I’m currently forming a junior research group around igneous processes from Earth’s mantle to the surface. I’m open for supervising students on topics regarding experimental petrology, geochemistry, and volcanology. I seek to build a group that reflects the diversities that are seen in society and I aim to be engaged in helping to decrease the extra hurdles that minorities from all backgrounds are facing.
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Project title: Sediment Petrographic Analysis of the Döttinger Maar Sediment Cores: Their Correlation with the Marine Isotopic Stages, based on Volcanic Deposits (Rieden Tephra), as a Contribution to date the Elsterian Cold Period in Central Europe
In her master thesis Sophie reconstructs the tephrochronology of the Döttinger dry maar (Eifel, Germany) between 380 to 465 ka BP by analysing the mineralogical composition of volcanic deposits in the maar. Identified tephra layers include the Rieden – leucite – phonolitic tuff 1 (462 ± 10 ka BP), 3 (425 ± 10 ka BP), and 4 (394.5 ± 10 ka BP), as well as the Weibern – leucite – phonolitic tuff 1 (433 ± 10 ka BP).
Sophie Fernández Arias
Esther Marie Kunert
Project title: Tephra layers of Laacher See Volcano in sediment cores compared to samples from the outcrop 'Wingertsbergwand'
Esther's master thesis compares the Laacher See Tephra from the outcrop 'Wingertsbergwand' in Mendig to the Laacher See Tephra layers that are present in maar drill cores of the ELSA sediment archive.
The goals of this thesis include to 1) investigate how heterogeneous the Laacher See Tephra is and 2) if multiple occurrences of the Laacher See Tephra within the drill cores resembles multiple eruptions of the Laacher See or repeated erosion and re-deposition.