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Mr. Daniel Veres

Senior researcher

Senior Researcher - ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Researcher | Scientific reviewer

Web of Science ResearcherID: 0000-0003-3932-577X

Curriculum Vitae (23/03/2021)

Expertise & keywords

Millennial-scale geochemical records of anthropogenic impact and natural climate change in the Romanian Carpathians Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2012 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0530 2013 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Affiliation: ACADEMIA ROMANA FILIALA CLUJ (RO)

Project website: http://www.veres-speo.academia-cj.ro

Abstract:

We plan to investigate at high-resolution and multiproxy past environmental conditions and human impact focusing primarily on mining-pollution evidence in several key areas from the Romanian Carpathians, and at Holocene scale. The research aims will be addressed and validated through high-resolution elemental chemical and isotopic analyses in order to disentangle signatures related to natural cycling of elements over millennia, as well as anthropogenically-derived contributions through resource exploitation (land, forestry, ores), combustion, mining and smelting activities. To our knowledge, this project is one the first such interdisciplinary undertaking in Romanian research, and includes conjectural chemical, isotopic, chronological and paleoenvironmental investigations of peat profiles and lake sediments. The expected results, in conjunction with existing geological, archaeological and archaeometric evidence, shall provide a comprehensive assessment on the history of metal-use development in the Carpathian region, estimates of baseline conditions, as well as new palaeoclimatological data. The expected results will have a strong scientific and societal impact, as it would be for the first time that links/feedbacks between natural causes and human impact would be explored in such a way in Romanian palaeoenvironmental research.

CLIMATE VARIABILITY RECORDED BY GLACIAL DEPOSITS AND LAKE SEDIMENTS Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2012 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2012-3-0386 2013 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVERSITATEA"STEFAN CEL MARE" SUCEAVA

Project partners: UNIVERSITATEA"STEFAN CEL MARE" SUCEAVA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVERSITATEA"STEFAN CEL MARE" SUCEAVA (RO)

Project website: http://www.georeview.ro/cirques&lakes

Abstract:

The goal of the project is to synthesize data from glaciolacustrine records (laminated/varved lake sediments) and glacial deposits from surrounding areas that span the Last Termination (ca 22–11.5 ka) and Holocene for climate reconstruction. We propose the investigation of three key regions (glacial lakes within classical glacial cirques from three corners of the Romanian Carpathians - Maramures, Iezer and Retezat) for understanding the pattern of glaciation(s)/deglaciation(s) and Holocene climatic events in the Carpathians in the context of rapid climate variability. The project will provide new data relevant for palaeoclimate evolution at regional scale and the high-resolution sedimentological and chronological data employed will allow signal calibration and comparative analysis of different proxies and time-series. Our multi-proxy approach is intended to i) overcome limitations of palaeoclimatic and dating methods; ii) combine different climatic signals into a composite profile; and iii) carry out palaeoclimatic reconstructions taking into account regional and global climatic profiles and identify regional constraints of rapid climate oscillations. The project is not intended to be a singular effort in investigating palaeoclimate evolution in the Romanian Carpathians, and should be regarded as the framework for further investigations of the hitherto neglected Carpathian-Lower Danube region-Balkan Mts. due to its multidisciplinary approach.

Holocene tree line and timberline changes in northern Carpathians - a key approach for understanding the sensitivity of upper mountain environment Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2011 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0145 2011 - 2014

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: ACADEMIA ROMANA-FILIALA CLUJ NAPOCA, Institutul de Speologie 'Emil Racovita'

Project partners: ACADEMIA ROMANA-FILIALA CLUJ NAPOCA, Institutul de Speologie 'Emil Racovita' (RO)

Affiliation:

Project website: http://www.iser-cluj.org/ProjectSite/ProjectSite/Home.html

Abstract:

Predicting biological response to the increase pressure form climate change and human impact is a great challenge to the scientists. This proposal is focusing on one of the most ecologically critical region of Europe, the Carpathian Mountains and one of the most importnat reserve area, the Rodna National Park and Biosphere Reserve. The aim is to evaluate the timing and movements of the Holocene treeline, changes in timberline composition and diversity, and the sensitivity of the subalpine and alpine habitats to climate change, human impact, and fire using a multidisciplinary approach. It also aims to provide support for the management of the park, planning and conservation, and restoration of the upper montage forest in this region. Techniques includes fossil pollen, plant macrofossils, stomata, micro and macro-charcoal, chironomids, ostracodes, stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N), elemental geochemistry, mineral magnetic records, Pb210, C14 on three sedimentary sequences stretching between 1500-2000 m from the Rodna Mountains. This integrated approach i.e., palaeoecological, geochemical, numerical methods will enhanced our fundamental ecological and biogeographic understanding, and improve the predictive capacity in assessing the sensitivity of the upper mountain vegetation to future environmental change.

