CRC 1211 - Earth Evolution at the dry limit
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Research Projects
Current Research
- Estimation of surface protection via microbial networks in salt and soil crusts in the Atacama Desert. Project C09, 33d phase, CRC 1211 “Earth Evolution at the dry limit”. 2024 – 2028
- Defining the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert. Project B02, 33d phase, CRC 1211 “Earth Evolution at the dry limit”. 2024 – 2028
- Gypsum desert & atmospheric deposition. Project C04, 33d phase, CRC 1211 “Earth Evolution at the dry limit”. 2024 – 2028
- Holocene environmental conditions in the coastal ocean off East Antarctica - evidence from the paleo-diet of snow petrels.
- Diet and animal husbandry during the Neolithic - Lipid analysis on ceramic vessels from the Lower Rhine Bay (PhD Project in collaboration with the Institute of Prehistoric Archaeology)
- Geobiological processes in aquifers and fractures in the continental crust – implications for recent and ancient life in the Deep Biosphere, since 2012 – ongoing
Finished Research Projects
- The mutual interrelation of microbial communities with evaporites and soil crusts in the Atacama Desert. Project C09, 2nd phase, CRC 1211 “Earth Evolution at the dry limit”. 2022 – 2024
- Unravelling the cryptic microfossil Frutexites - a biosignature for microbial Fe-cycling through Earth history. DFG, Az.: HE 7610/3-1, 2018-2023,
- Biogeochemische Zusammenhänge im Juessee und dessen Einzugsgebiet - Monitoring des ökologischen Zustandes eines Sees Stadt Herzberg Az.:III-Bü. 2019 – 2020
- Monitoring der biogeochemischen Prozesse im Seeanger und Seeburger See. Landkreis Göttingen Az: 701 03 40 02-48, 2017-2020