Master's Thesis Topics in AEG
Research topics AEG students recently focused on in their Master's thesis, sorted by work groups (year)
Climatology and the Biosphere / Prof. Kira Rehfeld
- Paleoclimate analysis of the Pantanal region in Brazil using speleothem data from the Holocene (2023)
- A model-based exploration of mid-Holocene anti-phase climate variations in the Central Andes (2023)
Environmental Analytical Chemistry / Prof. Christian Zwiener
- Photochemical Oxidation and Identification of Transformation Products of PFAS Paper Impregnation Agents on Soil Particles (2022)
- Characterization of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in textiles by different oxidation and hydrolysis methods (PhotoTOP, dTOP, THP) (2023)
- Identification and quantifiation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in human hair (2024)
Environmental Biotechnology / Prof. Lars Angenent
- Life Cycle Assessment of Caproic and Caprylic Acid Production from Bread Waste (2021)
- Glycogen production from an acetate-rich medium with cycling aerobic / anaerobic microbes (2023)
- The toxicity of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process water to anaerobic digestion and prediction of anaerobic digestion performance with biochemical methane potential assays (BMP) and anaerobic toxicity assays (ATA) (2023)
- An electroporation technique in Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus ΔH - optimization and application (2024)
- Investigating continuous butanol production from methanol by using Eubacterium bimosum as a biocatalyst (2024)
Environmental and Engineering Geophysics / Prof. Peter Dietrich
- Asking the Right Question: Investigating Inversion of the Ill-Posed 1-D DC Resistivity Problem (2022)
Environmental Mineralogy / Prof. Stefan Haderlein
- Persulfate Activation on Biochars for Enhanced Degradation of the Insect Repellent DEET (2021)
- Glyphosate degradation by four microbial strains under phosphorus limiting condtions and application of molecularly imprinted polymers as an enrichment technique (2022)
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Biotransformation of Organophosphonates by two microbial soil strains (2024)
Environmental Physics / Prof. Jens Bange
- Designing and validating a passively aspirated particle measurement system on a small fixed wing unmanned aircraft system (UAS) (2022)
Environmental Systems Analysis / Prof. Christiane Zarfl
- Vertical Connectivity of Groundwater and Stream Water in Headwater Streams (A Case Study in Wiesaz Catchment) (2022)
- Valorization of organic waste and evaluation of potentially inhibiting substanced for biogas production in a pilot reactor to be enhanded in operation in Mexico (2022)
- The Potential of Satellite-Borne Remote Sensing to Assess the Impact of Alley Cropping Systems on Crop Yield (2023)
- The influence of hyporheic sediments on the fate of fecal indicator bacteria in two urban streams (2023)
- On the value of slug tracer injections and the environmental tracer radon for observing hyporheic exchange (2024)
Environmental Toxicology / Prof. Beate Escher
- Characterization of Contamination Sources for the Ammer River During a Storm Event (2022)
- Highway runoff: Tracking particle-asociated and dissolved organic contaminants and mixture effects in a retention pond and a receiving stream (2022)
Geomicrobiology / Prof. Andreas Kappler
- Removal of aqueous contaminants (Cr, As, V, Mo) with Fe-mineral nanoparticles coated onto quartz sand (2022)
- Change in microbial bioavailability of iron across a climatic gradient (2022)
- Iron redox cycling: Effects of As/Mn-species interaction with iron(III) (oxyhydr)oxides on mineral recrystallization and transformation (2022)
- Impacts of Environmental Factors on Microbial Iron(II) Oxidation by Photosynthesis and Chemodenitrification Bacteria: Insights into Fe Mineralogy and Cell-iron-mineral Structure (2024)
Glaciology / Prof. Ilka Weikusat
- Calibration of a borehole geometry logger for the 3D deformation of ice sheets and glaciers (2021)
Hydrogeochemistry / Prof. Peter Grathwohl
- Effects of bead milling on generation of reduced gases from Sedimentary Rocks (2022)
- Spatial and temporal variability of pesticide concentrations in soils from three sites in Baden-Württemberg, Germany (2022)
- Analysis of Microplastic and Tire Wear in Suspended River Sediments (2022)
- Nitrate reduction potential in carbonate rock from fractured aquifers in SW Germany (2023)
Hydrogeology / Prof. Olaf Cirpka
- Partial Reversibility of Dispersion in Heterogeneous Porous Media (2022)
- Transient Modeling of Variably Saturated Flow in the Ammer Floodplain (2022)
- Hydrogeological characterization of wells at the Lauswiesen Site (2022)
- Electrical Conductivity Fluctuations as a Natural Tracer to Determine Time-Dependent Transport Characteristics in Hyporheic Sediments (2022)
- Modeling Spring Flow Dynamics with Modflow-USG in Tropical Karst Catchments of Java Island, Indonesia (2022)
- Comparison of Fluid Logging Methods to Determine Vertical Distributions of Hydraulic Conductivity in an Unconsolidated Aquifer (2022)
- Predicting Arsenic Mobility at the Soil-Root Interface in a Warming Climate (2023)
- Modelling karst discharge dynamics of the Bronnbach spring using EPA's storm water management model (2023)
- Ivestigations for Determining the Hydraulic Properties of an Unconfined Aquifer (2023)
- Estimating Hydraulic Conductivity through Assimilation of Hydraulic Head Data in Ensemble Kalman Filtering (2023)
- Modeling Groundwater Flow in the Neckar Valley (2023)
Near-Surface Geophysics / Prof. Reinhard Drews
- Detection of soil moisture variability using Time-lapse ground-penetrating radar in a controlled field setup (2022)