We set our key activities in climatic-sensitiv regions worldwide to get a better understanding of the system earth. At the same time we actively cooperate in many interdisciplinary research projects at home and abroad.
Contamination of aquatic thermokarst ecosystems by thawing industrial contaminants Duration
Schwalb
Emma Cameron
BMBF
2023 - 2025
Paleoecology and human impact on Lake Bracciano, with special focus on the Early Neolithic settlement on the former lake shore
Dulias
Luis Victoria Nogales (PhD)
Karl-Heinz Frenzen Foundation
2023 - 2025
Research network ‘Climate Change and Early Humans in the North’
Schwalb/Terberger
Dulias/Kumar
MWK
2020 - 2023
Impact of urban development on waterbodies during medieval and early modern ages in Bad Waldsee
Schwalb & Colleagues
Kim Krahn
DFG
2020 - 2023
Causes and effects of climate variations and rapid hydrological shifts in the northern Neotropics during the last glacial/interglacial cycle
Schwalb
Dr. Liseth Pérez (Postdoc), Rodrigo Martínez Abarca (PhD)
DFG
2020 - 2023
The middle Pleistocene lacustrine deposits of Schöningen as an important environmental archive – fossil chironomid head capsules as indicators of climate and environmental change
Schwalb
Sonja Rigterink
MWK
2018 - 2022
Research training group "Geo-ecosystems in transition on the Tibetan Plateau (TransTiP)
Sudden drying of large karst lakes in the Lacandon Maya region of southern Mexico
Dr. Liseth Pérez
DFG
2019 - 2016
CAHOL - Central Asian HOLocene Climate (CAME II)
Schwal & colleagues
Dr. Andreas Laug
BMBF
2018 - 2015
Tracer methods for the identification of groundwater and inflow stratification and their influence on water quality and drinking water production using the example of Lake Constance, BMBF ReWaM joint project SEEZEICHEN, subproject 3, FKZ 02WRM1365C
Schwalb
Böddeker
BMBF
2016 - 2013
Effects of Abrupt Climate Change on Ice Age Ecosystem of Lake Petén Itzá and on Distribution Patterns of Ostracodes across the Yucatán Peninsula
Technologies for sustainable water and environmental protection of coastal landscapes in Vietnam (EWATEC-COAST)
Schwalb, Meon
Böddeker
BMBF
2014 - 2011
Microfossils as indicators of aquatic ecosystem evolution and monsoon dynamics
Schwalb, Frenzel, Mischke, Wagner
Börner, students
DFG
2014 - 2011
Late Neogene environmental evolution of the Tibetan Plateau recorded in long-term lacustrine archives
Appel, Mosbrugger, Pross, Schwalb
DFG
04/2014 - 05/2011
CADY - Climate Dynamics in Central Asia, Project: TP1b - Reconstruction of westerly wind and monsoon variability in Central Asia with lake sediments
Schwalb, Schwarz
Schwarz, students
2011
5th International Limnogeology Congress
Schwalb
DFG
06/2011 - 07/2010
Late Neogene environmental evolution of the Tibetan Plateau recorded in long-term lacustrine archives
Appel, Mosbrugger, Pross, Schwalb
DFG
08/2012 - 03/2009
Ostracodes from ancient Lake Ohrid sediments as indicators of past environments: A coupled ecological and molecular genetic approach with deep-time perspective
Schwalb, Viehberg, Scharf
Lorenschat, students
DFG
04/2012 - 07/2008
Microfossils as indicators of aquatic ecosystem evolution and monsoon dynamics
Schwalb, Frenzel, Mischke, Wagner
Wrozyna, students
DFG
01/2009 - 12/2008
Lacustrine ostracodes as indicators of Late Quaternary environmental change in Patagonia, Argentina
Schwalb
Pérez, Wrozyna, Schwalb
DAAD
01/2009 - 08/2005
Paleoclimate and paleoecology of the northern lowland Neotropics, Phase I and II: Limnological survey of modern aquatic environments and paleoclimate reconstructions from fossil species assemblages recovered by the Lago Petén Itzá Scientific Drilling Project (PISDP)
Schwalb, Riss, Scharf
Pérez, Studierende, Schwalb, Scharf
DFG
06/2008 - 07/2006
Lake system response of Nam Co area, central Tibet, to Late Quaternary Monsoon dynamics: Microfossils as recorders of environmental change
Schwalb
students, Schwalb
DFG
12/2010 - 10/2006
Interdisciplinary geoscientific and archaeological investigations into the amber finds from the Federmesser site in Weitsche, Lüchow-Dannenberg
Veil, Pott, Schwalb, Kaiser, Bittmann
Turner, Schwalb, v. Bramann, students
NMWK
06/2007 - 07/2005
A long-term climate record from lacustrine sediments of the Zada-Basin, SW Tibet
Investigation into the recolonisation of the lake bed after a shipment of dredged material in Lake Constance
Wessels
Heim
LUBW
08/2006 - 09/2004
BiodiveBiodiversity and climate change in the Balkans: The sediments of Lake Ohrid as an environmental archive
Schwalb
Müller, Schwalb
DAAD
06/2006 - 07/2001
Environmental dynamics and teleconnections of climatic variability from the Central Alps and the Americas recorded in lacustrine ostracodes
Schwalb
Hanisch, Schwalb
BMBF
06/2000 - 07/1997
The importance of the ecology of recent freshwater ostracods for the reconstruction of late and post-glacial climate change
DAAD
03/1999 - 04/1997
Postglaziale Klima- und Umweltänderungen abgebildet in der Isotopenstratigraphie und Paläoökologie limnischer Ostracoden, interhemisphärische Korrelation
Schwalb
Schwalb, students
DFG
01/1996 - 08/1994
Interhemispheric comparison of Upper Midwest (USA) and Northern Chilean climate dynamics from environmental isotopic investigations of lake archives
SNF
01/1994 - 02/1993
Les isotopes stables dans les sediments lacustres comme indicateurs des changements climatologiques
