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12249 Berlin
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
Advanced time–series analysis to provide a spatiotemporal framework for the evolution, expansion and technological innovation of Homo sapiens
(Applicant
Trauth, Martin
)
Generating a benchmark record of Pliocene climate variability in Central Europe
(Applicants
Hinderer, Matthias
;
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
;
Stutenbecker, Laura
)
PALAVAS: Present and pAst weathering fLuxes from tropicAl Volcanic islAndS
(Applicants
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Wittmann-Oelze, Hella
)
The role of mafic-ultramafic bodies in the origin of the early continental crust
(Applicants
Dziggel, Annika
;
Volante, Silvia
)
Tracing the origin of the planktic graptolites (Hemichordata, Pterobranchia) through the Furongian Gap (Upper Cambrian)
(Applicant
Maletz, Jörg
)
Unraveling the timing and style of the India-Asia collision and temporal evolution of the western Himalayan fold and thrust belt, Pakistan
(Applicant
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Unravelling crustal formation in the Early Earth through the mass-dependent stable Ti isotope composition of Archaean Tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorites (TTGs)
(Applicants
Fonseca, Raúl
;
Hoffmann, Jörg Elis
)
Completed projects
Asteroidenpopulation des Sonnensystems innerhalb der Erdbahn
(Applicant
Neukum, Gerhard
)
Caught in the Cambrian Explosion: The mystery of the early evolution of the Pterobranchs (Hemichordata, incl. Graptolithina) and their evolutionary innovations
(Applicant
Maletz, Jörg
)
Characterization and retrieval of atmospheric parameters of terrestrial extrasolar planets around cool host stars
(Applicants
Rauer, Heike
;
Schreier, Franz
)
Controls on turbidite deposition offshore the Chilean convergent margin
(Applicant
Bernhardt, Anne
)
Degradation and protection phenomena of high-alloy Fe-Cr alloys in hot, multi-component gas systems
(Applicant
John, Timm
)
Die Quelle des E Rings - das Enceladus Rätsel
(Applicant
Spahn, Ph.D., Frank
)
Digging into Eocene hothouse climate variability: Elemental signals derived from X-ray fluorescence scanning of Messel sediment cores
(Applicants
Bahr, André
;
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
)
Dynamik und Kinetik schmaler Staubringe
(Applicant
Spahn, Ph.D., Frank
)
Dynamische Strukturbildung in dichten (kollisionsdominierten) planetaren Ringen unter Einfluss gravitativer Störkräfte
(Applicant
Schmidt, Ph.D., Jürgen
)
Evolution, Phylogenie und Taxonomie ausgewählter Überfamilien der Gastropoda im Zeitraum obere Trias bis mittlerer Jura
(Applicants
Gründel, Joachim
;
Nützel, Alexander
)
Generation and age of early Archaean greenstone belt remnants in the southeastern Kaapvaal craton of South Africa
(Applicant
Rojas-Agramonte, Ph.D., Yamirka
)
Granitoid-greenstone relationships in the eastern Kaapvaal craton and implications for early crustal evolution
(Applicants
Hoffmann, Jörg Elis
;
Kröner, Alfred
)
Halogen concentrations and stable Cl isotopes in apatite as a fluid probe: mapping regional-scale fluid pulses by Cl-isotopes
(Applicant
Putnis, Andrew
)
Highly siderophile element geochemistry of mantle pyroxenites
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Korrelierte nukleosynthetische Anomalien in primitiven Meteoriten
(Applicant
Rankenburg, Kai
)
Meteoric 10Be as a tracer of terrestrial denudation in marine sediments: A feasibility study offshore central Chile
(Applicants
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Wittmann-Oelze, Hella
)
Microchemistry and microstructure of Australian Opal
(Applicant
Milke, Ralf
)
Mikrostrukturelle und mikrochemische Untersuchungen an Ca,Al-reichen Einschlüsse (CAIs) und interstellaren Körnern in primitiven Meteoriten
(Applicant
Bischoff, Addi
)
Origin of the depletion of siderophile volatile elements in Earth, Mars and the aubrite parent body
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Precise measurements of highly siderophile elements in ancient lunar impact rocks
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Reconstructing marine sedimentation rates in the Aegean Sea during the Holocene: Evi-dence for early anthropogenic environmental change?
