The Dendrochronology Laboratory aims to reconstruct the temporal and spatial variability of the climate of the past utilizing multi-parameter tree ring analysis and to assess and verify the causes of climate change and its impact on woody plants. The lab is equipped with various technical field equipment, sample preparation tools, a LINTAB tree-ring measurement system and a calibrated optical scanner incl. analsysis software for dendrochronology, instruments to determine the wood chemistry …

The Laboratory for Earth Magnetism in Time and Space deals with magnetostratigraphic dating of paleoclimate archive sand the reconstruction of geomagnetic field variation in the geological past. Therefore, intensity and directions of sedimentary magnetizations are determined. Further, magnetic minerals are characterized by their physical properties, such as coercivity, Curie temperature, grain size, and concentration, as well as by their chemical composition and preservation status.

The laboratory for microscopy focuses on the specific requirements of microfacies analysis of lake sediments, but also offers a wide range of possibilities for other applications. Sedimentological, petrographic and microfacies analyses on all kinds of covered and uncovered thin sections and polished sections with transmitted and incident light are performed.