Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Fachgruppe für Geowissenschaften und Geographie
Lehrstuhl für Organische Biogeochemie in Geo-Systemen (OBG)
Address
Lochnerstraße 4-20
52064 Aachen
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
52064 Aachen
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
Early Cretaceous lignites from inner-continental Asia as paleoclimate archive
(Applicants
Heimhofer, Ulrich
;
Littke, Ralf
)
Organic-geochemical proxy for tracing recent and historical Tsunamis in time and space
(Applicants
Reicherter, Klaus
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
REMEMBER: REsponses of neotropical freshwater ecosysteMs to climatE and environMental disturBance in the Mayan Region of Mexico during the Common Era
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Pérez, Liseth
)
Uncharted offshore archives – organic geochemical imprints on the Algarve shelf
(Applicants
Reicherter, Klaus
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Completed projects
2-D Basin Modelling of the Limón Back-arc Basin, Costa Rica
(Applicant
Winsemann, Jutta
)
Coastal and estuarine sediment archives for flood-induced pollution in subtropic / tropic areas – a proof-of-concept study
(Applicants
Lehmkuhl, Frank
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Coupled Fluid Dynamic And Poro-Elastic Effects During Gas Flow In Nanoporous Media: Experiments And Multi-Scale Modelling
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Determination of water-soluble synthetic polymers in waste and surface waters
(Applicant
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Erfassung anthropogen veränderter organischer Makromoleküle und Identifizierung gebundener niedermolekularer Substanzen und ihrer Bindungsformen in kontaminierten Flusssedimenten
(Applicant
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Footprints of ice: Ice loading and its effects on sedimentary basins and the carbon cycle
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Freisetzung von DDT-bürtigen Verbindungen aus gebunden Rückständen durch subaquatische oder terrestrische Verlagerung kontaminierter Flusssedimente
(Applicants
Pekdeger, Asaf
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Geochemische Charakterisierung der organischen Fracht im Flusssystem Lippe zur umfassenden Beurteilung des anthropogenen Beitrags - Mustererkennung biogener, geogener und anthropogener Quellen organischer Substanzen durch detaillierte Einzelstoffanalytik von Wasser und Sediment
(Applicant
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Human impact on fluvial morphodynamics and contaminant dispersion in small river catchments (case study Wurm, Lower Rhine Embayment)
(Applicants
Frings, Roy
;
Lehmkuhl, Frank
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Identifizierung anorganischer und organischer Indikatoren für Rüstungs- und Kriegsaltlasten in subaquatischen Sedimenten im Bereich eines stillgelegten Militärhafens am Banter See, Niedersachsen
(Applicant
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Nachweis und quantitative Bestimmung von Dimethylthallium in Oberflächengewässern als Folge montan-industrieller Emissionen
(Applicants
Schwarzbauer, Jan
;
Sindern, Sven
)
Organisch-chemische Charakterisierung von Abwässern verschiedener industrieller Direkteinleiter und ihr Umweltverhalten in fluviatilen Systemen Nordrhein-Westfalens
(Applicant
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Organische Petrographie, organische Geochemie, Stratigraphie, Faciesgeologie und Beckenanalyse im Trias und Jura des Junggar Beckens (NW China)
(Applicant
Luterbacher, Hans-Peter
)
Organische Spurengase in der Atemluft - Evaluation von Messverfahren und medizinischer Relevanz
(Applicants
Barker, Michael
;
Schwarzbauer, Jan
)
Paläofluide in hydrothermalen Kluftfüllungen und Intergranularzementen der Aachener Geothermie-Bohrung "Super C"
(Applicant
Meyer, Franz Michael
)
Palynologische, petrographische und organisch-geochemische Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung der Floren im Duckmantium (Westfalium B)
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Quantification of heat and fluid flow through time by 3D modelling: The example of the Jeanne d'Arc basin, offshore eastern Canada
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Rapid burial of dry sandstone - the unique compaction-dominated diagenesis of the Twyfelfontein Formation, NW Namibia
(Applicant
Salomon, Eric
)
Sudden drying of large karst lakes in the Lacandon Maya region of southern Mexico
(Applicants
Bücker, Matthias
;
Pérez, Liseth
)
Thermal and microbial gas generation, accumulation and dissipation in coal basins: role of sorptive storage capacity evolution
(Applicant
Krooß, Bernhard M.
