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New ICLEA publications
Four new ICLEA publications (from work packages tree-rings, lake sediments and geomoprhology) are published in the first weeks of 2018: Publication Overview
Abstract volume and excursion guide 2017 for download available
An Abstract volume and excursion guide "Climate Change and Landscape Evolution in North Central Europe" of the international ICLEA final symposium 2017 at the GFZ in Potsdam is for download available:
Schwab, M. J., Błaszkiewicz, M., Raab, T., Wilmking, M., Brauer, A. (Eds.) (2017): ICLEA Final Symposium 2017: Climate Change, Human Impact and Landscape Evolution in the Southern Baltic Lowlands; Abstract Volume & Excursion Guide, (Scientific Technical Report STR; 17/03), ICLEA Final Symposium 2017 (Potsdam 2017), Potsdam : GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 204 p. doi.org/10.2312/GFZ.b103-17037.
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New article
Recently by Slowinski et al. (2017) in Quaternary Science Reviews published palaeoecological and geochemical data at 5–15 years temporal resolution allowed tracing the dynamics of short-term shifts of the ecosystem triggered by abrupt climate change.
Slowinski, M., Zawiska, I., Ott, F., Noryśkiewicz, A. M., Plessen, B., Apolinarska, K., Rzodkiewicz, M., Michczyńska, D. J., Wulf, S., Skubała, P., Kordowski, J., Błaszkiewicz, M., Brauer, A. (2017): Differential proxy responses to late Allerød and early Younger Dryas climatic change recorded in varved sediments of the Trzechowskie palaeolake in Northern Poland. - Quaternary Science Reviews, 158. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.01.005 (WP4, PAN/GFZ)
New paper online
Can we use a large Landsat archive and Sentinel-2 imagery to provide an algorithm for monitoring calcite precipitation in lakes in the entire Northeast German Plain? The answer is given in the first ICLEA 2017 publication (open access) by Iris Heine and co-authors.
Heine, I.; Brauer, A.; Heim, B.; Itzerott, S.; Kasprzak, P.; Kienel, U.; Kleinschmit, B. (2017): Monitoring of Calcite Precipitation in Hardwater Lakes with Multi-Spectral Remote Sensing Archives. Water 2017, 9, 15: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/9/1/15 (WP2/4, GFZ/UG)
80 ICLEA publications
In around 80 peer reviewed scientific ISI publications are results of the ICLEA partners Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Polish Academy of Sciences in Torun, University Greifswald and BTU Cottbus available for the scientific community.
Here you can find the list of references for the years 2012-2016.
New paper
Investigations by Slowinski et al., published in the journal Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, reveals a more complicated and complex than previously assumed set of climatic relationships in Europe between 3500 BCE and 200 BCE, which might be linked through complex teleconnections of atmospheric circulation patterns.
Slowinski, M., Marcisz, K., Płóciennik, M., Obremska, M., Pawłowski, D., Okupny, D., Słowińska, S., Borówka, R., Kittel, P., Forysiak, J., Michczyńska, D. J., Lamentowicz, M. (2016): Drought as a stress driver of ecological changes in peatland - A palaeoecological study of peatland development between 3500BCE and 200BCE in central Poland. PPP461, 272—291. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.038 (WP4&5, PAN/GFZ)
New PhD´s
In 2016, Nadine Dräger, researcher in WP3 (GFZ) defences successful her dissertation "Holocene climate and environmental variability in NE Germany inferred from annually laminated lake sediments" at the University Potsdam on 20 December 2016.
In 2015, Tobias Scharnweber, researcher in WP4 (University Greifswald) defences successful his dissertation: „Past growth and future development – how climate, site conditions and strong environmental shifts influence growth performance of Fagus sylvatica (L.) and Quercus robur (L.) in northern Central-Europe” at University Greifswald on 9 April 2015. (http://ub-ed.ub.uni-greifswald.de/opus/volltexte/2015/2265/)
ICLEA publications by both under Outcome.
Congratulations by the ICLEA community to Dr. rer. nat. Nadine Dräger und Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Scharnweber!
