Andrea Klimaschewski

Andrea Klimaschewski

Postgraduate

Email: aklimaschewski02@qub.ac.uk

Address

Archaeology and Palaeoecology
School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP)
Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast, BT7 1NN
Northern Ireland, UK

Telephone

+44 (0)28 9097 5287

Current Research: Environmental Change

Late Quaternary Environmental Change of Kamchatka

As part of an arctic expedition (Beringia 2005) organised by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat (Royal Academy of Sciences) four sediment cores were drilled; three from lake sites and one from a bog. A multidisciplinary inquiry into the late-Quaternary environmental change of Kamchatka will be conducted. My part of the project is the analysis of the sediment cores by pollen, the determination of the loss on ignition and the scanning of all core segments by an Itrax core scanner (Department of Physical Geography & Quaternary Geology, Stockholm University). The cores will be dated by 14C. The palynological and sedimentological investigations will be completed by analyses of diatoms, biogenic silica, δ18O, macrofossils and tephra analyses and the results of all analyses will be compared to each other.
The aims of this thesis are to determine changes in vegetation and lake systems during the Holocene and examine the composition of the forests and the way in which they were assembled over time. The origin of plants in the region following the last glaciation will be studied and it will be examined whether the plants survived within the peninsula, or if they spread in from elsewhere in East Asia following the last glaciation.

Publications, Posters & Presentations since Jan 2001 (Current RAE period)

Brande, A., Klimaschewski, A., Poppschötz, R. (2007): Spätpleistozän-holozäne Sedimentation und Vegetation im Oberspreewald (Brandenburg). IN: Archäologische Gesellschaft in Thüringen e. V. (Hrsg.): Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas. Neue Ausgrabungen und Funde in Thüringen – Sonderband 2007: Terra Praehistoria. Festschrift für Klaus-Dieter Jäger zum 70. Geburtstag. Langenweissbach, Band 48, 552 S.

Poster and Presentation (“Late Quaternary Environmental Change in Kamchatka”) at the ESF EuroCLIMATE Spring School “Late Quaternary Timescales and Chronology” (20. – 26.4.2008)

Additional Information:

I studied Geography (Diplom) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. During this period I also held 3 positions as a research assistant, two in the aforementioned University (Geography Department; Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture) and one in the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam.