The eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) responds sensitively to orbital and suborbital climate variability and related hydrological changes of the adjacent continents. Recurrent deposition of organic-rich sediment layers (sapropels) is caused by complex interactions between climatic and biogeochemical processes. Disentangling these influences is therefore important for Mediterranean palaeo-studies but also to understand climate links between the EMS and the African Monsoon system. Sapropels are diagnostic of anoxic deep-water phases, which have been attributed to deep-water stagnation, enhanced biological production, or both.
Tag: Holocene
Multi-proxy study of lacustrine sediments from salt lakes in Southern Spain for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
Tabea Schröder is a PhD student in Project C3 at the Institute of Neotectonics and Natural Hazards at the RWTH Aachen.
Reconstructing paleoenvironments by lipid biomarker analysis
Matthias Theinemann is a PhD student in Project F5 at the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the University of Cologne since september 2013.
Modeling paleo-dust as a climate indicator and comparison with loess and sediment proxies
Erik Schaffernicht is a PhD student in the project Palaeoclimate and Palaeoenvironmental Reconstructions Using a Computational Regional Environmental Modelling System (Project E6) of the CRC 806 Our Way to Europe of the University of Cologne.
Diatoms as an indicator of paleoecological changes in S. Levant over the last 10,000 years
Hannah Vossel is a PhD student at the Steinmann-Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Palaeontology at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn. Hannah has been employed as a student assistant in Project B3 since 2011.
Where ostracods meet the Romans
Human impact, climatic events and palaeoenvironments during the Late Holocene
I am a palaeobiologist analysing sediments as environmental and climate archives. My research mainly concerns the study of ostracod shells, which can provide information on parameters such as salinity, water depth and presence of macrophytes; stable oxygen and carbon isotopes and trace element ratios of ostracod shells serve as additional proxies of environmental change.