Tropical climate variability and speleothem science Research topics

Our work is supported by Heidelberg University, the German Research Foundation (DFG), the European Research Council (ERC), and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). You can find a selection on this page:

• upcoming in 2027, ERC StG26: Trace Metals in Speleothems – Advancing Paleotempestology Using a Novel Geochemical Proxy of Tropical Cyclone Activity
• since 2023, DFG (within SPP2299 Phase 2): Reconstructing Environmental Effects of Freshwater-Seawater Dynamics via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (PostDoc S. Greve)
• since 2023, DFG: Comparison of interglacial tropical climate variability during the past 300,000 years (PhD A. Mielke)
• 2022 – 2025 DFG (within SPP2299 Phase 1, accomplished): Quantifying post Little-Ice-Age freshwater influences and ocean dynamics in the Central American Sea using a novel tracer combination: ²³⁴U/²³⁸U– (P)SST – ¹⁴C (PhD S. Greve)
• 2022 – 2025 DFG (accomplished): Speleothem based quantification of precipitation and aridity and its role for Maya cultural development on the northern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico (PhD N. Schorndorf)
• 2023 – 2025 DAAD/BMBF (accomplished): High-resolution quantification of transition metals in tropical stalagmites (Project related personal exchange New Zealand 2023-2025, cooperation with the Waikato Environmental Geochemistry group by Prof. Adam Hartland and Dr. Sebastian Hoepker, University of Waikato, NZ).
• 2023 – 2025 Funding of Habilitation of Sophie Warken through Heidelberg University's Olympic Morata Program