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Projects

DFG ANNA

Cold-water corals off Angola and Namibia

2016
DFG Ship Proposal
Scientist involved: Hebbeln, Wienberg, Titschack, Tamborrino

Publications

Hanz U, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Duineveld G, Lavaleye M, Juva K, Dullo W-C, Freiwald A, Tamborrino L, Reichart G-J, Flögel S, Mienis F (2019). Environmental factors influencing cold-water coral ecosystems in the oxygen minimum zones on the Angolan and Namibian margins. Biogeosciences 16: 4337–4356.
Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Dullo WC, Freiwald A, Mienis F, Orejas C, Titschack (2020). Cold-water coral reefs thriving under hypoxia. Coral Reefs 39:853–859.
Orejas C, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Tamborrino L, Freiwald A, Hebbeln D (2021). Madrepora oculata forms large frameworks in hypoxic waters off Angola (SE Atlantic). Scientific Reports 11:15170.
Tamborrino L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Wintersteller P, Mienis F, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Freiwald A, Orejas C, Dullo C, Haberkern J, Hebbeln D (2019). Mid-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone. Geology 47(12):1185-1188.
Tamborrino L, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Purkis S, Eberli GP, Hebbeln D (2022). Spatial distribution and morphometry of the Namibian coral mounds controlled by the hydrodynamic regime and outer-shelf topography. Frontiers in Marine Science.
Wefing A-M, Arps J, Blaser P, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Frank N (2017). High precision U-series dating of scleractinian cold-water corals using an automated chromatographic U and Th extraction. Chemical Geology 475:140-148.

EU ATLAS

A Trans-Atlantic assessment and deep-water ecosystem-based spatial management plan for Europe 'ATLAS'

2016 - 2020
EU HORIZON2020
Scientist involved: Hebbeln, da Costa Portilho Ramos, Wienberg
WP1 - Ocean Dynamics Driving Ecosystem Response

Publications

Hebbeln D, Portihlo-Ramos R, Wienberg C, Titschack J (2019). The fate of cold-water corals in a changing world: a gelogical perspective. Frontiers in Marine Science 6:119.
Morato T, González-Irusta J-M, Dominguez-Carrió C, Wei C-L, Davies A, Sweetman AK, Taranto GH, Beazley L, García-Alegre A, Grehan A, Laffargue P, Murillo FJ, Sacau M, Vaz S, Kenchington E, Arnaud-Haond S, Callery O, Chimienti G, Cordes E, Egilsdottir H, Freiwald A, Gasbarro R, Gutierrez-Zárate C, Gianni M, Gilkinson K, Wareham Hayes VE, Hebbeln D, Hedges K, Henry L-A, Johnson D, Koen-Alonso M, Lirette C, Mastrototaro F, Menot L, Molodtsova T, Durán Muñoz P, Orejas C, Pennino MG, Puerta P, Ragnarsson SA, Ramiro-Sánchez B, Rice J, Rivera J, Roberts M, Ross SW, Rueda JL, Sampaio I, Snelgrove P, Stirling D, Treble MA, Urra J, Vad J, van Oevelen D, Watling L, Walkusz W, Wienberg C, Woillez M, Levin LA, Carreiro-Silva M (2020). Climate-induced changes in the habitat suitability of cold-water corals and commercially important deep-sea fishes in the North Atlantic. Global Change Biology 26:2181-2202.
Portilho-Ramos R, Titschack J, Wienberg C, Siccha M, Yokohama Y, Hebbeln D (2022). Major environmental drivers determining life and death of cold-water corals through time. Plos Biology 20(5):e3001628. DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.3001628.

