Professor Dr. Axel Schippers

Address Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR)
Stilleweg 2
30655 Hannover

Projects

As Applicant
- Completed projects
  - Development and Application of New Quantitative Molecular Ecological Techniques to Study the Abundance and Activity of Microorganisms in the Marine Deep Subsurface (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Quantification of Living Microorganisms and of Novel Abundant Prokaryotic Groups in different Deeply Buried Marine Sediments (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Deep Biosphere Quantification in Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure Sediments (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Geomicrobiology of a high saline mine tailings in the desert Atacama, Chile (Research Grants)
  - Deep biosphere quantification in various marine sediments (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Cultivation and quantification of microorganisms from the deep hot biosphere in the mid-Okinawa trough (IODP Exp. 331) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Accumulation, transformation, and stabilization of organic nitrogen along a mineralogical soil gradient (Research Grants)
  - Cultivation and quantification of microorganisms in Baltic Sea deep sediments in response to glacial and interglacial cycles (IODP Exp. 347) (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Exploring reaction mechanisms of dissimilatory ferric reduction-coupled sulfur oxidation (DIRSO) by acidophilic prokaryotes and its relevance for bioleaching and acid mine drainage formation (Research Grants)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Development and Application of New Quantitative Molecular Ecological Techniques to Study the Abundance and Activity of Microorganisms in the Marine Deep Subsurface (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Supply of soluble Fe to ocean surface waters - quantitative approaches from ICDP site Hawaii by determining interface driven Fe transfer from subsurface volcanic rocks (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)