Research Projects at the Institute of Earth System Sciences

Our research projects

Dynamical modelling of subglacial meltwater erosion during past and future glaciations

Winsemann, J. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202215 May 2026

Project: Research

Early Cretaceous lignites from inner-continental Asia as paleoclimate archive

Heimhofer, U. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202231 Dec 2025

Project: Research

Micromechanics of root growth and physical habitat properties in the rhizosphere (project in the Priority Programme 2089/2: Rhizosphere Spatiotemporal Organisation - a Key to Rhizosphere Functions)

Peth, S. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202231 Aug 2025

Project: Research

PedoDiff: Plot Scale Soil Diffusivity Measurement System

Stoppe-Struck, N. (Principal Investigator) & Peth, S. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202231 May 2027

Project: Research

Structural characterization and dating of an active strike-slip fault that passes from bedrock into unconsolidated sediments

Brandes, C. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202231 Mar 2024

Project: Research

BonaRes - ORDIAmur: Verbundprojekt: Überwindung der Nachbaukrankheit mithilfe eines integrierten Ansatzes. Modul A, Phase 3, Teilprojekt A

Guggenberger, G. (Principal Investigator)

1 Apr 202230 Jun 2025

Project: Research

Arsenic and Molybdenum in Marine Carbonates: Redistribution, Binding Forms and Isotope Systematics

Weyer, S. (Principal Investigator)

1 Feb 202231 Jan 2025

Project: Research

Projekt Innovation Plus (2022/23); Nummer 093: Landschaften digital erlebbar machen - Verknüpfung von Realexkursionen mit digitalen Lernorten in der Physischen Geographie und Landschaftsökologie

Groß, J. (Principal Investigator) & Steinhoff-Knopp, B. (Principal Investigator)

1 Jan 202231 Dec 2023

Project: Other

Oxidation-induced Weathering of Primary Iron-rich Silicates: Scale-dependent Rates and their Controls

Behrens, R. (Principal Investigator)

1 Jan 202231 Dec 2023

Project: Research

Root Biomineralization and Rhizoliths Formation in the Deserts of Northwest China

Zamanian, K. (Principal Investigator)

1 Jan 202231 Dec 2024

Project: Research