Current projects
- FULCRUM
Bernd Wagner
since 2018 - Issyk Kul
Bernd Wagner
since 2019 - Lake Ohrid
Bernd Wagner
since 2004 - Antarctic Mumiyo (DFG SPP Antarctic Research)
Sonja Berg
since 2021 - Atacama Desert - land-ocean coupling to Humboldt Current (CRC 1211, A04)
Patrick Grunert, Volker Wennrich
2024 - 2028 - Antarctica - EASI Vestfold Hills (DFG SPP Antarctic Research)
Martin Melles
since 2024 - Canada - Glacial Lake Yukon (DFG normal Research Grant)
Martin Melles
since 2024
Completed Projects - BMBF
- El´gygytgyn Drilling Project
Martin Melles
2002 - 2011 - PLOT -Paleolimnological Transect
Martin Melles
2013 - 2021
Completed Projects - DFG
- Atacama Desert - Miocene to recent precipitation history (CRC 1211, A02)
Martin Melles, Volker Wennrich
2020 - 2024 - Dating - tephrostratigraphic framework for Atacama Desert (CRC 1211, D06)
Volker Wennrich, Bernd Wagner
2020 - 2024 - Geophysics - geophysical imaging and subsurface properties (CRC 1211, D07)
Pritam Yogeshwar, Martin Melles
2020 - 2024 - Graduate School - Integrated Research Training Group, IRTG (CRC 1211, Z05)
Karin Boessenkool, Martin Melles, Dietmar Quandt
2020 - 2024 - Lake Ohrid - biodiversity hotspots (SPP ICDP)
Konstantinos Panagiotopulos
2016 - 2024 - Bensberg Seismic Observatory - seismic network (Major Research Instrumentation)
Martin Melles (for Brigitte Knappmeyer-Endrun)
2023 - Lake Ohrid and Golf of Corinth - ecosystem response on climate change (SPP ICDP)
Konstantinos Panagiotopulos
2020 - 2023 - Issyk Kul - Late Quaternary history from different archives (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2019 - 2023 - Antarctica - marine ecosystem from snow petrel stomach oil (SPP Antarctic Research)
Sonja Berg
2019 - 2023 - Kola Peninsula - environmental viariability from Lake Imandra (normal Research Grant)
Martin Melles
2017 - 2023 - Fucino Basin - 430 ka tephrostratigraphy and -chronology (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2018 - 2021 - Lake Idaho - Plio-Pleistocene paleoclimate (SPP ICDP)
Alexander Prokopenko
2017 - 2021 - Dating - cosmogenic nuclide dating in archaeology (CRC 806, F1)
Bernhard Weninger, Martin Melles, Michael Staubwasser
2017 - 2021 - Atacama Desert - Miocene to recent precipitation history (CRC 1211, A02)
Martin Melles, Volker Wennrich
2016 - 2020 - Atlantic - early Cretaceous carbon sinks (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2014 - 2020 - Antarctica - paleoenvironment from snow petrel stomach oil (SPP Antarctic Research)
Sonja Berg
2016 - 2019 - Lake Towuti - climate variability in Indo-Pacific Warm Pool (SPP ICDP)
Martin Melles
2014 - 2019 - Lake Ohrid - SCOPSCO past speciation conditions (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2014 - 2019 - Lake Ohrid - SCOPSCO coring and sedimentology (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2011 - 2019 - Antarctica - compound-specific radiocarbon dating (SPP Antarctic Research)
Sonja Berg
2014 - 2018 - Africa - Late Quaternary climate archives in the Sahara (CRC 806, A2)
Stefan Kröpelin, Bülent Tezkan, Martin Melles
2013 - 2017 - Africa - palaeoenvironments from Ethopian lakes (CRC 806, A3)
Frank Schäbitz, Bernd Wagner
2013 - 2017 - Balkans - climatic and environmental history (CRC 806, B2)
Michael Staubwasser, Frank Schäbitz, Bernd Wagner,
2013 - 2017 - Iberian Peninsula - climatic and environmental changes (CRC 806, C3)