DFG MoccaMeBo

Climate-driven Initiation and Development of Cold-water Coral Mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic Margin revealed by MeBo-cores

2015 - 2018
Proposal for a Research Grant (DFG He 3412-18)
Scientist involved: Hebbeln, Wienberg
Associated expedition: RV Merian MSM36

Publications

Hebbeln D, Bender M, Gaide S, Titschack J, Vandorpe T, Van Rooij D, Wintersteller P, Wienberg C (2019). Thousands of cold-water coral mounds along the Moroccan Atlantic continental margin: distribution and morphometry. Marine Geology 411:51-61.
Vandorpe T, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Van den Berghe M, Gaide S, Wintersteller P, Van Rooij D (2017). Multiple generations of buried cold-water coral mounds since the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition in the Atlantic Moroccan Coral Province, southern Gulf of Cádiz. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 485:293-304.
Vandorpe T, Delivet S, Blamart D, Wienberg C, Bassinot F, Mienis F, Stuut J-B, Van Rooij D (accepted). Paleoceanographic and hydrodynamic variability for the last 47 kyr in the southern Gulf of Cádiz (Atlantic Moroccan margin): sedimentary and climatic implications. The Depositional Record. DOI:10.1002/dep2.212
Wang H, Lo Iacono C, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Hebbeln D (2019). Cold-water coral mounds in the southern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean Sea): Internal waves as an important driver for mound formation since the last deglaciation. Marine Geology 412:1-18.
Wienberg C (2019). A deglacial cold-water coral boom in the Alboran Sea: from coral mounds and species dominance (drop chapter 7). In: Orejas C, Jiménez C, Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals: Past, Present and Future (Understanding the Deep-Sea Realms of Coral). Springer series: Coral Reefs of the World 9. Springer International Publishing, pp. 57-60.
Wienberg C, Krengel T, Frank N, Wang H, Hebbeln D (2022). Cold-water coral mounds in the western Mediterranean Sea: New insights into their initiation and development since the Mid-Pleistocene in response to changes in African hydroclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews 293:107723. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107723

DFG Palaeo-WACOM

Climate-driven long-term Development of North Atlantic Cold-water Coral Ecosystems - A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

2012 - 2015
Proposal for a Research Grant (DFG He 3412-17)
Scientist involved: Hebbeln, Wienberg, Matos
Associated expedition: RV Merian MSM20-4

Publications

Hebbeln D, Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Freiwald A, Becker M, Beuck L, Dullo C, Eberli GP, Glogowski S, Matos L, Forster N, Reyes-Bonilla H, Taviani M, and the MSM 20-4 shipboard scientific party (2014). Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico. Biogeosciences 11: 1799-1815.
Matos L, Mienis F, Wienberg C, Frank N, Kwiatkowski C, Groeneveld J, Thil F, Abrantes F, Cunha MR, Hebbeln D (2015). Interglacial occurrence of cold-water corals off Cape Lookout (NW Atlantic): first evidence of the Gulf Stream influence. Deep-Sea Research Part 1 105: 158-170.
Matos L, Wienberg C, Titschack J, Schmiedl G, Frank N, Abrantes F, Cunha MR, Hebbeln D (2017). Coral mound development at the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico: Implications of Antarctic Intermediate Water increased influence during interglacials. Marine Geology 392:53-65.
Wienberg C, Titschack J (2017). Framework-forming scleractinian cold-water corals through space and time: A late Quaternary North Atlantic perspective. In: Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C, Marine Animal Forests: the Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots. Springer, pp. 699-732, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-17001-5_16-1
Wienberg C, Titschack J,Freiwald A, Frank N, Lundälv T, Taviani M, Beuck L, Schröder-Ritzrau A, Krengel T, Hebbeln D (2018). The giant Mauritanian cold-water coral mound province: oxygen control on coral mound formation. Quaternary Science Reviews 185:135–152.

DFG CORICON

Cold-Water Corals on the Irish Continental Margin

2010 - 2013
Proposal for a Research Grant (DFG He 3412-16)
Scientist involved: Hebbeln, Wienberg, Eisele
Associated expedition: RV Poseidon P400

Wienberg C, Titschack J, Frank N, De Pol-Holz R, Fietzke J, Eisele M, Kremer A, Hebbeln D (2020). Deglacial upslope shift of NE Atlantic intermediate waters controlled slope erosion and cold-water coral mound formation (Porcupine Seabight, Irish margin). Quaternary Science Reviews 237: 106310.

