Verena Foerster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3073308 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Verena Foerster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Verena |
| FAMILY NAME | Foerster |
| SIGNATURE | FOERSTER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3480-5769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Scientific Data Awareness among Future Geography Educators
In an era of increasing dis- and misinformation, particularly in relation to social and natural crises like climate change, it is vital that geography students can decipher legitimate, high-quality scientific data from falsehoods to solve relevant problems. In students’ education, geography teachers have a central role. We conducted an empirical study on German university geography education Bachelor students to better understand their scientific…
Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion
Eastern Africa and Arabia were major hominin hotspots and critical crossroads for migrating towards Asia during the late Pleistocene. To decipher the role of spatiotemporal environmental change on human occupation and migration patterns, we remeasured the marine core from Meteor Site KL 15 in the Gulf of Aden and reanalyzed its data together with the aridity index from ICDP Site Chew Bahir in eastern Africa and the wet-dry index from ODP Site 967…
Paleo-Enso influence on African environmentsand early modern humans
lt;p>In this study, we synthesize terrestrial and marine proxy records, spanning the past 620,000 years, to decipher pan-African climate variability and its drivers and potential linkages to hominin evolution. We find a tight correlation between moisture availability across Africa to El Niño Southern Ocean oscillation (ENSO) variability, a manifestation of the Walker Circulation, that was most likely driven by changes in Earth’s eccentricity. Our…
Abrupt or gradual? Change point analysis of the late Pleistocene–Holocene climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia
We used a change point analysis on a late Pleistocene–Holocene lake-sediment record from the Chew Bahir basin in the southern Ethiopian Rift to determine the amplitude and duration of past climate transitions. The most dramatic changes occurred over 240 yr (from ~15,700 to 15,460 yr) during the onset of the African Humid Period (AHP), and over 990 yr (from ~4875 to 3885 yr) during its protracted termination. The AHP was interrupted by a distinct …
Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa
The Chew Bahir project: Towards a 200,000 year palaeo-environmental record in the source region of modern man
Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years
Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa
Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion
Eastern Africa and Arabia were major hominin hotspots and critical crossroads for migrating towards Asia during the late Pleistocene. To decipher the role of spatiotemporal environmental change on human occupation and migration patterns, we remeasured the marine core from Meteor Site KL 15 in the Gulf of Aden and reanalyzed its data together with the aridity index from ICDP Site Chew Bahir in eastern Africa and the wet-dry index from ODP Site 967…
Paleo-Enso influence on African environmentsand early modern humans
lt;p>In this study, we synthesize terrestrial and marine proxy records, spanning the past 620,000 years, to decipher pan-African climate variability and its drivers and potential linkages to hominin evolution. We find a tight correlation between moisture availability across Africa to El Niño Southern Ocean oscillation (ENSO) variability, a manifestation of the Walker Circulation, that was most likely driven by changes in Earth’s eccentricity. Our…
The Chew Bahir project: Towards a 200,000 year palaeo-environmental record in the source region of modern man
Climatic change recorded in the sediments of the Chew Bahir basin, southern Ethiopia, during the last 45,000 years
Episodes of environmental stability versus instability in Late Cenozoic lake records of Eastern Africa
Abrupt or gradual? Change point analysis of the late Pleistocene–Holocene climate record from Chew Bahir, southern Ethiopia
We used a change point analysis on a late Pleistocene–Holocene lake-sediment record from the Chew Bahir basin in the southern Ethiopian Rift to determine the amplitude and duration of past climate transitions. The most dramatic changes occurred over 240 yr (from ~15,700 to 15,460 yr) during the onset of the African Humid Period (AHP), and over 990 yr (from ~4875 to 3885 yr) during its protracted termination. The AHP was interrupted by a distinct …
Paleo-Enso influence on African environmentsand early modern humans
lt;p>In this study, we synthesize terrestrial and marine proxy records, spanning the past 620,000 years, to decipher pan-African climate variability and its drivers and potential linkages to hominin evolution. We find a tight correlation between moisture availability across Africa to El Niño Southern Ocean oscillation (ENSO) variability, a manifestation of the Walker Circulation, that was most likely driven by changes in Earth’s eccentricity. Our…
Spatio-temporal variations of climate along possible African-Arabian routes of H. sapiens expansion
Eastern Africa and Arabia were major hominin hotspots and critical crossroads for migrating towards Asia during the late Pleistocene. To decipher the role of spatiotemporal environmental change on human occupation and migration patterns, we remeasured the marine core from Meteor Site KL 15 in the Gulf of Aden and reanalyzed its data together with the aridity index from ICDP Site Chew Bahir in eastern Africa and the wet-dry index from ODP Site 967…
Scientific Data Awareness among Future Geography Educators
In an era of increasing dis- and misinformation, particularly in relation to social and natural crises like climate change, it is vital that geography students can decipher legitimate, high-quality scientific data from falsehoods to solve relevant problems. In students’ education, geography teachers have a central role. We conducted an empirical study on German university geography education Bachelor students to better understand their scientific…
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Pleistocene (5 works) · Climatology (4 works) · Holocene (4 works) · Oceanography (4 works) · Paleontology (4 works)