Call for Abstracts EGU 2017
Be aware that the abstract submission deadline EGU2017 in Vienna closes 11 Jan 2017, 13:00 CET!
As in the years before, we would like to invite you again to contribute to our 4th ICLEA session at EGU 2017 in Vienna (23-28 April), entitled:
CL5.07 Integrated climate and landscape evolution analyses: bridging long proxy data time series and instrumental observation.
Here you can find out more about the session.
Check out - 40 presentations at the 2016 EGU General Assembly held in Vienna from 17 - 22 April 2016 in session CL5.04
The ICLEA session CL5.04 for "Integrated climate and landscape evolution analyses: bridging long proxy data time series and instrumental observation" at the European Geosciences Union EGU General Assembly 2016 in Vienna is scheduled on: Friday, April 22.
Orals / 13:30-17:00 / Room 0.31
Posters / Attendance, 17:30-19:00 / Hall X3
Session CL5.04 program overview
Session CL5.04 presentation abstracts
TV Production: ICLEA at Lake Gosciaz (Poland)
New documentation "Spotkania z ekologią" reports about research in ICLEA at Lake Gosciaz (Central Poland), producer Telewizja Polska S.A. (courtesy of www.TVP.pl 2015/2016).
New Articles in ICLEA
Czymzik, M., Dreibrodt, S., Feeser, I., Adolphi, F., Brauer, A. (2016 online): Mid-Holocene humid periods reconstructed from calcite varves of the Lake Woserin sediment record (north-eastern Germany). - Holocene. Januar 2016, DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615622549
Müller, F., M. Bergmann, R. Dannowski, J.W. Dippner, A. Gnauck, P. Haase, Marc C. Jochimsen, P. Kasprzak, I. Kröncke, R. Kümmerlin, M. Küster, G. Lischeid, H. Meesenburg, C. Merz, G. Millat, J. Müller, J. Padisák, C.G. Schimming, H. Schubert, M. Schult, G. Selmeczy, T. Shatwell, S. Stoll, M. Schwabe, T. Soltwedel, D. Straile, M. Theuerkauf (2015): Assessing resilience in long-term ecological data sets. Ecological Indicators, Available online 6 December 2015, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.10.066
van der Maaten E, van der Maaten-Theunissen M, Buras A, Scharnweber T, Simard S, Kaiser K, Lorenz, S., Wilmking, M. (2015): Can We Use Tree Rings of Black Alder to Reconstruct Lake Levels? A Case Study for the Mecklenburg Lake District, Northeastern Germany. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0137054. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137054
Press release
Traces of islandic volcanoes in a northeastern German lake
Precise reconstruction of regional climate changes in the past.
Traces of volcanic ash originating from islandic volcanoes have been found in the sediments of Laker Tiefer See in the Nossentiner-Schwinzer Heide natural park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This allows to more precisely date climate changes of the last 11500 years. The ICLEA researchers detected traces of in total eight volcanic eruptions on Island of which six could be precisely identified. The oldest eruption occurred 11400 years ago and the youngest from AD 1875 has been also described in historical documents.
Results published in: Sabine Wulf, Nadine Dräger, Florian Ott, Johanna Serb, Oona Appelt, Esther Guðmundsdóttir, Christel van den Bogaard, Michał Słowinski, Mirosław Błaszkiewicz, Achim Brauer: “Holocene tephrostratigraphy of varved sediment records from Lakes Tiefer See (NE Germany) and Czechowskie (N Poland)”, Quaternary Science Reviews 132(2016), Januar 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.007
To the complete press release
New Articles
Wulf, S., Dräger, N., Ott, F., Serb, J., Appelt, O., Guðmundsdóttir, E., van den Bogaard, C., Słowinski, M., Błaszkiewicz, M., Brauer, A. (2016): Holocene tephrostratigraphy of varved sediment records from Lakes Tiefer See (NE Germany) and Czechowskie (N Poland). Quaternary Science Reviews 132 (2016), Januar 2016, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.11.007
Dräger, N., Brauer, A., Brademann, B., Tjallingii, R., Słowiński, M., Błaszkiewicz, M. & Schlaak, N. (2016, online first): Spontaneous self-combustion of organic-rich lateglacial lake sediments after freeze-drying. J Paleolimnol. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10933-015-9875-x, online first 04 January 2016.
