Research
Research
Current Projects & Research Activities
Future Proof Grasslands: Stärkung der Ökosystemleistungen in den Grünlandregionen des nordwestdeutschen Küstenraumes durch Anpassung des Wassermanagements an den Klimawandel (2022-2027) CoastAdapt: Building Resilient Coasts Through Science and Innovation Microbalites: Hydrological and geobiological drivers of modern supratidal microbialite connectivity and formation (2022-2025) DynaDeep: The Dynamic Deep Subsurface of High-Energy Beaches (2021-2029) WAKOS: Water on the Coasts of East Frisia (2020 - 2026)
Completed Projects
innovatION: Selective removal of monovalent ions from saline water for groundwater recharge and drinking water treatment Fingering flow in the subterranean estuary - A multiplier for the iron curtain and reactive transport processes ? (2020-2024) TrinkWave Transfer: Large-scale testing of new developments in sequential managed aquifer recharge (2023-2024)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)
- Annika Desens (NLWKN): „Characterisation of groundwater ages in Germany"
- Eva Lena González (LBEG): „Current and future state of groundwater salinization - A regional case study in the Elbe-Weser region in Northern Germany"
- Lejonina Herting: „Groundwater flow and transport in the subterranean estuary of high-energy beaches: Hydrogeological modelling and field investigations across Western Europe"
- Johannes Ritter: „Field scale reactive transport modelling of biogechemical processes within subterranean estuaries of high-energy beaches"
- Mareike Schloo: „Biogeochemical nutrient discharge from grasslands considering an adaption of water management to climate change in the coastal area of North-West Germany”
- Mohit Singh: „tba"
Completed Dissertations
- Patrick Hähnel (2025): "Representation of transient tidal-overheight in numerical groundwater models of barrier islands"
- Anna-Lena Rotenhagen (2025): "Nährstoffeinträge in Entwässerungssysteme nordeutscher Grünlandgebiete: Analyse zur Ableitung von Handlungsempfehlungen”
- Rezwana Binte Delwar (2025): "Exploring the phenomena of fingering flow in the subterranean estuary as a multiplier for the iron curtain and reactive transport processes"
- Lena Thissen (2025): "Generic analysis of freshwater lenses in the context of climate change using numerical models”
- 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)"