The knowledge of past climate can help us to understand imminent climatic changes. Oceans are the vast archives of past climate. Various indirect techniques termed as proxies are used to infer key components of the past climate from the marine sediments. The fossil remains of marine microorganism foraminifera, are widely used to reconstruct past climate from marine archives, as foraminifera are highly abundant and extensively present in almost all marine realms.
In particular, the candidate will work on Arctic sediment samples and she/he will do a quantitative analysis on dead benthic assemblages in order to assess the potentially biodiversity lost due to anthropogenic climate change. the Arctic appears to be a harbinger of environmental change as well as a key determinant of that change, particularly changes in climate.
