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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
)
Developing time-lapse ground-penetrating radar methods for spatio-temporal monitoring of subsurface flow processes
(Applicant
Tronicke, Jens
)
From 3D GPR facies and structures toward 3D petrophysical parameter models
(Applicant
Tronicke, Jens
)
Geomorphic and tectonic controls on the location of eruptive centers in the Andean magmatic arc of southern Chile
(Applicant
Bookhagen, Ph.D., Bodo
)
Glaciers, lakes, and outburst floods: Changing hazards in the NW Pacific Coastal Mountains (REACT)
(Applicants
Dufresne, Ph.D., Anja
;
Veh, Georg
)
Hidden water and landscape erosion
(Applicants
Dietze, Michael
;
Hovius, Niels
)
How is topography maintained in the western Himalayan and where is plate convergence accommodated?
(Applicant
Thiede, Rasmus C.
)
Investigating asperity activity during multiple earthquake cycles
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
IP1: Reconstructing ISM and westerlies influence on Holocene hydrology, productivity and regime shifts in NW Himalaya.
(Applicant
Prasad, Ph.D., Sushma
)
LEAP: Linking structural Evolution with QuAternary landscape evolution and deformation in the western Himalaya: structural segmentation and implications for seismogenesis in Pakistan
(Applicant
Ghani, Humaad
)
Ligth water, heavy water, and sodium chloride aqueous solutions under extreme conditions to shed light on water anomalies and structural properties
(Applicants
Sternemann, Christian
;
Wilke, Max
)
MoLiCarb - Impacts of mosses and lichens on permafrost soil carbon dynamics since the last glacial
(Applicants
Herzschuh, Ulrike
;
Porada, Philipp
)
Monitoring Carbon (MoCa)
(Applicant
Daskalopoulou, Kyriaki
)
MUSE: Magmatic Underplating and Swarm Earthquakes
(Applicants
Dahm, Torsten
;
Ohrnberger, Matthias
)
Petrogenesis, age and origin of (ultra)mafic, magmatic and metamorphic rocks of the Makran Accretionary Wedge, Southern Makran Zone, SE Iran
(Applicant
Timmerman, Martin Jan
)
Quantifying the Influence of SnowmelT on RIVEr Hydrology in High Mountain Asia (STRIVE)
(Applicant
Smith, Taylor
)
Resolving the pre-erosive extent and volume of the Deccan Large Igneous Province with low-temperature thermochronology: Implications for Earth’s long-term carbon cycle
(Applicant
Colleps, Cody
)
Slip budgeT in subduction zones illuminated by geodetic measuRements and earthquake cycle defOrmation modelliNG – STRONG project
(Applicant
Peña, Carlos
)
Testing the Big Mantle Wedge Hypothesis to Explain Intra-Continental Volcanism
(Applicant
Marzotto, Ph.D., Enrico
)
Unraveling the history of Quaternary faults in an active orogen: Paleoseismology and neotectonics of the Subandean foreland fold-and-thrust belt in southern Bolivia
(Applicant
Patyniak, Ph.D., Magda
)
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
)
Completed projects
Active intraplate deformation in central Europe: paleoseismology of the Lower Rhine Embayment
(Applicant
Friedrich, Ph.D., Anke
)
A long-term climate record from lacustrine sediments of the Zada Basin, SW-Tibet
(Applicants
Kempf, Oliver
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Alpine metamorphism of the Pan-African gneiss basement in the Menderes Massif, SW-Turkey. New constraints from Lu-Hf and Sm-Nd garnet geochronology.
(Applicant
Schmidt, Alexander
)
Annual to millennial landslide inventories and hillslope erosion in NW Argentine Andes
(Applicant
Bookhagen, Ph.D., Bodo
)
Behaviour of argon during high pressure metamorphic fluid-rock interaction
(Applicant
Konrad-Schmolke, Matthias
)
Bestimmung der quartären Deformationsraten und des Deformationsregimes im orogenen Vorland des Qilian-Shan, NW-China
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Bewertung der Fumarolentemperatur und ihrer meteorologischen Beeinflussung als Aktivitätsgröße von Vulkanen
(Applicant
Wassermann, Joachim
)
Bodenbildung, Bodenverbreitung und Bodenzustand im mongolischen Teil des Uvs-Nuur-Beckens
(Applicant
Knothe, Dieter
)
Cenozoic stratigraphy and structure in the Central Andes
(Applicant
Uba, Cornelius Eji
)
Changes in paleo-erosion rates, and interactions between erosion, deposition and deformation in the Issyk Kul basin, Kyrgyzstan
(Applicants
Gilder, Stuart Alan
;
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Changing patterns of shortening and lateral extension, Exhumation of the Eastern Alpine orogenic core, Strain partitioning during orogenic indentation
(Applicant
Handy, Mark R.
