{"id":1582,"date":"2025-01-07T09:53:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/?page_id=1582"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T09:51:12","slug":"paleoclimate-and-paleoecology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/eestijuured\/en\/paleoclimate-and-paleoecology\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleoclimate and paleoecology"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Paleoclimate and Paleoecology working group consists of researchers from the Department of Quaternary Geology at the TalTech Institute of Geology<\/a>, whose work contributes to the goals of the centre of excellence by providing reconstructions of past natural environments. The group, whose members have collaborated for a long time, has expertise covering a wide range of ecological, geographical, and sedimentological methods for studying the past. These methods can be applied to investigations of geosphere and biosphere processes, human activity, and their interactions during the end of the last glacial period and the subsequent warm period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group\u2019s activities focus on high\u2011resolution reconstructions of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, vegetation, climate, and environmental changes\u2014both natural and human\u2011induced\u2014that have occurred in Estonia and its surroundings over the past 15,000 years, using lake, bog, and marine sediment records.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Prof. Siim Veski<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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TalTech, School of Science, Institute of Geology, Department of Quaternary Geology; head of the paleoclimate and paleoecology research group<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Anneli Poska, PhD<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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TalTech, School of Science, Institute of Geology, Department of Quaternary Geology; co\u2011head of the paleoclimate and paleoecology research group.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Members of the research group<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Siim Veski<\/a><\/strong>, professor, head of the paleoclimate and paleoecology research group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anneli Poska<\/a><\/strong>, senior research fellow, co\u2011head of the paleoclimate and paleoecology research group<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leeli Amon<\/a><\/strong>, \u00a0associate professor, principal investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiiu Alliksaar<\/a><\/strong>, senior research fellow, principal investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Atko Heinsalu<\/a><\/strong>, senior research fellow, principal investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J\u00fcri Vassiljev<\/a><\/strong>, senior research fellow, principal investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivika V\u00e4li<\/a><\/strong>, Estonian University of Life Sciences, research fellow, principal investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vladimir Karpin<\/a><\/strong>, doctoral student, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eliise Poolma<\/a><\/strong>, doctoral student \/ junior research fellow, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merlin Liiv<\/a><\/strong>, lead engineer, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Top<\/strong><\/a>, doctoral student \/ junior research fellow, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elisabeth Renee Martveldt<\/strong><\/a>, doctoral student \/ junior research fellow, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merle Luca Marie Dorsch<\/a><\/strong>, doctoral student \/ junior research fellow, investigator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alumni: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varvara Bakumenko<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n