Professor Dr. Oliver Friedrich

Address Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Im Neuenheimer Feld 234-236
69120 Heidelberg

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - A multi-proxy approach to decipher global sea-level and ice-volume dynamics during late Cenozoic “snapshot” intervals based on benthic foraminiferal calcite from ODP Site 849 (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - The role of North Atlantic subsurface heat accumulation for Late Pleistocene Heinrich Events (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics of the early Miocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics during the Mid-Oligocene Glacial Interval (MOGI) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Reduced oxygenation during Heinrich Events – Testing hypotheses of (de)glacial circulation in the Atlantic Ocean (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Stable isotope analyzes on benthic foraminifera from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian - Santonian) of Demerara Rise (ODP Leg 207) and comparison with the Pacific Ocean (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Ocean circulation and the ice-temperature conundrum: Unraveling the transition from the Cretaceous greenhouse into today's icehouse world (Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups)
  - Albian paleoceanography and paleotemperatures of the tropical western Atlantic (ODP Leg 207, Demerara Rise) - the onset of the mid-Cretaceous super-greenhouse climate. (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Oligocene climate dynamics towards the Oligocene-Miocene transition (IODP Expedition 342, North Atlantic) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Evolution of deep-ocean circulation during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean in the latest Cretaceous and Paleocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Early Pleistocene sea level and millennial-scale climate fluctuations: a view from the tropical Pacific and North Atlantic (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Biostratigraphy and surface-water reconstruction for the Oligocene of the North Atlantic based on organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Ice volume as a trigger for the amplification of Pleistocene millennial-scale climate fluctuations? A terrestrial perspective from Central Asia (Qaidam Basin) (Research Grants)
  - Evolution of the oceanic circulation in the subtropical Atlantic across the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Mechanisms of glacial/interglacial changes during the late Oligocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Pliocene dust storms across Asia as an analogue for future climate change? (Research Grants)
  - Recurring occurrence of Early Paleogene hyperthermals: a one-time climatic oddity or a characteristic feature of greenhouse climates? (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Short-term waxing and waning of Antarctic ice sheets during the late Oligocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Isotopenverhältnis-Massenspektrometer mit Karbonatanlage (Major Research Instrumentation)