Inhaltsbereich
Prof. Dr. Achim Brauer
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Head of Section 5.2, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution
Telegrafenberg, C 324
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1330
Fax: +49 331 288 1302
Mail: achim.brauer@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Lake sediments as climate archives
- Varve chronology and micro-facies analyses
- Abrupt climate changes
- Human-climate interactions
- Quarternary Geology
Projects:
- Eifel maar lakes
- Piànico Interglacial Project
- The last interglacial in Monticchio
- DecLakes
- Lake Suigetsu 2006 Project
- FLood layers in Lago Maggiore sediment
Career:
- 04/12/2000 Habilitation in Geology (Dr. rer nat habil), University of Potsdam ‘Rapid environmental fluctuations and their relation to climate variability: an investigation of varved lake sediment records.’
- 21/04/1994 Dissertation in Geology (Dr. rer. nat), University of Trier ‘Weichselian sediments from Lake Holzmaar – pleniglacial varve chronology and evidence of climate oscillations’ (in German)
- 15/09/1988 Diploma in Physical Geography, University of Trier ‘Mapping past lake level stands from several maar lakes in the Eifel region and microstratographic analyses of the Lake Weinfelder Maar sediment record’ (in German).