Dr. Thomas Felis

Seasonality and interannual to centennial climate variability in the Caribbean during the last interglacial - Combining coral records, stalagmite records and climate models, CaribClim II (DFG-Priority Programme "INTERDYNAMIK") - PhD student: William Brocas
[Principal Investigator DFG Project: T. Felis, FE 615/3-2,3-4]

Sub-seasonal coral records of southern Caribbean climate during the demise of the Maya civilization (MARUM Incentive Funds) - MARUM Postdoctoral Fellow: Henry Wu
[Co-Principal Investigator MARUM Incentive Project: T. Felis]

Seasonal to interannual climate variability in the tropical southwest Pacific during the last deglaciation - Monthly resolved reconstructions from Great Barrier Reef corals (DFG-Priority Programme "IODP/ODP") - past Postdoc: Cyril Giry
[Principal Investigator DFG Project: T. Felis, FE 615/4-1]

The last deglacial sea-level and climatic changes. Coral reef records in the south Pacific: Tahiti (French Polynesia) - IODP Expedition #310 –, Australian Great Barrier Reef – IODP Proposal #519. (CHECREEF) (ESF EuroMARC Programme, EUROCORES Scheme)
[Principal Investigator ESF Project: T. Felis, FE 615/2-1]

Control of seasonality and interannual to centennial climate in the Caribbean during the Holocene - Combining coral records, stalagmite records and climate models, CaribClim I (DFG-Priority Programme "INTERDYNAMIK") - past PhD student: Cyril Giry
[Principal Investigator DFG Project: T. Felis, FE 615/3-1,3-2]

Last glacial maximum/last deglacial South Pacific interannual to decadal climate variability - Sub-seasonal reconstructions from Tahiti reef corals (DFG-Priority Programme "IODP/ODP")

Late Holocene variations in temperature and hydrologic balance – Sub-seasonal reconstructions from southern Caribbean corals
[Co-Principal Investigator MARUM Unforeseen Project: T. Felis]

Seasonal to decadal climate variability from oceanographic data, coral records and model simulations (MARUM Project OC1)

X-ray photo of a coral core reveals the annual density bands.

Fossil stony coral (Porites sp.), Gulf of Aqaba, northern Red Sea.

• Hathorne, E.C., T. Felis, A. Suzuki, H. Kawahata, G. Cabioch, Lithium in the aragonite skeletons of massive Porites corals: A new tool to reconstruct tropical sea surface temperatures, submitted.
• Felis, T., U. Merkel., R. Asami, P. Deschamps, E.C. Hathorne, M. Kölling, E. Bard, G. Cabioch, N. Durand, M. Prange, M. Schulz, S.Y. Cahyarini, M. Pfeiffer, Pronounced interannual variability in tropical South Pacific temperatures during Heinrich stadial 1, submitted.
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• Luterbacher, J., and 43 coauthors including T. Felis, A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean, in The climate of the Mediterranean region: From the past to the future, edited by P. Lionello, 87-185, Elsevier, Amsterdam, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-416042-2.00002-1, 2012.
• Giry, C., T. Felis, M. Kölling, D. Scholz, W. Wei, G. Lohmann, S. Scheffers, Mid- to late Holocene changes in tropical Atlantic temperature seasonality and interannual to multidecadal variability documented in southern Caribbean corals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 331-332, 187-200, 2012. (reprint)
• Webster, J.M., Y. Yokoyama, C. Cotterill, and the Expedition 325 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 325: Tokyo (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.325.2011, 2011.
• Hathorne, E.C., T. Felis, R.H. James, A. Thomas, Laser ablation ICP-MS screening of corals for diagenetically affected areas applied to Tahiti corals from the last deglaciation, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 75, 1490-1506, 2011. (reprint)
• Giry, C., T. Felis, M. Kölling, S. Scheffers, Geochemistry and skeletal structure of Diploria strigosa, implications for coral-based climate reconstruction, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 298, 378-387, 2010. (reprint)
• Felis, T., A. Suzuki, H. Kuhnert, N. Rimbu, H. Kawahata, Pacific Decadal Oscillation documented in a coral record of North Pacific winter temperature since 1873, Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L14605, doi:10.1029/2010GL043572, 2010. (reprint)
• Giry, C., T. Felis, S. Scheffers, C. Fensterer, Assessing the potential of Southern Caribbean corals for reconstructions of Holocene temperature variability, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 9, 012021, 2010. (reprint)
• Felis, T., N. Rimbu, Mediterranean climate variability documented in oxygen isotope records from northern Red Sea corals - A review, Global and Planetary Change, 71, 232-241, 2010. (reprint)
• Asami, R., T. Felis, P. Deschamps, K. Hanawa, Y. Iryu, E. Bard, N. Durand, M. Murayama, Evidence for tropical South Pacific climate change during the Younger Dryas and the Bølling-Allerød from geochemical records of fossil Tahiti corals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 288, 96-107, 2009. (reprint)
• Felis, T., A. Suzuki, H. Kuhnert, M. Dima, G. Lohmann, H. Kawahata, Subtropical coral reveals abrupt early-twentieth-century freshening in the western North Pacific Ocean, Geology, 37, 527-530, 2009. (reprint)
• Camoin, G.F., Y. Iryu, D.B. McInroy, and the IODP Expedition 310 Scientists, IODP Expedition 310 reconstructs sea level, climatic, and environmental changes in the South Pacific during the last deglaciation, Scientific Drilling, 5, 4-12, doi:10.2204/iodp.sd.5.01.2007, 2007.
• Camoin, G.F., Y. Iryu, D.B. McInroy, and the Expedition 310 Scientists, Proc. IODP, 310: Washington, DC (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International, Inc.), doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.310.2007, 2007.
• Al-Rousan, S., T. Felis, R. Manasrah, and F. Al-Horani, Seasonal variations in the stable oxygen isotopic composition in Porites corals from the northern Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, Geochemical Journal, 41, 333-340, 2007.
• Brachert, T.C., M. Reuter, T. Felis, K.F. Kroeger, G. Lohmann, A. Micheels, C. Fassoulas, Porites corals from Crete (Greece) open a window into Late Miocene (10 Ma) seasonal and interannual climate variability, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245, 81-94, 2006. (reprint)
• Rimbu, N., T. Felis, G. Lohmann, J. Pätzold, Winter and summer climate patterns in the European-Middle East during recent centuries as documented in a northern Red Sea coral record, The Holocene, 16, 321-330, 2006. (reprint)
• Luterbacher, J., and 48 coauthors including T. Felis, Mediterranean climate variability over the last centuries: a review, in The Mediterranean climate: an overview of the main characteristics and issues, P. Lionello, P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, R. Boscolo (editors), 27-148, Elsevier, 2006.
• Dima, M., T. Felis, G. Lohmann, N. Rimbu, Distinct modes of bidecadal and multidecadal variability in a climate reconstruction of the last centuries from a South Pacific coral, Climate Dynamics, 25, 329-336, 2005. (reprint)
• Yu, K.-F., J.-X. Zhao, G.-J. Wei, X.-R. Cheng, T.-G. Chen, T. Felis, P.-X. Wang, T.-S. Liu, d18O, Sr/Ca and Mg/Ca records of Porites lutea corals from Leizhou Peninsula, northern South China Sea, and their applicability as paleoclimatic indicators, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 218, 57-73, 2005. (reprint)
• Felis, T., G. Lohmann, H. Kuhnert, S. J. Lorenz, D. Scholz, J. Pätzold, S. A. Al-Rousan, S. M. Al-Moghrabi, Increased seasonality in Middle East temperatures during the last interglacial period, Nature, 429, 164-168, 2004. (reprint)
• Maier, C., T. Felis, J. Pätzold, R. P. M. Bak, Effect of skeletal growth and lack of species effects in the skeletal oxygen isotope climate signal within the coral genus Porites, Marine Geology, 207, 193-208, 2004. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Climate reconstructions from annually banded corals, in Global environmental change in the ocean and on land, edited by M. Shiyomi, H. Kawahata, H. Koizumi, A. Tsuda, Y. Awaya, 205-227, Terrapub, Tokyo, 2004.
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Corals as climate archive, in The climate in historical times: Towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models, edited by H. Fischer, T. Kumke, G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H. v. Storch, J. F. W. Negendank, 91-108, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
• Rimbu, N., G. Lohmann, T. Felis, J. Pätzold, Detection of climate modes as recorded in a seasonal-resolution coral record covering the last 250 years, in The climate in historical times: Towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models, edited by H. Fischer, T. Kumke, G. Lohmann, G. Flöser, H. Miller, H. v. Storch, J. F. W. Negendank, 281-292, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2004.
• Scholz, D., A. Mangini, T. Felis, U-series dating of diagenetically altered fossil reef corals, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 218, 163-178, 2004. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Y. Loya, Mean oxygen-isotope signatures in Porites spp. corals: Inter-colony variability and correction for extension-rate effects, Coral Reefs, 22, 328-336, 2003. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Climate records from corals, in Marine Science Frontiers for Europe, edited by G. Wefer, F. Lamy, F. Mantoura, 11-27, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2003.
• Rimbu, N., G. Lohmann, T. Felis, J. Pätzold, Shift in ENSO teleconnections recorded by a northern Red Sea coral, Journal of Climate, 16, 1414-1422, 2003. (reprint)
• Rimbu, N., G. Lohmann, T. Felis, J. Pätzold, Arctic Oscillation signature in a Red Sea coral, Geophysical Research Letters, 28, 2959-2962, 2001. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Y. Loya, M. Fine, A.H. Nawar, G. Wefer, A coral oxygen isotope record from the northern Red Sea documenting NAO, ENSO, and North Pacific teleconnections on Middle East climate variability since the year 1750, Paleoceanography, 15, 679-694, 2000. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, Y. Loya, and G. Wefer, Vertical water mass mixing and plankton blooms recorded in skeletal stable carbon isotopes of a Red Sea coral, Journal of Geophysical Research, 103, 30731-30739, 1998. (reprint)
• Felis, T., J. Pätzold, G. Wefer, M. Fine, Y. Loya, A.H. Nawar, First results of a coral-based history of recent climate in the northern Red Sea, Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie Teil I, 1997, 197-207, 1998.
• Schulz, H.D., T. Felis, C. Hagedorn, R. v. Lührte, C. Reiners, H. Sander, R. Schneider, J. Schubert, H. Schulz, Holozäne Küstenlinie am Unterlauf des Río Guadalquivir zwischen Sevilla und der Mündung in den Atlantik, Madrider Mitteilungen (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Madrid), 36, 219-232, 1995.

