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  • 1
    Call number: AWI G5-24-95794
    Description / Table of Contents: Ecosystems play a pivotal role in addressing climate change but are also highly susceptible to drastic environmental changes. Investigating their historical dynamics can enhance our understanding of how they might respond to unprecedented future environmental shifts. With Arctic lakes currently under substantial pressure from climate change, lessons from the past can guide our understanding of potential disruptions to these lakes. However, individual lake systems are multifaceted and complex. Traditional isolated lake studies often fail to provide a global perspective because localized nuances—like individual lake parameters, catchment areas, and lake histories—can overshadow broader conclusions. In light of these complexities, a more nuanced approach is essential to analyze lake systems in a global context. A key to addressing this challenge lies in the data-driven analysis of sedimentological records from various northern lake systems. This dissertation emphasizes lake systems in the northern Eurasian region, particularly in Russia (n=59). For this doctoral thesis, we collected sedimentological data from various sources, which required a standardized framework for further analysis. Therefore, we designed a conceptual model for integrating and standardizing heterogeneous multi-proxy data into a relational database management system (PostgreSQL). Creating a database from the collected data enabled comparative numerical analyses between spatially separated lakes as well as between different proxies. When analyzing numerous lakes, establishing a common frame of reference was crucial. We achieved this by converting proxy values from depth dependency to age dependency. This required consistent age calculations across all lakes and proxies using one age-depth modeling software. Recognizing the broader implications and potential pitfalls of this, we developed the LANDO approach ("Linked Age and Depth Modelling"). LANDO is an innovative integration of multiple age-depth modeling software into a singular, cohesive platform (Jupyter Notebook). Beyond its ability to aggregate data from five renowned age-depth modeling software, LANDO uniquely empowers users to filter out implausible model outcomes using robust geoscientific data. Our method is not only novel but also significantly enhances the accuracy and reliability of lake analyses. Considering the preceding steps, this doctoral thesis further examines the relationship between carbon in sediments and temperature over the last 21,000 years. Initially, we hypothesized a positive correlation between carbon accumulation in lakes and modelled paleotemperature. Our homogenized dataset from heterogeneous lakes confirmed this association, even if the highest temperatures throughout our observation period do not correlate with the highest carbon values. We assume that rapid warming events contribute more to high accumulation, while sustained warming leads to carbon outgassing. Considering the current high concentration of carbon in the atmosphere and rising temperatures, ongoing climate change could cause northern lake systems to contribute to a further increase in atmospheric carbon (positive feedback loop). While our findings underscore the reliability of both our standardized data and the LANDO method, expanding our dataset might offer even greater assurance in our conclusions.
    Description / Table of Contents: Ökosysteme spielen eine zentrale Rolle bei der Bewältigung des Klimawandels, gelten jedoch auch als äußerst anfällig für drastische Umweltveränderungen. Die Erforschung ihrer historischen Dynamiken kann unser Verständnis darüber verbessern, wie sich zukünftige Veränderungen angesichts beispielloser Umweltveränderungen auf sie auswirken können. Angesichts des enormen Stresses, dem arktische Seen durch den Klimawandel ausgesetzt sind, können konkrete Fälle aus der Vergangenheit helfen, mögliche Schwankungen im Ökosystem des Sees besser zu verstehen und zu deuten. Einzelne Seesysteme unterliegen jedoch einer inhärenten Komplexität und vielschichtigen Beschaffenheit. Klassische Einzelanalysen von Seen liefern oft keine globale Perspektive, da lokale Besonderheiten – wie individuelle Seeparameter, Einzugsgebiete und Seehistorien – allgemeinere Schlussfolgerungen überlagern können. Eine differenzierte Herangehensweise ist hierbei erforderlich, um Seesysteme im globalen Kontext angemessen zu analysieren. Ein Schlüssel zur Bewältigung dieser Herausforderung ist die datenwissenschaftliche Analyse von sedimentologischen Daten aus mehreren nördlichen Seesystemen. Diese Dissertation fokussiert sich dabei auf das Gebiet des nördlichen Eurasiens mit einem besonderen Fokus auf Seesystem in Russland (n=59). Die gesammelten sedimentologischen Daten für diese Doktorarbeit mussten hierfür zunächst standardisiert und homogenisiert werden. Hierfür wurde ein konzeptuelles Modell für die Integration und Standardisierung von heterogenen Multi-Proxy-Daten in ein relationales Datenbankverwaltungssystem (PostgreSQL) entworfen. Die Erstellung einer Datenbank aus der gesammelten Datenkollektion ermöglichte die numerische, vergleichende Analyse zwischen räumlich getrennten Seen als auch zwischen verschiedenen Proxys. Eine Analyse von mehreren Seen erforderte zudem eine gemeinsame Analyseebene, welche wir durch die Umwandlung von einer Tiefenabhängigkeit zu Altersabhängigkeit der Proxywerte erreichten. Diese bedurfte aber, dass die zugehörigen Alter von Proxywerte von allen Seen mit demselben Verfahren einer Alterstiefenmodellsoftware berechnet werden müssen. Angesichts der weitreichenden Implikationen und potenziellen Fallstricke entwickelten wir den LANDO-Ansatz („Linked Age and Depth Modelling“). LANDO stellt eine innovative Integration mehrerer Alters-Tiefen-Modellierungssoftware in eine einheitliche, kohärente Plattform (Jupyter Notebook) dar. Neben seiner Fähigkeit, Daten von fünf renommierten Alters-Tiefen-Modellierungssoftware zu aggregieren, ermöglicht LANDO es den Nutzern auf einzigartige Weise, unbegründete Modellergebnisse anhand robuster geowissenschaftlicher Daten herauszufiltern. Unsere Methode ist nicht nur neuartig, sondern steigert auch signifikant die Genauigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit von Seeanalysen. Schlussendlich unter Berücksichtigung der vorangegangenen Schritte betrachtet die Doktorarbeit den Zusammenhang zwischen Kohlenstoff in Sedimenten und Temperatur über die letzten 21 000 Jahre. Zunächst nehmen wir an, dass es eine positive Korrelation zwischen Kohlenstoffakkumulation in Seen und modellierter Paläo-Temperatur gibt. Diese kann dank des homogenisierten Datensatzes von heterogenen Seen bestätigt werden, wenn auch die höchsten Temperaturen über unseren Betrachtungszeitraum nicht korrelieren mit den höchsten Kohlenstoffwerten. Wir gehen davon aus, dass schnelle Erwärmungsereignisse eher zu einer hohen Akkumulation beitragen, während bestehende Erwärmung eher zu einer Ausgasung von Kohlenstoff führt. In Anbetracht der aktuellen hohen Konzentration von Kohlenstoff in der Atmosphäre und der steigenden Temperaturen, können bei einem weiterführenden Klimawandel nördliche Seesysteme zu einem weiteren Anstieg von atmosphärischem Kohlenstoff führen (positive Feedbackschleife). Obwohl die bemerkenswerten Ergebnisse zeigen, dass unser Ansatz aus standardisierten Daten und LANDO zuverlässig ist, könnte eine größere Datenmenge das Vertrauen in die Ergebnisse noch weiter stärken.
    Type of Medium: Dissertations
    Pages: xiii, 136 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Language: English
    Note: kumulative Dissertation, Universität Potsdam, 2024 , Table of contents Abstract Zusammenfassung List of figures List of tables 1 Introduction 1.1 Scientific background and motivation 1.1.1 Geoscientific perspective 1.1.2 Data scientific perspective 1.2 Methodological overview 1.2.1 Regional setting 1.2.2 Data cleaning procedure and data availability 1.3 Own prior contributions 1.4 Research questions and hypotheses 2 Harmonizing heterogeneous multi-proxy data from lake systems 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Methods 2.2.1 Data collection 2.2.2 Conceptual approach 2.2.3 Comparative analysis 2.3 Results and Discussion 2.4 Conclusions 3 Improving age-depth relationships using the LANDO (“Linked age and depth modeling”) model ensemble 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Methods 3.2.1 Input 3.2.2 Preparation 3.2.3 Execution 3.2.4 Result aggregation 3.2.5 Evaluation of model performance 3.2.6 Further analysis –sedimentation rate development over time 3.3 Results 3.3.1 “Continuously deposited sequence” – Case Study no. 1 3.3.2 “Inconsistent sequence” – Case Study no. 2 3.3.3 “Multiple cores” – Case Study no. 3 3.4 Discussion 3.4.1 Assessment of different case studies 3.4.2 Design of LANDO 3.4.3 Technical specifications of LANDO 3.4.4 Current and future model implementation in LANDO 3.5 Conclusion 4 Effect of temperature on carbon accumulation in northern lake systems over the past 21 000 years 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Methods 4.3 Results 4.4 Discussion 4.4.1 Lake carbon-temperature relationship across millennia 4.4.2 Spatial heterogeneity of lake carbon accumulation 4.4.3 Method selection for predicting dry bulk density 4.5 Conclusion 5 Synthesis 5.1 Navigating the interdisciplinary landscape: Geoscience and data science in dialogue 5.2 Delving into the depths: Uncovering past lake dynamics 5.3 Conclusion References Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Acknowledgement Eidesstaatliche Erklärung
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2021-08-01
    Print ISSN: 0098-3004
    Electronic ISSN: 1873-7803
    Topics: Geosciences , Computer Science
    Published by Elsevier
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  • 3
    Publication Date: 2021-08-12
