In response to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), in coordination with the Foreign Office and the Federal Chancellery, announced a fundamental change in its cooperation policy with Russia and Belarus on February 25,22. Nationally and internationally, this pursues the goal of isolating the Russian government as far as possible. For this reason, all current and planned projects of the Alfred Wegener Institute with government agencies in Russia will be frozen and/or critically reviewed. For further inquiries, please contact taskforce.ukraine@awi.de.
The terrestrial Arctic is a key region of ongoing climate change. The vast and diverse landscapes, especially in Siberia, offer the potential to pinpoint climatic and ecological connections between Arctic and boreal areas in the Northern Hemisphere. In order to widen our understanding of lake ecosystem response to recent and comparable past climate changes, we conduct palaeoenvironmental studies using sediments from lakes located along north-south and west-east transects.
Our research foci are
Our multi-proxy approach includes parametric sub-bottoom profiling, sediment core retrieval and laboratory analyses of samples. Indicator analyses include the analyses of diatoms (including taxonomy, oxygen isotopes, and ancient DNA), pollen, chironomids, geochemical (XRF elements and XRD minerals) and physical sediment properties (grain size), as well as multivariate statistics.
Dr. Larisa Nazarova (Guest from Federal University Kazan)
Stuart Vyse (Doctoral student)
Gregor Pfalz (Doctoral student)
Lara Hughes-Allen (Doctoral guest student, GEOPS, MOPGA)
Amy Forster (Undergraduate student)
Tim Kröger (Undergraduate student)
Adrian Schnitt (Undergraduate student)
Alexander Rudolf (Undergraduate student)
Rebecca Morawietz (Undergraduate student)
Jenny Barsch (Undergraduate student)
Helene Scheidemann (Undergraduate student)
Nora Ritschel
Maximilian Rometsch
Alexander Gessner
Daria Kapustina
Kim Funck
Levent Vorpahl
Jurek Brzoska
Miriam Sens
Peter Bahsitta
Sarah Mosser
Saskia Bacher
Vanessa Warmke
Dr. Georg Schwamborn
Julia Berger