THURSDAY 8 June, 4 PM CET (Hybrid Webinar)
Jessica Hargreaves
Postdoctoral Researcher, MARUM, University of Bremen.
Abstract:
Understanding past climate variability is an essential tool to understand future changes in climate. Reconstructions of sea surface temperature and hydro climate across the tropics have the ability to help to understand inter annual variability like monsoons, IOD or ENSO, and also offer the unique ability to capture low-frequency natural variability. These archives are however influenced by the devastating effects of recent thermal extremes and global bleaching events with four global events occurring since 1984. Understanding how corals respond to these heat extremes, and developing further understanding of recent variability in the longer context of natural variability assists in understanding future climate changes better. This is one of the aims of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) funded priority programme SPP 2299 which aims to improve our understanding of tropical marine climate variability and its impacts on coral reef ecosystems in a warming world.