(Applicant
Pross, Jörg
)
Re-Os geochronology and abundances of highly siderophile elements in ancient lunar impact rocks
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Signaturen von Auslösemechanismen natürlicher und induzierter Erdbebensequenzen: Theorie, Modellierung und Fallstudien
(Applicant
Parotidis, Miltiadis
)
SIOPACT - Developing a ~250 year climate record for the Southeastern Indian Ocean sector of the Indo-PACific warm pool and its global climate Teleconnections
(Applicant
Zinke, Ph.D., Jens
)
Slab tearing or slab retreat as triggers of extension at the Dinaric-Hellenic transition?
(Applicants
Handy, Mark R.
;
Pleuger, Jan
)
Spektraluntersuchungen an ausgesuchten Einschlagskratern auf dem Mars unter Zuhilfenahme verschiedener Auswerteverfahren
(Applicant
Neukum, Gerhard
)
Studying anthropogenic climate change in the Mediterranean Sea beyond instrumental data: the temperate coral Cladocora caespitosa as bioindicator and archive of environmental and ecological changes
(Applicant
Kersting, Ph.D., Diego Kurt
)
The behaviour of the rare earth elements - especially gadolinium as indicator for sewage - in surface and groundwater.
(Applicant
Pekdeger, Asaf
)
The geochemical behaviour of Sn and In during mantle melting and crust formation
(Applicant
Kirchenbaur, Maria
)
The impact of precipitation changes on terrigenous sediment export to the Indian Ocean
(Applicants
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Wittmann-Oelze, Hella
)
The Influence of Cosmic Rays on Exoplanetary Atmospheric Biosignatures
(Applicants
Heber, Bernd
;
Rauer, Heike
;
Sinnhuber, Miriam
)
Timing and rates of fluid release during the dehydration of subconducting oceanic crust: reactive fluid flow und high-pressure conditions
(Applicant
Bröcker, Michael
)
Towards the inversion of tectonic signals from deep-marine archives: Competing tectonic signal propagation from across the Alps into the marine sink
(Applicants
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Tracking sulphur cycling in subduction zones by in situ trace element and δ34S signatures in sulphides
(Applicant
Schwarzenbach, Esther
)
Untersuchung der Ausgasungsprozesse und Zusammensetzung von Kometen durch Beobachtung der Aktivität entlang des Orbits
(Applicant
Rauer, Heike
)
Zur Taxonomie, Biostratigraphie und Paläogeographie der Gastropoden im Pliensbachium (mittlerer Lias) von Mittel- und Westeuropa
(Applicant
Gründel, Joachim
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
Einfluß von Umweltfaktoren auf die Gehäusemorphologie endemischer Gastropoden im Litoral des Baikal-Sees
(Applicant
Röpstorf, Peter
)
Graptolithenbiodiversität in Abhängigkeit von Umweltfaktoren
(Applicant
Maletz, Jörg
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Rauer, Heike
)
EXO-HEAT – Interior Heating of Exoplanets
(Applicant
Noack, Lena
)
Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets Bulk Densities in multi-parameter space
(Applicants
Hatzes, Artie P.
;
Pätzold, Martin
;
Rauer, Heike
)
How long can the most extreme planetary systems survive? Measuring the tidal orbital decay of hot Jupiters.
(Applicant
Smith, Alexis
)
SPP 1992: Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets
(Spokesperson
Rauer, Heike
)
Completed projects
Activity of aqueous fluids in the early solar system - characterization and formation timescales of the earliest water-bearing phases in chondritic samples
(Applicants
Bischoff, Addi
;
Vollmer, Christian
)
Age, development and limnology of extant Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau lakes: A reconstruction based on phylogeography and palaeoecology of the gastropod genus Radix
(Applicants
Mischke, Steffen
;
Riedel, Frank
;
Wiechert, Uwe
;
Wilke, Thomas
)
Analysis of the interaction of planetary plasma and dust with the magnetic field
(Applicants
Motschmann, Ph.D., Uwe
;
Schmidt, Ph.D., Jürgen
)
Applying scattered wave tomography and joint inversion of high-density (SWATH D) geophysical and petrophysical datasets to unravel Eastern Alpine crustal structure
(Applicants
Friederich, Wolfgang
;
John, Timm
;
Pleuger, Jan
;
Tilmann, Frederik
)
Chronostratigraphy of Mars - Chronostratigraphie des Mars
(Applicant
Neukum, Gerhard
)
Composition of planets with an N-body-Monte-Carlo approach
(Applicant
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Deciphering the early Archaean crustal history in the Kaapvaal and Zimbabwe cratons
(Applicant
Kröner, Alfred
)
Detection and Characterization of sub-Jovian Planets with NGTS (Next Generation Transit Survey)
(Applicant
Rauer, Heike
)
Early evolution of meteorite parent bodies - Hf-W and U-Pb ages of zircons, baddeleyites, and phosphates
(Applicant
Bischoff, Addi
)
Elucidating Eoarchean geodynamic processes by multiple sulfur isotopes
(Applicants
Hoffmann, Jörg Elis
;
Schwarzenbach, Esther
;
Strauß, Harald
)
Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets in the Mass-Density Diagram
(Applicants
Hatzes, Artie P.
