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Paleoclimate Research and Research Infrastructure at the University of Bremen

PAGES-related research is carried out within the DFG Research Center "Ocean Margins” (RCOM), the Center for Marine Environmental Research (MARUM), and the Department of Geosciences.

Within the RCOM, the coordinated Paleoenvironmental research activities have a marine focus and are guided by the following themes: (i) Assessment of climate variations at interannual to interdecadal time scales using high-resolution marine archives, (ii) changes in oceanic nutrient budgets and their impact on coastal high-productivity systems, and (iii) the influence of climate-driven changes in the flux of terrigenous matter on sedimentation and biological productivity. A strong emphasis is placed on combining the data-based reconstructions with modeling efforts to achieve the research goals.

The research infrastructure provided through RCOM and MARUM comprises:

Marine Technology
For paleoenvironmental research, the RCOM operates two remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for deployment in water depths of up to 1,000 and 4,000 m and a portable sea-floor drill rig (MeBo).

IODP core repository
Bremen University hosts one of the three active international core repositories of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP). As partner to the ECORD Science Operator (ESO) Consortium for IODP, Bremen University undertakes the curation, databasing and archiving of collected cores as well as providing offshore and onshore laboratory facilities for systematic core sampling.

Data information system PANGAEA/World Data Center
PANGAEA is an information system for the processing, long-term storage and publication of georeferenced data related to Earth science fields. It is used as an operating platform for the World Data Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE). PANGAEA holds nearly 140,000 data sets comprising ~250 million data items from all Earth science fields.

IMAGES Office
The International Past Global Changes maintains an office at Bremen University, which is staffed by the IMAGES data manager and the assistant director.

Postgraduate Training
As an integrating effort of RCOM together with EUROPROX (European Graduate College Proxies in Earth History, Dept. of Geosciences, Univ. Bremen, funded by DFG), NEBROC (NEtherlands Bremen Oceanography), the international co-operation in marine sciences between the Netherlands (NIOZ) and Bremen, and with NSG (the Netherlands Research School for Sedimentary Geology), a joint study program has been established for postgraduate education in marine sciences, named ECOLMAS (European Graduate College for Marine Sciences).

Contact:

Gerold Wefer


DFG Priority Program “Integrated analysis of interglacial climate dynamics”

The DFG-funded Priority Program “Integrated analyses of interglacial climate dynamics” (INTERDYNAMIK) will commence in 2007. It will provide a nationwide collaborative framework, aiming at a quantitative assessment of climate variations during the interglacials of the late Pleistocene in view of enhancing the quality of predictions for future climate change. The program is based on an integrated Earth-system analysis concept that will employ the best available palaeoclimate reconstructions from marine and continental archives as well as ice cores and will contrast the reconstructions to Earth-system models of various complexities.

Contact:

Michael Schulz


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