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mathiasvinnepand

I am an early career scientist with a major focus on atmospheric dust dynamics and sedimentological- and geochemical processes that occur across continents in the course of climatic- and environmental change. Since I started my PhD studies at the University of Mainz, I have worked on terrestrial sediment archives (Loess-Palaeosol-Sequences in western Central Europe, Western Europe and Southern Asia) as well as on lake sediments (Lake Bosumtwi in West Africa). Currently, I am working as a MOPGA fellow at Géosciences Rennes, with a special focus on Loess-Palaeosol-Sequences in the Brittany.

Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau

Drilling on world’s rooftop – the Nam Co-ICDP campaign on the Tibetan Plateau

International Scientific Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) campaigns may lead scientists from all over the world to most exciting places that are often of extraordinary beauty and remoteness. All these attributes certainly apply to Lake Nam Co situated at an altitude of 4700 m above sea level on the Tibetan Plateau in the Himalayas. Today this area supplies one third of the humankind with fresh ...[Read More]

Hacker attack led to spams on our SSP blog page

Dear Readers of the SSP Blog, Today, we detected suspicious and non-approved blog entries that were published in the name of one of our authors on the SSP blog webpage. We start from the premise that the release of  these entries was a result of a hacking attack on the author’s computer/email post-box and immediately deleted the associated content from our webpage. Please apologise for any  ...[Read More]