Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Ulrike Kienel
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 5.2, Climate Dynamics and Landscape Evolution
Telegrafenberg, F 451
14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1380
Fax: +49 331 288 1302
Mail: ulrike.kienel@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
- Environmental dynamics from the perspective of lakes.
- Late Quaternary human/climate interactions.
- High-resolution indicators: varve microfacies, element chemistry
- Complementary indicators: stable isotopes of carbonates and geochemistry of organic matter
Projects:
Career:
- 01/1994 Dr. rer. nat. Free University Berlin : 'Development of calcareous nannofossils and calcareous dinoflagellate cysts at the K/T-boundary'.
- 07/1990 Diploma in Geology/Paleontology, "Ernst Moritz Arndt" University Greifswald : 'Stratigraphy of the White Chalk of the Isle of Ruegen (Lower Maastrichtian) by means of calcareous nannofossils'.
Experience:
- 09/2007- Post-doctoral Research Associate, University Potsdam, Leibniz Center, 'Tropical climate dynamics (Cariaco Basin and Mexican Lakes)" continued (funded by Leibniz Award 2007: Gerald Haug).
- 09/2005-08/2007 Post-doctoral Research Associate, GFZ-Potsdam Project: 'Tropical climate dynamics during the past Glacial/Interglacial in (sub)annual resolution (Cariaco Basin and Mexican Lakes)' (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG within the IODP/ODP Priority program).
- 09/2002- 08/2005 Post-doctoral Research Associate, GFZ-Potsdam Project: 'The diatom-based varve micro-facies - a quantitative integral expression of natural climate oscillations and human influence' (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG).
- 07/2000-08/2002 Post-doctoral Research Associate,GFZ-Potsdam (Project KIHZ 'Natural climate variations from 10,000 years to the present day').
- 2000 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Alfred-Wegener-Institut for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam: Ice core project 'Severnaya Zemlya 2000', (Expedition: 30 March - 25 May).
- 1999 Post-doctoral Research Associate, University Potsdam, Coordination of paleolimnology projects.
- 05-10/1998 Visiting scientist, Centre d' études nordiques (CEN), Université Laval (Research grant, German Research Foundation, DFG)
- 1995- 1998 Post-Doctoral Research Associate Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Research Unit Potsdam
- (Diatom-based paleoclimate reconstruction from lacustrine sediments (Younger Pleistocene and Holocene) from Siberia, Greenland and Antarctica).
- 1994 Research Associate Free University Berlin
- 07/91-12/93 Ph.D. student Free University Berlin (Research grant of the Berlin Senate).
Selected publications:
- Kienel U., Schwab M. and Schettler G. 2005. Distinguishing climatic from direct anthropogenic influences during the past 400 years in varved sediments from Lake Holzmaar (Eifel, Germany). Journal of Paleolimnology 33:327-347.
- Kumke T., Schoonderwaldt A. and Kienel U. 2005. Spatial variability of sedimentological properties in a large Siberian lake. Aquatic Science 67: 86-96.
- Kumke T., Kienel U., Weckström J., Korhola A. and Hubberten H.-W. 2004. Inferred Holocene palaeotemperatures from diatoms at Lake Lama, Central Siberia. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 36: 626-636.
- Kumke T., Hense A., Schölzel C., Andreev A.A., Brüchmann C., Gebhardt C., Helle G., Kienel U., Kühl N., Neumann F. and Schleser G. 2004. Transfer functions for paleoclimate reconstructions - applications. In: Fischer H., Kumke T., Lohmann G., Flöser G., Miller H., von Storch H. and Negendank J.F.W. (eds), The climate in historical times - Towards a synthesis of Holocene proxy data and climate models. Springer Verlag, Berlin, pp. 245-262.
- Kienel U. (2003) Den Kalender einer Seegeschichte unter das Mikroskop genommen. Mikrokosmos 92:321-329.
- Kienel U., Kumke T. (2002) Combining ordination techniques and geostatistics to determine the patterns of diatom distributions at Lake Lama (Central Siberia). Journal of Paleolimnology 28:181-194.
- Kienel U. (1999) Late Weichselian to Holocene diatom succession in a sediments core from Lama Lake (NE Norilsk) and presumed ecological implications. In: Kassens H et al. (eds) Land-Ocean Systems in the Siberian Arctic: Dynamics and History. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, pp 377-405.
- Kienel U., Siegert C., Hahne J. (1999) Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental reconstruction from a permafrost sequence (Northsiberian Lowland, SE Taymyr Peninsula) - a multidisciplinary case study. Boreas 28:181-193.
- Kienel U., Rehfeld U., Bellas S.M. (1995) The Miocene Blue Clay Formation of the Maltese Islands: Sequence-stratigraphic and paleoceanographic implications based on calcareous nannofossil stratigraphy. Berliner geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen (E) 16:533-557.