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Semester: SS 2024 

climPALEO: Modern Aspects in Physical Oceanography VIII: Introduction to Paleoceanography /Paleoclimatology (climPALEO-01a) (500054)

Dozentinnen/Dozenten
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Martin Frank, Dr. Eleni Anagnostou, Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Nürnberg, Dr. rer. nat. Sascha Flögel, Dr. Ed Hathorne, Ph.D., Dr. rer. nat. Marcus Gutjahr

Angaben
Vorlesung mit Seminar, 3 SWS, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 5
Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 9:00 - 11:15, WHS1/Geb.8A - R.101 [GEOMAR Konf.R. Geb.8A (Ost)] (außer Mi 22.5.2024)
vom 17.4.2024 bis zum 10.7.2024
Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: All participants for this lecture have to register in OLAT.

Studienfächer / Studienrichtungen
WPFL ClimPhys-MSc ab 1

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
direct link to OLAT course
Registration in the OLAT course is required!

Recommended Requirements: Advanced knowledge in Physics and Oceanography

Examination: Graded Oral Presentation

Inhalt
Short Summary
The variability of ocean circulation and climate are closely linked and have undergone major changes in the past such as during the major transition from the Cretaceous greenhouse conditions to the Ice-house of the past 30 million years but have also been subject to large variations on shorter millennial and centennial time scales such as during the glacial/interglacial cycles of the past 3 million years. These changes have been caused by a combination of global and regional changes but also due to tectonic changes such as mountain uplift and the opening and closing of major oceanic seaways. The module will give an overview of these changes and their causes on different time scales based on the application of a range of different proxies for past environmental conditions.

Course Content
Students are introduced into the basic principles of paleo-oceanography. Lectures on fundamental principles are given such as a basic introduction into marine sedimentology, stratigraphy and sediment geochemistry. Based on this knowledge major variations in the ocean/atmosphere/climate system on a range of time scales including perturbations of the ocean circulation, the carbon cycle, and weathering inputs will be discussed. An introduction into examining and processing marine sediments for the purpose of the extraction of tracer information will also be included.

Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, the students will have obtained an understanding of the amplitudes and causes of major changes of physical and chemical oceanography in the past and their linkages to the climate of the past, which will allow them to put the currently ongoing changes of the ocean-atmosphere-climate system into perspective of the range of natural variations in the recent and more distant past.

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