Prof. Dr. Daniel M. Sigman

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-3 und Äquivalente
FachgebietGeochemie (Anorganisch, Organisch, Biologisch),Klimatologie,Ozeanographie
KeywordsBiogeochemie, Klimadynamik, Stickstoffkreislauf, Biologische Pumpe der Ozeane, Atmosphärische CO2 Entwicklung

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandUSA
OrtPrinceton
Universität/InstitutionPrinceton University
Institut/AbteilungDepartment of Geosciences

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Gerald HaugDepartment 3 Geodynamik, Sektion Klimadynamik und Sedimente, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.06.2005

Programm(e)

2004Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis-Programm

Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden

Prof. Daniel M. Sigman (Princeton University) is a world expert in the growing area of ¿Global Biogeochemical Cycles'. His research aims to elucidate the large scale feedbacks acting on Earth's environment and climate, chemical, physical and biological. He has made major contributions to our understanding of the modern ocean nitrogen cycle and its changes over recent ice age cycles. He has also played a key role in the evolution of hypotheses for the cause of carbon dioxide changes of over these same cycles. In Germany, Sigman will collaborate with Prof. Gerald Haug (GFZ Potsdam) on the measurement of nitrogen isotopes in microfossils from sediment records collected in the low latitude ocean.

Publikationen (Auswahl)

2010Daniel M. Sigman, Mathis P. Hain, Gerald H. Haug: The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration. In: Nature, 2010, 47-55
2007Daniel M. Sigman, Agatha M. de Boer, Gerald H. Haug H.C. Chiang and S.R. Hemming, Eds.: Antarctic stratification, atmospheric water vapor, and Heinrich events: A hypothesis for late Pleistocene deglaciations, in Past and Future Changes of the Oceanic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Mechanisms and Impacts. AGU Geophysical Monograph 173, 2007