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Profil
| Derzeitige Stellung | Professor W-3 und Äquivalente |
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| Fachgebiet | Geochemie (Anorganisch, Organisch, Biologisch),Ozeanographie,Geologie |
| Keywords | Paleoceanography, foraminifera paleobiology, low temperature geochemistry, plankton biology and ecology |
Aktuelle Kontaktadresse
| Land | USA |
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| Ort | Davis |
| Universität/Institution | University of California, Davis |
| Institut/Abteilung | Department of Geology |
Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung
| Prof. Dr. Jelle Bijma | Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Bremerhaven |
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| Beginn der ersten Förderung | 01.07.2013 |
Programm(e)
| 2012 | Humboldt-Forschungspreis-Programm für Naturwissenschaftler*innen aus den USA |
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Projektbeschreibung der*des Nominierenden
| Professor Spero is a leading geobiologist and geochemist whose pioneering contributions have been highly influential in advancing the field of Paleoceanography. Through laboratory experiments with living planktonic foraminifera, he has groundtruthed relationships between environmental properties such as temperature, salinity and pH and foraminifera shell geochemistry to reconstruct past environmental conditions and ocean chemistry from the fossil record. His research has produced an array of new tools that have allowed scientists to resolve major changes in Earth's climate system over the last 50 million years. In Germany, he will continue his research, especially with regard to reconstructing the ocean's carbonate system and carbon cycle, in order to more fully link paleoclimatology with predictions of future climate scenarios in a high CO2 world. |