Prof.
Adi
Torfstein
Institute of Earth Sciences
Research fields: Geochemistry, Oceanography, Paleoclimate
Main interests: Isotope and trace element geochemistry of seawater and sediments, U-decay series, seawater biogeochemistry, dust and sediment provenance, paleoclimate, paleoceanography, geochronology.
My research focuses on the reconstruction of past climate changes through the investigation of geochemical and sedimentary processes in marine and lacustrine archives. I am also interested in the signal transfer between the modern atmosphere and oceans to the geological record. Accordingly, my research combines between time series of modern terrigenous fluxes and biogeochemical cycles in the oceans (see the REDMAST project), and late Quaternary marine and lacustrine records.