IMPRS-gBGC course: Paleoclimate 2018
Category: Core course
Credit points: 0.2/course day
1. Date & Place
August 20-29, 2018
start at 9:00 a.m.
Seminar room B0.002
Locations:
- MPI-BGC: Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Hans-Knöll-Str. 10, 07745 Jena
- IGW-PR1: Institute for Geosciences / Institut für Geowissenschaften, FSU Jena, Burgweg 11, room PR1
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2. Concept
The module will provide the basic knowledge to understand how the earth system including continents, ocean currents, atmospheric circulations and life evolved and how the system is acting as a self controlled feedback system. It will demonstrate which climatic archives can be used to reconstruct palaeoclimatic information focusing on continental archives. It will provide basic knowledge to review existing datasets and interpretations. The module will consist of lectures to cover the background material and theory, lab exercises in modeling, and field techniques.
3. Outline
| Day & Slot | Where | Content | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, August 20 | IGW-PR1 | Introduction to the history of earth, climate and life | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Overview on climate archives | Michael Pirrung, FSU Jena | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Proxies and time series | Michael Pirrung, FSU Jena | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Data retrieval | Michael Pirrung, FSU Jena | |
| 13:30-16:00 | Paleoclimates of Earth history | Peter Frenzel, FSU Jena | |
| Tuesday, August 21 | IGW-PR1 | Microfossils as paleoclimate proxies | Peter Frenzel, FSU Jena |
| 09:00-16:00 | Introduction Overview on groups Microscope practise | ||
| 13:30-16:00 | Methods and exercises | ||
| Wednesday, August 22 | IGW-PR1 | Lake sediment analysis | Michael Pirrung, FSU Jena |
| 09:00-10:00 | Lake sediment as environmental archives | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Maar volcanoes & lake sediments | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Principles of polarisation microscopy | ||
| 13:30-16:00 | Microscopic analysis of lake sediments Discussion of results | ||
| Monday, August 27 | IGW-PR1 | Dendrochronology | Henrik Hartmann and David Herrera, MPI-BGC |
| 09:00-16:00 | Introduction to dendrochronology | ||
| Tuesday, August 28 | MPI-BGC, B0.002 | Organic geochemistry of sediments, part I | Molecular Biogeochemistry group, MPI-BGC |
| 09:00-12:00 | Introduction to Biomarkers and their Biosynthesis, Extraction and Identification methods | ||
| 13:00-16:00 | MPI-BGC, B1 (Lab) | Practical insight of labprocedures e.g. Columnchromatography | |
| Wednesday, August 29 | MPI-BGC, B0.002 | Organic geochemistry of sediments, part II | Molecular Biogeochemistry group, MPI-BGC |
| 09:00-12:00 | Interpretation and Measurement of Stable Isotope Ratios | ||
| 13:00-16:00 | MPI-BGC, B1 (Lab) | Labtour (GC-FID, GC-MS, GC-IRMS) |
4. Material
Introduction, micro fossils and lake sediments by Michael Pirrung & Peter Frenzel (zip)
Exercises: Data Retrievals and Plots (pdf)
Dendrochronology by David Herrera (pdf)
Biomarkers, biosynthesis and extraction by Natalie Schröter (pdf)
Biomarkers by Su Ding (pdf)
Carbon isotope ratios by Markus Lange (pdf)
PLFAs by Markus Lange (pdf)
Biosynthesis, extraction of lipid biomarkers and chromatography by Kasun Gayantha (pdf)
Column packing by Yan Li (pdf)
Water isotopes by Yan Li (pdf)
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