Title: Time scales of climate change and environmental stress across the tropical oceans

Authors: Thomas Felis¹, Co-Authors’ list will follow

Affiliations: 
¹ MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany

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Biography: Thomas Felis is the head of the Coral Paleoclimatology Group at MARUM-Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, University of Bremen. In 2017, Thomas co-initiated the PAGES CoralHydro2k Project, which aims to reconstruct tropical ocean hydroclimate and temperature from coral archives. Within this project, together with many early-career researchers, the CoralHydro2k Database was compiled, a global, actively-curated compilation of coral oxygen isotope and Sr/Ca records covering the Common Era. Thomas has been involved in three IODP expeditions to Tahiti, the Great Barrier Reef and Hawai’i to recover fossil corals from the last deglacial, glacial and beyond. Currently, Thomas coordinates the Priority Programme "Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs" of the German Research Foundation (DFG), which aims to improve our understanding of tropical marine climate variability and its impacts on coral reef ecosystems in a warming world, and which involves more than 40 interdisciplinary researchers from 15 institutions across Germany.