EU HERMIONE

Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European Seas

2009 - 2012
EU-FP7: Collaborative Project
Scientists involved: Hebbeln & Wienberg

Publications

Fink HG, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, McGregor HV, Schmiedl G, Taviani M, Freiwald A (2012). Oxygen control on Holocene cold-water coral development in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Deep Sea Research Part I 62: 89-96.
Fink HG, Wienberg C, De Pol-Holz R, Wintersteller P, Hebbeln D (2013). Cold-water coral growth in the Alboran Sea related to high productivity during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Marine Geology 339: 71-82.
Fink HG, Wienberg C, De Pol-Holz R, Hebbeln D (2015). Spatio-temporal distribution patterns of Mediterranean cold-water corals (Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata) during the past 14,000 years. Deep-Sea Research Part 1 103: 37-48.
Frank N, Freiwald A, López Correa M, Wienberg C, Eisele M, Hebbeln D, Van Rooij D, Henriet JP, Colin C, van Weering T, de Haas H, Buhl-Mortensen P, Roberts JM, De Mol B, Douville E, Blamart D, Hatte C (2011). Northeastern Atlantic cold-water coral reefs and climate. Geology 39: 743-746.
Wienberg C, Wintersteller P, Beuck L, Hebbeln D (2013). Coral Patch seamount (NE Atlantic) - a sedimentological and megafaunal reconnaissance based on video and hydroacoustic surveys. Biogeosciences 10: 3421-3443.

ESF CARBONATE

Mid Latitude Carbonate Systems: Cold-Water Coral Carbonate Mounds in the NE Atlantic

2008 - 2011
ESF EUROCORES: EuroMARC (DFG He 3412-7)
Scientists involved: Hebbeln & Wienberg

Publications

Wienberg C, Frank N, Mertens KN, Stuut JB, Marchant M, Fietzke J, Mienis F, Hebbeln D (2010). Glacial cold-water corals growth in the Gulf of Cádiz: Implications of increased palaeo-productivity. Earth & Planetary Science Letters 298: 405-416.

EU HERMES

Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European Seas

2005 - 2009
EU-FP6: Integrated Project
Scientists involved: Hebbeln & Wienberg

Publications

Eisele M, Hebbeln D, Wienberg C (2008). Growth history of a cold-water coral-covered carbonate mound - Galway Mound, Porcupine Seabight, NE Atlantic. Marine Geology 253: 160-169. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.006
Eisele M, Frank N, Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, López Correa M, Douville E, Freiwald A (2011). Productivity controlled cold-water coral growth periods during the last glacial off Mauritania. Marine Geology 280: 143-149. DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2010.12.007

ESF MOUNDFORCE

Forcing of Carbonate Mounds and Deep Water Coral Reefs along the NW European Continental Margins

2003 - 2006
ESF EUROCORES: EuroMARGINS (DFG He 3412-2)
Scientists involved: Hebbeln, Dorschel, Wienberg

Publications

Wienberg C, Beuck L, Heidkamp S, Hebbeln D, Freiwald A, Pfannkuche O, Monteys X (2008). Franken Mound - facies and biocoenoses on a newly-discovered 'carbonate mound' on the western Rockall Bank, NE Atlantic. Facies 54:1-24. DOI:10.1007/s10347-007-0118-0
Wienberg C, Hebbeln D, Fink HG, Mienis F, Dorschel B, Vertino A, López Correa M, Freiwald A (2009). Scleractinian cold-water corals in the Gulf of Cádiz - first clues about their spatial and temporal distribution. Deep Sea Research Part I 56: 1873-1893. DOI:10.1016/j.dsr.2009.05.016