Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Wolf-Christian Dullo
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
FE Paleoceanography
Research Division 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics
Address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3. D-24148 Kiel
E-Mail: cdullo(at)geomar.de
Research Interests
- Reefs in time and space
- Tropical coral reefs
- Sealevel carbonate production
- Coral sclerochronology
- Cold water coral reefs and oceanography
- Upwelling systems and ocean minim. zones
- Insitu observation
- Instrumentation of physical and chemical parameters
Education & Carreer
1979
Diploma in Geology, Petrography and Paleontology, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nürnberg
1982
Degree "Dr. rer. nat." in Geology/Paleontology, (magna cum laude), University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1988
Habilitation Geology/Paleontology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1988 - 1989
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Paleontology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1989 - 1990
Visiting Professorship, Historical Geology, University of Heidelberg
1990
Associate Professor, Institute of Paleontology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg
1991 - 2002
Professor (C3) of Paleoceanography, Research Centre GEOMAR at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel
2002
Appointment chair in Paleontology, University Erlangen; declined
2002 - 2020
Professor (C4) of Paleoceanography at GEOMAR / IFM-GEOMAR
2004
Appointment General Director at Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; declined
Research stays abroad
Awards
2002
Leibniz Award of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2004
Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences LEOPOLDINA
2015
Award "Norddeutscher Wissenschaftspreis 2015"
Committees
1993 - 2021
Board Member German Geological Society (DGGV) and Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Earth Sciences
Since 1998
Member Editorial Board Facies
2001 - 2020
Chairman Board Annette Barthelt-Stiftung e.V.
Since 2001
Chairman Board "Bildungsstiftung Schleswig-Holstein"
2001 - 2007
Committee Member Senatskommission für Ozeanographie DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
2002 - 2020
German Representative of CIESM Commission Internationale pour l'éxploration scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée
2002 - 2021
Chairman Board "Deutsches Meeresmuseum", Stralsund
Since 2002
(Founding-) Member of "Maritimes Forum Kiel"
2003 - 2011
Committee Member of Humboldt- and Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
2003 - 2018
Chairman of "Verein zur Förderung der GeoUnion Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung e. V."
2004 - 2010
Member of DFG Committee for Scientific Libraries and Information Systems
2008 - 2016
Member and Speaker of DFG Review Board 314
2012 - 2019
Chairman International Advisory Board ZMT Bremen
Since 2017
Member selection committee "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize" / DFG
GEOMAR activities
1996 - 1999
Vice Director of Research Centre GEOMAR, Kiel
1997 - 2014
Head of Research Unit "Paleoceanography", GEOMAR / IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel
1999 - 2003
Director of Research Centre GEOMAR, Kiel
2007 - 2019
Ombudsman
2012 - 2020
Spokesperson HOSST Helmholtz Research School for Ocean System Science and Technology
Selected Publications
Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfaffl, F.A. (2019): “The theory of undercurrent from the Austrian alpine geologist Otto Ampferer (1875-1947): first conceptual ideas on the way to plate tectonics” Can. J. Earth Sci. 00:1-6(0000)dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0157
Tamborrino, L., Wienberg, C., Titschack, J., Wintersteller, P., Mienis F., Schröder-Ritzrau, A., Freiwald, A., Covadonga, O., Dullo, W.-Chr., Haberkern, J., Hebbeln, D. (2019): “Mid-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone” Geology (2019), doi.org/10.1130/G46672.1
Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfaffl, F.A. (2018): Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth, Geognost, Member of Parliament, Architect and Constructor of the Linthkanal; International Journal of Earth Sciences, October 2018, Volume 107(7), pp 2639-2644; doi.org/10.1007/s00531-018-1626-6
von Reumont, J., Hetzinger, S., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Manfrino, C., Dullo, W.-Chr., (2018): Tracking interannual to multidecadal-scale climate variability in the Altlantic Warm Pool using central Caribbean coral data; Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33(4), pp. 395-411, doi.org/10.1002/2018PA003321
Pfeiffer, M., Zinke, J., Dullo, W.-Chr., Garbe-Schönberg, D., Latif, M., Weber, M.E. (2017): Indian Ocean corals reveal crucial role of World War II bias for twentieth century warming estimates; Scientific Reports, 7 (1), art. no. 14434; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14352-6.
