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Dr. Thomas Westerhold

Gruppe:	MARUM Director
Telefon:	+49 421 218-65672
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Raum:	MARUM I, 0220

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Research Statement

A solid understanding of how the climate system operates and the extent to which human activities affect the future climate is of the utmost relevance to our modern society. Geoscientists are making major scientific efforts globally to predict future climate change pathways.

A key part of this is the detailed reconstruction of the evolution of the Earth's climate and how it behaved in the geological past.Much of our present understanding of the development of the global environment over millions of years comes from drilling deep ocean deposits.These marine deposits, known as sediments, contain an archive that continuously records and preserves past climate information from different spatial and temporal conditions.

My research focuses on reconstructing the stability of past climates, as well as the causes and consequences of climate disruptions recorded in deep sea sediments. In collaboration with scientists around the world, I aim to understand how the Earth's climate functions under conditions that are warmer than they are today, and to explore what the safe operating space of our planet is.

Timing is crucial to gaining a fundamental understanding of cause and effect in the Earth's climate system and to assessing the impact of massive climatic changes on the living world. Therefore, my research focuses on creating highly accurate age models for geochemical data from deep-sea sediments, which have uniquely recorded the last 100 million years of our planet's geological history.

Earth Climate Dynamics over the last 66 Million Years

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba6853

Research Interests

• Astronomical Tuning of the Geological Time Scale
• Climatic evolution of Cenozoic Oceans
• Stable Isotopes (oxygen & carbon) to study paleoceanography
• Non-destructive Core Logging/Scanning methods incl. XRF Core Scanning
• Core Splicing and Core Image Processing

Publicationlist at:
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Google Scholar

ORCID

Calcareous Nannofossil

Recent Publications

Earth's Orbital Rhythms Link Timing of Giant Eruptions and Climate Change

New paper in Science Advances

Different phases in end of the Cretaceous massive flood basalt volcanism had a differential impact on the global climate system

Open Access:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adr8584

 

Timing Is Everything

Commentary in Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Call to the international science community to launch the Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences (TIMES) program with the aim to accurately synchronize age models for critical geological climate records of the last 100 million years

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024PA004932

 

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