;
Pätzold, Martin
;
Rauer, Heike
)
Fingerprinting late accretion: Precise measurements of highly siderophile elements in planetary materials
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Global volatile cycles on early Earth
(Applicant
Noack, Lena
)
Highly siderophile element and chromium isotopic variations in physically separated components of carbonaceous and ordinary chondrites
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
How large are tectonic deviations from lithostatic pressure in a continent-derived, lithologically heterogeneous Alpine UHP nappe (Koralpe-Saualpe-Pohorje Complex, Austria and Slovenia)?
(Applicants
John, Timm
;
Pleuger, Jan
)
Interior-atmosphere feedbacks and the nature of detected sub-Neptunian planets
(Applicants
Rauer, Heike
;
Tosi, Nicola
)
Lu-Hf systematics of early solar system materials
(Applicant
Scherer, Erik
)
Migrationsverhalten umweltrelevanter Spurenstoffe unter wechselnden Milieubedingungen im oberflächennahen Grundwasserleiter des Oderbruchs
(Applicant
Winkler, Andreas
)
Molybdenum isotope anomalies in fine-grained refractory inclusions from Allende and Vigarano
(Applicant
Kruijer, Thomas
)
Pebble accretion and the composition of exoplanets
(Applicants
Birnstiel, Tilman
;
Dullemond, Cornelis Petrus
)
Planetary and nebular fractionation in the early solar system: Evidence from isotopes and trace elements in metal
(Applicant
Mezger, Klaus
)
Planetary and nebular fractionation in the early solar system: Evidence from isotopes and trace elements in metal
(Applicant
Palme, Herbert
)
SECCO- Chile: The coupled vegetation, weathering, erosion, and sediment-export response to climate change unravelled from novel proxies in Chilean marine sediment
(Applicants
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Sachse, Dirk
;
Wittmann-Oelze, Hella
)
SPP2 Project - Switching pro- and retro-wedges in the Eastern Alps and their peripheral basins - clues to a change in subduction polarity?
(Applicants
Bauer, Klaus
;
Bernhardt, Anne
;
Handy, Mark R.
)
The Archaean Earth - Coupling between geodynamics and 3D climate modelling
(Applicant
Carone, Ludmila
)
Understanding subduction by linking surface exposures of subducted and exhumed crust to geophysical images of slabs
(Applicants
Handy, Mark R.
;
John, Timm
;
Kaus, Boris J.P.
;
Mechie, James
;
Pleuger, Jan
;
Tilmann, Frederik
;
Yuan, Xiaohui
)
Research Units
Current projects
Destruction, decay, and preservation: Early fossilization of leaf compressions
(Applicants
Bierbaum, Gabriele
;
Gee, Carole T.
)
FOR 2440: Matter Under Planetary Interior Conditions - High-Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics
(Spokesperson
Redmer, Ronald
)
The role of microbes and biofilms in leaf fossilization
(Applicants
Bierbaum, Gabriele
;
Gee, Carole T.
)
Completed projects
Constraining the interiors of exoplanets by measuring the Love number k_2
(Applicant
Rauer, Heike
)
Constraining the interiors of exoplanets by measuring the Love numbers k2, h2
(Applicant
Csizmadia, Ph.D., Szilárd
)
Growth kinetics and texture formation of pyroxene reaction rims in thin films settings
(Applicants
Milke, Ralf
;
Schorr, Susan
)
Reaction between silica or alkali-rich melts and mafic minerals - small scale kinetic fractionation with applications to global-scale mantle metasomatism (TP11)
(Applicant
Milke, Ralf
)
Sr, Nd and Li isotopes in carbonates of the Yangtze Platform and from Kazakhstan as tracers for the Ediacaran and Cambrian weathering history
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Deciphering West African climate change during the last 1.1 million years
(Applicants
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
;
Zeeden, Christian
)
The Burning Question: How did fire shape Eastern Africa’s paleo-ecosystem?
