Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Wolf-Christian Dullo

91探花 Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel


FE Paleoceanography
Research Division 1: Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics

Address:
Wischhofstrasse 1-3. D-24148 Kiel

E-Mail: cdullo(at)geomar.de
 

Personal Data

  • Date of birth: April 24th, 1954
  • Place of birth: N眉rnberg
  • Citizenship: German

Research Interests

  • Reefs in time and space
  • Tropical coral reefs
  • Sealevel carbonate production
  • Coral sclerochronology
  • Cold water coral reefs and oceanography
  • Upwelling systems and ocean minim. zones
  • Insitu observation
  • Instrumentation of physical and chemical parameters

Education & Carreer

1979
Diploma in Geology, Petrography and Paleontology, Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-N眉rnberg

1982
Degree "Dr. rer. nat." in Geology/Paleontology, (magna cum laude), University Erlangen-N眉rnberg

1988
Habilitation Geology/Paleontology, University Erlangen-N眉rnberg

1988 - 1989
Senior Lecturer, Institute of Paleontology, University Erlangen-N眉rnberg

1989 - 1990
Visiting Professorship, Historical Geology, University of Heidelberg

1990
Associate Professor, Institute of Paleontology, University Erlangen-N眉rnberg

1991 - 2002
Professor (C3) of Paleoceanography, Research Centre 91探花 at

2002
Appointment chair in Paleontology, University Erlangen; declined

2002 - 2020
Professor (C4) of Paleoceanography at 91探花 / IFM-91探花

2004
Appointment General Director at ; declined

Research stays abroad

1/1996 鈥 3/1996
Centre Europ茅en de Recherche et d鈥橢nseignement des G茅osciences de l鈥橢nvironnement, Aix en Provence

2/2004 鈥 5/2004
Centre Europ茅en de Recherche et d鈥橢nseignement des G茅osciences de l鈥橢nvironnement, Aix en Provence

Awards

2002
of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

2004
Elected Member of the German Academy of Sciences

2015
Award

 

Committees

1993 - 2021
Board Member   and Editor-in-Chief 

Since 1998
Member Editorial Board

2001 - 2020
Chairman Board

Since 2001
Chairman Board "Bildungsstiftung Schleswig-Holstein"

2001 - 2007
Committee Member DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

2002 - 2020
German Representative of CIESM

2002 - 2021
Chairman Board , Stralsund

Since 2002
(Founding-) Member  of

2003 - 2011
Committee Member of 

2003 - 2018
Chairman of

2004 - 2010
Member of DFG Committee for Scientific Libraries and Information Systems

2008 - 2016
Member and Speaker of DFG Review Board 314

2012 - 2019
Chairman International Advisory Board Bremen

Since 2017
Member selection committee "Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Prize" /

 

91探花 activities

1996 - 1999
Vice Director of Research Centre 91探花, Kiel

1997 - 2014
Head of Research Unit / IFM-91探花, Kiel

1999 - 2003
Director of Research Centre 91探花, Kiel

2007 - 2019
Ombudsman

2012 - 2020
Spokesperson HOSST Helmholtz Research School for Ocean System Science and Technology

Selected Publications

Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfaffl, F.A. (2019): 鈥淭he theory of undercurrent from the Austrian alpine geologist Otto Ampferer (1875-1947): first conceptual ideas on the way to plate tectonics鈥 Can. J. Earth Sci. ()dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0157

Tamborrino, L., Wienberg, C., Titschack, J., Wintersteller, P., Mienis F., Schr枚der-Ritzrau, A., Freiwald, A., Covadonga, O., Dullo, W.-Chr., Haberkern, J., Hebbeln, D. (2019): 鈥淢id-Holocene extinction of cold-water corals on the Namibian shelf steered by the Benguela oxygen minimum zone鈥 Geology (2019),

Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfaffl, F.A. (2018): Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth, Geognost, Member of Parliament, Architect and Constructor of the Linthkanal; International Journal of Earth Sciences, October 2018, Volume 107(7), pp 2639-2644;

von Reumont, J., Hetzinger, S., Garbe-Sch枚nberg, D., Manfrino, C., Dullo, W.-Chr., (2018): Tracking interannual to multidecadal-scale climate variability in the Altlantic Warm Pool using central Caribbean coral data; Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology 33(4), pp. 395-411,

Pfeiffer, M., Zinke, J., Dullo, W.-Chr., Garbe-Sch枚nberg, D., Latif, M., Weber, M.E. (2017): Indian Ocean corals reveal crucial role of World War II bias for twentieth century warming estimates; Scientific Reports, 7 (1), art. no. 14434; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-14352-6.

