Thorsten Kiefer Dr. Thorsten Kiefer PAGES International Project Office Switzerland If you would like to interview this scientist, please contact Leah Christen.

Biographical Information:

Dr. Thorsten Kiefer is the new Executive Director of PAGES. Thorsten has come to PAGES from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He was previously in the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Kiel. His recent research has focused on rapid centennial-scale climate changes of the late Pleistocene and Holocene. His interests include understanding the ramifications of global change on regional climates, assessing past human-climate interactions, and determining the role of surface- and deep-ocean circulation on modulating climate. He has developed and integrated paleoceanographic records with ice core data, climate model simulations and archaeological evidence, and has studied a number of areas in the Indian, Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans.