Terrestrial Sedimentology

Terrestrial Sedimentology Workgroup

MSc students and BSc students

MSc students:

  • Friedrichsen, Brian-Eric: Distribution and characteristics of patchy loess deposits in the Ammer valley, southern Germany (with Dr. Tobias Lauer)
  • Liebrecht, Philip: Sedimentology of lake-margin lunettes in the Corangamite region, southeastern Australia
  • Schwarz, Victoria: Hydroclimate change on the southeastern Australian desert margins (with Dr. Kanchan Mishra)
  • Tiwari, Anaya: The sensitivity of groundwater to climate variability in the Corangamite region, southeastern Australia (with Monika Markowska and Xinyang Fan)

Visiting students:

Graduated students:

  • Siegel, Michelle (MSc 2023): Sedimentological characteristics of flash flood deposits in southern Germany (with Dr. Ana Lucia)
  • Fischer, Lorenz (BSc 2023 - now MSc at University of Tübingen): Remote-sensing based analysis of aeolian-fluvial interactions in the Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre) basin, Australia, using open-source GIS (with Dr. Christian Sommer)
    • Lorenz’ BSc work has now been published!
      • See: Fischer, L., Sommer, C., Fitzsimmons, K.E. (2023) An open-source GIS approach to understanding dunefield morphologic variability at Kati Thanda (Lake Eyre), central Australia. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2023.1196244
  • Gewalt, Philipp (MSc): The interplay of vegetation, sediments and earth-surface processes on alpine hillslopes (Valais, Switzerland) (with Dr. Jana Eichel, Utrecht University). He is now Ph.D. Student at Technische Universität München
  • Szichta, Kai (MSc 2023) - (now geotechnical consultant): Long-term climate change recorded in the sediment characteristics of loess-palaeosol sequences in eastern Kazakhstan
  • Terraza Velasquez, Monica (MSc 2023 - now PhD student at University of Münster): Sedimentological characteristics of recent sediments in the river Steinlach, southern Germany (with Dr. Carsten Leven-Pfister)

 

 

Hiwis

Bacher, Mo Luka: thin section microscopy

Schwarz, Victoria: luminescence dating and sedimentology

 

Tiwari, Anaya: sedimentology

Tong, Xinning: luminescence dating