Video to article Dräger et al. (2016) (~ 3.6MB)
This video shows the self-combustion of freeze-dried lacustrine sediments ( dark red sediment) immediately after ventilation of the vacuum freeze dryer chamber and the movement of the combustion front (quadruple speed of the original video). Non-combusting light brown sediment bars are located nearby. Aluminium box size: 10.1 x 2.5 x 2 cm; sediment bar size: 10 x 2 x 1 cm. The smouldering and flameless combustion lased for approximately 10-20 min and reached temperatures of about 350°C. (Dräger et al. 2016).
WP4 partners PAN und GFZ - Joint drilling campaign in Poland
From August 31st to September 9th, 2015 the ICLEA partners PAN and GFZ drill together sediments of Lake Gosciaz in central Poland. The estimated sediment ages are late Glacial to early Holocene time. Aim of the investigations in work package WP4 (lake sediment data) are new insights in the regional climate and landscape development since the last ice age in a highest temporal resolution.
REKLIM workshop 18-20 May 2015
Winners of the best presentation awards!
Nadine Dräger (GFZ, PhD student in ICLEA work package 4 lakes sediments) has won the award for the best scientific talk. She presented new results of her ICLEA research, title of the talk "Holocene climate variability and human impact recorded in annually laminated sediments of Lake TieferSee (NE Germany)".
Helene Hoffmann (Uni Heidelberg) has won the award for the best poster presentation.
Congratulations!
Check out - 30 ICLEA presentations at the 2015 EGU General Assembly held in Vienna from 12 - 17 April 2015
The ICLEA session CL5.6 for Integrated climate and landscape evolution analyses: bridging long proxy data time series and instrumental observation at the European Geosciences Union EGU General Assembly 2015 in Vienna, Austria, 12 - 17 April 2015 is scheduled on:
Wednesday, April 15.
Orals 08:30-12:00 in room Y6 and
Poster in attendance 17:30-19:00 in the Yellow Poster hall
We are pleasured to present two invited speakers:
Siim Veski (Tallinn University of Technology) will speak about Quantitative summer and winter temperature reconstructions from pollen and chironomid data in the Baltic–Belarus area (abstract EGU2015-4627).
Stefan Dreibrodt (University of Kiel) will present in his talk Integrative investigations on sediments in the Belauer See catchment (northern Germany) (abstract EGU2015-2557).
New paper published
Authors explore in the study (published in journal The Holocene) how changes in land management influence pollen productivity. The authors study pollen deposition in largely annually laminated sediments from Lake Tiefer See in the Northeastern German lowlands deposited between AD 1880 and 2010. During this period, land use intensity has increased predominantly through the widespread introduction of artificial fertilizers, herbicides and heavy machinery mainly since the 1950s.
Theuerkauf, M., Dräger, N., Kienel, U., Kuparinen, A., Brauer, A. (2015, online first): Effects of changes in land management practices on pollen productivity of open vegetation during the last century derived from varved lake sediments. The Holocene 1–12.
The published results are a contribution by ICLEA partners at the University Greifswald and GFZ in WP4 (Work Package Lake Sediments) in cooperation with the University of Helsinki (Finland).
Save the date: 23 - 26 June 2015
Location of the 4th ICLEA international annual workshop is Słubice (18 km south of the city of Płock), Masovian Voivodeship (Poland). Venue is the Kawallo hotel in the landscape protection area Vistula valley. The Workshop is organized by the polish partner PAN with support by the ICLEA coordination at the GFZ. More information will be published in the first circular in fall 2014.
German-Polish joint drilling action at the Biesenthal Basin (NE Brandenburg). From the 1st to 2nd of July 2014 the ICLEA partners PAN and GFZ as well as the cooperation partner Landesamt für Bergbau, Geologie und Rohstoffe Brandenburg (LBGR) drilled sediments of a palaeo-lake at the Wukenfurche between the lakes Großer and Kleiner Wukensee. The estimated sediment ages are late Glacial to early Holocene time. Aim of the investigations in work package WP4 (lake sediment data) are new insights in the regional climate and landscape development since the last ice age in a highest temporal resolution.
