Mitarbeiter
Prof. Dr. habil. rer. nat. Dirk Nürnberg
GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel
FB1: Ozeanzirkulation und Klimadynamik
FE: Paläo-Ozeanographie
Wischhofstr. 1-3, Geb. 8c, Raum 106
D-24148 Kiel
Tel.+49-431-600-2313
dnuernberg(at)geomar.de
Hurray: 30 years ago we reached the Northpole on Sept. 7, 1991: Gruppenfoto
OUT OF THE PRESS: Qian F, Chang F, Nürnberg D, et al. (2024) Precessional hydroclimatic synchronicity changes in the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool driven by the intertropical convergence zone over the past 450 kyr. Geological Magazine 161(e9): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756824000177
OUT OF THE PRESS: Qin et al. (2024): Obliquity pacing of deep Pacific carbonate chemistry during the Plio-Pleistocene. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2024GL110093. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL110093
Govindankutty Menon et al. (2023): A deep‑learning automated image recognition method for measuring pore patterns in closely related bolivinids and calibration for quantitative nitrate paleo‑reconstructions. www.nature.com/scientificreports.
Buchwald et al. (2024): Plankton community changes during the last 124 000 years in the subarctic Bering Sea derived from sedimentary ancient DNA. The ISME Journal. https://www.nature.com/ismej/
Bubenshchikova et al. (2024): The Pauzhetka tephra (South Kamchatka): A key middle Pleistocene isochron for the Northwest Pacific and Okhotsk Sea sediments. Quaternary Geochronology.
Zimmermann et al. (2023): Marine ecosystem shifts with deglacial sea-ice loss inferred from ancient DNA shotgun sequencing. Nature Communications, 14 . Art.Nr. 1650. DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-36845-x. Press, Press, Press, Press
Jacobi, Nürnberg, Chao, Lembke-Jene, Tiedemann (2023) ENSO vs glacial-interglacial-induced changes in the Kuroshio-Oyashio transition zone during the Pleistocene. Front. Mar. Sci. 10:1074431. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1074431
Hübscher & Nürnberg et al. (2023): Loop Current attenuation after the Mid-Pleistocene Transition contributes to Northern hemisphere cooling. Marine Geology
Current Project: Lamy & Nürnberg: Dynamics of Surface to Intermediate/Mode Water in the Pleistocene Subantarctic Pacific (IODP Expedition 383 DYNAPACC). Int. Ocean Discovery Program. Fact Sheet.
WATCH THIS: Movies / Oceanblogs / Cruise Report from SONNE cruise 264 to the North Pacific
Das grosse Fressen (Nature Comm.) (press release) (press release)
KDM-Broschüre: Future of the Gulf Stream
Research / Forschung
Within the Research Unit Paleoceanography, research interests focus on the „chemical paleoceanography“:
• Foraminiferal (isotope)geochemistry: Development and application of the Mg/Ca-paleothermometry, light stable isotopes, foramininferal Na/Ca as paleo-salinity proxy, trace elements.
• Reconstructions of late Quaternary sea surface, subsurface, and intermediate water temperatures and salinities, thermocline change, terrigenous flux, marine productivity, and (sub)surface hydrography in different ocean environments.
• Reconstructions of northern high latitude sedimentological processes, sea-ice, oceanography, and climate during the late Pleistocene.
• Ocean gateway dynamics and development of oceanic warmpools: Opening history of the Southern Gateway (Australia-Tasman-Antarctica), Pliocene closure of the Panamanian Isthmus, restriction of the Indonesian Gateway.
• Research areas: Arctic Ocean, N Atlantic, Iceland, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Southern Ocean (SE-Australian sector), equatorial W Pacific, SE, E, and NW Pacific, Okhotsk Sea, Bering Sea.
DN has teaching commitment at Kiel University. DN is proponent of 32 DFG and BMBF research projects since 1997, head of the stable isotope and Mg/Ca-labs, and supervised various Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. theses. DN participated, partly led, and mostly applied for 28 land and ship-expeditions.