    Description: Millennial-scale climate change history in eastern Siberia and relationships between diatom diversity, paleoclimate, and sediment-geochemical lake system trajectories are still poorly understood. This study investigates multi-proxy time series reaching back to the Late Pleistocene derived from radiocarbon dated Lake Bolshoe Toko sediment cores, southeastern Yakutia, Russia. We analyzed diatoms, elements (XRF), minerals (XRD), grain-size, organic carbon, and included chironomid analyses and published pollen-data for quantitative paleoclimate reconstruction. Changes in diatom species abundances reveal repeated episodes of thermal stratification indicated by shifts from euplanktonic Aulacoseira to Cyclotella species. Chironomid and pollen-inferred temperature reconstruction reveal that the main shift between these diatom species is related to the onset of Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) at 7.1 cal ka BP. Comparison to other paleoclimate records along a north-south transect through Yakutia shows that the HTM was delayed as far south as the Stanovoy mountains. Relationships between sediment-geochemistry, paleoclimate variability and diatom species richness (alpha diversity) was tested in a moving temporal offset approach to detect lead-lag relationships. Sediment-geochemical data, mainly uniform during the Holocene, revealed strongest positive or negative correlations ahead of species richness changes. Mean July air temperature (TJuly) reconstructions correlate with both Hill numbers and relative assemblage changes indicated by sample scores of multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) over the entire time series. We found that sediment organic carbon revealed distinct positive correlations, i.e., centennial-scale delay to increases in diatom effective richness (Hill numbers N0 and N2). We conclude that a lag of deposited organic carbon concentrations behind changes in diatom alpha diversity reveals that species richness can augment the production and thus sequestration of organic matter in comparable lake systems.
    Electronic ISSN: 2296-6463
    Topics: Geosciences
    Published by Frontiers Media
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    In:  EPIC3Second Data Science Symposium, Bremerhaven, Auditorium Nordseemuseum, 2018-12-06-2018-12-06Bremerhaven, AWI Computing and Data Centre
    Publication Date: 2020-03-16
    Description: The second Data Science Symposium at AWI gathered several data science related talks from AWI, GEOMAR and HZG.
    Repository Name: EPIC Alfred Wegener Institut
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  • 5
    Publication Date: 2018-08-13
    Description: see pdf or extended abstract
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    In:  EPIC3EGU 2021, Harmonizing heterogeneous multi-proxy data from Arctic lake sediment records 
    Publication Date: 2022-01-07
    Description: Lake systems play a central role in broadening our knowledge about future trends in the Arctic, as their sediments store information on interactions between climate change, lake ontogeny, external abiotic sediment input, and biodiversity changes. In order to make reliable statements about future lake trajectories, we need sound multi-proxy data from different lakes across the Arctic. Various studies using data from repositories already showed the effectiveness of multi-proxy, multi-site investigations (e.g., Kaufman et al., 2020; PAGES 2k Consortium, 2017). However, there are still datasets from past coring expeditions to Arctic lake systems that are neither included in any of these repositories nor subject to any particular standard. When working with such data from heterogeneous sources, we face the challenge of dealing with data of different format, type, and structure. It is therefore necessary to transform such data into a uniform format to ensure semantic and syntactic comparability. In this talk, we present an interdisciplinary approach by transforming research data from different lake sediment cores into a coherent framework. Our approach adapts methods from the database field, such as developing entity-relationship (ER) diagrams, to understand the conceptual structure of the data independently of the source. Based on this knowledge, we developed a conceptual data model that allows scientists to integrate heterogeneous data into a common database. During the talk, we present further steps to prepare datasets for multi-site statistical investigation. To test our approach, we compiled and transformed a collection of published and unpublished paleolimnological data of Arctic lake systems into our proposed format. Additionally, we show our results from conducting a comparative analysis on a set of acquired data, hereby focusing on comparing total organic carbon and bromine content. We conclude that our harmonized dataset enables numerical inter-proxy and inter-lake comparison despite strong initial heterogeneity. [1] D. S. Kaufman et al., “A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records,” Sci. Data, vol. 7, no. 115, pp. 1–34, 2020. [2] PAGES 2k Consortium, “A global multiproxy database for temperature reconstructions of the Common Era,” Sci. Data, vol. 4, no. 170088, pp. 1–33, 2017.
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    In:  EPIC3Improving age-depth correlations by using the LANDO model ensemble, Geochronology Discuss.