03.07.2014 A new ICLEA WP3 paper is published by the ICLEA authors Hagen Pieper, Ingo Heinrich, Gerd Helle (all GFZ) and Karl-Uwe Heußner (associated partner German Archeological Institute DAI) in Palaeo3. Pieper, H., Heinrich, I., Heußner, K.U., Helle, G., The influence of volcanic eruptions on growth of Central European lowland trees in NE-Germany during the last Millennium, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (2014), doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.06.012
Dr. Martin Theuerkauf, Researcher in WP4 (University Greifswald) defences successful his dissertation: theme "Fine scaled vegetation patterns in the Lateglacial and Early Holocene of NE Germany - Novel GIS based approaches".
ICLEA publications by Martin Theuerkauf under Outcome.
Congratulations by the ICLEA community to Dr. rer. nat. Theuerkauf!
ICLEA at the EGU 2014 in Vienna
The EGU General Assembly 2014 in Vienna, Austria, 27 April – 02 May, will bring together around 10.000 geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geosciences.
This year ICLEA is organizing the session CL6.1 "Integrated climate and landscape evolution analyses: bridging long proxy data time series and instrumental observation". New ICLEA results and to our research related results about the theme will be presented and discussed in six talks and at 25 posters.
Link to the session description
Public Colloquium Lake Tiefer See
Thursday March 13, 2014
A public colloquium about ICLEA acivities at the Lake Tiefer See region will be held at the information Centre of the Nature Park Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heide “Karower Meiler”.
The colloquium language will be German.
For registration contact the Nature Park.
The Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heath Nature Park (German: Naturpark Nossentiner/Schwinzer Heide) lies in the western part of the Mecklenburg Lake District in the north German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The total area of the nature park is 365 km² of which 60% is wooded, about 14% consists of rivers and lakes and the remainder is cultural landscape. There are almost 60 lakes in the nature park. Special features of the nature park are the sandar - sand and gravel deposits left by the last ice age.
Link to the Naturpark
2nd ICLEA Statistics Workshop
From the 5th to 7th of February 2014, the second ICLEA Statistics Workshop took place in Greifswald at the institute of Landscape ecology and ecosystem dynamics, organized by Allan Buras (WP3, University Greifswald), and Markus Schwab (ICLEA Coordinator, GFZ). Altogether 16 participants separated among the WPs 3 and 4 from the Polish Academy of Sciences, the GFZ Potsdam and the University of Greifswald participated.
As in the first workshop, which took place in November 2013, the main focus of this workshop was to create a solid basis on statistical knowledge, which allows for a better analytical collaboration between the different WPs. Further methods of multiple regression, multivariate techniques and time series analyses were introduced, and applied to three different datasets (XRF-lake-sediment data, tree-ring data and Cladocera-lake-sediment data) that have been acquired within ICLEA. Furthermore first results of a multi-WP approach (including WPs 1, 2, 3, and 4) based on the SINOMA-algorithm was presented by Allan Buras.
Two new topics for joint analyses and focusing on the combination of lake sediment and tree-ring data to increase the precision of climate reconstructions were determined, of which first results are likely to be presented at the annual ICLEA meeting in March 2014.
Succesful First ICLEA Statistics Workshop
From the 6th to 8th of November 2013, the first ICLEA Statistics Workshop took place in Greifswald. Organized by Allan Buras (WP3, University Greifswald), Elisabeth Dietze (WP4/5, GFZ Potsdam) and Markus Schwab (coordination), the workshop took place in the seminar room of the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg. 21 ICLEA members of the WPs 1, 3, 4, and 5 participated at the Workshop.
