Persönliche Seite von Prof. Norbert Frank Norbert Frank

10/2023 – 10/2025

Geschäftsführender Direktor, Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg

12/2012 – present

Brücken-Professor, Institut für Umweltphysik und Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg

01/2023 – present

Mitglied des DFG Ausschuss für Wissenschaftliche Geräte und Informationstechnik

08/2011

Habilitation, Université Versailles St. Quentin, Frankreich

10/2002 – 11/2012

Wissenschaftler und Gruppenleiter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l' Environnement, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, Frankreich

09/2001 – 10/2002

Postdoktorand,  Marie-Curie Fellow, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climate et de l' Environnement, CEA, CNRS, UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette, Frankreich

01/2000 – 02/2001

Postdoktorand, DFG-Eigenstelle - Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg

06/1997 – 12/1999

Postdoktorand, DFG-Auslandstipendiat, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, USA

03/1997 – 05/1997

Postdoktorand, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Forschungstelle Radiometrie, Heidelberg

02/1997

Dissertation, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (Radiometrie und Archäometrie) sowie Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg

02/1993

Diplom, Physik, Universität Heidelberg

CO-Koordinator; PI-Mitantragsteller; PA- Partner

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2023-2025

DFG

Searching the proposed Northern Source of the MPT start of the 100-ka climate cyclicity is a project to detect the change in Northeast Atlantic weathering patterns off Ireland to affirm or reject the hypothesis of changing Regolith ice sheet base to favor a large northern hemisphere ice sheet (CO)

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2022-2025

DFG

Investigating climate change during the period of Maya collapse is a project to reconstruct hydroclimate variability on the Yucatan peninsula during the past 3000 years to test hypothesis on the role of recurrent dry episodes impacting the stability of the Maya culture (CO)

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2022-2025

DFG

Quantifying post Little-Ice-Age freshwater discharge using ²³⁴U–(P)SST–¹⁴C is a project to demonstrate the usefulness of the 234U/238U ratio in seawater to infer freshwater fluxes to the ocean in the Caribbean  (CO)

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2019-2023

DFG

Radiocarbon in speleothems II – the soil carbon cycle and climate (CO)

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2019-2023

DFG

Deep-Atlantic Interhemispheric Water Mass Competition since the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (ODP 1063 versus ODP 1094/1090) (CO)

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2019

Wilhelm und Else Heareus Stfitung

Workshop and Group retreat: Projectmanagement

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2017-2020

DFG

Atlantic radiocarbon calibration using cold-water corals (CO) (Project to develop benchmark marine radiocarbon calibration records using cold-water corals from the Gulf of Cadiz, Mauritania, and Angola)

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2017-2020

DFG

Cruise proposal ATHENA M151 (RV Meteor) (CO) (Research cruise to study cold-water corals of the temperate East Atlantic Seamounts using RV Meteor and the MARUM ROV SQUID)

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2017

DFG

Cruise proposal UFO M141-2 (RV Meteor) (CO) (Research cruise to study U isotopes in the eastern north Atlantic waters and across the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.)

Use of Vessel

2017-2020

DFG

MIS-11 Variation in Atlantic Deep Water Nd Isotopic Composition across MIS11 (CO) (Project on the spatial variability of Nd-Isotopes in the deep western Atlantic spanning at high temporal resolution climate stage MIS11 to confirm or reject recent observations on strong Labrador Sea influences on deep water flow)

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2015-2018

DFG

Tropical Indian Ocean and East African seasonality during the Holocene: orbital forcing and ocean atmosphere interactions. (IndoOrb) (Coordinator - Prof. Miriam Peiffer, University Kiel) (PA)

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2016-2019

DFG

The seawater ²³⁴U/²³⁸U ratio in the past (CO) (Project to develop benchmark records of past seawater U-isotopes using cold-water corals from the Gulf of Cadiz and the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the presently available U-series data from tropical and deep sea corals)

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2015-2018

DFG

Fluid inclusion water isotopes in speleothems using CRDS - understanding carbonate d¹⁸O responses to climate variability (PA) (Involved in the chronology of speleothems as well as the speleothems general geochemical composition and the use of water isotopes through CRDS analysis: Coordinator: Dr. Tobias Kluge, IUP Heidelberg)

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2016

DAAD

Exchange Fellowship for Freya Hemsing at Oxford University (PA - Involved in the planning and supervision of the exchange project with University Oxford to conduct Ba/Ca and Ba-Isotope analysis on seawater and cold-water corals) (Coordinators - MSc Freya Hemsing and Prof. G. Henderson)

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2014-2017

DFG

Hydrology Influenced Variation of the ¹⁴C Reservoir Ages in Speleothems and Reconstruction of Atmospheric ¹⁴C Levels (PI) (Reconstruction of radiocarbon levels in U-series dated speleothems. This project is a joined project with Dr. Jens Fohlmeister at the time at University Potsdam)

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2014-2017

DFG

900ka Variation in Deep Water Nd Isotopic Composition in IODP core 1063 (CO) (Project on the temporal variability of Nd-Isotopes in the deep western Atlantic spanning at high temporal resolution the past 900 thousand years)

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2014-2016

DFG

Spatial Analyses of the Atlantic Circulation during Heinrich Events (PI) 
(This project concerns the study of the ²³¹Pa/²³⁰Th ratio in marine sediments from the time of ice sheet collapses one and two some 20 to 30 kyr before present. It is the prolongation of a project coordinated jointly by Prof. A. Mangini and Dr. Jörg Lippold) (the coordinator of this project was Dr. J. Lippold)