INTIMATE Colloquium 2024

7 May 2024, 12:00 → 8 May 2024, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Hörsaal Haus H (GFZ)

Rik Tjallingii, Markus Schwab, Dirk Sachse (GFZ-Potsdam), Celia Martin-Puertas, Simon Blockley (Royal Holloway University of London)

Tuesday 7 May

13:00 → 18:15 INTIMATE Colloquium 2024: INTIMATE Colloquium 2024 in honour of Achim Brauer

INTIMATE Colloquium 2024 in honour of Achim Brauer

Conveners: Rik Tjallingii (GFZ-Potsdam), Markus Schwab (GFZ-Potsdam), Dirk Sachse (GFZ Potsdam)

13:00 Welcome by organisers

Speakers: Dr Rik Tjallingii, Dr Markus Schwab, Prof. Dirk Sachse (GFZ Potsdam)

13:10 Welcome and words from the GFZ Board

Speaker: Dr S. Schwartze (GFZ Administrative Executive Board)

13:25 Laudatio

13:40 Varves from maar lakes of the West Eifel Volcanic Field

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Zolitschka (University of Bremen, Institute of Geography, GEOPOLAR)

14:10 Break

14:30 Postglacial lake formation and permafrost evolution in the Central European Lowland

Speaker: Prof. Mirosław Błaszkiewicz (Polish Academy of Sciences, former head of the Department of Environmental Resources and Geohazards)

14:50 From the natural to the cultural landscape - the path of Central European landscape transformation

Speaker: Prof. Michał Słowiński (Director Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences)

15:10 Time-scale synchronizations of paleoclimate records from the southern Baltic realm and Black Sea

Speaker: Dr Markus Czymzik (Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Department Marine Geology)

15:40 Break

16:00 Precise correlation of climate records using tephra layers

Speaker: Prof. Christine Lane (University of Cambridge, Department of Geography)

16:30 Reconstruction of North Atlantic atmospheric dynamics using annually-laminated sediment records

Speaker: Dr Celia Martin-Puertas (Royal Holloway University of London, Centre for Quaternary Research)

17:00 Closing & Reception

Wednesday 8 May

09:00 → 17:35 INTIMATE Colloquium 2024

INTIMATE Colloquium 2024 in honour of Achim Brauer

Conveners: Dr Celia Martin-Puertas (Royal Holloway University of London), Prof. Simon Blockley (Royal Holloway University of London), Prof. Dirk Sachse (GFZ-Potsdam)

09:00 Speleothems as windows into glacial times – Abrupt transitions and glacier evolution in the European Alps

Speaker: Vanessa Skiba (AWI-Potsdam)

09:30 Constraining the influence of oceanographic and environmental conditions on the variability of Last Interglacial Mediterranean molecular proxy-based sea surface temperature reconstructions

Speaker: Dr Igor Obreht (MARUM, Bremen)

09:45 Microscale Alkenone Heterogeneity and Replicability of Ultra-High-Resolution SST Proxies in Laminated Marine Sediments

Speaker: Jannis Viola (AWI-Potsdam)

10:00 Large-scale atmospheric circulation changes in the northern Mediterranean realm during the Younger Dryas: new insights from Lago Grande di Monticchio (Italy)

Speaker: Dr Cecile Blanchet (GFZ-Potsdam)

10:15 Proxy-model comparisons for palaeoclimate reconstructions

Speaker: Laura Boyall (Royal Holloway University of London)

10:30 The environmental setting of the Neolithic agricultural revolution

Speaker: Dr Yoav Ben Dor (Hebrew University)

10:45 Coffee & Posters 1

11:45 The identification of the Campanian Ignimbrite in the Dead Sea reveals time-transgressive hydroclimatic changes in the Mediterranean

Speaker: Dr Rebecca Kearney (GFZ-Potsdam)

12:00 Refining high spatial resolution trace element analysis of single-grain vitreous tephra shards by LA-ICP-MS

Speaker: Shuang Zhang

12:15 Precise dating of the 8.2 kyr event provides evidence for global climate response

Speaker: Dr Florian Adolphi (AWI-Bremerhaven)

12:30 Bipolar volcanic ice-core synchronization of the entire last glacial period

Speaker: Dr Anders Svensson (Niels Bohr Institute / Unversity of Copenhagen)

12:45 Authigenic 10Be/9Be-ratios in marine sediments during the Laschamps event and their use for dating of marine sediments

Speaker: Julia Lotfield (AWI-Bremerhaven)

13:00 A Holocene tephrostratigraphy of the continuously varved Arctic lake Nautajärvi, Finland

Speaker: Dr Alice Carter-Champion (Royal Holloway University of London)

13:15 Lunch Break

14:15 A tribute to Svante Björck - a great scientist, colleague and INTIMATE pioneer

Speaker: Prof. Raimund Muscheler (Lund University)

14:45 Ecological responses recorded by varved sediments from Holzmaar (Germany) during the Homerian Climate Anomaly

Speaker: Dr Lujan Garcia (Bremen University)

15:00 10,800-year record of spring and summer temperature variability from biochemical varves, Lake Żabińskie, Poland

Speaker: Dr Paul Zander (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz)

15:15 Varve formation at Strathcona Lake, Ellesmere Island, Canada

Speaker: Prof. Pierre Francus (Institut National de la Recherche Scentifique)

15:30 Coffee & Posters 2

16:30 Discussion & Closure