Joint Brazilian-European facility for climate and geodynamic research on the Amazon River Basin sediments

 
The research work developed within CLIM-AMAZON will thus address the following research topics:

1. Determine Amazon basin sediment sources based on the geology database.
2. Study the water and suspended load of the Amazon River and tributaries.
3. Study the drillings of the Amazon delta and fan within a chronological framework.
4. Remote sensing studies to assess the present temporal dynamic of sediment discharge within the basin.
5. Predictive modelling for high fan rate sedimentation.
6. Upper Miocene to Holocene climatic and geodynamic evolution of the Amazon basin based on the sedimentary record

 
The approved research proposals are:
 

• "Assessing Amazon paleohydrological and paleotemperature changes using lipid biomarkers  (HYDRAULIK)" Summary

Post Doc proposing institution: Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Voor Zeeonderzoek
NIOZ The Netherlands

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 6

Post Doc researcher: Dr. Elsbeth Ester van Soelen CV

EU Post Doc researcher advisors: Dr. Jung-Hyun Kim CV & Prof. Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté CV

UnB Post Doc researcher advisor: Dr. Roberto Ventura Santos CV
 

• "Geochemistry of Particle-Reactive Elements in River Waters of the Amazon River Basin" Summary

PhD proposing institution: Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
Jacobs Uni Germany

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 1 & 2

PhD student: Ms. Gila Merschel CV

EU PhD student supervisor: Dr. Michael Bau CV

UnB PhD student supervisor: Dr. Elton Luiz Dantas CV
 

• "Testing present and past atmospheric transport and deposition of mineral dust, particulate matter and trace element to the Amazon basin and its implication for climate change and anthropogenic forcing" Summary

PhD proposing institution: Imperial College London
ICL United Kingdom

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 6

EU Post Doc Researcher: Dr. Roulin Khondoker

EU PhD student supervisor: Dr. Dominik Weiss CV

UnB PhD student supervisor: Dr. Roberto Ventura Santos CV with the collaboration of Dr. Poliana Dutra Maia CV
 

• "Sedimentary load estimates for the past 5 Myr based on cosmogenic 10Be and 26Al in the lower Amazon Basin" Summary

PhD proposing institution: Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum
GFZ Germany

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 1, 3, 5 & 6

EU Post Doc Researcher: Dr. Marcus Oelze

EU PhD student supervisor: Dr. Friedhelm von Blanckenburg CV

UnB PhD student supervisor: Dr. Henrique Llacer Roig CV
 

• "New insights on the evolution of the Amazon drainage basin and its effects on algal blooming at the Brazilian Atlantic coast: an integrated palynological study" Summary

Post Doc proposing institution: Universiteit van Amsterdam
UvA The Netherlands

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 3 & 6

Post Doc researchers sharing one Post Doc position: Dr. Raúl Giovanni Bogotá Ángel CV & Dr. Emmeline Ilse Lammertsma CV

EU Post Doc advisor: Dr. Carina Hoorn CV

UnB Post Doc advisor: Dr. Farid Chemale Junior CV

• "Fluid dynamics, sediment transport and turbulent mixing at large confluences of the Amazon River" Summary

Post Doc proposing institution: Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

UNINA- DICEA Italy

Subject related to CLIM-AMAZON topic(s): 2 & 5

EU Post Doc researcher: Dr. Mark Trevethan CV

EU Post Doc advisor: Dr. Carlo Gualtieri CV

UnB Post Doc advisor: Dr. Marco Ianniruberto CV