(Applicants
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
;
Tarasov, Pavel
)
Completed projects
Developing a 3.5-million-year benchmark record of Indian Ocean Dipole variability
(Applicant
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
)
Entwicklung der Mineralchemie und Einschlussparagenesenen von Zirkonen aus I- bis S-Typ Granitoiden des Wilson Terranes von Nord Viktoria Land (Antarktika): Zirkon als Monitor einer dynamischen Entstehung kontinentaler Kruste
(Applicants
John, Timm
;
Läufer, Andreas
)
Fractionation of highly siderophile elements in the lower oceanic crust
(Applicant
Becker, Harry
)
In search of the biosphere underneath the Lost City hydrothermal vent field using in-situ sulphur and multiple sulphur isotope signatures
(Applicant
Schwarzenbach, Esther
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
Dynamics of rock dehydration on multiple scales
(Project Heads
John, Timm
;
Thomas, Marita
)
Influence of Fluoride Ions on Fluid-Melt-Mineral Interactions in Ore Forming Processes
(Project Head
John, Timm
)
Completed projects
Coordination an Management and Integration of geological, geophysical and remote sensing data towards a synoptic digital model of the Central andes
(Project Heads
Burger, Heinz
;
Heubeck, Christoph
;
Munier, Kerstin
;
Wigger, Peter J.
)
Die Deformation der zentralen Anden im Spiegelbild der Flußnetze (DIGMA)
(Project Head
Ibbeken, Hillert
)
Digitale Bildverarbeitung von Fernerkundungsdaten der zentralen und südlichen Anden
(Project Head
List, Franz Karl
)
Mustererkennung und Modellbildung unter Einsatz von GIS-Methoden
(Project Head
List, Franz Karl
)
Plateauentwicklung im Subduktionsorogen
(Project Heads
Reutter, Klaus-Joachim
;
Scheuber, Ekkehard
)
Strukturierung aus komplexer Mustererkennung
(Project Head
List, Franz Karl
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Electron beam microprobe analyzer
Multi collector ICP mass spectrometer
Rasterelektronenmikroskop
Rasterelektronenmikroskop mit EDS-, KL- und EBSD-Einrichtung
CRC/Transregios
Completed projects
Ancient bombardment of the inner solar system - Reinvestigation of the "fingerprints" of different impactor populations
(Project Head
Kneissl, Thomas
)
Chronometric investigations of ancient lunar impact rocks
(Project Heads
Becker, Harry
;
Scherer, Erik
)
Crust formation and outgassing on early Earth and Mars
(Project Heads
Noack, Lena
;
Sohl, Frank
)
Early-formed rare and unique meteorites and clasts in meteorite breccias
(Project Heads
Bischoff, Addi
;
John, Timm
)
Early interior-surface-atmosphere interactions on the terrestrial planets
(Project Heads
Rauer, Heike
;
Sohl, Frank
;
Wünnemann, Kai
)
Integrated Research Training Group "Planetary Sciences"
(Project Heads
Becker, Harry
;
Hiesinger, Harald
;
Kleine, Thorsten
)
Is the depletion of the moderately volatile elements in the Earth inherited from nebular processes?
(Project Heads
Becker, Harry
;
John, Timm
)
Origin of the depletion of volatile metals in lunar rocks
(Project Head
Becker, Harry
)
Stable isotope fractionation of S, Te, and Pd and the roles of core formation and late accretion on siderophile volatile elements in the Earth
(Project Heads
Becker, Harry
;
Fischer-Gödde, Mario
;
Klemme, Ph.D., Stephan
)
The atmo- and hydrophile element (H and halogens) inventory of the Earth and Moon
(Project Heads
John, Timm
;
Klemme, Ph.D., Stephan
;
Stracke, Ph.D., Andreas
)
TRR 170: Late Accretion onto Terrestrial Planets
(Spokespersons
Becker, Harry
;
Hiesinger, Harald
;
Kleine, Thorsten
)
TRR 170 data management - building a planetary data portal
(Project Head
Becker, Harry
)
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
Current projects
Deciphering the duration of fluid-rock interaction
(Applicant
John, Timm
)