Klaus Reicherter, Martin Melles, Helmut Brückner
2013 - 2017 - Modelling - palaeoclimate and -environment in the CRC area (CRC 806, E6)
Yaping Shao, Martin Melles
2013 - 2017 - Dating - cosmogenic nuclide dating in archaeology (CRC 806, F1)
Bernhard Weninger, Martin Melles, Michael Staubwasser
2013 - 2017 - Graduate School - Integrated Research Training Group, IRTG (CRC 806, Z3)
Frank Schäbitz, Jürgen Richter, Martin Melles
2013 - 2017 - Lakes Baikal and Elgygytgyn - paleoclimate comparison (SPP ICDP)
Alexander Prokopenko
2012 - 2017 - Lake Elgygytgyn - Pliocene Arctic vegetation (SPP ICDP)
Martin Melles, Ulrike Herzschuh
2011 - 2017 - Iran - palaeoclimate central and eastern Iran (normal Research Grant)
Martin Melles, Michael Staubwasser
2011 - 2015 - Lake Elgygytgyn - Pliocene and Pleistocene mass movement events (SPP ICDP)
Martin Melles
2010 - 2015 - Atlantic - Cretaceous climate-ocean interaction (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2009 - 2015 - Antarctica - Holocene environmental variability (SPP Antarctic Research)
Sonja Berg
2011 - 2014 - Lake Ohrid - SCOPSCO palaeotemperature and coordination (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2009 - 2014 - Africa - Late Quaternary climate archives of the Sahara (CRC 806, A2)
Stefan Kröpelin, Bülent Tezkan, Martin Melles
2007 - 2013 - Balkans - climatic and environmental history (CRC 806, B2)
Bernd Wagner, Frank Schäbitz
2007 - 2013 - Turkey - climatic evolution of the Marmara Region (CRC 806, B4)
Sven Oliver Franz, Thomas Litt, Martin Melles
2007 - 2013 - Dating - palaeomagnetic dating and environmental magnetism (CRC 806, F6)
Martin Melles
2007 - 2013 - Graduate School - Integrated Research Training Group, IRTG (CRC 806, Z3)
Frank Schäbitz, Jürgen Richter, Martin Melles
2007 - 2013 - Lake Ohrid - evolutionary, geological, and environmental history (SPP ICDP)
Bernd Wagner
2008 - 2011 - Antarctica - geochemistry and microbiology Lake Vida (SPP Antarctic Research)
Bernd Wagner
2010 - 2011 - Antarctica - environmental history Prydz Bay (SPP Antarctic Research)
Martin Melles
2006 - 2011 - Greenland - environmental history E and NE Greenland (normal Research Grant)
Martin Melles
2005 - 2011 - AMS - 6 MV Accellerator Mass Spectrometer (Major Instrumentation Initiatives)
Martin Melles and 6 co-applicants
2007 - 2010 - USA - hydrothermal circulation and oceanic gabbros (normal Research Grant)
Martin Melles
2006 - 2010 - Atlantic - climate change during Cretaceous OAE 1a (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2006 - 2010 - Atlantic - Mid-Cretaceous land-ocean interaction (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2004 - 2010 - Lake Ohrid - Late Quaternary climatic and environmental history (normal Research Grant)
Bernd Wagner
2004 - 2010 - Greenland - Environmental history from lake sediments (normal Research Grant)
Bernd Wagner
2006 - 2009 - Antarctica - environmental history Taylor Valley (SPP Antarctic Research)
Martin Melles
2005 - 2009 - Greenland - paleoenvironment Nordre Stromfjord region (normal Research Grant)
Bernd Wagner
2007 - 2008 - Atlantic - Mid-Cretaceous land-ocean interaction (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2007 - 2008 - Atlantic/Tethys - carbon burial during Cretaceous OAE 1b (SPP IODP)
Peter Hofmann
2003 - 2007 - Antarctica - environmental history Amery Oasis (SPP Antarctic Research)
Martin Melles
2003 - 2006