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SPP 2299 Projects – Phase 2 (2026-2028)

Projects for phase 2 of DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs” (SPP 2299), which contribute to the overall scientific questions.

Project TitleApplicantsProject Acronym
Using coral skeleton cores to decipher the adaptation trajectories of the coral holobiont through timeMaren ZieglerCoreAdapt
Defining the late Anthropocene response of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone to climate changeAlan ForemanANTHR-ODZ
Paleoclimate and Carbonate Chemistry of the Red Sea proper during the Marine Isotope Stage 5e (MIS 5e) reconstructed from massive fossil Porites sp. coralsSara TodorovicPALEORED
INFORMing reef environmental management with coral geochemical recordsEd HathorneINFORM
Reconstructing ultra-high resolution climate variability and symbiont bleaching in tropical corals: from past to presentEleni Anagnostou
EPIBleach II
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 siteThomas FelisIndOC-E II
A ‘Cold Case’: Coral bleaching and reef death off Java and Sumatra driven by the Indian Ocean DipoleMiriam Pfeiffer; Daniel FrickColdCASE
Reconstructing Environmental Effects of Freshwater-Seawater Dynamics via Submarine Groundwater DischargeNorbert Frank; Sophie WarkenREEF-SGD
Bay of Bengal Replicate Coral Reconstructions and Tropical-Basin Interactions using Coral Data Assimilation: hydroclimate and temperature variability spanning the last centuriesJessica HargreavesHYDRA
CORals as archives for EXtreme weather and climate variabilityNorel RimbuCorEX
Heterotrophy and coral resilience during marine heat waves – from organism responses to its skeletal signatureMarlene WallHeROeS
A Composite coral Approach using a Novel laser-ablation technique: Adaptation strategies in a marginal ReefTakaaki WatanabeCANARY
Seasonal to centennial tropical sea surface temperature variability from corals: constraints on tropical climate dynamicsNadia Santodomingo; Maren Ziegler; Andrew Dolman
The impact of external forcing on tropical climate variability in paleoclimate simulations and paleo-storylines during different periods of the late QuaternarySebastian WagnerExtTroPact
The marine Nitrogen cycle in a warming world: Evidence from the past, lessons for the AnthropoceneAlfredo Martínez-GarcíaNITROCENE-2
Coordination FundsMiriam Pfeiffer
DFG SPP 2299 project database – https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441832482?language=en