Climate Geology

Welcome to the homepage of the Climate Geology Group at ETH Zurich. We are part of the Geological Institute at the Department of Earth Science (D-ERDW).

 

One unifying theme in our work is well summarized by a piece of advice that was given by late Sir Nicolas Shackleton to an audience of paleoceanographers: “Whatever you do, do it in high resolution.” The underlying message, we believe, is that much ‘noise’ in geologic records is actually composed of meaningful environmental signals. A central goal of ours is to use new approaches and techniques that do justice to the complexity of geologic records, in order to allow previously hidden signals to emerge.

 

At the moment, we have four ongoing research directions:

1. Climate and Societies
2. Mesozoic to Neogene climate and ocean circulation
3. Ocean and Lake Biogeochemistry and Climate
4. Geomicrobiology and CO2