Current projects:
- SONNE-EMPEROR (BMBF), 1 Dokotorand/Ph.D. student, SO264 cruise report, Factsheet
- Dynamics of Surface to Intermediate/Mode Water in the Pleistocene Subantarctic Pacific (IODP Expedition 383 DYNAPACC), 1 Postdoc, Factsheet
- Western Boundary Current in Relation to Atlantic Subtropical Gyre Dynamics During Abrupt Glacial Climate Fluctuations. Factsheet
- Intermediate water variability in the tropical West-Atlantic during glacial to deglacial climate change. Factsheet
- Paleo-proxy studies: Foraminiferal Na/Ca as salinity proxy. Factsheet
- Last Glacial to Holocene sea-surface and subsurface ocean dynamics south of Australia. Ongoing M.Sc. Thesis. Factsheet
- Reconstruction of the Pleistocene atmospheric/oceanic circulation in the South Pacific (SOPATRA), 1 Doktorand/Ph.D.student, SO213-Fahrtbericht, Press, BMBF-Bericht
- West Pacific Warm Pool seasurface and thermocline dynamics, Factsheet
- Iceland paleoclimatology and paleoceanography, Publication, Doktorandin/Ph.D.student, Factsheet
News / Aktuelles
Expeditions in 2016-2022
- FS POLARSTEN PS128 (EASI-1), Southern Indian Ocean / Antarctica continental slope, Jan.05 -Febr. 28, 2022 (oceanblogs on https://bordmeldungen.de/category/fs-polarstern/)
- Scheduled for 2023: FS METEOR CYRTAKI, Eastern Mediterranean
- 30.06.2018 - 24.08.2018: FS SONNE SO-264 EMPEROR, North Pacific (movies on https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=SO264) (oceanblogs on http://www.oceanblogs.org/so264/) Cruise Report
- in 2017: FS METEOR EMPIRE, Mediterranean
- 15.02.2016 - 08.04.2016 PS97 Paleodrake with RV POLARSTERN (movie), Cruise Report, Crew, Blog
Newest Publications (published in 2020 - 2022)
- Boer, W. et al. (accepted) A new calcium carbonate nano-particulate pressed powder pellet NFHS-2-NP for LA-ICP-OES, LA-(MC)-ICP-MS and µXRF. Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research.
- Wang et al. (2021): Dating North Pacific Abyssal Sediments by Geomagnetic Paleointensity: Implications of Magnetization Carriers, Plio-Pleistocene Climate Change and Benthic Redox Conditions. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.683177.
- Chen et al. (2021): Geochemistry of surface sediments from the Emperor Seamount Chain, North Pacific. Frontiers in Earth Science 9:674842. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.674842.
- Wu et al. (2021): Orbital- and millennial-scale Antarctic Circumpolar Current variability in Drake Passage over the past 140,000 years. Nature Communications. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-24264-9. press
- Nürnberg et al. (2021) Western Boundary Current in relation to Atlantic Subtropical Gyre dynamics during abrupt glacial climate fluctuations. Global Planetary Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103497.
- Zimmermann et al. (2021) Sedimentary ancient DNA from Kronotsky Peninsula: how sea ice, salinity and insolation dynamics have shaped diatom composition and richness over the past 20,000 years. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.
- Fuhr et al. (2021) Tracing water mass mixing from the equatorial to the North Pacific Ocean with dissolved neodymium isotopes and concentrations. frontiers in Marine Science.
- Naidu et al. (2020) Coherent response of the Indian Monsoon Rainfall to Atlantic Multi-decadal Variability over the last 2000 years. Scientific Reports, Vol. 10, Article number: 1302.
- Ronge et al. (2020) Plio-Pleistocene variability of the East Pacific Thermocline and the Intertropical Convergence Zone. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 10.1029/2019PA003758.
Berichte 2016-2018:
- Nürnberg, D. ed. (2018) RV SONNE Fahrtbericht / Cruise Report SO264 - SONNE-EMPEROR: The Plio/Pleistocene to Holocene development of the pelagic North Pacific from surface to depth – assessing its role for the global carbon budget and Earth ́s climate, Suva (Fiji) – Yokohama (Japan), 30.6. – 24.8.2018. GEOMAR Report, N. Ser. 046 . GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung, Kiel, Germany, 284 pp. DOI 10.3289/GEOMAR_REP_NS_46_2018.
- Lamy, F. (ed.) and Shipboard Scientific Party (2016) The Expedition PS97 of the Research Vessel POLARSTERN to the Drake Passage in 2016. Reports on Polar and Marine Research. ISSN 1866-3192. http://doi.org/10.2312/BzPM_0701_2016.
List of all publications can be found here. Eine ausführliche Liste der wiss. Publikationen in internationalen Fachzeitschriften mit Doppelbegutachtungssystem, andere Publikationen sowie Tagungsbeiträge finden Sie hier.
Experience / Tätigkeiten
- staff / Mitarbeiter FE Paläozeanographie
- head working group / Leiter Arbeitsgruppe Paläo-Temperaturen
- scient. head / wiss. Leiter Labor für Stabile Isotope
- scient. head / wiss. Leiter Mg/Ca Labor
- member / Mitglied Kiel Exzellenzcluster Future Ocean
- supervisor / Betreuer Helmholtz Research School Ocean System Science and Technology (HOSST)
- teaching Lehrtätigkeit an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
- project leader / Projektleiter diverser Forschungsprojekte
- expeditions Expeditionen: participation/leadership/applicant (up to now: 950 days at sea / in the field)
- North Pacific 2018 (Suva - Yokohama): Movies on YOUTUBE
- Drake Passage 2016 (Punta Arenas - Punta Arenas): Slides Movie
- N Atlantic 2013 (Rejkavik/Iceland - Galway/Ireland): Slides
- Caribbean 2013 (Panama - Kingston/Jamaica): Slides
- eq. W Pacific 2012/13 (Suva/Fiji - Wellington/New Zealand): Slides
- SE Pacific 2011(Valparaiso/Chile - Valparaiso/Chile): Slides
- Bering Sea, N Pacific 2009 (Kochi/Japan - Hikuraki/Japan): Slides
- Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico 2009 (Balboa/Panama - Martinique: Slides
- Peru upwelling 2008 (Callao/Lima/Peru): Slides
Project Personnel (DFG and BMBF funding) / Projektpersonal
Postdocs (*current / *laufend)
- *Dr. Lester Lembke-Jene (2020-2022), DFG-Projekt DYNAPACC
- Dr. Jacek Raddatz (2012 - 2014), BMBF-Projekt MANIHIKI II: Das Manihiki-Plateau - Entstehung, Aufbau und Auswirkungen ozeanischer Plateaus und pleistozäne dynamik des westpazifischen Warmpools. Now: Institute of Geosciences Univ. Frankfurt.
- Dr. André Bahr (2008 - 2010), DFG-Projekt LOOP: Reconstruction of the Holocene and MIS 5 sea-surface/subsurface temperatures, thermocline depth, and salinity in the upper water column of the Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico. Now: Inst. Geowiss. Univ. Heidelberg.
- Jeroen Groeneveld (2006), DFG Research Group OCEAN GATEWAYS. Now: MARUM, Univ. Bremen.
- Silke Steph (2006), DFG Research Group OCEAN GATEWAYS. Now: Güteüberwachung Kies, Sand, Splitt und Recycling-Baustoffe Niedersachsen-Bremen e.V., Großburgwedel
Ph.D. students (*current) / Doktoranden/innen (*laufend)
- Lara Jacobi (2023), Reconstruction of the spatial and temporal variabilityof the surface to subsurface ocean dynamics of the North West Pacific during the Pliocene to Pleistocene. BMBF SO264 SONNE-EMPEROR.
- *Fang Qian(started in Jan. 2022), Pleistocene West Pacific Warm Pool dynamics. CSC fund.
- *Jiangnan Shi (started in Nov. 2018), Miocene/Pliocene West Pacific Warmpool dynamics. CSC fund.
- Jacqueline Bertlich (2020), Salinity control on Na incorporation into foraminiferal calcite. HOSST graduate school. Petersen-Price awardess. Now: Laboratorium Fertigungstechnik, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg.
- *Mariam Mirzaloo (current), HOSST, Iceland paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. Publication
- Stefan Reissig (.....), The Atlantic “heat pump”: Late Pleistocene to Holocene changes in the upper ocean thermal structure of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in relation to changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Publication. Now: Kreis Plön Klimaschutz & Digitalisierung.
- David Poggemann (2017) Role of intermediate water variability in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in deglacial climate change. INTERMED, Future Ocean, DFG. Now: Krug & Poggemann GbR / Zeiten°Grad
- Anna Jentzen (2017) Habitat and geochemical characterization of living planktonic foraminifera in the Caribbean. Gruner Böhringer AG.
- Raul Ivan Tapia Arroyo (2016), Paleo-Water Column Structure in the South Pacific: Evidence from foraminiferal d18O and Mg/Ca (SOPATRA, BMBF). Now: Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipeh, Taiwan (R.O.C.) PaleoProxy Lab
- Tebke Böschen (2013) Planktonic and benthic foraminifers as geochemical proxies recording hydrographic changes in the eastern equatorial Pacific. SFB754, DFG. Now: IPN Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education.
- Tanja Mildner (2013) Past and present dynamics in the western subtropical Atlantic. LOOP, SPP INTERDYNAMIK, DFG
- Jan Riethdorf (2012) Rekonstruktion der Pleistozän-Holozänen Klimageschichte und Ozeanographie im subarktischen NW-Pazifik. KALMAR, BMBF. Now: AGROLAB GmbH.