Dullo, W.-Chr., Flögel, S. und Rüggeberg, A. (2017): Water Mass Measurements Around Benthic Communities: A Comparative Study Between Yo-Yo Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Casts and High-Resolution Time Series Data Acquisition of Bottom Waters from the Pagès Escarpment in the Southern Bay of Biscay. In: Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences., ed. by Finkl, C. W. und Makowski, C.. Coastal Research Library, 23 . Springer, Cham, pp. 181-200. ISBN 978-3-319-57577-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_11.
Johanson, A.N., Flögel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Linke, P., Hasselbring, W. (2017): Modeling polyp activity of Paragorgia arborea using supervised learning; Ecological Informatics, Volume 39, Pages 109-118.
Dullo, W.-Chr. and Pfaffl, F.A. (2016): Wolfgang Schott (1905-1989): The founder of quantitative paleoceanography; International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1356-6.
Hetzinger, S., Pfeiffer, M., Dullo, W.-Chr., Zinke, J. and Garbe-Schönberg, D. (2016): A change in coral extension rates and stable isotopes after El Niño-induced coral bleaching and regional stress events; Scientific Reports, 6 (32879). DOI 10.1038/srep32879.
Rüggeberg, A., Flögel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Raddatz, J. and Liebetrau, V. (2016): Paleoseawater density reconstruction and its implication for cold-water coral carbonate mounds in the northeast Atlantic through time; Paleoceanography, 31 (3). pp. 365-379. DOI 10.1002/2015PA002859.
Glogowski, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Feldens, P., von Reumont, J., Hühnerbach, V., Krastel, S., Wynn, R. B. and Flögel, S. (2015): The Eugen Seibold coral mounds offshore western Morocco: oceanographic and bathymetric steering of a newly discovered cold-water coral province, Geo-Marine Letters, 35 (4). pp. 257-269. DOI 10.1007/s00367-015-0405-7.
Zinke, J., Loveday, B.R., Reason, C.J.C., Dullo, W.-Chr. & Kroon, D. (2014): Madagascar corals track sea surface temperature variability in the Agulhas Current core region over the past 334 years. Nature Scientific Reports, 4. p. 4393.DOI 10.1038/srep04393.
Flögel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfannkuche, O., Kiriakoulakis, K. & Rüggeberg, A. (2014): Geochemical and physical constraints for the occurrence of living cold-water corals. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 99, Pages 19-26. January 2014.
Raddatz, J., Liebetrau, V., Rüggeberg, A., Hathorne, E. Krabbenhöft, A., Eisenhauer, A., Böhm, F., Vollstaedt, H., Fietzke, J., Dullo, W.-Chr. et al. (2013): Stable Sr-isotope, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa - Elsevier, Chemical Geology, Vol. 352, P. 143-152, DOI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.13
Dullo, W.-Chr. & Schönlaub, H.-P. (2012): Larger benthic foraminifera (fusulinids) in petrogenetic frequencies: The Paleozoic treasure of the Carnic Alps. International Journal of Earth Science, 101(7), pp. 1875-1876
Flögel, S., Parkin, G., Pollard, D., Dullo, W.-Chr. et al. (2011): Simulating zonal scale shifts in the partitioning of surface and subsurface freshwater flow in response to increasing pCO(2). – CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Volume 37, Issue:7-8, Pages 1565-1573, DOI:10.1007/s00382-010-0929-5
Hübscher, C., Dullo, W.-Chr., S. Flögel, J. Titschak and J. Schönfeld (2010): Contourite drift evolution and related coral growth in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and its gateways. International Journal of Earth Science., 99(1):191-206. DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0558-6.
Cahyarini, S.Y., Pfeiffer, M. & Dullo, W.-Chr. (2009): Improving SST reconstructions from coral Sr/Ca records: multiple corals from Tahiti (French Polynesia). - Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch), 98:31-40. doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0323-2.
Dullo, W.-Chr., S. Flögel and A. Rüggeberg (2008) Cold-water coral growth in relation to the hydrography of the Celtic and Nordic European continental margin. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 371: 165-176.
Rein, B., Lückge, A., Reinhard, L., Sirocko, F., Wolf, A., Dullo, W.-Chr. (2005): El Niño variability off Peru during the last 20,000 Years. - Paleoceanography 20, PA4003, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001099.
Böhm, F., Joachimski, M.M., Dullo, W.-Chr., Eisenhauer, A., Lehnert, H., Reitner, J. & Wörheide, G. (2000): Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges. – Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 64/10, 1695-1703.