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·      2 Sept.: “The role of the (paleo-) Atlantic in global climate” program

·      8-10 Sept.: XRF workshop 2010           
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·      A national marine-geosciences group has been initiated. access its webpages

 

 

The Department of Marine Geology

Research in the GEO department is focused on the structure and composition of the seafloor varying from polar systems to equatorial waters, and from the deep ocean to the coastal zone.

We try to gain insight into the geological, oceanographical and climatological conditions in the geologic past (millions of years) until the present.

To this end, we collect water- and sediment samples during sea-going expeditions, which we analyse back home in the lab.

The department has at its disposal a suite of state-of-the-art scientific tools like e.g., bottom landers, ICP-MS, Laser particle sizer and XRF scanner.

 

Research questions are formulated by three themes:

o    Productivity controls on sedimentary deposition

o    Sediment transport, recycling and burial

o    Forcing of ocean-climate change

 

GEO has a strong commitment to multidisciplinary sea-going research and therefore, we collaborate with all groups within NIOZ as well as abroad through international projects like e.g.,

o    COST / PERGAMON

o    GATEWAYS

o    HERMIONE