At the ICDP-IODP Colloquium (9–11 March 2026, Münster, Germany), PhD candidate Anaïs Urban (second person on the right) was awarded for her poster "Vantastic Varves – Decoding Annual Signals from Lake Van." The poster presents first results from her PhD project "Warm-Hydro“, which investigates hydro-climatic changes in the eastern Mediterranean at the onset of the last interglacial — a period of past global warming. Lake Van in eastern Anatolia, the world's fourth-largest terminal lake, provides exceptional conditions for reconstructing past hydroclimate. Microscopic analysis of finely laminated sediments from ICDP core 5034 offers the potential to resolve annual and even seasonal hydroclimatic variability — timescales directly relevant to human experience. A key first result shown on the poster is that the modern seasonal cycle of Lake Van is difficult to detect in sediments from the last interglacial, raising important questions about changes in seasonality during this warm period.