)
Continental plateaus and tectonics-climate interactions (VAMP)
(Applicants
Echtler, Helmut
;
Mulch, Andreas
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Coupled climatic/tectonic forcing of European topography revealed through thermochronometry (Thermo-Europe)
(Applicants
Oncken, Onno
;
Spiegel, Cornelia
)
DARE: Dense ARray for seismic site effect Estimation
(Applicants
Cotton, Fabrice
;
Ohrnberger, Matthias
)
Dating of low-grade high-pressure Metamorphism in the Afyon Zone; W-Anatolia
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Dating the prograde metamorphism of high-pressure oceanic rocks with combined lawsonite and garnet 176Lu-176Hf geochronology: A feasibility study (Halilbagi Unit, Central Anatolia)
(Applicant
Pourteau, Amaury
)
Defining floodplain boundaries considering hydraulic and ecologic aspects as basis for the development of an integrated approach to quantify ecosystem services of floodplains on the landscape scale
(Applicant
Natho, Stephanie
)
Deformation patterns associated with the seismic cycle of the 27 February Maule earthquake segment at various spatiotemporal scales
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Der Einfluss der Koordination von Spurenelementen in Silikatschmelzen auf Elementverteilungsprozesse in magmatischen Systemen
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Der globale Ca-Kreislauf und die Temperaturabhängigkeit des Ca-Isotopenverhältnisses in marinen Systemen
(Applicant
Eisenhauer, Anton
)
Detecting the Legacy of Catastrophic Lake Outbursts in the Nepal Himalaya
(Applicant
Korup, Oliver
)
Did the Pamir slab form by intracontinental subduction or lithospheric delamination? Clues from the deformation and thermal history
(Applicants
Kley, Jonas
;
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Die Abhängigkeit der Strontiumisotopenfraktionierung (delta88Sr) bei der temperaturkontrollierten Präzipitation von Calciumcarbonat
(Applicant
Eisenhauer, Anton
)
Die bodenhydrologische Reaktion auf Wiederbewaldung in den feuchten Tropen
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Die niedrigtemperierte Hochdruckmetamorphose in Teilen der Lykischen Decken: Verteilung und geodynamische Implikationen und der Vergleich mit dem Dodekanes
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Differentiating between tectonics and eustatic controls in coarse-grained, syn-rift sedimentary basins: Baja California Sur, Mexico
(Applicant
Mortimer, Ph.D., Estelle
)
Diffusive fractionation of lithium and boron isotopes in silicate melts: a tool to study degassing in ascending magmas
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Drought Forecast and Water Management System for the semi-arid region of the state of Ceara, Brazil
(Applicant
Bronstert, Axel
)
Early Tertiary orogenic evolution of the southern Central Andes as reflected by the detrital record preserved in the Puna Plateau and Eastern Cordillera of NW Argentina
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Effective moisture changes and landscape development on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau during the last 50 ka inferred from Lake Donggi Cona lake sediments
(Applicant
Herzschuh, Ulrike
)
Effects of climate warming on debris flow activity and sediment supply in high mountain regions.
(Applicant
Bookhagen, Ph.D., Bodo
)
Einfluß von Reaktionsgeschichte auf geochronologische Systeme (Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd, U-Pb) von schnell-exhumierten Ultrahochtemperatur (UHT)-Gesteinen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Forschungsbohrungen Tirschheim 1/63 und Schweikershain 1/63
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Establishing of the tectonic affinity and pre- Variscan evolution of the Brunovistulian microcontinent (Czech Republic) by U-Pb and Ar-Ar mineral dating of granitoid basement and cover sediments
(Applicant
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Establishment of a community-wide 252Cf source for enhancing production of confined track-lengths for apatite fission track thermochronology
(Applicant
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Estimating and modeling interception in a gradient of forest complexity
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Evolution des Nordrandes des Nordostdeutschen Beckens
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Evolution of normal faults within the Higher Himalaya - local phenomenon or regional trend?
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Exploring the archive data of low grade - high pressure metamorphic sedimentary successions
(Applicants
Immenhauser, Adrian
;
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Fault interactons on different time and length scales: the North-Tehran-Thrust (NTT) and the Mosha-Fasham-Fault (MFF), Alborz mountains, Nothern Iran
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Fe spin transition in the Earth's mantle: insight from X-ray Raman scattering and X-ray absorption spectroscopy
(Applicants
McCammon, Catherine
;
Sternemann, Christian
;
Wilke, Max
)
Field and laboratory investigations of deformational and metamorphic processes related to Tertiary indenter tectonics and the exhumation of high pressure metamorphic rocks in the Western Alps
(Applicant
Handy, Mark R.
