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Focus meeting on stress signatures in corals

May 31, 2023
Group picture of the researchers of the DFG Priority Program
Group picture of the researchers of the DFG Priority Program "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs. They are meeting this week at the University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen; V. Diekamp

Researchers from the DFG Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" are meeting at the University of Bremen this week. The topical meeting focuses on thermal stress signatures in the geochemistry of coral skeletons and the role of temperature variability in corals susceptibility to bleaching. The Bremen team expects 50 colleagues from the 15 partner institutions who participate in the programme, who will head to Bremen to participate in scientific exchange across their projects along with a number of invited international guests. The meeting will conclude with a workshop for early career researchers within the programme.

The Priority Programme (SPP 2299) has been running since last year, with the first phase of the programme coordinated by Dr. Thomas Felis from MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen. The goal of the programme is to improve the understanding of tropical marine climate variability and its impact on coral reef ecosystems in a warming world. To develop this understanding, projects associated with the programme are focused on quantifying climate and environmental changes during both the current warming and during past warm periods on time scales relevant to society.

More information:

About the DFG Priority Programme SPP 2299 https://www.spp2299.tropicalclimatecorals.de/ 

About the programme kick-off https://www.marum.de/Entdecken/Kickoff-SPP2299.html

 

Contact:

Dr. Thomas Felis
Coral Paleoclimatology
Phone: +49 421 218-65751
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