Professor Dr. Harald Strauß

Address Universität Münster
Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie
Corrensstraße 24
48149 Münster

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Der sedimentäre Schwefelkreislauf im Paläozoikum (Priority Programmes)
  - The carbon isotopic composition of terrestrial organic matter as a proxy signal for climatic and paleobotanical evolution during the late Paleozoic (Priority Programmes)
  - Isotopic investigation of the sulfur and carbon cycles in sedimentary rocks from the Yangtze Platform, China: seawater chemistry and biogeochemical evolution during the terminal Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic (Research Grants)
  - Chemostratigraphie einer paläoproterozoischen BIF-MnF Abfolge - die Hotazel Formation, Südafrika (Research Grants)
  - Biogeochemische und palökologische Evolution jungpaläozoischer Seesysteme (Priority Programmes)
  - Chemostratigraphie einer paläoproterozoischen BIF-MnF Abfolge - die Hotazel Formation, Südafrika (Research Grants)
  - Stratigraphie, Palynologie und Biogeochemie von Rotliegendseesedimenten des Saar-Nahe Beckens (Priority Programmes)
  - Biogeochemie des Schwefels in neoproterozoischen und kambrischen Sedimenten Indiens (Research Grants)
  - Tectono-magmatic evolution and fluid geochemistry and biology in hydrothermal vent fields of the Mic-Atlantic between 4 and 11°S m (M64/1) (Priority Programmes)
  - Longstern study of hydrothermalism and biology at the Logatchev field, Mid-Atlantic Ridge at 15°N (revisit 2005) M64/2 (Priority Programmes)
  - An Integrated Sedimentological and Multi-proxy Geochemical Investigation of the Neoproterozoic Climatic Paradox (Research Grants)
  - Chemostratigraphy of a Paleoproterozoic BIF-MnF succession - the Voelwater Subgroup, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa (Research Grants)
  - The sulphur isotopic evolution of Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic seawater - clues for reconstructing Earth's oxygenation and sulphur metabolism (Research Grants)
  - Sulphur isotopic investigation of dissolved and solid sulphur phases in fluids, mineral precipitates, sediments and rock samples from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (Priority Programmes)
  - Multiple sulphur isotopes reflecting atmospheric and oceanic evolution in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic (Research Grants)
  - Biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution across Earth's earliest glacial episodes (Research Grants)
  - The emergence of an aerobic world: isotopic evidence for biogeochemical changes at the Archean-Proterozoic transition (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Molecular and organic carbon isotopic evidence for the evolution of key metabolic pathways during the Archean-Proterozoic transition (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Resolving sedimentary sulphur cycling during the Shunga Event (early Paleoproterozoic) with sulphur isotopes (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Unraveling the sulfur cycle with carbonates: mechanism of incorporation and diagenesis of structurally-substituted-sulfate (Research Units)
  - From a modern highly mineralized spring to the Paleoproterozoic ocean: geomicrobiology and isotopic biogeochemistry of the Arvadi spring, Switzerland (Research Grants)
  - Peering into the Cradle of Life: multiple sulphur isotopes reveal insights into environmental conditions and early sulphur metabolism some 3.5 Ga ago (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Sulfate and dolomitization - constraints for precipitation and alteration (Research Units)
  - A profile of multiple sulfur, oxygen, strontium isotopes and related chalcophile elements through lower slow-spreading crust (IODP Expedition 360, Atlantis Bank, Southwest Indian Ridge) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Calcium isotope fractionation during transport and recrystallisation processes in marine deep sea sediments (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Elucidating Eoarchean geodynamic processes by multiple sulfur isotopes (Priority Programmes)
  - Was the Great Oxidation Event a sharp or an oscillating build-up of free atmospheric oxygen? A combined S-Mo-Se isotope study of continuous drill core records through the Duitschland/ Rooihoogte and Timeball Hill Formations, Transvaal Basin, South Africa (Priority Programmes)
As Leader
- Completed projects
  - Gas-Isotopenverhältnis-Massenspektrometer I (Major Research Instrumentation)
  - Gas-Isotopenverhältnis-Massenspektrometer II (Major Research Instrumentation)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Genese und Dynamik der C- und S-Verbindungen in tiefen Porengrundwässern der Niederrheinischen Bucht (Testfeld Braunkohle - Standort Garzweiler) (Priority Programmes)
  - Geochemistry of impact lithologies, Chicxulub, Mexico (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Sinian low-latitude glacial deposits on the Yangtze platform, South China: Sedimentological and geochemical evidence for Late Proterozoic climate change and a test of the Snowball Earth hypothesis (Research Grants)
  - Evolution of higher land plants during the late Palaeozoic: A compound specific carbon isotopic study (Priority Programmes)
  - Numerische Modellierung der im SPP 1054 gewonnenen kontinuierlichen geochemischen Datensätze (Priority Programmes)
  - Tectono-magmatic evolution and fluid geochemistry and biology in hydrothermal vent fields of the Mic-Atlantic between 4 and 11°S m (M64/1) (Priority Programmes)
  - Biosignatures in precipitates and altered rocks at hydrothermal systems of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: organic geochemistry, microbiology and petrography (Priority Programmes)
  - Gas chemistry and carbon cycling at hydrothermal systems along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge: time- and space-referenced biogeochemical and isotopic investigations (Priority Programmes)
  - Quantification and geochemical characterization of total mass fluxes in river catchments of the Rhenish Massif and the Black Forest, Germany (Research Grants)
  - Mikrobiologie an Hydrothermalquellen des Tyrrhenischen Meeres (Research Grants)
  - Establishment of the core facility Münster Isotope Research Center (MIRC) (Research Grants)
  - Formation of mega-glendonites in the aftermath of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (Research Grants)
  - The Permian-Triassic boundary and the Early Triassic in Transcaucasian and Central Iranian pelagic sections (Research Grants)
  - Establishing a reference profile for fast-spreading oceanic crust: Petrology and geochemistry of the "Wadi Gideah" cross section in the Oman ophiolite (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Cooperation Partner
- Completed projects
  - Uranium and V isotope variations in Archean sediments: Evidence for metal mobilization and enzymatic reduction in an overall anoxic world? (Priority Programmes)
As Co-Investigator
- Current projects
  - Multiple sulfur isotopes and metal trap evolution in sediment hosted ore systems (Priority Programmes)
  - A Big Data approach to reconstruct Australia’s hydroclimate (Neogene - Quaternary) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
- Completed projects
  - Long in-situ sections in the Wadi Gideah, Oman ophiolite: The key for understanding the mechanism of accretion, magmatic evolution and cooling of lower fast-spread oceanic crust (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)