Marcel Bliedtner

Hi, I am a Phd student in climate science at the Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Bern. I am using biomarkers and their isotopic signatures to reconstruct past environmental conditions from sediment archives, most recently I am working with lake sediments. Moreover, I am interested in the origin and pathways of biomarkers before their final deposition in sedimentary archives, and track them by their radiocarbon signature. So far, I worked in different kinds of sedimentary archives at the margins of Arid central Asia, namely in the Caucasus region, southern Siberia and Mongolia.

But especially the Mongolian Steppe fascinated me a lot because of its rugged and wild landscape and its people that live off the land and their herds. I already did two fieldtrips to Mongolia, where I organized one of those. With my research, I aim to gain knowledge about the countries environmental past and how the Mongolian people can adapt to future climate changes. Nevertheless, I also want to feel the fresh westerly winds into my hair again.

January 2019