The Dendroclimatology Laboratory serves for the reconstruction of temporal and spatial variability of the climate of the past utilizing multi-parameter tree ring analysis.

Aims:

• to reconstruct the temporal and spatial variability of the climate of the past utilizing multi-parameter tree ring analysis
• to assess and verify the causes of climate change and its impact on woody plants
  
  

Tasks:

• quantitative analysis of the climate-signal transfer from atmosphere through soil …

In the laboratories for stable isotopes in sediments and water, the isotope ratios of the light elements nitrogen (N), carbon (C) and oxygen (O) in continental geoarchives such as lake sediments and speleothems as well as oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) in precipitation and surface water are determined. This allows us to decipher changing environmental conditions and climate fluctuations in continental climate archives. For a better understanding of the archives, we use monitoring systems that …