Research
Research
Current Projects & Research Activities
TrinkWave Transfer: Large-scale testing of new developments in sequential managed aquifer recharge (2023-2025) DynaDeep: The Dynamic Deep Subsurface of High-Energy Beaches (2021-2025) WAKOS: Water at the coasts of East Frisia: Base for customized climate services for adaptation / Subproject WAKOS-E: Freshwater on the islands and regional adaptation strategies (2020-2023)Fingering flow in the subterranean estuary - A multiplier for the iron curtain and reactive transport processes ? (2020-2023)
Completed Projects
Verhalten von Tierarzneimitteln in Boden und Grundwasser (Nachwuchsgruppe Tierpharmaka) SALTSA: Groundwater salinisation following sea level rise as a societal challenge of climate adaptation - The case of North-Western GermanyBIME: Assessment of ground- and porewater-derived nutrient fluxes into the German North Sea - Is there a "Barrier Island Mass Effect (BIME)"? TrinkWave: Operation strategies and technologies for water reuse to support drinking water supply in urban areasChronosequential initial evolution of soils and freshwater resources of a barrier island (example Ostplate Spiekeroog)SOLUTIONS for present and future emerging pollutants in land and water resources managementRedox sensitivity and long-term persistence of organic trace pollutants in groundwater: Wastewater-bound compoundsDevelopment of operating strategies for an improved removal of organic micropollutants during the process of bank filtrationDynamics of the saltwater/freshwater interface in coastal aquifers
Current Dissertations (Working titles)
- Rezwana Binte Delwar: "Exploring the phenomena of fingering flow in the subterranean estuary as a multiplier for the iron curtain and reactive transport processes"
- Laura Bräunig: „Experimental and numerical characterization of geochemical interactions and groundwater dynamics during managed aquifer reacharge with monovalent-partial desalinated water”
- Carla Dodd (Nelson Mandela University, South Afrika, Co-supervision): "The Algoa Bay Region Groundwater Cycle - Linking Source to Coast"
- Annika Desens (Bundesamt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe): "Characterisation of groundwater ages in Germany"
- Patrick Hähnel: "Future development of barrier island freshwater lenses in the face of climate change"
- Dani Hamade (AG Technische Bildung, Co-supervision): "Der Klimawandel im Nordwesten - Auswirkungen auf den natürlichen Wasserkreislauf und die technische Wassernutzung als Thema schulischer und außerschulischer Bildung."
- Lena Thissen: „Generic analysis of freshwater lenses in the context of climate change using numerical
models” - Mareike Schloo: „Biogeochemical nutrient discharge from grasslands considering an adaption of water management to climate change in the coastal area of North-West Germany”
Completed Dissertations
- Kilian Loesch (2023): "The effect of forest conversion from coniferous to broadleaved forests on deep seepage rates in Northwest Germany"
- Nele Grünenbaum (2021): "Spatial and temporal variability of submarine groundwater discharge on barrier islands”
- Anne Mehrtens (2021, with Dr. Victoria Burke): "From Manure to Groundwater - The Fate of Veterinary Pharmaceuticals within the Aquatic Environment"
- Tobias Holt (2020): "Hydrogeological evolution and dynamics of a young barrier island (Ostplate Spiekeroog)"
- Stephan Seibert (2019): "Hydrogeochemical Processes in a Barrier Island Aquifer (Spiekeroog, Northwest Germany)"
- Thi Thuy Hang Nham (2017): "Reactive transport modeling of organic trace compounds in groundwater"
- Victoria Burke (2014): "The impact of redox conditions on the attenuation of wastewater-derived organic micropollutants in groundwater"
- Tania Röper (2014): "Formation, Characterization and Groundwater Flow Patterns of a Barrier Island Freshwater Lens (Spiekeroog, Northwest Germany)"