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Professor Dr. Martin Trauth

Address Universität Potsdam
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25
14476 Potsdam

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Advanced time–series analysis to provide a spatiotemporal framework for the evolution, expansion and technological innovation of Homo sapiens (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Insolation forcing of climate and hydrology in the Naivasha Basin, Kenya (Research Grants)
  - Response of East African climate to orbital forcing during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles: The Lake Naivasha Coring Project (Research Grants)
  - The Chew Bahir Coring Project: Climate-vegetation feedbacks during the African Humid Period in the southern Ethiopian Rift (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - The structural and environmental history of the Suguta Valley, Northern Kenya Rift (Research Grants)
  - DNA-Metabarcoding of phyto- and zooplankton in East African lake sediments as proxies for past environmental perturbation (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - The Chew Bahir Drilling Project: A Half-Million Year Climate Record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift, Crucible of Human Evolution (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Trends, rhythms and events in East African climate: statistical analysis of the paleoclimare records of the long sediment cores of the Chew Bahir basin (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - GRK 1364: Shaping the Earth's Surface in a Variable Environment: Interactions between Tectonics, Climate and Biosphere in the African-Asian Monsoonal Region (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Klimatische Kontrolle und Magnitude rezenter und vergangener Erosionsregimes (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Plateau formation recorded by tectonic and climatic signals in intramontane basins in NW Arbentina (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Palaeoecology and evolution of Pliocene-Pleistocene Turkana Basin molluscs: Implications for basin formation and the evolution of hominins in East Africa (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - The Burning Question: How did fire shape Eastern Africa’s paleo-ecosystem? (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Recurrence plot analysis of regime changes in dynamical Systems (Research Grants)
  - Metabarcoding of ancient eukaryotic DNA from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: Reconstruction of past biodiversity responses to drastic environmental change (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)

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