Dullo, W.-Chr., Fl枚gel, S. und R眉ggeberg, A. (2017): Water Mass Measurements Around Benthic Communities: A Comparative Study Between Yo-Yo Conductivity-Temperature-Depth (CTD) Casts and High-Resolution Time Series Data Acquisition of Bottom Waters from the Pag猫s Escarpment in the Southern Bay of Biscay. In: Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences., ed. by Finkl, C. W. und Makowski, C.. Coastal Research Library, 23 . Springer, Cham, pp. 181-200. ISBN 978-3-319-57577-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_11.

Johanson, A.N., Fl枚gel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Linke, P., Hasselbring, W. (2017): Modeling polyp activity of Paragorgia arborea using supervised learning; Ecological Informatics, Volume 39, Pages 109-118.

Dullo, W.-Chr. and Pfaffl, F.A. (2016): Wolfgang Schott (1905-1989): The founder of quantitative paleoceanography; International Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI 10.1007/s00531-016-1356-6.

Hetzinger, S., Pfeiffer, M., Dullo, W.-Chr., Zinke, J. and Garbe-Sch枚nberg, D. (2016): A change in coral extension rates and stable isotopes after El Nio-induced coral bleaching and regional stress events; Scientific Reports, 6 (32879). DOI 10.1038/srep32879.

R眉ggeberg, A., Fl枚gel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Raddatz, J. and Liebetrau, V. (2016): Paleoseawater density reconstruction and its implication for cold-water coral carbonate mounds in the northeast Atlantic through time; Paleoceanography, 31 (3). pp. 365-379. DOI 10.1002/2015PA002859.

Glogowski, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Feldens, P., von Reumont, J., H眉hnerbach, V., Krastel, S., Wynn, R. B. and Fl枚gel, S. (2015): The Eugen Seibold coral mounds offshore western Morocco: oceanographic and bathymetric steering of a newly discovered cold-water coral province, Geo-Marine Letters, 35 (4). pp. 257-269. DOI 10.1007/s00367-015-0405-7.

Zinke, J., Loveday, B.R., Reason, C.J.C., Dullo, W.-Chr. & Kroon, D. (2014): Madagascar corals track sea surface temperature variability in the Agulhas Current core region over the past 334 years. Nature Scientific Reports, 4. p. 4393.DOI 10.1038/srep04393.

Fl枚gel, S., Dullo, W.-Chr., Pfannkuche, O., Kiriakoulakis, K. & R眉ggeberg, A. (2014): Geochemical and physical constraints for the occurrence of living cold-water corals. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Tropical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 99, Pages 19-26. January 2014.

Raddatz, J., Liebetrau, V., R眉ggeberg, A., Hathorne, E. Krabbenh枚ft, A., Eisenhauer, A., B枚hm, F., Vollstaedt, H., Fietzke, J., Dullo, W.-Chr. et al. (2013): Stable Sr-isotope, Sr/Ca, Mg/Ca, Li/Ca and Mg/Li ratios in the scleractinian cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa - Elsevier, Chemical Geology, Vol. 352, P. 143-152, DOI 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.13

Dullo, W.-Chr. & Sch枚nlaub, H.-P. (2012): Larger benthic foraminifera (fusulinids) in petrogenetic frequencies: The Paleozoic treasure of the Carnic Alps. International Journal of Earth Science, 101(7), pp. 1875-1876

Fl枚gel, S., Parkin, G., Pollard, D., Dullo, W.-Chr. et al. (2011): Simulating zonal scale shifts in the partitioning of surface and subsurface freshwater flow in response to increasing pCO(2). 鈥 CLIMATE DYNAMICS, Volume 37, Issue:7-8, Pages 1565-1573, DOI:10.1007/s00382-010-0929-5

H眉bscher, C., Dullo, W.-Chr., S. Fl枚gel, J. Titschak and J. Sch枚nfeld (2010): Contourite drift evolution and related coral growth in the eastern Gulf of Mexico and its gateways. International Journal of Earth Science., 99(1):191-206. DOI 10.1007/s00531-010-0558-6.

Cahyarini, S.Y., Pfeiffer, M. & Dullo, W.-Chr. (2009): Improving SST reconstructions from coral Sr/Ca records: multiple corals from Tahiti (French Polynesia). - Int. J. Earth Sci. (Geol. Rundsch), 98:31-40. doi: 10.1007/s00531-008-0323-2.

Dullo, W.-Chr., S. Fl枚gel and A. R眉ggeberg (2008) Cold-water coral growth in relation to the hydrography of the Celtic and Nordic European continental margin. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser., 371: 165-176.

Rein, B., L眉ckge, A., Reinhard, L., Sirocko, F., Wolf, A., Dullo, W.-Chr. (2005): El Ni帽o variability off Peru during the last 20,000 Years. - Paleoceanography 20, PA4003, doi: 10.1029/2004PA001099.

B枚hm, F., Joachimski, M.M., Dullo, W.-Chr., Eisenhauer, A., Lehnert, H., Reitner, J. & W枚rheide, G. (2000): Oxygen isotope fractionation in marine aragonite of coralline sponges. 鈥 Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 64/10, 1695-1703.