• 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS 2012), Cairns (Australia), July 2012.
• ESF Research Conference "Modes of Variability in the Climate System: Past-Present-Future", Obergurgl (Austria), May/June 2012. invited
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna (Austria), 2012.
• PMIP-MARGO-PAGES Workshop "Comparing Ocean Models with Paleo-Archives (COMPARE 2012)", Bremen, 2012.
• Joint IODP/ICDP Colloquium 2012, Kiel (Germany), 2012.
• IUP/AWI Seminar on "Climate variability", Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, 2012.
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 2011. invited
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna (Austria), 2011. invited
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna (Austria), 2011.
• Final ESF EuroMARC Conference, Cascais (Portugal), 2011.
• The University of Jordan, Aqaba (Jordan), 2010. invited
• Geological Society of America Global Meeting "Tectonic Crossroads: Evolving orogens of Eurasia-Africa-Arabia", Ankara (Turkey), 2010. invited
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 2009.
• Northcluster Workshop Series "Ocean & Earth System - past, present and future", Kiel (Germany), 2009.
• International Conference and 99th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung (GV), Göttingen (Germany), 2009.
• Second ESF EuroMARC Conference, Presqu'Ile de Giens (France), 2009.
• PAGES-ESF MedCLIVAR Workshop "Climate Extremes During Recent Millennia and their Impact on Mediterranean Societies", Athens (Greece), 2008.
• Bremen series of lectures "International Year of the Reef 2008", House of Science, Bremen, 2008.
• ESF MedCLIVAR Workshop "Oxygen isotopes as tracers of Mediterranean climate variability: linking past, present and future", Pisa (Italy), 2008. invited
• Ringvorlesung "Das Klima der Erde im Wandel", Humboldt-University, Berlin (Germany), 2008. invited
• ESF EuroMARC joint CARBONATE/CHECREEF Workshop "The geology of coral-rich carbonate systems: from tropical, shallow water to cold, deep-water settings", Sant' Alessio, Sicily (Italy), 2008.
• The University of Hong Kong, Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong (Hong Kong), 2008. invited
• European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2008, Vienna (Austria), 2008.
• Joint IODP/ICDP Colloquium 2008, Hannover (Germany), 2008.
• IODP Expedition 310 2nd Post-Expedition Meeting, Papeete, Tahiti (French Polynesia), 2007.
• DFG-Geokommission Nachwuchsworkshop, Weimar (Germany), 2007. invited
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 2005. invited
• American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco (USA), 2005.
• System Earth-Biosphere Coupling, Erlangen (Germany), 2005.
• DEKLIM/PAGES Conference "The climate of the next millennia in the perspective of abrupt climate change during the late Pleistocene", Mainz (Germany), 2005.
• 10th International Coral Reef Symposium, Okinawa (Japan), 2004.
• European Science Foundation-HOLIVAR Workshop "Holocene palaeodata integration and analysis", Bremen (Germany), 2004.
• Workshop on global carbon cycle and related mapping based on satellite imagery and climate change, Tsukuba (Japan), 2004. invited
• 6. Deutsche Klimatagung, Potsdam (Germany), 2003.
• EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly 2003, Nice (France), 2003. invited
• Jahrestagung der wissenschaftlichen Gesellschaften der festen Erde, GEO 2002, Würzburg (Germany), 2002.
• 1st Sino-German Youth Workshop on Western Pacific Marginal Seas, Shanghai (China), 2002. invited
• European Meeting of the International Society for Reef Studies, Cambridge (United Kingdom), 2002.
• 27th General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union, Nice (France), 2002.
• 1st Workshop of the DEKLIM EEM Project, Leipzig (Germany), 2002.
• 1st ARTS/PAGES Open Science Meeting, Nouméa (New Caledonia), 2001.

