Combourieu-Nebout, N., Dale, B., de Vernal., A., Ellegaard, M., Filipova, M., Godhe, A., Groeneveld, J., Grosfjeld, K., Holzwarth, U., Kotthoff, U., Leroy, S., Londeix, L., Marret, F., Matsuoka, K., Mudie, P., Naudts, L., Peña-Manjarrez, J.L., Persson, A., Popescu, S., Pospelova, V., Sangiorgi, F., van der Meer, M., Vink, A., Zonneveld, K., Vercauteren, D., Vlassenbroeck, J., Louwye, S. 2009. Process length variation in cysts of a dinoflagellate, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, in surface sediments investigating its potential as salinity proxy. Marine Micropaleontology, 70(1-2), p. 54-69. Link
2008
Pospelova, V., de Vernal, A., Pedersen, T.F. 2008. Distribution of dinoflagellate cysts in surface sediments from the northeastern Pacific Ocean (43-25°N) in relation to sea-surface temperature, productivity and coastal upwelling. Marine Micropaleontology, 68(1-2), p. 21-48. Link
2007
*Radi, T., Pospelova, V., de Vernal, A., Barrie, J.V. 2007. Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of water quality and productivity in British Columbia estuarine environments. Marine Micropaleontology, 62, p. 296-297. Link
2006
Pospelova, V., Pedersen, T.F., de Vernal, A. 2006. Dinoflagellate cysts as indicators of climatic and oceanographic changes during the past 40 kyr in the Santa Barbara Basin, southern California. Paleoceanography, 21(2), p. 1-16, PA2010, doi:10.1029/2005PA001251
This paper was selected by the editors of Paleoceanography Journal as an "American Geophysical Union (AGU) Journal Highlight." Link
It was also acknowledged in the article on it in the Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, Ecological Society of America. PDF
2005
Pospelova, V., Chmura, G.L., Boothman, W., Latimer, J.S. 2005. Spatial distribution of modern dinoflagellate cysts in polluted estuarine sediments from Buzzards Bay (Massachusetts, USA) embayments. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 292, p. 23-40. Link
2004
Pospelova, V., Chmura, G.L., Walker, H.A. 2004. Environmental factors influencing spatial distribution of dinoflagellate cyst assemblages in shallow lagoons of southern New England (USA). Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, 128(1-2), p. 7-34. Link
Chmura, G.L., Santos, A., Pospelova, V., Spasojevic, Z., Lam, R., Latimer, J.S. 2004. Response of three paleo-primary production proxy measures to watershed forest clearance, urbanization and industrialization of an urban estuary. The Science of the Total Environment, 320(2-3), p. 225-243. Link
2003
Pospelova, V. 2003. Dinoflagellate cyst assemblages and environmental factors controlling their distribution in New England estuaries. Ph.D. Thesis. McGill University, 38(3), Montreal, QC, Canada. 159 pp. Link
Latimer, J.S., Boothman, B.S., Pesch, C., Chmura, G.L., Pospelova, V., Jayaraman, J. 2003. Environmental stress and recovery: the geochemical record of human disturbance in New Bedford Harbor and Apponagansett Bay, Massachusetts (USA). The Science of the Total Environment, 313, p. 153-176. Link
2002
Pospelova, V., Chmura, G.L. Boothman, W.S., Latimer, J.S. 2002. Dinoflagellate cyst records and human disturbance in two neighboring estuaries, New Bedford Harbor and Apponagansett Bay, Massachusetts (USA). The Science of the Total Environment, 298(1-3), p. 81-102. Link
Pospelova, V. and Head, M.J. 2002. Islandinium brevispinosum sp. nov. (Dinoflagellata), a new organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst from modern estuarine sediments of New England (USA). Journal of Phycology, 38(3), p. 593-601. Link
2001
de Vernal, A., Henry, M., Matthiessen, J., Mudie, P.J., Rochon, A., Boessenkool, K., Eynaud, F., Gr?sfjeld, K., Guiot, J., Hamel, D., Harland, R., Head, M.J., Kunz-Pirrung, M., Levac, E., Loucheur, V., Peyron, O., Pospelova, V., Radi, T., Turon, J.-L., Voronina,L. (2001). Dinocyst assemblages as tracer of sea-surface conditions in the northern North Atlantic, Arctic and sub-Arctic seas: the "n = 677" data base and derived transfer functions. Journal of Quaternary Science, 16(7), p. 681-698. Link
1998-95
Nikitenko, B.L., Shurygin, B.N., Pospelova, V. 1998. Lateral distribution of foraminifers, macrobenthos and dinocysts in Pleinsbachian-Toarcian catenas of Siberian paleoseas, Revista de la Sociedad Mexicana de Paleontologia, v. 9.
Nikitenko, B.L. and Pospelova, V. 1996. Mikrobiota (benthos and phytoplankton) and biofacies in Early–Middle Jurassic Seas of northern Siberia. In: Kanygin, A.V. (ed.), Geodinamika I Evolutsia Zemli (Geodynamics and Evolution of the Earth). Publishing House of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, p. 177–180 [in Russian]. PDF
Pospelova, V. 1995. Subdivision and correlation of the Pliensbachian and Toarcian sediments in Anabar region on palynological evidence (Northern Siberia). In: Lebedeva, N.K. and Nikitenko, B.L. (eds.), Geology and Geochemistry of Siberian Sediments. Novosibirsk, Russia, p. 30-38 [in Russian]. PDF