Dating the Romanian part of the European Loess Belt using luminescence methods. Call name: Projects for Young Research Teams - TE-2011 call
PN-II-RU-TE-2011-3-0062 2011 - 2014

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIVESRITATEA BABES BOLYAI

Project partners: UNIVESRITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Affiliation: UNIVESRITATEA BABES BOLYAI (RO)

Project website: http://granturi.ubbcluj.ro/darolum/

Abstract:

Loess deposits cover significant areas in Europe, extending from NW-France and Belgium through to Central Europe, the Ukraine and Western Russia. The loess paleosoil sequences of the Carpathian Basin-Lower Danube region (Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria) are thought to represent the most continuous and high resolution archives of regional climate and environmental change during the Late and Middle Pleistocene in this part of Europe and a link between similar deposits in central Europe and Eurasia. However, in comparison to other loess sequences elsewhere in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, the deposits in Romania have been much less extensively studied.

Luminescence dating is, at present, the only method that allows establishing an absolute chronology for loess deposits. Moreover, the characteristics of loess make it an ideal material for developing, testing and applying luminescence techniques.The main objective of this project is to establish an accurate and precise chronology for some of the most important loess sequences in Romania. This approach is essential for securely linking loess records from Romania in a chronologically reliable regional framework and to extend this information to other sites from central and eastern European loess belt, in order to understand past paleoenvironmental dynamics at both regional and continental scales.

CLIMATE ARCHIVES IN KARST - AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO THE STUDY AND MODELING OF ABRUPT CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS Call name: Complex Exploratory Research Projects - PCCE-2008 call
PN-II-ID-PCCE-2008-0031 2010 - 2013

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: INSTITUTUL DE SPEOLOGIE EMIL RACOVITA, LABORATORUL DE GEOCRONOLOGIE SI PALEOCLIMATOLOGIE

Project partners: INSTITUTUL DE SPEOLOGIE EMIL RACOVITA, LABORATORUL DE GEOCRONOLOGIE SI PALEOCLIMATOLOGIE (RO); Academia Romana Filiala Cluj, INSTITUTUL DE SPEOLOGIE EMIL RACOVITA, DEPARTAMENTUL CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI, FACULTATEA DE GEOLOGIE-GEOFIZICA, CENTRUL LYTHOS (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI, FACULTATEA DE FIZICA, DEPARTAMENTUL FIZICA ATMOSFEREI (RO); ADMINISTRATIA NATIONALA DE METEOROLOGIE, GRUPUL DE CERCETARE CLIMATICA (RO)

Affiliation: Academia Romana Filiala Cluj, INSTITUTUL DE SPEOLOGIE EMIL RACOVITA, DEPARTAMENTUL CLUJ-NAPOCA (RO)

Project website: https://sites.google.com/site/karsthives/

Abstract:

THE PROJECT PROPOSES AN INTEGRATED APPROACH BASED UPON A MULTI-PROXY ANALYSIS OF THE VARIOUS PALEOCLIMATE ARCHIVES FROM CAVES AND KARST DEPOSITS. OUT OF THESE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ARE THE STABLE ISOTOPES, CHEMICAL (TRACE ELEMENTS), AND MINERALOGICAL VARIATIONS IN SPELEOTHEMS (CALCITE FORMATIONS IN CAVES), MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF FLUVIATILE OR LACUSTRINE SEDIMENTS, FOSSIL AND SUB-FOSSIL SPECIES AND FAUNAL ASSOCIATIONS, STABLE ISOTOPES AND COMPOSITION OF THE UNDERGROUND ICE ACCUMULATIONS. MOST OF THE ABOVE DEPOSITS BEAR INFORMATION RELEVANT FOR THE PALEOCLIMATE EVOLUTION AT REGIONAL SCALE AND THEIR HIGH-RESOLUTION RADIOMETRIC DATINGS ALLOW SIGNAL CALIBRATION AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE DIFFERENT TIME-SERIES. THE COMBINATION OF THE DATA MEASURED FROM VARIOUS PROXIES FROM CAVE ENVIRONMENT (SPELEOTHEMS, SEDIMENTS, FOSSIL, ICE) WITHIN THE SAME CAVE OR KARST AREA ALLOW: (1) TO OVERCOME THE LIMITATIONS OF SOME DATING METHODS; (2) TO COMBINE DIFFERENT CLIMATE RECORDS INTO A COMPOSITE RECORD; (3) TO CARRY ON TIME-SERIES ANALYSES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT REGIONAL OR GLOBAL CLIMATE RECORDS AND TO IDENTIFY THE REGIONAL CONSTRAINS OF CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS. THE DATA MAY BE CALIBRATED BY ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF NEWLY-PRECIPITATED CALCITE IN LABORATORY-CAVES CORRELATED WITH THE MONITORING OF BOTH SURFACE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND UNDERGROUND MICROCLIMATE AND PHYSICAL PARAMETERS. THE CONVERSION OF THE VARIATIONS OF ISOTOPE FROM CAVE DEPOSITS INTO VARIATIONS OF TEMPERATURE OR OTHER PARAMETERS (PRECIPITATION SOURCE, VEGETATION COVER, BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY IN SOIL) ALLOW US VALIDATE AND/OR DEVELOP NEW MODELS FOR ABRUPT CLIMATE OSCILLATIONS AT MILLENNIAL OR CENTENIAL SCALES.

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List of research grants as project coordinator
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List of research grants as project coordinator or partner team leader
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Peer-review activity for international programs/projects