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Member Since 1999
Heiko Paelike
Professor in Palaeoceanography, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Professional Experience
MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences
Professor in Palaeoceanography
2012 - Present
Education
Doctorate
2002
Honors & Awards
Asahiko Taira International Scientific Ocean Drilling Research Prize
Received 2016
The centerpiece of Heiko Pälike’s work is the development of tuned timescales in critical intervals of the Cenozoic era. He opened up new and unknown regions to precise timescale generation and then applied this timescale to extract properties of Ear...
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Publications
Single Tests of Thermocline Dwelling Foraminifera Globorotalia inflata as Recorder of Upper Water Co...

Thermocline‐dwelling foraminifera calcify over a depth range of several hundred meters; analysis of individual shells therefore allows insigh...

August 25, 2020
AGU Abstracts
Changing State of Earth’s Climate for the last 66 Million Years
THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE FRAMEWORK FOR SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING THROUGH 2050 I
ocean sciences | 10 december 2020
Thomas Westerhold, Norbert Marwan, Anna Joy Drury,...
We combined the best available high-resolution ocean drilling records with newly generated data to produce a continuous, astronomically tuned 66-milli...
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Global climate and cryosphere controls on South Atlantic carbonate deposition since the Oligocene (30-0 Ma)
EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH SYSTEM DURING THE MIOCENE I
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 07 december 2020
Anna Joy Drury, Diederik Liebrand, Thomas Westerho...
The evolution of the Cenozoic Icehouse from a unipolar to a bipolar world is broadly known; however, the exact development of orbital-scale climate va...
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Diverse temperate rainforests near the Late Cretaceous South Pole
MESOZOIC AND EARLY CENOZOIC GREENHOUSE CLIMATES: EXTREME ANALOGUES FOR FUTURE GLOBAL CHANGE II POSTERS
paleoceanography and paleoclimatology | 09 december 2019
Johann P P. Klages, Ulrich Salzmann, Torsten Bicke...
The Late Cretaceous was one of the warmest periods of the past 140 Ma, particularly at high latitudes due to polar amplification. Its extreme temperat...
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Volunteer History
2021 - 2022
International Representative
Ocean Sciences Executive Committee
2020 - 2021
Member
Taira Prize Committee
2018 - 2019
Member
Taira Prize Committee
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