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Dr. Thomas Westerhold

Address Universität Bremen
MARUM - Zentrum für Marine Umweltwissenschaften
Leobener Straße 8
28359 Bremen

ORCID-ID 0000-0001-8151-4684

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - An open access platform to document and retrieve composite records from ocean drilling sites - the Ocean Drilling Composite Tracker (ODCT) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Exp392EventStratigraphy – high resolution bulk stable carbon isotope stratigraphy of major Paleogene events drilled during IODP Expedition 392 on Agulhas Plateau (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - In2Cretaceous – evaluating the potential of equatorial Pacific Shatsky Rise sedimentary deposits for extending high resolution paleoceanographic reconstructions from the Maastrichtian into the Campanian (72 to 84 million years before present) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Completing the Eocene cyclostratigraphy - new perspectives from a greenhouse world (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Time Scale Controversy: accurate orbital calibration of the late Miocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - New high-resolution compilation of benthic stable isotope data spanning 34 to 75 Ma - for both Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Resolving contradictory hypotheses concerning prolonged late Miocene El Niño-like conditions using the first high-resolution equatorial Pacific climate records (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Comparing changes in regional response to orbital forcing in the Equatorial Pacific and Atlantic during the Miocene (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Deciphering Oligocene Climate Dynamics (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Exploring the coupling between plate tectonic and climate evolution: Eocene–Oligocene chronology of the southwest Pacific (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Late Paleogene ocean and climate dynamics of the Southwest Indian Ocean: onset and variability of the Agulhas Current as a harbinger or response to climate change? (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Oceanographic impact of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Southwest Indian Ocean (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Onset and modifications in intensity and pathways of water mass exchange between the Southeast Pacific and the South Atlantic with focus on the Falkland Plateau (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)

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