CURRENT PROJECTS

DFG Priority Programme: Antarctic Research

• Ice - Water interactions in the subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica: numerical simulations

DFG - Research Unit
Understanding Cenozoic Climate Cooling: The Role of the Hydrological Cycle, the Carbon Cycle, and Vegetation Changes

http://www.cenozoic-climate-cooling.org/

Projects in the DFG Programme INTERDYNAMIK

• Holocene Variability in the Arctic Gateway (HOVAG)
• Evaluation of Eemian and Holocene Climate Trends: Synthesis of marine archives with climate modelling (HolEem)
  
• Control of seasonality and interannual to centennial climate in the Caribbean during the Holocene - Combining coral records, stalagmite records and climate models (CaribClim)
  
• A new hydrogen-isotope approach to understand North African monsoon changes in the Holocene (HYDRACENE)
  

Excellence Cluster "The Ocean in the Earth System"

• Seasonal to decadal climate variability from oceanographic data, coral records and model simulations
  link: http://www.marum.de/en/Page8292.html
  

Further current projects

• Earth System Science Research School (ESSRES)
• COSMOS
• KLIFF
• DAPHNE

 
FORMER PROJECTS

• Miocene carbonate deposition: Relationship to the establishment of the modern thermohaline circulation (ODP Program)
• Deklim: Climate Transitions Glacial - Interglacial
• Humboldt Stipendium (Mihai Dima)
• KIHZ Project
• GHOST Project

• Neogene development and dynamic of the circum-antarctic ocean frontal system IODP/ODP, DFG
• DFG - Cenozoic Antarctic Glaciation

• Decadal climate variability from high resolution marine archives and model simulations
• Variability of the deep water formation in the North Atlantic
• DAAD scholarship "Reconstructing climate variability using observational data, proxy reconstructions and models".
• New insights on long-term inter-hemispheric climate synchronicity from speleothems

OTHER PROJECTS

• EMICS Project
• PAGES International Project
• IPY Plates and Gates
• BIPOMAC