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Pollen grains reveal the paleovegetation of the southern Levant
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- 29 June 2017
The southern Levant experienced strong environmental changes since the last glacial period. Enormous lake-level high stands characterized the landscape about 25,000 years ago. However, we do not... -
CliMathNet and PEN
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- 16 January 2017
The network CliMathNet is a collaboration of climate scientists, mathematicians and statisticians aiming to answer related questions to climate modeling, e.g. dealing with uncertainties in... -
24th International Diatom Symposium (IDS) in Québec City (Canada)
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- 09 September 2016
Around 190 scientists with interest in diatom research from all over the world came together to present and discuss results related to diatoms in talks, posters and workshops during the 24th IDS... -
Science Night (Wissenschaftsnacht) 2016 in Bonn
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- 08 June 2016
The 10th science night in Bonn attracted people of all ages with this year’s motto “WaterWorlds”. About 18,000 visitors came to see various presentations and events until midnight. One highlight was... -
10th Central European Diatom Meeting in Budapest
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- 03 May 2016
Around 70 scientists with interest in diatom research from all over Europe, the United States and Mexico came together to present and discuss their results related to diatoms in talks and posters... -
Sampling Dead Sea long cores in Bremen
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- 30 November 2015
Past and present environmental changes of the marine realm are studied at the MARUM (Center for Marine Environmental Sciences), University of Bremen. Many of these studies are based on marine cores... -
Annual Meeting of the Dutch-Flemish Society of Diatomists (NVKD) in Mont Rigi, Belgium
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- 02 July 2015
After the well-working collaboration with Prof. Dr. Bart Van de Vijver (Botanical Garden Meise in Belgium), resulting in the description of a new centric diatom from Lake Kinneret/Israel, Hannah... -
Discovery of a new centric diatom species from Lake Kinneret/Israel
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- 01 July 2015
During a preliminary analysis of the diatom succession in the sediment sequence of Lake Kinneret (recovered in 2010), large populations of an unknown Cyclotella species were often recorded as... -
First DSDDP workshop in Ein Gedi and field trip around Israel in November 2014
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- 09 December 2014
In November 2014, the members of the B3 project went to Israel for the Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP) workshop and several short field trips around Israel. It was the first workshop after... -
Climate reconstruction and the need for statistics
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- 26 March 2012
Quantitative climate information is an essential tool when attempting to answer questions regarding early Holocene environment and possible human impact.