ECORD Research Grants

Rudy Conte (University Venice; Italy): Integrated analysis of Contourite Depositional System (Ross Sea, Antarctica): linking sedimentary record and past ocean dynamics. 

Dimitrios Evangelinos (University Granada, Spain): The evolution of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current during the last 28 million years 

Natacha Fabregas (Bergen University, Norway): Sedimentology of the axis of the Corinth Rift during Marine Isotopes Stages (MIS) 5 to 7 

Dakota Holmes (National University of Ireland, Ireland): A multiproxy approach to assess boundary conditions leading to abrupt high- magnitude climate events 

Kasia Śliwińska (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland): Mid-Cretaceous climate in the High Arctic region 

Tim van Peer (University of Southampton, UK): Reconstructing northwest Atlantic Ocean oceanography across the Oligocene-Miocene Transition using environmental magnetic techniques

 

Pietro Bazzocalupo (University Bari, Italy):  Response of Coccolithophore Calcification to past oceanic changes during the Last Deglaciation and the Holocene

Max Casson (University of Manchester, UK): An integrated analysis of Mesozoic stratigraphy in the Central Atlantic region, implications for passive margin evolution

Johannes Monkebosch (University of Copenhagen, Denmark):  Astronomical forcing of climatic changes during the late Jurassic – early Cretaceous

Katrina Nilsson-Kerr (The Open University, UK): Microanalysis of surface and thermocline dwelling foraminifera from the Bay of Bengal across MIS 5: Insights into seasonality and trace element signatures

Ornella Quivelli (University of Bari, Italy): Millennial – submillenial scale climate variability during Marine Isotope Stage 19: calcareous nannofossili and molecular biomarker evidence in the ODP Site 980 (North Atlantic)

Zeinab Smillie (Heriot-Watt-University, UK): Benthic foraminifera-based reconstruction of the Late Pliocene and Early Quaternary – Gulf Of Cadiz Contourite Depositional Systems

Antoine Triantafyllou (University of Nantes, France):  Tracking Volatiles (C-O-S-H-Cl-F), Major and Trace elements contents of Primary Magma in Bonin Fore-Arc (Western Pacific)

Lauren O´Connor (Oxford University, UK): A reconstruction of Late Cretaceous pCO2 change using boron isotopes

Jakub Ciazela (University Hannover, Germany):  Sulfide-rich interval discovered deep in the lower crust (U1473A, Atlantis Bank, SWIR)

Teresa Rodrigues (IPMA Lisbon, Portugal):  Tracking climate dynamics across the Middle Pleistocene Transition, in mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic (CLIMAx)

Margot Crammwinckel (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): Reconstructing high resolution climate change across the Middle Eocene Climate Optimum of the Tasman Sea – a multiproxy approach

Madeleine Vickers (Plymouth University, UK):  Southern high latitude climate during the Jurassic – Cretaceous: new evidence from clumped isotope thermometry

Man-Ying Tsan ( University Toronto, Canada): Iron sulfide analyses to assess microbially-driven sulfur cycling in high-temperature sediments (Nankai Trough, IODP Expedition 370, Site C0023)

Stefanie Kaboth (Utrecht University, The Netherlands): North Atlantic Deep-Water evolutionin the Labrador Sea (IODP Sites U1302/1303) throughout the Late Pleistocene

Bernhard Viehweger (MARUM, Germany): The subseafloor biosphere Download

Kim Alix Jakob (Heidelberg University, Germany): Late Pliocene/early Pleistocene threshold behaviour in the North Atlantic Download

Caroline Seyler (McGill University, Canada): Frictional properties of accretionary wedge sediments at the Cascadia margin Download

Sonja Felder (Newcastle University, UK): Applicability of the Mg/Ca palaeo-thermometer to the shallowmarine setting of Site U1427 in the Sea of Japan (IODP Exp. 346)

David King (University College London, UK): The Paragloborotalia mayeri-siakensis Conundrum: Planktonic Foraminifera Evolution and Extinction

Rui Zhao (University of Bergen, Norway): Microbial Life in basaltic and ultramafic rocks in oceanic crust

James Barnet (University of Exeter, UK): Absolute sea-surface temperature estimates from the enigmatic late Paleocene greenhouse; new data from the Indian Ocean – Download

Montserrat Alonso Garcia: Tracking Mediterranean Outflow Water impact on North Atlantic circulation and climate during the initiation of the Northern Hemisphere glaciation

Mark Zindorf (Newcastle University, UK): Sulphur isotope study to reveal formation conditions of iron sulphides and deep sulphate enrichment – Download

