Prof. Dr. Wolfram Michael Kürschner

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietSedimentologie
KeywordsPalynology, Palynofazies, Stratigrafie
Auszeichnungen

2004: Friederich Wilhelm Bessel Preis

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandNorwegen
OrtOslo
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Oslo
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Geosciences
Websitehttp://www.mn.uio.no/geo/english/people/aca/geolofys/wolframk/index.html

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker MosbruggerInstitut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.08.2003

Programm(e)

2002Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

How will the climate change in the near future and what will be the environmental impact? Wolfram Kürschner addresses this question by looking into the past. He uses fossil plants in an innovative way to reconstruct the natural dynamics of atmospheric CO² and its climatic effect; his publications are landmarks in this field. He is also interested in a number of related fields, in particular in the evolution of the C4-photosynthetic pathway in land plants as a response to longterm environmental changes. In the joint research project this scientific problem will be investigated using a variety of palaeobotanical, geochemical and physiological methods.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2008Wolfram M. Kürschner Zlatko Kvacek David L. Dilchern: The impact of Miocene atmospheric carbon dioxide fluctuations on climate and the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2008, 449-453