Terrestrial Sedimentology Workgroup
Mishra, Kanchan
Dr. PostDoc | Office: 2U37, GUZ |
Buchanan, Gwynlyn
| PostDoc | Office: 2U37, GUZ |
MSc students and BSc students
MSc students:
Friedrichsen, Brian-Eric: Distribution and characteristics of patchy loess deposits in the Ammer valley, southern Germany (with 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 Kanchan Mishra)
Siegel, Michelle: Sedimentological characteristics of flash flood deposits in southern Germany (with Ana Lucia)
Tiwari, Anaya: The sensitivity of groundwater to climate variability in the Corangamite region, southeastern Australia (with Monika Markowska and Xinyang Fan)
Visiting students:
Resic, Julien: April - July 2023 - University of Poitiers, France. Mineralogical and Geochemical characterization of Loess-Palaeosol sequence, Tajikistan (with Andrea Aquino).
Completed students:
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 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 Jana Eichel, Utrecht University)
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 Carsten Leven-Pfister)
Hiwis
Bacher, Mo Luka: thin section microscopy
Devaraj, Manikandan: remote sensing and GIS (Dr. Kanchan Mishra mini-group)
Schwarz, Victoria: luminescence dating and sedimentology
Siegel, Michelle: luminescence dating
Tiwari, Anaya: sedimentology