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February 21st, 2006
I N V I T A T I O N Media Conference
Scientists explore mysteries of global sea-level rise
Since February 13th 26 scientists from ten nations work in the Bremen Core Repository of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). The researchers analyze 632 metres of cores, each six centimetres wide, which contain fossil corals. The cores were drilled last October and November off Tahiti during a very extensive geoscientific research expedition (IODP Expedition 310 Tahiti Sea Level). It was the second international mission proposed and operated by the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) under the auspices of IODP. .
By examining the corals the IODP research team will learn, with unprecedented accuracy, more about the timing and course of global sea level changes since the climax of the last ice age 20.000 years ago. This may help to understand present and future sea level rise related to global warming. The scientists also expect the corals to provide information on sea surface temperature changes, especially for climatic anomalies such as El Niño/Southern Oscillation events during that period.
The co-chief scientists of the expedition from France (Gilbert Camoin, CEREGE) and Japan (Yasufumi Iryu, Tohoku University) shall present the results of their exciting investigations during an international media conference. We heartily invite you to take part. You are also welcome to visit the core repository and labs to get an impression of how advanced climate research is conducted:
Media conference
Thursday, March 2nd 2006, 11 am
University of Bremen
MARUM-Building
Leobener Straße
We kindly ask you to register by sending an email or phone to:
Albert Gerdes
DFG Research Center Ocean Margins
University of Bremen
- Public Relations -
Email: 
Phone: +49 – 421 – 218-65540
Tahiti onshore Science Party: core description in the labs of the MARUM building in Bremen.
Sampling fossile coral cores.
1. October 2005 - Sea level and El Niño events
IODP Tahiti Sea Level Expedition examines history of global sea level change and fate of El Niño events
Dateline: Papeete, Tahiti, October 1 2005.
Scientists from 9 nations are scheduled to start the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Tahiti Sea-Level Expedition at the beginning of October, a research expedition designed to investigate global sea level rise since the last glacial maximum about 23000 years ago. For six weeks after they board the expedition vessel DP HUNTER, the science party will work on the most extensive geological research investigation ever undertaken in a coral reef area. Off the coast of Tahiti, IODP scientists will take samples of fossil corals from the ocean seafloor, to analyze the environmental records that exist in them. The scientists expect the corals to provide records of changes in sea surface temperature, and to provide information on climatic anomalies including the El Niño/Southern Oscillation events during that period.
Read the complete Press Release
Lesen die deutsche Pressemitteilung
Drilling vessel DP Hunter
Core from a fossil coral reef