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Molecular
Paleoclimatology - Projects
Projects
EXC-Recorder: Perturbations
Effects of seafloor carbon emissions on marine carbon cycling
Funded by DFG-Cluster of Excellence 'The Ocean Floor' - Ocean floor as Recorder: Perturbations in the Earth system
PhD student: MSc. Joely Marie Maak
2023-2025
ORACLE
Holocene Hydroclimate and Carbon Cycle Dynamics in the Central Congo Basin
German-French joint project (funded by DFG & ANR)
Postdoc: Dr. Johanna Menges
2020-2023
EXC-Recorder: Perturbations
Influence of fluvial carbon discharge on marine carbon cycling
Funded by DFG-Cluster of Excellence 'The Ocean Floor' - Ocean floor as Recorder: Perturbations in the Earth system
Postdoc: Dr. Vera Meyer
2019-2023
Completed Projects
TRACES - Tracing Human and Climate impacts in South Africa
Funded in the frame of SPACES II (Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes in Southern Africa) by BMBF
PhD student: Julia Gensel
2018-2021
MARUM OC2 - Land-ocean interaction and climate variability in low latitudes
Funded by MARUM
PhD student / Postdoc: Christoph Häggi
2012-2018
RAiN II - Regional Archives for Integrated iNvestigations II
Funded in the frame of SPACES (Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes in Southern Africa) by BMBF
Postdoc: Dr. Charlotte (Lottie) S. Miller
2016-2018
PASADO Lipids - Southern Patagonian climate during the last 55,000 years: insights from lipid biomarkers and their isotopes
Funded by DFG
PhD student: Katja Hockun
2011-2016
RAiN - Regional Archives for Integrated iNvestigations
Funded in the frame of SPACES (Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes in Southern Africa) by BMBF
PhD student: Nicole (Herrmann) Burdanowitz
2013-2016
CARIMA - Natural and anthropogenic controls of past monsoon variability in central Asia recorded in marine archives
Funded by BMBF
PhD student: Astrid Contreras-Rosales
2011-2014
Pliocene ABC - Northwest African biomes and climate variability during the Pliocene
Funded by DFG
PhD student: Rony Küchler
2010-2014
Hydracene - A new hydrogen isotope approach to understand North African monsoon changes in the Holocene
Funded in the frame of the SPP Interdynamic by DFG
Postdoc: Dr. Britta Beckmann
2009-2014
Glacial to Holocene history of the tropical rainbelt
Funded by the DFG Research Center FZT15 ‘The Ocean in the Earth System’
PhD student: James Collins
2009-2013
MioC4 - African climate changes during C4 plant evolution and expansion
Funded in the frame of the DFG Research group 'Understanding Cenozoic Climate Cooling (UCCC)'
Postdoc: Dr. Florian Rommerskirchen
2008-2011
Influence of Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation on tropical sea-surface temperature and North African climate
Funded by the DFG Research Center FZT15 ‘The Ocean in the Earth System’
PhD student: Eva Niedermeyer
2005-2009
HBFG grant for a gas-isotope mass-spectrometer for compound-specific hydrogen isotope analyses
Funded by DFG
2008
Development of novel molecular-isotopic tracers for the hydrologic cycle
DFG own position for Dr. Enno Schefuß
2008-2011