Cluster A - Climate/Paleoclimate
- Project A2: Paleoclimate proxies: Miocene to recent precipitation history of the Atacama Desert (1st+2nd Phase)
- Project A3: Aeolian transport: Statistical-dynamical modelling of aeolian processes in the Atacama Desert over geological time scales and their Implications to life at the dry limit (1st+2nd Phase)
Cluster B - Biological evolution
- Project B3: Protist evolution at the dry limit (1st Phase)
- Project B5: Soils of the Atacama Desert: reservoir and fingerprint of life (1st Phase)
- Project B6: Earth‐life evolution on short time scales (2nd Phase)
Cluster C - Earth Surface Evolution
- Project C3: Soil dynamics and hillslope processes (1st Phase)
Cluster D - Method development
- Project D1: Cosmogenic nuclides: dating of old continental sediments in arid environments (1st Phase)
- Project D4: Reconstructing changes of water sources and availability by combined lipid biomarker and online stable isotope and radiocarbon analysis (1st + 2nd Phase)
- Project D5: OSL-Dating: Constraining the Pleistocene environmental history of the Atacama: Extending the age range of luminescence dating (1st Phase)
- Project D6: A Tephrostratigraphic Framework for the Atacama Desert and its Application on Different Sedimentary Archives (2nd Phase)
- Project D7: Geophysical imaging of subsurface properties and magnetostratigraphy of sedimentary records (2nd Phase)
