About the group
The Earth Ecosystems Dynamics group, led by Prof. Cindy De Jonge, aims to understand changes in Earth’s ecosystems on geological timescales.
Collaboration opportunities
Our research is multidisciplinary, combining methods and approaches from organic biogeochemistry with methods and approaches used in sedimentology and environmental microbiology. We apply our methods on traditional geological archives (sediments and sedimentary rocks), but also experiment with new geological archives, such as soil profiles, buried palaeosoils, river, and canal sediments.
Currently active collaborations use GDGTs as a biomarker for palaeoclimate in lacustrine sediments and buried palaeosoils (i.e. lakes from Ethiopia, Romania, Chile, Switzerland, Mongolia, Schotland). Please get in touch if you think brGDGTs or other lipid biomarkers could add to the interpretation of your dataset.