Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics
Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics

Department of Palynology and Climate Dynamics

ERC Starting Grant awarded

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 478 early-career researchers from across Europe to receive Starting Grants this year.
Two of them work in Göttingen and one in our department:
Dr Anggi Hapsari has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
The grant is worth around two million euros and will enable Dr Hapsari to carry out her project ‘SaLtedPeat: Potential impacts of sea level rise-induced salinisation on tropical coastal peatlands in lowland areas’.
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Congratulations

Congratulations from all members of our department.

New papers in 2025:

  • Batalova, V.; Sannikov, P.; Pereskokov, M.; Mingalev, V.; Vyazov, L.; Salova, J. et al. (2025): Natural conditions and sociocultural development in the Mid-Kama region (cis-Ural, Russia) over the last ten millennia: insights from the Shabunichi-1 peat core. Veget Hist Archaeobot. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-024-01025-4

  • Gu, F.; Zonneveld, K. A.; Behling, H. (2025): Meridional shifts of Brazil-Malvinas Confluence since the Last Glacial Maximum. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 667, p. 112897. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112897

  • Kirleis, W.; Christiansen, J.; Jahns, S. (2024): Prignitz, Wendland, Altmark und Lüneburger Heide. In Ingo Feeser, Walter Dörfler, Manfred Rösch, Susanne Jahns, Steffen Wolters, Felix Bittmann (Eds.): Vegetationsgeschichte der Landschaften in Deutschland. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 501–513. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-68936-3_59

  • Orlova, E.; Batalova, V.; Schlütz, F.; Pereskokov, M.; Shumilovskikh, L. (2025): Archaeobotanical and isotope studies evidence crop cultivation already during the Early Iron Age in the boreal forests of the cis-Urals (Kama river basin). Veget Hist Archaebot. DOI: 10.1007/s00334-025-01053-8

  • Schmidt, C.; Beuzen-Waller, T.; Pietsch, D.; Proctor, L.; Schmitt, K. E.; Schöne, B. R. et al. (2025): A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman. OPEN QUAT 11, p. 1. DOI: 10.5334/oq.153

  • Schmitt, D.; Gischler, E.; Melles, M.; Wennrich, V.; Behling, H.; Shumilovskikh, L. et al. (2025): An annually resolved 5700-year storm archive reveals drivers of Caribbean cyclone frequency. Science advances 11 (11), eads5624. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ads5624

  • Unkelbach, J. (2025): Drivers of Forest Degradation and Biodiversity Changes in Mongolian Forest-Steppes During the Holocene. In Ulrich Lüttge, Francisco M. Cánovas, Hans Pretzsch, María-Carmen Risueño, Christoph Leuschner (Ed.). Springer Berlin Heidelberg (Progress in Botany, 87) DOI: 10.1007/124_2025_87

  • Unkelbach, J.; Behling, H.; Schmidt, C. (2025): Reconstruction of vegetation, climate, fire and human activity at an Iron Age oasis site in Lizq, northern Central Oman, beginning in 400 cal yr BCE. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 675, p. 113091. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113091

  • Wang, J.; Zhou, X.; Wang, S.; Ye, J.; Liu, J.; Wu, W. et al. (2025): Steppe development and mammalian adaptation in the middle Miocene, North Junggar Basin, Central Asia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 659, p. 112634. DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112634