Speaker: Georg Feulner
Within this project, we are exploring a number of exciting research questions relating to the climate in earlier epochs of Earth’s history. We are particularly interested in warm greenhouse-climate states in the past and want to investigate what we can learn from Earth’s history about our future in a warming world. In addition, we are working on the climate on early Earth, Snowball Earth episodes and climate changes related to mass-extinction events. An ambitious long-term goal of ACE will be a comprehensive synthesis of the co-evolution of climate and the biosphere on very long timescales, combining detailed modelling of time slices at crucial moments in Earth’s history with conceptual models of long-term trends.
Time periods and research questions
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Climate on early Earth and solutions to the Faint Young Sun Paradox | |
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Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth glaciations | |
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Devonian climate and mass extinction events | |
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Late-Carboniferous/early-Permian glaciations | |
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End-Triassic mass extinction event | |
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End-Cretaceous mass extinction event | |
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Pliocene-Pleistocene climate changes |
Publications
Image credits: Archean landscape Georg Feulner; Snowball Earth: various sources on the internet, original source unknown; Devonian landscape: Richard Bizley/Science Photo Library; Carboniferous landscape: Ludek Pesek/Science Photo Library; Triassic landscape: Victor O. Leshyk; asteroid impact: Shutterstock; group of hominins: Mauricio Antón
