Projects

SPP 2299 Projects – Phase I (2022-2025)

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

Project Title	Applicants	Project Acronym
Climate and environmental changes in the Andaman Sea since the late Little Ice Age: sea surface temperature, hydroclimate, and coral response to thermal stress in the northeastern Indian Ocean	Thomas Felis	IndOC-E
Common Era ENSO variability in the West Central Pacific inferred from isotopic and trace element analysis of Porites microatolls	Oliver Knebel
Contribution of past and recent climate variability on contemporary patterns of coral bleaching susceptibility	Christian Voolstra	TRACE
Coping with heat stress: evaluating the effects of repeated bleaching events on coral biomineralization	Daniel A. Frick; Juan Pablo D’Olivo	STRESS
Coral reefs on the tin island of Belitung: ‘reefs of hope’ threatened by pollution and runoff	Miriam Pfeiffer; Dieter Garbe-Schönberg	TINBELT
Disentangling species-, colony-, and symbiont-specific effects on coral skeletal characteristics under future environmental variability scenarios	Maren Ziegler	DiSCoSym
Frozen in time: ecology of paleo reefs	Christian Wild; Sonia Bejarano
Indian Ocean warming from the peak of the Little Ice Age to the 21st century: Zanzibar Island, Western Indian Ocean	Miriam Pfeiffer	IndOC-W
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	Norbert Frank; Sophie Warken
Reconstructing ultra-high resolution climate variability and symbiont bleaching in tropical corals: from past to present	Martin Frank; Jan Fietzke	EPIBleach
Reef coral calcification and climate dynamics during the Eocene greenhouse	Thomas Brachert; Michael Henehan; Regina Mertz	EOCENE
Reef-scale climate protection – screening coral skeletal records for proxy traces of natural bleaching mitigation by internal waves	Marlene Wall	ReefCPTrace
Seasonal extremes and rates of change in past warm climates: insights from advanced statistical estimations on high-resolution coral proxy records	Manfred Mudelsee	SEARCH
Seasonal to decadal tropical sea surface temperature variability from corals: timescale dependent fidelity of δ18O and Sr/Ca records	Andrew Dolman
Terrestrial sediment flux and upwelling intensity in the anthropogenic era recorded by stable Ba isotopes and rare earth elements in tropical coral skeletons	Martin Frank
The marine nitrogen cycle in a warming world: evidence from the past, lessons for the Anthropocene	Alfredo Martinez-Garcia	NITROCENE
Tropical Atlantic-Pacific hydroclimate, variability and teleconnections during the Last Interglacial and the Holocene – Insights from earth-system modelling and corals	Ute Merkel	TAPIOLA
Tropical climate variability and the influence of environmental stressors as recorded in orbicella and siderastrea coral skeletons from Belize	Eberhard Gischler
Coordination Funds	Thomas Felis

DFG SPP 2299 project database – https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/441832482?language=en