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![]() 1980 Diplom Universität Kiel; 1984 Promotion an der Universität Kiel ![]() | Overall goal of our research is the reconstruction of paleoclimate and paleoceanography of the High Northern Latitudes on different time scales, i.e., the long-term evolution from Greenhouse to Icehouse conditions during late Cretaceous/Early Cenozoic times and the short-term centennial-millenial variability. Of special interest are the history of circum-Arctic ice sheets and the Arctic Ocean organic carbon cycle (marine vs. terrigenous organic carbon flux; reconstruction of surface-water productivity, sea-ice cover, oxygenation of water masses). Large part of the research is embedded in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). ![]() Working Area Arctic Ocean and adjacent marginal seas, North Atlantic, North Pacific/Bering Sea Methods Sedimentological and mineralogical investigations (X-Ray diffraction, MSCL logging, XRF scanning, microscopy, grain size) of terrigenous sediment fraction; determination of organic geochemical bulk parameters and biomarkers by means of elemental analysis, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, and GC and GC/MS techniques ![]() Contact Telefon +49 421 218 - 65696 | |
Paleoceanography of the Arctic Ocean
Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Stein
MARUM1 2480