The main focus of the workshop was to create a solid basis on statistical knowledge, which allows for a better analytical collaboration between the different WPs. The workshop was very successful for qualification in statistics and the interaction between the WP participants from the Polish Academy of Sciences, BTU, GFZ and the University of Greifswald. I.e. test-statistics, simple modeling, multivariate techniques and time series analyses were dealt with, as well as a new statistical approach (SINOMA) that has been developed within ICLEA and allows for the analysis of noisy serial data streams.
Based on the positive feedback throughout the closing session an advanced 2nd ICLEA Statistics Workshop, based on the in Greifswald acquired knowledge, will be organized for the beginning of 2014 in Greifswald. These workshops shall focus on the combination of different datasets acquired within ICLEA to synthesize the results achieved so far in interdisciplinary statistical analyses.
GeoRS Volume 1 and 2 online available
In the new GeoRS - Geopedology and Landscape Development Research Series (Editor Thomas Raab, BTU, WP5) are the first two volumes online available (in german).
Volume 01 Landschaftswandel – Landscape Change
Volume 02 Tagungsband und Exkursionsführer (Annual meeting 2013 AK Geoarchäologie).
Both Volumes are a contribution to ICLEA and supported by ICLEA.
ICLEA-TERENO workshop on November 28, 2013
Focus of the ICLEA-TERENO internal workshop on November 28, 2013 is on the Landscape dynamics at the Serrahner part of the Müritz Nationalpark. Talks will be given for themes in remote sensing (WP2) / geomorphology (WP5) / paleolimnogeology (WP4) / tree rings (WP3) and hydrology (WP1). Workshop lenguage will be german.
Program (in german).
We are sorry, this is a non-public event. Further internal information.
New ICLEA publications
A new research paper as a result of ICLEA is published by WP4 (Lake sediments) in the Journal of Paleolimnology.
Kienel, U., Dulski, P., Ott, F., Lorenz, S., Brauer, A. (2013): Recently induced anoxia leading to the preservation of seasonal laminae in two NE-German lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology 50: 535-544.
DOI 10.1007/s10933-013-9745-3
A new research paper as a result of ICLEA is published by WP3 (tree rings) in the journal Tree Physiology:
Wei Liang, Ingo Heinrich, Sonia Simard, Gerhard Helle, Isabel Dorado Liñán, and Thilo Heinken (2013): Climate signals derived from cell anatomy of Scots pine in NE Germany Tree Physiol (2013) 33 (8): 833-844 doi:10.1093/treephys/tpt059
A new ICLEA Master thesis (in german) is finished by Robert Schedel (Uni Potsdam / GFZ) in WP4 with the title: Untersuchung klimatischer und anthropogener Einflüsse auf die limnische Sedimentation im Tiefen See Klocksin anhand der Mikrofazies und XRF-Scanner Messungen.
Internal 2nd ICLEA Workshop 2013
April, 23-26, 2013
Stara Kiszewa, Poland
To the preliminary programme
An Abstract Volume & Excursion Guide is published
in the GFZ series Scientific Technical Report Volume STR13/04
and electronically available at the GFZ website
http://ebooks.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/escidoc:117032:2
(www.gfz-potsdam.de > News > GFZ Publications).
Participants will get a print version at the workshop.
Internal 2nd ICLEA Workshop 2013
Preliminary programme overview
Tuesday, April 23
Arrival until 15:00 Registration
16:00 – 17:00 Talk "Quaternary geology in the area of Stara Kiszewa"
18:00 Welcome event / Ice breaker
Wednesday, April 24
8:30 Opening
Morning session: Talks and poster session WP1, WP2 & WP3
Afternoon session: Talks and poster session WP4 & WP5
Evening ICLEA Dinner & Open discussion in the poster hall
Thursday, April 25
Day: Excursion
Evening: Open discussion in the poster hall
& WP internal preparation of WP slides
Steering committee and advisory board meeting
Friday, April 26
8:00 – 10:00 WP summaries and future plans and recommendations by the advisory board and discussion
10:00 – 13:00 Excursion
13:00 Closing and departure
ICLEA at the European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2013 - EGU
April 07-12, 2013
Vienna, Austria
We will present results from ICLEA projects in 8 talks and posters at the EGU 2013 in Vienna.
EGU at the internet
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