Late Quaternary High-Resolution Climate Archives in the Sahara
Project A2
completed in 2017
(1st Phase) + (2nd Phase)
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Stefan Kröpelin
Prof. Dr. Bülent Tezkan
Prof. Dr. Martin Melles
Researcher:
PhD Candidate:
Jan Kuper
Marc Seidel
Coring the complete set of deposits at the bottom of a desert lake in northeast Chad in one of the driest and most isolated parts...
Non-invasive surface geophysical techniques are a useful tool to investigate the earth’s subsurface structure. In order to identif...
While planned field work in Wadi Shati in Libya was impossible for obvious reasons, progress has been made on laboratory analyses...
A second geophysical field survey was undertaken in the Azraq Basin in October 2012.
The 19 lakes of Ounianga in the hyperarid desert of northeastern Chad are the Sahara's most important relic from her early- to mid...
It is hard to believe: We have sent a probe 500 million km to a comet to analyze rock samples, but no geologist has yet dug his sp...
In November/December 2014, four scientists from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology of the University of Cologne conducted...
Three month after the first journey to Southern Ethiopia, a group of scientists from the Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology o...
In October 2015, A2 members followed an invitation for a field trip in the Ennedi massif of NE Chad. Main purpose was the evaluati...
Recent field work in the Tibesti Mountains opens a new chapter in the reconstruction of the last climatic cycles in the central Sa...
After the well-attended exhibitions on project A2’s geoarchaeological research and related World Heritage endeavours in Northern C...
A2 members just returned from another equally demanding as rewarding four-week expedition in the Tibesti mountains. The team compr...
18 years after an initiative taken by Stefan Kröpelin in 1999, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has unanimously inscribed the Enn...