Haug, Gerald H., Prof.

ETH Zürich Prof. Dr. Gerald H. Haug Geologisches Institut NO G 51.1 Sonneggstrasse 5 8092 Zürich Phone: +41 44 632 86 10 E-Mail:

Scientific Interests

• Climate and Societies
• Late Neogene climate change
• Ocean and Lake Biogeochemistry

Education

2002 – Habilitation, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, "Late Cenozoic Paleoceanography and Climate"
1995 – Dr. rer. nat. , Universität Kiel, "Paleoceanography and sedimentation history in the northwest Pacific during the last 6 million years (ODP-Site 882)"
1992 – Diplom in Geology, Universität Karlsruhe "The volcano-tectonic evolution of the northern Chyulu Hills, South Kenya"

Professional Experience

06/07 – Professor 'Climate Geology', ETH Zurich
09/07 – Guest Professor, University of Potsdam
04/03-05/07 – Professor, University of Potsdam
01/03-05/07 – Section Head 'Climate Dyamics and Sediments', Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam(GFZ); Program theme speaker 'Climate Variability and the Human Habitat' for German Helmholtz Centers GFZ, FZ J, and UFZ
01/00-12/02 – Adjunct Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
01/00-12/02 – Oberassistent, ETH Zurich
01/98-12/99 – Research Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
02/97-01/98 – Post-Doctoral Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
10/96-02/97 – Visiting Scientist, Department of Oceanography, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada
12/95-12/97 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, GEOMAR, Center for Marine Geosciences, Kiel, Germany
10/92-12/95 – Ph.D. Student at the Geological Institute, University of Kiel, Germany

Awards

• Albert Maucher Award for Earth Sciences (2001)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Preis (2007)
• Max-Rössler-Preis (2010)

Teaching

• Dynamic Earth
• Climate History
• Climate, Sediments and the Earth's Surface

Selected Publications

• Martínez-Garcia, A., Rosell-Melé, A., Jaccard, S.L., Geibert, W., Sigman, D.M., and Haug, G.H., 2011, Southern Ocean dust-climate coupling over the past 4 million years: Nature, Published online 03 August 2011. DOI: 10.1038/nature10310 (pdf, 2.2MB)
• Wolff, C., Haug, G.H., Timmermann, A., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Brauer, A., Sigman, D.M., Cane, M.A., and Verschuren, D., 2011, Reduced interannual rainfall variability in East Africa during the Last Ice Age: Science, v. 333, p. 743-747. (pdf, 1.5MB)
• Sigman, D.M., Hain, M.P., and Haug, G.H., 2010, The polar ocean and glacial cycles in atmospheric CO2 concentration: Nature, v. 466, p. 47-55. (PDF, 520kB)
• Martínez-Garcia, A., Rosell-Mele, A., McClymont, E.L., Gersonde, R. and Haug, G.H., 2010, Subpolar link to the emergence of the Modern Equatorial Pacific cold tongue: Science, v. 328 (5985), p. 1550-1553. (PDF, 1.2MB)
• Verschuren, D., Sinninghe Damsté, J.S., Moernaut, J., Kristen, I., Blaauw, M., Fagot, M., Haug, G.H., and CHALLACEA project members, 2009, Half-precessional dynamics of monsoon rainfall near the East African Equator: Nature, v. 462, p. 637-641. (PDF, 598KB)
• Gergana Yancheva, Norbert R. Nowaczyk, Jens Mingram, Peter Dulski, Georg Schettler, Jörg F. W. Negendank, Jiaqi Liu, Daniel M. Sigman, Larry C. Peterson & Gerald H. Haug. Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon. Nature, 445, 7123 2007. 74-77 p. (PDF, 567 kB), supplementary information
• Jaccard, S.L., Haug, G.H., Sigman, D.M., Pedersen, T.F., Thierstein, H.R., Röhl. U. Glacial/interglacial changes in Subarctic North Pacific stratification. Science 308, 1003-1006 (2005). (PDF, 465 kB)
• Haug, G.H., Ganopolski, A., Sigman, D.M., Rosell-Mele, A., Swann, G.E.A., Tiedemann, R., Jaccard, S.L., Bollmann, J., Maslin, M.A., Leng, M.J., and Eglinton, G. North Pacific seasonality and the glaciation of North America 2.7 million years ago. Nature, doi:10.1038, 1-5 (2005). (PDF, 377 kB)| Supplementary information (PDF, MB)
  Billups, K. Snow maker for the ice ages, News and Views.
• Sigman, D.M., Jaccard, S. & Haug, G.H. Polar ocean stratification in a cold climate. Nature 428, 59-63 (2004). (PDF, 483 kB)
  Francois, R. Cool stratification. News and Views.
• Stott, L.D., Cannariato, K., Thunell, R., Haug, G.H., Koutavas, A. & Lund, S. Century-Scale Modulation of the Tropical Oceans Salinity Gradient. Nature 431, 56-59 (2004). (PDF, 288 kB)
• Haug, G.H., Günther, D., Peterson, L.C., Sigman, D.M., Hughen, K.A. & Aeschlimann, B. Climate and the Collapse of Maya Civilzation. Science 299, 1731-1735 (2003). (PDF, 630 kB)
• Sigman, D.M. and Haug, G.H. The biological pump in the past. Elsevier Treatise on Geochemistry (bookchapter, published Dec. 2003). (PDF, 1.38 MB)
• Haug, G.H., Hughen, K.A., Peterson, L.C., Sigman, D.M. & Röhl, U. Southward migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone through the Holocene. Science 293, 1304-1308 (2001). (PDF, 491 kB)
• Haug, G.H., Tiedemann, R., Zahn, R. & Ravelo, A.C. Role of Panama uplift on oceanic freshwater balance. Geology 29, 207-210 (2001). (PDF, 226 kB)
• Peterson, L.C., Haug G.H., Hughen, K.A. & Röhl, U. Rapid changes in marine and terrestrial climate in the tropical Atlantic during the last glacial. Science 290, 1947-1951 (2000). (PDF, 314 kB)
• Haug, G.H. , Sigman, D.M., Tiedemann, R., Pedersen, T.F. & Sarnthein, M. Onset of permanent stratification in the subarctic Pacific. Nature 401, 779-782 (1999).
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• Driscoll, N.W. & Haug, G.H. A short circuit in the ocean's thermohaline circulation: A cause for northern hemisphere glaciation? Science 282, 5388, 436-438 (1998). (PDF, 479 kB)
• Haug, G.H., Pedersen, T.F., Sigman, D.M., Calvert, S.E., Nielsen, B. & Peterson, L. Glacial/interglacial variations in production and nitrogen fixation in the Cariaco Basin during the last 580 ka. Paleoceanography 13, 5, 427-432 (1998).
• Haug, G.H. & Tiedemann, R. Effect of the formation of the Isthmus of Panama on Atlantic Ocean thermohaline circulation. Nature 393, 673-676 (1998). (PDF, 1.19 MB)

Projects

• Cariaco Basin Climate Record
• Abrupt Climate Change in Tropical and Subtropical Latitudes
• North Pacific Paleoceanography
• Oceanic gateways: The Central American Seaway