{"id":21238,"date":"2026-03-04T13:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geowiss.uni-mainz.de\/?page_id=21238"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:43:13","slug":"institut-fuer-geowissenschaften","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.geowiss.uni-mainz.de\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Institute for Geosciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Spatially and temporally high-resolution paleoclimate data form the basis for validating and optimizing numerical climate models. Such data are a prerequisite for reliable forecasts of future climate development, especially the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. Since instrumental measurements are lacking, former environmental parameters are reconstructed from proxy data, which are chemical, physical, and biological representative data stored in various climate archives such as lake sediments, cave speleothems, and mollusk shells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

These archives are precisely dated, and time series of proxy data are determined to reconstruct annual and seasonal climate parameters. In addition to already established proxies, new climate proxies are also being developed and validated in Mainz. The investigations focus on paleoweather, paleoenvironment, and paleoclimate of the Quaternary, especially the last 10,000 years, the period in which humans had a significant influence on climate development. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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