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![]() Education: ![]() | Our group explores the climate history and oceanography during the Cenozoic (the past 66 Myr). We analyse sediment cores, particularly from the International Ocean Discovery Program. The sediment properties, microfossils and geochemical composition of these samples allow us to generate high-resolution climatic reconstructions. We research astronomically related climatic fluctuations that allow us to generate precise age models. We also conduct Earth System modeling studies, that allow us to put data from sediment cores into a global climatic context.
![]() Working Area Equatorial and subtropical Pacific and Arctic Ocean; Atlantic, Mediterranean and Antarctica
Methods Our methods and materials consist of sediment cores. We analyse these sediments using non-destructive (e.g., XRF Core Scanning), and geochemical methods (stable isotope measurements of oxygen and carbon on species specific foraminifera samples, and bulk sediments). We apply modern time series analysis techniques and apply complex Earth System Models of Intermediate Complexity to put the research data into a framework to deduce global conditions and sensitivities ![]() Contact Telefon +49 421 218 - 65980 | |
Paleoceanography
Prof. Dr. Heiko Pälike
GEO 2150
Paleoceanography
Ute Wolpmann
GEO 2160