• 9th German-American Frontiers of Science Symposium (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation / US National Academy of Sciences), Irvine CA (USA), 2003.

Quaternary environmental change

• Department of Geology, University of Turku, Turku (Finland), 2005. ECTS credits: 2

Climate reconstructions from annually banded corals

• Lecture series "Expedition Earth", Centre for Continuing Education, University of Bremen, 2012. 2 x 2 hours
• European Graduate College in Marine Sciences (ECOLMAS) “Introductory Course in Marine Sciences”, Bremen (Germany), 2011. 4 hours
• The University of Jordan, Aqaba (Jordan), 2010. 1 hour
• European Graduate College in Marine Sciences (ECOLMAS) “Introductory Course in Marine Sciences”, Bremen (Germany), 2009. 4 hours
• European Graduate College in Marine Sciences (ECOLMAS) “Introductory Course in Marine Sciences”, Bremen (Germany), 2008. 2 hours
• European Graduate College in Marine Sciences (ECOLMAS) “Introductory Course in Marine Sciences”, Bremen (Germany), 2005. 2 hours
• ESF-HOLIVAR Training Course "Quantitative climate reconstruction and data-model comparisons", Toulouse (France), 2005. 2 hours
• ESF-HOLIVAR Training Course "Quantitative climate reconstruction and data-model comparisons", Ghent (Belgium), 2004. 2 hours
• ESF-HOLIVAR Training Course "Quantitative climate reconstruction and data-model comparisons", London (United Kingdom), 2003. 2 hours
• Helmert Summerschool "Natural climate variability from 10,000 years to the present day", Potsdam (Germany), 2002. 1 hour
• Winter School "Marine and Climate Research", Delmenhorst (Germany), 2001. 1 hour
• KIHZ Sommerschule "Holozäne Klimavariabilität: Synthese von Proxydaten und Klimamodellen", Wilhelmshaven (Germany), 2001. 1 hour

Felis et al., Geophysical Research Letters (2010):

• Ogasawara winter coral Sr/Ca and U/Ca data and PDO reconstruction (PANGAEA/WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences)

• Ogasawara winter coral Sr/Ca and U/Ca data and PDO reconstruction (WDC for Paleoclimatology)

Felis et al., Geology (2009):

• Ogasawara coral Sr/Ca, U/Ca, stable isotope and d18O seawater data (PANGAEA/WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences)

• Ogasawara coral Sr/Ca, U/Ca, stable isotope and d18O seawater data (WDC for Paleoclimatology)

Felis et al., Nature (2004):

• Northern Gulf of Aqaba coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data (PANGAEA/WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences)

• Northern Gulf of Aqaba coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca data (WDC for Paleoclimatology)

Felis et al., Paleoceanography (2000):

• Ras Umm Sidd coral oxygen isotope data (PANGAEA/WDC for Marine Environmental Sciences)

• Ras Umm Sidd coral oxygen isotope data (WDC for Paleoclimatology)