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Dr. Michael Georg Siccha Rojas |
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Micropaleontology - Paleoceanography |
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UFT, 1570 |
Research interests
- Paleoclimate reconstructions via micropaleontogical and biogeochemical proxies
- Regional (paleo)modelling of ocean basins
- Combined paleo-proxy / paleomodelling studies
- Red Sea (paleo)oceanography
- Transfer function methodology
- Adaptation of sampling equipment
- research cruise logistics
- IT support
- support of the ArcTrain International Research Training Group
Recent projects
Academic CV
since 2013 | technical PostDoc at the MARUM |
2012 - 2011 | Postdoctoral fellowship at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel. Work on GCMs of the Red Sea during the last interglacial maximum 'Past and future climatic conditions in the Red Sea region from proxy records and numerical models'. |
2011 - 2010 | Postdoc at the Laboratory of recent and fossil bio-indicators at the University of Angers, France. Work on the spatiotemporal variability of plankton in the framework of ANR project 'ForClim - Amelioration of paleo-oceanographic proxies based on planktic foraminifera'. |
2009 - 2006 | PhD student at the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Tübingen, Germany. PhD Thesis in the framework of DFG project "RedStar - Tranfer function approach to temperature and salinity reconstructions in the Red Sea: constraining sea level estimates and monitoring ITCZ variability during the last four glacial cycles" |
2006 - 1999 | Study of biology with main topic marine biology at the universities Cologne and Rostock, Germany. Diplomarbeit (Master) conducted at the IFM-GEOMAR Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences at the University of Kiel, Germany and the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences in Tjärnö, Schweden. |
Research Expeditions
Cruise / Project |
Vessel | Area | |
August 2017 |
M140 FORAMFLUX |
RV Meteor | North Atlantic Mindelo, Cabo Verde - Las Palmas, Spain |
December 2016 |
M133 SACROSS |
RV Meteor | South Atlantic Cape Town, South Africa - Port Stanley, Falklands |
February 2016 |
M123 RAiN |
RV Meteor | South Atlantic and Indian Ocean Walvis Bay, Namibia - Cape Town, South Africa |
July 2015 |
MSM44 BAFFEAST |
RV Maria S. Merian | Baffinbay Nuuk - Nuuk, Greenland |
January 2015 |
M113-2 SpaDE |
RV Meteor | Tropical Atlantic Ponta Delgada, Azores - Kingston, Jamaica |
November 2013 |
64PE378 TRAFFIC2 |
RV Pelagia | Tropical Atlantic Las Palmas, Spain - Phillipsburg, Sint Maarten |
March 2013 |
SO226-3T DipFIP |
RV Sonne | Tropical Western Pacific Wellington, Newzealand - Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
February 2010 |
Pêche 9 | RV Cotes de la Manche | Bay of Biscay Bayonne - Bayonne, France |
August 2010 |
Pêche 8 | RV Cotes de la Manche | Bay of Biscay Bayonne - Bayonne, France |
August 2008 |
MSM9-2 | RV Maria S. Merian | Labradorsea and Baffinbay St.Johns - St.Johns, Canada |
September 2007 |
M74-1b | RV Meteor | Arabian Sea Fujairah - Fujairah, U.A.E. |
Conferences
2015 | The Micropaleontological Society Spring Meeting | Plymouth, UK |
2014 | The Micropaleontological Society Spring Meeting | Texel, Netherlands |
2013 | International Conference on Paleoceanography 11 | Barcelona, Spain |
The Micropaleontological Society Spring Meeting | Prague, Czech Republic | |
2012 | Symposium on Physical Aspects of Global and Regional Climate Dynamics | Sde Boquer, Israel |
4th Kaplan geochemistry workshop | Jerusalem & Ein Gedi, Israel | |
2010 | FORAMS 2010 | Bonn, Germany |
ISOBAY | Brest, France | |
2009 | IMAGES Treffen "Evaporative Basins" | Tübingen, Germany |
European Geological Union Hauptversammlung | Wien, Austria | |
2008 | The Micropaleontological Society Spring Meeting | Tübingen, Germany |
2007 | International Conference on Paleoceanography 9 | Shanghai, China |
The Micropaleontological Society Spring Meeting | Angers, France |
Publications
You can find my publications under my profile on the listed pages.