Research Focus: Dynamics of Earth-System Components
The Earth System consists of interacting components, resulting in dynamic self organization across scales. The dynamics of individual Earth-System components affect other components and contribute to the emergence of effective behavior on larger scales, up to the entire globe.
Research in the Department of Geosciences studies Earth-System dynamics on a wide range of scales both in space and time, facilitating an integrative view of the planet that we live on.
Selected Topics of the Research Focus "Dynamics of Earth-System components"
Tectonics and dynamics of the upper mantle and crust, resulting in properties of magmatic & metamorphic rocks, hydrothermal systems, and volcanoes
Interplay of tectonics, climate, and erosion in land-surface evolution
Deep-time processes such as the emergence of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere and its effetcs
Weathering, nutrient cycling, and soil formation
Climate dynamics on regional to global spatial scales and geological to historical time scales
Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics
Subsurface flow and transport
Dynamics of the atmospheric boundary layer
Sediment dynamics in rivers
Workgroups Active in the Research Focus "Exploration and Responsible Use of Georesources"
Climatology and the Biosphere
Prof. Dr. Kira Rehfeld
Terrestrial Palaeoclimatology
Prof. Dr. Madelaine Böhme
Environmental Physics
Prof. Dr. Jens Bange
Glaciology
Prof. Dr. Ilka Weikusat
Near-Surface Geophysics
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Drews