Prof. Kathryn Fitzsimmons

Contact address

Professor of Terrestrial Sedimentology

University of Tübingen

Department of Geosciences

Schnarrenbergstr. 94-96

D-72076

Tübingen

Germany

Phone

+49(0)70712974783

kathryn.fitzsimmons [at] uni-tuebingen.de

ECN Member

https://www.mpic.de/forschung/weitere-forschungsgruppen/gruppe-fitzsimmons/prof…

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kathryn_Fitzsimmons

Overview / specialty

Reconstructing records of Quaternary palaeoenvironmental change and human-environmental interaction using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, geomorphology, stratigraphy and sedimentology, with a focus on arid, semi-arid and loess steppe environments.

Expertise & Interests

PAGES interests

CLIM-ARCH-DATE

CVAS - Climate Variability Across Scales

Dust Impact - DICE

Global Soil and Sediment - GloSS

MULTICHRON

PAGES-PMIP group on Quaternary Interglacials - QUIGS

Topics

Chronology

Climate dynamics

Climate variability

Extreme events

Human impacts & interactions

Monsoon

Thresholds and abrupt changes

Timescales

Anthropocene (last 100 years)

Holocene

Last glacial cycle

Last millennia

Neogene

Pleistocene