SPP 2299:  Tropical Climate Variability and Coral Reefs. A Past to Future Perspective on Current Rates of Change at Ultra-High Resolution

• Subject Area: Geosciences
• Term: since 2022
• Website: Homepage
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 441832482

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• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• International Connection: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cape Verde, France, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, USA

Projects

• A ‘Cold Case’: Coral bleaching and reef death off Java and Sumatra driven by the Indian Ocean Dipole (ColdCASE) (Applicants Frick, Daniel A. ;  Pfeiffer, Miriam )
• A Composite coral Approach using a Novel laser-ablation technique: Adaptation strategies in a marginal Reef [CANARY] (Applicant Watanabe, Takaaki )
• Bay of Bengal Replicate Coral Reconstructions and Tropical-Basin Interactions using Coral Data Assimilation: hydroclimate and temperature variability spanning the last centuries (HYDRA) (Applicant Hargreaves, Jessica )
• Climate and environmental change in the Andaman Sea since the late Little Ice Age: History of coral response to thermal stress at a northeastern Indian Ocean heatwave site (IndOC-E II) (Applicant Felis, Thomas )
• Common Era ENSO variability in the West Central Pacific inferred from isotopic and trace element analysis of Porites microatolls (Applicant Knebel, Oliver )
• Contribution of past and recent climate variability on contemporary patterns of coral bleaching susceptibility (TRACE) (Applicant Voolstra, Ph.D., Christian )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Felis, Thomas )
• Coordination Funds (Applicant Pfeiffer, Miriam )
• Coping with heat stress: Evaluating the effects of repeated bleaching events on coral biomineralization (STRESS) (Applicants von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm ;  Frick, Daniel A. )
• Coral reefs on the tin island of Belitung: ‘reefs of hope’ threatened by pollution and runoff (TINBELT) (Applicants Garbe-Schönberg, Carl-Dieter ;  Pfeiffer, Miriam )
• CORals as archives for EXtreme weather and climate variability (CorEX) (Applicant Rimbu, Norel )
• Defining the late Anthropocene response of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone to climate change (ANTHR-ODZ) (Applicant Foreman, Alan )
• Disentangling species-, colony-, and symbiont-specific effects on coral skeletal characteristics under future environmental variability scenarios (DiSCoSym) (Applicant Ziegler, Maren )
• Frozen in time: ecology of paleo reefs (Applicants Bejarano, Sonia ;  Wild, Ph.D., Christian )
• Heterotrophy and coral resilience during marine heat waves – from organism responses to its skeletal signature (HeROeS) (Applicant Wall, Marlene )
• Indian Ocean warming from the peak of the Little Ice Age to the 21st century: Zanzibar Island, Western Indian Ocean (IndOC-W) (Applicant Pfeiffer, Miriam )
• INFORMing reef environmental management with coral geochemical records (Applicant Hathorne, Edmund )
• Paleoclimate and Carbonate Chemistry of the Red Sea proper during the Marine Isotope Stage 5e (MIS 5e) reconstructed from massive fossil Porites sp. corals (Applicant Todorovic, Sara )
• Quantifying post Little-Ice-Age freshwater influences and ocean dynamics in the Central American Sea using a novel tracer combination: 234U/238U– (P)SST – 14C (Applicants Frank, Norbert ;  Warken, Sophie )
• Reconstructing Environmental Effects of Freshwater-Seawater Dynamics via Submarine Groundwater Discharge (REEF-SGD) (Applicants Frank, Norbert ;  Warken, Sophie )
• Reconstructing ultra-high resolution climate variability and symbiont bleaching in tropical corals: from past to present (EPIBleach) (Applicants Fietzke, Jan ;  Frank, Martin )
• Reconstructing ultra-high resolution climate variability and symbiont bleaching in tropical corals: from past to present (EPIBleach II) (Application renewal) (Applicants Anagnostou, Ph.D., Eleni ;  Santodomingo, Ph.D., Nadia ;  Ziegler, Maren )
• Reef coral calcification and climate dynamics during the Eocene greenhouse (EOCENE) (Applicants Brachert, Thomas ;  Henehan, Michael ;  Mertz, Ph.D., Regina )
• Reef-scale Climate Protection – screening coral skeletal records for proxy Traces of natural bleaching mitigation by internal waves (ReefCPTrace) (Applicant Wall, Marlene )
• Seasonal Extremes and Rates of Change in Past Warm Climates: Insights from Advanced Statistical Estimations on High-Resolution Coral Proxy Records (SEARCH) (Applicant Mudelsee, Manfred )
• Seasonal to centennial tropical sea surface temperature variability from corals: constraints on tropical climate dynamics. (Applicant Dolman, Andrew )
• Terrestrial sediment flux and upwelling intensity in the anthropogenic era recorded by stable Ba isotopes and rare earth elements in tropical coral skeletons (Applicant Frank, Martin )
• The impact of external forcing on tropical climate variability in paleoclimate simulations and paleo-storylines during different periods of the late Quaternary (ExtTroPact) (Applicant Wagner, Sebastian )
• The marine Nitrogen cycle in a warming world: Evidence from the past, lessons for the Anthropocene (NITROCENE-2) (Applicant Martínez García, Alfredo )
• Tropical Atlantic-Pacific hydroclimate, variability and teleconnections during the Last Interglacial and the Holocene - Insights from earth-system modelling and corals (TAPIOLA) (Applicant Merkel, Ute )
• Tropical climate variability and the influence of environmental stressors as recorded in Orbicella and Siderastrea coral skeletons from Belize (Applicant Gischler, Eberhard )
• Using coral skeleton cores to decipher the adaptation trajectories of the coral holobiont through time (CoreAdapt) (Applicant Ziegler, Maren )

• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Miriam Pfeiffer
• Participating Person: Dr. Thomas Felis