Dr. Ulrich Kotthoff

	Contact Universität Hamburg Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut Bundesstrasse 55 20146 Hamburg Germany tel.: +49 (0)40 42838-5009 e-mail: ulrich.kotthoff (at) uni-hamburg.de

Appointments
2008 - ...	Scientific worker at the Geological-Palaeontological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg
	curator paleoentomology palynological analyses (Paleo- and Neogene palynomorphs) in charge of palynological laboratory paleoclimatic reconstructions teaching
2004 - 2008	Scientific worker at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Frankfurt
	palynological analyses (Quaternary palynomorphs) paleoclimatic reconstructions PhD thesis

Education
2003 - March 31st, 2008 PhD, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Title: Climate Dynamics and Biotic Response in the Aegean Region during the Late Glacial and the Holocene: A palynological approach; graded 'magna cum laude'

December 31st, 2002 Geology Diploma, University of Tübingen, Germany; graded 1.3
Title of diploma thesis: Fossil Honeybees and other Holometabola from the Randeck Maar
Title of diploma mapping: Geological mapping of the northeast of Eastern Elba

Research interests

Palynology
Dinocyst-based sea-surface salinity and temperature reconstructions
Paleo- and Neogene vegetation and climate dynamics
Evolution of Paleo- and Neogene eusocial insects

Scientific expeditions

FS Poseidon (2011) Gulf of Genoa (coring)
IODP New Jersey Shallow Shelf 313 (Onshore Science Party)
FS Poseidon (2003) Canares - Azores - Portugal (plankton analyses)

Selected Publications

2011

Kotthoff, U., Wappler, T., Engel, M.S. (2011): Miocene honey bees from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zookeys 96, 11-37.
Kotthoff, U., Koutsodendris, A., Pross, J., Schmiedl, G., Bornemann, A., Kaul, C., Marino, G., Peyron, O., Schiebel, R. (2011): Impact of late glacial cold events in the Northern Aegean region, reconstructed from integrated marine and terrestrial proxy data. Journal of Quaternary Science 26, 86-96.
Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Wulf-Bowen, S., Christanis, K., Tzedakis, P. (2011): Influence of Dansgaard-Oeschger climate variability on the Eastern Mediterranean. Quaternary Science Reviews 30, 273-279.

2010

Koutsodendris, A., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., Brauer, A., Kotthoff, U., Lotter, A.F. (2010): Vegetation dynamics and climate variability during the Holsteinian interglacial based on a pollen record from Dethlingen, North Germany. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3298-3307.
Schmiedl, G., Kuhnt, T., Ehrmann, W., Emeis, K.-C., Hamann, Y., Kotthoff, U., Dulski, P., Pross, J. (2010): Climatic forcing and regional differentiation of eastern Mediterranean deep-water formation and benthic ecosystems during the past 22 000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 3006-3020.
Peyron, O., Dormoy, I., Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Drescher- Schneider, R., Magny, M. (2010): Holocene seasonality changes in the central Mediterranean region reconstructed from the pollen sequences of Lake Accesa (Italy) and Tenaghi Philippon (Greece). The Holocene 21, 131–146.
Pross, J., Houben, A.P.J., van Simaeys, S., Williams, G.L., Kotthoff, U., Coccioni, R., Wilpshaar, M., Brinkhuis, H. (2010): Umbria-Marche revisited: A refined magnetostratigraphic calibration of dinoflagellate cyst events for the Oligocene of the Western Tethys. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 158, 213-235.

2005 - 2009

Pross, J., Kotthoff, U., Schmiedl, G., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Tzedakis, C., Christanis, K., Emeis, K.-C. (2009): Massive perturbation in terrestrial ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean region associated with the 8.2 kyr climatic event. Geology 37, 887-890.
Kotthoff, U., Müller, U.C., Pross, J., van de Schootbrugge, B., Schmiedl, G., Schulz, H. (2008a): Lateglacial and Holocene vegetation dynamics in the Aegean region: An integrated view based on pollen data from marine and terrestrial archives. The Holocene 18, 1019-1032.
Kotthoff, U., Pross, J., Müller, U.C., Peyron, O., Schmiedl, G., Schulz, H., Bordon, A. (2008b): Climate dynamics in the borderlands of the Aegean Sea during formation of Sapropel S1 deduced from a marine pollen record. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 832-845.
Pross, J., Tzedakis, P., Schmiedl, G., Christanis, K., Hooghiemstra, H., Müller, U.C., Kotthoff, U., Kalaitzidis, S., Milner, A. (2007): Tenaghi Philippon Re-Visited: Drilling a Continuous Lower-Latitude Terrestrial Climate Archive of the Last 250,000 Years. Scientific Drilling 5, 30-32.
Kotthoff, U. & Schmid, U. (2005): A new fossil hoverfly (Insecta, Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Randeck Maar (Early Miocene, SW Germany). - Palaeontology 48, 1091-1096.

Teaching experience
Classes at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Hamburg

Applied Micropaleontology: Palynology
Applied Paleontology
Paleontology of Tetrapods
Paleontology of Arthropods
Paleobiology
Paleobotany and Palynology
Field trip: 'Wattenmeer'

Classes at the Institute of Geosciences, University of Frankfurt

Introduction to Micropaleontology (2008): Pollen (4 h)
Geology I, Fossils (2007): Brachiopods and Bivalves (2 h)
Introduction to Paleontology (2006, 2007): Arthropods (3 h)
Paleoceanography (2005): Plankton (3 h)
Introduction to Paleontology (2005, 2006, 2007): Protists (3 h)
Introduction to Paleontology (2005): Biostratigraphy and Biogeography (3 h)

Public relations and supervising

Organisation of the contributions of the Geological-Palaeontological Museum to the "Lange Nacht der Museen Hamburg" in (2009 - 2012)
Supervising palynology-related B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses (University of Hamburg, 2010/2011)
At regular intervals: public presentations dealing with paleoclimate- and paleontology related topics
Darwin Year 2009: "How to become eusocial? Evolution of social insects - Theories and fossil record" (Acadamy of Sciences, Hamburg, 2009)
At regular intervals: guided tours in the Paleontological Museum of the Institute of Geosciences, University of Hamburg (2008 - 2011)
Summer of Geosciences: "On the pollen trail of vegetation - a workshop for children between 5 and 8 years" (Children's Academy, Fulda, 2008)
Engaged in M.Sc. thesis supervising (University of Frankfurt, 2007)
At regular intervals: guided tours in the Paleontological Museum of the Institute of Geosciences, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen (2000 - 2004)

Synergistic activities

Co-editor and co-author of the catalogue of the Naturwissenschaftliche Museen and Collections Hamburg VNSH (2010)
Reviewer for Marine Micropaleontology
Reviewer for Quaternary Science Reviews
Reviewer for Journal of Quaternary Science
Reviewer for Palaeontology
Member of the EGU
Member of IODP
Member of the Paläontologische Gesellschaft