Research topics geosciences students recently focused on in their Master's thesis, sorted by work groups (year)

Biogeology / Prof. Hervé Bocherens

• Natural characterisation of a former gypsum quarry on the edge of the Schönbuch Nature Conservation Area - A basis for multifunctional landscape management (2025)

Environmental Systems Analysis / Prof. Christiane Zarfl

• Detecting Common Seal Haul-Out Sites from Remote-Sensing Data, in the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea National Park, Germany (2025)

Environmental Physics / Prof. Jens Bange

• Wind estimation using unmanned, vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (2021)

Experimental Mineralogy / Prof. Marcus Nowak

• Phase relation and degassing of phonolitic Laacher See magma (2025)

Geology / Prof. Kevin Norton

• Getting the most out of a single grain: Cooling history reconstruction of sigle apatite crystals from LA-ICP-MS in-situ (U-Th-Sm)He measurements (2024)
• UAV based change detection of erosion in a mountain slope at Campo imperatore between 2018 and 2023 (2024)
• Surface Processes and Grain Sizes of a Limestone Escarpment: the Fils Catchment in the Swabian Jura, Germany (2025)

Geomicrobiology / Prof. Andreas Kappler

• Mineralogy and Geochemistry of iron microbialites from an extremely acidic environments, Rio Tinto, Spain (2023)

Hydrogeochemistry / Prof. Peter Grathwohl

• Chemische und physikalische Charakterisierung des Oberen Muschelkalkes anhand eines Bohrkernes aus Baisingen (2022)

Hydrogeology / Prof. Olaf Cirpka

• Einfluss von Kunstharzinjektionen auf das Schrumpfverhalten bindiger Böden (2024)
• Erfassung geologischer Strukturen und hydrogeologischer Systeme im Ammertal durch innovative Methoden: Von Wärmebilddrohne bis Geoelektrik (2025)
• Assessment of laboratory tests for the estimation of the vertial hydraulic conductivity of compressible soils (2025)

Invertebrate Palaeontology / Prof. James Nebelsick

• A muddy conundrum: Micritic matrix of bioclastic limestone (Lower Oligocene, Lower Inn Valley, Austria (2024)
• Reconstructing the Paleoenvironment of the Plio-Pleistocene Tamiami Formation: A Taphonomic Study of Gastropods (2024)
• Morphological and Paleoenvironmental Analysis of the Bivalve Gryphaea from Pfrondorf, Tübingen (2024)
• Brachiopods and their encrusting friends from the late jurassic of southern Germany (2025)

Isotope Geochemistry / Prof. Ronny Schönberg

• Geochemical and Isotope Fingerprints of the Chaîne des Puys Volcanoes (2024)
• Establishing the Cadmium Stable Isotope System Using Ion Exchange Chromatography and 111Cd-113Cd Double Spike Measurements (2024)
• Lithological heterogeneities in the source of CiMACI intra-plate basalts: Indications from coupled δ 53 Cr and δ 66 Zn (2024)
• Geochemical comparison of volcanic with periodotitic olivines and Cr isotopic characterisation of periodotitic olivines (2024)

Micropaleontology / Dr. Annett Junginger

• An Exceptionally Complete Skeleton of a Juvenile Lystrosaurus From the Lower Triassic Junggar Basin, Xinjiang Region, NW China (2024)
• XRF and magnetic susceptibility analysis of Mid-Pleistocene sediments from Kenya (2025)

Near-Surface Geophysics / Prof. Reinhard Drews

• Towards detection of the groundwater table using phase-sensitive radar (2022)

Petrology and Mineral Resources / Prof. Gregor Markl

• Possible sulfide anatexis during medium-grade metamorphism at the Schneeberg Zn-Pb deposit, South Tyrol, Italy (2024)
• The Kongsberg-type Native Silver Deposit Elizabeth Hill in Western Australia (2024)

Structural Geology / Prof. Paul Bons

• Modelling and interpretation of folds adjacent to the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (2024)