)
Zweidimensionale Modellierung der Temperaturgeschichte und Simulation der Gasmigration entlang der DEKORP-Trasse, Nordostdeutschland
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Infrastructure Priority Programmes
Current projects
Causes and effects of climate variations and rapid hydrological shifts in the northern Neotropics during the last glacial/interglacial cycle
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Schwalb, Antje
)
Impact of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic changes on the stability of the late Miocene to present West Antarctic Ice Sheet
(Applicant
Bauersachs, Thorsten
)
Completed projects
Agricultural activity and its impact on terrestrial and marine ecosystems in the Baltic Sea region during the past 6000 years
(Applicant
Kotthoff, Ulrich
)
Effects of Abrupt Climate Change on Ice Age Ecosystem of Lake Petén Itzá and on Distribution Patterns of Ostracodes across the Yucatán Peninsula
(Applicant
Schwalb, Antje
)
Kreislauf des organischen Kohlenstoffs in Sedimenten über der Subduktionszone vor Costa Rica (ODP Leg 170)
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Late Neogene to Quaternary climate and ice sheet history of West Antarctica
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Schwark, Lorenz
)
Life at its limits: The deep biosphere of the West Antarctic continental margin
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Kallmeyer, Jens
;
Schwark, Lorenz
)
Mikroskopische und geochemische Charakterisierung von hochmolekularem organischem Material (Kerogen) in Sedimenten aus Auftriebsgebieten
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Paleoclimate evolution of the NW-Pacific over the past 25Ma
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Schwark, Lorenz
)
Palynomorph- and chironomid-based analyses of Eemian, Weichselian, and Holocene ecosystem- and climate dynamics in the Baltic Sea region
(Applicant
Kotthoff, Ulrich
)
Reconstruction of the variability of the Kuroshio Ocean Current (SE Japan) over the past 8 Ma
(Applicant
Bauersachs, Thorsten
)
The role of diazotrophic cyanobacterial blooms in the expansion of bottom water hypoxia in the Holocene and late Weichselian Baltic Sea
(Applicants
Bauersachs, Thorsten
;
Schwark, Lorenz
)
Priority Programmes
Completed projects
Abschlusskolloquium "Dynamik sedimentärer Systeme unter wechselnden Spannungsregimen am Beispiel des zentraleuropäischen Beckensystems"
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Authigene Karbonate und CO2-Quellen in Reservoirgesteinen der CO2 Provinz im Niedersächsischen Becken
(Applicant
Botz, Reiner
)
Biogene Partikel und Makromoleküle in Kohlen und pflanzlichen Makrofossilien als Spiegel der Evolution der Landpflanzen während des jüngeren Paläozoikums
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Biogeochemische und palökologische Evolution jungpaläozoischer Seesysteme
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Co-ordination of the Schwerpunktprogramm (SPP): "Dynamik sedimentärer Systeme unter wechselnden Spannungsregimen am Beispiel des zentraleuropäischen Beckensystems" and general management of data supplied by the German oil and gas industry for this scientific project
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Evolution of higher land plants during the late Palaeozoic: A compound specific carbon isotopic study
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Funktionalisierte Lipide und Pigmente in Humuskohlen und begleitenden klastischen Gesteinen als Spiegel der Evolution der Landpflanzen während des jüngeren Paläozoikums
(Applicant
Wilkes, Heinz
)
Geochemical, isotope geochemical and mineralogical investigations on type, origin and transformation of nitrogen in Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks
(Applicants
Krooß, Bernhard M.
;
Ostertag-Henning, Christian
)
Influence of microbial and enzymatic activities on immobilisation of xenobiotics in soil organo-clay complexes
(Applicants
Schwarzbauer, Jan
;
Schäffer, Andreas
)
Long-term evolution of the Argentine continental margin: implications for hydrocarbon generation, migration, leakage and climate feedback
(Applicant
di Primio, Rolando
)
Reactions of petroleum compounds with hematite grain-coatings and their effects on diagenesis and pore structure of clastic reservoir rocks
(Applicants
Gaupp, Reinhard
;
Krooß, Bernhard M.
)
Reactions of petroleum compounds with hematite grain-coatings and their effects on diagenesis and pore structure of clastic reservoir rocks
(Applicant
Krooß, Bernhard M.
)
SPP 1135: Dynamics of Sedimentary Systems under Varying Stress Regimes: The Example of the Central European Basin System
(Spokesperson
Littke, Ralf
)
Subsidence, heat and mass transfer in the Central European Basin system: A regional 2D basin modelling study
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Thermal evolution of the southwestern Lower Saxony Basin
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Thermal history of deeply buried sedimentary rocks in the vicinity of salt diapirs (Schleswig-Holstein area)
(Applicant
Littke, Ralf
)
Major Research Instrumentation
Completed projects
FTIR-Spektrometer