Karen Gariboldi (University of Pisa, Italy): Role of Volcanic Ashes in Enhancing Primary Production: Evidences in the Deep Time

Sina Panitz (Northumbria University, UK): Investigating linkages between the Norwegian Atlantic Current variability and Scandinavian vegetation during the late Pliocene – Download

Rehemat Bhatia (University College London, UK): Can 2D trace elemental mapping of foraminifera help to resolve the presence of photosymbionts in the fossil record? – Download

Nina Jordan (University of Leicester, UK): Tephrochronogy on ODP Site 963 (Mediterranean Sea, ODP Leg 160) – Download

Soma Baranwal (The Arctic University of Norway): Timing of the onset of weakening of the Australasian rainfall in response to the global thermohaline circulation from the northwest shelf of Australia: IODP Expedition 356

Adele Cameron:  Strength of the Deep Western Boundary Current during the extreme warmth of the early Eocene ‘greenhouse’

Lyndsey Fox (University of Leeds, UK): The Turning Point: Investigating coiling direction as a biostratigraphic tool

Angela Garcia Gallardo (University of Graz, Austria): Paleoceanographic changes in the Gulf of Cádiz during the late Pliocene – Report

Juliane Müller (AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany): Plio- and Pleistocene palaeoceanographic and environmental development in the Gulf of Alaska – Report

Clara Sena (University of Aveiro, Portugal):  Stable isotopes: complementary data for assessing the biogeochemical cycling of elements in a forearc basin – IODP Expedition 351 – Report

Thorsten Bauersachs: Identification of the deep biosphere of the Nankai Trough

Patten Clifford (Stockholm University, Sweden): The paragenesis and chemical composition of sulfide minerals in the oceanic crust: EMPA analysis of sulfides from IODP hole 1256D – Report

Sebastian Hammerschmidt: Gas Migration Pathways and Source Depths beneath the Kumano Forearc Basin, Nankai Trough, Japan

Katrien An Heirman: From micro to macro: Diagenetic and alteration processes on a grain-to-grain level in an active subduction zone

Claire Huck: Main and trace element concentration data and rare earth element patterns in fossil fish teeth from the Southern Ocean – Publication

Wendy Kordesch: Middle Eocene Carbonate Accumulation in the Deep Equatorial Atlantic: ODP Site 929

Marina Martindale (University of British Columbian, Canada): High-pressure melting relations of Juan de Fuca sediments and their effects on the Northern Cascade volcanic chemistry – Report

Iris Moebius (Goethe University Frankfurth, Germany): Temperature and stratification evolution across the Oligocene/Miocene transition in the western North Atlantic (IODP Expedition 342) – Report

Katherine Prentice: The role of ocean Productivity in Carbon Cycle Changes Through The Eocene/Oligocene Transition

Philippine Campagne: Reconstruction of environmental and sea ice variations in Adelie Land, East Antarctica, over the last 2,000 years, based on diatom assemblages, diatom specific biomarkers and modalisation

Felix Genske (University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany): The petrology and geochemistry of lavas from the western Azores oceanic plateau – Report

Anna Joy Drury (Imperial College, UK): Onset and Termination of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: constraining variation of bottom water temperatures, ice volume and sea level – Report

Sara Lafuerza (IPG-Paris, France): New insights on submarine flank volcano evolution from geomechanical characterization of marine sediments, west of Martinique – Report

Gabrielle Rousselle (University Pierre and Marie Curie, France): Contribution of TEX86-based temperatures to the climatic variations of the equatorial Pacific during the last 10 Myrs – Report

Nathalie Dubois (University of Manchester, UK): Comparing Sedimentation processes below the unproductive South Pacific Gyre with the highly productive central equatorial Pacific – Report

Mirjam Koch (University of Frankfurt, Germany): Late Pliocene millennial scale fluctuations in SST and stratification within the North Atlantic – Report

Cristina Sghibartz: Records to understand controls on the deepening calcite compensation depth across the Eocene Oligocene Transition

Cristian Zeeden (Utrecht University, Netherlands): Studying phase relations of orbital forcing and terrestrial (ice) response in the Miocene – Report

Borje Dahren: Unraveling the lithostratigraphy of the continental crust beneath the Faroe Islands

David Naafs: Determining the origin of higher plant leaf wax components accumulated at IODP Site U1313 during the last 3.6 Ma

Torsten Haberzettl: Investigating a ÒnewÓ Late Pleistocene paleomagnetic excursion: research on ODP Leg 151 Site 911 Hole C Core 1H

Valerio Pasini: Biopetrology of the hydrating mantle along Mid Ocean Ridge

Zuzanna Natalia Stroynowski: IODP Exp. 323, Bering Sea

Jan Hennisen