    Publication Date: 2022-01-07
    Description: Age-depth correlations are the key elements in paleoenvironmental studies to place proxy measurements into a temporal context. However, potential influencing factors of the available radiocarbon data and the associated modeling process can cause serious divergences of age-depth correlations from true chronologies, which is particularly challenging for paleolimnological studies in Arctic regions. This paper provides geoscientists with a tool-assisted approach to compare outputs from age-depth modeling systems and to strengthen the robustness of age-depth correlations. We primarily focused in the development on age determination data from a data collection of high latitude lake systems (50° N to 90° N, 62 sediment cores, and a total of 661 dating points). Our approach used five age-depth modeling systems (Bacon, Bchron, clam, hamstr, Undatable) that we linked through a multi-language Jupyter Notebook called LANDO (“Linked age and depth modeling”). Within LANDO we have implemented a pipeline from data integration to model comparison to allow users to investigate the outputs of the modeling systems. In this paper, we focused on highlighting three different case studies: comparing multiple modeling systems for one sediment core with a continuous, undisturbed succession of dating points (CS1 - “Undisturbed sequence”), for one sediment core with scattered dating points (CS2 - “Inconsistent sequence”), and for multiple sediment cores (CS3 - “Multiple cores”). For the first case study (CS1), we showed how we facilitate the output data from all modeling systems to create an ensemble age-depth model. In the special case of scattered dating points (CS2), we introduced an adapted method that uses independent proxy data to assess the performance of each modeling system in representing lithological changes. Based on this evaluation, we reproduced the characteristics of an existing age-depth model (Lake Ilirney, EN18208) without removing age determination data. For the multiple sediment core (CS3) we found that when considering the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, the main regime changes in sedimentation rates do not occur synchronously for all lakes. We linked this behavior to the uncertainty within the modeling process as well as the local variability of the sediment cores within the collection.
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2022-07-04
    Description: Detailed organic geochemical and carbon isotopic (δ13C and Δ14C) analyses are performed on permafrost deposits affected by coastal erosion (Herschel Island, Canadian Beaufort Sea) and adjacent marine sediments (Herschel Basin) to understand the fate of organic carbon in Arctic nearshore environments. We use an end‐member model based on the carbon isotopic composition of bulk organic matter to identify sources of organic carbon. Monte Carlo simulations are applied to quantify the contribution of coastal permafrost erosion to the sedimentary carbon budget. The models suggest that ~40% of all carbon released by local coastal permafrost erosion is efficiently trapped and sequestered in the nearshore zone. This highlights the importance of sedimentary traps in environments such as basins, lagoons, troughs, and canyons for the carbon sequestration in previously poorly investigated, nearshore areas.
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2022-08-12
    Description: Herschel Basin is a natural depression on the southern Beaufort Shelf, which is located in the western Canadian Arctic between the Mackenzie Delta and the Alaskan border. The submarine basin of late Wisconsin age is a natural sediment trap for material eroded along the Yukon coast and through its unique position within the area also a valuable paleoenvironmental archive. During a field campaign in spring 2016, a thirteen meter long sediment core was obtained from the Herschel Basin. The aim of this Master’s thesis was to quantify the amount of carbon, nitrogen and sediment with terrestrial origin throughout the sediment column from the Herschel Basin. The increasing research effort to understand the dynamics of Arctic coasts is justified by their contribution to the global carbon budget and their vulnerability. The results showed that the majority of sediment found in the sediment column of the Herschel Basin could be assigned to a mix of riverine and terrestrial/coastal inputs. However, the individual percentage of each input (marine, fluvial and terrestrial) could not be distinguished, due to lack of data. In conclusion, this thesis showed that in the Arctic nearshore zone coastal erosion affected by climate change will definitely have a negative impact on “[…] climate feedbacks, on nearshore food webs, and on local communities, whose survival still relies on marine biological resources”(M. Fritz et al., 2017).
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  • 10
    Publication Date: 2023-06-21
    Description: Increasing air and sea surface temperatures at high latitudes lead to accelerated thaw, destabilization, and erosion of perennially frozen soils (i.e., permafrost), which are often rich in organic carbon. Coastal erosion leads to an increased mobilization of organic carbon into the Arctic Ocean that can be converted into greenhouse gases and may therefore contribute to further warming. Carbon decomposition can be limited if organic matter is efficiently deposited on the seafloor, buried in marine sediments and thus removed from the short-term carbon cycle. Basins, canyons and troughs near the coastline can serve as sediment traps and potentially accommodate large quantities of organic carbon along the Arctic coast. Here we use biomarkers (source-specific molecules), stable carbon isotopes (δ13C) and radiocarbon (Δ14C) to identify the sources of organic carbon in the nearshore zone of the southern Canadian Beaufort Sea. We use an end-member model based on the carbon isotopic composition of bulk organic matter to identify sources of organic carbon. Monte Carlo simulations are applied to quantify the contribution of coastal permafrost erosion to the sedimentary carbon budget. The models suggest that 40% of all carbon released by coastal erosion is efficiently trapped and sequestered in the nearshore zone. We conclude that permafrost coastal erosion releases huge amounts of sediment and organic matter into the nearshore zone. Rapid burial removes large quantities of carbon from the carbon cycle in depositional settings.
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