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Nathalie Amacker is a researcher at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Basel. She works as an assistant/postdoc in the Quaternary Geology research group led by Prof. Dr. Dieter Fleitmann.
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Her research focuses on paleoclimatology, utilizing speleothem records (stalagmites, cave deposits) to reconstruct past climate conditions. Key areas include isotope geochemistry (hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in drip water), Quaternary geology (last 2.66 million years), and human-climate interactions in historical contexts. The research group analyzes climatic fluctuations using natural archives to understand climate forcing factors, benchmark human impacts on ecosystems, and improve climate modeling. Projects include global fieldwork in Switzerland (Milandre cave), Turkey (Sofular cave), and France (Grotte du Crotot), with studies on drip water isotopes and Pleistocene-Holocene transitions.
The group's work has been featured in media outlets such as Newsweek, Forbes, and ZDF Terra X, highlighting links between climate events (e.g., droughts) and historical societal changes (e.g., rise of Islam). Key partnerships include collaborations with institutions like the Federal Office for the Environment (Switzerland) and International Atomic Energy Agency networks.
Infrastructure includes laboratory analysis of water isotopes and long-term monitoring devices in cave systems to track environmental changes. Citizen science initiatives engage the public in data collection across Swiss and border regions.
