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Professor of Ocean and Climate Change at the department of Earth Sciences Faculty at the faculty Geosciences at Utrecht University
“Future challenges in Mediterranean and global paleoceanography”
On September 30, 2025, a study day led by Prof. Eelco Rohling will be held in Venice at the CNR-Ismar headquarters at the Arsenale.
Abstract:
In this presentation, I will outline some major open challenges to be addressed in paleoclimatology and paleoceanography. I will also provide a perspective of what is needed to address these challenges. Multidisciplinary approaches along with robust quantification (including uncertainties) are central to this, as well as close integration of, and cross-validation between, observational and modelling results. The nature of most remaining challenges transcends what one team from one specific discipline could do, so the future lies in in-depth collaboration and communication between groups and institutions.
Eelco Rohling’s research focuses on ocean and climate change over geological to modern timescales. He obtained his PhD in 1991 from Utrecht University, followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship between Utrecht University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA). Next, he worked from July 1994 to January 2013 at the University of Southampton (UK), where he remains affiliated, and from February 2013 to October 2023 at the Australian National University in Canberra. On 15 April 2024, he started a professorship at Utrecht University.
Eelco was installed in 2008 as Correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, and in 2017 as Fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He is a Web of Knowledge Highly Cited Researcher (2019) and received a UK Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2010, an Australian Laureate Fellowship in 2012, and the AGU & US Navy Maurice Ewing Medal in 2021.
Eelco has published ~250 peer-reviewed journal articles and three public-oriented science books: The oceans – a deep history (2017 Princeton University Press), and The climate question – natural cycles, human impacts, future outlook (2019 Oxford University Press), and Rebalancing our climate – the future starts today (2021 Oxford University Press). He has served 4 years as joint Chief Editor of Paleoceanography, 10 years as Editor of Reviews of Geophysics, and since 2020 is the founding Chief Editor of Oxford Open Climate Change. In 2024, Eelco became a Board of Advisors member, Climate Protection and Restoration Initiative, Oregon, USA.
