Research Projects at the Institute of Earth System Sciences

Our research projects

Tectonic and geomorphological evolution of forearcs during ridge subduction

Hampel, A. (Principal Investigator)

1 Jan 201630 Jun 2017

Project: Research

Behavior of chalcophile elements in subduction zone processes

Botcharnikov, R. (Principal Investigator)

1 Dec 201530 Nov 2018

Project: Research

Melt/rock interaction and fractional crystallization in the lower crust at Hess Deep Rift, East Pacific Rise: A combined analytical and experimental study (project in the Priority Programme 527: Bereich Infrastruktur - Integrated Ocean Drilling Program/Ocean Drilling Program (IODP/ODP))

Koepke, J. (Principal Investigator)

1 Dec 201531 Jul 2019

Project: Research

Reconstruction of Cenomanian shoal-water temperatures using integrated rudist shell sclerochemistry (oxygen isotopes, Mg/Ca, clumped isotopes)

Huck, S. (Principal Investigator) & Heimhofer, U. (Principal Investigator)

1 Nov 201531 Aug 2019

Project: Research

Dichotomy of gluing and cementing agents in soil microaggregation (sub-project SP4 of the Research Unit 2179/1: MAD Soil - Microaggregates: Formation and turnover of the structural building blocks of soils)

Guggenberger, G. (Principal Investigator)

1 Oct 201530 Sept 2019

Project: Research

EarthShape - BioSoils: Biogenic weathering: opening the black box with new isotope systems and in situ mineral decomposition experiments (project in the Priority Programme 1803: Earth Surface Shaping by Biota)

Boy, J. (Principal Investigator) & Guggenberger, G. (Principal Investigator)

1 Sept 20151 Jan 2022

Project: Research

URL: project website (external link)

Landscape evolution and exhumation history during active continental extension: the central Menderes Massif, western Turkey

Wölfler, A. (Co-Investigator) & Hampel, A. (Co-Investigator)

1 Sept 201531 Aug 2018

Project: Research

Uranium and V isotope variations in Archean sediments: Evidence for metal mobilization and enzymatic reduction in an overall anoxic world? (project in the Priority Programme 1833: Building a Habitable Earth)

Weyer, S. (Principal Investigator) & Schuth, S. (Principal Investigator)

1 Sept 201531 Aug 2018

Project: Research

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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 (project in the Priority Programme 1006: International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP))

Koepke, J. (Principal Investigator)

1 Jun 201531 May 2017

Project: Research

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Determination of the depth of rhyolitic magma chambers in the Snake River Plain province, USA,: an experimental calibration (project in the Priority Programme 1006: International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP))

Holtz, F. (Principal Investigator), Almeev, R. (Co-Investigator) & Behrens, H. (Co-Investigator)

1 May 201530 Apr 2016

Project: Research

URL: more information about the project (external link)