Climate: Past, Present & Future

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Dead Sea – lively stories of the past

Dr. Andrea Miebach, postdoc at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Bonn, Germany February 25, 2020

Dead Sea (photo: Andrea Miebach).

The Dead Sea is dead. Nothing can live there except for specialized microbes. The water with a salinity multiple times higher than seawater prevents a colonization by higher life forms. However, it does not prevent the input of organic material that can tell us stories about the past. A unique sediment record The Dead Sea, located at the lowest elevation on Earth – currently about 430 m below sea ...[Read More]

A Climate Modeling Workshop in the South of France!

Jesse February 11, 2015

Climate and its effects on the past, present and future of the human race is a heated, topic of debate these days. There are many competing interests at stake from governments and politicians to the big oil and energy companies of the world to the scientists trying to work on climate change problems to the people of the world most acutely affected by these changes on the Earth we live. Thus, I thi ...[Read More]