)
Gemeinsame Inversion geophysikalischer Datensätze: Strukturelle Verknüpfung mittels fuzzy c-means Clusteranalyse
(Applicant
Paasche, Hendrik
)
Geodynamics of central Tibet
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Geophysical and Geodetic Search for Transients in the Northern Chile Coupling Zone
(Applicants
Asch, Günter
;
Kind, Rainer
;
Scherbaum, Frank
)
Has late Cenozoic climate change lead to enhanced erosion in the Kyrgyz and Chinese Tien Shan?
(Applicant
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Highly Siderophile Elements: A Window to Earth’s Accretion
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
High-resolution 3-D dielectric property models of the shallow subsurface: Integrating direct-push and georadar data
(Applicants
Dietrich, Peter
;
Tronicke, Jens
)
Holocene Environment of far-east Siberia
(Applicants
Diekmann, Bernhard
;
Nazarova, Larisa
)
Identifying Dansgaard/Oeschger Cycles during the Penultimate Glacial
(Applicant
Fohlmeister, Jens
)
Imaging of small-scale structures and time-dependent changes in the rupture area of the 2010 Maule earthquake
(Applicant
Tilmann, Frederik
)
Improving the imaging capabilities of modern portable loop-loop electromagnetic induction (EMI) systems using ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data
(Applicant
Guillemoteau, Ph.D., Julien
)
In situ determination of sulfur speciation in fluids at high temperature and pressure at controlled redox conditions: implications for magma degassing and formation of magmatic ore deposits
(Applicants
Behrens, Harald
;
Schmidt, Christian
)
In situ, high spatial resolution 40Ar/39Ar laser probe dating of microstructures in very low-grade metasediments from the Variscan foreland, southern Ireland
(Applicant
Timmerman, Martin Jan
)
Insolation forcing of climate and hydrology in the Naivasha Basin, Kenya
(Applicant
Trauth, Martin
)
Integrating land use planning and water governance in Amazonia: towards improved freshwater security in the agricultural frontier of Mato Grosso
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Inversion von Momententensoren in anisotropen Medien mit Anwendung auf Schwarmereignisse in der Vogtland Region
(Applicant
Krüger, Frank
)
Investigation of the radiative energy balance of Venus based on improved models of the middle and lower atmosphere
(Applicant
Haus, Rainer
)
Kinematische Herdparameter für globale und regionale Erdbeben
(Applicant
Krüger, Frank
)
Klimatisch-tektonische Wechselwirkungen bei der Entwicklung des Himalaya-Orogens am Beispiel des Sutlej-Tals, NW-Himalaya, Indien
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
KNIPAS - Knipovich Ridge passive seismic experiment Studying active mid-ocean ridge spreading processes and lithospheric structure on segment scale
(Applicants
Krüger, Frank
;
Schlindwein, Vera
)
Late Glacial-Early Holocene climate evolution on the Tibetan Plateau: a trigger or a response to Northern Hemisphere climate change?
(Applicant
Herzschuh, Ulrike
)
Linking biocalcification to the global carbon cycle: carbonate systems during the Paleogene
(Applicant
Mutti, Maria
)
Löslichkeit von HFSE-Mineralen und Speziation von HFS-Elementen in wässrigen Fluiden bei hohen Temperaturen und Drücken
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Lokalisierung, Klassifizierung und Parametrisierung seismischer Quellen vulkanischen Ursprungs am Hochrisikovulkan Merapi, Indonesien
(Applicant
Wassermann, Joachim
)
Magnetostratigraphie des Buntsandsteins in Deutschland
(Applicant
Szurlies, Michael
)
Metamorphic Map of the Eastern Mediterranean Realm
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
"Missing Links" zwischen Dabie und Su-Lu, die Bedeutung der Tan-Lu Störung und ein vereinendes Modell für die Exhumierung der Ultrahochdruckkruste im Qinling-Dabie-Su-Lu Orogen
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Modeling and analysis of earthquake swarms
(Applicant
Scherbaum, Frank
)
Möglichkeiten der Attributanalyse beim Georadarverfahren: Detaillierte strukturelle und parameterbezogene Charakterisierung des oberflächennahen Untergrundes durch gezielte Extraktion und Kombination verschiedener Datenattribute aus 2-D und 3-D Georadardaten
(Applicant
Tronicke, Jens
)
Monsoon and earthquake controls on sediment flux in an arid bedrock landscape, Zanskar, India
(Applicant
Korup, Oliver
)
Multi-spectrum retrieval of surface properties of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko based on Rosetta/VIRTIS measurements
(Applicant
Kappel, David
)
Nanogranites in migmatites: deciphering the chemical differentiation in the continental crust
(Applicant
O' Brien, Patrick J.
)
Neogene to Quaternary tectono-geomorphic evolution and paleo-hydrology of the South Central Andes, NW Argentina
(Applicants
Mulch, Andreas
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Neogene transitional carbonates: the link between the tropical and the temperate carbonate province
(Applicant
Mutti, Maria
)
Numerische Modellierung von metamorphen Reaktionsentwicklungen entlang vorgegebener P-T-Pfade: der Einfluss von Fraktionierung und Devolatisation
(Applicant
O' Brien, Patrick J.
)
Optical and X-ray absorption spectroscopy of the pressure-induced spin transition of Fe2+ in natural phosphates of the triphylite-lithiophilite series, Li (Fex2+Mn1-x2+)[PO4]
(Applicants
Koch-Müller, Monika
;
Wilke, Max
)
Organic components of cometary nuclei and the effects of opaque phases on spectral detectability of cometary organics and minerals.
(Applicant
Moroz, Liubov
)
Palaeoecology and evolution of Pliocene-Pleistocene Turkana Basin molluscs: Implications for basin formation and the evolution of hominins in East Africa
(Applicant
Glaubrecht, Matthias
)
Plant diversity changes at the southeastern Tibetan Plateau during the last 21 ka and its drivers
(Applicant
Kruse, Stefan
)
Polarisations- und Slowness-Untersuchungen mit dem Dreikomponenten-Gräfenberg-Array
(Applicant
Meier, Thomas
)
Polygons in tundra wetlands: state and dynamics under climate variability in Polar Regions (POLYGON)
(Applicants
Herzschuh, Ulrike
;
Joosten, Hans
;
Kutzbach, Lars
)
PRISM - Probabilistic Inference of Source Mechanisms
(Applicant
Stähler, Simon
)
Quantification of element transport processes in metamorphic rocks - simulating garnet porphyroblast growth in a three dimensional composition-space-time system.
(Applicant
Konrad-Schmolke, Matthias
)
Quantifying Tectonic and Glacial Controls on Topography: Patagonia, South America
(Applicants
Ehlers, Todd Alan
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Quantitative reconstructions of Holocene and Late Pleistocene palaeotemperatures in Yakutia, North-Eastern Russia using regional Chironnomid inference model
(Applicant
Nazarova, Larisa
)
Quaternary climate change in the most continental part of Central Asia
(Applicants
Herzschuh, Ulrike
;
Mischke, Steffen
;
Riedel, Frank
)
Raum-zeitliche Erosionsmuster in einem ungestörten tropischen Regenwald
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Raumzeitliche Seismizitätsmodelle für Gebiete niedriger Erdbebenaktivität
(Applicant
Scherbaum, Frank
)
Recurrence plot analysis of regime changes in dynamical Systems
(Applicant
Marwan, Norbert
)
Relikte eklogit- und granulitfazieller Überprägung im Menderes Kristallin; ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung des Massivs
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Response of East African climate to orbital forcing during the last two glacial-interglacial cycles: The Lake Naivasha Coring Project
(Applicant
Trauth, Martin
)
Seamless Hydrological prediction of east Indian summer monsoon and Variance Analysis of its meteorological and hydrological uncertainty (SHIVA)
(Applicant
Bronstert, Axel
)
Sediment export and its controls during secondary forest succession
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Seismic Tomography of the Oman Ophiolite
(Applicant
Weidle, Christian
)
Seismische Erkundung des oberen Erdmantels im Übergang zwischen dem phanerozoisch konsolidierten Mitteleuropa und dem osteuropäischen Kraton über die Tornquist-Teisseyre-Zone
(Applicants
Kind, Rainer
;
Krüger, Frank
)
Seismische Erkundung des oberen Erdmantels in der Übergangszone zwischen dem Phanerozoisch konsolidierten Mitteleuropa und dem Osteuropäischen Kraton mittels PASSEQ-Daten
(Applicants
Kind, Rainer
;
Krüger, Frank
;
Meier, Thomas
)
Seismological array experiment in the deep ocean west of Portugal to test the theoretical improvements in deep structure imaging and phase identification
(Applicants
Dahm, Torsten
;
Krüger, Frank
)
Seismotectonic investigation of the Alborz Mountains, Northern Iran, by means of an innovative algorithm for seismic moment tensor retrieval
(Applicant
Krüger, Frank
)
Shallow-water carbonate response to climatic events: sedimentological, paleoecological and chemostratigraphic approaches to foraminiferal biocalcification during the Paleogene in the Thetyan realm (Dinarids and Oman)
(Applicant
Mutti, Maria
)
Slip rate of the Qilian Shan frontal thrust, China, as derived from surface exposure dating
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Source mechanics and seismotectonics of swarm earthquakes in the region Vogtland/NW Bohemia
(Applicant
Seidl, Dieter
)
Staubsturm-Archiv im nördlichen saharischen Grenzraum für die letzten 15.000 Jahre - Machbarkeitsstudie
(Applicant
Pachur, Hans-Joachim
)
Structural and geomorphic origin of anomalous topographic culminations in the Chinese Pamir: Muztagh Ata and Kongur Shan
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Structural evolution of the Namche Barwa Syntaxis and Nyang River Shear Zone, SE-Tibet
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Strukturelle und zeitliche Entwicklung von archaischen Hochdruck-Granuliten in Nordchina
(Applicant
Kröner, Alfred
)
Szenarien hydrologischer Extreme - Zweidimensionales Downscaling von Klimamodellen auf tägliche Niederschläge mit Anwendungen in der Hydrologie
(Applicant
Bürger, Gerd
)
The role of fluid-induced partial melting in magmatic crystal mush in the origin of stratiform chromite deposits of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa
(Applicants
Veksler, Ph.D., Ilya
;
Wilke, Max
)
The structural and environmental history of the Suguta Valley, Northern Kenya Rift
(Applicant
Trauth, Martin
)
Tipping elements and thresholds for extreme climate events in the Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) realm (TISUR) IP3: Ecological regime shifts in response to monsoon dynamics and anthropogenic activities
(Applicant
Stebich, Martina
)
Topographic relief and climate-tectonics-erosion interactions in the Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan
(Applicant
Stübner, Konstanze
)
Toward a data-driven framework for hydrogeological uncertainty characterization
(Applicant
Hesse, Falk
)
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
)
Untersuchung/Charakterisierung mittel- und nordatlantischer seismischer Quellen mittlerer Magnitude mit 3-Komponenten Arrays
(Applicants
Dahm, Torsten
;
Krüger, Frank
)
Untersuchung der Struktur des tiefen Erdinnern (Erdkern) mit Daten des Deutschen Regionalen Seismologischen Netzes (GRSN)
(Applicant
Schlittenhardt, Jörg
)
Untersuchung der Struktur von Hoch- und Niedriggeschwindigkeitsregionen in der D"-Schicht mit kombinierten Arrays von Stationen und Erdbeben
(Applicant
Krüger, Frank
)
Untersuchungen zu PGE-Mobilisationen in "Alaskan-type" mafisch-ultramafischen Komplexen am Beispiel des Nizhni Tagil Massivs, Mittlerer Ural
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Untersuchungen zur Elliptizität (H/V-Verhältnis) von Rayleighwellen
(Applicant
Malischewsky, Peter
)
U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of minerals from metamorphic and syn-orogenic sedimentary rocks as a key to understanding architecture and evolution of collisional orogens
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Vegetation changes during the last 400 years in norhern Yakutia, Arctic Russia: Evidence from pollen analysis and vegetation modeling
(Applicant
Herzschuh, Ulrike
)
Wechselwirkungen zwischen wässrigen Fluiden und silikatischen Schmelzen - Verteilung von Spurenelementen
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Weitergehende Untersuchungen zur Theorie der H/V-Methode
(Applicant
Scherbaum, Frank
)
Zur Geomorphologie des Karakorum: Paraglaziale Sedimentationsformen im Umfeld ausgewählter Gletscher im Hispar- und Muztagh-Karakorum
(Applicant
Iturrizaga, Lasafam
)
Publication Grants
Completed projects
Die Eisrandtäler im Karakorum
(Applicant
Iturrizaga, Lasafam
)
Die Schuttkörper in Hochasien - Eine geomorphologische Bestandsaufnahme und Typologie postglazialer Hochgebirgsschuttkörper im Hindukusch, Karakorum und Himalaya
(Applicant
Iturrizaga, Lasafam
)
Research Fellowships
Completed projects
A tropical perspective on ice-age cycles: Evidence for rapid climate transitions from East African paleolake records
(Applicant
Bergner, Andreas
)
Discerning connectivity features and scaling behaviour of spatial random fields through the Method of Anchored Distributions (MAD).
(Applicant
Hesse, Falk
)
Georadar-Verfahren zur Charakterisierung von Lockergesteinsaquiferen: Bewertung der Unschärfen bei der hydrogeologischen Parameterinterpretation
(Applicant
Tronicke, Jens
)
Gletscherseeausbrüche im Karambar-/Chapursan-Tal (Karakorum): Geomorphologische Untersuchungen zum diluvialen Sedimentformenschatz
(Applicant
Iturrizaga, Lasafam
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Non-double-couple moment tensor components and their relation to fluid flow in the West-Bohemia/Vogtland region
(Applicants
Donner, Stefanie
;
Krüger, Frank
)
The Burning Question: How did fire shape Eastern Africa’s paleo-ecosystem?
(Applicants
Kaboth-Bahr, Stefanie
;
Tarasov, Pavel
)
Completed projects
39Ar/40Ar in situ determination on local equilibrium domains: Exhumation history of UHP rock from the Chineese Continental Scientific Drilling (CCSD) drill hole in Donghai, China
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Boreal forest bi-stability around Lake El’gygytgyn (NE Russia) during interglacial of the last 2.15 Million years
(Applicant
Herzschuh, Ulrike
)
Carbonate systems response to changes in continental weathering, oceanography and sea-level fluctuations: an integrated approach
(Applicant
Mutti, Maria
)
Chemical, isotopic, and mineralogical proxy data for aeolian input into the Lake Baikal system during the last 150 ka
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Continental drilling through the shallow Alpine fault, New Zealand
(Applicants
Kopf, Achim
;
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Deciphering climate information from authigenic mineral transformations in the Chew Bahir sediment cores: Towards a continuous half-million year climate record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift
(Applicant
Foerster, Verena
)
Deciphering the evolution of ultrahigh temperature granulites, Prydz Bay, Antarctica: reaction textures, reaction history and the relationships between lower crustal and mantle processes during continent formation and destruction
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Digitizing drill logs and geophysical data from Issyk Kul
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
DNA-Metabarcoding of phyto- and zooplankton in East African lake sediments as proxies for past environmental perturbation
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
;
Trauth, Martin
)
Dynamics of fluid flow in Westbohemia/ Vogtland: Imaging and Detection (Bohemian FluID)
(Applicant
Ohrnberger, Matthias
)
Evaluation of cored carbonates (COREF): a transect in the tropical to subtropical realm in the Ryukyu Islands (Japan)
(Applicant
Mutti, Maria
)
High-resolution Imaging of Swarm Systems through seismological re-processing of earthquakeswarm episodes employing full waveform double-difference methods [HISS]
(Applicants
Alexandrakis-Zieger, Ph.D., Catherine
;
Cesca, Simone
;
Ohrnberger, Matthias
)
ICEquakes: Identification, Classification and Evaluation of cryogenic events in seismological overservatory data
(Applicants
Ohrnberger, Matthias
;
Schlindwein, Vera
)
Lake Issyk Kul: Neotectonic deformation of (paleo-) shorelines and their link with intermontane basin closure and lake-level fluctuations
(Applicant
Landgraf, Angela
)
Lake Van Drilling Project "PALEOVAN", a long continental record in eastern Turkey: Geochronology, palynostratigraphy and environmental response on volcanic events
(Applicants
Litt, Thomas
;
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Locating Scattered Energy in Vogtland's Earthquake Swarm Source Area through Double 3D-Array Beamforming and Inter-Event Coda Correlation Imaging (D3D)
(Applicants
Dahm, Torsten
;
Krüger, Frank
;
Ohrnberger, Matthias
)
Metabarcoding of ancient eukaryotic DNA from Chew Bahir, Ethiopia: Reconstruction of past biodiversity responses to drastic environmental change
(Applicants
Hofreiter, Michael
;
Tiedemann, Ph.D., Ralph
)
Mikrostrukturell unterstützte Isotopengeochemische Untersuchungen im Dabie Shan und an der Tiefbohrung Sulu: Datierung der Exhumierung und retrograden Metamorphose
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Pliocene Arctic vegetation and its feedbacks with climate: combining Lake El´gygytgyn pollen data and vegetation modelling
(Applicants
Herzschuh, Ulrike
;
Melles, Martin
)
Seismologisches Tiefenlabor in den KTB/ICDP-Bohrungen
(Applicant
Borm, Günter
)
Seismologisches Tiefenobservatorium in den KTB/ICDP-Bohrungen
(Applicant
Weber, Michael
)
Siberian fire regime shifts during interglacials of the last 3.6 Myrs inferred from sedimentary records of Lake El’gygytgyn (NE Asia)
(Applicant
Dietze, Elisabeth
)
Tectonics and climate in a low-latitude rift: rift-shoulder denudation and sedimentation processes in northern Lake Malawi
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
The Chew Bahir Coring Project: Climate-vegetation feedbacks during the African Humid Period in the southern Ethiopian Rift
(Applicants
Schäbitz, Frank
;
Trauth, Martin
)
The Chew Bahir Drilling Project: A Half-Million Year Climate Record from the Southern Ethiopian Rift, Crucible of Human Evolution
(Applicants
Schäbitz, Frank
;
Trauth, Martin
)
Thermomechanische und strukturgeologische Erkundung entlang der N-S Geotraverse im Dabie Shan und Erfassung petrophysikalischer Grunddaten für tomographische Experimente
(Applicant
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Thermomechanische und strukturgeologische Erkundung entlang der N-S Geotraverse im Dabie Shan und Erfassung petrophysikalischer Grunddaten für tomographische Experimente
(Applicant
Ratschbacher, Lothar
)
Thermomechanische und strukturgeologische Erkundung entlang der N-S Geotraverse im Dabie Shan und Erfassung petrophysikalischer Grunddaten für tomographische Experimente
(Applicant
Klemd, Reiner
)
Trends, rhythms and events in East African climate: statistical analysis of the paleoclimare records of the long sediment cores of the Chew Bahir basin
(Applicant
Trauth, Martin
)
Research Units
Completed projects
Electronic structure of Fe/Mg carbonates at conditions of the Earth's lower mantle: Implications for the formation of tetrahedrally coordinated carbon
(Applicants
Sternemann, Christian
;
Wilke, Max
)
Feedbacks between soils, biota, land management and hydrological processes at different spatiotemporal scales
(Applicants
van Schaik, Loes
;
Schröder-Esselbach, Boris
)
FOR 1380: Himalaya: Modern and Past Climates (HIMPAC)
(Spokespersons
Prasad, Ph.D., Sushma
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
FOR 2125: "Structures, properties and reactions of carbonates at high temperatures and pressures"
(Spokesperson
Winkler, Björn
)
Hydrological connectivity and its controls on hillslope and catchment scale stream flow generation
(Applicants
Blume, Theresa
;
Weiler, Markus
)
Hydrologische Prozessaufklärung bei einer Großhangbewegung sowie kontinuierliche, prozess-differenzierte hydrologische Modellierung in Kombination mit Strukturaufklärung und Ermittlung kritischer Parameterfelder mit schwach invasiven Methoden
(Applicants
Tronicke, Jens
;
Zehe, Erwin
)
Impact of Holocene climate variability on palaeoproductivity changes recorded in lake sediments
(Applicant
Prasad, Ph.D., Sushma
)
Non-invasive geophysical and remote sensing methods to map and characterize relevant structures and processes
(Applicants
Hinz, Stefan
;
Tronicke, Jens
)
Raum-zeitliche Muster der Wasserleitfähigkeit in Störungsgradienten
(Applicant
Elsenbeer, Helmut
)
Reconstructing Holocene climatic oscillations in the Indian monsoon system using cores from Himalayan (Manasbal, Tso Moiri) and central Indian (Lonar) lakes
(Applicants
Gaye, Birgit
;
Riedel, Frank
;
Scheck-Wenderoth, Magdalena
;
Stebich, Martina
)
Research Unit Coordination
(Applicants
Prasad, Ph.D., Sushma
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Seasonality and variations in moisture-supply on different timescales (1-104 yrs) and their relation to surface processes in the NW Himalaya
(Applicant
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Stable isotopes from peat profiles from the western Himalayas (India as indicators of westerlies and monsoon variability during the Holocene
(Applicants
Lücke, Andreas
;
Prasad, Ph.D., Sushma
)
X-ray fluorescence and X-ray absorption spectroscopy studies of element redistribution processes between carbonates and mantle phases at lower mantle conditions
(Applicants
Appel, Karen
;
Wilke, Max
)
Heisenberg Fellowships
Completed projects
Monsoon and earthquake controls on sediment flux in an arid bedrock landscape, Zanskar, India
(Applicant
Korup, Oliver
)
Quaternary environmental and climate history in the arid and alpine regions of the Old World
(Applicant
Mischke, Steffen
)
Priority Programmes
Current projects
Coordination Funds
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Experimental determination of boron isotope fractionation between silicate melts and aqueous fluids, with application to understanding magmatic-hydrothermal ore genesis
(Applicants
Jahn, Sandro
;
Trumbull, Robert
;
Wilke, Max
;
Wunder, Bernd
)
Natural and experimental constraints on the behaviour of Re in the Earth’s crust: Part B - hydrothermal transport of Re and Mo-Re fractionation
(Applicants
Jahn, Sandro
;
Klemme, Ph.D., Stephan
;
Wilke, Max
)
Properties of Fe-bearing geomaterials at conditions close to the core-mantle boundary
(Applicants
Appel, Karen
;
Sieber, Ph.D., Melanie
;
Sternemann, Christian
)
SPP 2238: Dynamics of Ore-Metals Enrichment - DOME
(Spokesperson
Wilke, Max
)
Transpression and transtension in the Eastern Alps (TATEA): Kinematics and age of a sinistral wrench zone
(Applicant
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
)
Completed projects
Density and fate of silicate melts in the early Earth s mantle
(Applicant
Petitgirard, Sylvain
)
Determination of single-crystal elastic properties of olivine and serpentine as a function of chemical composition at conditions of subduction zones up to GPa, 1000°C
(Applicant
Speziale, Sergio
)
Experimental studies on Mo mobility in high-pressure high-temperature fluids of complex compositions
(Applicants
Klemme, Ph.D., Stephan
;
Schmidt, Christian
;
Wilke, Max
)
Fingerprints analysis of extreme events caused by stratospheric sulfur injections (FASSI)
(Applicant
Cubasch, Ulrich
)
Koordinationschemie von Eisen in silikatischen Gläsern und Schmelzen - eine XAFS Studie
(Applicant
Wilke, Max
)
Signal Dynamik im Waveletphasenraum: die Wavelet Deformationsalgebra und ihre Anwendung bei der Analyse seismischer Signale
(Applicant
Holschneider, Matthias
)
Vegetation-based climate reconstruction for the Tibetan Plateau: integrating vegetation modelling and pollen data reanalyses
(Applicants
Herzschuh, Ulrike
;
Jeltsch, Florian
)
Vegetation, Climate, Man - Holocene Variability in monsoonal Central Asia (HOLOCENE CV)
(Applicants
Claußen, Martin
;
Herzschuh, Ulrike
)
Walvis Ridge Passive-Source Seismic Experiment - Seismic structures and seismotectonics in the passive continental margin of NW Namibia
(Applicants
Scherbaum, Frank
;
Yuan, Xiaohui
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
Ar/Ar Gasmassenspektrometer mit UV Laserablationssystem
Elektronenmikrosonde
Collaborative Research Centres
Completed projects
Fluid-Gesteinsinteraktion und Deformation um Intrusiva
(Project Heads
Baumgartner, Lukas P.
;
Oberhänsli, Roland
)
Klimatische Kontrolle und Magnitude rezenter und vergangener Erosionsregimes
(Project Heads
Haselton, Kirk
;
Trauth, Martin
)
Klima und Tektonik
(Project Head
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Plateau formation recorded by tectonic and climatic signals in intramontane basins in NW Arbentina
(Project Heads
Blisniuk, Ph.D., Peter Michael
;
Oncken, Onno
;
Sobel, Ph.D., Edward
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
;
Trauth, Martin
)
Strukturanalyse und Exhumierung der östlichen Puna bei 24 Grad S
(Project Heads
Oncken, Onno
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Tektonisch aktive orographische Barrieren und ihr Einfluß auf Klima- und Sedimentationssysteme
(Project Heads
Blisniuk, Ph.D., Peter Michael
;
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
Reinhart Koselleck Projects
Current projects
Deciphering the duration of fluid-rock interaction
(Applicant
John, Timm
)
Emmy Noether Independent Junior Research Groups
Completed projects
Bridging Geodesy and Seismology for improved and automated estimation of faulting events
(Applicant
Sudhaus, Henriette
)
Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 1364: Shaping the Earth's Surface in a Variable Environment: Interactions between Tectonics, Climate and Biosphere in the African-Asian Monsoonal Region
(Spokesperson
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
GRK 2043: Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World (NatRisk-Change)
(Spokesperson
Thieken, Annegret
)
International Research Training Groups
Completed projects
GRK 2018: SuRfAce processes, TEctonics and Georesources: The Andean foreland basin of Argentina (StRaTEGy)
(Spokesperson
Strecker, Ph.D., Manfred
)