- Cyrus Karas (2010) Die miozäne bis pliozäne Einengung der Indonesischen Ozeanpassage und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Ozeanzirkulation und das Klima. INDONESIAN THROUGHFLOW, DFG. Now: Universidad de Santiago de Chile.
- Rina Zuraida (2009) Rapid climatic changes in the Indonesian Gateway. DFG. Now: Marine Geological Institute of Indonesia.
- Marcus Regenberg (2006) Inorganic and Stable Isotope Geochemistry of Tropical Atlantic/Caribbean Planktonic Foraminifera: Implications for the Reconstruction of Upper Ocean Temperatures and Stratification. DFG. Now: AGROLAB GmbH.
- Jeroen Groeneveld (2005) Effect of the Pliocene closure of the Panamanian Gateway on Carribean and east Pacific sea surface temperatures and salinities by applying combined Mg/Ca and δ18O measurements (5.6-2.2 Ma). DFG-Research Group OCEAN GATEWAYS. Now: Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University
- Natasja Brughmans (2003) Paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic evolution in the southwestern Tasman Sea during the Pleistocene to Quaternary – Implications for paleoproductivity, paleo-sea surface temperature, and terrigeneous flux from geochemical proxy data. SPATS, DFG
- André Kaiser (2001) Oceanography, productivity and sea ice distribution in the Sea of Okhotsk during the last 350 ka. KOMEX, BMBF
- Anja Müller (2000) Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in biogenic carbonate of planktic foraminifers und benthic ostracodes. DFG. Now: Dr. Hartmann Chemietechnik: Home
M.Sc. students (*current) / Diplomanden/innen (*laufend)
- Luisa Franzen (2023) Upper ocean temperature and salinity variability in the central Drake Passage over the past ~140 kyrs. Univ. Kiel, 105 pages. Now: linkedin
- Stella Zora Buchwald (2022) Sedimentary ancient DNA records 120,000 years of Bering Sea ecosystem change. Univ. Kiel, 73 pages. Now: Univ. Hamburg
- Akintunde Kayode (2020) Last glacial to holocene sea surface and subsurface ocean dynamics south of Australia. Univ. Kiel, 101 pages.
- Tabitha Riff (2019) Stadial/interstadial variability of tropical W-Atlantic intermediate and subsurface water masses during late MIS 3 and MIS 2. Univ. Kiel, 89 pages. Now: Kompetenzzentrum Erneuerbare Energien und Klimaschutz Schleswig-Holstein
FuE-Zentrum FH Kiel GmbH. www.eek-sh.de - Lia Brunke (2017) Deglacial surface to subsurface hydrographical changes in the eastern Caribbean related to perturbations in the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Univ. Kiel, 63 pages.
- Julien Schirrmacher (June 2016) Paired d18O and Mg/Ca records of N. pachyderma sin. and G. bulloides from the Iceland-Faroe-Ridge. Now: SFB1266 Transformations Dimensionen.
- Fernando Aguado Gonzalo (2014) South East Pacific oceanographic change during the Plio/Pleistocene. Univ. Kiel, 49 pages. Now: Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences
- Imke Bruhn (2014) Zwischenwasserdynamik im zentralen W-Atlantik.
- Stefan Reissig (2013) Pleistocene sea surface temperature and salinity development in the subtropic East Atlantic off Cape Verde Islands. www.geomar.de
- David Poggemann (2012) Early Pliocene to Late Pleistocene seasurface and subsurface temperature development offshore Chile. Univ. Kiel, 79 pages.
- Kristin Doering (2012) Surface and deep-water hydrographic conditions over the last 18.000 years from the Peruvian coast based on d18O and Mg/Ca ratios of Globigerinoides ruber and Uvigerina peregrina.
- Claudia Jung (2009) Signal des Antarktischen Zwischenwassers im Golf von Mexico – Hinweise aus Mg/Ca und δ18O benthischer Foraminiferen.
- Ariane Kujau (2008) Untersuchung des Mississippi-Terrigeneintrags in den nordöstlichen Golf von Mexiko während der letzten ca. 500.000 Jahre. Now: GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam
- Anna Erichsen (2008) Impact of calcite dissolution Mg/Ca ratios of core-top planktonic foraminifers from Timor Sea. Now: PetroServices.
- Cyrus Karas (2006) Seasurface temperature and salinity evolution at DeSoto Canyon (Gulf of Mexico) over the last ~400 kyrs – evidence from combined foraminiferal Mg/Ca and δ18O. Now: Univ. Sanntiago (Chile)
- Martin Ziegler (2005) Short-term changes in sea-surface hydrography in the Atlantic Warm Water Pool - Gulf of Mexico and Florida Strait (IMAGES). Now: Universiteit Utrecht, NL
- Ulla Pedersen (2002) Late glacial und holocene marine pollen/spore und green algae records from the Sea of Okhotsk: Implications for terrestrial Siberian climate development and Amur River run-off.
- Reinhard Kozdon (2002) Ultra-high resolution reconstructions of paleoproductivity and terrigenous supply in the Sea of Okhotsk during the last ca. 9.000 years. Now: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
B.Sc. students (*ongoing / *laufend)
- Ellen Rosemann (2022) Glazial/Interglaziale Veränderungen der Deckschicht-Temperaturen im Nordwest Pazifik basierend auf Mg/Ca-Verhältnissen planktischer Foraminiferen. Now: Univ. Münster.
- Karl Meier (2015) Leeuwin Current dynamics during the last 150.000 years and its impact on the southwestern Australian continent. Now: Univ. Heidelberg.
- Niklas Meincke (2012) Frühdiagenetische (istopen-)geochemische Veränderungen fossiler planktischer Foraminiferengehäuse im Golf von Mexiko. Now: Univ. Bremen www.marum.de
- Lisa Griem (2012) Sauerstoffisotopenstratigraphie am Sedimentkern M78/1-186-2 vom West Florida Schelf mithilfe stabiler Isotopenmessungen an Gehäusen benthischer Foraminiferen.Now: Univ. Bergen (NO)
- Miriam Ibenthal (2011) Geochemische Verteilungsmuster rezenter Sedimente im Ochotskischen Meer und der Bering See. Now: Agrar- und Umweltwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Rostock, DFG Research Training Group Baltic TRANSCOAST
- Sarah Anders (2012) Biogen-Opal zur Rekonstruktion des Mississippi-Schmelzwasser-Ausstroms während des letzten Deglazials?
- Stellan Rieken (2011) Mississippi Sedimenteintrag in den nördlichen Golf von Mexiko während der letzten 42.000 Jahre
- Philipp Loose (2011) Mg/Ca, Sr/Ca und stabile Sauerstoffisotope in benthischen Foraminiferengehäusen (Uvigerina peregrina und Hoeglundina elegans) aus dem Golf von Mexiko und der Floridastraße: Potential für Bodenwassertemperatur-Rekonstruktionen. Now: www.xing.com/profile/Philipp_Loose2
- Johanna Ochs (2011) Vergleich zweier Sedimentationsräume der hohen Breiten zur Klimarekonstruktion - Versuch des Nachweises einer atmosphärischen Telekonnektion zwischen dem El'Gygytgyn See und dem Ochotskischen Meer. Now: https://www.xing.com/profile/Lisa_Griem2
Teaching / Lehre
Password-geschützte Skripte (PDF) zum Download / Password protected script (PDF) for download
Einführung in die Marine Geologie 1 / Introduction to Marine Geology 1 (MNF-geow-B304)
- Allg. Einf. (pdf); Absolute Altersbest. (pdf); Magnetostratigraphie (pdf); Biostratigraphie (pdf)
Einführung in die Paläoklimaforschung / Intro to Paleoclimate Research: Vorlesung und Seminar
- Vorlesung: Marine Produktivität (Intro): TOC, Chlorin, d13C, Opal, Barium; Proxies: Meerestemperaturen; Proxies: Eisbergdrift und Meereis; Ozean-Entwicklung der letzten 100 Ma, Proxies: Das komplexe d18O Signal (N. Keul), Sealevel (N. Keul)
- Seminar
M.Sc. Biol. Oceanography: Intro to Marine Geology (MNF-bioc-104)
- Marine Stratigraphy, Past Ocean Heat Budget
Kartenkunde / Geol. Mapping (only winter term)
- Skript 1, Skript 2, Skript 3, Skript 4, Skript 5, Skript 6, Skript 8/9, Skript 10/11
Foraminiferengeochemie / Foraminiferal Geochemistry (only winter term)
- Introduction, Calcification, Habitat, Mg/Ca und Mg/Li, Na/Ca + Salzgehalt, Ca-Isotopes, Ba/Ca and Cd/Ca, Borisotope und B/Ca, Nd-Isotope, U/Ca in foraminifers, Sr/Ca in foraminifers and corals, etc.
Eine Zusammenstellung der Lehre ist zu sehen unter https://univis.uni-kiel.de
My teaching committment at Univ. Kiel can be seen at https://univis.uni-kiel.de