Congratulations to Andrew Turner who won an Royal Meteorological Society Award for Scientific Advances.

Turner's work has provided invaluable new knowledge about monsoon rains and their variability, determining the livelihoods of billions of people across the planet.

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Job! 3-year postdoc using agent-based modelling to understand Mediterranean socio-ecological systems in the first millennium AD. Working with me, Prof Helen Foxhall Forbes 🇪🇺🕯🌻🌈 and the team of heroes that is SSE1K Details: tinyurl.com/53ty5fep Tell your friends! @ERC_Reserach CAA-UK

That is why I love public transport in Switzerland. Very sad to see Germany’s terrible performance.

The website for the next Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2024 in Basel is now online: geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2024/

Commentary: Human brains have shrunk: the questions are when and why frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Geoarchaeologist and VGSP Jordan Brown was in the lab last week sampling cores collected last summer in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to radiocarbon date canal features that may be evidence of hydro-engineering during the Neo-Assyrian period around 700 BCE

The beautiful nature of Oman! Next field trip is already planned ;-)

Some impressions of our last field trip to Oman in January 2024. We collected a number of new samples to fill some gaps in our reconstructions.

It Flickers, Then It Tips – New study Universität Potsdam with contribution of PIK scientist Norbert Marwan identifies Early Warning Signals for the End of the African Humid Period. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Made some potential cover images for the next Swiss Geoscience Meeting (SGM2024) in Basel! Topic of the plenary session is 'The Anthropocene: Past. Present and Future'. What is your favorite image?

A glacial erratic with some of our highly motivated students. This boulder travelled through half of Switzerland 🇨🇭

Fieldtrip „Quaternary Geology“ to the Mammut Museum in Niederweningen!

Climate of the Past - Referee and Editor Awards 2024
Always nice to get recognition for your work ;-).
The editors awarded in are Denis-Didier Rousseau (gold award for over 100 papers edited); Volker Rath and Dominik Fleitmann (silver award for over 75 papers edited) ...

#Vulkanausbrüche auf #Island waren im Frühmittelalter dafür verantwortlich, dass u.a. das Schwarze Meer gefroren war. Dies zeigt eine internationale #Studie Oeschger Centre #unibern mit Beteiligung der Austrian Academy of Sciences: sohub.io/5usm.

Imogen Gabriel Michael Sigl

The article in Communications Earth & Environment of Imogen Gabriel & Michael Sigl (@unibern) et al. shows how an active period of Iceland´s volcanoes affected the #climate from Ireland to #Byzantium & Egypt between 750 and 940 AD. IMAFO Austrian Academy of Sciences #Byzanzforschung nature.com/articles/s4324…

Congrats to Michael Sigl for his Oeschger Medal!

Members of our group Quaternary Geology at the EGU meeting in Vienna. I really enjoyed the speleothem poster session today.

Team Speleothem

As promised !!!

S4 2025 will be in Morocco !

Discussing the logistics etc. of past and future Swiss Geoscience Meeting in Bern!