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

Biogeology / Prof. Hervé Bocherens

• Isotopic Paleoecology of Bovids and Cervids from Southeast Asia (2022)
• Paleoecology and Phylogeny of Secondarily Terrestrial Crocodile-Relatives (2023)

Environmental Systems Analysis / Prof. Christiane Zarfl

• Large wood in the rivers of low mountain ranges in BW - A missing component in risk assessment (2022)

Environmental Physics / Prof. Jens Bange

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

Experimental Mineralogy / Prof. Marcus Nowak

• H₂O Phase Separation in Iron- and Polyvalent Ion-free Phonolitic Melts (2022)
• Experimentelle Untersuchung der Bildung von Magnetit-Nanolithen in einer rhyolitischen Schmelze (2022)

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)

Geomicrobiology / Prof. Andreas Kappler

• Combined impact of elevated atmospheric CO₂ and soil Cd on the nitrogen cycle in agricultural soils (2022)
• 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

• Einzugsgebietsbestimmung der Bad Dürrheimer Mineralbrunnen (2022)
• Einfluss von Kunstharzinjektionen auf das Schrumpfverhalten bindiger Böden (2024)

Invertebrate Palaeontology / Prof. James Nebelsick

• Identification of trace fossil samples from the Lower Jurassic of Southern Germany using surface scanned 3D-models (2022)
• Säulenpermeametermessungen und numerische Modellierungen von Karbonaten aus der Unterkreide Katars (2022)
• Facies analysis and paleoenvironmental reconstructions of a middle-upper eocene carbonate succession of Monti Berci, Italy (2022)
• Central Adriatic Core POS514-33-11GC off Croatia: Sedimentation, Coarse Fraction Analysis and Preliminary Age Model (2023)
• 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)

Isotope Geochemistry / Prof. Ronny Schönberg

• Coupled δ⁵⁶Fe and δ⁹⁸Mo measurements of the Hotazel Banded Iron Formation - Implications for the Paleoproterozoic ocean oxygenation state (2022)
• Evaporative stable Cr and Fe isotope signals in 3.2 Ga old impact spherule layers from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa (2022)
• Geochemical Signatures in Ocean Island Basalts: Comparison between Canary Islands and French Polynesia (2023)
• 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)

Near-Surface Geophysics / Prof. Reinhard Drews

• Seismic refraction tomography survey to determine internal structures of the Grabfeld-Formation in the Ammer valley, Tübingen (2022)
• Towards detection of the groundwater table using phase-sensitive radar (2022)

Petrology and Mineral Resources / Prof. Gregor Markl

• Untersuchung von Sulfid-Silikat-Texturen der Sulfiderzlagerstätte Silbergerg des Bodenmais (2022)
• Emulsions-Texturen magmatischer Sulfide in Sora (Oberlausitz) (2023)
• Melt inclusions in alkaline rocks of the Gardiner (Greenland) and Oka (Canada) complexes (2023)
• Melt inclusions in alkaline rocks of the Kovdor (Russia) and Oka (Canada) complexes (2023)
• Variations in Pyroxenites of the Palabora Igneous Complex, South Africa (2023)
• 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

• Petrophysical Characterization of the Well Logs and Modeling of the Meletta Sandstones in the Upper Rhein Graben for deep Geothermal Heat Storage Systems (2022)
• Microstructural analysis of an ice core from a fast-flowing Greenlandic ice stream regarding deformation and recrystallization processes (2023)
• Modelling and interpretation of folds adjacent to the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream (2024)