Climatology Seminars

The SPACY group is happy to invite you to a series of Climatology seminars. Please contact Arya Samanta or Markus Maisch directly to get the link for online connection or the on-site location.

• Tuesday 6 June 3 PM, 5U26 (GUZ): Clay Tabor, University of Connecticut

Hydrological Changes in the Pleiocene, comparison with proxies and effect of boundary conditions (such as lakes) in Western North America

• Thursday 13 October 11am, 5U26 (GUZ): Martina Stebich, Senckenberg/Weimar

Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics in NE China reconstructed from annually laminated sediments of the Sihailongwan Maar

• Monday 17 October 5pm, online: Cameron A. Petrie, University of Cambridge

Did climate change really cause the collapse of Indus urbanism? Insights from the Land, Water and Settlement and TwoRains projects

South Asia’s Indus Civilisation was contemporaneous with Old Kingdom Egypt and the later phases of the Early Dynastic period, the Akkadian Empire and the Ur III dynasty in Mesopotamia, but it stands as a markedly different instance of early complexity. The Indus Civilisation presents us with diverse approaches to urbanism and settlement networks, and the populations were interacting with complex climatic parameters that includes both winter and summer rainfall regimes. The talk will review the ways that Indus populations were adapted to an unpredictable environmental context and able to respond to climate change.

• Monday 7 November 5pm, in person: Nicole Ludwig, University of Tübingen

Machine Learning for the Weather-Driven Energy System

• Special Friday 18 November 11am, in person: Dr. Uwe Mikolajewicz, MPI-M

Modelling the last Deglaciation with a complex climate-model system