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"PYTHAGORAS II Project", Middle Miocene global climatic changes: paleo‐eco‐biogeographical implications in the marine regime of Eastern Mediterranean"

As evidence of global climate change continues to accumulate, scientists concentrate on models that might indicate the impacts of such change. Insight comes from examining past global change. One of the largest known global-climate shifts occurred in Middle Miocene time (between about 15.6 and 12.5 million years ago). This dramatic and irreversible shift set the stage for modern oceanic and atmospheric circulation, and for Quaternary bipolar glaciation.

GSRT:Geobiology and Paleoceanography of the Eastern Mediterranean Middle Miocene

As evidence of global climate change continues to accumulate, scientists concentrate on models that might indicate the impacts of such change. Insight comes from examining past global change. One of the largest known global-climate shifts occurred in Middle Miocene time (between about 15.6 and 12.5 million years ago). This dramatic and irreversible shift set the stage for modern oceanic and atmospheric circulation, and for Quaternary bipolar glaciation.

THALYS - ISOLARIO

The project ISOLARIO investigates the impact of natural and anthropogenic changes to the insular environments and the importance of those changes to human culture. It is a multidisciplinary project, drawing on the expertise of an international team of scientists from different fields: Geosciences, Life Sciences and Humanities. The project is entitled Island biodiversity and cultural evolution: examples from the Eastern Mediterranean, Madagascar, Mauritius and Philippines during the past 800,000 years (in short ISOLARIO).

THALYS - MEDSALC

MEDSALC is intended as the first extensive study of the Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) in the eastern Mediterranean. Detailed biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, seismic stratigraphy, sedimentology, palaeontology, palaeoecology, organic and isotopic geochemistry, organic biomarker analysis, and sclerochronology are integrated to provide: