05-BMG-PO1 Paleoceanography and Environmental Change

This module provides the fundamentals for understanding the states and processes of the ocean and the climate in the geological past. The following topics are covered:
The role of the ocean in the climate system - Archives and proxies of paleoceanography - The complex delta18O signal - Reconstructions of the surface layer, the deep and groundwater masses - Paleoproductivity - Reconstruction of ocean circulation - Continental climate changes from marine archives - Changes of ocean and climate on orbital timescales since then Pliocene - Climate and ocean during the last glacial maximum - Changes in ocean and climate on time scales from decades to millennia

Learn methods to reconstruct earlier oceanic states and changes from proxy records
Understand how has the ocean changed in the course of geological history
Learn about questions currently being pursued in paleoceanography, and the limits of our knowledge
Learn about consequences for understanding future climate change

Course Type 1: Lecture (L) 2.0 SWS ( 28.0 h)

Course Type 2: Lecture, Exercise (L+E) 2.0 SWS ( 28.0 h)

Tutorial(s): -

56.0 h presence time
84.0 h self-study
40.0 h exam workload

180 h total workload

module exam

exam elements: 1
SL: 0

100 % written exam

will be announced during the lectures