Two PhD student positions in Paleoclimatology -Holocene Hydroclimate variability in SW Asia

University of Basel, Switzerland

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Our knowledge of climate variability in SW Asia remained fragmentary due to scarcity of precisely-dated and highly-resolved paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental reconstructions. One of the main goals of SNSF Sinergia project MITRA is to develop such records. Both PhD-students will investigate speleothems (stalagmites and flowstones) from several caves in Turkey, Iraq and Iran to reconstruct hydroclimate variability during the Holocene period. This is achieved by using a wide range of geochemical methods, such as Uranium-series dating, stable isotope and trace element analysis. The speleothem-based reconstructions will be then compared to lake and marine records and regional climate model simulations, which will be developed by MITRA co-investigators Professor Christoph Raible (University of Bern) and Dr. Morteza Djamali (CNRS Marseille) and other MITRA members.


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