Research Projects Paleolimnology Group

Ein varved See Sedimentkern aus Polen.

Tracing plant protection products across the environment - Source, transport, sink, and relevance for risk assessment (TraPPP)

Does the Southern Ocean act as a net source, or sink, of CO2?

Biochemical responses of lakes to rapid climate transitions across space and time: insights from novel high-resolution analyses of sediments from Europe and Northern China

20,000 years of evolution and ecosystem dynamics in the world’s largest tropical lake reconstructed from sediment cores, fossils and ancient DNA

  • SNF Sinergia project; PI O. Seehausen, Co-PI M. Grosjean, B. Edwards EAWAG, T. Gilbert Copenhagen (CRSII5_183566)
  • pril 2019 – March 2024
  • SNF Project Summary

Exploring VNIR/SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging of Varved Lake Sediments: Methods and Applications in Paleoclimatology and Paleoecology

 

Digging deep into Lake Victoria`s past: 15,000 years of ecosystem dynamics and evolution reconstructed from sediment cores of the world`s largest tropical lake

  • Faculty of Science, UniBE. PI: Ole Seehausen; Co-PI: Martin Grosjean, Willy Tinner and Martin Grosjean, Flavio Anselmetti
  • Duration: 2018-2019
  • Lake Victoria Project - Summary

 

Climate Variability in the SW Ecuadorian Andes of the Past Two Millennia: a Contribution to IGBP-PAGES 2k.

 

CLIMPOL Climate of Northern Poland during the Last 1000 Years: Constraining the Future with the Past

  •     Polish-Swiss Research Programme PSRP
  •     Duration: July 2011 -June 2015
  •     Cooperation: Dr. W. Tylmann, University of Gdansk
  •     Homepage: www.climpol.ug.edu.pl

 

Detection of Human and Natural Influences on the Climate System: Regional Insights from the Past Millennium

 

MRI (SNSF Div II): Global Change and Mountain Regions: the Mountain Research Initiative Coordination Office

  • PL: Prof. R. Weingartner, Co-PI M. Grosjean; H. Bugmann, W. Häberli, J. Ruegg; NF Div II 20FI20_132773
  • Duration: October 2010 – September 2013
  • MRI abstract (PDF, 9KB)

 

SNF Requip

  • XRF Core Scanner and Digital Radiography
  • PI: F. Anselmetti; Co-PI: M. Grosjean, D. Ariztegui, W. Tinner
  • Duration: December 2012 - November 2013

 

SNSF AMBIZIONE (PZ00P2_136835/1)

  • Awarded to Dr. Krystyna M. Saunders
  • High Resolution Reconstructions of Climate Variability in the Sub-Antarctic during the Last Two Millenia
  • Duration: January 2012 - December 2014.
  • Abstract Ambizione_KS

 

Calibrating Scanning VIS Reflectance Spectroscopy Data from Minerogenic and Biochemical Varves: Improving Climate Reconstructions from Lake Sediments (SNSF Div II)

 

Marie Curie European Reintegration Grants (ERG FP7, n° 276703)

  • Awarded to Dr. Rixt de Jong
  • Chilean Lake Sediments as Archives for Climate Variability during the Past 1000 Years (CHILE1000)
  • Duration: May 2011 - April 2014
  • Abstract ERG

 

 SNSF AMBIZIONE

  • Awarded to Dr. Rixt de Jong (NF PZ00P2_131797)
  • Cold-season Climate Variability in the Chilean Andes during the Past Millennium
  • Duration: November 2010 – October 2013
  • Abstract Ambizione_RdJ

 

Climate Change and Dynamics of Freshwater Systems in Central and Southern Chile: A Perspective from Lakes

  • Chilean Swiss Joint Research Programme No. CJRP-1001
  • Duration: August 2010 – July 2012
  • Abstract CJRP